Shellshock, Heartbleed, the assraping of Linux is just starting and its gonna get a HELL of a lot worse. While MSFT has had a big ass bullseye painted on them for years to drive them to increase their defenses Linux has been coasting on security by obscurity, well those days are over friend. Android is getting poundedby nasties and Linux is just getting beaten up as you can see and another Shellshock on the way there are even calls for a security audit in light of the constant pounding its gotten.
Frankly the FOSSie faction should be getting scared right about now, MSFT has been hardening their OS and getting their lessons in a war with the malware writers, now you have Low Rights Mode, ASLR and DEP, Secure Boot, Windows isn't the easy target anymore....Linux is. Between the coasting on security by obscurity, an OS made up of teeny tiny fiefdoms that don't collaborate or care, and oh yeah...a new spreading mess known as Systemd spreading tendrils in more and more critical systems while being run by a guy that blogs such "wisdom" as "can't get systemd running on ARM, shipping it anyway" the low hanging fruit? Its Linux and Android.
So get ready for it, because it looks like in less than 24 months you'll be posting "I HAVE to run Linux on one system for a program I need, the rest are running Windows". And when that day comes? You can thank Torvalds and all the other arrogant old guys that can't see beyond their own little gardens that have let Linux become a weak walled buggy mess.
But it is soooo poorly optimized (BTW its Crysis 1, Crysis 2 and 3 can actually run on netbooks, just FYI) its like bragging "My truck can drag a boat anchor better than yours"....oookay, why would I WANT to drag a boat anchor? Hell Crysis is so much of a bad joke there are guys with HD7970s (something like 10 times more powerful than max spec) that have to use the low res hack for the last level just to make the damned thing load!
Nope I would still argue the best way to handle it is what Tek Syndicate does, which is take a handful of the top 20 games that really push a GPU, Skyrim on HD, Metro Last Light HD remix, BF 4, etc and then show you what the average run is, because there are plenty of cards that can run one game decently but run others like ass.
Actually it shows YOU are fucking clueless to the CUDA scene since page after page on any CUDA forum is dedicated to "Which cards have the best DP" since..surprise surprise, a LOT of HPC tasks require....drumroll...DP!
If you wanna shill (driving development, really? You wanna trot out vertical synergy for a buzzword bingo?) go right ahead, just don't piss on us and tell us its raining, as the major apps that need large memory sets? Yeah kinda need DP and games haven't even hit 4GB other than non official third party high res textures.
Wow, that flew right over your head, didn't it? Whether it was the RNC or DNC or the fricking Elks did not matter, what mattered is the press was 100% on board and if the press refuses to even entertain the thought you exist, then who in the fuck is gonna vote for you? You should go watch the video I recommended, as it has one anchor outright laughing about it as a reporter says "why am I out here looking for Palin and Christie, who aren't even running, when Paul is out here and gaining steam?" only to get told flat footed "You get any Palin or Christie call, you can keep the Paul stuff". complete with a douchebag "you people are soo fucking stupid" smirk at the camera!
Telling lies for power is the sole purpose of our press now, and as long as a handful of ubercorps own every station from coast to coast? Your third party has about as much chance of winning national office as I do of winning powerball 4 times in a row on all 0s.
Hell you can't even use Crysis 3 by itself as its been shown to run better than it should on some cards, worse on others. That is what happens when you run a poorly optimized game.
Frankly I wish more would do like Tek Syndicate (of course they aren't taking money in the form of ad contracts while many of them are getting huge checks from at least one) where they choose a half a dozen popular games that require some muscle and then see what you get, as IMHO this is a hell of a lot closer to what one would get IRL than "run one benchmark, run BF4" like the others tend to do.
But is there even a point in having 12GB of VRAM at this time? Most games aren't even hitting 4GB and by the time you have games hitting 12GB the GPU is gonna be so out of date it might as well be an FX5900, since its lousy FP means the CUDA guys aren't gonna want this,. So other than "look at my massive ePeen" is there a real use for 12GB now?
If you believe you can win a rigged game by playing? Then you sir are naive or a fool. If you want to see what will happen if you get close to that 15% look up "Ron Paul vote rigged" to see both the RNC and the press insure that nobody in critical primary states would know the man existed, including several reports by those that counted the votes who said "The numbers we gave the RNC were NOT what the RNC reported, they took votes from Paul and gave them to Romney". Despite many calls for an investigation? None occurred.
At this point it should be obvious to all but the most willfully blind that this system is too corrupt to save, any attempts to affect change from within is simply useless. It would be like finding the guy with a 3 card monty table in central park and thinking "if I put enough money down and work REALLY hard I'll come out ahead"...no you won't, its a rigged game designed to give you the illusion of control while those that have the real power continue their agenda of "following the Brazil model" of making the world a place where those on top have all and those on the bottom have nothing.
Well considering that we wasted a couple decades on a "space truck" that actually met NONE of its original goals, not weight carrying, not turn around, and not cost per load, and was designed more for passing pork than anything else (just like the new one, which is why so much shuttle shit is included despite the boosters being what killed Challenger) while the Soviets were able to build the most dependable rocket family in history with Soyuz?
Frankly I give them better odds than I do the USA as it seems the only projects NASA has been able to get done has been the ones that are small enough Senator Porkus and Congressman Bribaton haven't gotten a whiff of. With the amount of money being shat into SLS? It will end up with each widget being built in a different state (and some states having a widget per district) so you end up with a bloated whale that when it comes together will probably leak like a sieve and be only good for blasting money into space.
Uhhh according to MSFT its a grand total of 1 to 2 seconds which for a good 99.9% of us? Is frankly more accurate than we'll ever need. It can always use (what I have no doubt is their own take on) NTP if you require tighter clocks but even when I worked corporate I don't think I ever had to use anything other than SNTP, as even most corps don't need to be more accurate than that.
I would say its EXTREMELY unlikely to support intelligent life and here is why....complex brains require a LOT of energy and if you remove the marine snow (which would be almost impossible because as others pointed out the upper parts of the ocean would be getting high levels of radiation) from the bottom of the ocean? Its extremely energy poor.
Remember for evolution one has to have the energy capable of supporting that new form and we have plenty of evidence in the record of evolutionary "dead ends" because the environment would no longer sustain them, see the dinosaurs. With only a poor energy source its doubtful they would be able to evolve anything more complex than worms but that doesn't mean we shouldn't go explore simply because finding such a creature would answer many questions about how life began here, such as whether DNA is the only way and whether its always going to be right handed.
Uhhh...the "sleeping girl" that testified she was "sleepy" when they started FOREPLAY and then woke up enough to have sex, go to the shops, make him breakfast AND tweet about how wonderful a night she had, THAT sleeping girl?
Quit pushing the "Murrica fuck yeah!" propaganda you've been spewing. You wanna know how you can be 100% sure its murrica propaganda? Because the head of the embassy said "We will happy to hand Mr Assange over to Sweden on ONE CONDITION and one condition alone, that they sign a statement saying this is about a crime in Sweden and will NOT simply hand him over to US officials"...well guess what Sparky? THEY REFUSED.
That is incontrovertible proof the whole thing is nothing but a setup for a rendition ride so that the TLAs can make an example of him. After all it it was really about rape, a state charge there, why would they give a single fuck about signing the paper? Because they know it would make them look like the USA's bitch when they signed and handed him over, that's what.
Which is why I advise my customers against using a Google service until it has become huge, with Google there is huge and there is gone, and nothing in between. We've seen time and time again since the IPO that anything that isn't generating major buzz? Is as good as dead.
And then compare the prices, $300+ for the i5 versus...$120 for an AMD FX8300...yeah not even close, the bang for the buck is still on the AMD side by a LARGE margin!
And the amount of service life you get with them is just nuts, my Phenom II X6 is going on 6 years old, still plays the latest games AND can do video transcoding at the same time, while my nearly 8 year old Phenom II X4 has passed through 3 boards and is STILL going, the wife games on it every.single.day. and it just keeps on coming back for more.
BTW you want a quad CRAZY cheap? Go grab an Athlon X3 450 or 455, you can find them for around $25-$40 and we've been seeing better than 80% unlocks on those, a 3.3Ghz quad for $25, whats not to like?
Those stone based DVDs have been rated for a lot longer and the reason why is simple, its made out of rock.
As for the codec? THAT is the tough one, as I've had the "fun" of trying to get Intel indeo running on a new system and that was once the big kahuna when it came to codecs. I mean who would have thought Intel would abandon their work? This is where FOSS would probably be a good choice as you can have the source code and instructions printed out on paper besides the discs.
Don't buy the bullshit, even Intel admits they rigged the benchmarks so those numbers you are relying on? About as accurate as the results from Quack.exe back in the day. if you run ACTUAL PROGRAMS like games instead of rigged benchmarks? You'll find AMD chips at less than half the price trading blows with Intels and many times BEATING them, again at less than half the price! You can buy an FX8300 for around $120 right now, what are you gonna get from intel at that price? A Pentium Dual...yeah you are really gonna be "superior performance" with two cores versus eight lol!
BTW if anybody wonders why both links are from Tek Syndicate? Because surprise surprise they are one of the few places that takes ZERO DOLLARS from Intel or AMD and wadda ya know? They run actual programs and not rigged benches! Meanwhile you have Tom's (Who DOES take Intel ads) trying to push a Pentium Dual over the FX6300...really? When most of the triple A titles require quad core minimums they push a dual core as a best in class GAMING chip? If you need evidence Intel writes some big checks there ya go.
So don't buy the lies, I've seen the results with my very own eyes and without rigging? You are looking at maybe 5-10% difference...except on price, where you are talking as much as 200% difference! Everyone should just ask themselves one simple question....If Intel's numbers are REALLY that good...why are they rigging? Why are they getting investigated in the EU and having lawsuits brought in a bunch of countries if their numbers stand on their own merit? The answer should frankly be obvious, their numbers are NOT worthy of the price they are charging and they know fair benches would show that and cut down on their crazy high profits, that's why!
The "so" is if you take out Chromebooks? Linux doesn't even have 1 lousy percentage point...do you know what category that puts Linux? In "other" right next to Haiku, ReactOS, and the BeOS clones.
That means 1.- You can kiss mainstream driver support buh bye, nobody is gonna bother if they aren't supporting enterprises that want the little checkbox, 2.- that means the drivers you DO have will be half ass and short of features compared to the Windows and OSX versions because most of them are hacked together reversed engineered where if it works AT ALL its considered a "success". I could wallpaper the page with drivers that don't give you half the features of the hardware,are broken for several releases because some dev doesn't have one lying around, or both. 3.- You won't be getting most of the software people actually buy computers FOR, at best you'll usually get an "ersatz", and like the origin of that word will mean inferior. See Gimp which doesn't match up to even Corel Draw of 5 years ago, Libre Office which craps all over spreadsheets made in anything else because some dev decided the entire free world was "doin it wrong" and which frankly runs like ass, hell I could go on all day.
Hey if you enjoy spending your weekends trying to get shit to work like its still 1985? That is YOUR business, but don't be surprised when your scanner won't scan, your webcam only does 240x80, or the laptop gives you a black screen of death just because you updated the thing because with numbers THAT dismal? Nobody is gonna support you. And if you think things are bad now? Like I said just you wait, looks like the proprietary world is going for a "get it on the back end" model which kills "free as in beer" like Raid kills bugs....dead. If that becomes the norm? Yeah try having a half or even as low as a quarter of 1%, which as another pointed out is a DECLINE by almost 75% from its high of nearly 2%. That means not only are you not going forward? You are regressing FAST.
That is not a good place to be friend, not a good place at all.
Why is this marked troll? Has ANYBODY HERE heard of this thing before this article?....crickets....yeah, thought so.
I'll get lots of FOSSie hate but fuck it, truth is truth...take away the "free as in beer" sales pitch? YOU BE FUCKED, your support is lousy, docs are terrible, if you even have any docs instead of "to do" place holders, its like they translate "free" to be "lazy". What you end up with is the Gimp, which isn't even comparable with Corel Draw from 5 years ago much less Photoshop.
This is why I think the future has to be scary as hell for the FLOSS crowd because it looks like most of proprietary is going to a "make it on the back end" kinda deal which makes free as in beer? Free as in worthless. I mean who is gonna care about jumping through the hoops and dealing with the bullshit of a Linux desktop if they can get the latest Windows for $20 or even free? Who is gonna want to deal with all the fiddling and crap from some 'jMonkeyChunky' (BTW let me guess, the j is Java or JavaScript...yes? Ugh) if they can use the latest Unreal or Source with zero costs upfront? Very damned few people, that's who.
Of course this may turn out to be a blessing in disguise, as it might finally kill the 50 million "me too!" apps in FLOSS and leave only those that are dedicated to making something really truly great, as opposed to now where you got tons just shitting out half baked crap to get a little FOSS cred.
Yeah it was doing damned good....until the last release, then its like Nadella forgot to lock the backdoor and the Metro asses snuck in and started shitting all over the OS. The previous release? Light on resources, had an Aero like look, and other than a few shit icons was pretty damned good, the latest build? Looks like shit and I frankly just shut it off after 10 minutes of the CPU grinding at 100% for fuck all. If I had to guess? Cortana NEEDS TO DIE as it looked like all the services that were just hogging the shit out of the CPU had to do with that bitch.
Nadella needs to wake the fuck up and get back on the helm, because MSFT can't afford three clunkers in a row and if the current release ends up being the RTM? Yeah give it the fuck up, its just barely better than Metro.
If you do not understand how a massive BOYCOTT hurts your bottom line when you make over 90c of every dollar with a cut of search? Then you sir are either trolling or is so locked into your political beliefs that you will ignore reality in favor of politics.
Just ask the guy that USED to work at MSFT that said "If you don't want to always be online buy a 360" about how bad press affects a bottom line, that little stunt caused sales to crater, just as Eich caused FF adoption to nose dive. Pretty much every gamer website had a large "Do not use FF, here are some better choices" banner, which looking back was kinda ironic as they themselves cratered by choosing to be anti-gamergate and ran off all their users, but for a couple weeks there you couldn't surf anyplace other than the right wing blogs that didn't have some sort of "ditch FF" article. That kind of bad press just slaughters a company, look at their numbers before and after and you'll see they have yet to recover.
Sigh, kids who do not know their history. Let me enlighten you child, you see there was certain things you HAD to have if you were gonna be a "dotbomb billionaire", those fancy ass uber expensive office chairs, the waiting area had to look like you were in an LA plastic surgeon's office, and you HAD TO HAVE a wall of the most expensive Sun hardware. So you had these companies literally buying millions of dollars worth of Sun gear, walls and walls of it. Now what do you think happened when they cratered, the market is in full panic mode, and the investors are just praying they can get back 8c on the dollar of what they put in?
You see child when you have a market crash? Rational thought doesn't come into play, they move like a herd of frightened animals. You see the guy next to you is dumping that shit for any bit of cash they can get and you go "Oh fuck if I don't get out I'll be able to wipe my ass with this stock!" and it drives down prices until the shit is worthless. Now eventually sanity DOES return but since hardware has a shelf life? You still aren't gonna get shit for that 4K Sun server because by the time sanity returns you can get a 1K Intel that is faster.
What we saw was no different than after the housing bubble burst, where you could get a 3 bedroom in Ohio for $300. Everybody panics, the plummeting price causes more panic, pretty soon they'll sell you half the office for $100 just to get something out of it. So as somebody pointed out Sun ended up having to go on the market and spend millions buying truuckloads of their own hardware just to trash it to keep competing with it as it was going for a couple cents on the dollar, everybody wanted out and if it meant selling a million dollars worth of office gear for $10K? So be it.
So now its wrong to want a UI that doesn't look like the dev took a Clevland Steamer on my screen? From the bottom of my heart fuck you, fuck the hipster douchebags that thought the shitastic fucking 90s was "retro cool" and so are trying their fucking damnedest to recreate Windows God Damned 2.0, the shitiest fucking tablets and Worst Buy special laptops have 200 times the power Windows 2.0 ran on so its more "how low can ya go?" dev circle jerking, and most of all it shows the devs (and anybody who supports that shit) is fucking ignorant because things like raised borders SERVE A PURPOSE, they show you what is clickable and what isn't. Wanna see what this shit flat shaded UI gets you? Yeah go look at Windows Mist8ke and see how quick that shit died,l you couldn't tell foreground from back, icon from picture, Windows 2.0 had better separation of elements!
So you can take that shit and shove it between your collection of Captain Planet and Power Rangers DVDs, the early 90s are NOT retro cool and eye sore flat shaded bullshit is not now, nor will it ever fucking be, popular!
Flag on the field, 15 yards for BS. Linux had jack and shit to do with Sun dying, it was the fallout from the dotbomb that slaughtered 'em. For a good 6 years after the dotbomb you could get Sun hardware for WAAAAY below cost thanks to all the bankrupt dotbombs that bought walls of the stuff, I should know as me and several of my friends doing consulting made a killing off of it! A $450 SunRay thin client? Less than $15 in bulk, a $4k+ Sun server? You could pick 'em up all day for less than $200.
Linux didn't enter into the equation, there was several years where Sun had to compete with their own hardware which was being sold for less than a fifth of what they paid for it, and they just couldn't afford to have cratered sales for a half a decade so they slowly bled out.
As for TFA? If I didn't know better I'd swear that Moz has an Elop on the inside trying to torpedo the company for GOOG. How else do you explain repeatedly giving their customers the finger while their share tumbles? Even MSFT got the message when their sales tanked and punt kicked the sweaty one and his Metro crap to the curb, yet Moz doubles down and gives its users a double bird by making the UI more and more Chrome-like with every release.
Sigh, don't you just LOVE how conservatives HATE a truly free market, because you know that is EXACTLY what that was, right? People voted with their wallets when Moz placed a bigot as CEO by removing FF and asking others to do the same (thus taking a big bite out of their user and search numbers, costing revenue) and when faced with the monetary cost of their bad choice changed direction.
That is how a truly free market is SUPPOSED to work, you vote with your wallet for or against a company and then that company can stay the course and bleed to death or change course, see MSFT and the Ballmernator and Metro. But of course you don't like actual free markets, because if you did you would respect the free choice that such a market brings but I suspect that what you support is crony capitalism, where the "good old boy" system rigs the market for the enrichment of a few.
Sorry to disappoint you, that is how truly free market capitalism works, people can vote with their wallets however they choose.
At the time Opera was spyware/adware and was treated like plague blankets so for all intents and purposes it might as well have been Moz because nobody was shelling out $30 USD just to get Opera decrapified.
It is just too bad somebody at Moz is pulling an Elop and fucking the company for Google, because ever since they have turned Moz into a shitty ersatz Chrome their share has just nosedived, even those that are hooked on the extensions going to one of the alternate like PaleMoon,Waterfox, IceDragon,etc. I personally tossed FF from my software collection I give my customers, I now give 'em Seamonkey if they remember Netscape and PaleMoon if they don't. I mean if all I'm going to get from FF is an ersatz Chrome, why not just run Chrome?
Then you want to get the IDE to USB adapter. here is the one I use at the shop, works on everything and hassle free. 2.5, 3.5, IDE, SATA, don't matter it ALL is covered with this one. I've had it for a couple of years now, its a good one.
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So you are bragging you are running Linux which has more vulnerabilities than Windows while being "forced" to run Windows for games? Aww poor baby!
Shellshock, Heartbleed, the assraping of Linux is just starting and its gonna get a HELL of a lot worse. While MSFT has had a big ass bullseye painted on them for years to drive them to increase their defenses Linux has been coasting on security by obscurity, well those days are over friend. Android is getting pounded by nasties and Linux is just getting beaten up as you can see and another Shellshock on the way there are even calls for a security audit in light of the constant pounding its gotten.
Frankly the FOSSie faction should be getting scared right about now, MSFT has been hardening their OS and getting their lessons in a war with the malware writers, now you have Low Rights Mode, ASLR and DEP, Secure Boot, Windows isn't the easy target anymore....Linux is. Between the coasting on security by obscurity, an OS made up of teeny tiny fiefdoms that don't collaborate or care, and oh yeah...a new spreading mess known as Systemd spreading tendrils in more and more critical systems while being run by a guy that blogs such "wisdom" as "can't get systemd running on ARM, shipping it anyway" the low hanging fruit? Its Linux and Android.
So get ready for it, because it looks like in less than 24 months you'll be posting "I HAVE to run Linux on one system for a program I need, the rest are running Windows". And when that day comes? You can thank Torvalds and all the other arrogant old guys that can't see beyond their own little gardens that have let Linux become a weak walled buggy mess.
But it is soooo poorly optimized (BTW its Crysis 1, Crysis 2 and 3 can actually run on netbooks, just FYI) its like bragging "My truck can drag a boat anchor better than yours"....oookay, why would I WANT to drag a boat anchor? Hell Crysis is so much of a bad joke there are guys with HD7970s (something like 10 times more powerful than max spec) that have to use the low res hack for the last level just to make the damned thing load!
Nope I would still argue the best way to handle it is what Tek Syndicate does, which is take a handful of the top 20 games that really push a GPU, Skyrim on HD, Metro Last Light HD remix, BF 4, etc and then show you what the average run is, because there are plenty of cards that can run one game decently but run others like ass.
Actually it shows YOU are fucking clueless to the CUDA scene since page after page on any CUDA forum is dedicated to "Which cards have the best DP" since..surprise surprise, a LOT of HPC tasks require....drumroll...DP!
If you wanna shill (driving development, really? You wanna trot out vertical synergy for a buzzword bingo?) go right ahead, just don't piss on us and tell us its raining, as the major apps that need large memory sets? Yeah kinda need DP and games haven't even hit 4GB other than non official third party high res textures.
Wow, that flew right over your head, didn't it? Whether it was the RNC or DNC or the fricking Elks did not matter, what mattered is the press was 100% on board and if the press refuses to even entertain the thought you exist, then who in the fuck is gonna vote for you? You should go watch the video I recommended, as it has one anchor outright laughing about it as a reporter says "why am I out here looking for Palin and Christie, who aren't even running, when Paul is out here and gaining steam?" only to get told flat footed "You get any Palin or Christie call, you can keep the Paul stuff". complete with a douchebag "you people are soo fucking stupid" smirk at the camera!
Telling lies for power is the sole purpose of our press now, and as long as a handful of ubercorps own every station from coast to coast? Your third party has about as much chance of winning national office as I do of winning powerball 4 times in a row on all 0s.
Hell you can't even use Crysis 3 by itself as its been shown to run better than it should on some cards, worse on others. That is what happens when you run a poorly optimized game.
Frankly I wish more would do like Tek Syndicate (of course they aren't taking money in the form of ad contracts while many of them are getting huge checks from at least one) where they choose a half a dozen popular games that require some muscle and then see what you get, as IMHO this is a hell of a lot closer to what one would get IRL than "run one benchmark, run BF4" like the others tend to do.
But is there even a point in having 12GB of VRAM at this time? Most games aren't even hitting 4GB and by the time you have games hitting 12GB the GPU is gonna be so out of date it might as well be an FX5900, since its lousy FP means the CUDA guys aren't gonna want this,. So other than "look at my massive ePeen" is there a real use for 12GB now?
If you believe you can win a rigged game by playing? Then you sir are naive or a fool. If you want to see what will happen if you get close to that 15% look up "Ron Paul vote rigged" to see both the RNC and the press insure that nobody in critical primary states would know the man existed, including several reports by those that counted the votes who said "The numbers we gave the RNC were NOT what the RNC reported, they took votes from Paul and gave them to Romney". Despite many calls for an investigation? None occurred.
At this point it should be obvious to all but the most willfully blind that this system is too corrupt to save, any attempts to affect change from within is simply useless. It would be like finding the guy with a 3 card monty table in central park and thinking "if I put enough money down and work REALLY hard I'll come out ahead"...no you won't, its a rigged game designed to give you the illusion of control while those that have the real power continue their agenda of "following the Brazil model" of making the world a place where those on top have all and those on the bottom have nothing.
Well considering that we wasted a couple decades on a "space truck" that actually met NONE of its original goals, not weight carrying, not turn around, and not cost per load, and was designed more for passing pork than anything else (just like the new one, which is why so much shuttle shit is included despite the boosters being what killed Challenger) while the Soviets were able to build the most dependable rocket family in history with Soyuz?
Frankly I give them better odds than I do the USA as it seems the only projects NASA has been able to get done has been the ones that are small enough Senator Porkus and Congressman Bribaton haven't gotten a whiff of. With the amount of money being shat into SLS? It will end up with each widget being built in a different state (and some states having a widget per district) so you end up with a bloated whale that when it comes together will probably leak like a sieve and be only good for blasting money into space.
Uhhh according to MSFT its a grand total of 1 to 2 seconds which for a good 99.9% of us? Is frankly more accurate than we'll ever need. It can always use (what I have no doubt is their own take on) NTP if you require tighter clocks but even when I worked corporate I don't think I ever had to use anything other than SNTP, as even most corps don't need to be more accurate than that.
I would say its EXTREMELY unlikely to support intelligent life and here is why....complex brains require a LOT of energy and if you remove the marine snow (which would be almost impossible because as others pointed out the upper parts of the ocean would be getting high levels of radiation) from the bottom of the ocean? Its extremely energy poor.
Remember for evolution one has to have the energy capable of supporting that new form and we have plenty of evidence in the record of evolutionary "dead ends" because the environment would no longer sustain them, see the dinosaurs. With only a poor energy source its doubtful they would be able to evolve anything more complex than worms but that doesn't mean we shouldn't go explore simply because finding such a creature would answer many questions about how life began here, such as whether DNA is the only way and whether its always going to be right handed.
Uhhh...the "sleeping girl" that testified she was "sleepy" when they started FOREPLAY and then woke up enough to have sex, go to the shops, make him breakfast AND tweet about how wonderful a night she had, THAT sleeping girl?
Quit pushing the "Murrica fuck yeah!" propaganda you've been spewing. You wanna know how you can be 100% sure its murrica propaganda? Because the head of the embassy said "We will happy to hand Mr Assange over to Sweden on ONE CONDITION and one condition alone, that they sign a statement saying this is about a crime in Sweden and will NOT simply hand him over to US officials"...well guess what Sparky? THEY REFUSED.
That is incontrovertible proof the whole thing is nothing but a setup for a rendition ride so that the TLAs can make an example of him. After all it it was really about rape, a state charge there, why would they give a single fuck about signing the paper? Because they know it would make them look like the USA's bitch when they signed and handed him over, that's what.
Windows uses the Windows Time Service which IIRC is compatible with but NOT ntpd which is why there is a port of ntpd for Windows if you would desire to use it.
Which is why I advise my customers against using a Google service until it has become huge, with Google there is huge and there is gone, and nothing in between. We've seen time and time again since the IPO that anything that isn't generating major buzz? Is as good as dead.
And then compare the prices, $300+ for the i5 versus...$120 for an AMD FX8300...yeah not even close, the bang for the buck is still on the AMD side by a LARGE margin!
And the amount of service life you get with them is just nuts, my Phenom II X6 is going on 6 years old, still plays the latest games AND can do video transcoding at the same time, while my nearly 8 year old Phenom II X4 has passed through 3 boards and is STILL going, the wife games on it every.single.day. and it just keeps on coming back for more.
BTW you want a quad CRAZY cheap? Go grab an Athlon X3 450 or 455, you can find them for around $25-$40 and we've been seeing better than 80% unlocks on those, a 3.3Ghz quad for $25, whats not to like?
As for the codec? THAT is the tough one, as I've had the "fun" of trying to get Intel indeo running on a new system and that was once the big kahuna when it came to codecs. I mean who would have thought Intel would abandon their work? This is where FOSS would probably be a good choice as you can have the source code and instructions printed out on paper besides the discs.
Don't buy the bullshit, even Intel admits they rigged the benchmarks so those numbers you are relying on? About as accurate as the results from Quack.exe back in the day. if you run ACTUAL PROGRAMS like games instead of rigged benchmarks? You'll find AMD chips at less than half the price trading blows with Intels and many times BEATING them, again at less than half the price! You can buy an FX8300 for around $120 right now, what are you gonna get from intel at that price? A Pentium Dual...yeah you are really gonna be "superior performance" with two cores versus eight lol!
BTW if anybody wonders why both links are from Tek Syndicate? Because surprise surprise they are one of the few places that takes ZERO DOLLARS from Intel or AMD and wadda ya know? They run actual programs and not rigged benches! Meanwhile you have Tom's (Who DOES take Intel ads) trying to push a Pentium Dual over the FX6300...really? When most of the triple A titles require quad core minimums they push a dual core as a best in class GAMING chip? If you need evidence Intel writes some big checks there ya go.
So don't buy the lies, I've seen the results with my very own eyes and without rigging? You are looking at maybe 5-10% difference...except on price, where you are talking as much as 200% difference! Everyone should just ask themselves one simple question....If Intel's numbers are REALLY that good...why are they rigging? Why are they getting investigated in the EU and having lawsuits brought in a bunch of countries if their numbers stand on their own merit? The answer should frankly be obvious, their numbers are NOT worthy of the price they are charging and they know fair benches would show that and cut down on their crazy high profits, that's why!
The "so" is if you take out Chromebooks? Linux doesn't even have 1 lousy percentage point...do you know what category that puts Linux? In "other" right next to Haiku, ReactOS, and the BeOS clones.
That means 1.- You can kiss mainstream driver support buh bye, nobody is gonna bother if they aren't supporting enterprises that want the little checkbox, 2.- that means the drivers you DO have will be half ass and short of features compared to the Windows and OSX versions because most of them are hacked together reversed engineered where if it works AT ALL its considered a "success". I could wallpaper the page with drivers that don't give you half the features of the hardware,are broken for several releases because some dev doesn't have one lying around, or both. 3.- You won't be getting most of the software people actually buy computers FOR, at best you'll usually get an "ersatz", and like the origin of that word will mean inferior. See Gimp which doesn't match up to even Corel Draw of 5 years ago, Libre Office which craps all over spreadsheets made in anything else because some dev decided the entire free world was "doin it wrong" and which frankly runs like ass, hell I could go on all day.
Hey if you enjoy spending your weekends trying to get shit to work like its still 1985? That is YOUR business, but don't be surprised when your scanner won't scan, your webcam only does 240x80, or the laptop gives you a black screen of death just because you updated the thing because with numbers THAT dismal? Nobody is gonna support you. And if you think things are bad now? Like I said just you wait, looks like the proprietary world is going for a "get it on the back end" model which kills "free as in beer" like Raid kills bugs....dead. If that becomes the norm? Yeah try having a half or even as low as a quarter of 1%, which as another pointed out is a DECLINE by almost 75% from its high of nearly 2%. That means not only are you not going forward? You are regressing FAST.
That is not a good place to be friend, not a good place at all.
Why is this marked troll? Has ANYBODY HERE heard of this thing before this article?....crickets....yeah, thought so.
I'll get lots of FOSSie hate but fuck it, truth is truth...take away the "free as in beer" sales pitch? YOU BE FUCKED, your support is lousy, docs are terrible, if you even have any docs instead of "to do" place holders, its like they translate "free" to be "lazy". What you end up with is the Gimp, which isn't even comparable with Corel Draw from 5 years ago much less Photoshop.
This is why I think the future has to be scary as hell for the FLOSS crowd because it looks like most of proprietary is going to a "make it on the back end" kinda deal which makes free as in beer? Free as in worthless. I mean who is gonna care about jumping through the hoops and dealing with the bullshit of a Linux desktop if they can get the latest Windows for $20 or even free? Who is gonna want to deal with all the fiddling and crap from some 'jMonkeyChunky' (BTW let me guess, the j is Java or JavaScript...yes? Ugh) if they can use the latest Unreal or Source with zero costs upfront? Very damned few people, that's who.
Of course this may turn out to be a blessing in disguise, as it might finally kill the 50 million "me too!" apps in FLOSS and leave only those that are dedicated to making something really truly great, as opposed to now where you got tons just shitting out half baked crap to get a little FOSS cred.
Yeah it was doing damned good....until the last release, then its like Nadella forgot to lock the backdoor and the Metro asses snuck in and started shitting all over the OS. The previous release? Light on resources, had an Aero like look, and other than a few shit icons was pretty damned good, the latest build? Looks like shit and I frankly just shut it off after 10 minutes of the CPU grinding at 100% for fuck all. If I had to guess? Cortana NEEDS TO DIE as it looked like all the services that were just hogging the shit out of the CPU had to do with that bitch.
Nadella needs to wake the fuck up and get back on the helm, because MSFT can't afford three clunkers in a row and if the current release ends up being the RTM? Yeah give it the fuck up, its just barely better than Metro.
If you do not understand how a massive BOYCOTT hurts your bottom line when you make over 90c of every dollar with a cut of search? Then you sir are either trolling or is so locked into your political beliefs that you will ignore reality in favor of politics.
Just ask the guy that USED to work at MSFT that said "If you don't want to always be online buy a 360" about how bad press affects a bottom line, that little stunt caused sales to crater, just as Eich caused FF adoption to nose dive. Pretty much every gamer website had a large "Do not use FF, here are some better choices" banner, which looking back was kinda ironic as they themselves cratered by choosing to be anti-gamergate and ran off all their users, but for a couple weeks there you couldn't surf anyplace other than the right wing blogs that didn't have some sort of "ditch FF" article. That kind of bad press just slaughters a company, look at their numbers before and after and you'll see they have yet to recover.
Sigh, kids who do not know their history. Let me enlighten you child, you see there was certain things you HAD to have if you were gonna be a "dotbomb billionaire", those fancy ass uber expensive office chairs, the waiting area had to look like you were in an LA plastic surgeon's office, and you HAD TO HAVE a wall of the most expensive Sun hardware. So you had these companies literally buying millions of dollars worth of Sun gear, walls and walls of it. Now what do you think happened when they cratered, the market is in full panic mode, and the investors are just praying they can get back 8c on the dollar of what they put in?
You see child when you have a market crash? Rational thought doesn't come into play, they move like a herd of frightened animals. You see the guy next to you is dumping that shit for any bit of cash they can get and you go "Oh fuck if I don't get out I'll be able to wipe my ass with this stock!" and it drives down prices until the shit is worthless. Now eventually sanity DOES return but since hardware has a shelf life? You still aren't gonna get shit for that 4K Sun server because by the time sanity returns you can get a 1K Intel that is faster.
What we saw was no different than after the housing bubble burst, where you could get a 3 bedroom in Ohio for $300. Everybody panics, the plummeting price causes more panic, pretty soon they'll sell you half the office for $100 just to get something out of it. So as somebody pointed out Sun ended up having to go on the market and spend millions buying truuckloads of their own hardware just to trash it to keep competing with it as it was going for a couple cents on the dollar, everybody wanted out and if it meant selling a million dollars worth of office gear for $10K? So be it.
So now its wrong to want a UI that doesn't look like the dev took a Clevland Steamer on my screen? From the bottom of my heart fuck you, fuck the hipster douchebags that thought the shitastic fucking 90s was "retro cool" and so are trying their fucking damnedest to recreate Windows God Damned 2.0, the shitiest fucking tablets and Worst Buy special laptops have 200 times the power Windows 2.0 ran on so its more "how low can ya go?" dev circle jerking, and most of all it shows the devs (and anybody who supports that shit) is fucking ignorant because things like raised borders SERVE A PURPOSE, they show you what is clickable and what isn't. Wanna see what this shit flat shaded UI gets you? Yeah go look at Windows Mist8ke and see how quick that shit died,l you couldn't tell foreground from back, icon from picture, Windows 2.0 had better separation of elements!
So you can take that shit and shove it between your collection of Captain Planet and Power Rangers DVDs, the early 90s are NOT retro cool and eye sore flat shaded bullshit is not now, nor will it ever fucking be, popular!
Flag on the field, 15 yards for BS. Linux had jack and shit to do with Sun dying, it was the fallout from the dotbomb that slaughtered 'em. For a good 6 years after the dotbomb you could get Sun hardware for WAAAAY below cost thanks to all the bankrupt dotbombs that bought walls of the stuff, I should know as me and several of my friends doing consulting made a killing off of it! A $450 SunRay thin client? Less than $15 in bulk, a $4k+ Sun server? You could pick 'em up all day for less than $200.
Linux didn't enter into the equation, there was several years where Sun had to compete with their own hardware which was being sold for less than a fifth of what they paid for it, and they just couldn't afford to have cratered sales for a half a decade so they slowly bled out.
As for TFA? If I didn't know better I'd swear that Moz has an Elop on the inside trying to torpedo the company for GOOG. How else do you explain repeatedly giving their customers the finger while their share tumbles? Even MSFT got the message when their sales tanked and punt kicked the sweaty one and his Metro crap to the curb, yet Moz doubles down and gives its users a double bird by making the UI more and more Chrome-like with every release.
Sigh, don't you just LOVE how conservatives HATE a truly free market, because you know that is EXACTLY what that was, right? People voted with their wallets when Moz placed a bigot as CEO by removing FF and asking others to do the same (thus taking a big bite out of their user and search numbers, costing revenue) and when faced with the monetary cost of their bad choice changed direction.
That is how a truly free market is SUPPOSED to work, you vote with your wallet for or against a company and then that company can stay the course and bleed to death or change course, see MSFT and the Ballmernator and Metro. But of course you don't like actual free markets, because if you did you would respect the free choice that such a market brings but I suspect that what you support is crony capitalism, where the "good old boy" system rigs the market for the enrichment of a few.
Sorry to disappoint you, that is how truly free market capitalism works, people can vote with their wallets however they choose.
At the time Opera was spyware/adware and was treated like plague blankets so for all intents and purposes it might as well have been Moz because nobody was shelling out $30 USD just to get Opera decrapified.
It is just too bad somebody at Moz is pulling an Elop and fucking the company for Google, because ever since they have turned Moz into a shitty ersatz Chrome their share has just nosedived, even those that are hooked on the extensions going to one of the alternate like PaleMoon,Waterfox, IceDragon,etc. I personally tossed FF from my software collection I give my customers, I now give 'em Seamonkey if they remember Netscape and PaleMoon if they don't. I mean if all I'm going to get from FF is an ersatz Chrome, why not just run Chrome?
Then you want to get the IDE to USB adapter. here is the one I use at the shop, works on everything and hassle free. 2.5, 3.5, IDE, SATA, don't matter it ALL is covered with this one. I've had it for a couple of years now, its a good one.