Bullshit you CANNOT USE THE LAST 512MB, reviewers have to use CLI hacks just to run a bench with the last 512MB, want proof? Here ya go, he loads 4k textures and HD texture packs and NEVER is able to hit above 3.5GB, the games WILL NOT USE THE 512MB because of the performance hit, its seen as system RAM and therefore WORTHLESS.
Hell they could have gotten them laptops for less than 100 mil. The HP Stream low end model costs around $175 and both HP and MSFT have programs for education where they'll eat part of the costs so I have no doubt with education discount they could have gotten the bottom of the line Celeron HP Stream for around $100-$120 a pop. Even the bottom of the line model is more than powerful enough for homework, we're talking Celeron N2840 with 2GB of RAM and 32GB SSD, more than enough to do schoolwork on
Actually it goes to something much deeper and for some more terrifying and that is this....capitalism, like every other ism before it, MUST die!
The reason why is simple, as gates recently said in a speech in less than 15 years 75% of all current jobs will be replaced by technology, everything from accounting and programming to building roads and service industry jobs WILL be done by either a program or a robot. Now what do you think is gonna happen when 75% of the already inadequate jobs are replaced by tech and what few jobs that haven't are offshored? Think the population will just go starve quietly in the street?
There really is only TWO options, either everyone is given a check just for breathing, most likely paid for by the state owning the machines, or a violent and bloody revolution as the poor fight back...in either case capitalism as we know it? Will go the way of fascism and communism and every other ism.
Good lord, what is with all the corporate ass kissing? Nvidia is gonna need extra wipes tonight to clean all the lip prints off their behinds!
Look, for those that seem to have trouble understanding the concept of truth in advertising I'll spell it out, okay? They ADVERTISED a 4GB card but if you try to load a HD texture pack that goes over 3.5GB does it work? NO IT DOES NOT because the last 512Mb might as well be turbocache system RAM for all the good it will do ya! So it is really REALLY simple, they gimped the chip, the way they gimped the chip made it for all intents and purposes a 3.5GB card (since you will NEVER EVER EVER BE ABLE TO USE THE LAST 512MB because of how big of a speed difference there is, it is IMPOSSIBLE for you to use a large HD texture with the last 512MB running at just 20% speed, so its worthless) and yet they sold it as a 4GB card.
The solution is obvious, anybody who bought the 4GB should be refunded the difference between a 3GB version of the card and a 4GB and all future cards should be sold as 3.5GB since that last 512MB will never be used by a single game EVAR as it'll tie such a fucking boat anchor to performance you might as well be running it on a 9800GT. If they would have sold it as a 3.5GB card? No problem, case closed. But people shelled out for these specifically so they could load all those HD texture packs which just aren't gonna run on these, you will have to treat it as a 3GB card because if you go 1MB into that last 512MB? Say goodbye to your framerate. I'm sorry but I agree with the plaintiffs, they didn't get what they paid for.
Actually There is an exotic mechanic just outside of Bangkok whose specialty is making "Fauxrari" and "Lambaux" and any other exotic you want, under the hood they are Toyota and Mazda pumped up ricer motors. Considering his builds run between $65k-$80k they are for the semi-rich in third world countries to look like they have more money than they really do. Rumor has it most of Saddam's later rides were made by this guy, who brags his vehicles are safer while being lighter as he makes his panels out of carbon fiber from casts of the real parts.
Sorry I can't seem to find a link, I read it in a magazine,Wired IIRC. Of course even if I found photos it would look just like the real thing as the Wired article had him posing by some of his builds and his attention to detail was just incredible, I bet if you parked the real 65 Ferrari next to his you wouldn't know which is which by merely looking.
The previous CEO burnt all the bridges and it will take the better part of a decade to rebuild them, if they ever can.
Say what you will about Sony but in the 80s and 90s you want a damned good cutting edge piece of gear that will easily last the better part of a decade if not longer? Then YOU BOUGHT SONY because everything from the solder to the picture tubes was the best quality you could get, just well built through and through. Then they got arrogant, spread the company too thin, and every time profits didn't hit what wall street wanted? Well just drop the quality without dropping the price and there ya go! It didn't take too many failed units before folks got wise to that shit and now everybody knows you buy Sony? What you get is a Vizio with a higher price tag.
So no shit they are thinking of bailing, like so many companies from IBM to Seagate they sold out the quality of the brand for short term gains, now its time to pay the check.
Sigma Sound? Those chips are pretty notorious among repair guys for just how truly shitty integrated could be, having less features than a bottom of the line AC '97. BTW you think that was dumbshit? With Windows Vista you had to go in and disable any and all CPU power saving like Speedstep and Cool & Quiet because the second the CPU would start parking cores and dropping frequencies? Vista would start scheduling jobs for those chips!
As for TFA? Its snake oil, pure and simple. A 1 is a 1, a 0 is a 0,and data is data.
So why don't you proclaim "the year of the OS/2 desktop" while you are at it since by your bullshit it can mean any fucking thing in the world?
Or better yet why not just accept the fact YOU FUCKING LOST and quit being a butthurt sore loser,mmmkay? Your devs were too busy having pissing contests over DEs to get their shit together, Torvalds was too busy acting like Linux is still his class project to get off his dusty ass and come up with a functional driver model,and all this circle jerking left the field wide open for MSFT to waltz right on in and take the trophy.
The most hilarious part? You and the rest of the community are still so stuck in the past worrying about "the big bad M$" and refusing to admit you lost the desktop wars you aren't even seeing the train fucking Google is about to give you. Google is about to pull a EEE on Linux and nobody is gonna see it coming, that is a knee slapper IMHO.
So go ahead and pretend that year of doesn't mean what it actually means, hey maybe when they say malware they really means puppies, right?
Yay? For what? Getting rid of one niche format for another? Why not good old fashioned MP3 which is playable anywhere on anything?
The audiophiles can scream bloody murder into their USB tube powered DACs but the format wars have been over for quite awhile and MP3 WON, and not by a trivial amount but by a wholesale curbstomping. You take just about any consumer device made by anybody that has the ability to play audio, from an ultra cheapo 7in tablet or STB to a 5K+ TV set or expensive after market car stereo and what do they ALL play? MP3. No muss, no fuss, no hassle, it "just works".
So unless this DASH format can be played everywhere that an MP3 can be played? Then I just don't see the point of replacing one niche for another.
Which to me seems to reinforce your idea that this is a military operation, as I find it REALLY hard to believe that a dev so flippant in his "I don't give a fuck!" attitude would just be embraced and given control of such a critical system without some big ass checks being passed, not to mention how quickly otherwise normally wise devs suddenly resort to name calling and character attacks when users point out what an a-hole this guy is, using his own posts no less.
Maybe again its just me but the postings from groups like the Debian devs feel just like somebody is telling them "Look I know the guy is a giant ass, we do not care just COVER FOR HIM and get this shit rammed through or no big checks for you, understand?" because its all hamfisted appeals to emotion and name calling, whereas with other debates they tended to go straight to technical merits without going emotional all over the place.
Are you REALLY buying your own BS, or are you just trolling? As one Linux friendly site easily defines "a year of the desktop where Linux desktop market share suddenly rises in relatively dramatic fashion."
And NO Virginia that does NOT mean going from the current lousy 1.34% which just FYI is sooo low that they officially now lump Linux in the "other" category to a 2%, that means a real significant rise as in double digits?
But lets face reality, its been...what? 24 years now? And you've NEVER even cracked 2%? I'm sorry but you have less of a chance at having a year of the Linux desktop than RMS has of becoming the POTUS. Its not gonna happen, it didn't happen when Shuttleworth was blowing millions plugging Ubuntu, didn't happen when Wally World was trying to hawk gOS desktops for $199, and its certainly not gonna happen now that Ballmer has been replaced by a guy with a functional brain, its just not gonna happen. We have already seen the future, and its a proprietary Android, a proprietary OSX/iOS, and a proprietary Windows....THAT is the future. Pretending the "year of a Linux desktop" is anything but a punchline? I'm sorry but you really shouldn't be hitting the pipe THAT hard buddy.
Insightful? Really mods? All the Anon did was use the classic fallacy moving the goal posts to change the criteria for a "win" to be ANYTHING the poster wants!
By this logic this is "the year of the OS/2 desktop" because I'm sure you can find one guy out there that has switched to using an OS/2 box somewhere on the planet this year. Does this actually mean fuck all? Does this fit what has been commonly considered by the public and the main stream media when they read or write "year of X"? Nope but that is why moving the goal posts should always be translated to "I have no leg to stand on" because you can "prove" any single premises if you move the goal posts far enough!
SJW alert! How to spoot an SJW...when reality goes against the political narrative ALWAYS choose to ignore reality and just continue to hammer the political narrative!
Tell me probable SJW, do you also scream "sexist!" at the fact women pay less for car insurance than men? Its because STATISTICS show that women are less likely to drive reckless or at very high speed, thus the odds of having a large payout with women is lower, do you scream and rail about this? I bet you don't.
What you are sticking your fingers in your ears and ignoring is a little concept that has been known and written about for...ohh over 100 years! Its called Labor Burden as in, the actual cost of the employee? And in a highly technical field training and orientation is a VERY significant cost, after all you can't just be dropped in the middle of some 10 million LOC project and just be told "get on it" now can you? Now if I have 2 candidates for a position and the statistics show that, no matter how much money I offer her, the female has a 1 in 3 chance of leaving my company in the next 4 years whereas the male candidate has a virtually nonexistent chance to leave (because I can always offer more money and benefits to keep him) I'm supposed to just roll the dice on what could mean a half million plus in training and lost time...why? So I can wave the progressive flag?
But you already know this, don't you? You're not a retard...you're just selfish and self centered and think companies should ignore statistics, just eat the huge costs (instead of pass them on to YOU which just FYI is what they do when they have to ignore real risks, they make YOU pay for the risks with higher prices) of lost training, momentum, hiring the temp when they take maternity leave AND the cost to start aaaallll over again when they QUIT (because the last figures I saw had something like 70% of women who take maternity leave quitting within 4 months of returning) and all so you can pretend that men and women are nothing but completely interchangeable cogs with no actual differences...and folks wonder why SJWs and progressives have become the butt of jokes, its because they are as wedded to dogma over reality as a young earth creationist.
Because it makes one race more worthy of help than another? As Al Sharpton LOVES to point out there is more whites on welfare than blacks...yet you just TRY setting up a program that ONLY takes poor white kids and see how quickly you get shut down!
You see, call me "non PC" but I actually bought the words of Dr King, that we should treat ALL by the content of their character...so if you wanna do something for poor kids with no riders? I'll be happy to sing your praises. But you can pour all the sugar on dogshit that you want, it don't make it a cupcake, and reverse racism? STILL racism.
Call me a tinfoil hatter if you want (just as anybody who said "they are monitoring our calls!" before Manning) but am I the only one that finds it funny that after Snowden lets out all the 3 letter agencies best spy tricks out of the blue a guy employed by Red Hat, who makes more than 85% of their money from 3 letter agencies, suddenly decides out of the blue "This crucial part MUST be replaced by this big creeping mess that will touch more and more systems!" and just as suddenly every.single.major.distro. just instantly jumps on this bandwagon even if it means telling their own users to fuck off? Even distros that are normally positively glacial about major changes like Debian? Doesn't that strike anybody else as odd?
Sigh...say it with me boys and girls, correlation does not equal causation and 5 whole seconds of logical thought (which when we are talking about post modern feminism is practically impossible) would let you know WHY things are the way they are!
Its really VERY simple, the women are as high as 5 times more likely (depending on age, background, education level, etc) to decide that they cannot ignore their biological clock and quit to raise a family...the man does not do this. this means that the not insignificant investment they make in the woman is a lot more likely to go sour than it is with the man therefor the man is worth more...its all down to the $$$, just as it always is. Why do you think Apple is offering to pay for the freezing of eggs of some of their employees? Because somebody sat down with the actuary tables and crunched the numbers and found in those cases its cheaper to pay for this than retraining...its math, simple as that.
This is what I hate about that section of the left now called "Social Justice Warriors" which we used to call "East Coast liberals" is that they are NOT for what Dr King marched for, the right of ALL PEOPLE to be judged by the content of their character, no they are for racism and the only difference between their racism and the racists of the early 20th century is the colors they discriminate for and against! And you can bet your last dollar that its this group that let loose the waaahmbulance and got Intel to throw money at this racist crap to get them to go away.
But I want to thank Intel, I've said ever since it came out Intel was bribing OEMs and rigging benchmarks (which they do to this very day BTW, just recently Cinebench was caught using CPUID to tell the software to slow down if the chip was AMD) that we should vote with our wallets and go AMD, which I have exclusively ever since, but this kind of bullshit just gives me an extra warm and fuzzy feeling to know that not only am I saving my customers money while giving them really good performance but the icing on the cake is I'm not supporting racism...thx Intel!
Not to mention it can leave the group that refuses to at least learn isolated which in turn limits their chances for advancement. For example in my area there is two groups that refuse to speak anything but their native tongue, the Mexicans and the Ebonic speaking black neighborhood. In both cases they live in ghettos, complete with higher crime and drug abuse. in both cases they will never be hired in any job which in any way has any interaction with the public (for obvious reasons) which limits their chances for employment. In both cases the jobs they CAN get always end up being the dead end minimum wage jobs, and in both cases whenever I've had to work a job at a place where any of them had been hired it quickly became obvious that they were looked down upon because their coworkers couldn't understand them and they refused to even attempt to learn enough job specific English to facilitate ease of communication while working.
So ultimately by refusing to interact with those around them its the ones that refuse to adapt to the common language that are hurt the most. Oh and before somebody screams "that's raciss!" over the Ebonics? Just try looking up a southern Ebonics speaker video and see how many words you can understand before you get lost, between the region specific nature of the slang combined with the unconventional usage of certain words (such as the way the word "be" can be past, present, and future tense) it quickly becomes like that scene in Airplane! where they had to get the woman that spoke jive to translate.
Hear hear! While the lack of low rights mode (which frankly is a must for any consumer browser, running with user credentials is just insanity) made me stop giving it to customers seeing my C2Q at the shop have 1 core slam to the firewall while FF just sat there and spun was what had me uninstalling the damned thing. It got to the point that on some sites I literally could fire up Secure Chromium, load the page, log in and be on my way before FF had gotten its shit together and stopped bitchslapping that single core. Its 2015 and it still does 90%+ on a single core?
Frankly I'd bitch about the FF devs ignoring everything they promised when FF was first released, all that "a more lightweight standards compliant" browser crap but I think we can all agree that the devs have no fucks to give on the desktop anymore so what would be the point? They just better hope they can carve a profitable niche with FF-OS because in less than 5 years FF is gonna be down there with Kmeleon and SWIron in the "other" category, they have run off so many users the past few years its just pitiful!
Exactly they really just don't seem to give a single fuck if they are even here 5 years from now. I know my entire customer base all had me move them off of FF (for those that weren't wedded to FF I went Secure Chromium, for those that had an extension they couldn't live without Pale Moon) and when everybody complained? All we got from the devs was a collective finger.
So I'd say they really don't give a toss about desktops anymore, with their burning the bridges I doubt they'll have enough desktop users in 5 years for even Ask to buy their search slot so it looks like its FireFox OS or bust. Damned shame but what can ya do?
But is there really a point of having ARM64 on an ultra low cost system? Its not like you are gonna be using the increased bandwidth or large memory amounts that 64bits brings to the table on a sub $150 SoC, hell I seriously doubt the board will have enough bandwidth on its I/O to even saturate a 32bit pipeline.
This trend in the ARM arena is something that has left me scratching my head of late as you are getting these insanely powerful ARM SoCs with quad and even octocores, yet the rest of the hardware just hasn't kept up with the cores. To me this makes about as much sense as taking a Core i7 and dropping it onto a late P3 board as no matter how badass the chip itself is the rest of the hardware just isn't in the same league...is there something I'm missing, or to use a car analogy are all these systems taking a Viper motor and pairing it with the powertrain of a 74 Vega?
Uhhh...you haven't actually TRIED Windows 10 yet, have ya Billy? Its Windows 7 with the increased speed of Windows 8. You want a standard desktop? That is what you get OOTB, hell I can't even bitch about the little live tiles on the start menu as a LOT of people are into the whole FB/Twitter/social shits and it takes less than 60 seconds to turn it off if you aren't.
Hell Billy you want it in the dull grey classic that has been around since Win 95 you can add it in like 3 minutes with a couple of reg tweaks or if you can't be arsed you can spend the whole $30 on AstonShell and have back your beloved XP Luna if that is what floats your boat. BTW I highly encourage you to go check out Aston as you buy it once you get updates for life and they have every major DE from Windows 95 to OSX to KDE 3 and switching between shells is as easy as "clicky clicky".
But I've got the latest release of Windows 10 running on my netbook and every.single.thing. that you liked about Windows 7 is there or can be added in a couple seconds. Like Aero? By default it has the Aero see through Windows and taskbar, only thing they didn't keep was those animations that were always too damned slow. Want the old start menu with "all programs" functionality? Already there by default. Hell you can even run all your old Windows 7 gadgets by just installing 8gadgetpack which is actually BETTER than the gadget system on Win 7 as you not only get the choice of the Win 7 floating gadgets or the gadget strip from Vista but OOTB it comes with the most popular gadgets in the newest releases so you don't even have to go hunt down your favs from Win 7, they are already there.
As for Linux? they've adopted all the bad habits of mobile, insane release schedule, quickly abandoning old versions, without the upsides like apps easily usable between versions and old apps running on new releases without a shitload of fiddling or recompile. there are just too many cooks, too many little fiefdoms "doing their own thing" without regard for the OS as a whole, and too much focus on new versions just for the sake of being new instead of fixing what you have. I have argued for years this is why a volunteer OS ultimately will be a bloody mess, humans just won't do shitty jobs like bug fixing, QA and QC, regression testing, all the mundane dreary day to day shit required to play in the big leagues as creating something new will always be more fun than fixing old bugs.
I have a better question...how in the hell are the devs gonna do QA, QC, and regression testing when on any given day one or more vital subsystems can change?
This is what I've never been able to get anybody to explain without it becoming politics, how you are gonna take a bunch of teeny tiny fiefdoms, most of whom don't even talk to each other and NEVER check with one another before they start doing major changes, and then allow any part on any given day to change based on these little groups release schedules without it ending up a buggy clusterfuck. I mean do you think Linus calls up the KDE and Gnome guys before making a change to the kernel just to see if its gonna fuck up what they are working on? Think the KDE and Gnome guys have the guys working on Pulse on speed dial so they can call them before they start messing with major parts of their DEs? And then you are gonna add on top of all this lack of communication and "do your own thing" cowboy coding a system where the system you had last week can have multiple critical components changed this week? Who is in charge of regression testing? How many systems is this tested against and how many hardware variations? These should be pretty standard questions folks yet every time I ask them usually what I get is filthy names or just shoulder shrugs.
Maybe its just me but in the decade I've been messing with Linux the feeling I've been getting is that the reason why Linux kicks so much ass on servers and embedded and is such a buggy mess when it comes to the desktop comes down to one of attitude wrt the developers. the guys in server and embedded really care about stability, about QC, about regression testing, they have a very strong "If it ain't broke" ethic and don't just throw out something that works without a hell of a lot of thought and debate. Contrast this to what I've seen in the desktop, where even the so called "stability focused" distros seem to jump on the latest bandwagon waaay too early, be it Pulse or KDE 4 or systemd, ironically with all the rhetoric of Windows and Mac being focused on new releases to generate profits I've seen a LOT MORE of the "just release a new version instead of fixing the old" in the *NIX desktop realm, and to top it off an almost bizzaro hatred of long term stability, see how quickly KDE 3 and Gnome 2 were cast aside even though they were resource light, feature rich, and a good chunk of the major bugs had been stamped out.
So to me the rolling release fad is just a symptom of a larger problem, the "last version bad, new version good, must be on the bleeding edge" phenomena that seems to have taken hold for some damned reason. I mean is there really anything that is so. fucking. urgent. that it absolutely HAS to be released that nanosecond instead of going through the alpha/beta/release schedule that has worked for so long? Or has the insane turnover of mobile infected us to the point that "here this morning, gone this afternoon" is just gonna be the way of things from now on?
If you like the A4 you should really try an AM1, you can score a quad core AM1 WITH the board for less than $100 bucks, $70 if you go for the dual (but doubling your CPUs for $30 seems like a no brainer to me) and that is for a system that easily does 1080P with the included HDMI out!
You slap one of those with a cheap SSD and a TB HDD for video storage in a low end "VCR style" case? BAM you got yourself a BADASS HTPC that will not only stream, be a jukebox and media center, you can even play a lot of mainstream games on it, its just crazy how sweet those babies run!
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Bullshit you CANNOT USE THE LAST 512MB, reviewers have to use CLI hacks just to run a bench with the last 512MB, want proof? Here ya go, he loads 4k textures and HD texture packs and NEVER is able to hit above 3.5GB, the games WILL NOT USE THE 512MB because of the performance hit, its seen as system RAM and therefore WORTHLESS.
Hell they could have gotten them laptops for less than 100 mil. The HP Stream low end model costs around $175 and both HP and MSFT have programs for education where they'll eat part of the costs so I have no doubt with education discount they could have gotten the bottom of the line Celeron HP Stream for around $100-$120 a pop. Even the bottom of the line model is more than powerful enough for homework, we're talking Celeron N2840 with 2GB of RAM and 32GB SSD, more than enough to do schoolwork on
Actually it goes to something much deeper and for some more terrifying and that is this....capitalism, like every other ism before it, MUST die!
The reason why is simple, as gates recently said in a speech in less than 15 years 75% of all current jobs will be replaced by technology, everything from accounting and programming to building roads and service industry jobs WILL be done by either a program or a robot. Now what do you think is gonna happen when 75% of the already inadequate jobs are replaced by tech and what few jobs that haven't are offshored? Think the population will just go starve quietly in the street?
There really is only TWO options, either everyone is given a check just for breathing, most likely paid for by the state owning the machines, or a violent and bloody revolution as the poor fight back...in either case capitalism as we know it? Will go the way of fascism and communism and every other ism.
Good lord, what is with all the corporate ass kissing? Nvidia is gonna need extra wipes tonight to clean all the lip prints off their behinds!
Look, for those that seem to have trouble understanding the concept of truth in advertising I'll spell it out, okay? They ADVERTISED a 4GB card but if you try to load a HD texture pack that goes over 3.5GB does it work? NO IT DOES NOT because the last 512Mb might as well be turbocache system RAM for all the good it will do ya! So it is really REALLY simple, they gimped the chip, the way they gimped the chip made it for all intents and purposes a 3.5GB card (since you will NEVER EVER EVER BE ABLE TO USE THE LAST 512MB because of how big of a speed difference there is, it is IMPOSSIBLE for you to use a large HD texture with the last 512MB running at just 20% speed, so its worthless) and yet they sold it as a 4GB card.
The solution is obvious, anybody who bought the 4GB should be refunded the difference between a 3GB version of the card and a 4GB and all future cards should be sold as 3.5GB since that last 512MB will never be used by a single game EVAR as it'll tie such a fucking boat anchor to performance you might as well be running it on a 9800GT. If they would have sold it as a 3.5GB card? No problem, case closed. But people shelled out for these specifically so they could load all those HD texture packs which just aren't gonna run on these, you will have to treat it as a 3GB card because if you go 1MB into that last 512MB? Say goodbye to your framerate. I'm sorry but I agree with the plaintiffs, they didn't get what they paid for.
Actually There is an exotic mechanic just outside of Bangkok whose specialty is making "Fauxrari" and "Lambaux" and any other exotic you want, under the hood they are Toyota and Mazda pumped up ricer motors. Considering his builds run between $65k-$80k they are for the semi-rich in third world countries to look like they have more money than they really do. Rumor has it most of Saddam's later rides were made by this guy, who brags his vehicles are safer while being lighter as he makes his panels out of carbon fiber from casts of the real parts.
Sorry I can't seem to find a link, I read it in a magazine,Wired IIRC. Of course even if I found photos it would look just like the real thing as the Wired article had him posing by some of his builds and his attention to detail was just incredible, I bet if you parked the real 65 Ferrari next to his you wouldn't know which is which by merely looking.
The previous CEO burnt all the bridges and it will take the better part of a decade to rebuild them, if they ever can.
Say what you will about Sony but in the 80s and 90s you want a damned good cutting edge piece of gear that will easily last the better part of a decade if not longer? Then YOU BOUGHT SONY because everything from the solder to the picture tubes was the best quality you could get, just well built through and through. Then they got arrogant, spread the company too thin, and every time profits didn't hit what wall street wanted? Well just drop the quality without dropping the price and there ya go! It didn't take too many failed units before folks got wise to that shit and now everybody knows you buy Sony? What you get is a Vizio with a higher price tag.
So no shit they are thinking of bailing, like so many companies from IBM to Seagate they sold out the quality of the brand for short term gains, now its time to pay the check.
Sigma Sound? Those chips are pretty notorious among repair guys for just how truly shitty integrated could be, having less features than a bottom of the line AC '97. BTW you think that was dumbshit? With Windows Vista you had to go in and disable any and all CPU power saving like Speedstep and Cool & Quiet because the second the CPU would start parking cores and dropping frequencies? Vista would start scheduling jobs for those chips!
As for TFA? Its snake oil, pure and simple. A 1 is a 1, a 0 is a 0,and data is data.
So why don't you proclaim "the year of the OS/2 desktop" while you are at it since by your bullshit it can mean any fucking thing in the world?
Or better yet why not just accept the fact YOU FUCKING LOST and quit being a butthurt sore loser,mmmkay? Your devs were too busy having pissing contests over DEs to get their shit together, Torvalds was too busy acting like Linux is still his class project to get off his dusty ass and come up with a functional driver model,and all this circle jerking left the field wide open for MSFT to waltz right on in and take the trophy.
The most hilarious part? You and the rest of the community are still so stuck in the past worrying about "the big bad M$" and refusing to admit you lost the desktop wars you aren't even seeing the train fucking Google is about to give you. Google is about to pull a EEE on Linux and nobody is gonna see it coming, that is a knee slapper IMHO.
So go ahead and pretend that year of doesn't mean what it actually means, hey maybe when they say malware they really means puppies, right?
Yay? For what? Getting rid of one niche format for another? Why not good old fashioned MP3 which is playable anywhere on anything?
The audiophiles can scream bloody murder into their USB tube powered DACs but the format wars have been over for quite awhile and MP3 WON, and not by a trivial amount but by a wholesale curbstomping. You take just about any consumer device made by anybody that has the ability to play audio, from an ultra cheapo 7in tablet or STB to a 5K+ TV set or expensive after market car stereo and what do they ALL play? MP3. No muss, no fuss, no hassle, it "just works".
So unless this DASH format can be played everywhere that an MP3 can be played? Then I just don't see the point of replacing one niche for another.
Which to me seems to reinforce your idea that this is a military operation, as I find it REALLY hard to believe that a dev so flippant in his "I don't give a fuck!" attitude would just be embraced and given control of such a critical system without some big ass checks being passed, not to mention how quickly otherwise normally wise devs suddenly resort to name calling and character attacks when users point out what an a-hole this guy is, using his own posts no less.
Maybe again its just me but the postings from groups like the Debian devs feel just like somebody is telling them "Look I know the guy is a giant ass, we do not care just COVER FOR HIM and get this shit rammed through or no big checks for you, understand?" because its all hamfisted appeals to emotion and name calling, whereas with other debates they tended to go straight to technical merits without going emotional all over the place.
Are you REALLY buying your own BS, or are you just trolling? As one Linux friendly site easily defines "a year of the desktop where Linux desktop market share suddenly rises in relatively dramatic fashion."
And NO Virginia that does NOT mean going from the current lousy 1.34% which just FYI is sooo low that they officially now lump Linux in the "other" category to a 2%, that means a real significant rise as in double digits?
But lets face reality, its been...what? 24 years now? And you've NEVER even cracked 2%? I'm sorry but you have less of a chance at having a year of the Linux desktop than RMS has of becoming the POTUS. Its not gonna happen, it didn't happen when Shuttleworth was blowing millions plugging Ubuntu, didn't happen when Wally World was trying to hawk gOS desktops for $199, and its certainly not gonna happen now that Ballmer has been replaced by a guy with a functional brain, its just not gonna happen. We have already seen the future, and its a proprietary Android, a proprietary OSX/iOS, and a proprietary Windows....THAT is the future. Pretending the "year of a Linux desktop" is anything but a punchline? I'm sorry but you really shouldn't be hitting the pipe THAT hard buddy.
Insightful? Really mods? All the Anon did was use the classic fallacy moving the goal posts to change the criteria for a "win" to be ANYTHING the poster wants!
By this logic this is "the year of the OS/2 desktop" because I'm sure you can find one guy out there that has switched to using an OS/2 box somewhere on the planet this year. Does this actually mean fuck all? Does this fit what has been commonly considered by the public and the main stream media when they read or write "year of X"? Nope but that is why moving the goal posts should always be translated to "I have no leg to stand on" because you can "prove" any single premises if you move the goal posts far enough!
SJW alert! How to spoot an SJW...when reality goes against the political narrative ALWAYS choose to ignore reality and just continue to hammer the political narrative!
Tell me probable SJW, do you also scream "sexist!" at the fact women pay less for car insurance than men? Its because STATISTICS show that women are less likely to drive reckless or at very high speed, thus the odds of having a large payout with women is lower, do you scream and rail about this? I bet you don't.
What you are sticking your fingers in your ears and ignoring is a little concept that has been known and written about for...ohh over 100 years! Its called Labor Burden as in, the actual cost of the employee? And in a highly technical field training and orientation is a VERY significant cost, after all you can't just be dropped in the middle of some 10 million LOC project and just be told "get on it" now can you? Now if I have 2 candidates for a position and the statistics show that, no matter how much money I offer her, the female has a 1 in 3 chance of leaving my company in the next 4 years whereas the male candidate has a virtually nonexistent chance to leave (because I can always offer more money and benefits to keep him) I'm supposed to just roll the dice on what could mean a half million plus in training and lost time...why? So I can wave the progressive flag?
But you already know this, don't you? You're not a retard...you're just selfish and self centered and think companies should ignore statistics, just eat the huge costs (instead of pass them on to YOU which just FYI is what they do when they have to ignore real risks, they make YOU pay for the risks with higher prices) of lost training, momentum, hiring the temp when they take maternity leave AND the cost to start aaaallll over again when they QUIT (because the last figures I saw had something like 70% of women who take maternity leave quitting within 4 months of returning) and all so you can pretend that men and women are nothing but completely interchangeable cogs with no actual differences...and folks wonder why SJWs and progressives have become the butt of jokes, its because they are as wedded to dogma over reality as a young earth creationist.
Because it makes one race more worthy of help than another? As Al Sharpton LOVES to point out there is more whites on welfare than blacks...yet you just TRY setting up a program that ONLY takes poor white kids and see how quickly you get shut down!
You see, call me "non PC" but I actually bought the words of Dr King, that we should treat ALL by the content of their character...so if you wanna do something for poor kids with no riders? I'll be happy to sing your praises. But you can pour all the sugar on dogshit that you want, it don't make it a cupcake, and reverse racism? STILL racism.
So in other words you are this guy and are so clueless about the subject you think Steam is a MSFT product....well thx for wasting our time.
Call me a tinfoil hatter if you want (just as anybody who said "they are monitoring our calls!" before Manning) but am I the only one that finds it funny that after Snowden lets out all the 3 letter agencies best spy tricks out of the blue a guy employed by Red Hat, who makes more than 85% of their money from 3 letter agencies, suddenly decides out of the blue "This crucial part MUST be replaced by this big creeping mess that will touch more and more systems!" and just as suddenly every.single.major.distro. just instantly jumps on this bandwagon even if it means telling their own users to fuck off? Even distros that are normally positively glacial about major changes like Debian? Doesn't that strike anybody else as odd?
Sigh...say it with me boys and girls, correlation does not equal causation and 5 whole seconds of logical thought (which when we are talking about post modern feminism is practically impossible) would let you know WHY things are the way they are!
Its really VERY simple, the women are as high as 5 times more likely (depending on age, background, education level, etc) to decide that they cannot ignore their biological clock and quit to raise a family...the man does not do this. this means that the not insignificant investment they make in the woman is a lot more likely to go sour than it is with the man therefor the man is worth more...its all down to the $$$, just as it always is. Why do you think Apple is offering to pay for the freezing of eggs of some of their employees? Because somebody sat down with the actuary tables and crunched the numbers and found in those cases its cheaper to pay for this than retraining...its math, simple as that.
This is what I hate about that section of the left now called "Social Justice Warriors" which we used to call "East Coast liberals" is that they are NOT for what Dr King marched for, the right of ALL PEOPLE to be judged by the content of their character, no they are for racism and the only difference between their racism and the racists of the early 20th century is the colors they discriminate for and against! And you can bet your last dollar that its this group that let loose the waaahmbulance and got Intel to throw money at this racist crap to get them to go away.
But I want to thank Intel, I've said ever since it came out Intel was bribing OEMs and rigging benchmarks (which they do to this very day BTW, just recently Cinebench was caught using CPUID to tell the software to slow down if the chip was AMD) that we should vote with our wallets and go AMD, which I have exclusively ever since, but this kind of bullshit just gives me an extra warm and fuzzy feeling to know that not only am I saving my customers money while giving them really good performance but the icing on the cake is I'm not supporting racism...thx Intel!
Not to mention it can leave the group that refuses to at least learn isolated which in turn limits their chances for advancement. For example in my area there is two groups that refuse to speak anything but their native tongue, the Mexicans and the Ebonic speaking black neighborhood. In both cases they live in ghettos, complete with higher crime and drug abuse. in both cases they will never be hired in any job which in any way has any interaction with the public (for obvious reasons) which limits their chances for employment. In both cases the jobs they CAN get always end up being the dead end minimum wage jobs, and in both cases whenever I've had to work a job at a place where any of them had been hired it quickly became obvious that they were looked down upon because their coworkers couldn't understand them and they refused to even attempt to learn enough job specific English to facilitate ease of communication while working.
So ultimately by refusing to interact with those around them its the ones that refuse to adapt to the common language that are hurt the most. Oh and before somebody screams "that's raciss!" over the Ebonics? Just try looking up a southern Ebonics speaker video and see how many words you can understand before you get lost, between the region specific nature of the slang combined with the unconventional usage of certain words (such as the way the word "be" can be past, present, and future tense) it quickly becomes like that scene in Airplane! where they had to get the woman that spoke jive to translate.
Hear hear! While the lack of low rights mode (which frankly is a must for any consumer browser, running with user credentials is just insanity) made me stop giving it to customers seeing my C2Q at the shop have 1 core slam to the firewall while FF just sat there and spun was what had me uninstalling the damned thing. It got to the point that on some sites I literally could fire up Secure Chromium, load the page, log in and be on my way before FF had gotten its shit together and stopped bitchslapping that single core. Its 2015 and it still does 90%+ on a single core?
Frankly I'd bitch about the FF devs ignoring everything they promised when FF was first released, all that "a more lightweight standards compliant" browser crap but I think we can all agree that the devs have no fucks to give on the desktop anymore so what would be the point? They just better hope they can carve a profitable niche with FF-OS because in less than 5 years FF is gonna be down there with Kmeleon and SWIron in the "other" category, they have run off so many users the past few years its just pitiful!
Exactly they really just don't seem to give a single fuck if they are even here 5 years from now. I know my entire customer base all had me move them off of FF (for those that weren't wedded to FF I went Secure Chromium, for those that had an extension they couldn't live without Pale Moon) and when everybody complained? All we got from the devs was a collective finger.
So I'd say they really don't give a toss about desktops anymore, with their burning the bridges I doubt they'll have enough desktop users in 5 years for even Ask to buy their search slot so it looks like its FireFox OS or bust. Damned shame but what can ya do?
But is there really a point of having ARM64 on an ultra low cost system? Its not like you are gonna be using the increased bandwidth or large memory amounts that 64bits brings to the table on a sub $150 SoC, hell I seriously doubt the board will have enough bandwidth on its I/O to even saturate a 32bit pipeline.
This trend in the ARM arena is something that has left me scratching my head of late as you are getting these insanely powerful ARM SoCs with quad and even octocores, yet the rest of the hardware just hasn't kept up with the cores. To me this makes about as much sense as taking a Core i7 and dropping it onto a late P3 board as no matter how badass the chip itself is the rest of the hardware just isn't in the same league...is there something I'm missing, or to use a car analogy are all these systems taking a Viper motor and pairing it with the powertrain of a 74 Vega?
Uhhh...you haven't actually TRIED Windows 10 yet, have ya Billy? Its Windows 7 with the increased speed of Windows 8. You want a standard desktop? That is what you get OOTB, hell I can't even bitch about the little live tiles on the start menu as a LOT of people are into the whole FB/Twitter/social shits and it takes less than 60 seconds to turn it off if you aren't.
Hell Billy you want it in the dull grey classic that has been around since Win 95 you can add it in like 3 minutes with a couple of reg tweaks or if you can't be arsed you can spend the whole $30 on AstonShell and have back your beloved XP Luna if that is what floats your boat. BTW I highly encourage you to go check out Aston as you buy it once you get updates for life and they have every major DE from Windows 95 to OSX to KDE 3 and switching between shells is as easy as "clicky clicky".
But I've got the latest release of Windows 10 running on my netbook and every.single.thing. that you liked about Windows 7 is there or can be added in a couple seconds. Like Aero? By default it has the Aero see through Windows and taskbar, only thing they didn't keep was those animations that were always too damned slow. Want the old start menu with "all programs" functionality? Already there by default. Hell you can even run all your old Windows 7 gadgets by just installing 8gadgetpack which is actually BETTER than the gadget system on Win 7 as you not only get the choice of the Win 7 floating gadgets or the gadget strip from Vista but OOTB it comes with the most popular gadgets in the newest releases so you don't even have to go hunt down your favs from Win 7, they are already there.
As for Linux? they've adopted all the bad habits of mobile, insane release schedule, quickly abandoning old versions, without the upsides like apps easily usable between versions and old apps running on new releases without a shitload of fiddling or recompile. there are just too many cooks, too many little fiefdoms "doing their own thing" without regard for the OS as a whole, and too much focus on new versions just for the sake of being new instead of fixing what you have. I have argued for years this is why a volunteer OS ultimately will be a bloody mess, humans just won't do shitty jobs like bug fixing, QA and QC, regression testing, all the mundane dreary day to day shit required to play in the big leagues as creating something new will always be more fun than fixing old bugs.
I have a better question...how in the hell are the devs gonna do QA, QC, and regression testing when on any given day one or more vital subsystems can change?
This is what I've never been able to get anybody to explain without it becoming politics, how you are gonna take a bunch of teeny tiny fiefdoms, most of whom don't even talk to each other and NEVER check with one another before they start doing major changes, and then allow any part on any given day to change based on these little groups release schedules without it ending up a buggy clusterfuck. I mean do you think Linus calls up the KDE and Gnome guys before making a change to the kernel just to see if its gonna fuck up what they are working on? Think the KDE and Gnome guys have the guys working on Pulse on speed dial so they can call them before they start messing with major parts of their DEs? And then you are gonna add on top of all this lack of communication and "do your own thing" cowboy coding a system where the system you had last week can have multiple critical components changed this week? Who is in charge of regression testing? How many systems is this tested against and how many hardware variations? These should be pretty standard questions folks yet every time I ask them usually what I get is filthy names or just shoulder shrugs.
Maybe its just me but in the decade I've been messing with Linux the feeling I've been getting is that the reason why Linux kicks so much ass on servers and embedded and is such a buggy mess when it comes to the desktop comes down to one of attitude wrt the developers. the guys in server and embedded really care about stability, about QC, about regression testing, they have a very strong "If it ain't broke" ethic and don't just throw out something that works without a hell of a lot of thought and debate. Contrast this to what I've seen in the desktop, where even the so called "stability focused" distros seem to jump on the latest bandwagon waaay too early, be it Pulse or KDE 4 or systemd, ironically with all the rhetoric of Windows and Mac being focused on new releases to generate profits I've seen a LOT MORE of the "just release a new version instead of fixing the old" in the *NIX desktop realm, and to top it off an almost bizzaro hatred of long term stability, see how quickly KDE 3 and Gnome 2 were cast aside even though they were resource light, feature rich, and a good chunk of the major bugs had been stamped out.
So to me the rolling release fad is just a symptom of a larger problem, the "last version bad, new version good, must be on the bleeding edge" phenomena that seems to have taken hold for some damned reason. I mean is there really anything that is so. fucking. urgent. that it absolutely HAS to be released that nanosecond instead of going through the alpha/beta/release schedule that has worked for so long? Or has the insane turnover of mobile infected us to the point that "here this morning, gone this afternoon" is just gonna be the way of things from now on?
If you like the A4 you should really try an AM1, you can score a quad core AM1 WITH the board for less than $100 bucks, $70 if you go for the dual (but doubling your CPUs for $30 seems like a no brainer to me) and that is for a system that easily does 1080P with the included HDMI out!
You slap one of those with a cheap SSD and a TB HDD for video storage in a low end "VCR style" case? BAM you got yourself a BADASS HTPC that will not only stream, be a jukebox and media center, you can even play a lot of mainstream games on it, its just crazy how sweet those babies run!