Take "The Hairyfeet Challenge" and you'll find out! You see, unlike Torvalds fucked up 1970 *NIX lack of a driver model BSDs actually HAVE a functional ABI, what does that mean to the end user? That means a driver that works today WILL work five years from now PERIOD. In fact I've talked to BSD users that have actually PASSED the Hairyfeet challenge with flying colors! That means they took a five year of BSD, updated to current, and at the end of the test? 100% functionality just like Windows!
I guarantee you that your distro of choice WILL NOT PASS and the reason why is simple, lack of a functional driver model. many have compared Linux to XP but I would argue its not even at Win9X, its at Win 3.x when it comes to drivers! With Win 3.x you had to write drivers to a VERY SPECIFIC version of hardware, so that if the driver was written for "Windows 2, hardware foo, rev 1" then it WOULD NOT WORK if ANY of that had in ANY way changed...sound familiar? This is why you can't just stick a "Debian" or "Ubuntu" sticker on a box for some hardware because it cannot be JUST Debian or Ubuntu, it HAS to be written for the very.specific.kernel. and.distro.release. Anything before or after? Enjoy your non functional device!
So if you truly think your distro is great? Stand up and take the challenge...but I know you won't, as many cursing FOSSies have admitted to me during their rants of "Its gotta be rigged!" (yeah because expecting Linux to actually update? that's too much to ask LOL) that no matter which consumer distro they used NONE PASSED. The reason I have to put consumer distro BTW is some really rabid FOSSies have been soooooo fucking desperate to have ANY distro pass that they have used shit like SciLinux (which even says on their fucking website its a rarely updated distro designed for HPC math clustering...yeah like your average laptop is bought to process CERN data ROFLCopter!) that doesn't get updated but once or twice a decade as "proof" that a distro can pass and that "Linux is ready for the desktop"...which of course it isn't which is why every system builder and B&M treats Linux like plague blankets.
But if you think you can pass? Take your best shot and upload the video to dropbox, but as long as Linus Torvalds has a pulse and is in charge of the kernel? Sorry but its always gonna be shit because he refuses to do a damned thing about the broken driver model. I could sit here for another 30 minutes and show you how with basic math you can prove his "let the kernel devs handle drivers"completely and utterly fails once drivers reach 4 digits but its 10AM and I had a wisdom tooth pulled yesterday so if you want to know more look up my previous posts.
You are missing the point, its NOT the Dell hardware that is the problem, its their Canon printer, Nikon camera, Sansa clip player, no name wireless stick, NONE OF THOSE will have drivers and THAT is why they will be calling Dell and running up the support bill!
until you have a reasonable shot of grabbing hardware in your average Walmart and have it plug and play with BSD? its just too big of a PITA. As much as Linux sucks it does have SOME support for consumer gear, piss poor as it may be, in BSD it just doesn't exist.
Because drivers for consumer hardware (even shitty drivers like Linux has) simply doesn't exist? As I have said for years Linux is a SERVER OS but even so you have a group of hardcore FOSSies that reverse engineer drivers for consumer gear, that simply does not exist in BSD land. BSD is even more hardcore server oriented so the amount of drivers for consumer gear is just microscopic which translates into a LOT of service calls and returned devices when they find that while their shitty consumer AIO printer may only print in Linux it won't even be recognized in BSD, same with the USB wireless sticks, digital cameras, the drivers simply aren't there.
So while I agree 1000% that BSD is a better OS simply because unlike Linus' trainwreck of a driver model BSD has a sane driver ABI and therefor doesn't have an eternal case of the driver shits BSD just doesn't have the consumer grade hardware support required, I wish it did.
Of course the fact that Windows is going to give out free upgrades means what little support outside the religiously fanatical FOSSies is gonna blow away like a fart in the breeze and that is that.
Not to mention the article is full of crap because if the NFL SAYS its illegal? Then it is...because they can afford a million dollar legal team with "experts" and research teams that can keep you in court for the next decade and you? you can't.
For several decades now the only ones that have been able to go against an ubercorp is another ubercorp and the reason why is obvious, you send your local yokel lawyer against their dream team he is gonna be utterly demolished. Then you figure in the fact that they won't have to give up work to be in court, won't have to worry where their next check comes from,and even if they lose they can afford to keep the appeals going for another decade, can you? Unless your last name is Gates or Buffet? Not likely.
This is why I've said for years we have to have a serious overhaul of our legal system because as it is now if you go against a megacorp (or the state) you are a junior HS football team and they are the Denver Broncos, doesn't matter if you claim the game itself is "fair" because in the end they have access to talent and resources leagues above anything you can possibly muster.
Look anybody who has read my posts knows i hate FOSSie bullshit with a passion but lets be fair...it was a kid's school project. that makes it all the more sad that the FOSSie faction try to make it out to be a competitor to Photoshop when it isn't even in the same ballpark as Corel Draw and not the same continent as PS but its NOT the Gimp's fault!
The kid made a school project, thought it was cool, and shared it with the world...that's it. I mean some nutbar in the FOSSie faction can say Libreoffice is an equal to MS Office, that Audacity is the better of Pro tools but that isn't the program's fault that some dumbass decided its the program to stick in some list of "shit we have as substitutes for the good shit" but that doesn't make the programs shit, just not in the same league.
Just as Libreoffice is just fine for Billy doing his school report and Audacity is just fine for editing some tracks you recorded on Tascam mini so too is Gimp just fine for some basic minor photo work. Yes I too can't believe I just defended a FOSS program but picking on a kid's class project just because the kid can't do UI for shit and doesn't have the $$$$$$ to compete with Photoshop? Just ain't right in my book.
Of course it is because when you get Windows you don't have a "MSFT tax" you have a "MSFT tax BREAK" that so few FOSS users seem to be able to grasp!
Look its REALLY simple, 1.- Somebody who buys bulk (in the case of MSFT bulk is defined as over 10K licenses) gets Windows MUCH cheaper, last figures I saw was between $0-$50 depending on version and device, 2.- the OEMs then GET PAID to put trial versions (or in the case of Google their toolbars and browser) on the install image, 3.- When combined with the discount this can often make putting Windows on the system a money EARNER instead of a cost,4.- You have the economies of scale on the Windows side which Linux doesn't and finally, 5.- LINUX COSTS MONEY to the OEM because they have to keep their own custom version of a distro (which they have to pay developers to maintain) because otherwise updates can shit all over their drivers. Before any FOSSies poo poos this idea because "Linux doesn't shit on drivers, you're a liar Hairyfeet" I would point out Dell has been having to deal with the piss poor Linux driver model for many years and just as i have seen how badly the driver model really is and therefor has NO choice but to keep their own distro, at a not inconsiderate cost, just to keep users from screaming "update foo broke my drivers!"
So this is why Linux will ALWAYS be more expensive than Windows, because if you look at total cost to the OEM for going with Linux over Windows? Windows is the cheaper alternative. Its less brittle, doesn't require you to have your own fork, the OEM doesn't have to pay a dev team to update its drivers constantly, it can place trialware on the system. Linux is only "free" if your time is worth nothing and for OEMs this is simply not the case.
Dude the moron KILLS KIDS to "save his love" and after all this shit to save her, turning to the dark side, killing kids, being the lapdog the dumb fucktard just up and force chokes her ass while she is carrying his kid!
The ONLY good in that movie is the first 10 minutes, those first 10 minutes actually felt like a Star Wars movie with the friendship and adventure...then the second the emperor shows up? Dumb shit ahoy, more "plot requires characters to be booger eating tards" than you can count, more scenes of Lucas writing "romance" dialog that sounds like dinner theater romance writing, more pointless battles that you don't give a single fuck about anyone involved....nope, still fucking terrible, it just had 10 good minutes at the front.....which come to think of it even then there was at least 2 "plot requires dumb because reasons" along with just dropping you in the middle of a battle with 2 factions that is so chaotic you don't know WTF is going on.
Seriously man go look up "Confused Matthew Star Wars Prequels" for a look at just how fucking HORRIBLE these flicks are written, how even the most basic questions like "Who is this person, why are they here, why should I care" are NEVER even hinted at, much less answered, he explains better than I can ever do what went wrong and why and its entertaining (his review NOT the movies) to boot!
Oh lord, she liked the third one? man just shows you women will eat the most dumb stilted "romance" dialog if its delivered by a pretty boy, because the whole "love has blinded you?" scene was so damned tone deaf and unlike actual interaction by...well anybody not doing a line reading for dinner theater it just made me cringe the entire way, fucking terrible!
.Jesus Tap Dancing Christ on a damned cracker are the FOSSies on this site so dang ignorant that they are actually gonna bitch that when A NEW OS IS INSTALLED it actually gives you a motherfucking way to boot the damned thing? Really? Does Grub ask if you wanna keep the Windows bootloader? FUCK NO IT DOES NOT so have some damned common sense and realize when you install a new OS you need a fucking bootloader! For fuck's sake the FOSSies is getting as bad as the damned knee jerk partisan political hacks, rushing to cheer or fucking boo without even understanding WTF they are cheering FOR or booing AGAINST, its just "us VS them" with no damned brains involved!
And FYI you are previewing a build of a CONSUMER OS, its NOT made for those that load custom bootloaders, ok? its NOT FOR YOU so don't bitch when an OS designed for the masses doesn't assume that you know about loading custom bootloaders and leaves you to deal with it, that is Linux way of leaving the user with their ass flailing about in the dark, NOT the Windows way, again don't like the Windows way? ubuntu is just a hop to your left, enjoy the biannual update deathmarch and drivers getting crapped on,the rest of us will be enjoying an OS with 10 years of free updates WITHOUT reinstalls (which now even Ubuntu advises you to do, even Canonical couldn't fix the clusterfuck that is the Linux update process) where the drivers work from RTM to EOL as my Hairyfeet Challenge has shown, now celebrating 8 years of FOSSie fail.
Now for those that actually care about Windows 10 and isn't just here to bleat on about ubuntu prostituting porcupine or whatever the fuck the latest one is called, or the "new hotness" distro, Mint? Elementary? Who the hell knows, more damned distros than bad coffee in a food court these days, but back to Windows 10...for those that do not know the way I like to test a beta OS is as follows, which I think gives us the best idea how it will run, I call it the "If it can run on that" test as I take the weakest system I current have (oh and for the guy who didn't understand CPUs on the last Windows 10 article...a first gen Core 2 Duo is NOT, I repeat NOT slower than an AMD E350, the E350 was to compete with ATOM and gives the performance of the Atom+Nvidia ION chipset so even if you have the shitty Intel IGP when it comes to raw CPU power your C2D curbstomps an E350) so here is the specs followed by my impression..
AMD E350, 8GB of RAM (the only thing that could be considered not below average, but fuck I scored 2 4GB sticks for $30, how could I pass that shit up? Does NOT affect the performance of the OS enough to consider it a major factor, as Win 10 is pretty RAM light) with a 320GB 5400 RPM drive, currently running the latest build, whatever the fuck that number is...Cortana...cute idea, pretty voice, SUCKS on accents, will probably not use if I can help it as it just doesn't seem to be there yet. Reminds me of Dragon Naturally Speaking as it seems like something you will have to "train" and I can type faster than I can train the damned thing. New Icons....OMFG will SOMEBODY pretty please hire somebody with damned taste to work on icons? It reminds me of a bastard child of KDE 3 and those tablety Windows Mist8ke flat shaded abominations, blech. I see an icon themepack for my netbook in the future, yep those be fugly.
Now for the important shit...how does it run on hardware so slow? WOOOO HOOO YEAH!!!! Don't ask me how they did it but this thing boots crazy fast, it seriously gives my Windows 7 desktop which is several orders of magnitude a run for its money on boot time, battery life? Meh, I'd say its added maybe 20-30 minutes maybe with the new battery saver on, but its an old battery so really not surprising. When you are dealing with ULV SOC like Intel Atom and AMD E series they either idle or go full bore, not really much tweaking you can do there, would probably do better on one of the new mainstream lappys like a Haswell or Vishera chip.
Control panel...I'm REALLY mixed on this one, as the default that comes
You make a funny but as somebody who lived through the days of sub 5k "Operating Systems" give me a "bloated" OS with great memory management, support for 64bit, plug and play, SXS compatibility, and all the things that cause the so called "resource hogging" of a modern OS!
You REALLY don't know anything about hardware, do you? the E350 is the first generation of bobcat, AMD's answer to Atom. And while it stomps the Atom that is pretty much ALL that it stomps, with performance around that of a 1.3GHz Celeron dual...and it still runs great!
And as I said I got the RAM stupid cheap, but just FYI just to test I popped it out and popped back in a 2GB stick I had lying in the RAM drawer. Now even though the 2GB ran at 1066 instead of the 1333 my 8GB runs on it STILL ran just fine, it just took a little longer to load. Honestly I don't even know if I can blame that on the memory as I had a little over a GB that was just being used for a cache and when dealing with a 5400 RPM drive instead of an SSD (I'd put in an SSD but this model requires major surgery to get at the drive, I dread the day I need to change it) but the only way to rule out the HDD would be to run a dozen boots and average the thing out and sorry Charlie, you ain't paying me so if it takes more than 10 minutes tough luck.
I'm running it on the weakest system I have ATM, an AMD netbook with an E350 APU, 8GB of RAM (yes I know that is overkill, I scored the RAM on sale crazy cheap) and a 320Gb 5400 RPM drive. I figured that if it ran well on a system this weak it'll run good on anything...the verdict? Even with all the drivers running in compatibility mode it runs BETTER than Win 7 on the same hardware, it even has hardware acceleration for video that is smoother than the Win 7 that came with it!
Anybody whose followed my posts know that I don't talk nice about a version of Windows unless it deserves it, I HATE Windows 8, thought it was a frankentard of an OS, hated everything about Vista except for the cool black theme (which I still use on my Win 7 systems) and think Win 7 is the best OS they've made since XP X64 so when I say Win 10 looks like its gonna be a GREAT OS I don't say that lightly, in fact the only way I see them fucking it up is on the pricing side, the OS itself? its damned good. Takes just a couple minutes to get rid of the social crap (which I can't even get mad at that, lots of people like to be tweeting twits taking social shits) and once I added 8 gadgetpack to get back my CPUMeter and NetworkMeter? I was a happy camper.
And I would just like to say how happy I am to see the death of the "Charms" bar, that thing was retarded! But then again damned near everything about Ballmer's Folly was shit design from the start so the fact that charms was stupid really isn't a surprise. Good riddance to bad rubbish.
Blame Ballmer and his "Herpa de derp, gotta ape everything Apple does herpa derpa" bullshit. Its part of a pattern, along with MSFT Kin, rushing the 360 to market, Surface RT being released with no software and a half assed market....its really not surprising, history will judge Ballmer as the MSFT version of the Pepsi guy at Apple.
Very much a troll as AMD has been paying for open source developers to speed the turn around of the FOSS drivers in the hope to get them to parity with the proprietary release and eventually replace it, and when it comes to GPGPU its not a secret Nvidia pushes CUDA while AMD pushes OpenCL (which this ask Slashdot is specifically asking for) so the choice seems to be pretty cut and dried.
Sorry but while you are telling folks what it was called what you are NOT telling them is the bs marketing that Nvidia used back then, which was they would market them as "128GB cards" or 64GB cards" and then in teeny tiny print it would tell you that this was "the total memory including system cache". IIRC back then ATI wasn't doing that, they just sold them as 64Mb or 128Mb cards that could "go up to 256Mb".
Of course at the end of the day it didn't matter as both turbo and hyper blew ass so I told my customers if they wanted a discrete get the dedicated and avoid the crap cache like the plague, but I remember HP was bad about selling those crap cache Nvidias.
Because it can't actually USE all the RAM? Its like saying "Windows XP can have up to 4GB of RAM" which while TECHNICALLY true is bullshit because of the way 32bit Windows works the max you'll ever be able to get the OS to use is around 3.5GB, with most systems only hitting around 3.2GB-3.4GB.
If they were selling this as a 3.5GB card? I'd say fine and dandy, card makers often will disable parts that either don't work or to have different tiers at different price points but in this case they are advertising and selling it as a 4GB card when its really only a 3.5GB thanks to the way they gimped the chip.
Uhhhh...you DO know MSFT didn't actually WRITE that software, right? That all they did was stick their brand on it, yes? The Zune was nothing but the Toshiba Beat that MSFT licensed and just stuck their name on it. Its no different than how a "Korean Fender" is nothing but a Samick with a Fender sticker slapped on the neck.
They LIKED Phantom Menace? Really? Were they high? I don't see how even a kid could like all those boring as paint drying senate meetings or not cringe at the "Meesa steppin and fetchin, I step in the dookie!" bullshit! My two boys were kids when those came out and they thought they were absolute shite and its not like they hate sci-fi or are immune to nostalgia, the oldest loves anything related to Aliens and AVP and we know how much those stank, but even as kids they thought PM and AOTK were just painful.
At least somebody enjoyed them, one of the worst movie watching experiences I ever had, hell they weren't even "so bad its good" they were just "so bad its awful". Hell I even enjoy some bad sci-fi, I loved the fuck out of the cheese fest that was battleship (c'mon he drifted a WWII battleship like it was a 70 Mustang, how can you not enjoy that cheese whiz goodness?) but the first 2 prequels weren't cheese, they were just rotten, boring, and as racist as somebody's grandpa, just sad.
Depends on what you require to move from your definition of "toy". if its IPS? Give it up Chuck, the simple fact is IPS screens are expensive to build and it doesn't look like they will ever get the economies of scale on their side. i have a feeling they will end up going the way of plasma and all you'll get sub $600 is TN.
But as far as performance goes? Hell my 2011 AMD 12 inch netbook does 1080P over HDMI and before MSFT stupidly killed the platform with Windows pricing I picked that up for like $230 and the nice thing about those are its trivial to upgrade them to 8GB which I did. I have also messed with ARM quads with 1GB of RAM in the $120 range that were great performers and there really is no reason they couldn't make the same thing with an Atom quad for the same price and have an Atom dual version sub $99. Frankly the only thing in the BOM that is keeping sub $99 tablets from being toys is the high cost of RAM ATM, the price of RAM falls again and that major bottleneck could disappear overnight. I've tried virtually identical tablets with 512mb and 1GB and it makes all the difference in the world but LDDR 3 ain't cheap.
Interesting? Really mods? Who was it that abandoned their not even 2 year old OS? Oh yeah that was GOOGLE, who still patches their 4 year old Windows 7 phones? MSFT. Maybe you are talking about Zune, whose software runs fine on Windows 10 even though they haven't sold Zunes in years?
Sorry but you got your companies wrong, its Google that drops support without warning, see the 970 million plus that are now vulnerable to exploit for just one of many examples.
I would say both Urban AND Quinto are damned good, but as you noted Quinto was just unfortunate enough to be a target for JJ's bad writing whereas other than a few McCoy stereotypical lines it looks like Urban was allowed to play McCoy as a man and not an impersonation.
Actually it was announced a few weeks back (sorry I can't find the article, maybe somebody with better Google Fu?) that Intel was stopping the Intel Atom subsidy because they were taking a bath on the things and their tablets just weren't moving. The simple fact is Intel faces the same problem Apple had with PPC on the desktop, so much of the code is written for Android ARM and too few are willing to port to X86 ARM that they just couldn't get any traction.
With Intel no longer dumping product in the channel I have a feeling sub 12 inch X86 tablets are gonna go the way of the 8 track, all you'll get is 12 inch convertibles. This is fine by me, the fact that so many 7 and 10 inch tablets still come with only 512Mb of RAM is retarded but the key is gonna be getting a decent Windows 10-12 inch convertible at a price point to really compete against the low end tablets, say $100-$150 with $100 being a Win 10 Atom dual with 2GB of RAM and $150 being the quad 2GB?
It was enjoyable in that "its a brain dead boom fest" kinda way which frankly isn't what I go to a ST movies expecting or wanting. Hell the whole "Red Matter can send you back in time OR blow up a planet, just depending what the plot calls for" bullshit totally took me out of the story, not to mention the whole "alternate timeline" mess which made no fucking sense and doesn't behave anywhere near every. single. other. timeline. we have seen in the ST universe and we have seen plenty. I'll always remember what one reviewer said "It would be like you made a Batman reboot and out of the blue Batman could just burst into flames like Human Torch with NO explanation!"
I mean if you wanna suspend disbelief with the new actors looking almost nothing like the originals? that is fine and dandy, I have no problem doing that with Star Trek Continues so I'm not gonna fault 'em for that, some of the originals are sadly gone and for some damned reason they didn't feel like they could tell any other story in such a wealthy universe? Fine, okay, I'll go along with that....but the fucking Klingons man, WHAT THE FUCK! Why do the Klingons look like fucking WOW Orcs, tell me why? I mean we even had a perfect explanation as to why TOS Klingons didn't have the bumpy forehead thanks to them fucking around with the same Eugenics that made Khan, but even if you wanted to write that event out by saying Marcus fucked with the time line that still doesn't explain WTH is up with them looking like fricking Orcs? And even if you give them that why in the hell are they spending countless trillions on starships when you have transporters that can reach across the galaxy faster than a fucking Tardis?
I'm glad you found some enjoyment out of them because I found them to just be dreadful and I have a feeling history will NOT be kind to them, in a decade we'll look back at them and groan as much as we do at something like Attack Of The Clones (although to give them credit neither movie was as bad as Phantom Menace but I'd rather watch Ice Pirates than that snoozefest).
Especially when the question is THIS level of stupid, as unlike Windows 8 all the beta testers (including myself) are giving Windows 10 praise and saying its gonna be the next XP/7 in terms of popularity.
Honestly the only way I can see them royally fucking it up at this late stage of the game is 1.- They refuse to sell actual copies but instead make it a subscription only like Office 365. The odds of that? EXTREMELY doubtful due to the amount of backlash. People don't mind paying a subscription for a piece of software they can take or leave, but to have your PC lock you out if you don't whip out your CC on a regular interval? It would make MSBob look like a hit because folks would stay away in droves. The only other way I can see them fucking it up is 2.- they jack up the price and charge some insanely high price like $200-$300 a copy. Odds? Not only is this very doubtful but more likely we'll see the opposite, with MSFT selling some "Home Basic" or "Home with Bing" version for a low cost, say $25-$40, so they can take back the low end from Chromebooks and then sell editions with more corporate features for a higher cost.
Since taking over we've seen no indication that Nadella is anything like Balmer, so far he's been pretty good about giving the customers what they want so I see no reason to think this won't be the case with Windows 10. And despite all the doom and gloom I could see Windows Phone grabbing some serious share as they seem to have one BIG fucking advantage over Google and that is SUPPORT. Windows Phone 7 still gets security patches and Nadella has stated repeatedly that anybody that gets a Windows 8 phone can upgrade to Windows 10 for free. After Google gave everyone not running 4.4 the finger by dropping support and refusing to patch an exploit that is already being used ion the wild? I can see support become a selling point, especially if MSFT advertises it well so the public knows that new Windows Phone they buy today isn't gonna be left swinging in the breeze next year.
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Take "The Hairyfeet Challenge" and you'll find out! You see, unlike Torvalds fucked up 1970 *NIX lack of a driver model BSDs actually HAVE a functional ABI, what does that mean to the end user? That means a driver that works today WILL work five years from now PERIOD. In fact I've talked to BSD users that have actually PASSED the Hairyfeet challenge with flying colors! That means they took a five year of BSD, updated to current, and at the end of the test? 100% functionality just like Windows!
I guarantee you that your distro of choice WILL NOT PASS and the reason why is simple, lack of a functional driver model. many have compared Linux to XP but I would argue its not even at Win9X, its at Win 3.x when it comes to drivers! With Win 3.x you had to write drivers to a VERY SPECIFIC version of hardware, so that if the driver was written for "Windows 2, hardware foo, rev 1" then it WOULD NOT WORK if ANY of that had in ANY way changed...sound familiar? This is why you can't just stick a "Debian" or "Ubuntu" sticker on a box for some hardware because it cannot be JUST Debian or Ubuntu, it HAS to be written for the very.specific.kernel. and.distro.release. Anything before or after? Enjoy your non functional device!
So if you truly think your distro is great? Stand up and take the challenge...but I know you won't, as many cursing FOSSies have admitted to me during their rants of "Its gotta be rigged!" (yeah because expecting Linux to actually update? that's too much to ask LOL) that no matter which consumer distro they used NONE PASSED. The reason I have to put consumer distro BTW is some really rabid FOSSies have been soooooo fucking desperate to have ANY distro pass that they have used shit like SciLinux (which even says on their fucking website its a rarely updated distro designed for HPC math clustering...yeah like your average laptop is bought to process CERN data ROFLCopter!) that doesn't get updated but once or twice a decade as "proof" that a distro can pass and that "Linux is ready for the desktop"...which of course it isn't which is why every system builder and B&M treats Linux like plague blankets.
But if you think you can pass? Take your best shot and upload the video to dropbox, but as long as Linus Torvalds has a pulse and is in charge of the kernel? Sorry but its always gonna be shit because he refuses to do a damned thing about the broken driver model. I could sit here for another 30 minutes and show you how with basic math you can prove his "let the kernel devs handle drivers"completely and utterly fails once drivers reach 4 digits but its 10AM and I had a wisdom tooth pulled yesterday so if you want to know more look up my previous posts.
You are missing the point, its NOT the Dell hardware that is the problem, its their Canon printer, Nikon camera, Sansa clip player, no name wireless stick, NONE OF THOSE will have drivers and THAT is why they will be calling Dell and running up the support bill!
until you have a reasonable shot of grabbing hardware in your average Walmart and have it plug and play with BSD? its just too big of a PITA. As much as Linux sucks it does have SOME support for consumer gear, piss poor as it may be, in BSD it just doesn't exist.
Because drivers for consumer hardware (even shitty drivers like Linux has) simply doesn't exist? As I have said for years Linux is a SERVER OS but even so you have a group of hardcore FOSSies that reverse engineer drivers for consumer gear, that simply does not exist in BSD land. BSD is even more hardcore server oriented so the amount of drivers for consumer gear is just microscopic which translates into a LOT of service calls and returned devices when they find that while their shitty consumer AIO printer may only print in Linux it won't even be recognized in BSD, same with the USB wireless sticks, digital cameras, the drivers simply aren't there.
So while I agree 1000% that BSD is a better OS simply because unlike Linus' trainwreck of a driver model BSD has a sane driver ABI and therefor doesn't have an eternal case of the driver shits BSD just doesn't have the consumer grade hardware support required, I wish it did.
Of course the fact that Windows is going to give out free upgrades means what little support outside the religiously fanatical FOSSies is gonna blow away like a fart in the breeze and that is that.
Not to mention the article is full of crap because if the NFL SAYS its illegal? Then it is...because they can afford a million dollar legal team with "experts" and research teams that can keep you in court for the next decade and you? you can't.
For several decades now the only ones that have been able to go against an ubercorp is another ubercorp and the reason why is obvious, you send your local yokel lawyer against their dream team he is gonna be utterly demolished. Then you figure in the fact that they won't have to give up work to be in court, won't have to worry where their next check comes from,and even if they lose they can afford to keep the appeals going for another decade, can you? Unless your last name is Gates or Buffet? Not likely.
This is why I've said for years we have to have a serious overhaul of our legal system because as it is now if you go against a megacorp (or the state) you are a junior HS football team and they are the Denver Broncos, doesn't matter if you claim the game itself is "fair" because in the end they have access to talent and resources leagues above anything you can possibly muster.
Look anybody who has read my posts knows i hate FOSSie bullshit with a passion but lets be fair...it was a kid's school project. that makes it all the more sad that the FOSSie faction try to make it out to be a competitor to Photoshop when it isn't even in the same ballpark as Corel Draw and not the same continent as PS but its NOT the Gimp's fault!
The kid made a school project, thought it was cool, and shared it with the world...that's it. I mean some nutbar in the FOSSie faction can say Libreoffice is an equal to MS Office, that Audacity is the better of Pro tools but that isn't the program's fault that some dumbass decided its the program to stick in some list of "shit we have as substitutes for the good shit" but that doesn't make the programs shit, just not in the same league.
Just as Libreoffice is just fine for Billy doing his school report and Audacity is just fine for editing some tracks you recorded on Tascam mini so too is Gimp just fine for some basic minor photo work. Yes I too can't believe I just defended a FOSS program but picking on a kid's class project just because the kid can't do UI for shit and doesn't have the $$$$$$ to compete with Photoshop? Just ain't right in my book.
Of course it is because when you get Windows you don't have a "MSFT tax" you have a "MSFT tax BREAK" that so few FOSS users seem to be able to grasp!
Look its REALLY simple, 1.- Somebody who buys bulk (in the case of MSFT bulk is defined as over 10K licenses) gets Windows MUCH cheaper, last figures I saw was between $0-$50 depending on version and device, 2.- the OEMs then GET PAID to put trial versions (or in the case of Google their toolbars and browser) on the install image, 3.- When combined with the discount this can often make putting Windows on the system a money EARNER instead of a cost,4.- You have the economies of scale on the Windows side which Linux doesn't and finally, 5.- LINUX COSTS MONEY to the OEM because they have to keep their own custom version of a distro (which they have to pay developers to maintain) because otherwise updates can shit all over their drivers. Before any FOSSies poo poos this idea because "Linux doesn't shit on drivers, you're a liar Hairyfeet" I would point out Dell has been having to deal with the piss poor Linux driver model for many years and just as i have seen how badly the driver model really is and therefor has NO choice but to keep their own distro, at a not inconsiderate cost, just to keep users from screaming "update foo broke my drivers!"
So this is why Linux will ALWAYS be more expensive than Windows, because if you look at total cost to the OEM for going with Linux over Windows? Windows is the cheaper alternative. Its less brittle, doesn't require you to have your own fork, the OEM doesn't have to pay a dev team to update its drivers constantly, it can place trialware on the system. Linux is only "free" if your time is worth nothing and for OEMs this is simply not the case.
Dude the moron KILLS KIDS to "save his love" and after all this shit to save her, turning to the dark side, killing kids, being the lapdog the dumb fucktard just up and force chokes her ass while she is carrying his kid!
The ONLY good in that movie is the first 10 minutes, those first 10 minutes actually felt like a Star Wars movie with the friendship and adventure...then the second the emperor shows up? Dumb shit ahoy, more "plot requires characters to be booger eating tards" than you can count, more scenes of Lucas writing "romance" dialog that sounds like dinner theater romance writing, more pointless battles that you don't give a single fuck about anyone involved....nope, still fucking terrible, it just had 10 good minutes at the front.....which come to think of it even then there was at least 2 "plot requires dumb because reasons" along with just dropping you in the middle of a battle with 2 factions that is so chaotic you don't know WTF is going on.
Seriously man go look up "Confused Matthew Star Wars Prequels" for a look at just how fucking HORRIBLE these flicks are written, how even the most basic questions like "Who is this person, why are they here, why should I care" are NEVER even hinted at, much less answered, he explains better than I can ever do what went wrong and why and its entertaining (his review NOT the movies) to boot!
Oh lord, she liked the third one? man just shows you women will eat the most dumb stilted "romance" dialog if its delivered by a pretty boy, because the whole "love has blinded you?" scene was so damned tone deaf and unlike actual interaction by...well anybody not doing a line reading for dinner theater it just made me cringe the entire way, fucking terrible!
.Jesus Tap Dancing Christ on a damned cracker are the FOSSies on this site so dang ignorant that they are actually gonna bitch that when A NEW OS IS INSTALLED it actually gives you a motherfucking way to boot the damned thing? Really? Does Grub ask if you wanna keep the Windows bootloader? FUCK NO IT DOES NOT so have some damned common sense and realize when you install a new OS you need a fucking bootloader! For fuck's sake the FOSSies is getting as bad as the damned knee jerk partisan political hacks, rushing to cheer or fucking boo without even understanding WTF they are cheering FOR or booing AGAINST, its just "us VS them" with no damned brains involved!
And FYI you are previewing a build of a CONSUMER OS, its NOT made for those that load custom bootloaders, ok? its NOT FOR YOU so don't bitch when an OS designed for the masses doesn't assume that you know about loading custom bootloaders and leaves you to deal with it, that is Linux way of leaving the user with their ass flailing about in the dark, NOT the Windows way, again don't like the Windows way? ubuntu is just a hop to your left, enjoy the biannual update deathmarch and drivers getting crapped on,the rest of us will be enjoying an OS with 10 years of free updates WITHOUT reinstalls (which now even Ubuntu advises you to do, even Canonical couldn't fix the clusterfuck that is the Linux update process) where the drivers work from RTM to EOL as my Hairyfeet Challenge has shown, now celebrating 8 years of FOSSie fail.
Now for those that actually care about Windows 10 and isn't just here to bleat on about ubuntu prostituting porcupine or whatever the fuck the latest one is called, or the "new hotness" distro, Mint? Elementary? Who the hell knows, more damned distros than bad coffee in a food court these days, but back to Windows 10...for those that do not know the way I like to test a beta OS is as follows, which I think gives us the best idea how it will run, I call it the "If it can run on that" test as I take the weakest system I current have (oh and for the guy who didn't understand CPUs on the last Windows 10 article...a first gen Core 2 Duo is NOT, I repeat NOT slower than an AMD E350, the E350 was to compete with ATOM and gives the performance of the Atom+Nvidia ION chipset so even if you have the shitty Intel IGP when it comes to raw CPU power your C2D curbstomps an E350) so here is the specs followed by my impression..
AMD E350, 8GB of RAM (the only thing that could be considered not below average, but fuck I scored 2 4GB sticks for $30, how could I pass that shit up? Does NOT affect the performance of the OS enough to consider it a major factor, as Win 10 is pretty RAM light) with a 320GB 5400 RPM drive, currently running the latest build, whatever the fuck that number is...Cortana...cute idea, pretty voice, SUCKS on accents, will probably not use if I can help it as it just doesn't seem to be there yet. Reminds me of Dragon Naturally Speaking as it seems like something you will have to "train" and I can type faster than I can train the damned thing. New Icons....OMFG will SOMEBODY pretty please hire somebody with damned taste to work on icons? It reminds me of a bastard child of KDE 3 and those tablety Windows Mist8ke flat shaded abominations, blech. I see an icon themepack for my netbook in the future, yep those be fugly.
Now for the important shit...how does it run on hardware so slow? WOOOO HOOO YEAH!!!! Don't ask me how they did it but this thing boots crazy fast, it seriously gives my Windows 7 desktop which is several orders of magnitude a run for its money on boot time, battery life? Meh, I'd say its added maybe 20-30 minutes maybe with the new battery saver on, but its an old battery so really not surprising. When you are dealing with ULV SOC like Intel Atom and AMD E series they either idle or go full bore, not really much tweaking you can do there, would probably do better on one of the new mainstream lappys like a Haswell or Vishera chip.
Control panel...I'm REALLY mixed on this one, as the default that comes
Wouldn't Atari Video Chess be even smaller? I really can't see the 2600 cart beating the ZX81 in terms of storage.
You make a funny but as somebody who lived through the days of sub 5k "Operating Systems" give me a "bloated" OS with great memory management, support for 64bit, plug and play, SXS compatibility, and all the things that cause the so called "resource hogging" of a modern OS!
You REALLY don't know anything about hardware, do you? the E350 is the first generation of bobcat, AMD's answer to Atom. And while it stomps the Atom that is pretty much ALL that it stomps, with performance around that of a 1.3GHz Celeron dual...and it still runs great!
And as I said I got the RAM stupid cheap, but just FYI just to test I popped it out and popped back in a 2GB stick I had lying in the RAM drawer. Now even though the 2GB ran at 1066 instead of the 1333 my 8GB runs on it STILL ran just fine, it just took a little longer to load. Honestly I don't even know if I can blame that on the memory as I had a little over a GB that was just being used for a cache and when dealing with a 5400 RPM drive instead of an SSD (I'd put in an SSD but this model requires major surgery to get at the drive, I dread the day I need to change it) but the only way to rule out the HDD would be to run a dozen boots and average the thing out and sorry Charlie, you ain't paying me so if it takes more than 10 minutes tough luck.
I'm running it on the weakest system I have ATM, an AMD netbook with an E350 APU, 8GB of RAM (yes I know that is overkill, I scored the RAM on sale crazy cheap) and a 320Gb 5400 RPM drive. I figured that if it ran well on a system this weak it'll run good on anything...the verdict? Even with all the drivers running in compatibility mode it runs BETTER than Win 7 on the same hardware, it even has hardware acceleration for video that is smoother than the Win 7 that came with it!
Anybody whose followed my posts know that I don't talk nice about a version of Windows unless it deserves it, I HATE Windows 8, thought it was a frankentard of an OS, hated everything about Vista except for the cool black theme (which I still use on my Win 7 systems) and think Win 7 is the best OS they've made since XP X64 so when I say Win 10 looks like its gonna be a GREAT OS I don't say that lightly, in fact the only way I see them fucking it up is on the pricing side, the OS itself? its damned good. Takes just a couple minutes to get rid of the social crap (which I can't even get mad at that, lots of people like to be tweeting twits taking social shits) and once I added 8 gadgetpack to get back my CPUMeter and NetworkMeter? I was a happy camper.
And I would just like to say how happy I am to see the death of the "Charms" bar, that thing was retarded! But then again damned near everything about Ballmer's Folly was shit design from the start so the fact that charms was stupid really isn't a surprise. Good riddance to bad rubbish.
Blame Ballmer and his "Herpa de derp, gotta ape everything Apple does herpa derpa" bullshit. Its part of a pattern, along with MSFT Kin, rushing the 360 to market, Surface RT being released with no software and a half assed market....its really not surprising, history will judge Ballmer as the MSFT version of the Pepsi guy at Apple.
Very much a troll as AMD has been paying for open source developers to speed the turn around of the FOSS drivers in the hope to get them to parity with the proprietary release and eventually replace it, and when it comes to GPGPU its not a secret Nvidia pushes CUDA while AMD pushes OpenCL (which this ask Slashdot is specifically asking for) so the choice seems to be pretty cut and dried.
Sorry but while you are telling folks what it was called what you are NOT telling them is the bs marketing that Nvidia used back then, which was they would market them as "128GB cards" or 64GB cards" and then in teeny tiny print it would tell you that this was "the total memory including system cache". IIRC back then ATI wasn't doing that, they just sold them as 64Mb or 128Mb cards that could "go up to 256Mb".
Of course at the end of the day it didn't matter as both turbo and hyper blew ass so I told my customers if they wanted a discrete get the dedicated and avoid the crap cache like the plague, but I remember HP was bad about selling those crap cache Nvidias.
Because it can't actually USE all the RAM? Its like saying "Windows XP can have up to 4GB of RAM" which while TECHNICALLY true is bullshit because of the way 32bit Windows works the max you'll ever be able to get the OS to use is around 3.5GB, with most systems only hitting around 3.2GB-3.4GB.
If they were selling this as a 3.5GB card? I'd say fine and dandy, card makers often will disable parts that either don't work or to have different tiers at different price points but in this case they are advertising and selling it as a 4GB card when its really only a 3.5GB thanks to the way they gimped the chip.
Uhhhh...you DO know MSFT didn't actually WRITE that software, right? That all they did was stick their brand on it, yes? The Zune was nothing but the Toshiba Beat that MSFT licensed and just stuck their name on it. Its no different than how a "Korean Fender" is nothing but a Samick with a Fender sticker slapped on the neck.
They LIKED Phantom Menace? Really? Were they high? I don't see how even a kid could like all those boring as paint drying senate meetings or not cringe at the "Meesa steppin and fetchin, I step in the dookie!" bullshit! My two boys were kids when those came out and they thought they were absolute shite and its not like they hate sci-fi or are immune to nostalgia, the oldest loves anything related to Aliens and AVP and we know how much those stank, but even as kids they thought PM and AOTK were just painful.
At least somebody enjoyed them, one of the worst movie watching experiences I ever had, hell they weren't even "so bad its good" they were just "so bad its awful". Hell I even enjoy some bad sci-fi, I loved the fuck out of the cheese fest that was battleship (c'mon he drifted a WWII battleship like it was a 70 Mustang, how can you not enjoy that cheese whiz goodness?) but the first 2 prequels weren't cheese, they were just rotten, boring, and as racist as somebody's grandpa, just sad.
Depends on what you require to move from your definition of "toy". if its IPS? Give it up Chuck, the simple fact is IPS screens are expensive to build and it doesn't look like they will ever get the economies of scale on their side. i have a feeling they will end up going the way of plasma and all you'll get sub $600 is TN.
But as far as performance goes? Hell my 2011 AMD 12 inch netbook does 1080P over HDMI and before MSFT stupidly killed the platform with Windows pricing I picked that up for like $230 and the nice thing about those are its trivial to upgrade them to 8GB which I did. I have also messed with ARM quads with 1GB of RAM in the $120 range that were great performers and there really is no reason they couldn't make the same thing with an Atom quad for the same price and have an Atom dual version sub $99. Frankly the only thing in the BOM that is keeping sub $99 tablets from being toys is the high cost of RAM ATM, the price of RAM falls again and that major bottleneck could disappear overnight. I've tried virtually identical tablets with 512mb and 1GB and it makes all the difference in the world but LDDR 3 ain't cheap.
Interesting? Really mods? Who was it that abandoned their not even 2 year old OS? Oh yeah that was GOOGLE, who still patches their 4 year old Windows 7 phones? MSFT. Maybe you are talking about Zune, whose software runs fine on Windows 10 even though they haven't sold Zunes in years?
Sorry but you got your companies wrong, its Google that drops support without warning, see the 970 million plus that are now vulnerable to exploit for just one of many examples.
I would say both Urban AND Quinto are damned good, but as you noted Quinto was just unfortunate enough to be a target for JJ's bad writing whereas other than a few McCoy stereotypical lines it looks like Urban was allowed to play McCoy as a man and not an impersonation.
Actually it was announced a few weeks back (sorry I can't find the article, maybe somebody with better Google Fu?) that Intel was stopping the Intel Atom subsidy because they were taking a bath on the things and their tablets just weren't moving. The simple fact is Intel faces the same problem Apple had with PPC on the desktop, so much of the code is written for Android ARM and too few are willing to port to X86 ARM that they just couldn't get any traction.
With Intel no longer dumping product in the channel I have a feeling sub 12 inch X86 tablets are gonna go the way of the 8 track, all you'll get is 12 inch convertibles. This is fine by me, the fact that so many 7 and 10 inch tablets still come with only 512Mb of RAM is retarded but the key is gonna be getting a decent Windows 10-12 inch convertible at a price point to really compete against the low end tablets, say $100-$150 with $100 being a Win 10 Atom dual with 2GB of RAM and $150 being the quad 2GB?
It was enjoyable in that "its a brain dead boom fest" kinda way which frankly isn't what I go to a ST movies expecting or wanting. Hell the whole "Red Matter can send you back in time OR blow up a planet, just depending what the plot calls for" bullshit totally took me out of the story, not to mention the whole "alternate timeline" mess which made no fucking sense and doesn't behave anywhere near every. single. other. timeline. we have seen in the ST universe and we have seen plenty. I'll always remember what one reviewer said "It would be like you made a Batman reboot and out of the blue Batman could just burst into flames like Human Torch with NO explanation!"
I mean if you wanna suspend disbelief with the new actors looking almost nothing like the originals? that is fine and dandy, I have no problem doing that with Star Trek Continues so I'm not gonna fault 'em for that, some of the originals are sadly gone and for some damned reason they didn't feel like they could tell any other story in such a wealthy universe? Fine, okay, I'll go along with that....but the fucking Klingons man, WHAT THE FUCK! Why do the Klingons look like fucking WOW Orcs, tell me why? I mean we even had a perfect explanation as to why TOS Klingons didn't have the bumpy forehead thanks to them fucking around with the same Eugenics that made Khan, but even if you wanted to write that event out by saying Marcus fucked with the time line that still doesn't explain WTH is up with them looking like fricking Orcs? And even if you give them that why in the hell are they spending countless trillions on starships when you have transporters that can reach across the galaxy faster than a fucking Tardis?
I'm glad you found some enjoyment out of them because I found them to just be dreadful and I have a feeling history will NOT be kind to them, in a decade we'll look back at them and groan as much as we do at something like Attack Of The Clones (although to give them credit neither movie was as bad as Phantom Menace but I'd rather watch Ice Pirates than that snoozefest).
Especially when the question is THIS level of stupid, as unlike Windows 8 all the beta testers (including myself) are giving Windows 10 praise and saying its gonna be the next XP/7 in terms of popularity.
Honestly the only way I can see them royally fucking it up at this late stage of the game is 1.- They refuse to sell actual copies but instead make it a subscription only like Office 365. The odds of that? EXTREMELY doubtful due to the amount of backlash. People don't mind paying a subscription for a piece of software they can take or leave, but to have your PC lock you out if you don't whip out your CC on a regular interval? It would make MSBob look like a hit because folks would stay away in droves. The only other way I can see them fucking it up is 2.- they jack up the price and charge some insanely high price like $200-$300 a copy. Odds? Not only is this very doubtful but more likely we'll see the opposite, with MSFT selling some "Home Basic" or "Home with Bing" version for a low cost, say $25-$40, so they can take back the low end from Chromebooks and then sell editions with more corporate features for a higher cost.
Since taking over we've seen no indication that Nadella is anything like Balmer, so far he's been pretty good about giving the customers what they want so I see no reason to think this won't be the case with Windows 10. And despite all the doom and gloom I could see Windows Phone grabbing some serious share as they seem to have one BIG fucking advantage over Google and that is SUPPORT. Windows Phone 7 still gets security patches and Nadella has stated repeatedly that anybody that gets a Windows 8 phone can upgrade to Windows 10 for free. After Google gave everyone not running 4.4 the finger by dropping support and refusing to patch an exploit that is already being used ion the wild? I can see support become a selling point, especially if MSFT advertises it well so the public knows that new Windows Phone they buy today isn't gonna be left swinging in the breeze next year.