Riiiight because the site where I go to look at 1970s toys that has no comments or login NEEDS to be HTTPS because....reasons.
Might want to look up the concept of "security theater" bub because all this will do is train users that any site that doesn't show the "bad place" warning is safe to give any and all data along with CC numbers, its the classic "If we only have X then we'll be safe!" with X being whatever magic dust you wanna push today.
Well if what I read on one of the forums (sorry I can't remember which, may have been Tom's) by a person claiming to be a former Seagate employee is true? Seagate suckage makes sense and moreover we now know WHY it happened all of a sudden.
Here is the skinny, according to the insider when Seagate bought Maxtor instead of Seagate making Maxtor better? It brought Seagate down to Maxtor levels. You see Maxtor had these ARM controllers that were dirt cheap to crank out, catch was you had to keep 'em in 5400 RPM drives (and even then they better be well ventilated) because if they got hot 1+1 could equal anything from 1-5 and so the controller would lose its little mind and forget where the end of the drive was and the drive geometry. Of course all the Seagate execs saw was $$$ on how much they'd save on the cost of manufacture so they started using them on ALL Seagate drives and...you know the rest. The reason why you can see a dozen shitty and one good in every batch is that when they run low on the shitty Maxtor chips they will occasionally use some of the more expensive Seagate chips, hence the pearl among the poop.
But after reading that it all made sense, the sudden plummet in quality, why drives below 750GB are good (those chips are based on the old Seagate chips and code) and why we see a good one among the crap, you get lucky on the ARM lotto. It all sadly makes sense, just more short sighted corporate douchebaggery.
Oh please the only ones pulling a EEE is Google but the FOSSies are too busy pretending its 1999 and the desktop is still the battleground to see the buttfucking they are about to get from their supposed "friend"
TFA is beyond simple, BALMER WAS A SHITTY CEO who thought the way you win is by sticking a WinFlag on knockoffs of other people's shit. Flash? Silverlight. Java?.NET, iPod? Zune. iPad? Surface. Balmer was the Pepsi guy of CEOs who couldn't think beyond whatever was getting buzz at the moment. Compare this to Nadella that...get ready for this, its a mind blower...actually tries to give the customers what they want! Gasp! what we are seeing with Nadella is a Steve Jobs style transformation of MSFT and like Jobs Nadella is focusing on his customers. the reason why he is opening.NET is VERY simple, the way you make money on a language is support, not by waving the WinFlag so surprise surprise THAT is what he is doing!
After a decade of the Balmernator squirting his Zune as an Apple wannabe I'd say Nadella is a breath of fresh air and if his common sense moves make the FOSSies miss the Googlefucking until its too late? Bonus.
Wow I so rarely get to use this in a sentence...WHOOSH! Way to miss the point! The point was you need 1.- two countries that give the bird to the US corp interests and 2.- Don't share the bed. Don't like Russia/Vanuatu? How about Brazil and South Africa. Doesn't really matter WHICH two you pick as long as they meet the above requirements.
BTW you might want to remember that perfect is the enemy of good, if you look at any country you can find things that would disqualify it, from protectionism to political correctness there is always gonna be something to bitch about, the point is to sum the differences between the 2 so no one country can just erase the parts that don't follow an agenda. And you really think with all their financial troubles that Russia will declare war on Vanuatu because their DNS records don't match? Really? Might want to check that tinfoil hat mate, might be cutting down on bloodflow.
Yeah IIRC it was 8,1 and you really had to squeeze every drop out of your programs on a VIC.
I took a VB class for shits and giggles in early 2002 and the punk kid next to me ended up expelled because he tried to steal my code. The teacher was an old greybeard and when he told the punk he was getting an F for the entire class for being a cheat the kid claimed he wrote it, the teacher just looked at him and said "Oh really, what computer system did you start out on?" and when the kid said "Windows 98 the teacher said "get your stuff and get out of my class because you have shown yourself to be both a cheat AND a liar and I will now prove it to the class" and threw my code up on the screen
He asked the class "What do you notice about this code that is "different" than what I have taught you?" and some girl in the back said "Why is all the lines numbered, and what is a GOTO?" and he laughed and said "Back in the days you would number lines of code and use the GOTO to jump between bits of code because it cut down on memory usage. If you didn't know what you were doing it would blow up in your face but if you did it was VERY efficient. This style of coding went out of style when the old BASIC computers quit being sold in the late 80s so that is how I knew he was lying, a Win98 user wouldn't write code in that manner". He then looked at the code for a second and said "Atari or Commodore?" and I laughed and said "VIC20 but how did you know?" and he laughed and said "Atari and Commodore BASIC lent itself to that particular coding style, efficient as hell but as subtle as a chainsaw". But the funny part is you can take the old Commodore BASIC syntax and it runs great on VB6, I was able to breeze through the class by just reliving my days on the VIC...no PEEKing and POKEing though sadly.
You'd need 2 countries that don't give a flying fuck about the US, the reason you'd need 2 is because Idontgiveafuckistans tend to have their own corruption so by having 2 that don't get along you could sum the 2 and get a fully working system...maybe Russia paired with the vanuatu islands?
Yeah these programmers today are spoiled little brats! Multicores, thousands of MB of memory? trying having to PEEK and POKE because every single fricking BYTE costs! Looking at the specs of my first PC and you could a couple hundred emulated versions of it on your average dumpster dived PC.
After she went on a rant about how Psystar was secretly a "M$" plot to destroy the GPL? Honestly I don't see how anybody could take anything she said seriously after that. I guess too many years of SCO turned her from reporter to tinfoil hatter but after that it didn't matter what it was she was gonna play 6 degrees of M$, kind of like how old Twitter could link everything from global warming to asteroid impacts to Bill Gates.
Corporations aren't people, stop trying to treat them like fucking people! Jesus Tap Dancing Christ on a cracker I'm REALLY see of corporate booty kissing by my fellow Americans, no wonder our country has gone to absolute shit! News Flash genius you have a corp CONSPIRING TO BRIBE PUBLIC OFFICIALS, if that isn't fucking news worthy? Then you might as well just make the corps fucking kings and STFU, because all that will be left is corp fascism.
So sorry but they gave up their right to privacy when they started conspiring to perform criminal acts, full stop, and if this country wasn't already beyond fucking redemption people would be going to jail over that email.
But with the exception of games and maybe HFT is there any reason we should give a shit? Seriously computers are soooo insanely overpowered now it isn't funny so if this language is 4% slower than that language but is a hell of a lot easier to work with who cares? We got more cycles than we know what to do with anyway!
You ain't telling me nothing because I have a customer who has all the early Kiss albums on the very first CD releases and he came to me complaining that "These new CDs don't sound right, I think my PC is messed up" but when I threw an MP3 rip of Strutter from his first run CDs in Audacity? There was peaks, valleys, actual HEADROOM on the recording. Took the exact same song from the exact same album from his recent box set? it was just a fucking wall, literally it was just slammed to the max from the first note to the last and sounded like shit.
So if you like classic albums? Get 'em on the first CD releases, you can probably find 'em on eBay. Avoid any new releases like the plague as the loudness war just shits on every thing it touches. Didn't matter the artist either we tried several from his collection and it was all the same, the first run CDs sounded great while the later releases? Garbage.
Not to mention I used the supposedly "bad patch" on dozens of systems, Intel and AMD, with both APUs and GPUs...never saw this problem, not once. This leads me to think there was some sort of third party interference, perhaps an AV that is being over aggressive and causing the patch to only be half installed.
Yeah my exp in the shop puts Seagate consumer right at the bottom. If the rumor is true you can blame Maxtor because when Seagate bought Maxtor instead of bringing Maxtor up to Seagate quality it brought Seagate down to Maxtor levels of shitty.
Sorry that I can't remember where in the hell the thread was but on one of my many rants about dealing with shitty Seagate on one of the forums (may have been Tom's, can't remember) someone that claimed to be a former engineer at Seagate chimed in and what he said? Sounded right and explained what I was/am seeing with newer Seagate drives. He said when they bought Maxtor they got the uber cheap to make Maxtor ARM controllers and started slapping them on their drives...but the catch was Maxtor was using them on slow speed drives because the chips were extra shitty and would fuck up and start throwing off the tracking cause once hot these chips could return 1+1 = anything from 1 to 4, but their controllers were soo much cheaper than Seagate controllers the suits made them keep 'em.
Anyway he said this is why you'll have Seagate drives fail in bunches while a lucky few will have the same drive and never have a problem, its because when they run low of shitty Maxtor controllers a few consumer drives will end up getting the "enterprise" controllers which is the original Seagate ARM chips. I know I've had to tell customers that any Seagate over 640Gb is a crap shoot which is why the Seagate drives are always on sale, they are so hit and miss it ain't funny.
IMHO the best to worst as far as quality is Samsung (especially the Ecogreen, built like a tank it is), Toshiba, Hitachi, WD, and Seagate.
You mean the third party DRM that Valve had fuck all to do with yet offered the publishers the option of switching to Steamworks if they'd bother to make a patch, THAT GFWL? Just played a GFWL game with full MP functionality AAMOF, Bioshock II. the devs had it up and running before GFWL even went offline. It plays fine, not that anybody still plays MP on B2 but it works.
But I don't see how you can blame Steam for your bad choices, after all Steam tells you in big bold letters when a game uses third party DRM so you can choose to take it or leave it. If I wouldn't have been gifted Bioshock II and Far Cry 3 (which I uninstalled the secon I beat it, Fuck UPlay!) there wouldn't have been a drop of third party DRM on my system, I turned down the Splinter Cell series because of third party DRM, but if you CHOOSE to buy third party DRMed games how is that the fault of Valve? they offered with both GFWL and Gamespy games to help devs switch and because of that both Borderlands 1 and Bioshock 2 still have MP and co-op, hell with Bioshock 2 they even ported over my DLC and stats for GFWL so if anything Valve went above and beyond, its the devs of the other games (cough, EA sucks, cough) that have CHOSEN not to give you what you paid for....so maybe you should take it up with them?
Its not like the pirate version is any better, the only MP you can use is a LAN hack like Gameranger...which you can use on the Steam version as well, you just don't get the players using LANhacks like you do with Steamworks. Hell you can fire up TF1 and still find a game going on that thing, good luck finding anybody playing those other servers a year after release.
Name the game and the functionality or I call bullshit. Now if you bought a game from a shitty dev (cough EA cough) that has strict time limits on how long their MP stays up? Sorry but 1 Google search would have let you know that EA games MP is worthless. But I haven't heard of any game where functionality was "patched out" and Valve told people to pound sand but I've heard of plenty where a dev didn't keep their promises and valve ended up refunding the money and shutting them down.
Meh its being replaced with streaming video from Bumfuckistan where "nobody cares about your steenkin treaties man!"
When it comes to piracy as with anything else easy trumps all and "click and watch" don't get any easier. Sure you don't find things like games but Steam has pretty much made gaming so cheap why would anybody bother? this also royally screws the *.A.A as how you gonna bust people for watching video on the Internet?
Oh the PC world is ripe with that kind of shit, I had a moron that spent waaaaay too much money on the latest i3 and thought his magical IPC would somehow make up for the fact that he got 2 cores for the same price that I pay for 8. You can guess what happened when he ran the benches...curbstomped, and the hilarious part? He paid all that money for a dual core to use in a GAMING PC and is now finding a lot of games won't even install on a PC that reports MHz that low LOL.
But if it was an automaker? I can see them going looney tune on the definition but look at it this way, sure that camera may have cost more than a new car but the fact they wanted you to make a "super duper ultra high res" 16x16 thumbnail...man that's priceless LOL!
Can you read? What does my sig say? Yet when I log into Slash I still see that somebody has replied to several of my posts only to click on the post and see "replies below your threshold" which means an AC took a sheeit. so when Slash actually respects your settings and doesn't tell you that somebody has replied when they are below the threshold you have set? then I won't bitch, until then they can choke on a dick.
Thank you. And while I'm on my soapbox allow me to say I FUCKING HATE when people say "U should like teh ads, they infect teh puters and get u more work!"...imagine you built a lovely cabinet with your own two hands, everything just so, with the scrollwork in just the right places, sure there are plenty of other cabinets out there but you took pride in your work and made a really nice piece of furniture. Now imagine somebody comes by and buys your lovely cabinet and brings it back a few weeks later covered in shit and vomit and some of the scrollwork obviously beaten off with a hammer and offers to pay you to fix it...would this make you happy or would it piss you the fuck off that somebody vandalized your work?
Do the people you named hire MBAs and SEOs which teach them to be annoying cunts? if so they can DIAF with the advertisers. Which since I wasn't clear I will elaborate that when I say "advertisers" I don't mean little Suzy putting up an ad for her bake sale I mean those Madison Avenue pricks that took what had worked perfectly well and took a giant sheeeeit all over it to squeeze some short term gains at the expense of everybody else.
Don't want to be a hated festering pustule on the ass of the Internet and still advertise? Then follow these simple rules and nobody will hate you, in fact you might even see people supporting you and pointing you out as a model citizen...1.- FIRST PARTY ONLY, when you hand control to a first party you might as well say "I'm too lazy to give a fuck about my viewers, please give them malware" 2.- NO FLASH ADS, see rule 1 as why that is a bad idea, 3.- NO JAVA ADS, again see rule 1. 4.- NO SOUND ADS because there is nothing that will make you hated than ruining a nice quiet surf with a loud ad, you might as well have farted in the person's face as both are equally obnoxious and rude. 5.- NO POP UPS, see rule 4 for why that is a no no.
Follow these simple rules and not only will nobody hate you but by default both adblock and adblock plus (even adblock edge) won't block you as they'll just think its content. But I advise everyone to remove the ABP "acceptable ads" filter as they allow flash ads and you might as well just remove your AV and start surfing topsites if you are gonna allow flash ads, they are the #1 source of malware by a country mile. in fact I've cut the infection rate of my customers by over 90% simply be blocking flash ads, yes they are THAT nasty.
Riiiight because all these SERVER COMPANIES are gonna spend tens of millions of dollars on shit that no server is ever gonna run....pull this leg it plays jingle bells!
NEWS FLASH 97c of every $1.00 is spent on the SERVER SIDE when it comes to Linux, the desktop, where shit is constantly being ripped out thanks to busted shitter? if its lucky it gets the scraps. hell even Shuttleworth has quit wasting money on the desktop which is why Canonical is desperately throwing shit at the wall to find a working business model, yet you think this magical money tree if paying for all this work on the desktop, even though no corp gives a wet fart about Linux desktops....LOL!
Actually computers are currently going backwards, yet another reason why I have no problem sticking with AMD. You look at the latest Intel chips and the MHz is dropping like a stone thanks to their chasing 0nm causing crazy current leakage and horrible yields. In yet again another perfect example of those that "know just enough to be dangerous" all I hear is "look at the IPC!" while ignoring the fact that if you have 2 cores that do 10 IPC and I have 8 cores that do 5 IPC and your clock is less than a fourth of mine? I still win. Sure you might use less power but when you are hooked to the mains who gives a fuck?
But its nice to see we PC shops aren't the only ones dealing with ID10Ts. BTW that camera? May not have been that great as I've noticed camera manufacturers have caught on to the fact your "prosumer" (the dangerous in the camera world) have equated how big a RAW image you create with "quality" so I've seen 12MP cameras that create 50MB+ RAW files, why? "Because big RAW files is teh quality herpa de derp". Its no different than how shitty tablet makers are taking 4 Cortex 7 cores and calling it a quad, because they know that even though a dual core of the newer ARM cores will curbstomp it the users will just go by the numbers. Stupid is as stupid does I suppose.
Uhhhh...you DID notice I singled out Linux and NOT BSD, right? I did this because as you pointed out BSD works differently, but so little is paid to BSD on the desktop its simply not worth mentioning in that space. Great for servers and firewalls though. This is also why I separate a FOSSie from a FOSS advocate, with many BSDers being the latter and many Linux users the former. The FOSS advocate can see there are places FOSS works well and places it doesn't and they aren't afraid of admitting the flaws in the ecosystem, a FOSSie will stick their fingers in their ears and scream shills,trolls,vampires while accusing you of being or working for Voldemort.
And notice how I got modbombed for pointing out what should be common fucking sense? HUMANS ARE CREATIVE ANIMALS, full stop. Getting a person to create something NEW for free? Easy. getting them to spend their time fixing somebody else's bugs? Not happening. This frankly shouldn't have to be explained but since FOSSies still believe in communist utopias (look at how RMS squeed like a schoolgirl and gushed over Chavez and Castro) they refuse to accept the busted shitter....but as a wise Linux server admin I know said as he went out to buy a Macbook after getting his laptop shit on one too many times by poorly written patches "Linux doesn't get better it just gets different" and this is why Linux stability is still worse than Win2K on the desktop, why SOP for a Linux server is to strip out every package possible, because the second things start getting stable, where it looks like they'll have to spend their time on QC and bug fixing? KDE 4, Gnome 3, Pulse, Unity, systemd, a major subsystem will get ripped out and send Linux back a decade.
Meanwhile I can take a copy of Win2K and take it from RTM to final patch without a single driver failure, same with XP,Vista, Win 7, is it magic? A conspiracy? Nope its the simple fact that MSFT doesn't rip out critical subsystems willy nilly or fuck up driver interfaces because a dev got bored. Just look at what has happened since the release of Win 7...KDE 4, Gnome 3, Pulse, Unity, systemd...that means a person using Linux for the same period that Win 7 has been used will have had no less than 3 major subsystems and their DE drop to alpha quality and why is that? The busted shitter. Its simply easier to get devs to make something new than fix what they have, its simply human nature and anyone who thinks different is fucking delusional.
Adblock by default has the "acceptable ads" feature which is pretty much that. I personally uncheck this box on every customer because they allow Flash ads if they aren't annoying and with flash ads the #1 source of malware it is simply irresponsible to allow them but if you care to support advertisers (which I don't***) then this combined with AB should fulfill that goal.
*** Advertisers, you stupid greedy pieces of shit, you brought this on yourself and deserve your slow death as does anybody on the net who bases their business model around you. For nearly a decade the thought never even occurred to us to block ads because they were just text or JPG hyperlinks or if you really wanted to be fancy a small looping GIF. They were so small and unobtrusive they had a negligible effect on even the shittiest dialup and since they were first party they were actually relevant, a D&D site may have a link to buy miniatures, a site for musicians footpedals and strings. Everyone got along and things ran smoothly.
But then you stupid fucks listened to the MBAs, Master of Being Assholes, who said "Fuck this being nice man, we'll pop up and under, we'll bury the content, we'll slap screaming flash vids on every page so the stupid peasants will give us money just to STFU!". It was YOU that created the pop up/under/over, it was YOU that demanded Adobe turn what was a simple video player into a code running malware delivery system so you could make "punch the clown and win an iPod" style bullshit, it was YOU that added MBs worth of bullshit to every single page, it was YOU that caused pages that should have been one to become seven, it was YOU that made simple cookies into tracking dogs, it was YOU that made pages slow to a crawl as unsecured ads from a half a dozen sites became the norm, it was YOU that made ads the #1 attack vector by not giving a shit about anything but your bottom line, it was YOU that took a business model that worked for a decade and burnt it to the fucking ground with your feces flinging short term outlook, you worthless douchebags!
So as we, the Internet users, do everything in our power to slowly but surely starve you out and make your business model a thing of the past just remember, it didn't have to be this way, it was YOU that shit on everybody and because of this we won't shed a tear, not a single fuck will be given, as you cry and whine about how poor you're becoming. You brought this on yourself, you deserve what you get, you worthless greedy fucktards!
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Riiiight because the site where I go to look at 1970s toys that has no comments or login NEEDS to be HTTPS because....reasons.
Might want to look up the concept of "security theater" bub because all this will do is train users that any site that doesn't show the "bad place" warning is safe to give any and all data along with CC numbers, its the classic "If we only have X then we'll be safe!" with X being whatever magic dust you wanna push today.
Well if what I read on one of the forums (sorry I can't remember which, may have been Tom's) by a person claiming to be a former Seagate employee is true? Seagate suckage makes sense and moreover we now know WHY it happened all of a sudden.
Here is the skinny, according to the insider when Seagate bought Maxtor instead of Seagate making Maxtor better? It brought Seagate down to Maxtor levels. You see Maxtor had these ARM controllers that were dirt cheap to crank out, catch was you had to keep 'em in 5400 RPM drives (and even then they better be well ventilated) because if they got hot 1+1 could equal anything from 1-5 and so the controller would lose its little mind and forget where the end of the drive was and the drive geometry. Of course all the Seagate execs saw was $$$ on how much they'd save on the cost of manufacture so they started using them on ALL Seagate drives and...you know the rest. The reason why you can see a dozen shitty and one good in every batch is that when they run low on the shitty Maxtor chips they will occasionally use some of the more expensive Seagate chips, hence the pearl among the poop.
But after reading that it all made sense, the sudden plummet in quality, why drives below 750GB are good (those chips are based on the old Seagate chips and code) and why we see a good one among the crap, you get lucky on the ARM lotto. It all sadly makes sense, just more short sighted corporate douchebaggery.
Oh please the only ones pulling a EEE is Google but the FOSSies are too busy pretending its 1999 and the desktop is still the battleground to see the buttfucking they are about to get from their supposed "friend"
TFA is beyond simple, BALMER WAS A SHITTY CEO who thought the way you win is by sticking a WinFlag on knockoffs of other people's shit. Flash? Silverlight. Java? .NET, iPod? Zune. iPad? Surface. Balmer was the Pepsi guy of CEOs who couldn't think beyond whatever was getting buzz at the moment. Compare this to Nadella that...get ready for this, its a mind blower...actually tries to give the customers what they want! Gasp! what we are seeing with Nadella is a Steve Jobs style transformation of MSFT and like Jobs Nadella is focusing on his customers. the reason why he is opening .NET is VERY simple, the way you make money on a language is support, not by waving the WinFlag so surprise surprise THAT is what he is doing!
After a decade of the Balmernator squirting his Zune as an Apple wannabe I'd say Nadella is a breath of fresh air and if his common sense moves make the FOSSies miss the Googlefucking until its too late? Bonus.
Wow I so rarely get to use this in a sentence...WHOOSH! Way to miss the point! The point was you need 1.- two countries that give the bird to the US corp interests and 2.- Don't share the bed. Don't like Russia/Vanuatu? How about Brazil and South Africa. Doesn't really matter WHICH two you pick as long as they meet the above requirements.
BTW you might want to remember that perfect is the enemy of good, if you look at any country you can find things that would disqualify it, from protectionism to political correctness there is always gonna be something to bitch about, the point is to sum the differences between the 2 so no one country can just erase the parts that don't follow an agenda. And you really think with all their financial troubles that Russia will declare war on Vanuatu because their DNS records don't match? Really? Might want to check that tinfoil hat mate, might be cutting down on bloodflow.
Yeah IIRC it was 8,1 and you really had to squeeze every drop out of your programs on a VIC.
I took a VB class for shits and giggles in early 2002 and the punk kid next to me ended up expelled because he tried to steal my code. The teacher was an old greybeard and when he told the punk he was getting an F for the entire class for being a cheat the kid claimed he wrote it, the teacher just looked at him and said "Oh really, what computer system did you start out on?" and when the kid said "Windows 98 the teacher said "get your stuff and get out of my class because you have shown yourself to be both a cheat AND a liar and I will now prove it to the class" and threw my code up on the screen
He asked the class "What do you notice about this code that is "different" than what I have taught you?" and some girl in the back said "Why is all the lines numbered, and what is a GOTO?" and he laughed and said "Back in the days you would number lines of code and use the GOTO to jump between bits of code because it cut down on memory usage. If you didn't know what you were doing it would blow up in your face but if you did it was VERY efficient. This style of coding went out of style when the old BASIC computers quit being sold in the late 80s so that is how I knew he was lying, a Win98 user wouldn't write code in that manner". He then looked at the code for a second and said "Atari or Commodore?" and I laughed and said "VIC20 but how did you know?" and he laughed and said "Atari and Commodore BASIC lent itself to that particular coding style, efficient as hell but as subtle as a chainsaw". But the funny part is you can take the old Commodore BASIC syntax and it runs great on VB6, I was able to breeze through the class by just reliving my days on the VIC...no PEEKing and POKEing though sadly.
You'd need 2 countries that don't give a flying fuck about the US, the reason you'd need 2 is because Idontgiveafuckistans tend to have their own corruption so by having 2 that don't get along you could sum the 2 and get a fully working system...maybe Russia paired with the vanuatu islands?
Yeah these programmers today are spoiled little brats! Multicores, thousands of MB of memory? trying having to PEEK and POKE because every single fricking BYTE costs! Looking at the specs of my first PC and you could a couple hundred emulated versions of it on your average dumpster dived PC.
After she went on a rant about how Psystar was secretly a "M$" plot to destroy the GPL? Honestly I don't see how anybody could take anything she said seriously after that. I guess too many years of SCO turned her from reporter to tinfoil hatter but after that it didn't matter what it was she was gonna play 6 degrees of M$, kind of like how old Twitter could link everything from global warming to asteroid impacts to Bill Gates.
Corporations aren't people, stop trying to treat them like fucking people! Jesus Tap Dancing Christ on a cracker I'm REALLY see of corporate booty kissing by my fellow Americans, no wonder our country has gone to absolute shit! News Flash genius you have a corp CONSPIRING TO BRIBE PUBLIC OFFICIALS, if that isn't fucking news worthy? Then you might as well just make the corps fucking kings and STFU, because all that will be left is corp fascism.
So sorry but they gave up their right to privacy when they started conspiring to perform criminal acts, full stop, and if this country wasn't already beyond fucking redemption people would be going to jail over that email.
Worthless with most AMD GPUs as the drivers never reload so you just have to kill the system and choose to restart clean. Care to try again?
But with the exception of games and maybe HFT is there any reason we should give a shit? Seriously computers are soooo insanely overpowered now it isn't funny so if this language is 4% slower than that language but is a hell of a lot easier to work with who cares? We got more cycles than we know what to do with anyway!
You ain't telling me nothing because I have a customer who has all the early Kiss albums on the very first CD releases and he came to me complaining that "These new CDs don't sound right, I think my PC is messed up" but when I threw an MP3 rip of Strutter from his first run CDs in Audacity? There was peaks, valleys, actual HEADROOM on the recording. Took the exact same song from the exact same album from his recent box set? it was just a fucking wall, literally it was just slammed to the max from the first note to the last and sounded like shit.
So if you like classic albums? Get 'em on the first CD releases, you can probably find 'em on eBay. Avoid any new releases like the plague as the loudness war just shits on every thing it touches. Didn't matter the artist either we tried several from his collection and it was all the same, the first run CDs sounded great while the later releases? Garbage.
Not to mention I used the supposedly "bad patch" on dozens of systems, Intel and AMD, with both APUs and GPUs...never saw this problem, not once. This leads me to think there was some sort of third party interference, perhaps an AV that is being over aggressive and causing the patch to only be half installed.
Yeah my exp in the shop puts Seagate consumer right at the bottom. If the rumor is true you can blame Maxtor because when Seagate bought Maxtor instead of bringing Maxtor up to Seagate quality it brought Seagate down to Maxtor levels of shitty.
Sorry that I can't remember where in the hell the thread was but on one of my many rants about dealing with shitty Seagate on one of the forums (may have been Tom's, can't remember) someone that claimed to be a former engineer at Seagate chimed in and what he said? Sounded right and explained what I was/am seeing with newer Seagate drives. He said when they bought Maxtor they got the uber cheap to make Maxtor ARM controllers and started slapping them on their drives...but the catch was Maxtor was using them on slow speed drives because the chips were extra shitty and would fuck up and start throwing off the tracking cause once hot these chips could return 1+1 = anything from 1 to 4, but their controllers were soo much cheaper than Seagate controllers the suits made them keep 'em.
Anyway he said this is why you'll have Seagate drives fail in bunches while a lucky few will have the same drive and never have a problem, its because when they run low of shitty Maxtor controllers a few consumer drives will end up getting the "enterprise" controllers which is the original Seagate ARM chips. I know I've had to tell customers that any Seagate over 640Gb is a crap shoot which is why the Seagate drives are always on sale, they are so hit and miss it ain't funny.
IMHO the best to worst as far as quality is Samsung (especially the Ecogreen, built like a tank it is), Toshiba, Hitachi, WD, and Seagate.
You mean the third party DRM that Valve had fuck all to do with yet offered the publishers the option of switching to Steamworks if they'd bother to make a patch, THAT GFWL? Just played a GFWL game with full MP functionality AAMOF, Bioshock II. the devs had it up and running before GFWL even went offline. It plays fine, not that anybody still plays MP on B2 but it works.
But I don't see how you can blame Steam for your bad choices, after all Steam tells you in big bold letters when a game uses third party DRM so you can choose to take it or leave it. If I wouldn't have been gifted Bioshock II and Far Cry 3 (which I uninstalled the secon I beat it, Fuck UPlay!) there wouldn't have been a drop of third party DRM on my system, I turned down the Splinter Cell series because of third party DRM, but if you CHOOSE to buy third party DRMed games how is that the fault of Valve? they offered with both GFWL and Gamespy games to help devs switch and because of that both Borderlands 1 and Bioshock 2 still have MP and co-op, hell with Bioshock 2 they even ported over my DLC and stats for GFWL so if anything Valve went above and beyond, its the devs of the other games (cough, EA sucks, cough) that have CHOSEN not to give you what you paid for....so maybe you should take it up with them?
Its not like the pirate version is any better, the only MP you can use is a LAN hack like Gameranger...which you can use on the Steam version as well, you just don't get the players using LANhacks like you do with Steamworks. Hell you can fire up TF1 and still find a game going on that thing, good luck finding anybody playing those other servers a year after release.
Name the game and the functionality or I call bullshit. Now if you bought a game from a shitty dev (cough EA cough) that has strict time limits on how long their MP stays up? Sorry but 1 Google search would have let you know that EA games MP is worthless. But I haven't heard of any game where functionality was "patched out" and Valve told people to pound sand but I've heard of plenty where a dev didn't keep their promises and valve ended up refunding the money and shutting them down.
Meh its being replaced with streaming video from Bumfuckistan where "nobody cares about your steenkin treaties man!"
When it comes to piracy as with anything else easy trumps all and "click and watch" don't get any easier. Sure you don't find things like games but Steam has pretty much made gaming so cheap why would anybody bother? this also royally screws the *.A.A as how you gonna bust people for watching video on the Internet?
Oh the PC world is ripe with that kind of shit, I had a moron that spent waaaaay too much money on the latest i3 and thought his magical IPC would somehow make up for the fact that he got 2 cores for the same price that I pay for 8. You can guess what happened when he ran the benches...curbstomped, and the hilarious part? He paid all that money for a dual core to use in a GAMING PC and is now finding a lot of games won't even install on a PC that reports MHz that low LOL.
But if it was an automaker? I can see them going looney tune on the definition but look at it this way, sure that camera may have cost more than a new car but the fact they wanted you to make a "super duper ultra high res" 16x16 thumbnail...man that's priceless LOL!
Can you read? What does my sig say? Yet when I log into Slash I still see that somebody has replied to several of my posts only to click on the post and see "replies below your threshold" which means an AC took a sheeit. so when Slash actually respects your settings and doesn't tell you that somebody has replied when they are below the threshold you have set? then I won't bitch, until then they can choke on a dick.
Thank you. And while I'm on my soapbox allow me to say I FUCKING HATE when people say "U should like teh ads, they infect teh puters and get u more work!"...imagine you built a lovely cabinet with your own two hands, everything just so, with the scrollwork in just the right places, sure there are plenty of other cabinets out there but you took pride in your work and made a really nice piece of furniture. Now imagine somebody comes by and buys your lovely cabinet and brings it back a few weeks later covered in shit and vomit and some of the scrollwork obviously beaten off with a hammer and offers to pay you to fix it...would this make you happy or would it piss you the fuck off that somebody vandalized your work?
Do the people you named hire MBAs and SEOs which teach them to be annoying cunts? if so they can DIAF with the advertisers. Which since I wasn't clear I will elaborate that when I say "advertisers" I don't mean little Suzy putting up an ad for her bake sale I mean those Madison Avenue pricks that took what had worked perfectly well and took a giant sheeeeit all over it to squeeze some short term gains at the expense of everybody else.
Don't want to be a hated festering pustule on the ass of the Internet and still advertise? Then follow these simple rules and nobody will hate you, in fact you might even see people supporting you and pointing you out as a model citizen...1.- FIRST PARTY ONLY, when you hand control to a first party you might as well say "I'm too lazy to give a fuck about my viewers, please give them malware" 2.- NO FLASH ADS, see rule 1 as why that is a bad idea, 3.- NO JAVA ADS, again see rule 1. 4.- NO SOUND ADS because there is nothing that will make you hated than ruining a nice quiet surf with a loud ad, you might as well have farted in the person's face as both are equally obnoxious and rude. 5.- NO POP UPS, see rule 4 for why that is a no no.
Follow these simple rules and not only will nobody hate you but by default both adblock and adblock plus (even adblock edge) won't block you as they'll just think its content. But I advise everyone to remove the ABP "acceptable ads" filter as they allow flash ads and you might as well just remove your AV and start surfing topsites if you are gonna allow flash ads, they are the #1 source of malware by a country mile. in fact I've cut the infection rate of my customers by over 90% simply be blocking flash ads, yes they are THAT nasty.
Riiiight because all these SERVER COMPANIES are gonna spend tens of millions of dollars on shit that no server is ever gonna run....pull this leg it plays jingle bells!
NEWS FLASH 97c of every $1.00 is spent on the SERVER SIDE when it comes to Linux, the desktop, where shit is constantly being ripped out thanks to busted shitter? if its lucky it gets the scraps. hell even Shuttleworth has quit wasting money on the desktop which is why Canonical is desperately throwing shit at the wall to find a working business model, yet you think this magical money tree if paying for all this work on the desktop, even though no corp gives a wet fart about Linux desktops....LOL!
Actually computers are currently going backwards, yet another reason why I have no problem sticking with AMD. You look at the latest Intel chips and the MHz is dropping like a stone thanks to their chasing 0nm causing crazy current leakage and horrible yields. In yet again another perfect example of those that "know just enough to be dangerous" all I hear is "look at the IPC!" while ignoring the fact that if you have 2 cores that do 10 IPC and I have 8 cores that do 5 IPC and your clock is less than a fourth of mine? I still win. Sure you might use less power but when you are hooked to the mains who gives a fuck?
But its nice to see we PC shops aren't the only ones dealing with ID10Ts. BTW that camera? May not have been that great as I've noticed camera manufacturers have caught on to the fact your "prosumer" (the dangerous in the camera world) have equated how big a RAW image you create with "quality" so I've seen 12MP cameras that create 50MB+ RAW files, why? "Because big RAW files is teh quality herpa de derp". Its no different than how shitty tablet makers are taking 4 Cortex 7 cores and calling it a quad, because they know that even though a dual core of the newer ARM cores will curbstomp it the users will just go by the numbers. Stupid is as stupid does I suppose.
Uhhhh...you DID notice I singled out Linux and NOT BSD, right? I did this because as you pointed out BSD works differently, but so little is paid to BSD on the desktop its simply not worth mentioning in that space. Great for servers and firewalls though. This is also why I separate a FOSSie from a FOSS advocate, with many BSDers being the latter and many Linux users the former. The FOSS advocate can see there are places FOSS works well and places it doesn't and they aren't afraid of admitting the flaws in the ecosystem, a FOSSie will stick their fingers in their ears and scream shills,trolls,vampires while accusing you of being or working for Voldemort.
And notice how I got modbombed for pointing out what should be common fucking sense? HUMANS ARE CREATIVE ANIMALS, full stop. Getting a person to create something NEW for free? Easy. getting them to spend their time fixing somebody else's bugs? Not happening. This frankly shouldn't have to be explained but since FOSSies still believe in communist utopias (look at how RMS squeed like a schoolgirl and gushed over Chavez and Castro) they refuse to accept the busted shitter....but as a wise Linux server admin I know said as he went out to buy a Macbook after getting his laptop shit on one too many times by poorly written patches "Linux doesn't get better it just gets different" and this is why Linux stability is still worse than Win2K on the desktop, why SOP for a Linux server is to strip out every package possible, because the second things start getting stable, where it looks like they'll have to spend their time on QC and bug fixing? KDE 4, Gnome 3, Pulse, Unity, systemd, a major subsystem will get ripped out and send Linux back a decade.
Meanwhile I can take a copy of Win2K and take it from RTM to final patch without a single driver failure, same with XP,Vista, Win 7, is it magic? A conspiracy? Nope its the simple fact that MSFT doesn't rip out critical subsystems willy nilly or fuck up driver interfaces because a dev got bored. Just look at what has happened since the release of Win 7...KDE 4, Gnome 3, Pulse, Unity, systemd...that means a person using Linux for the same period that Win 7 has been used will have had no less than 3 major subsystems and their DE drop to alpha quality and why is that? The busted shitter. Its simply easier to get devs to make something new than fix what they have, its simply human nature and anyone who thinks different is fucking delusional.
Adblock by default has the "acceptable ads" feature which is pretty much that. I personally uncheck this box on every customer because they allow Flash ads if they aren't annoying and with flash ads the #1 source of malware it is simply irresponsible to allow them but if you care to support advertisers (which I don't***) then this combined with AB should fulfill that goal.
*** Advertisers, you stupid greedy pieces of shit, you brought this on yourself and deserve your slow death as does anybody on the net who bases their business model around you. For nearly a decade the thought never even occurred to us to block ads because they were just text or JPG hyperlinks or if you really wanted to be fancy a small looping GIF. They were so small and unobtrusive they had a negligible effect on even the shittiest dialup and since they were first party they were actually relevant, a D&D site may have a link to buy miniatures, a site for musicians footpedals and strings. Everyone got along and things ran smoothly.
But then you stupid fucks listened to the MBAs, Master of Being Assholes, who said "Fuck this being nice man, we'll pop up and under, we'll bury the content, we'll slap screaming flash vids on every page so the stupid peasants will give us money just to STFU!". It was YOU that created the pop up/under/over, it was YOU that demanded Adobe turn what was a simple video player into a code running malware delivery system so you could make "punch the clown and win an iPod" style bullshit, it was YOU that added MBs worth of bullshit to every single page, it was YOU that caused pages that should have been one to become seven, it was YOU that made simple cookies into tracking dogs, it was YOU that made pages slow to a crawl as unsecured ads from a half a dozen sites became the norm, it was YOU that made ads the #1 attack vector by not giving a shit about anything but your bottom line, it was YOU that took a business model that worked for a decade and burnt it to the fucking ground with your feces flinging short term outlook, you worthless douchebags!
So as we, the Internet users, do everything in our power to slowly but surely starve you out and make your business model a thing of the past just remember, it didn't have to be this way, it was YOU that shit on everybody and because of this we won't shed a tear, not a single fuck will be given, as you cry and whine about how poor you're becoming. You brought this on yourself, you deserve what you get, you worthless greedy fucktards!