Then YOU tell me smart guy WTF is the point of ACs then? The ENTIRE APPEAL of sites like this is to have a DIALOG, yes? Well ACs will never see any response and therefor it is practically made for taking a big shit on a page and walking away so why in the fuck would I want to see ACs? So I can see the ONE decent post out of forty or so shills and trolls?
If they can't bother to spend 2 minutes of their time to make a fucking account why should I waste one second of my time reading their puke, huh? they can either get off their lazy asses and make an account so they can stand by their statements or they can DIAF for all I care because I'm never gonna see their shit. Funny that all those that try to defend the AC system can't come up with a single reason on why i should give a single fuck about some worthless ACs.
The problem with that idea is the "busted shitter problem" which we see a LOT in FOSS projects.
What is the busted shitter problem? Simple, if I ask you to write me a poem or paint me a picture for free? I'll probably get several to choose from and at least a couple that are quite good because humans are creative animals and like making new things so I will be able to get this for free because the act of creation itself is the reward for the ones doing the work. Now if on the other hand I ask for you to come fix my nasty busted shitter which I choked up with a brown bomb for free how much you wanna bet I'll be pissing in the sink?
The fact of the matter is there is a lot of shitty jobs in software from hunting down and fixing bugs in software that many times you didn't even write, to writing documentation (look at how much doc writers get paid, they make the bucks because it is a tedious and shitty job) to QA and regression testing, all of these jobs suuuuuuuuccccccckkkkk and in proprietary software somebody pays $$$ to get humans to take the shitty job, in FOSS? They just don't get done. To use a car analogy what you get in FOSS is a car with a kickin exterior but the engine belches oil and you can put your foot through the floorboard.
This is why the guts of Linux will never be stable because to BE stable means they will have to focus their efforts on bug fixing, QA, all the boring maintenance jobs, and that simply isn't as pleasurable as putting out new versions or ripping out the guts for something new. Look at just the last few years of Linux at all the guts being just ripped out rather than building on what was there, Pulse, KDE 4, Gnome 3, unity, systemd, why do you think every time it looks like Linux is gonna become mature and stable that some major subsystem gets ripped out and goes back to square 1? The busted shitter problem.
That is why FOSS reminds me of communism, because in both cases it ignores that humans simply won't do some jobs without something other than altruism to motivate them. Its really simple, everybody wants to be the boss, nobody wants to be the guy that cleans the puke at the Chucky Cheese.
Dude serious watch the episode, its MST3K material. Sure with Star Trek you have to suspend disbelief but this reaches the level of parody! We are talking about an episode its own writer calls a POS, one where a ship manages to reach infinite velocity which causes the pilot to 1.- "Evolve" which involves, 2.- Losing the ability to breathe air, have hands with opposable thumbs, and finally "evolving" into a 3 foot salamander that crawls on its belly! And this is AFTER a member of the crew already has pointed out that infinite speed would require infinite power and that every known constant of the universe would have to be broken to pull that off!
Again its the perfect example of the difference between "possible with new technology" and "not possible because the fundamental laws of the universe simply will not allow it" and even following ST rules it simply doesn't make any kind of sense, which is what makes it MST3K fodder.
And I agree with the "smoking hot" if only because somebody using the lingo without understanding its meaning is an extra kind of irritating, like the gamer ID10T I had to deal with once that thought you could JBOD a bunch of shitty HDDs together and it would be faster than a Raptor because "duh you add the drives RPM and it comes to twice the 10K of the Raptor!"..../facepalm/
ACs can suck my big hairy nutsack. When I get a "NO AC" button? Fine and dandy but until then the ACs can eat a dick. The whole point of sites like this is conversations, ACs shit all over that very concept. If you want ACs shitting in your face with no way to do anything about it? That is YOUR choice but I'm not dealing with those wastes of electronic space.
Don't forget the caste system, an Indian gal I worked with said a lot of problems hiring Indians comes down to us not understanding that part of their culture. She said "If an American spots a problem with a project the American will speak up and the Indian won't, even if this problem dooms the project if not corrected. The reason why is that your superiors are usually from a higher caste and one simply doesn't "talk back" to one above you, it would be like a black man in the 40s correcting a white man, its just not done".
But can you patent CLI commands? Sure I can understand the GUI and the manual being patented or copyrighted but the CLI commands? Does that mean every time someone writes a program they have to pick arbitrary keys to make it different?
The simple fact is its completely impractical for most Americans as the replacements are far cheaper than our time is worth. My time costs around $35 an hour depending on the job and a replacement battery for my netbook is just $17 with shipping so there really is no point in refurbing my own battery. that said I have to give the AMD EEE credit as I've had it for 5 years and I can still get nearly 4 hours on a battery, not bad at all compared to my last full size which needed its battery swapped at the end of the second year.
Uhhh...Windows defrags SSDs since Win 7, no need for trim. And can you show me a website where they list which controller is on what drive? because i have seen supposedly identical drives with different controllers and not all of us are lucky enough to live near a Microcenter.
And I'm not going by 2010 I'm going by as little as 4 months ago which is when I had one of my gamer customers lost an SSD. It wasn't even 7 months old, sorry I can't tell you the exact model as I won't support SSDs except as a strictly boot drive with religious backup to an onboard HDD. I wanna say Sandisk but may have been OCZ, its whatever was the hottest on the benches that month, wasn't no cheapie either, we are talking high performance 512Mb drive, didn't make 6 months before the controller just shit the bed.
Oh and just FYI but with SSDs? Yeah you really can't go by RMA because so many are used for the OS drive and have sensitive info on them that they will often get tossed rather than risk ID theft. This is why I tell folks "don't buy any SSD you an't afford to toss and replace" because that IS what you will end up doing if you value your data, just as the gamer did when he found out he'd have to RMA to get it replaced and he had zero way of wiping the drive, he just chucked it in the trash.
Did you ever see the Star Trek Voyager episode "Threshhold"? If not go look up Chuck at SF Debris and his review of that episode because the entire episode is about the crew doing something that is mathematically impossible and what's more the writers SAY its impossible...and THEN DO IT!
But you should watch the video so you can just link to it when somebody starts the "in the fuuuture" BS because almost that entire video is nothing but explaining the difference between possible with improved tech and not possible at all. Its just amazing how few grasp the concept that there ARE limits to the universe and those limits simply cannot be broken, anymore than you can make 2+2=22, like going beyond absolute zero...you can't because absolute zero is the complete and total absence of energy and you can't go less than nothing!
So please ignore the flames and keep it up, because IMHO the only thing worse than somebody completely ignorant is somebody that is knowing the lingo but doesn't understand the concept behind the words and its obvious that guy simply didn't understand the concept of light speed and there being an upper limit to how fast something can go, just saying "in the fuuuture" won't change how the universe works, no matter how many sexbots and flying cars there are.
DaFuq? Its not about FOSS "winning" anything, its about getting a new CEO that doesn't think its 1995 and understands that no everything is better with a WinFlag.
You look at Balmer's entire reign and it was all about making a copy of EVERYTHING that was even slightly popular and planting a WinFlag on it. Java popular? MS Java and when that got knocked down.NET. Flash Popular? Silverlight. Hey Apple got a hit with iPod? Buy the rights to the Beat and stick a WinFlag on it and call it Zune. iPad/Surface, Playstation/Xbox, it was all about sticking WinFlags even when it made no fucking sense.
Nadella seems to be the polar opposite, he seems more concerned with...get ready, its a shocker...making products that people actually want to buy! he also seems to get that you don't make money off of languages by sticking WinFlags but by selling support and since FOSS is pretty much designed around the support model? It just makes sense to use it in this case.
THANK YOU, there is a difference between "we don't have the technology" and mathematically impossible, Could we build a colony on Europa? Sure we could, we just don't currently have the technology to make moving the supplies required practical NOW, but we COULD find something like using asteroids for building materials and fuel so it IS possible, we just don't have the tech.
Compare this to the movie 2010 and turning Jupiter into a second sun...nope, sorry, we know what the lower bound required for nuclear fusion to happen and Jupiter simply doesn't have the material nor the gravity to compress the material enough to start nuclear fusion in the core. The only way for it to be possible would be to literally rewrite the physical laws to make 4+4 = 23, because the math simply does not work.
No matter how much he wishes or says "in the fuuuuture" the math don't work, we would have to have the ability to rewrite the laws of the universe to pull this off...sorry, just not gonna happen.
And why not assume a genie will open a portal to wherever you wanna go after giving you a great BJ? After all if you are just gonna pull "in the future" BS out of your behind both scenarios have equal plausibility.
We have nearly a century of hard science showing the SOL is an upper bound and nothing has been found in that time that in ANY way shape or form shows a way out of the SOL upper limit. If you start pulling "in the future" out of your behind? might as well add vampires, fairies, sexbots, flying cars, after all they are all equally possible in a magical future where science and the laws of the known universe simply do not matter.
Even if that is true if it gets them to man rate the Delta and/or Atlas rather than waste money on yet another Shuttle based POS? It'll be worth it. The Delta and Atlas rockets have been VERY reliable, as reliable as one can get when strapping a chemical rocket to your behind and as we have hopefully learned from the Russians with Soyuz sometimes old and reliable beats new and fancy.
I take it you never heard of that pesky "speed of light" thing? It puts an upper limit to how fast you can go and thanks to us being in the asshole of the Milky way even if we develop craft that run at SOL the distances are so vast that it would take decades to get anywhere good which thanks to time dilation would mean when you got back tens of thousands of years would have passed.
But its bullshit, its like saying "HDD survives 100 bazillion writes!" because the plate doesn't shatter. NEWS FLASH its NOT the flash cells that fail, ITS THE CONTROLLER and frankly THAT is what still makes SSDs risky.
I'm sure this will be followed by a million stupid fucking anecdotes because somebody got a 2003 Maxtor or 2011 Seagate 1.5TB and it shit the bed but considering I've dealt with more HDDs in a week than most here will swap in a lifetime? Mine should probably count a little higher and like it or not HDDs by and large WILL give you a warning before they shit the bed, be it SMART, or noise, or delayed write fails, it'll give ya something to go on. When an SSD controller is about to shit, doesn't matter the brand because NONE of them give you ANY warning. There is no SMART for SSDs, no POST, no diagnostics, just one time it works and the next it dies and takes your data with it....poof!
So yes SSDs are nice IF you make religious backups AND you don't put anything you care about on them....if that is the case? Enjoy. But if you are putting things you actually don't want to lose on SSDs? Well you've been warned, you'll learn when that drive controller fails and nothing short of a $5k recovery by specialists can get your stuff back.
What, that he is butthurt? We didn't get articles when MSFT had THEIR apopstore pned? or Google's? Oh wait...wedid!
Waste modpoints all you want, doesn't change the fact that this is no different than when the iFanboys screamed "But its a trojan so it don't count!" when MacDefender was pounding their iHole. This is just another example of Apple's supposed "vetting" being bullshit, just as their "quality" got us "you're holding it wrong" and phones so flimsy they can break in your pocket, their great Applecare no longer supporting the first Macbook Air, ever since Jobs got too sick to run the joint it went down the shitter and now its no better than any other OEM, its just higher priced.
For those Windows users that want a similar battery boost (something I've been enjoying for a couple of years now) just pick up a copy of Tuneup Utilities which has "Economy Mode" which does the same thing, and just like Battery Saver you can tell it to only run when on battery or you can manually turn it on and off.
As for TFA? I'm always for MSFT adding useful features and so far running the previous build on my netbook Windows 10 is shaping up to be what Win 8 SHOULD have been with the OPTION to run Metro if you are on a tablet (or using it for an HTPC, as I've always said Metro makes a good 10 foot UI) while the desktop is Win 7 with speed increases. Thanks to 8GadgetPack I even got to keep my fav gadgets. Now if only somebody would figure out how to copy DVD Maker over from Win 7 it'd be perfect, otherwise I'll have to keep one system with Win 7 just for turning customer's vids into DVDs. But otherwise 2 thumbs up for Win10.
Insightful? Really? For a butthurt fanboy whose mad somebody shit on his iDeity? Newsflash when ANY of the big three get pwned its NEWS FOR NERDS, last i checked this isn't "Cult Of Mac" is it?
Social Justice Warriors, deciding the truth via progressive stack, Social Justice Warriors, if you don't believe like us we are on the attack!
Do you understand what "historically" means? apparently not because if you did you'd know that with the exception of the last 200 hundreds years (thanks to modern farming and lack of crop rotation causing deserts) that Africa has been ONE OF THE MOST FERTILE PLACES ON THE PLANET! Meanwhile the rest of the world had this little thing called an "ice age" maybe you heard of it? So yes Virginia for most of human history the food in Africa was plentiful while the food in Europe and Asia was most decidedly NOT, this is what happens when you live on the equator surrounded by ocean on a landmass teeming with game and food plants.
I noticed you waited until the thread was off the front page before you spewed your SJW crap, afraid of being modbombed because people are tired of PC bullshit?
It does when you wipe out 100 million in just 6 years. Your brutish "I'm a tough baddazz" types found out Mr Bullet don't care while the smart ones knew to duck. If you look at history the western powers were sending their poor off to the killing fields about once a generation...yeah that kind of pressure on the gene pool would do it.
The bitch is just 5 seconds of thought logically would show why this would make sense from a biological point of view. Brains take a LOT of energy to run and the harder the brain works the more energy its gonna use so there would be zero point in developing a more powerful one if it simply wasn't needed from a biological standpoint.
All those groups you named with high IQs? Lived in what has been historically seriously rough climates where getting enough to survive would take serious planning and strategy to survive, much less get enough to reproduce and thrive. Compare this to Africa where the climate over time has been some of the mildest, food plants of all types from fruits to roots has been abundant, tons of wild game....just not a real point in having a high IQ to plan ahead when you could just step out your hut into a paradise of abundance.
But sadly political correctness has made science into Lysenkoism where only science that backs up the party beliefs are allowed. According to PC we are all nothing but Barbie and Ken dolls and the only difference is some dye added to the plastic where anybody with 2 eyes can see that isn't so. We have different builds, different skull shapes,, different diseases target different races, this isn't "racist" its simple measurable observation but sadly because some idiots at the turn of the 20th century tried to make everything racial with eugenics now we can't even point out reality without getting attacked.
Who knows, maybe in another century we'll be allowed to get out of the PC dark ages and have real science that is allowed to question everything without regard for how it affects the party but until then all one can do is practice Lysenkoism and only look at things which back up the dogma.
Exactly its the netbook all over again. I still have my netbook and if they come out with some more sub $250 10-12 inchers? I'll be all over that shit because in certain roles they are fucking brilliant! Take myself as an example, still have my 2011 AMD netbook which I use all the time for service calls and its perfect...why? It fits in a briefcase with my tools under the seat and the jobs I do on service calls, checking networks, downloading files, checking wireless connections, all jobs a netbook does well. Same goes for class work for teens, a vacation laptop, plenty of rolls and thin light cheap netbook fit just fine.
With the cheap tablets I'm finding it has 2 roles, 1 is for folks that don't want a smartphone (be surprised how many of those are around) but still need some portable web capability, and 2 is a portable entertainment center for kids. Got a 7 hour car ride with a couple kids coming up? Hand 'em a tablet a piece with some shows and games loaded along with some headphones and they'll be quiet as churchmice all the way!
Yeah all of you championing Chromebooks really need to look at the models being pushed cause it AIN'T the nice ones folks, its those bottom of the line Samsung Exynos ARM craps and the other "Walmart Special" piles of junk.
I looked into possibly selling 'em as a netbook replacement (man I miss those $250-$300 netbooks, they were great) and managed to grab a couple models NIB for like $75 a pop....I ended up letting 'em go for like $20 more than I paid because they were just GARBAGE, we are talking worse build quality than those $199 Best Buy laptops you see on Black Friday! The cases were flimsy as hell and flexed waaaay more than they safely should, keyboards were a throwback to 1993 levels of suck, the screens! Oh God my eyes, I've seen Chinese knockoff cellphones with better looking displays!
I have a feeling 5 years from now we are gonna look back and everybody is gonna realize its "Linux laptops" all over again. Remember when netbooks first came out and the press was touting the "ever cheaper" mantra and we suddenly got all these laptops and netbooks running Linux? Where are they now? With the exception of the EEEs I'm betting they are in the trash where they belonged! It was NOT the fault of Linux, don't want the FOSSies getting their panties in a bunch, it was 100% the OEMs using it as an excuse to dump all the sheeeeeit that they couldn't sell on the Windows side anymore. It was the same with the Linux desktops, garbage CPUs like Via C3s and even Intel Celery DESKTOP chips stuffed in laptop cases, RAM was the leftover 512Mbs they had lying around, the HDDs were slower than Xmas and again the small drives nobody wanted, the fans and screens were a joke, they were just garbage.
Sadly its the same with the Chromebooks being tossed at these kids and nothing like the netbooks which used weak CPUs but otherwise were just fine for basic tasks, nope these things just scream "I'm shit!" and are practically designed to fail, I wouldn't give ya a c-note for a 20 pack of the things. It looks like others have figured this as well as when I type Chromebook on Craigslist I see pages of 'em for less than $75 that look to be practically NIB, it didn't take long for them folks to figure out they were suckered and try to unload 'em. Can't say I blame 'em as those $50 dual core tablets would be a better buy than those things!
Exactly and when brains the size of Stephen Hawking says "backwards time travel can never occur" and then lays out the math? Yeah you be fucked.
Its just amazing how many see Star Trek and think its just a matter of speed and forget about the time part, in reality the Enterprise would have come back from its five year mission to find hundreds of years had passed on Earth and Voyager? Considering they traveled 70k light years they would have probably ended up on a one way trip half a million years forward in time.
That is why I find the whole thing just fucking depressing, there are so many places towards the center where you could practically dance from star to star to star but we are so far out in the shithole nosebleed section that even if we developed a ship that ran one mile per hour below lightspeed it'd take a couple thousand years earth time to reach anything worth a fuck and come back....that is fucking depressing no matter how you slice it.
Uhhhh...you think its BETTER to allow users to not know its a self signed cert from Joe Blow? Really? So you are saying that when they go to Google its 100% okay with you that they get a cert that is Gooogle signed by Bob in Russia?
There IS A REASON why most throw up warning flags about certs not signed by the big boys and it ain't a conspiracy Chuck, its so that the user isn't lulled into a false sense of security just because his "Bank Of Amerrica" site has a lock on it. You DO see the little checkbox, that says "I don't care" yes? If you are going to sites ran by Bob from Russia you are welcome to use the checkbox, but don't act like its a bad thing to warn users about self signed crap certs.
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Then YOU tell me smart guy WTF is the point of ACs then? The ENTIRE APPEAL of sites like this is to have a DIALOG, yes? Well ACs will never see any response and therefor it is practically made for taking a big shit on a page and walking away so why in the fuck would I want to see ACs? So I can see the ONE decent post out of forty or so shills and trolls?
If they can't bother to spend 2 minutes of their time to make a fucking account why should I waste one second of my time reading their puke, huh? they can either get off their lazy asses and make an account so they can stand by their statements or they can DIAF for all I care because I'm never gonna see their shit. Funny that all those that try to defend the AC system can't come up with a single reason on why i should give a single fuck about some worthless ACs.
The problem with that idea is the "busted shitter problem" which we see a LOT in FOSS projects.
What is the busted shitter problem? Simple, if I ask you to write me a poem or paint me a picture for free? I'll probably get several to choose from and at least a couple that are quite good because humans are creative animals and like making new things so I will be able to get this for free because the act of creation itself is the reward for the ones doing the work. Now if on the other hand I ask for you to come fix my nasty busted shitter which I choked up with a brown bomb for free how much you wanna bet I'll be pissing in the sink?
The fact of the matter is there is a lot of shitty jobs in software from hunting down and fixing bugs in software that many times you didn't even write, to writing documentation (look at how much doc writers get paid, they make the bucks because it is a tedious and shitty job) to QA and regression testing, all of these jobs suuuuuuuuccccccckkkkk and in proprietary software somebody pays $$$ to get humans to take the shitty job, in FOSS? They just don't get done. To use a car analogy what you get in FOSS is a car with a kickin exterior but the engine belches oil and you can put your foot through the floorboard.
This is why the guts of Linux will never be stable because to BE stable means they will have to focus their efforts on bug fixing, QA, all the boring maintenance jobs, and that simply isn't as pleasurable as putting out new versions or ripping out the guts for something new. Look at just the last few years of Linux at all the guts being just ripped out rather than building on what was there, Pulse, KDE 4, Gnome 3, unity, systemd, why do you think every time it looks like Linux is gonna become mature and stable that some major subsystem gets ripped out and goes back to square 1? The busted shitter problem.
That is why FOSS reminds me of communism, because in both cases it ignores that humans simply won't do some jobs without something other than altruism to motivate them. Its really simple, everybody wants to be the boss, nobody wants to be the guy that cleans the puke at the Chucky Cheese.
Dude serious watch the episode, its MST3K material. Sure with Star Trek you have to suspend disbelief but this reaches the level of parody! We are talking about an episode its own writer calls a POS, one where a ship manages to reach infinite velocity which causes the pilot to 1.- "Evolve" which involves, 2.- Losing the ability to breathe air, have hands with opposable thumbs, and finally "evolving" into a 3 foot salamander that crawls on its belly! And this is AFTER a member of the crew already has pointed out that infinite speed would require infinite power and that every known constant of the universe would have to be broken to pull that off!
Again its the perfect example of the difference between "possible with new technology" and "not possible because the fundamental laws of the universe simply will not allow it" and even following ST rules it simply doesn't make any kind of sense, which is what makes it MST3K fodder.
And I agree with the "smoking hot" if only because somebody using the lingo without understanding its meaning is an extra kind of irritating, like the gamer ID10T I had to deal with once that thought you could JBOD a bunch of shitty HDDs together and it would be faster than a Raptor because "duh you add the drives RPM and it comes to twice the 10K of the Raptor!"..../facepalm/
ACs can suck my big hairy nutsack. When I get a "NO AC" button? Fine and dandy but until then the ACs can eat a dick. The whole point of sites like this is conversations, ACs shit all over that very concept. If you want ACs shitting in your face with no way to do anything about it? That is YOUR choice but I'm not dealing with those wastes of electronic space.
Don't forget the caste system, an Indian gal I worked with said a lot of problems hiring Indians comes down to us not understanding that part of their culture. She said "If an American spots a problem with a project the American will speak up and the Indian won't, even if this problem dooms the project if not corrected. The reason why is that your superiors are usually from a higher caste and one simply doesn't "talk back" to one above you, it would be like a black man in the 40s correcting a white man, its just not done".
But can you patent CLI commands? Sure I can understand the GUI and the manual being patented or copyrighted but the CLI commands? Does that mean every time someone writes a program they have to pick arbitrary keys to make it different?
The simple fact is its completely impractical for most Americans as the replacements are far cheaper than our time is worth. My time costs around $35 an hour depending on the job and a replacement battery for my netbook is just $17 with shipping so there really is no point in refurbing my own battery. that said I have to give the AMD EEE credit as I've had it for 5 years and I can still get nearly 4 hours on a battery, not bad at all compared to my last full size which needed its battery swapped at the end of the second year.
Uhhh...Windows defrags SSDs since Win 7, no need for trim. And can you show me a website where they list which controller is on what drive? because i have seen supposedly identical drives with different controllers and not all of us are lucky enough to live near a Microcenter.
And I'm not going by 2010 I'm going by as little as 4 months ago which is when I had one of my gamer customers lost an SSD. It wasn't even 7 months old, sorry I can't tell you the exact model as I won't support SSDs except as a strictly boot drive with religious backup to an onboard HDD. I wanna say Sandisk but may have been OCZ, its whatever was the hottest on the benches that month, wasn't no cheapie either, we are talking high performance 512Mb drive, didn't make 6 months before the controller just shit the bed.
Oh and just FYI but with SSDs? Yeah you really can't go by RMA because so many are used for the OS drive and have sensitive info on them that they will often get tossed rather than risk ID theft. This is why I tell folks "don't buy any SSD you an't afford to toss and replace" because that IS what you will end up doing if you value your data, just as the gamer did when he found out he'd have to RMA to get it replaced and he had zero way of wiping the drive, he just chucked it in the trash.
Did you ever see the Star Trek Voyager episode "Threshhold"? If not go look up Chuck at SF Debris and his review of that episode because the entire episode is about the crew doing something that is mathematically impossible and what's more the writers SAY its impossible...and THEN DO IT!
But you should watch the video so you can just link to it when somebody starts the "in the fuuuture" BS because almost that entire video is nothing but explaining the difference between possible with improved tech and not possible at all. Its just amazing how few grasp the concept that there ARE limits to the universe and those limits simply cannot be broken, anymore than you can make 2+2=22, like going beyond absolute zero...you can't because absolute zero is the complete and total absence of energy and you can't go less than nothing!
So please ignore the flames and keep it up, because IMHO the only thing worse than somebody completely ignorant is somebody that is knowing the lingo but doesn't understand the concept behind the words and its obvious that guy simply didn't understand the concept of light speed and there being an upper limit to how fast something can go, just saying "in the fuuuture" won't change how the universe works, no matter how many sexbots and flying cars there are.
DaFuq? Its not about FOSS "winning" anything, its about getting a new CEO that doesn't think its 1995 and understands that no everything is better with a WinFlag.
You look at Balmer's entire reign and it was all about making a copy of EVERYTHING that was even slightly popular and planting a WinFlag on it. Java popular? MS Java and when that got knocked down .NET. Flash Popular? Silverlight. Hey Apple got a hit with iPod? Buy the rights to the Beat and stick a WinFlag on it and call it Zune. iPad/Surface, Playstation/Xbox, it was all about sticking WinFlags even when it made no fucking sense.
Nadella seems to be the polar opposite, he seems more concerned with...get ready, its a shocker...making products that people actually want to buy! he also seems to get that you don't make money off of languages by sticking WinFlags but by selling support and since FOSS is pretty much designed around the support model? It just makes sense to use it in this case.
THANK YOU, there is a difference between "we don't have the technology" and mathematically impossible, Could we build a colony on Europa? Sure we could, we just don't currently have the technology to make moving the supplies required practical NOW, but we COULD find something like using asteroids for building materials and fuel so it IS possible, we just don't have the tech.
Compare this to the movie 2010 and turning Jupiter into a second sun...nope, sorry, we know what the lower bound required for nuclear fusion to happen and Jupiter simply doesn't have the material nor the gravity to compress the material enough to start nuclear fusion in the core. The only way for it to be possible would be to literally rewrite the physical laws to make 4+4 = 23, because the math simply does not work.
No matter how much he wishes or says "in the fuuuuture" the math don't work, we would have to have the ability to rewrite the laws of the universe to pull this off...sorry, just not gonna happen.
And why not assume a genie will open a portal to wherever you wanna go after giving you a great BJ? After all if you are just gonna pull "in the future" BS out of your behind both scenarios have equal plausibility.
We have nearly a century of hard science showing the SOL is an upper bound and nothing has been found in that time that in ANY way shape or form shows a way out of the SOL upper limit. If you start pulling "in the future" out of your behind? might as well add vampires, fairies, sexbots, flying cars, after all they are all equally possible in a magical future where science and the laws of the known universe simply do not matter.
Even if that is true if it gets them to man rate the Delta and/or Atlas rather than waste money on yet another Shuttle based POS? It'll be worth it. The Delta and Atlas rockets have been VERY reliable, as reliable as one can get when strapping a chemical rocket to your behind and as we have hopefully learned from the Russians with Soyuz sometimes old and reliable beats new and fancy.
I take it you never heard of that pesky "speed of light" thing? It puts an upper limit to how fast you can go and thanks to us being in the asshole of the Milky way even if we develop craft that run at SOL the distances are so vast that it would take decades to get anywhere good which thanks to time dilation would mean when you got back tens of thousands of years would have passed.
But its bullshit, its like saying "HDD survives 100 bazillion writes!" because the plate doesn't shatter. NEWS FLASH its NOT the flash cells that fail, ITS THE CONTROLLER and frankly THAT is what still makes SSDs risky.
I'm sure this will be followed by a million stupid fucking anecdotes because somebody got a 2003 Maxtor or 2011 Seagate 1.5TB and it shit the bed but considering I've dealt with more HDDs in a week than most here will swap in a lifetime? Mine should probably count a little higher and like it or not HDDs by and large WILL give you a warning before they shit the bed, be it SMART, or noise, or delayed write fails, it'll give ya something to go on. When an SSD controller is about to shit, doesn't matter the brand because NONE of them give you ANY warning. There is no SMART for SSDs, no POST, no diagnostics, just one time it works and the next it dies and takes your data with it....poof!
So yes SSDs are nice IF you make religious backups AND you don't put anything you care about on them....if that is the case? Enjoy. But if you are putting things you actually don't want to lose on SSDs? Well you've been warned, you'll learn when that drive controller fails and nothing short of a $5k recovery by specialists can get your stuff back.
What, that he is butthurt? We didn't get articles when MSFT had THEIR apopstore pned? or Google's? Oh wait...we did!
Waste modpoints all you want, doesn't change the fact that this is no different than when the iFanboys screamed "But its a trojan so it don't count!" when MacDefender was pounding their iHole. This is just another example of Apple's supposed "vetting" being bullshit, just as their "quality" got us "you're holding it wrong" and phones so flimsy they can break in your pocket, their great Applecare no longer supporting the first Macbook Air, ever since Jobs got too sick to run the joint it went down the shitter and now its no better than any other OEM, its just higher priced.
For those Windows users that want a similar battery boost (something I've been enjoying for a couple of years now) just pick up a copy of Tuneup Utilities which has "Economy Mode" which does the same thing, and just like Battery Saver you can tell it to only run when on battery or you can manually turn it on and off.
As for TFA? I'm always for MSFT adding useful features and so far running the previous build on my netbook Windows 10 is shaping up to be what Win 8 SHOULD have been with the OPTION to run Metro if you are on a tablet (or using it for an HTPC, as I've always said Metro makes a good 10 foot UI) while the desktop is Win 7 with speed increases. Thanks to 8GadgetPack I even got to keep my fav gadgets. Now if only somebody would figure out how to copy DVD Maker over from Win 7 it'd be perfect, otherwise I'll have to keep one system with Win 7 just for turning customer's vids into DVDs. But otherwise 2 thumbs up for Win10.
Insightful? Really? For a butthurt fanboy whose mad somebody shit on his iDeity? Newsflash when ANY of the big three get pwned its NEWS FOR NERDS, last i checked this isn't "Cult Of Mac" is it?
Social Justice Warriors, deciding the truth via progressive stack, Social Justice Warriors, if you don't believe like us we are on the attack!
Do you understand what "historically" means? apparently not because if you did you'd know that with the exception of the last 200 hundreds years (thanks to modern farming and lack of crop rotation causing deserts) that Africa has been ONE OF THE MOST FERTILE PLACES ON THE PLANET! Meanwhile the rest of the world had this little thing called an "ice age" maybe you heard of it? So yes Virginia for most of human history the food in Africa was plentiful while the food in Europe and Asia was most decidedly NOT, this is what happens when you live on the equator surrounded by ocean on a landmass teeming with game and food plants.
I noticed you waited until the thread was off the front page before you spewed your SJW crap, afraid of being modbombed because people are tired of PC bullshit?
It does when you wipe out 100 million in just 6 years. Your brutish "I'm a tough baddazz" types found out Mr Bullet don't care while the smart ones knew to duck. If you look at history the western powers were sending their poor off to the killing fields about once a generation...yeah that kind of pressure on the gene pool would do it.
The bitch is just 5 seconds of thought logically would show why this would make sense from a biological point of view. Brains take a LOT of energy to run and the harder the brain works the more energy its gonna use so there would be zero point in developing a more powerful one if it simply wasn't needed from a biological standpoint.
All those groups you named with high IQs? Lived in what has been historically seriously rough climates where getting enough to survive would take serious planning and strategy to survive, much less get enough to reproduce and thrive. Compare this to Africa where the climate over time has been some of the mildest, food plants of all types from fruits to roots has been abundant, tons of wild game....just not a real point in having a high IQ to plan ahead when you could just step out your hut into a paradise of abundance.
But sadly political correctness has made science into Lysenkoism where only science that backs up the party beliefs are allowed. According to PC we are all nothing but Barbie and Ken dolls and the only difference is some dye added to the plastic where anybody with 2 eyes can see that isn't so. We have different builds, different skull shapes,, different diseases target different races, this isn't "racist" its simple measurable observation but sadly because some idiots at the turn of the 20th century tried to make everything racial with eugenics now we can't even point out reality without getting attacked.
Who knows, maybe in another century we'll be allowed to get out of the PC dark ages and have real science that is allowed to question everything without regard for how it affects the party but until then all one can do is practice Lysenkoism and only look at things which back up the dogma.
Exactly its the netbook all over again. I still have my netbook and if they come out with some more sub $250 10-12 inchers? I'll be all over that shit because in certain roles they are fucking brilliant! Take myself as an example, still have my 2011 AMD netbook which I use all the time for service calls and its perfect...why? It fits in a briefcase with my tools under the seat and the jobs I do on service calls, checking networks, downloading files, checking wireless connections, all jobs a netbook does well. Same goes for class work for teens, a vacation laptop, plenty of rolls and thin light cheap netbook fit just fine.
With the cheap tablets I'm finding it has 2 roles, 1 is for folks that don't want a smartphone (be surprised how many of those are around) but still need some portable web capability, and 2 is a portable entertainment center for kids. Got a 7 hour car ride with a couple kids coming up? Hand 'em a tablet a piece with some shows and games loaded along with some headphones and they'll be quiet as churchmice all the way!
Yeah all of you championing Chromebooks really need to look at the models being pushed cause it AIN'T the nice ones folks, its those bottom of the line Samsung Exynos ARM craps and the other "Walmart Special" piles of junk.
I looked into possibly selling 'em as a netbook replacement (man I miss those $250-$300 netbooks, they were great) and managed to grab a couple models NIB for like $75 a pop....I ended up letting 'em go for like $20 more than I paid because they were just GARBAGE, we are talking worse build quality than those $199 Best Buy laptops you see on Black Friday! The cases were flimsy as hell and flexed waaaay more than they safely should, keyboards were a throwback to 1993 levels of suck, the screens! Oh God my eyes, I've seen Chinese knockoff cellphones with better looking displays!
I have a feeling 5 years from now we are gonna look back and everybody is gonna realize its "Linux laptops" all over again. Remember when netbooks first came out and the press was touting the "ever cheaper" mantra and we suddenly got all these laptops and netbooks running Linux? Where are they now? With the exception of the EEEs I'm betting they are in the trash where they belonged! It was NOT the fault of Linux, don't want the FOSSies getting their panties in a bunch, it was 100% the OEMs using it as an excuse to dump all the sheeeeeit that they couldn't sell on the Windows side anymore. It was the same with the Linux desktops, garbage CPUs like Via C3s and even Intel Celery DESKTOP chips stuffed in laptop cases, RAM was the leftover 512Mbs they had lying around, the HDDs were slower than Xmas and again the small drives nobody wanted, the fans and screens were a joke, they were just garbage.
Sadly its the same with the Chromebooks being tossed at these kids and nothing like the netbooks which used weak CPUs but otherwise were just fine for basic tasks, nope these things just scream "I'm shit!" and are practically designed to fail, I wouldn't give ya a c-note for a 20 pack of the things. It looks like others have figured this as well as when I type Chromebook on Craigslist I see pages of 'em for less than $75 that look to be practically NIB, it didn't take long for them folks to figure out they were suckered and try to unload 'em. Can't say I blame 'em as those $50 dual core tablets would be a better buy than those things!
Exactly and when brains the size of Stephen Hawking says "backwards time travel can never occur" and then lays out the math? Yeah you be fucked.
Its just amazing how many see Star Trek and think its just a matter of speed and forget about the time part, in reality the Enterprise would have come back from its five year mission to find hundreds of years had passed on Earth and Voyager? Considering they traveled 70k light years they would have probably ended up on a one way trip half a million years forward in time.
That is why I find the whole thing just fucking depressing, there are so many places towards the center where you could practically dance from star to star to star but we are so far out in the shithole nosebleed section that even if we developed a ship that ran one mile per hour below lightspeed it'd take a couple thousand years earth time to reach anything worth a fuck and come back....that is fucking depressing no matter how you slice it.
Uhhhh...you think its BETTER to allow users to not know its a self signed cert from Joe Blow? Really? So you are saying that when they go to Google its 100% okay with you that they get a cert that is Gooogle signed by Bob in Russia?
There IS A REASON why most throw up warning flags about certs not signed by the big boys and it ain't a conspiracy Chuck, its so that the user isn't lulled into a false sense of security just because his "Bank Of Amerrica" site has a lock on it. You DO see the little checkbox, that says "I don't care" yes? If you are going to sites ran by Bob from Russia you are welcome to use the checkbox, but don't act like its a bad thing to warn users about self signed crap certs.