Comodo IceDragon, Kmeleon, Waterfox, Seamonkey, and that is if you want to stick with the gecko engine. If you don't care which engine you use there is Chromium, SWIron, Comodo Secure Chromium and Dragon, Opera, Safari,OffByOne, Chrome, I'm sure there are others I'm missing.
That is why i just don't understand those that rage because a browser goes to poo...we have options folks! Its not like the old days where you had Internet Exploiter and Nutscrape and if you didn't fit into one of those 2 molds? Fuck off, no soup for you! Today we are just swimming in choices, we can all have a browser that works OUR way so if you don't like the trainwreck that FF is becoming? Tell them so then move to and support one of the alternatives!
Are you forgetting that pesky Speed of Light thing? So far every thing we have learned shows that Einstein was right and there is just no way to go faster than light, even the ones that believe wormholes can exist say it would be impossible to keep one open long enough and wide enough to send anything through it.
So when you look at where we are, waaaay out on a spiral in the ass end of The Milky Way? Sorry not gonna happen. Even if we built a probe the size of a Saturn V loaded with plutonium RTGs they'd run out of power before they got to anywhere interesting, not to mention any signal they sent would be so weak by the time it got here it'd be doubtful if we could even pick it up thanks to the radio backwash caused by the heliopause.
Not only that but just like tablets for most folks Google Glass is a solution in search of a problem. I had many customers jump on the tablet bandwagon and where are they now? Sitting in sock drawers are given to the kiddies to be used as glorified video players.
Showing folks the video of the Glass in action to see if there was a market the reaction I found was almost completely negative, same with the whole smartwatch idea. Folks are happy with the smartphone, its fast, they get a new one every other year, and its always right there in their pocket ready to go.
So go right ahead Intel, after all we have seen how well you do mobile, first with the product dumping of Atoms until you lost mountains of cash, followed by pulling an ARM and giving the Atom designs to Cheapo Chinese Companies like Rockchip, they just haven't been able to make any good moves and this looks like more of the same.
While everyone argues over the semantics...am I the only one who finds these articles depressing? We read about all these planets...we'll never get to see, all these incredible systems....no human will ever take a single step into.
maybe its just me but when I look at a map of the Milky Way and see how far out in the BF nowhere section we are and how thanks to that pesky speed of light we will never ever reach shit just a dozen light years away, much less incredible places like the pillar of creation...its bums me the fuck out, for somebody that grew up on Star Trek and Star Wars I find it even more depressing than Lucas shitting all over A New Hope, its just fucking depressing.
Dude seriously WTF? I'm serious...WTF are you doing man? those "utilities" are about as useful as tits on a boar hog, worse because at least the tits ain't slowing down the boar!
As far as the driver model goes? Vista and up can use WDM OR WDF, XP was WDM so there ya go. Like I said the only catch is 32bit drivers run on a 32bit OS but since no OS I know of can run two different driver subsystem at the same time that is to be expected. And if its for a business client then they have Windows pro...yes? One phone call and you can downgrade to any previous version you want and as for drivers? Here ya go pal, enjoy! Just slap that sucker on any newly installed Windows, run it once, then uninstall it...tada! the PC has the latest drivers all nice and neat, easy peasy. You pair that with WSUS Offline and Ninite for the third party software and you can go from bare drive to ready to ship in a snap!
I'll tell y'all the same thing an old HS friend that was a countie mountie said when it came to pot..."Give me a pothead behind the wheel over a drunk any day of the week, the pothead will get paranoid and drive slower whereas the drunk always overestimates his ability and drives too fast. Never had to clean up a 3 car pileup from a pothead, been too many times i had to tell somebody their kid got drunk and wasted himself along with the poor soul they hit".
Working at the shop I've got to talk to many an LEO about this and they all say the same thing, the potheads are less aggressive, drive slower, are frankly just not a threat like the drunks are.
BS as I've used WinXP drivers in Windows 7 and Windows 8 drivers in 7 as well, that's the nice thing about Windows they don't crap on drivers all the time. In fact the only caveat is that if you are using 32bit XP drivers you have to use Win 7 32bit but Linux AFAIK won't let you mix 32bit and 64bit drivers either so no difference there.
But if you are really concerned and get a Windows 8 device? Just install Windows 10. Its free, runs great, you can put it in "slow update mode" if you don't want to be bleeding edge but more like the corporate side of things, and if its like the Win 7 beta (which I'm betting it will be) when the RTM comes out you'll be able to do an in place upgrade to RTM in like 10 minutes and keep all your stuff and programs. Hell I installed it on a 2011 netbook and not only is it faster than the Win 7 Home that was on it but it let me keep ALL my programs, ALL my games, everything runs perfectly...hell even have full video acceleration even with the drivers in compatibility mode....its fucking brilliant, I haven't been this pumped about a Windows release since XP X64 made Win2K3 Workstation affordable!
Honestly? With Windows Vista and later you really don't have to go nuts locking the PC down to get a solid virus free system that won't get infected without the user going out of the way to do something ignorant.
The key is defense in depth, so that there is simply too many levels the malware has to get through to install. On the systems I have been setting up I start with Comodo Internet Security Free, by default it runs browsers in a sandbox and if you pair it with a Comodo Browser it'll stick the browser in a VM. Next I toss the IE icon, its just too big a target, can't use it. After that I install Comodo IceDragon and Comodo Secure Chromium, that gives you the VM advantage from CIS and as a bonus the Chromium (which I tell them to use by default) runs in Low Rights Mode by default so it simply doesn't have the permissions to access anything of note. The second browser is a backup in case they find a site that doesn't like the first but since its VMed as well its not a real threat and both are set to use Comodo Secure DNS so all pages are checked before load. Finally I install Adblock Plus on both browsers which frankly no PC should be without as I've found more than 90% of malware comes from ads.
And that's it, other than setting Windows and programs like Flash to auto update that's really all there is to it, the most important part is removing the browser threat as that is where nearly all malware comes from. For them to get through the browser they will have to 1.-Get past the Secure DNS blacklist, 2.-Get through a malware scan before load, 3.- Get past Adblock Plus, 4.- Get out of the VM, 5.- Figure out how to get out of Low Rights Mode.
I've been using this setup for a couple years now and the worst I've found on a system set up this way is a Google or yahoo toolbar on IE...but since they don't use IE it never gets launched. The only ones I've seen get infected using this set up are the ones that outright sabotage the security, like this one jerk I ended up having to throw out the shop, I told him flat footed "Limewire doesn't exist anymore, the Feds shut that down years ago. Anything that claims to be Limewire now is a fricking virus"....can you guess where this is going? Yep the genius went straight home, typed "Limewire" into Google and when some rapidshit site gave him a trojan with the Limewire logo on it he UNINSTALLED THE AV because naturally it wouldn't let him install a fucking trojan and wadda ya know, he installs it and the PC is completely overrun with shit. When I shoved his stupid fat ass out the door he was yelling "it says its Limewire, you make it work!"
The moral of the story? You can build the perfect system that protects 99.995% of normal users without fail, but there is no system that will protect itself from a booger eating idiot determined to wreck it!
You wouldn't believe me if I told ya bud....an online memorial of all places! A mutual HS buddy succumbed to his meth addiction and died. Personally I think he was murdered as for about 4 months there was some meth going around that killed its users dead, dead, dead.
Anyway there was a memorial set up online using his FB page, everybody posting old pics of them with Ronnie and there was a picture of me and Ronnie playing this biker festival and Eva came on and said "I was at that, how come I don't remember you?"..well it turned out it was a case of "one walking in while the other was walking out" and even though we had been hanging out in the same circles for years we had never met.
But the important thing isn't where you meet her the important part is to COMMUNICATE. I made it clear when we started our relationship that "here are my hobbies and I'm not giving 'em up" and she did the same. BTW you wanna make your average FB using female into a gamer? Start them off with Torchlight I & II, its easy to pick up and play and they'll find it highly addictive.
Oh I apologize if it sounded like I was calling it a bad game, I wasn't and like Freelancer its a game the community has really built a huge world on top of which IMHO just adds incredible value. No the question was whether triple A titles are always AC:Unity levels of suck and that was the only game I could think of off the top of my head that was as badly broken as AC:Unity OOTB.
The only other I could think of was Max Payne II but that one you had to have certain CPUs (HT enabled P4s) paired with the right GPU (GeForce 5 or 6 midrange cards) to hit the "games will never load past the second level" bug, everybody else could play just fine. But I play a LOT of shooters and frankly most triple A titles? Are actually quite solid on the PC, oh sure you get a few funny graphical glitches (the Borderlands "see what color panties Moxxi wears" bug) but for the most part even the infamously bad like Kane & Lynch II Dog Days ran just fine, in that case the game just sucked.
So in other words....they are FOSSies and are doing it on religious grounds rather than on the merits of the OS or even its functionality?
In that case I agree with you 100%, because if they are getting viruses in 2014 then its because of PEBKAC and those same people will end up somebody's bitch on Linux so as a member of the Windows community allow me to say thank you, please keep them. Better they cause millions of Linux infections than cause Windows ones, thx!
For everybody else Windows 7 is solid as a rock, Windows 10 looks to be even nicer in every way, and with both you have to REALLY go out of your way to be a booger picking moron to get yourself infected, what with the sandboxing, ASLR,DEP,low rights mode, Windows Defender, auto updates, one has to be a real drooling idiot to get themselves infected...I should know, I run a PC repair shop and see quite a few and ya know what? Damned near every.single.one. says something along the lines of "I knew I shouldn't click and run that, I really did, I don't know why I did that"...well I do its the same reason the "How to write a Linux virus" works just fine (which it does BTW, see the KDELook bug for just one example) its called social engineering, which is how more than 95% of Windows bugs end up installed.
So I personally wish all the "virus carrying click on everything" types go to your OS, I really do. From the looks of the Android malware they will be happy to spread their STDs to your OS just as they did to ours, so please accept these plague bearers with our compliments!
Well to be fair before digital there was actual scarcity since it cost serious $$$ to have a record master cut, have a mold made from that cut, and then have it printed, same with 8-tracks and cassettes.
What digital has done is free both the artists AND the consumer from these high costs, because i have heard bands with CDs they paid at most $3k for at a local studio that frankly sound better than *.A.A CDs (no loudness war pumping) and because these bands aren't getting screwed by getting a 50K loan up front and then having to pay 5000% interest to the record company they can sell their CDs cheap and still make a decent profit. My last band we sold our for $10 a pop, $15 if you wanted 'em signed and we we making roughly double what they cost. Of course we didn't care about P2P either because hey, that is why we also had shirts and keyrings.
But we found that if you sell at a low price most will just buy instead of pirate, something the *.A.As might want to consider.
Dude we can't even get a single rocket built in this country that doesn't use parts from the failed shuttle thanks to all the pork, you REALLY think they are gonna let you replace a project that has parts spread to nearly every state for a project that would only require barrels from a single supplier?
Look up Gerald Bull's Supergun and Iraq, the entire reason he was killed by Mossad is because there was every indication it WOULD work and that is why they killed him.
Thank you and for those that say "Nu uh"? Then step right up and take the Hairyfeet Challenge, now celebrating its eighth year without a single mainstream distro passing! And the sad part is every. single. Windows. Since Win2K has been able to do 10 years of updates with ZERO driver failures, hell even Vista can update to current with zero driver failures.
New phase of your life. Time to realize you married the wrong girl and RUN LIKE HELL!!! FTFY.
Seriously I got the same crap from my x, hence why she is an ex. My wonderful wife whom I've had for a year and am insanely happy? All she said was "Don't you think about sticking me on no damned laptop, if you get something decent then so do I!" and that was the end of that, just slapped her a nice AMD quad together and she is happy playing her RPGs across from me playing my shooters...ahhhh, feel that? That is the happiness that can only come from not having a harpy that tries to take your pastimes away. I let her have her photography, jewelry making and RPGs, she lets me have my shooters and playing bass guitar...its wonderful!
Meh Linux is buttfucked on the desktop anyway friend. I run a PC shop and am running the latest Windows 10 build on a 2011 AMD netbook, the weakest thing I have ATM. The verdict? Its faster than Windows 7 across the board and even with every driver running in compatibility mode this thing is WAAAAY faster than a fresh Ubuntu install on nicer hardware, and that isn't even a clean install but an upgrade! If the rumors are true, and I'm betting they are, that Nadella is gonna sell Windows 10 Home for $30 a pop just to get rid of the Win7/XP installs? Then give it up Chuck, only the hardcore GNUs are gonna care, everybody else will just spend the $30 and call it a day.
I spent nearly 5 years buying the bullshit and waiting for Linux to get better....never did. still had "update foo broke my drivers" still had hell trying to get Linux to do simple tasks like video acceleration that Windows has been doing since 2005, as a Linux server admin friend who went with a Macbook after Linux had fucked his install one time too many says "Linux never gets better, only different" and he's right and its guys like Pottering that are the cause. things getting stable, shit starting to work? Well fuck that we'll rip it out and start from scratch! KDE 4, Gnome 3, Pulse, every time shit actually starts getting solid it never fails, its time to rip everything out and go back to square 1. its like they say "ZOMFG we might have to sit around fixing bugs, fuck that! We'll start fresh and be all cool and shit!" and here they go, right back to square one.
Meanwhile I ran a Win2K workstation for 10 years without a crash, last I heard my XP X64 workstation is still purring with the guy that bought it, and my Win 7 has been running since Aug 09 without a single hiccup, despite me changing damned near every single piece out, all it needed was a single Internet activation when I swapped boards.
So let 'em fight over systemd I say, I'm out. I'm tired of the lies, the excuses, the alpha quality being handed off as RTM, its a bunch of buggy beta bullshit. They just better hope the rumor about Nadella doing to servers what he is doing to desktops, with single licenses at sane prices is bs, because if that is the case? yeah good luck Linux, I have a feeling the numbers will drop like a stone!
Borderlands was fine, Bioshock 1 and 2 SP (don't know about the MP on #2, I never bothered) was fine, Borderlands 2 I can't remember any real show stoppers there.
So I would say yes, yes there have been triple A titles that weren't unplayable at launch, in fact most of them weren't unplayable like AC:U. Sure they had some bugs but more along the "LOL that ragdoll is stuck on the wall and doing a dance" whereas from what I've seen AC:U is more along the lines of "I jumped off a 2 foot ledge and fell through the world" kinda bugs, totally different ballgame IMHO. In fact the last time I remember a game being shoved out THIS badly broken was Vampire:Bloodlines and that one at least had the excuse of the developer going tits up.
Pottering doesn't work for MSFT, he works for the 3 letter agencies. Considering that MSFT would probably be a step up on the trust scale. Where does Pottering get his money? Red Hat...okay so where does RH get THEIR money? NSA,DoD, FBI,CIA, DoJ, something like 85% of their income is from.Gov institutions, most in the Intelligence community. if the 3 letter agencies quit buying RHEL tomorrow that company would be on the ropes.
So call me paranoid but I can't really blame anybody for not wanting something controlled by a company that is so tied to the spooks, after Snowden its just common sense.
So go back to Gerald Bull's idea of the supergun and get rid of the risky rocket. If you built a multistage coil gun on the side of a mountain at the equator you would only need a small booster to get it the last bit into orbit and from there you could have a station set up for aiming it at the sun or hell, use it to power RTGs for deep space probes. Its not like there isn't plenty of places in the solar system we haven't explored. As a nice bonus you could use a faster breeder to power the coil gun to cut down on costs AND on waste, so that at the end all you'd have would be the plutonium for processing into RTGs...its a win/win!
That is a really good question but I have one to follow up on it...what will the brain replace the feeling of pain with?
The reason I ask is I had a friend who had nerve damage from a car wreck that was always cold and the docs said he wasn't actually FEELING cold, it was similar to how your stomach "hurts" when you are really hungry. In his case his brain was "starving" for lack of a better word so his brain gave him the sensation of always being cold. My late sister had nerve damage in her feet that gave a similar sensation only with her it was her feet was always hot. So my question would be, if you take away the ability to feel pain...what will the brain replace the lost sensation with?
Well duh, nearly 40 years of "thug life" glorification, refusing to condemn black men who have multiple children they don't even know the names of, much less take care of, and women with so little self esteem they don't know which of the multiple STD carriers is the "baby daddy"? They have a completely ruined culture, poisoned by 'black leaders' that push victimhood and excuse every behavior as a reaction to oppression by YT.
And the bitch is we have the perfect evidence to back this up as if it were actually racism? Then all that would matter is skin color, right? Yet you can take a black man right off the boat from Africa and in less than 2 generations (often less than 1) they will become middle class. Now compare this to American blacks where you have the problems listed above and fifth and sixth generation ghetto dwellers.
That to me says it all, its not racism, its self imposed victimhood and a ruined culture being glorified.
I'm gonna assume you aren't just being snarky, but at 320k at LAME top settings? Nope sorry, can't tell. Of course you have to remember pretty much everything other than opera made after 1994 is affected by the loudness war so honestly when more than 99% of the CDs you get at retail are already compressed to within an inch of its life? Then it doesn't really affect quality to go from 320k to 128k versus just taking a CD and making a 128k from the source.
BTW just for shits and giggles I ran both the CD-128K MP3 and the 320K-128K MP3 through audacity to look at the sound and you really couldn't tell, both sources gave you the exact same pattern.
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Comodo IceDragon, Kmeleon, Waterfox, Seamonkey, and that is if you want to stick with the gecko engine. If you don't care which engine you use there is Chromium, SWIron, Comodo Secure Chromium and Dragon, Opera, Safari,OffByOne, Chrome, I'm sure there are others I'm missing.
That is why i just don't understand those that rage because a browser goes to poo...we have options folks! Its not like the old days where you had Internet Exploiter and Nutscrape and if you didn't fit into one of those 2 molds? Fuck off, no soup for you! Today we are just swimming in choices, we can all have a browser that works OUR way so if you don't like the trainwreck that FF is becoming? Tell them so then move to and support one of the alternatives!
Are you forgetting that pesky Speed of Light thing? So far every thing we have learned shows that Einstein was right and there is just no way to go faster than light, even the ones that believe wormholes can exist say it would be impossible to keep one open long enough and wide enough to send anything through it.
So when you look at where we are, waaaay out on a spiral in the ass end of The Milky Way? Sorry not gonna happen. Even if we built a probe the size of a Saturn V loaded with plutonium RTGs they'd run out of power before they got to anywhere interesting, not to mention any signal they sent would be so weak by the time it got here it'd be doubtful if we could even pick it up thanks to the radio backwash caused by the heliopause.
Not only that but just like tablets for most folks Google Glass is a solution in search of a problem. I had many customers jump on the tablet bandwagon and where are they now? Sitting in sock drawers are given to the kiddies to be used as glorified video players.
Showing folks the video of the Glass in action to see if there was a market the reaction I found was almost completely negative, same with the whole smartwatch idea. Folks are happy with the smartphone, its fast, they get a new one every other year, and its always right there in their pocket ready to go.
So go right ahead Intel, after all we have seen how well you do mobile, first with the product dumping of Atoms until you lost mountains of cash, followed by pulling an ARM and giving the Atom designs to Cheapo Chinese Companies like Rockchip, they just haven't been able to make any good moves and this looks like more of the same.
While everyone argues over the semantics...am I the only one who finds these articles depressing? We read about all these planets...we'll never get to see, all these incredible systems....no human will ever take a single step into.
maybe its just me but when I look at a map of the Milky Way and see how far out in the BF nowhere section we are and how thanks to that pesky speed of light we will never ever reach shit just a dozen light years away, much less incredible places like the pillar of creation...its bums me the fuck out, for somebody that grew up on Star Trek and Star Wars I find it even more depressing than Lucas shitting all over A New Hope, its just fucking depressing.
Dude seriously WTF? I'm serious...WTF are you doing man? those "utilities" are about as useful as tits on a boar hog, worse because at least the tits ain't slowing down the boar!
As far as the driver model goes? Vista and up can use WDM OR WDF, XP was WDM so there ya go. Like I said the only catch is 32bit drivers run on a 32bit OS but since no OS I know of can run two different driver subsystem at the same time that is to be expected. And if its for a business client then they have Windows pro...yes? One phone call and you can downgrade to any previous version you want and as for drivers? Here ya go pal, enjoy! Just slap that sucker on any newly installed Windows, run it once, then uninstall it...tada! the PC has the latest drivers all nice and neat, easy peasy. You pair that with WSUS Offline and Ninite for the third party software and you can go from bare drive to ready to ship in a snap!
I'll tell y'all the same thing an old HS friend that was a countie mountie said when it came to pot..."Give me a pothead behind the wheel over a drunk any day of the week, the pothead will get paranoid and drive slower whereas the drunk always overestimates his ability and drives too fast. Never had to clean up a 3 car pileup from a pothead, been too many times i had to tell somebody their kid got drunk and wasted himself along with the poor soul they hit".
Working at the shop I've got to talk to many an LEO about this and they all say the same thing, the potheads are less aggressive, drive slower, are frankly just not a threat like the drunks are.
BS as I've used WinXP drivers in Windows 7 and Windows 8 drivers in 7 as well, that's the nice thing about Windows they don't crap on drivers all the time. In fact the only caveat is that if you are using 32bit XP drivers you have to use Win 7 32bit but Linux AFAIK won't let you mix 32bit and 64bit drivers either so no difference there.
But if you are really concerned and get a Windows 8 device? Just install Windows 10. Its free, runs great, you can put it in "slow update mode" if you don't want to be bleeding edge but more like the corporate side of things, and if its like the Win 7 beta (which I'm betting it will be) when the RTM comes out you'll be able to do an in place upgrade to RTM in like 10 minutes and keep all your stuff and programs. Hell I installed it on a 2011 netbook and not only is it faster than the Win 7 Home that was on it but it let me keep ALL my programs, ALL my games, everything runs perfectly...hell even have full video acceleration even with the drivers in compatibility mode....its fucking brilliant, I haven't been this pumped about a Windows release since XP X64 made Win2K3 Workstation affordable!
Honestly? With Windows Vista and later you really don't have to go nuts locking the PC down to get a solid virus free system that won't get infected without the user going out of the way to do something ignorant.
The key is defense in depth, so that there is simply too many levels the malware has to get through to install. On the systems I have been setting up I start with Comodo Internet Security Free, by default it runs browsers in a sandbox and if you pair it with a Comodo Browser it'll stick the browser in a VM. Next I toss the IE icon, its just too big a target, can't use it. After that I install Comodo IceDragon and Comodo Secure Chromium, that gives you the VM advantage from CIS and as a bonus the Chromium (which I tell them to use by default) runs in Low Rights Mode by default so it simply doesn't have the permissions to access anything of note. The second browser is a backup in case they find a site that doesn't like the first but since its VMed as well its not a real threat and both are set to use Comodo Secure DNS so all pages are checked before load. Finally I install Adblock Plus on both browsers which frankly no PC should be without as I've found more than 90% of malware comes from ads.
And that's it, other than setting Windows and programs like Flash to auto update that's really all there is to it, the most important part is removing the browser threat as that is where nearly all malware comes from. For them to get through the browser they will have to 1.-Get past the Secure DNS blacklist, 2.-Get through a malware scan before load, 3.- Get past Adblock Plus, 4.- Get out of the VM, 5.- Figure out how to get out of Low Rights Mode.
I've been using this setup for a couple years now and the worst I've found on a system set up this way is a Google or yahoo toolbar on IE...but since they don't use IE it never gets launched. The only ones I've seen get infected using this set up are the ones that outright sabotage the security, like this one jerk I ended up having to throw out the shop, I told him flat footed "Limewire doesn't exist anymore, the Feds shut that down years ago. Anything that claims to be Limewire now is a fricking virus"....can you guess where this is going? Yep the genius went straight home, typed "Limewire" into Google and when some rapidshit site gave him a trojan with the Limewire logo on it he UNINSTALLED THE AV because naturally it wouldn't let him install a fucking trojan and wadda ya know, he installs it and the PC is completely overrun with shit. When I shoved his stupid fat ass out the door he was yelling "it says its Limewire, you make it work!"
The moral of the story? You can build the perfect system that protects 99.995% of normal users without fail, but there is no system that will protect itself from a booger eating idiot determined to wreck it!
Actually I pride myself on setting up my client's PCs so they don't GET the bugs, I instead get my business from referrals.
You wouldn't believe me if I told ya bud....an online memorial of all places! A mutual HS buddy succumbed to his meth addiction and died. Personally I think he was murdered as for about 4 months there was some meth going around that killed its users dead, dead, dead.
Anyway there was a memorial set up online using his FB page, everybody posting old pics of them with Ronnie and there was a picture of me and Ronnie playing this biker festival and Eva came on and said "I was at that, how come I don't remember you?"..well it turned out it was a case of "one walking in while the other was walking out" and even though we had been hanging out in the same circles for years we had never met.
But the important thing isn't where you meet her the important part is to COMMUNICATE. I made it clear when we started our relationship that "here are my hobbies and I'm not giving 'em up" and she did the same. BTW you wanna make your average FB using female into a gamer? Start them off with Torchlight I & II, its easy to pick up and play and they'll find it highly addictive.
Oh I apologize if it sounded like I was calling it a bad game, I wasn't and like Freelancer its a game the community has really built a huge world on top of which IMHO just adds incredible value. No the question was whether triple A titles are always AC:Unity levels of suck and that was the only game I could think of off the top of my head that was as badly broken as AC:Unity OOTB.
The only other I could think of was Max Payne II but that one you had to have certain CPUs (HT enabled P4s) paired with the right GPU (GeForce 5 or 6 midrange cards) to hit the "games will never load past the second level" bug, everybody else could play just fine. But I play a LOT of shooters and frankly most triple A titles? Are actually quite solid on the PC, oh sure you get a few funny graphical glitches (the Borderlands "see what color panties Moxxi wears" bug) but for the most part even the infamously bad like Kane & Lynch II Dog Days ran just fine, in that case the game just sucked.
So in other words....they are FOSSies and are doing it on religious grounds rather than on the merits of the OS or even its functionality?
In that case I agree with you 100%, because if they are getting viruses in 2014 then its because of PEBKAC and those same people will end up somebody's bitch on Linux so as a member of the Windows community allow me to say thank you, please keep them. Better they cause millions of Linux infections than cause Windows ones, thx!
For everybody else Windows 7 is solid as a rock, Windows 10 looks to be even nicer in every way, and with both you have to REALLY go out of your way to be a booger picking moron to get yourself infected, what with the sandboxing, ASLR,DEP,low rights mode, Windows Defender, auto updates, one has to be a real drooling idiot to get themselves infected...I should know, I run a PC repair shop and see quite a few and ya know what? Damned near every.single.one. says something along the lines of "I knew I shouldn't click and run that, I really did, I don't know why I did that"...well I do its the same reason the "How to write a Linux virus" works just fine (which it does BTW, see the KDELook bug for just one example) its called social engineering, which is how more than 95% of Windows bugs end up installed.
So I personally wish all the "virus carrying click on everything" types go to your OS, I really do. From the looks of the Android malware they will be happy to spread their STDs to your OS just as they did to ours, so please accept these plague bearers with our compliments!
Well to be fair before digital there was actual scarcity since it cost serious $$$ to have a record master cut, have a mold made from that cut, and then have it printed, same with 8-tracks and cassettes.
What digital has done is free both the artists AND the consumer from these high costs, because i have heard bands with CDs they paid at most $3k for at a local studio that frankly sound better than *.A.A CDs (no loudness war pumping) and because these bands aren't getting screwed by getting a 50K loan up front and then having to pay 5000% interest to the record company they can sell their CDs cheap and still make a decent profit. My last band we sold our for $10 a pop, $15 if you wanted 'em signed and we we making roughly double what they cost. Of course we didn't care about P2P either because hey, that is why we also had shirts and keyrings.
But we found that if you sell at a low price most will just buy instead of pirate, something the *.A.As might want to consider.
Dude we can't even get a single rocket built in this country that doesn't use parts from the failed shuttle thanks to all the pork, you REALLY think they are gonna let you replace a project that has parts spread to nearly every state for a project that would only require barrels from a single supplier?
Look up Gerald Bull's Supergun and Iraq, the entire reason he was killed by Mossad is because there was every indication it WOULD work and that is why they killed him.
Thank you and for those that say "Nu uh"? Then step right up and take the Hairyfeet Challenge, now celebrating its eighth year without a single mainstream distro passing! And the sad part is every. single. Windows. Since Win2K has been able to do 10 years of updates with ZERO driver failures, hell even Vista can update to current with zero driver failures.
New phase of your life. Time to realize you married the wrong girl and RUN LIKE HELL!!! FTFY.
Seriously I got the same crap from my x, hence why she is an ex. My wonderful wife whom I've had for a year and am insanely happy? All she said was "Don't you think about sticking me on no damned laptop, if you get something decent then so do I!" and that was the end of that, just slapped her a nice AMD quad together and she is happy playing her RPGs across from me playing my shooters...ahhhh, feel that? That is the happiness that can only come from not having a harpy that tries to take your pastimes away. I let her have her photography, jewelry making and RPGs, she lets me have my shooters and playing bass guitar...its wonderful!
Meh Linux is buttfucked on the desktop anyway friend. I run a PC shop and am running the latest Windows 10 build on a 2011 AMD netbook, the weakest thing I have ATM. The verdict? Its faster than Windows 7 across the board and even with every driver running in compatibility mode this thing is WAAAAY faster than a fresh Ubuntu install on nicer hardware, and that isn't even a clean install but an upgrade! If the rumors are true, and I'm betting they are, that Nadella is gonna sell Windows 10 Home for $30 a pop just to get rid of the Win7/XP installs? Then give it up Chuck, only the hardcore GNUs are gonna care, everybody else will just spend the $30 and call it a day.
I spent nearly 5 years buying the bullshit and waiting for Linux to get better....never did. still had "update foo broke my drivers" still had hell trying to get Linux to do simple tasks like video acceleration that Windows has been doing since 2005, as a Linux server admin friend who went with a Macbook after Linux had fucked his install one time too many says "Linux never gets better, only different" and he's right and its guys like Pottering that are the cause. things getting stable, shit starting to work? Well fuck that we'll rip it out and start from scratch! KDE 4, Gnome 3, Pulse, every time shit actually starts getting solid it never fails, its time to rip everything out and go back to square 1. its like they say "ZOMFG we might have to sit around fixing bugs, fuck that! We'll start fresh and be all cool and shit!" and here they go, right back to square one.
Meanwhile I ran a Win2K workstation for 10 years without a crash, last I heard my XP X64 workstation is still purring with the guy that bought it, and my Win 7 has been running since Aug 09 without a single hiccup, despite me changing damned near every single piece out, all it needed was a single Internet activation when I swapped boards.
So let 'em fight over systemd I say, I'm out. I'm tired of the lies, the excuses, the alpha quality being handed off as RTM, its a bunch of buggy beta bullshit. They just better hope the rumor about Nadella doing to servers what he is doing to desktops, with single licenses at sane prices is bs, because if that is the case? yeah good luck Linux, I have a feeling the numbers will drop like a stone!
Borderlands was fine, Bioshock 1 and 2 SP (don't know about the MP on #2, I never bothered) was fine, Borderlands 2 I can't remember any real show stoppers there.
So I would say yes, yes there have been triple A titles that weren't unplayable at launch, in fact most of them weren't unplayable like AC:U. Sure they had some bugs but more along the "LOL that ragdoll is stuck on the wall and doing a dance" whereas from what I've seen AC:U is more along the lines of "I jumped off a 2 foot ledge and fell through the world" kinda bugs, totally different ballgame IMHO. In fact the last time I remember a game being shoved out THIS badly broken was Vampire:Bloodlines and that one at least had the excuse of the developer going tits up.
But that is okay as we have a word for that, PIBBY and nobody cares about the PIBBYs.
"the whole systemd vs. sysv init is mostly an emotional one."....uhhh..you wanna rethink that Hoss?
Pottering doesn't work for MSFT, he works for the 3 letter agencies. Considering that MSFT would probably be a step up on the trust scale. Where does Pottering get his money? Red Hat...okay so where does RH get THEIR money? NSA,DoD, FBI,CIA, DoJ, something like 85% of their income is from .Gov institutions, most in the Intelligence community. if the 3 letter agencies quit buying RHEL tomorrow that company would be on the ropes.
So call me paranoid but I can't really blame anybody for not wanting something controlled by a company that is so tied to the spooks, after Snowden its just common sense.
So go back to Gerald Bull's idea of the supergun and get rid of the risky rocket. If you built a multistage coil gun on the side of a mountain at the equator you would only need a small booster to get it the last bit into orbit and from there you could have a station set up for aiming it at the sun or hell, use it to power RTGs for deep space probes. Its not like there isn't plenty of places in the solar system we haven't explored. As a nice bonus you could use a faster breeder to power the coil gun to cut down on costs AND on waste, so that at the end all you'd have would be the plutonium for processing into RTGs...its a win/win!
That is a really good question but I have one to follow up on it...what will the brain replace the feeling of pain with?
The reason I ask is I had a friend who had nerve damage from a car wreck that was always cold and the docs said he wasn't actually FEELING cold, it was similar to how your stomach "hurts" when you are really hungry. In his case his brain was "starving" for lack of a better word so his brain gave him the sensation of always being cold. My late sister had nerve damage in her feet that gave a similar sensation only with her it was her feet was always hot. So my question would be, if you take away the ability to feel pain...what will the brain replace the lost sensation with?
Well duh, nearly 40 years of "thug life" glorification, refusing to condemn black men who have multiple children they don't even know the names of, much less take care of, and women with so little self esteem they don't know which of the multiple STD carriers is the "baby daddy"? They have a completely ruined culture, poisoned by 'black leaders' that push victimhood and excuse every behavior as a reaction to oppression by YT.
And the bitch is we have the perfect evidence to back this up as if it were actually racism? Then all that would matter is skin color, right? Yet you can take a black man right off the boat from Africa and in less than 2 generations (often less than 1) they will become middle class. Now compare this to American blacks where you have the problems listed above and fifth and sixth generation ghetto dwellers.
That to me says it all, its not racism, its self imposed victimhood and a ruined culture being glorified.
I'm gonna assume you aren't just being snarky, but at 320k at LAME top settings? Nope sorry, can't tell. Of course you have to remember pretty much everything other than opera made after 1994 is affected by the loudness war so honestly when more than 99% of the CDs you get at retail are already compressed to within an inch of its life? Then it doesn't really affect quality to go from 320k to 128k versus just taking a CD and making a 128k from the source.
BTW just for shits and giggles I ran both the CD-128K MP3 and the 320K-128K MP3 through audacity to look at the sound and you really couldn't tell, both sources gave you the exact same pattern.