And how is what he is doing ANY different than the million pirate video sites Google is hosting the vids for and making $$$ in ad revenue off of? You go to ANY of the pirate streaming sites and guess where the video is hosted? YouTube. You can't tell me that Google is soooo fucking clueless they can't see a video suddenly getting traffic through the roof but hey, they are a big corp so that's ok,right?
And look at the crazy fucking FOSSies claiming that open sourcing is "dope dealers giving you the first shot for free" even though once something has been open sourced IT CAN'T BE FUCKING CLOSED!!
NOW do you see why I hate fucking FOSSies and make a distinction between a FOSS advocate and a FOSSie? Because a FOSSie is like a Social Justice Warrior, you are never (blank) enough with blank being whatever cause they are for! Nadella has done a 180 degree turn, started selling MS Ofice for other platforms, opened.NET, but to the FOSSie? Not good enough it HAS to be some kind of trick!
Why not? Bleeding somebody with endless litigation is a time honored practice here in the United Corporate States of America, why do you think so many corps can get away with so much shit that Joe and Jane Average can't?
Hell we even have a word for it when corps do it to shut people up, its called a SLAPP and from what I hear it works quite well. Dotcom should feel lucky he only pissed off the corporate masters, because if he pissed off the 3 letter agencies he could have ended up like Assange, trapped in a tiny room for fear of getting a rendition ride.
Uhhh...why would you do that? I've been using 320k MP3s for years and I can honestly say I've never run into a situation where you'd need to do that. in fact the only time I've ever done an MP3 recode was for a little 4GB Sandisk MP3 player I got uber cheap that I decided to use when I was walking and in that case I just went 64k as I knew the street noise would make fidelity pointless and in that case? 64k worked just fine, in fact I got one of those little cassette adapters to use in my SUV and it still sounds better than the local radio stations.
But if you are keeping the 320k MP3s the most you are doing is a single recode (320K-whatever) so I really don't see how it would be an issue. After al its not like you are gonna take the 320k, recode to 192k, then recode the 192k to 128k are you? But just for shits and giggles I took a 320k MP3 and recoded to 128k and compared it to the CD where I ripped it as 128k and honestly? I can't tell a difference between the two.
Uhhh...and the benefit to MSFT would be....what exactly? they have NTFS which works extremely well for their OS and for portables there is ExFAT which again works extremely well, so why would they care to open NTFS when there is no need?
Its not like the FOSSies would ever use anything made by MSFT anyway, hell many Linux advocates like Robert Pogson are so batshit against MSFT they have Voldemort when it comes to the company, they sure as hell isn't gonna use anything made by Redmond, they'd treat it like plague blankets.
It has nothing to do with hypocrisy, it has to do with getting rid of a shitty CEO that only cared about sticking Winflags on everything to a good CEO that cares about having happy customers.
You look at what Nadela has been doing since getting the big chair and its pretty much tossing out everything the Balmernator stood for, no more trying to force metro down your throat, no more refusing to sell software to somebody because the platform they are on doesn't have a Winflag on it, its almost like....gasp!....a company that wants your business! After all those years of the big sweaty one Nadella is just the breath of fresh air that MSFT needed!
There ain't no "pretty much" to it, you look at the Social Justice Warriors and they are ALL middle class 20 somethings which makes them right in the middle of the whole "Captain Planet/Special Snowflake" period of education. Well we now know what that kind of education gets you, self absorbed narcissist douchebags that think they are ALWAYS right, that EVERYTHING is black and white (just like Captain Planet where everybody who wasn't a greenie was a monster) and that only THEY, special snowflakes that they are, can "right the wrongs". And of course since many of these "special snowflakes" are finding themselves in dead end careers buried in student loans and of course that couldn't be their own bad choices, special snowflakes remember? Well it HAS to be oppression, somebody is keeping the world from realizing what perfect creatures of God they are!
Living not 6 blocks from a college I've got to speak to many a SJWer and frankly I'd rather be trapped in a room with ANY whacked out religion follower you can name, be it Moonie, Scientolgist, Hari Krishna, hell I'd take all three together over a SJWer, because at least the religious whacko doesn't have the smug elitist attitude turned to 11!
Yep sorry Audiophiles but FLAC is just another Monster cable, placed against LAME VBR at high quality the experts couldn't tell in ABX testing, same with 44k versus 96k, in fact last test I saw showed 96k getting worse reviews across the board because even on 10k+ gear trying to reproduce sounds only a dog could hear ended up adding distortion to the high end.
So if you want to use FLAC because you can produce 1:1 backups of your CDs? That's fine and dandy, just don't try to claim it gives you better sound, because it don't. The original tests too many try to cite are from the days when an 80GB drive was considered large and MP3s were often encoded at 128k or even 64k and those days are thankfully long gone.
Thanks for the info. I've been able to hold out for so long by keeping my eye out for sales and stocking up I've been able to find some crazy DVD blank deals, we're talking 12c-14c a pop for everyday use and 14c-16c a pop for backup quality in 100 packs. the trick is in knowing which brands are good at what and using them based on their strengths. For example RiData? Make damned good DVD movie discs. they play in damned near anything and can take some abuse, great for those that have kiddies and need to backup their Spongebob whereas TDK and Memorex make pretty solid backups.
I suppose I'll make the jump to BD in the spring, I gotta buy me a new full size case (my USB ports are finally failing on the front) along with a decently sized SSD before I switch over to BD. Tell me, how well do the burners hold up? Any recommendations? Because I go through a LOT of DVD burners and at $60 a pop I really don't feel like doing the same with BD burners. I've been lucky in that I got a guy that works for the city that brings me a ton of 2-3 year old office PCs I can scavenge DVD burners out of but at the shop I can easily burn a good 200+ DVDs in a month so I tend to wear drives out fast. I figure since so few here have BD I'll be keeping it strictly for my own backups but still I'd like to get a drive that is gonna last. any suggestions?
I have 1X DVDs going back to 99/2K that still read too, that is what happens when you don't buy crap brands. Just keep 'em in a cool dry place away from light and check 'em every 3 years or so for signs of dye rot (which is easy to spot long before the disc becomes unreadable) and DVDs make a great long term storage medium for documents, pictures, videos, etc. And as a nice bonus nearly every PC on the planet can play back DVDs.I guess I'll have to bite the bullet and get a BD burner soon, does anybody here have exp with using BD for storage? How are they holding up?
As for TFA cost will end up wiping out tape, just not enough tapes and drives being sold, too many are opting for a NAS loaded with TBs of space and the large corps that traditionally bought tape are outsourcing to the cloud. Its a shame as LTO is long lasting as hell but the economies of scale just aren't there anymore.
I have to wonder if they didn't catch 'em using the same trick Vegas uses to catch cheaters, looking at the odds.
It never fails that cheaters get greedy and forget that if they tilt the odds too much in their favor a look at the stats over time will give them away. Sure somebody can have a lucky streak but not THAT lucky, but because they can insure a win they will, or only lose when there is nothing on the line...which again sticks out like a sore thumb.
I remember back in the late 90s when such hacks just started hitting shooters and it would never fail, look at the stats over time of a cheater compared to a really good non cheating player? The ones cheating would become obvious.They always seem to forget that no matter how good they are there will be the occasional "lucky shots" where somebody just happens to be in the right spot at the right time and catch them unaware but that doesn't happen with the cheaters, again they just get too damned greedy.
Nope, sorry, don't work. Why? No bullet markings on the road, no bits of pavement on Brown,which if he would have been getting down the rounds would have hit the asphalt. Ever seen what happens when a bullet hits pavement? I have as we had a drunk a couple years back shooting the road in front of the apt down the street trying to scare his GF. Even with him shooting a weaker gun than the 9mm that cops carry you still had marks on the road that even I could see.
Remember they hired Dr Michael Baden, of HBO Autopsy fame, to do the autopsy on Brown...you don't think he went over every crime scene photo with a magnifying glass? If he would have been down or nearly down there would have been transfer, the bullet holes likewise would be at a different angle, going from upper rear to lower front....stand up, point your finger like a gun at an object on the ground a couple feet in front of you...which way would the bullet go? From back high entrance to front lower exit...is that what we have here?
Don't take MY word for anything, look up the autopsy drawings, they have been online for awhile. Look at where each entrance and exit is and ask yourself "at what angle would Brown have to be at to get these?" and you will see that what I'm saying is correct, that the only way to get shots that line up would make brown too high to be standing and the wrong angle for him to be on the ground.
Mark my words when the jury starts saying what swayed them its gonna be the autopsy, there is simply no way for Wilson to fake that evidence.
According to the autopsy he was shot FROM ABOVE which means that either 1.- the cop got on top of the car and jumped so he could shoot a 6 foot plus robber in the top of the head or 2.- the robber was charging at the cop in a football tackle stance (which just FYI is consistent with every wound on Brown).
Now which do YOU think is more likely? That a cop with NO history of abuse jumped on top his car so he could pop a guy trying to surrender, or that a 6 foot tall guy who had just robbed a store charged at the cop in the hopes of taking him down before he could get arrested AGAIN while he was already awaiting court on another charge?
Oh and you might want to look up his grand jury testimony which several news sites have published as it is pretty enlightening and fits with the physical evidence. According to Wilson "he saw the suspect walking down the middle of the street and when he told him to move it to the sidewalk, Brown used an expletive and ignored him (told him to go fuck himself or fuck off from the sounds of it but the press won't publish the words used)" and that is when he noticed a fistload of cigars in Brown's hand and put two and two together about the recent robbery and called for backup, stopping in front of Brown. When he tried to get out of the cruiser he was first hit by the door and then punched (bruises on Wilson published from ER photos back this up) and at that point he "believed another punch would knock him out" so he reached for his gun which Brown them shoved his way into the driver's window and attempted to wrestle the gun away (the blood stains in the car as well as the secret witness recording immediately after the shooting back this part up) and it was only after he managed to get control of the gun that Brown ran for a bit. The only evidence we have to back up the last bit is the autopsy but considering what happened up to that point and Brown's history of strong arm crimes it does fit his criminal pattern. According to Wilson after he yelled halt Brown stopped with his hands in the air, only for him to lower them when he turned around and say something to the effect of "you are too big a pussy to shoot me" following which Brown charged in a football tackle. Wilson tried to use a stopping shot but he kept coming (again consistent with the wounds) and that is when he unloaded on him.
Yeah...sorry, if you published that word for word but simply made Brown's skin color white? Not a single word would have been said, just another criminal that thought their brute strength could beat a bullet. The only reason anybody said a word is because Brown was black, simple as that. I'm only shocked the press didn't start running photos of him in third grade like they did with Martin.
As someone with a scar on the back of his head from a cop that didn't like a "fucking hippie riding with a nigger" I'm all for busting cops who think they are above the law, that poor woman getting beaten on the side of the road is a perfect example of that but Brown? Nope, sorry, he was a strong arm robber that thought he was the big bad, which is why he walked down the middle of the street instead of doing what any sane crook would have done and beat a hasty exit from the scene of the crime. One can really only draw one conclusion from him walking down the dead center of the road right after a robbery and that he was itching for a fight. Well he got one and found out the hard way that brawn don't beat bullets.
What I love is they are saying "this is for the desktop" when reality can't be farther from the truth as multiple tests showed ZERO gains from systemd for desktop users and a LOT of downsides!
And I know about the Debian fork, sadly they have NO chance as the old guard will use their money and influence to crush them like a bug. We are talking about a corp in bed with a bunch of 3 letter agencies, the only way you defeat that is to 1.- Create such a stink so publicly they can't change the narrative and 2.- get some seriously deep pockets on your side so they can't just bury you with endless press articles against you. While I see they are trying #1 (and failing frankly, look at how few even knew about the voting, much less the incestuous relationships of those involved) I haven't seen any indication they have enough funds to keep even a dozen devs on for a single year, much less enough cash to fix all the shit systemd is about to take a steamer on while keeping any kind of buzz going.
So while I wish them nothing but luck I have the sinking feeling that the days of Linux being anything other than just another corporate OS are ending, it'll be Apple, Google/RH, and MSFT, and Debian and the rest will end up like the pile of Ubuntu forks are now, where they change a few window dressings but its just a Taco Bell distro, rearranging the same tired ingredients and pretending that makes it something new.
/sung to the tune of "Mighty Morphin Power Rangers"/
Social Justice Warriors! Deciding the truth based on progressive stack!
Social Justice Warriors! If you don't think like us we bring the attack!
Doesn't matter if you kill or steal, you aren't white so you're "keepin it real", and if you have a vag you can do no wrong, just believe like us and you can sing this song!
You can always try what my family is doing which is skipping the whole damned mess. I mean for the love of FSM now everybody is doing it on Thanksgiving day? DaFuq? I sat my family down and asked them a very simple question.....do we REALLY need more electronic crap? They took stock of all the TVs and laptops and desktops and tablets and phones we have and decided nope, not really.
So the only electronic thing being gotten this year is the youngest is getting an octocore because his quad has been getting unstable (and he hates having less than me and his big bro who both have X6), but since it was getting unstable I done let him have his early, got it for $109 3 weeks ago on a pre BF sale. The rest decided they'd rather have non BF stuff, books for mom, 10 pounds of Hazelnuts and Brazil nuts for dad ("They never put enough ^%*&^%*& decent nuts in the damned can!") and for the oldest? Dining gift cards so he can take one of the various women he dates out to eat.
So no more stupid Black Friday bullshit for us, the sock drawers are loaded full of electronics as it is!
You want ties to industry? How about cap and trade being written by the same geniuses that gave us credit default swaps? At the end of the day you can wave whatever flag you want because the only "solutions" being pushed are nothing but a reverse robin hood scam where the actual polluters get carbon "indulgences" while those that can't afford to offshore their wealth get royally fucked in the ass to benefit the 1%...surprise surprise, the rich getting richer by stealing what few cents out of each dollar they don't already hoard.
Its nothing but a case of "tighten your belt peasant to save teh earf!" being sold to ya by guys like Rev Al Gore who sips his wine while riding in a fleet of SUVs to his McMansion...but he is "green" because he pays himself carbon credits from his own company LOL! It just shows you how badly the greenies have been had, when a guy can take money from his left pocket and put it in his right and get credit (as well as a tax break) for being "carbon neutral" LOL!
IF you bought the 125w FX8350 (instead of the cheaper and similar performance 8300) and ran it side by side with the i5 you'd be looking at 18.9 years to break even, that is 18.9 years before the amount you spent on the i5 over the AMD will be used up in energy costs. The link is in my previous post complete with the math and I think you'll agree that its seriously doubtful you'll keep that Intel CPU long enough to ever break even much less save a single cent.
On the other hand if you use the money you save by going AMD into the system itself you will end up with a better rounded and higher performing system, just use the savings for a better SSD, more HDD space, hell considering the last I checked the i5 was nearly $140 more than the FX8300 you could use that to buy a 64Gb SSD boot AND a 1TB HDD for storage and STILL have money left in your pocket!
Oh and the USB3 works fine on the AMD and NONE, I repeat NONE of the CPUs or APUs from AMD are crippled, you can run Windows server from any of the socket AM1 APUs and you even have full hardware virtualization support in case you need to run a VM on your server. The AM1 APUs use just 25w under full load and with the 1.3GHz Sempron quad APU costing just $39 and the Asrock AM1 with 4 SATA 3 also $39 its the absolute cheapest way to set up a low power server. Give it a spin, I bet you'll like it.
You made a funny but for an HTPC? Its just too damned small, it limits the system too much.
IMNSHO as a system builder and VAR a much better choice would be something like the Sempron 3850 if you want a media tank and streaming box or the Athlon 5350 if you want something with a little more kick for tasks like transcoding your vids to your mobile devices. Pair it with this Asrock board and an Apex VCR style case and voila! A VERY capable HTPC based on the same APU used in the XB-One and PS4 that just sips power while being able to do pretty much any HTPC related task, even game as long as you stick to older games or lowered settings. this is one of my most popular builds,just slap a BD player into it and you have a box that looks nice in any media cabinet, can play any popular format with full hardware acceleration, and is quiet as a churchmouse.
those sticks are just too limited, most won't play local content, very few video/audio formats supported, its just too limited in function. Hell the above is flexible enough that when one of my customers had his sister's laptop die he lent her his office PC and while he waited for me to get the parts in to build her what she wanted he used his Athlon quad HTPC as his office computer and was quite happy with the performance. Oh and if you slap a couple of wireless controllers they make damned good emulator boxes, you can play everything from Atari 2600- PS1 on one of those, great for when you have friends or kids/grandkids over.
The NUC sucks,Look at the new AMD APUs as they have MUCH better graphics performance** as that is what you need in a media box. You can get the quad AM1 Athlon APU with the board for around $100 , just slap it in a VCR style case and you have a kicking HTPC, or if you want something closer to OOTB you can get a Zotac AMD quad micro for just $175. Personally I prefer the Athlon as not only do you get better options on the AM1 boards than either the NUC or the AMD super mini but you get a more powerful APU capable of transcoding if you need to convert some of your media before sticking it on your portable devices.
**.- Try looking up real world tests instead of benchmarks and you'll find the AMD chips are in reality in the single digits when compared with intel and in some cases like the FX8xxx chips (which can be had for less than $140) against the i5 it curbstomps it pretty badly. The reason why the benches say different is pretty easy to explain, intel bribes them to compile their benchmarks with the Intel Cripple Compiler. in some cases even that isn't enough for Intel as Cinebench was recently caught putting "If AMD slow down tests" in their benchmarking software to make Intel look better. Wanna guess where a VERY large portion of their advertising budget comes from? For examples of what happens when you don't use rigged benches see this video where an AMD 8350 goes up against an Intel 3850, a CPU which literally costs double what the 8350 does, and the 8350 wins damned near every test, or this one where a now 3 generations behind Phenom II X6 is placed against the midrange Intel and the difference is still under 5%. Oh and for those that'll say "ZOMFG AMD will wreck your power bill ZOMFG!" that is complete and total bullshit as to make up the difference in cost between an AMD and an Intel, even using the 125w AMD, would take you 18.9 years. if you OC the shit out of the AMD it would still take nearly 7 years, longer than anybody will likely keep a PC.
It won't matter as THEY ARE ALL DOOMED, at least in the USA...why? Because they ALL require plentiful bandwidth to the cloud and the ISPs are going with ever nastier data caps.
This is why I'm not worried about these premades competing with my HTPC business, because very customer so far that has tried it has come crawling back to me after they see their Internet bill LOL. With a real HTPC you can rip your own DVDs and BDs onto your media tank and use zero bandwidth, while these sticks will blow through a data cap like shit through a goose.
Sorry Intel but unless you plan on spending a couple hundred billion rolling out your own national ISP you can give it up, these things just won't have the bandwidth to make them any more than paperweights.
My grandfather taught me long ago that when someone tries to silence speech? You had damned well better start following the money, because it WILL be involved. But lately we've seen a LOT of places where if you don't jump on board? They do NOT debate, they sling insults and try to silence you. And wadda ya know? A LOT of that shit ends up being traced back to people cashing checks from 3 letter agencies.
Now out of the blue we suddenly have the guy that brought us the broken alpha crap that was Pulse shoving a critical subsystem out of the way for this sprawling monster that even supporters admit "needs work"...yet even the distros SUPPOSEDLY based on stability are tripping over themselves to take this? Why? They even admitted some basic functionality like letting you boot to a point where you can fix shit if it breaks is dicey! And anybody who doesn't want this, that even wants to debate it, is being banned or being told "take it or fuck off"...now does this SOUND like the normal conversations Linux devs have? Hell it sounds like Apple NOT Linux!
NOW follow the money...makes a HELL of a lot more sense as all the ones pushing like hell? All are getting money in 1 form or another from RH...so where does RH gets ITS money from? NSA,FBI,CIA,DoD, if the US government stopped buying RH tomorrow they would lose over 85% of their business overnight, it would literally demolish that company. ya wanna know how you know when you're on the right track? When those in the opposite camp have NO answer to this but to say "Oh you're just a conspiracy nut"...yeah said the same thing about the NSA intercepting phone calls before the AT&T whislteblower came out, didn't they? And isn't it funny how after Snowden leaked all their old tricks how suddenly this critical subsystem, which frankly is one of the most stable parts of Linux, hell even I didn't have any complaints about the init system and I'm the guy that came up with "the hairyfeet challenge" to show how broken the Linux update situation is, now all of a sudden the thing that nobody was bitching about is soooo terrible the ONLY choice is to hand the whole thing over to RH, really?
My grandfather was a wise man and his advice is just as good now as it was then, so when you see a concerted effort to stifle debate, to block speech and belittle those with an opposing opinion by labeling them "code words" meant to detract like troll, flamebait, nutter,, etc? FOLLOW THE MONEY as you can damned well be assured there is serious $$$ involved, otherwise why not simply debate?
Well when you start killing discussion? That should throw up a 50 foot RED FLAG because there is something DIRTY going on behind the scenes, otherwise why not simply fight them with logic?
More than 85% of RH's money is coming from 3 letter agencies, NSA,CIA,DoD,FBI, if the US gov stopped buying RH for their servers? Then RH as a company IS DEAD, this is a fact, you can read this on their SEC filings, its common knowledge. Now what OS is used for secure communications and even has releases based on giving the user maximum privacy? Linux...so lets look at this logically, if YOU worked for a 3 letter agency and wanted it compromised, how would you do it? Well the most obvious and easiest way would be to have a critical subsystem that all require be controlled by a company YOU can control in turn, yes? And having that critical software affect more and more critical systems would simply make it easier to not only break but give you a nice cover story since "Oh it wasn't X, it was a vulnerability in Y that COMPROMISED X that was the problem"...again this is just common sense.
So to have a company so tightly joined with the US gov pushing the living shit about this and doing their damnedest to silence critics? Yeah something smells rotten in Denmark, no different than how the most vocal proponents of TOR are connected to Radio Free Asia which is owned by DARPA. In this electronic society it really isn't hard to follow the money and when you have something being pushed waaay past where logic would dictate? Frankly the FIRST thing you should do is see who is signing the checks. After Snowden anything less is just being naive.
Correct me if I'm wrong but don't you have to be using the 32bit powerpoint to be affected by this? If so my users don't have to worry, switched them to 64bit a few years back.
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And how is what he is doing ANY different than the million pirate video sites Google is hosting the vids for and making $$$ in ad revenue off of? You go to ANY of the pirate streaming sites and guess where the video is hosted? YouTube. You can't tell me that Google is soooo fucking clueless they can't see a video suddenly getting traffic through the roof but hey, they are a big corp so that's ok,right?
And look at the crazy fucking FOSSies claiming that open sourcing is "dope dealers giving you the first shot for free" even though once something has been open sourced IT CAN'T BE FUCKING CLOSED!!
NOW do you see why I hate fucking FOSSies and make a distinction between a FOSS advocate and a FOSSie? Because a FOSSie is like a Social Justice Warrior, you are never (blank) enough with blank being whatever cause they are for! Nadella has done a 180 degree turn, started selling MS Ofice for other platforms, opened .NET, but to the FOSSie? Not good enough it HAS to be some kind of trick!
Why not? Bleeding somebody with endless litigation is a time honored practice here in the United Corporate States of America, why do you think so many corps can get away with so much shit that Joe and Jane Average can't?
Hell we even have a word for it when corps do it to shut people up, its called a SLAPP and from what I hear it works quite well. Dotcom should feel lucky he only pissed off the corporate masters, because if he pissed off the 3 letter agencies he could have ended up like Assange, trapped in a tiny room for fear of getting a rendition ride.
Uhhh...why would you do that? I've been using 320k MP3s for years and I can honestly say I've never run into a situation where you'd need to do that. in fact the only time I've ever done an MP3 recode was for a little 4GB Sandisk MP3 player I got uber cheap that I decided to use when I was walking and in that case I just went 64k as I knew the street noise would make fidelity pointless and in that case? 64k worked just fine, in fact I got one of those little cassette adapters to use in my SUV and it still sounds better than the local radio stations.
But if you are keeping the 320k MP3s the most you are doing is a single recode (320K-whatever) so I really don't see how it would be an issue. After al its not like you are gonna take the 320k, recode to 192k, then recode the 192k to 128k are you? But just for shits and giggles I took a 320k MP3 and recoded to 128k and compared it to the CD where I ripped it as 128k and honestly? I can't tell a difference between the two.
Uhhh...and the benefit to MSFT would be....what exactly? they have NTFS which works extremely well for their OS and for portables there is ExFAT which again works extremely well, so why would they care to open NTFS when there is no need?
Its not like the FOSSies would ever use anything made by MSFT anyway, hell many Linux advocates like Robert Pogson are so batshit against MSFT they have Voldemort when it comes to the company, they sure as hell isn't gonna use anything made by Redmond, they'd treat it like plague blankets.
It has nothing to do with hypocrisy, it has to do with getting rid of a shitty CEO that only cared about sticking Winflags on everything to a good CEO that cares about having happy customers.
You look at what Nadela has been doing since getting the big chair and its pretty much tossing out everything the Balmernator stood for, no more trying to force metro down your throat, no more refusing to sell software to somebody because the platform they are on doesn't have a Winflag on it, its almost like....gasp!....a company that wants your business! After all those years of the big sweaty one Nadella is just the breath of fresh air that MSFT needed!
There ain't no "pretty much" to it, you look at the Social Justice Warriors and they are ALL middle class 20 somethings which makes them right in the middle of the whole "Captain Planet/Special Snowflake" period of education. Well we now know what that kind of education gets you, self absorbed narcissist douchebags that think they are ALWAYS right, that EVERYTHING is black and white (just like Captain Planet where everybody who wasn't a greenie was a monster) and that only THEY, special snowflakes that they are, can "right the wrongs". And of course since many of these "special snowflakes" are finding themselves in dead end careers buried in student loans and of course that couldn't be their own bad choices, special snowflakes remember? Well it HAS to be oppression, somebody is keeping the world from realizing what perfect creatures of God they are!
Living not 6 blocks from a college I've got to speak to many a SJWer and frankly I'd rather be trapped in a room with ANY whacked out religion follower you can name, be it Moonie, Scientolgist, Hari Krishna, hell I'd take all three together over a SJWer, because at least the religious whacko doesn't have the smug elitist attitude turned to 11!
Yep sorry Audiophiles but FLAC is just another Monster cable, placed against LAME VBR at high quality the experts couldn't tell in ABX testing, same with 44k versus 96k, in fact last test I saw showed 96k getting worse reviews across the board because even on 10k+ gear trying to reproduce sounds only a dog could hear ended up adding distortion to the high end.
So if you want to use FLAC because you can produce 1:1 backups of your CDs? That's fine and dandy, just don't try to claim it gives you better sound, because it don't. The original tests too many try to cite are from the days when an 80GB drive was considered large and MP3s were often encoded at 128k or even 64k and those days are thankfully long gone.
Thanks for the info. I've been able to hold out for so long by keeping my eye out for sales and stocking up I've been able to find some crazy DVD blank deals, we're talking 12c-14c a pop for everyday use and 14c-16c a pop for backup quality in 100 packs. the trick is in knowing which brands are good at what and using them based on their strengths. For example RiData? Make damned good DVD movie discs. they play in damned near anything and can take some abuse, great for those that have kiddies and need to backup their Spongebob whereas TDK and Memorex make pretty solid backups.
I suppose I'll make the jump to BD in the spring, I gotta buy me a new full size case (my USB ports are finally failing on the front) along with a decently sized SSD before I switch over to BD. Tell me, how well do the burners hold up? Any recommendations? Because I go through a LOT of DVD burners and at $60 a pop I really don't feel like doing the same with BD burners. I've been lucky in that I got a guy that works for the city that brings me a ton of 2-3 year old office PCs I can scavenge DVD burners out of but at the shop I can easily burn a good 200+ DVDs in a month so I tend to wear drives out fast. I figure since so few here have BD I'll be keeping it strictly for my own backups but still I'd like to get a drive that is gonna last. any suggestions?
I have 1X DVDs going back to 99/2K that still read too, that is what happens when you don't buy crap brands. Just keep 'em in a cool dry place away from light and check 'em every 3 years or so for signs of dye rot (which is easy to spot long before the disc becomes unreadable) and DVDs make a great long term storage medium for documents, pictures, videos, etc. And as a nice bonus nearly every PC on the planet can play back DVDs.I guess I'll have to bite the bullet and get a BD burner soon, does anybody here have exp with using BD for storage? How are they holding up?
As for TFA cost will end up wiping out tape, just not enough tapes and drives being sold, too many are opting for a NAS loaded with TBs of space and the large corps that traditionally bought tape are outsourcing to the cloud. Its a shame as LTO is long lasting as hell but the economies of scale just aren't there anymore.
I have to wonder if they didn't catch 'em using the same trick Vegas uses to catch cheaters, looking at the odds.
It never fails that cheaters get greedy and forget that if they tilt the odds too much in their favor a look at the stats over time will give them away. Sure somebody can have a lucky streak but not THAT lucky, but because they can insure a win they will, or only lose when there is nothing on the line...which again sticks out like a sore thumb.
I remember back in the late 90s when such hacks just started hitting shooters and it would never fail, look at the stats over time of a cheater compared to a really good non cheating player? The ones cheating would become obvious.They always seem to forget that no matter how good they are there will be the occasional "lucky shots" where somebody just happens to be in the right spot at the right time and catch them unaware but that doesn't happen with the cheaters, again they just get too damned greedy.
Nope, sorry, don't work. Why? No bullet markings on the road, no bits of pavement on Brown,which if he would have been getting down the rounds would have hit the asphalt. Ever seen what happens when a bullet hits pavement? I have as we had a drunk a couple years back shooting the road in front of the apt down the street trying to scare his GF. Even with him shooting a weaker gun than the 9mm that cops carry you still had marks on the road that even I could see.
Remember they hired Dr Michael Baden, of HBO Autopsy fame, to do the autopsy on Brown...you don't think he went over every crime scene photo with a magnifying glass? If he would have been down or nearly down there would have been transfer, the bullet holes likewise would be at a different angle, going from upper rear to lower front....stand up, point your finger like a gun at an object on the ground a couple feet in front of you...which way would the bullet go? From back high entrance to front lower exit...is that what we have here?
Don't take MY word for anything, look up the autopsy drawings, they have been online for awhile. Look at where each entrance and exit is and ask yourself "at what angle would Brown have to be at to get these?" and you will see that what I'm saying is correct, that the only way to get shots that line up would make brown too high to be standing and the wrong angle for him to be on the ground.
Mark my words when the jury starts saying what swayed them its gonna be the autopsy, there is simply no way for Wilson to fake that evidence.
Begging the question much? As for why its bad here is a helpful video that explains...enjoy!
According to the autopsy he was shot FROM ABOVE which means that either 1.- the cop got on top of the car and jumped so he could shoot a 6 foot plus robber in the top of the head or 2.- the robber was charging at the cop in a football tackle stance (which just FYI is consistent with every wound on Brown).
Now which do YOU think is more likely? That a cop with NO history of abuse jumped on top his car so he could pop a guy trying to surrender, or that a 6 foot tall guy who had just robbed a store charged at the cop in the hopes of taking him down before he could get arrested AGAIN while he was already awaiting court on another charge?
Oh and you might want to look up his grand jury testimony which several news sites have published as it is pretty enlightening and fits with the physical evidence. According to Wilson "he saw the suspect walking down the middle of the street and when he told him to move it to the sidewalk, Brown used an expletive and ignored him (told him to go fuck himself or fuck off from the sounds of it but the press won't publish the words used)" and that is when he noticed a fistload of cigars in Brown's hand and put two and two together about the recent robbery and called for backup, stopping in front of Brown. When he tried to get out of the cruiser he was first hit by the door and then punched (bruises on Wilson published from ER photos back this up) and at that point he "believed another punch would knock him out" so he reached for his gun which Brown them shoved his way into the driver's window and attempted to wrestle the gun away (the blood stains in the car as well as the secret witness recording immediately after the shooting back this part up) and it was only after he managed to get control of the gun that Brown ran for a bit. The only evidence we have to back up the last bit is the autopsy but considering what happened up to that point and Brown's history of strong arm crimes it does fit his criminal pattern. According to Wilson after he yelled halt Brown stopped with his hands in the air, only for him to lower them when he turned around and say something to the effect of "you are too big a pussy to shoot me" following which Brown charged in a football tackle. Wilson tried to use a stopping shot but he kept coming (again consistent with the wounds) and that is when he unloaded on him.
Yeah...sorry, if you published that word for word but simply made Brown's skin color white? Not a single word would have been said, just another criminal that thought their brute strength could beat a bullet. The only reason anybody said a word is because Brown was black, simple as that. I'm only shocked the press didn't start running photos of him in third grade like they did with Martin.
As someone with a scar on the back of his head from a cop that didn't like a "fucking hippie riding with a nigger" I'm all for busting cops who think they are above the law, that poor woman getting beaten on the side of the road is a perfect example of that but Brown? Nope, sorry, he was a strong arm robber that thought he was the big bad, which is why he walked down the middle of the street instead of doing what any sane crook would have done and beat a hasty exit from the scene of the crime. One can really only draw one conclusion from him walking down the dead center of the road right after a robbery and that he was itching for a fight. Well he got one and found out the hard way that brawn don't beat bullets.
What I love is they are saying "this is for the desktop" when reality can't be farther from the truth as multiple tests showed ZERO gains from systemd for desktop users and a LOT of downsides!
And I know about the Debian fork, sadly they have NO chance as the old guard will use their money and influence to crush them like a bug. We are talking about a corp in bed with a bunch of 3 letter agencies, the only way you defeat that is to 1.- Create such a stink so publicly they can't change the narrative and 2.- get some seriously deep pockets on your side so they can't just bury you with endless press articles against you. While I see they are trying #1 (and failing frankly, look at how few even knew about the voting, much less the incestuous relationships of those involved) I haven't seen any indication they have enough funds to keep even a dozen devs on for a single year, much less enough cash to fix all the shit systemd is about to take a steamer on while keeping any kind of buzz going.
So while I wish them nothing but luck I have the sinking feeling that the days of Linux being anything other than just another corporate OS are ending, it'll be Apple, Google/RH, and MSFT, and Debian and the rest will end up like the pile of Ubuntu forks are now, where they change a few window dressings but its just a Taco Bell distro, rearranging the same tired ingredients and pretending that makes it something new.
/sung to the tune of "Mighty Morphin Power Rangers"/
Social Justice Warriors! Deciding the truth based on progressive stack!
Social Justice Warriors! If you don't think like us we bring the attack!
Doesn't matter if you kill or steal, you aren't white so you're "keepin it real", and if you have a vag you can do no wrong, just believe like us and you can sing this song!
You can always try what my family is doing which is skipping the whole damned mess. I mean for the love of FSM now everybody is doing it on Thanksgiving day? DaFuq? I sat my family down and asked them a very simple question.....do we REALLY need more electronic crap? They took stock of all the TVs and laptops and desktops and tablets and phones we have and decided nope, not really.
So the only electronic thing being gotten this year is the youngest is getting an octocore because his quad has been getting unstable (and he hates having less than me and his big bro who both have X6), but since it was getting unstable I done let him have his early, got it for $109 3 weeks ago on a pre BF sale. The rest decided they'd rather have non BF stuff, books for mom, 10 pounds of Hazelnuts and Brazil nuts for dad ("They never put enough ^%*&^%*& decent nuts in the damned can!") and for the oldest? Dining gift cards so he can take one of the various women he dates out to eat.
So no more stupid Black Friday bullshit for us, the sock drawers are loaded full of electronics as it is!
You want ties to industry? How about cap and trade being written by the same geniuses that gave us credit default swaps? At the end of the day you can wave whatever flag you want because the only "solutions" being pushed are nothing but a reverse robin hood scam where the actual polluters get carbon "indulgences" while those that can't afford to offshore their wealth get royally fucked in the ass to benefit the 1%...surprise surprise, the rich getting richer by stealing what few cents out of each dollar they don't already hoard.
Its nothing but a case of "tighten your belt peasant to save teh earf!" being sold to ya by guys like Rev Al Gore who sips his wine while riding in a fleet of SUVs to his McMansion...but he is "green" because he pays himself carbon credits from his own company LOL! It just shows you how badly the greenies have been had, when a guy can take money from his left pocket and put it in his right and get credit (as well as a tax break) for being "carbon neutral" LOL!
IF you bought the 125w FX8350 (instead of the cheaper and similar performance 8300) and ran it side by side with the i5 you'd be looking at 18.9 years to break even, that is 18.9 years before the amount you spent on the i5 over the AMD will be used up in energy costs. The link is in my previous post complete with the math and I think you'll agree that its seriously doubtful you'll keep that Intel CPU long enough to ever break even much less save a single cent.
On the other hand if you use the money you save by going AMD into the system itself you will end up with a better rounded and higher performing system, just use the savings for a better SSD, more HDD space, hell considering the last I checked the i5 was nearly $140 more than the FX8300 you could use that to buy a 64Gb SSD boot AND a 1TB HDD for storage and STILL have money left in your pocket!
Oh and the USB3 works fine on the AMD and NONE, I repeat NONE of the CPUs or APUs from AMD are crippled, you can run Windows server from any of the socket AM1 APUs and you even have full hardware virtualization support in case you need to run a VM on your server. The AM1 APUs use just 25w under full load and with the 1.3GHz Sempron quad APU costing just $39 and the Asrock AM1 with 4 SATA 3 also $39 its the absolute cheapest way to set up a low power server. Give it a spin, I bet you'll like it.
You made a funny but for an HTPC? Its just too damned small, it limits the system too much.
IMNSHO as a system builder and VAR a much better choice would be something like the Sempron 3850 if you want a media tank and streaming box or the Athlon 5350 if you want something with a little more kick for tasks like transcoding your vids to your mobile devices. Pair it with this Asrock board and an Apex VCR style case and voila! A VERY capable HTPC based on the same APU used in the XB-One and PS4 that just sips power while being able to do pretty much any HTPC related task, even game as long as you stick to older games or lowered settings. this is one of my most popular builds,just slap a BD player into it and you have a box that looks nice in any media cabinet, can play any popular format with full hardware acceleration, and is quiet as a churchmouse.
those sticks are just too limited, most won't play local content, very few video/audio formats supported, its just too limited in function. Hell the above is flexible enough that when one of my customers had his sister's laptop die he lent her his office PC and while he waited for me to get the parts in to build her what she wanted he used his Athlon quad HTPC as his office computer and was quite happy with the performance. Oh and if you slap a couple of wireless controllers they make damned good emulator boxes, you can play everything from Atari 2600- PS1 on one of those, great for when you have friends or kids/grandkids over.
The NUC sucks,Look at the new AMD APUs as they have MUCH better graphics performance** as that is what you need in a media box. You can get the quad AM1 Athlon APU with the board for around $100 , just slap it in a VCR style case and you have a kicking HTPC, or if you want something closer to OOTB you can get a Zotac AMD quad micro for just $175. Personally I prefer the Athlon as not only do you get better options on the AM1 boards than either the NUC or the AMD super mini but you get a more powerful APU capable of transcoding if you need to convert some of your media before sticking it on your portable devices.
**.- Try looking up real world tests instead of benchmarks and you'll find the AMD chips are in reality in the single digits when compared with intel and in some cases like the FX8xxx chips (which can be had for less than $140) against the i5 it curbstomps it pretty badly. The reason why the benches say different is pretty easy to explain, intel bribes them to compile their benchmarks with the Intel Cripple Compiler. in some cases even that isn't enough for Intel as Cinebench was recently caught putting "If AMD slow down tests" in their benchmarking software to make Intel look better. Wanna guess where a VERY large portion of their advertising budget comes from? For examples of what happens when you don't use rigged benches see this video where an AMD 8350 goes up against an Intel 3850, a CPU which literally costs double what the 8350 does, and the 8350 wins damned near every test, or this one where a now 3 generations behind Phenom II X6 is placed against the midrange Intel and the difference is still under 5%. Oh and for those that'll say "ZOMFG AMD will wreck your power bill ZOMFG!" that is complete and total bullshit as to make up the difference in cost between an AMD and an Intel, even using the 125w AMD, would take you 18.9 years. if you OC the shit out of the AMD it would still take nearly 7 years, longer than anybody will likely keep a PC.
It won't matter as THEY ARE ALL DOOMED, at least in the USA...why? Because they ALL require plentiful bandwidth to the cloud and the ISPs are going with ever nastier data caps.
This is why I'm not worried about these premades competing with my HTPC business, because very customer so far that has tried it has come crawling back to me after they see their Internet bill LOL. With a real HTPC you can rip your own DVDs and BDs onto your media tank and use zero bandwidth, while these sticks will blow through a data cap like shit through a goose.
Sorry Intel but unless you plan on spending a couple hundred billion rolling out your own national ISP you can give it up, these things just won't have the bandwidth to make them any more than paperweights.
My grandfather taught me long ago that when someone tries to silence speech? You had damned well better start following the money, because it WILL be involved. But lately we've seen a LOT of places where if you don't jump on board? They do NOT debate, they sling insults and try to silence you. And wadda ya know? A LOT of that shit ends up being traced back to people cashing checks from 3 letter agencies.
Now out of the blue we suddenly have the guy that brought us the broken alpha crap that was Pulse shoving a critical subsystem out of the way for this sprawling monster that even supporters admit "needs work"...yet even the distros SUPPOSEDLY based on stability are tripping over themselves to take this? Why? They even admitted some basic functionality like letting you boot to a point where you can fix shit if it breaks is dicey! And anybody who doesn't want this, that even wants to debate it, is being banned or being told "take it or fuck off"...now does this SOUND like the normal conversations Linux devs have? Hell it sounds like Apple NOT Linux!
NOW follow the money...makes a HELL of a lot more sense as all the ones pushing like hell? All are getting money in 1 form or another from RH...so where does RH gets ITS money from? NSA,FBI,CIA,DoD, if the US government stopped buying RH tomorrow they would lose over 85% of their business overnight, it would literally demolish that company. ya wanna know how you know when you're on the right track? When those in the opposite camp have NO answer to this but to say "Oh you're just a conspiracy nut"...yeah said the same thing about the NSA intercepting phone calls before the AT&T whislteblower came out, didn't they? And isn't it funny how after Snowden leaked all their old tricks how suddenly this critical subsystem, which frankly is one of the most stable parts of Linux, hell even I didn't have any complaints about the init system and I'm the guy that came up with "the hairyfeet challenge" to show how broken the Linux update situation is, now all of a sudden the thing that nobody was bitching about is soooo terrible the ONLY choice is to hand the whole thing over to RH, really?
My grandfather was a wise man and his advice is just as good now as it was then, so when you see a concerted effort to stifle debate, to block speech and belittle those with an opposing opinion by labeling them "code words" meant to detract like troll, flamebait, nutter,, etc? FOLLOW THE MONEY as you can damned well be assured there is serious $$$ involved, otherwise why not simply debate?
Well when you start killing discussion? That should throw up a 50 foot RED FLAG because there is something DIRTY going on behind the scenes, otherwise why not simply fight them with logic?
More than 85% of RH's money is coming from 3 letter agencies, NSA,CIA,DoD,FBI, if the US gov stopped buying RH for their servers? Then RH as a company IS DEAD, this is a fact, you can read this on their SEC filings, its common knowledge. Now what OS is used for secure communications and even has releases based on giving the user maximum privacy? Linux...so lets look at this logically, if YOU worked for a 3 letter agency and wanted it compromised, how would you do it? Well the most obvious and easiest way would be to have a critical subsystem that all require be controlled by a company YOU can control in turn, yes? And having that critical software affect more and more critical systems would simply make it easier to not only break but give you a nice cover story since "Oh it wasn't X, it was a vulnerability in Y that COMPROMISED X that was the problem"...again this is just common sense.
So to have a company so tightly joined with the US gov pushing the living shit about this and doing their damnedest to silence critics? Yeah something smells rotten in Denmark, no different than how the most vocal proponents of TOR are connected to Radio Free Asia which is owned by DARPA. In this electronic society it really isn't hard to follow the money and when you have something being pushed waaay past where logic would dictate? Frankly the FIRST thing you should do is see who is signing the checks. After Snowden anything less is just being naive.
Correct me if I'm wrong but don't you have to be using the 32bit powerpoint to be affected by this? If so my users don't have to worry, switched them to 64bit a few years back.