Doesn't have a damned thing to do with Windows or binary files, it has to do with the fact that Debian has been made Red hat's bitch by way of ex RH and Ubuntu employees taking over the board. For those that want to know what systemd is REALLY about its about cloud computing, specifically RH is pushing cloud computing like mad and systemd is gonna end up being a "SVCHost" for Linux dedicated to managing cloud computers.
This is one time me and the FOSSies are actually on the same page, as just like windows 8 was forced from on high and gave the users a big fat greasy finger so too is systemd being pushed by corporate with exactly zero fucks given about what the end users want. Ironically despite all this "empower the user" talk Linux has always had this is one case where Windows users had more power thanks to the ability to vote with their dollars, thus getting Win 8 shitcanned in favor of a much saner and nicer Win 10. But this does not mean that all hope is lost in Linux land, it just means you are gonna have to organize and SCREAM BLOODY MURDER and refuse to take this bullshit. You especially have to organize all the volunteer coders and get them to walk away, because losing all that free labor and forcing Red Hat and friends to pay for every single dime's worth of work is the ONLY way most of you can hit 'em in the pocketbook. those of you that run non cloud based servers can of course tell them you will no longer use their products but considering how much time and money you have invested in your servers I really don't see that happening.
Finally you need a rally cry, something simple and catchy and on message to focus the narrative and rally the troops, a "fuck beta" for systemd if you will. And since old Hairy will ALWAYS stand for the users allow me to give you one as a show of solidarity in your plight. Its simple, concise, on message, and sums up in a single simple sentence WTF is wrong with systemd..
If you think that writing congress critters, who have a revolving door between the halls of power and the corps getting mad bank to invent and provide the tools to do this shit, is gonna get anything but a trite mealy mouthed "fuck off" letter ala what you get from the petition the government website? Then I have a bridge to nowhere you might be interested in.
Trying to do anything at this point is like trying to put out a building fire with a water bucket when more than half of it is ablaze, the simple fact is congress is just a stepping stone to get the cushy lobbyist job where they can bribe and live fat so they really don't have to give a rat's ass what YOU think, because even if you managed to kick them out they would just get rewarded for their ring kissing with a fat job and mad money. All you can do now is get every single penny you can out of the system and wait for the financial bubble to burst which will cause a crash that makes 1929 look like a flash crash.
Now when THAT day comes and the government can't buy any more voters, when the government checks are as worthless as 20 year old gubment cheese, and they can't get a single government to give them a single penny for a stack of dollar bills? Then and ONLY THEN can you actually change the system and hopefully replace it with a better one. But any attempts now, with a system so rotten from decades of rampant corruption, regulatory capture, and the selling out of the country to the 1% is doomed to failure because you are attempting to win a crooked game, it would be like saying if you work REAL hard then you can win your money back from that guy with the three card monty table on the corner...you can't, the game is rigged, those that do the rigging make the rules and can change them at any time.
Looks like YOU sir have absolutely no experience in dealing with customers as nothing will ruin your brand and piss people off quicker than a device that is RAM starved as hitting swap is like tying a boat anchor to your product, not to mention it will wear out the flash but quick. Dude its 2014, WTF you think you are gonna run on an HTML based OS with just 128Mb of RAM? Sheeeit even the stripped down Linux distros demand more than 128Mb these days and you are gonna try to run that with an OS that uses bloated as fuck HTML V5 for all its apps?
At the end of the day if you can't make a usable product? Don't go into business in that arena, simple as that. Hell they would be better off buying up the Android 2 smartphones that Straight Talk and the like give away for free than trying to put out such a crippled phone, as at least those have 512Mb of RAM!
When the whole "smart ads" thing first started getting buzz I decided to test it by running my netbox with zero ad blocking for a few months and I found something interesting (other than the fact that surfing without ABP for any length of time guarantees a malware infection of course) and that was this...these ads should be called "ads for shit you wanted last month".
You see on the very first day I looked for a netbook..and after that every.single.page. I got had netbooks on them, the same was true of SSDs and GPUs, it didn't matter that I never clicked once on any of these ads, didn't matter that in the case of the GPU I was merely looking for a driver, because once I had dared utter a word on some list that was it, that was ALL I got. Ironically the only ones that managed to score any sales from me were plain old "dumb" ads based on the page, ads along the lines of me being at a gaming site and there being a simple JPG ad that said "Hey did you know GOG is having a sale?" or the basic TXT ad on one site hat read "Tigerdirect has a TB HDD for $45".
So based on my research as well as talking to customers all these corps are spending a ton on ads that aren't doing shit because they fail to follow KISS. Keep the ads simple, non annoying, and simply base the ad on the page they are looking at and you will be MUCH more likely to get a sale than with the flashy crap almost never has monkey squat to do with what I am actually reading. If I am on a gaming review site show me ads for GAMES not women's sneakers...is that REALLY so hard to understand?
Frankly as cheap as RAM is there really is no excuse making a phone THAT limited when it comes to memory. From the sound of it the rest of the phone is okay but they might as well have put on broken screens by how much they crippled their phone. I mean if you are trying to make a dumbphone that only makes calls and texts? Then sure but this is supposed to be a SMARTphone and with that little amount of RAM it'll be lucky if it can even single task without hitting swap constantly. Dumb move, just a really dumb move.
Exactly. I have enjoyed some games that many considered truly terrible, "You Are Empty" springs to mind because while it wasn't anything new or revolutionary the Russian writers created a story that was as batshit as David Lynch movies and it had TWENTY FOOT TALL MUTANT ATTACK CHICKENS...seriously how could I not love a game that considered those a serious enemy type?
But when I score a game like that I make it clear it is not getting a good review because its some amazing game, instead its strictly for the cheesy goodness. Take a game like "Two Worlds", sure the gameplay is just a generic "hack and slash" just like every other Diablo clone...but the dialog, that dialog was fricking great! It was like a fifth grader had all these "old English" words like "pray" and "forsooth" and had NO fucking idea what they meant but said "Yeah that sounds all cool and hamlet and shit, lets use 'em!" and when combined with actors that sound like they come from a dinner theater in SD doing Macbeth? Priceless!
On the flipside you have GTA 4 which reviewers tripped over themselves to praise...Dafuq? That game is irritating as shit! Too damned many of the missions can only be gotten by kissing the correct ass and that involves hauling their stupid asses around and doing stupid mini-games to make their worthless ass happy...Why in the fuck am I taking a dope dealer out for dinner like I'm trying to bang him? Just give me the damned mission and STFU! Hell it was so bad there are fricking parody songs making fun of it, yet what did the majority of critics give it? 9s and 10s!
So give me real gamers ANY day of the week, I'd much rather hear "Its decent, just don't buy it for more than $5 because X/Y/Z makes it not worth more" than listen to the critics which seem more and more to just kiss the industry booty.
Uhhh...what is there to fix really? Those "positive" reviews? Well you look closer and its stuff like "This is a bad game but its worth a dollar for the cheese factor" or "If you want to MST3K a game with your friends this is good for that". If you want real reviews go to Metacritic or YouTube, Steam reviews are filled with snarky PC gamers that can enjoy some "so bad its good" cheese.
Da fuq? Dude I just pointed out the fucking POPE is STILL spouting that bullshit, WTF do they have to do for it to be from "the Vatican" for you? Does it require 3/4 of the bishops on the planet?
Like it or not the pope IS the church PERIOD, and if the pope is still trying to keep condoms from being handed out in a place being eaten alive by AIDS then he is an evil prick and should rightly be blamed for all the people that get infected thanks to no condoms, and that is that.
WTF are you babbling about? You DO know that NOBODY is forcing you to try an alpha build of Windows, yes? To steal a line from the FOSSies "Its free so you can't complain". If you don't like their conditions then DO NOT USE THE SOFTWARE, its as simple as that.
DING DING DING, we have a winnar! Its an ALPHA BUILD, made to see if 1.- The new design works, 2.- the new design helps or hinders the user, 3.- Most software works on this new build, 4.- The user is able to quickly and easily get things done.
I've been testing alpha Windows since Vista and this is pretty SOP, no different than how you can't disable error reporting and you are expected to fill in bug reports. If you want to use the bleeding edge and find out if the new design is worth your time? You agree to help them test out the design, no different than with any other alpha software, in fact the only difference is they aren't making you jump through hoops with NDAs and anybody is welcome to join.
This is why I'm installing it on my netbook, as I figure it'll be the perfect platform for testing the new OS and seeing if its better than Win 7 for my customers (as if it'll run well on an AMD Bobcat dual it should run well on pretty much everything built within the last decade) and in return for getting to test this for my customers I'll happily fill out bug reports and let MSFT see which software will run and which don't. Frankly as long as they HEED THE TESTERS AND DATA, which they did NOT do with Windows 8? Then I have NO problem with helping out, since it will help all of us get a better OS in the end.
Why is this marked troll? The Catholic clergy in that area as late as a couple years ago was saying that AIDs was being handed out in the condoms and it was a plot of whites. It was all over the news, caused a lot of scandal and was yet another black eye on the church. Hell last I checked the newest Pope is still spouting the "OMG condoms are teh devil!" company line, he is just being a hell of a lot more politically correct by using politician speak like "condoms aren't a cure for AIDS"..which of course is true but ignores the fact that condom use DOES cut down on HIV transmission by a very large amount.
But its not a troll to point out what the church in Africa was saying not that long ago, politically correct or not.
Please take your political correctness and kill yourself. make the world a better place...just kill yourself. Slit your wrists, suck on a tailpipe, find the nearest bridge and jump off it, the world would be better without you in it so for the good of humanity...kill yourself.
That is because the tech has matured to the point there really isn't anywhere to go, short of sticking the chips in your brain.
Look at the PC, we have gotten to the point that the cheapest Worst Buy special has more cycles and storage than the average u user will ever touch. Its like using a dragster to pick up milk so all they can do now is die shrinks and soon that angle will be gone. The same is true of tablets and phones, which are getting multicores and piles of RAM, soon it'll hit the battery wall (some would argue we already have) and with the same result, more cycles than Joe Normal can ever use.
It was easy to innovate when a HDD can't be lifted without a fricking crane, nowadays there just isn't anything not already being done.
Are you really THIS clueless about memes, or are you so damned uptight you call firemen "firepersons" because of your rampant love of political correctness?
Either way you can take your butthurt and shove it up your ass....which of course you would probably enjoy, not that there is anything wrong with that;-O
So...they get infected just like Windows does? Because at the shop the vast majority I see are either "user installs pirated shit, gets bug" and "Hey u want to see teh hot lezbos for free? Install 'Iz_not_Viruz_is_Codec.exe" so u can watch teh hot womens 4 free!" which it wouldn't surprise me is also being used for this attack....except you know replace lezbos with "oiled up muscle men";-)
That is why it is always better to use your own gear and while i don't know where you're at here you can get a wireless router for like $20, a wired only for around $10 so its not like its any great expense to do.
The nice thing about doing it through the router is you have better fine grained control, for example on his setup he can transfer pictures to the Win2K box for working on from any laptop or phone with WiFi but the access is strictly local, the Win2K unit has zero access to outside the LAN. You can also set it up so that ONLY a single port is allowed, or only traffic going a single direction, so if it were required he could set up a remote link to the Win2K box using a VPN and access it from the field without opening it up to the WWW.
Uhhh...nearly every router out there will let you set rules and set up devices which are not allowed to reach the outside, all you have to do is use 'em. For the record it was a $30 Trendnet so if I could set one up using that no name POS surely you can do so too?
And sorry if I didn't make it clear but that is the point of the VLAN, the 2K box can talk to the Win 7 box but CAN NOT reach the WWW, whereas the Win 7 box not only can reach the 2K but also the net.
Uhhh..so why not just use Paint Shop pro (the old version) and be done with it? I have a graphic artist customer that swears by the old Macromedia XRes so ya know what? HE USES XRES, I know, actually using what you like! Crazy huh?
But ya see that is why its so awesome today, because thanks to the truly insane amount of CPU power we can get VERY cheaply its trivial to just run a VM and stick with what you like! Hell don't want to bother with a VM you can pick up a C2D box (or if you want something small the new AM1 quads) for a little of nothing, slap it on a KVM switch and put it on a VLAN...tada! Now you can run Win2K or whatever OS floats your boat that your old version requires and still use a modern OS with just a push of a button, easy peasy!
So there really is no point using software you hate anymore, not with all the cheap computing power we have at our fingertips. Oh as for the XRes customer he is using an old Athlon X64 system I got a hold of and paired with Win2K and 2GB of RAM this makes a perfect platform for the circa 1998 XRes. With a $10 2 port KVM and a VLAN set up for the old 2K box on the router he already had this is a really dirt cheap way of keeping your favorite old software while being able to switch instantly between old and new.
Bimbo Newton Crosby, Nvidia has been getting a LOT of shit about how easy it is to flash the firmware to lie about the card and I am 100% with the users on this as there is ZERO way to tell what chip a graphics card is using without tearing the card apart, voiding any warranty, and possibly damaging the card in the process. After all if I hand you a card with a huge double heatsink and tell you its the latest card, the screencaps show GPU-Z showing its the latest card, how else are you gonna tell what it is without tearing off the sink and seeing what chip is underneath?
I do think its funny the author tries to frame it as a "freedum!" issue which I would argue it is, only its Nvidia trying to give its customers the freedom from being scammed!
Well if you had ALL VXD or ALL WDM? then you didn't run into the GDI bug so most likely you had all VXD drivers. you see what really doomed WinME was that Win2K had come out and it was using WDM and the OEMs already had XP beta and it too was WDM and if MSFT says it can use both why not just use these WDM drivers for the new stuff and use the old VXD for the older hardware we are still selling? Most folks don't realize most boards, especially back then, were this mishmash of hardware that could be as much as 5 years old, see the whole "Vista capable" debacle that came about because Intel still had a warehouse full of shitty 9xx chipsets they were trying to move. The 9xx were IRL a DX8 GPU that Intel used software to run parts of DX9 on the CPU, which just didn't work worth a piss in the first place and which tied a boat anchor to Vista, hence "Vista capable" that only ran Vista Basic non accelerated desktops.
On your Win9X the biggest offenders for having old drivers were the "winmodems" and the sound chips, the old Sounddesign and Realtek chips were used for ages, hell I have seen boards as late as 3 years ago with AC97 sound chips on them! So this is what bit WinME in the ass, the OEMs would mix and match VXD and WDM drivers and with a 16bit GDI already being severely memory constrained? Yeah it really didn't take much, just one even slightly leaky driver could cause the house of cards to come crashing down.
As far as Linux goes like you I wanted options but after 5 years of dealing with their bullshit? there is a REASON I call 'em FOSSies, like Moonies and Scientology the amount of logic disconnect and the sheer amount of fuckery they are willing to tolerate and hoops they are willing to jump JUST to support their belief system? Its fucking nuts. I mean we'd laugh our asses off if MSFT told us we had to blow away our OS every year and a half, or that you would have to change to a different OS and reload ALL your programs AND reset and reinstall ALL your software because some jackass changed a critical subsystem and now your hardware doesn't work, right? Yet both of these are considered completely "normal" behavior, I have even read articles by Linux "experts" advising new users to have their Home on a seperate partition so that when ubuntu or Mint or whomever shits on their drivers they can "easily swap" distros until they find one that works...of course then they get to spend hours reinstalling all their software and getting everything back the way they had it, but that is part of the "fun" of Linux, right?
As for Win 9? The rumor is Nadella is sick and tired of so many refusing to upgrade from WinXP and Win 7 so the rumor is he is gonna give it either free for everybody or free for those that bought win 8 and $20-$40 a pop for WinHome for everybody else, just to get XP off the radar. Now this is just a rumor but its coming from reliable sources like Mary Jo Foley whom have been on the money in the past and it also lines up with what Nadella has been saying about making Windows less about "one big purchase a decade" and more about selling add on services like SkyDrive and Office 365. Again this is rumor but makes sense, especially if Cortana (their version of Siri) and Bing are gonna be integrated the way Google integrates their search into Android. as someone who uses Bing this is fine with me and if integrates as smoothly as Google search does with Android I really don't have a problem with it.
Finally as for Linux numbers get ready to bust a gut, as it seems that the users are growing wise to their bullshit. From a high of 1.7% after ubuntu 9 and their big ad push their current figures worldwide? Drumroll...0.97%. that is right, they aren't even 1% anymore and are just 0.01% higher than "other" which is commonly accepted to be Win2K and Win98 put together LOL! How much did they gain when Win 8 pissed everybody off? 0.00%, that is right any change was so low as not to register. Now I don't know about you but if I were to give my product away for 20 years against a competitor that sold the
That is why I loved the NovaLogic games, thanks to Voxels you didn't get that "pop in" when you changed your view distance (like with sniping) that we saw in so many games back in the day. I never understood why their voxel tech didn't take off, they must have been dicks when it came to licensing or something as their games in the late 90s/early 00s looked a lot better IMHO than the other guys while running smooth on (what was then) not even a midrange system.
But as far as graphics goes...the games ALREADY have better looking graphics than we can really notice while playing so do we really need even more? Personally I think we have gone backward, with games like Far Cry and FEAR 1 having MUCH better AI and a better overall experience than todays games simply because everything has been sacrificed on the alter of graphics. How many games have YOU played that this summary is apt? "The graphics were amazing, gameplay blew chunks" because I have played too damned many that fit that description. Maybe I am weird but I'd rather have a game with Far Cry 1 or even no One Lives Forever 2 graphics that was FUN with a capital F than have another really pretty and boring as shit sandbox to play in. We have seen what that gets us, games where we get the "fun" of shuttling around our fat cousin to get drunk and get fatter...blech.
VXDs were.INI based, a hell of a lot like DOS "bare metal" drivers while WDM had a much more sane isolation driver model, in fact last I checked you could run XP WDM drivers on Win 7...try THAT with Linux and see how far you get! But trying to have bare metal drivers AND isolated drivers while dealing with the 16bit GDI memory state just overloaded the OS which eventually would cause a crash thanks to lack of memory for the desktop subsystem. Most folks don't know that all Win9X had a fatal GDI flaw where the GDI would run out of memory, no matter how much you had, because crucial parts of its subsystem were 16bit leftovers and THAT is what killed WinME, trying to fit two completely different driver models into a 16bit limited memory manager was...it was just too much.
As far as Linux? Give it up, because as Linus has a pulse it will NEVER get any better. I mean we'd laugh if Windows still ran with VXD drivers, right? Well Linus' driver model is sooooo old that VXD would be a step up! The simple fact is the "let the kernel devs handle it" worked back when ALL of Linux AND the drivers could fit on a floppy but when you have over 100,000 drivers AND new drivers in the thousands released every quarter AND major parts from the kernel on up in flux? Its easy enough to do basic math and see it doesn't stand a chance of being stable. This is why the "Hairyfeet Challenge" has stood for 8 years now, because Linux just can't update itself without the house of cards that is the drivers falls apart.
And the hilarious part? They claim you are an "anti FOSS shill" for daring to ask for functional drivers, and the best part is its NOT FOSS, as BSD? Has functional drivers, they simply are focused on servers so they don't have drivers for consumer hardware! But NO OTHER OS uses Linus's shit model, not BSD, not OSX, hell even OS fucking 2 has a more functional driver model than Linux!
Mark my words Windows 9 is gonna make Linux look like the POS that it is and gonna slaughter Linux on the desktop...I mean a Windows that is nearly 40% FASTER than Win 7 AND its gonna be less than $40 a pop, possibly even free? And you are right about hardware, I can slap Win 7 on a late model P4 with an IGP and GB of RAM and its fine, that exact same system on the supposedly "lightweight" Linux just crawls unless you use a Win98 looking DE like Blackbox. But you spend any time with Linux and you find out a good 90%+ of their claims? Total bullshit, classic circle of loon. As I go to sleep I'll be having my hexacore process a half a dozen videos AND convert a video to DVD and meanwhile just basic things that Windows has had since 2006 like hardware acceleration? Doesn't work, in fact just basic multitasking is a crapshoot so yeah, don't bother its not worth it.
What pisses me off about shareholders is the new scam all these vultures like Bain are using to absolutely destroy companies while squeezing every last dime out before leaving a trail of misery and unemployment, the "sell the land" scam.
For those that haven't heard of this scam here is the gist, raiders find a company that has some juicy property like Red Lobster or Olive Garden (hell possibly Dell, never looked at how many pieces of property they own) and then they buy enough shares to gain some control. They then force the company to split in two, one owns the lands while the second leases the land. The scum then sell off the land to their holding company, forcing the original company to use the money from the sale to pay them a dividend! So they get paid twice, first in the dividend and the second the high leasing fees they charge the original company for what WAS their own property. Then they just cash out their stock in the original company and bleed it dry with rental prices until they go bankrupt, lather rinse repeat.
So I don't blame Dell for getting out of the market as the market is so broken now that short term gains trumps all, even if it causes long term suicide to the company. BTW if you wanna know why the market is such a fucking mess you can blame Ronnie Raygun for forcing the retirement funds of the entire nation to be pumped into the market via 401K and 403B. Remember this next time somebody on the right says putting social security into the market would be a good thing.
Then we will get to see evolution in action as the stupid ones who raided the hospital to "rescue" their dying relatives from "bad white medicine" as the witch doctors called it, refuse to give up ritual washing of the bleeding sore covered dead, and generally refuse to listen to anything said by an outsider dies out and those smart enough to listen will survive.
I'm sorry but I have a real hard time feeling sympathy for those that act pants on head retarded and get themselves killed. Hell how many here know how this latest outbreak came about? Everybody from local governments to the Red Cross has been saying to the local population since the mid 1980s "Whatever you do DO NOT EAT BUSH MEAT,ESPECIALLY MONKEYS!!" so what did they find when they went looking for patient zero? A woman who has made a meal of bush meat, specifically monkey, and cut herself while chopping up monkey meat....I'm sorry but if you are THAT fucking stupid, that 30 years of warnings still don't work? Well maybe its time for some good old fashioned Darwinism to weed out the brainless so they can stop pissing in the gene pool.
I know it sounds heartless and cruel but to use a famed car analogy if I stick up 40 signs that say "If you step in front of trucks you will be maimed or killed" show you a video titled" Why stepping in front of trucks is bad" followed by handing you a pamphlet entitled "just say no to stepping in front of trucks" only to have you throw it in the trash, hand your friend a camera and go "Hi my name is Steve-o and this is stepping in front of trucks" and get yourself turned into a mangled mess of broken bones and screams why EXACTLY should I feel sorry for you? After all I did all i could to warn you of the danger, but if you simply refuse to listen what else can you do but let Darwin thin the herd?
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Doesn't have a damned thing to do with Windows or binary files, it has to do with the fact that Debian has been made Red hat's bitch by way of ex RH and Ubuntu employees taking over the board. For those that want to know what systemd is REALLY about its about cloud computing, specifically RH is pushing cloud computing like mad and systemd is gonna end up being a "SVCHost" for Linux dedicated to managing cloud computers.
This is one time me and the FOSSies are actually on the same page, as just like windows 8 was forced from on high and gave the users a big fat greasy finger so too is systemd being pushed by corporate with exactly zero fucks given about what the end users want. Ironically despite all this "empower the user" talk Linux has always had this is one case where Windows users had more power thanks to the ability to vote with their dollars, thus getting Win 8 shitcanned in favor of a much saner and nicer Win 10. But this does not mean that all hope is lost in Linux land, it just means you are gonna have to organize and SCREAM BLOODY MURDER and refuse to take this bullshit. You especially have to organize all the volunteer coders and get them to walk away, because losing all that free labor and forcing Red Hat and friends to pay for every single dime's worth of work is the ONLY way most of you can hit 'em in the pocketbook. those of you that run non cloud based servers can of course tell them you will no longer use their products but considering how much time and money you have invested in your servers I really don't see that happening.
Finally you need a rally cry, something simple and catchy and on message to focus the narrative and rally the troops, a "fuck beta" for systemd if you will. And since old Hairy will ALWAYS stand for the users allow me to give you one as a show of solidarity in your plight. Its simple, concise, on message, and sums up in a single simple sentence WTF is wrong with systemd..
SYSTEMD...Its the Metro of Linux!
If you think that writing congress critters, who have a revolving door between the halls of power and the corps getting mad bank to invent and provide the tools to do this shit, is gonna get anything but a trite mealy mouthed "fuck off" letter ala what you get from the petition the government website? Then I have a bridge to nowhere you might be interested in.
Trying to do anything at this point is like trying to put out a building fire with a water bucket when more than half of it is ablaze, the simple fact is congress is just a stepping stone to get the cushy lobbyist job where they can bribe and live fat so they really don't have to give a rat's ass what YOU think, because even if you managed to kick them out they would just get rewarded for their ring kissing with a fat job and mad money. All you can do now is get every single penny you can out of the system and wait for the financial bubble to burst which will cause a crash that makes 1929 look like a flash crash.
Now when THAT day comes and the government can't buy any more voters, when the government checks are as worthless as 20 year old gubment cheese, and they can't get a single government to give them a single penny for a stack of dollar bills? Then and ONLY THEN can you actually change the system and hopefully replace it with a better one. But any attempts now, with a system so rotten from decades of rampant corruption, regulatory capture, and the selling out of the country to the 1% is doomed to failure because you are attempting to win a crooked game, it would be like saying if you work REAL hard then you can win your money back from that guy with the three card monty table on the corner...you can't, the game is rigged, those that do the rigging make the rules and can change them at any time.
Looks like YOU sir have absolutely no experience in dealing with customers as nothing will ruin your brand and piss people off quicker than a device that is RAM starved as hitting swap is like tying a boat anchor to your product, not to mention it will wear out the flash but quick. Dude its 2014, WTF you think you are gonna run on an HTML based OS with just 128Mb of RAM? Sheeeit even the stripped down Linux distros demand more than 128Mb these days and you are gonna try to run that with an OS that uses bloated as fuck HTML V5 for all its apps?
At the end of the day if you can't make a usable product? Don't go into business in that arena, simple as that. Hell they would be better off buying up the Android 2 smartphones that Straight Talk and the like give away for free than trying to put out such a crippled phone, as at least those have 512Mb of RAM!
When the whole "smart ads" thing first started getting buzz I decided to test it by running my netbox with zero ad blocking for a few months and I found something interesting (other than the fact that surfing without ABP for any length of time guarantees a malware infection of course) and that was this...these ads should be called "ads for shit you wanted last month".
You see on the very first day I looked for a netbook..and after that every.single.page. I got had netbooks on them, the same was true of SSDs and GPUs, it didn't matter that I never clicked once on any of these ads, didn't matter that in the case of the GPU I was merely looking for a driver, because once I had dared utter a word on some list that was it, that was ALL I got. Ironically the only ones that managed to score any sales from me were plain old "dumb" ads based on the page, ads along the lines of me being at a gaming site and there being a simple JPG ad that said "Hey did you know GOG is having a sale?" or the basic TXT ad on one site hat read "Tigerdirect has a TB HDD for $45".
So based on my research as well as talking to customers all these corps are spending a ton on ads that aren't doing shit because they fail to follow KISS. Keep the ads simple, non annoying, and simply base the ad on the page they are looking at and you will be MUCH more likely to get a sale than with the flashy crap almost never has monkey squat to do with what I am actually reading. If I am on a gaming review site show me ads for GAMES not women's sneakers...is that REALLY so hard to understand?
Frankly as cheap as RAM is there really is no excuse making a phone THAT limited when it comes to memory. From the sound of it the rest of the phone is okay but they might as well have put on broken screens by how much they crippled their phone. I mean if you are trying to make a dumbphone that only makes calls and texts? Then sure but this is supposed to be a SMARTphone and with that little amount of RAM it'll be lucky if it can even single task without hitting swap constantly. Dumb move, just a really dumb move.
Exactly. I have enjoyed some games that many considered truly terrible, "You Are Empty" springs to mind because while it wasn't anything new or revolutionary the Russian writers created a story that was as batshit as David Lynch movies and it had TWENTY FOOT TALL MUTANT ATTACK CHICKENS...seriously how could I not love a game that considered those a serious enemy type?
But when I score a game like that I make it clear it is not getting a good review because its some amazing game, instead its strictly for the cheesy goodness. Take a game like "Two Worlds", sure the gameplay is just a generic "hack and slash" just like every other Diablo clone...but the dialog, that dialog was fricking great! It was like a fifth grader had all these "old English" words like "pray" and "forsooth" and had NO fucking idea what they meant but said "Yeah that sounds all cool and hamlet and shit, lets use 'em!" and when combined with actors that sound like they come from a dinner theater in SD doing Macbeth? Priceless!
On the flipside you have GTA 4 which reviewers tripped over themselves to praise...Dafuq? That game is irritating as shit! Too damned many of the missions can only be gotten by kissing the correct ass and that involves hauling their stupid asses around and doing stupid mini-games to make their worthless ass happy...Why in the fuck am I taking a dope dealer out for dinner like I'm trying to bang him? Just give me the damned mission and STFU! Hell it was so bad there are fricking parody songs making fun of it, yet what did the majority of critics give it? 9s and 10s!
So give me real gamers ANY day of the week, I'd much rather hear "Its decent, just don't buy it for more than $5 because X/Y/Z makes it not worth more" than listen to the critics which seem more and more to just kiss the industry booty.
Uhhh...what is there to fix really? Those "positive" reviews? Well you look closer and its stuff like "This is a bad game but its worth a dollar for the cheese factor" or "If you want to MST3K a game with your friends this is good for that". If you want real reviews go to Metacritic or YouTube, Steam reviews are filled with snarky PC gamers that can enjoy some "so bad its good" cheese.
Like it or not the pope IS the church PERIOD, and if the pope is still trying to keep condoms from being handed out in a place being eaten alive by AIDS then he is an evil prick and should rightly be blamed for all the people that get infected thanks to no condoms, and that is that.
WTF are you babbling about? You DO know that NOBODY is forcing you to try an alpha build of Windows, yes? To steal a line from the FOSSies "Its free so you can't complain". If you don't like their conditions then DO NOT USE THE SOFTWARE, its as simple as that.
DING DING DING, we have a winnar! Its an ALPHA BUILD, made to see if 1.- The new design works, 2.- the new design helps or hinders the user, 3.- Most software works on this new build, 4.- The user is able to quickly and easily get things done.
I've been testing alpha Windows since Vista and this is pretty SOP, no different than how you can't disable error reporting and you are expected to fill in bug reports. If you want to use the bleeding edge and find out if the new design is worth your time? You agree to help them test out the design, no different than with any other alpha software, in fact the only difference is they aren't making you jump through hoops with NDAs and anybody is welcome to join.
This is why I'm installing it on my netbook, as I figure it'll be the perfect platform for testing the new OS and seeing if its better than Win 7 for my customers (as if it'll run well on an AMD Bobcat dual it should run well on pretty much everything built within the last decade) and in return for getting to test this for my customers I'll happily fill out bug reports and let MSFT see which software will run and which don't. Frankly as long as they HEED THE TESTERS AND DATA, which they did NOT do with Windows 8? Then I have NO problem with helping out, since it will help all of us get a better OS in the end.
Why is this marked troll? The Catholic clergy in that area as late as a couple years ago was saying that AIDs was being handed out in the condoms and it was a plot of whites. It was all over the news, caused a lot of scandal and was yet another black eye on the church. Hell last I checked the newest Pope is still spouting the "OMG condoms are teh devil!" company line, he is just being a hell of a lot more politically correct by using politician speak like "condoms aren't a cure for AIDS"..which of course is true but ignores the fact that condom use DOES cut down on HIV transmission by a very large amount.
But its not a troll to point out what the church in Africa was saying not that long ago, politically correct or not.
Please take your political correctness and kill yourself. make the world a better place...just kill yourself. Slit your wrists, suck on a tailpipe, find the nearest bridge and jump off it, the world would be better without you in it so for the good of humanity...kill yourself.
That is because the tech has matured to the point there really isn't anywhere to go, short of sticking the chips in your brain.
Look at the PC, we have gotten to the point that the cheapest Worst Buy special has more cycles and storage than the average u user will ever touch. Its like using a dragster to pick up milk so all they can do now is die shrinks and soon that angle will be gone. The same is true of tablets and phones, which are getting multicores and piles of RAM, soon it'll hit the battery wall (some would argue we already have) and with the same result, more cycles than Joe Normal can ever use.
It was easy to innovate when a HDD can't be lifted without a fricking crane, nowadays there just isn't anything not already being done.
Either way you can take your butthurt and shove it up your ass....which of course you would probably enjoy, not that there is anything wrong with that ;-O
So...they get infected just like Windows does? Because at the shop the vast majority I see are either "user installs pirated shit, gets bug" and "Hey u want to see teh hot lezbos for free? Install 'Iz_not_Viruz_is_Codec.exe" so u can watch teh hot womens 4 free!" which it wouldn't surprise me is also being used for this attack....except you know replace lezbos with "oiled up muscle men" ;-)
That is why it is always better to use your own gear and while i don't know where you're at here you can get a wireless router for like $20, a wired only for around $10 so its not like its any great expense to do.
The nice thing about doing it through the router is you have better fine grained control, for example on his setup he can transfer pictures to the Win2K box for working on from any laptop or phone with WiFi but the access is strictly local, the Win2K unit has zero access to outside the LAN. You can also set it up so that ONLY a single port is allowed, or only traffic going a single direction, so if it were required he could set up a remote link to the Win2K box using a VPN and access it from the field without opening it up to the WWW.
And sorry if I didn't make it clear but that is the point of the VLAN, the 2K box can talk to the Win 7 box but CAN NOT reach the WWW, whereas the Win 7 box not only can reach the 2K but also the net.
Uhhh..so why not just use Paint Shop pro (the old version) and be done with it? I have a graphic artist customer that swears by the old Macromedia XRes so ya know what? HE USES XRES, I know, actually using what you like! Crazy huh?
But ya see that is why its so awesome today, because thanks to the truly insane amount of CPU power we can get VERY cheaply its trivial to just run a VM and stick with what you like! Hell don't want to bother with a VM you can pick up a C2D box (or if you want something small the new AM1 quads) for a little of nothing, slap it on a KVM switch and put it on a VLAN...tada! Now you can run Win2K or whatever OS floats your boat that your old version requires and still use a modern OS with just a push of a button, easy peasy!
So there really is no point using software you hate anymore, not with all the cheap computing power we have at our fingertips. Oh as for the XRes customer he is using an old Athlon X64 system I got a hold of and paired with Win2K and 2GB of RAM this makes a perfect platform for the circa 1998 XRes. With a $10 2 port KVM and a VLAN set up for the old 2K box on the router he already had this is a really dirt cheap way of keeping your favorite old software while being able to switch instantly between old and new.
Bimbo Newton Crosby, Nvidia has been getting a LOT of shit about how easy it is to flash the firmware to lie about the card and I am 100% with the users on this as there is ZERO way to tell what chip a graphics card is using without tearing the card apart, voiding any warranty, and possibly damaging the card in the process. After all if I hand you a card with a huge double heatsink and tell you its the latest card, the screencaps show GPU-Z showing its the latest card, how else are you gonna tell what it is without tearing off the sink and seeing what chip is underneath?
I do think its funny the author tries to frame it as a "freedum!" issue which I would argue it is, only its Nvidia trying to give its customers the freedom from being scammed!
Well if you had ALL VXD or ALL WDM? then you didn't run into the GDI bug so most likely you had all VXD drivers. you see what really doomed WinME was that Win2K had come out and it was using WDM and the OEMs already had XP beta and it too was WDM and if MSFT says it can use both why not just use these WDM drivers for the new stuff and use the old VXD for the older hardware we are still selling? Most folks don't realize most boards, especially back then, were this mishmash of hardware that could be as much as 5 years old, see the whole "Vista capable" debacle that came about because Intel still had a warehouse full of shitty 9xx chipsets they were trying to move. The 9xx were IRL a DX8 GPU that Intel used software to run parts of DX9 on the CPU, which just didn't work worth a piss in the first place and which tied a boat anchor to Vista, hence "Vista capable" that only ran Vista Basic non accelerated desktops.
On your Win9X the biggest offenders for having old drivers were the "winmodems" and the sound chips, the old Sounddesign and Realtek chips were used for ages, hell I have seen boards as late as 3 years ago with AC97 sound chips on them! So this is what bit WinME in the ass, the OEMs would mix and match VXD and WDM drivers and with a 16bit GDI already being severely memory constrained? Yeah it really didn't take much, just one even slightly leaky driver could cause the house of cards to come crashing down.
As far as Linux goes like you I wanted options but after 5 years of dealing with their bullshit? there is a REASON I call 'em FOSSies, like Moonies and Scientology the amount of logic disconnect and the sheer amount of fuckery they are willing to tolerate and hoops they are willing to jump JUST to support their belief system? Its fucking nuts. I mean we'd laugh our asses off if MSFT told us we had to blow away our OS every year and a half, or that you would have to change to a different OS and reload ALL your programs AND reset and reinstall ALL your software because some jackass changed a critical subsystem and now your hardware doesn't work, right? Yet both of these are considered completely "normal" behavior, I have even read articles by Linux "experts" advising new users to have their Home on a seperate partition so that when ubuntu or Mint or whomever shits on their drivers they can "easily swap" distros until they find one that works...of course then they get to spend hours reinstalling all their software and getting everything back the way they had it, but that is part of the "fun" of Linux, right?
As for Win 9? The rumor is Nadella is sick and tired of so many refusing to upgrade from WinXP and Win 7 so the rumor is he is gonna give it either free for everybody or free for those that bought win 8 and $20-$40 a pop for WinHome for everybody else, just to get XP off the radar. Now this is just a rumor but its coming from reliable sources like Mary Jo Foley whom have been on the money in the past and it also lines up with what Nadella has been saying about making Windows less about "one big purchase a decade" and more about selling add on services like SkyDrive and Office 365. Again this is rumor but makes sense, especially if Cortana (their version of Siri) and Bing are gonna be integrated the way Google integrates their search into Android. as someone who uses Bing this is fine with me and if integrates as smoothly as Google search does with Android I really don't have a problem with it.
Finally as for Linux numbers get ready to bust a gut, as it seems that the users are growing wise to their bullshit. From a high of 1.7% after ubuntu 9 and their big ad push their current figures worldwide? Drumroll...0.97%. that is right, they aren't even 1% anymore and are just 0.01% higher than "other" which is commonly accepted to be Win2K and Win98 put together LOL! How much did they gain when Win 8 pissed everybody off? 0.00%, that is right any change was so low as not to register. Now I don't know about you but if I were to give my product away for 20 years against a competitor that sold the
That is why I loved the NovaLogic games, thanks to Voxels you didn't get that "pop in" when you changed your view distance (like with sniping) that we saw in so many games back in the day. I never understood why their voxel tech didn't take off, they must have been dicks when it came to licensing or something as their games in the late 90s/early 00s looked a lot better IMHO than the other guys while running smooth on (what was then) not even a midrange system.
But as far as graphics goes...the games ALREADY have better looking graphics than we can really notice while playing so do we really need even more? Personally I think we have gone backward, with games like Far Cry and FEAR 1 having MUCH better AI and a better overall experience than todays games simply because everything has been sacrificed on the alter of graphics. How many games have YOU played that this summary is apt? "The graphics were amazing, gameplay blew chunks" because I have played too damned many that fit that description. Maybe I am weird but I'd rather have a game with Far Cry 1 or even no One Lives Forever 2 graphics that was FUN with a capital F than have another really pretty and boring as shit sandbox to play in. We have seen what that gets us, games where we get the "fun" of shuttling around our fat cousin to get drunk and get fatter...blech.
after all Cygnus Rocks!
VXDs were .INI based, a hell of a lot like DOS "bare metal" drivers while WDM had a much more sane isolation driver model, in fact last I checked you could run XP WDM drivers on Win 7...try THAT with Linux and see how far you get! But trying to have bare metal drivers AND isolated drivers while dealing with the 16bit GDI memory state just overloaded the OS which eventually would cause a crash thanks to lack of memory for the desktop subsystem. Most folks don't know that all Win9X had a fatal GDI flaw where the GDI would run out of memory, no matter how much you had, because crucial parts of its subsystem were 16bit leftovers and THAT is what killed WinME, trying to fit two completely different driver models into a 16bit limited memory manager was...it was just too much.
As far as Linux? Give it up, because as Linus has a pulse it will NEVER get any better. I mean we'd laugh if Windows still ran with VXD drivers, right? Well Linus' driver model is sooooo old that VXD would be a step up! The simple fact is the "let the kernel devs handle it" worked back when ALL of Linux AND the drivers could fit on a floppy but when you have over 100,000 drivers AND new drivers in the thousands released every quarter AND major parts from the kernel on up in flux? Its easy enough to do basic math and see it doesn't stand a chance of being stable. This is why the "Hairyfeet Challenge" has stood for 8 years now, because Linux just can't update itself without the house of cards that is the drivers falls apart.
And the hilarious part? They claim you are an "anti FOSS shill" for daring to ask for functional drivers, and the best part is its NOT FOSS, as BSD? Has functional drivers, they simply are focused on servers so they don't have drivers for consumer hardware! But NO OTHER OS uses Linus's shit model, not BSD, not OSX, hell even OS fucking 2 has a more functional driver model than Linux!
Mark my words Windows 9 is gonna make Linux look like the POS that it is and gonna slaughter Linux on the desktop...I mean a Windows that is nearly 40% FASTER than Win 7 AND its gonna be less than $40 a pop, possibly even free? And you are right about hardware, I can slap Win 7 on a late model P4 with an IGP and GB of RAM and its fine, that exact same system on the supposedly "lightweight" Linux just crawls unless you use a Win98 looking DE like Blackbox. But you spend any time with Linux and you find out a good 90%+ of their claims? Total bullshit, classic circle of loon. As I go to sleep I'll be having my hexacore process a half a dozen videos AND convert a video to DVD and meanwhile just basic things that Windows has had since 2006 like hardware acceleration? Doesn't work, in fact just basic multitasking is a crapshoot so yeah, don't bother its not worth it.
What pisses me off about shareholders is the new scam all these vultures like Bain are using to absolutely destroy companies while squeezing every last dime out before leaving a trail of misery and unemployment, the "sell the land" scam.
For those that haven't heard of this scam here is the gist, raiders find a company that has some juicy property like Red Lobster or Olive Garden (hell possibly Dell, never looked at how many pieces of property they own) and then they buy enough shares to gain some control. They then force the company to split in two, one owns the lands while the second leases the land. The scum then sell off the land to their holding company, forcing the original company to use the money from the sale to pay them a dividend! So they get paid twice, first in the dividend and the second the high leasing fees they charge the original company for what WAS their own property. Then they just cash out their stock in the original company and bleed it dry with rental prices until they go bankrupt, lather rinse repeat.
So I don't blame Dell for getting out of the market as the market is so broken now that short term gains trumps all, even if it causes long term suicide to the company. BTW if you wanna know why the market is such a fucking mess you can blame Ronnie Raygun for forcing the retirement funds of the entire nation to be pumped into the market via 401K and 403B. Remember this next time somebody on the right says putting social security into the market would be a good thing.
Then we will get to see evolution in action as the stupid ones who raided the hospital to "rescue" their dying relatives from "bad white medicine" as the witch doctors called it, refuse to give up ritual washing of the bleeding sore covered dead, and generally refuse to listen to anything said by an outsider dies out and those smart enough to listen will survive.
I'm sorry but I have a real hard time feeling sympathy for those that act pants on head retarded and get themselves killed. Hell how many here know how this latest outbreak came about? Everybody from local governments to the Red Cross has been saying to the local population since the mid 1980s "Whatever you do DO NOT EAT BUSH MEAT,ESPECIALLY MONKEYS!!" so what did they find when they went looking for patient zero? A woman who has made a meal of bush meat, specifically monkey, and cut herself while chopping up monkey meat....I'm sorry but if you are THAT fucking stupid, that 30 years of warnings still don't work? Well maybe its time for some good old fashioned Darwinism to weed out the brainless so they can stop pissing in the gene pool.
I know it sounds heartless and cruel but to use a famed car analogy if I stick up 40 signs that say "If you step in front of trucks you will be maimed or killed" show you a video titled" Why stepping in front of trucks is bad" followed by handing you a pamphlet entitled "just say no to stepping in front of trucks" only to have you throw it in the trash, hand your friend a camera and go "Hi my name is Steve-o and this is stepping in front of trucks" and get yourself turned into a mangled mess of broken bones and screams why EXACTLY should I feel sorry for you? After all I did all i could to warn you of the danger, but if you simply refuse to listen what else can you do but let Darwin thin the herd?