How EXACTLY is some spook knowing I like ancient arches "dangerous" to me? Cuz I really want to hear this, it ought to be some grade A logic hoop jumping. What are they gonna do, point at me and scream "NEERRRRDDD!"? OMG, the NSA knows I like old CPUs and bad 70s and 80s TV, why my life is ruined!...Oh wait everybody already knows that.
And as far as a MITM? I have my browser locked down with Ublock AND Privacy Badger, the DNS automatically blacklists malware addresses (thx Comodo DNS, you work great) and I can literally push one button and have it restored to a previous state, oh and now everything but my gaming box is running Zorin OS and the only thing the gaming box has is Steam so...yeah GLWT.
Meanwhile many of the old sites I go to haven't changed in 20 years, haven't gotten any malware in said 20 years, hell they don't even support the level of Javascript required to spread modern browser based junk so...yeah I smell security karaoke. Oh and 1 final note...considering GOOG got its start up funding in part from the NSA? Frankly I trust anything GOOG does about as far as I can throw their server farm, 5 will get you 10 there is some way in this that will let them increase their spying, because lets face it that is all they've really been up to the past few years, seeing how much data they can slurp and resell.
Sounds EXACTLY what we had in the early 00s with IE...and we all remember what a clusterfuck that turned out to be. Protip: Having only ONE corp control the way sites are rendered on the net? Is a BAD THING because if its one thing we should all know by now is that ALL of these corps are run by sociopath douchenozzles that will happily tilt the scales to give themselves a bigger slice of the pie.
Maybe its about time we start talking about slamming GOOG with an antitrust and hopefully break them up? Because APPL and MSFT don't seem to have enough of the pie to be a real threat but with GOOG? Starting to look a little scary,little too much like MSFT of the late 90s.
Not just that but the whole "HTTPS equals security" is a fundamentally flawed concept because not only as you point out the CA system is a mess but there are so damned many sites where it makes ZERO sense to have it encrypted in the first place!
I mean is there a reason I should give a single flying flipping fuck if someone knows I'm looking at a simple website serving only.txt and.jpg of ancient CPUs designs like 8088 and AMD K2? Or the bazillion other websites that again only serve static.txt and.jpg images that haven't be updated in forever (and probably won't be) that were made before the whole HTTPS kick? The only excuse I've heard is "it keeps "teh gubmint" from listening in"...but they are in the backbone so I really don't see that making a diddly dick of difference and do I REALLY need to give a shit if some damn spook knows I like looking at ancient tech on some website made when Geocities was a thing?
Finally with the CAs seeming to get pwned at least a couple times a year I don't even know if this should count as security theater anymore, maybe security karaoke? As in "pretends to be security but is about as good as your average barmaid trying to sing Patsy Kline on karaoke night?". So unless this is a way for GOOG to slurp down more data than a drunk at a free mini-bar (which really wouldn't surprise me) I'm really not seeing a big selling point for any of this, hell especially not from GOOG who just got who knows how many users pwned with their GOOG+ fiasco...whats the upside of this whole mess again?
I don't know what kind of drugs you were on (maybe coke since you must have been rich) but the PS1 came out in 1994...when a CD-ROM cost a couple hundred bucks. Add in the Sopundblaster and the GPU and you were looking at over a grand to do what the $300 PS1 did...oh and don't forget you will have to shitcan that PC and start over next year as that was the height of the MHz wars so that top o' the line 200mhz Pentium you got in 94 was a dinosaur in 95 because chips were coming out that were twice the clock.
Uhhh that isn't the point, its the point they made it default without asking. Or do you support MSFT constantly making Edge the default browser after updates? After all it too is easy enough to turn off, doesn't stop it from being annoying as hell.
Hell Gmail is getting so damned irritating with its constant UI changes and niggling irritants I've started using my Outlook address again, at least there the UI seems to stay the same for more than a week at a time and the changes seem to be under the hood stuff like faster load times and making it work better with Android and Apple, not annoying Clippy wannabe crap like this "Smart" compose that I swear is so bad I have to wonder if someone at Google is just trolling.
It wasn't the alt-right that said discriminating against Asians was okay in hiring and college entrance, wasn't the alt-right pushing racist shit like the BBC's "no whites" policy, wasn't the alt-right filling the senate chamber with pink haired tumblerinas going "REEE!" over Kavanaugh despite not a single person Ford said could back up her story knew WTF she was talking about...nope sorry that was all the "new left" which frankly is the most vile bunch of racist sexist dirtbags I've seen this side of a Klan rally.
So I'm sorry friend the alt-right doesn't have to do or say shit, your own bunch has become so fucking TOXIC that frankly ANY other group looks completely reasonable by default, which BTW is why Trump is gonna win in 2020, all he has to do is show a vid montage of tumblerinas going "REEE!" and showing Trump Derangement Syndrome and he will look like the most reasonable person on the planet.
And the "consoles" are just gonna be AMD PCs running mid level at best APUs...got it.
Remember the days when you got a console despite PCs being more powerful as the consoles had exotic hardware and ran bare metal so they could do more with said hardware? The NES could do color palettes PCs could only dream of on its launch, Genesis had that great sound chip, SNES had Mode 7, the PS1 was better at doing 3D than all but the most high end PCs of the time...sigh, those were the days.
I guess I got out of consoles at the right time, right when they got rid of the original Xbox (man those were great for modding, made awesome HTPCs) because all I'm seeing from the consoles these days is DRMed all to fuck PCs (and with the Switch smartphones) and the one saving grace they really had over PCs, how long they were supported with triple A titles, looks like its gonna be going by the wayside as the corps come up with new models every other year.
At least with PCs I can just add a part here, a part there and it'll cost a hell of a lot less than replacing a $400+ console every other year (hell you can pair an FX-8350 or second gen I5 from 2012 with a GTX 1060 or RX570 and play damn near every current title in 1080P at 60FPS) and now with Nintendo jumping on the "every other year" bandwagon...what exactly is the selling point for these consoles?
Oh Noes! You should get on the convention circuit, many of us still love ya from the 80s...or even better get a hold of Jan Michael Vincent and you can do an "old guys team up" flick like Badass! JMV could say "engage the turbo" and you could say "I'm getting too old for this shit", it would be great!
We should get together and hammer out a script, call it something like "Greywolf and Hawke" where the government bring you both out of retirement for one last great mission...I see a 3 picture deal AND a toy line, we could tap into that 80s nostalgia, it'd be fabulous! Hey it worked for Transformers, why not you? Lets get on this!
Because the left went from "everyone should be judged not by the color of their skin but by the content of their character" to "Die CIS scum"?
The new left is just as racist and sexist as anything out of the 1940s, the only difference is who the target of the racist and sexist bile is being directed at. Before it was "gays and lesbians should be treated like people and be left alone" and now its "if a lesbian won't suck cock they are a bigot cuz the owner of that cock says its a lesbian cock". Before it was "everyone of every color should be given equal treatment and equal opportunity to succeed" and now its the soft bigotry of low expectations and its okay to discriminate against Asians cuz...well I guess they figure Asians are just too smart for their own good and make the blacks look bad?
But that is what happens when you go from "live and let live" to "do as I say or else" and why more and more classical liberals like myself (voted straight D or G for over 30 years) are going "ya know...I really don't agree with 90% of what the right stands for...but at least they ain't completely whack-a-doodle batshit". Its sad really, you'd think they'd tone it down while Trump was in office so they would look sane by comparison but...nope doubling down on the whack-a-doodle. It makes me dread the 2020 election, might as well be the Mad Hatter VS the March Hare and the people have to try to figure out which of the two is less mad.
This is from the NYT, the same bunch that called the deputy AG a liar and said he was planning a coup by wearing a wire and some convoluted shit about invoking the 25th....yeah until I see confirmation from some site that isn't infected with Trump Derangement Syndrome? Honestly I wouldn't trust the NYT to tell me what the weather was outside their own office unless they could spin it to be Trump's fault.
Uhhh except any lawyer worth his salt is gonna point out the FSF now demands copyrights be turned over to them and RMS added such clauses to GPL V3 precisely BECAUSE he realized he fucked up and left copyrights OUT of GPL V2 and since there are no express language that says "you must give copyrights to the group you are giving the code to" then those copyrights will be still owned by the author.
So unless its a work for hire (in which case the one who did the hiring owns it) USA case law is pretty clear that "when in doubt copyright belongs to the author" which is again the whole reason RMS changed his tune WRT copyright and the FSF. If the courts treat software copyrights as equal to other copyrights (which we've seen no reason they would not) then we have plenty of precedent from bands and record labels trying to steal songs to know how the courts tend to go with these cases and its "when in doubt the author retains copyright" so I'd say that when combined with the actions of RMS wrt GPL V3 means they have a decent case.
Insightful? Really mods? While you are throwing insults you MIGHT want to read the festering SJW shitshow they are trying to shove on Linux, which is racist and sexist as fuck with an explicit stated goal to get rid of meritoracy and instead base contributions on how high you rank in the Oppression Olympics...yeah because developing extremely complex kernel code should be based on what your skin color is and whether you are a hufflepuff (no shit the one heading this bunch of whack-a-doodles calls herself a hufflepuff) not whether you can ACTUALLY WRITE GOOD FUCKING CODE.
And ya wonder why more and more are looking at the SJW movement and the regressives and going "Yeah can't stand the right....but at least they aren't batshit like these nutters, think I'll switch". I mean for fucks sake who gives a single flying flipping fuck (other than regressives because ALL they care about is being racist sexist fucks) what color someone writing KERNEL CODE is? Torvalds has certainly never given a shit, he treats ALL who act like morons as moronic no matter what color they were and only gave a shit about the quality of the code, not about whether they are a "protected class" they needed to be coddled and infantilized (cuz never forget the regressives are all about soft bigotry of low expectations) because that is the nice thing about meritoracy, cream rises to the top, shit gets flushed like it should.
Be be sure to screaming "INCELS" and "Muh FEE FEES!" at the top of your lungs and call everyone an "IST!", because I'm sure designing an OS based on promoting skin color and how many adjectives one can add to their choices in who to fuck will make a really quality product...yeah and my mama was a Kaiju and my name is Godzilla.
I believe what you are looking for is the Asus ROG Crosshair VI Extreme, just FYI. Its a nice board, will take up to 64Gb of your choice of ECC or regular RAM so it can be a gamer rig or a workstation, your call.
No because then you get what we have now with every media bunch starting their own streaming service, more and more money spent chasing fewer and fewer customers as people get tired of the restrictions and just tune out. this might work in smaller markets where there is only one movie house but in larger cities where you can have several companies owning theaters? Its just gonna piss people off
That is why the MP model worked so well in San Fran, they went out and made deals with pretty much all the theaters and then the customer didn't have to give a shit if the movie they wanted to see was playing at theater X or only at theater Y, they just went to the most convenient location that was showing what they wanted and that was that.
This is why I think most of the ones being put out by the Movie chains themselves will end up being quietly dropped in a few years and why most streaming services will end up going tits up, its really REALLY easy to run off the customers simply with slight increases in aggravation. They find the show they want to watch isn't being shown by the chain anywhere close to them a couple times? They are gonna say "why am I wasting money on this if I can't see what I want?" and they are gonna cancel, same as I figure Netflix and Amazon will end up ruling streaming with original shows while everybody else ends up fucked. It really doesn't take much to piss customers off when the entire purpose of your service is to make things more convenient and you have to remember the kind of folks that buy into such services are a little more "into" movies and shows that Joe Average who just watches the latest tentpoles so they are a lot easier to tick off.
Actually MoviePass? If you look at its history it started out making a modest profit but its a classic case of because something worked LOCALLY does NOT mean it would work nationwide.
MoviePass originally started out in San Francisco where with the sky high costs of...well frankly being in San Fran at all, made a lot of movie theaters seriously hurt for butts in seats. The guys that started MP noticed this and made deals with several local theaters to offer them deeply discounted seats because...well having SOME money is better than NO money and it costs the theater the same to show the movie to 10 people or 100 and the duo had a reasonable price for the service, closer to what Amazon Prime costs. These two factors made them a modest if not "VC worthy" profit.
But then came a new CEO who thought he could "pull an Amazon" and went nationwide with NO deals with the theaters AND at a price so low that even if they had the same deal the original duo had (who IIRC wisely cashed out when they heard the "new business plan") would never make a red cent and...yeah surprise surprise dumb business plan? Is dumb.
The sad part is if they kept the original model and simply expanded to other cities with high costs of living and a glut of movie theaters? They could have had a modestly successful little franchise, but that model simply wouldn't work in places where theaters have no issue getting customers.
Somebody at Google said "hey, we could abuse our power for good!" and management came back saying "We don't see how its gonna increase our profits or power, so we're not doing it", and that was the end of it.....FTFY.
Dude the OS is dumping highly sensitive data in the equivalent of a.txt file....like I said they WANT to slurp all the data like Google but just as MSFT made for a shitty Apple clone they now make for a shitty Google clone.
BTW look up "Windows 10 vulnerability" to see that yeah their security is going downhill, its just not being reported nearly as much as the press are busy with their iPhones and Android tablets and really no longer give a fuck about has been MSFT. Ever since they went rolling release they have garnered such a bad rep they would basically need a Code Red level hack for anybody to give the slightest of fucks about MSFT, the expectations from that company are so damned low they...well they are looked at as about as quality as your average shitty AAA game developer now, a buggy POS is pretty much expected.
Frankly their new slogan should be "Microsoft....All of the bad practices of Apple and Google and none of the fashion taste or engineering skill"
Windows on tablets sucks and security has become a punchline under Nutella, now here is Holly with the forecast...."the sun will come up tomorrow, back to you Chuck".
I mean is ANYBODY at this point surprised? Really? The first thing Nutella did when he took over was fire the QA and testing teams and make the users the beta testers (because that worked SOOO well for the games industry) and what have we seen from Redmond ever since? They can't put out a rolling release without breaking so many pieces of common hardware and software that its now more buggy than a Linux alpha build, security is a damned joke, and now we find surprise surprise they are storing sensitive info in a fricking.DAT file like its 1996...sigh.
I told ya you'd end up missing the Sweaty Monkey, at least all he did was try to steal Apple's "make it all pretty and shit" but that crap was easily stripped out and it was still a solid OS underneath the tacky paint, under Nutella? Its a clusterfuck, its all of Google's bad habits without any of their engineering skills.
LOL insightful? Really mods? A mummified turd of Richard Nixon could have beaten HRC! Lets see what the public knew about her before the election...
1.- Rigged the primary to keep the more electable candidate out, 2.- Interfered in the GOP primary by using her crony media connections to push Trump, 3.- Made secret deals with the major banks to fuck the American people, 4.- Was running her office as a "pay to play" by taking HUGE checks from foreign governments to her foundation, 5.- Smashed her phones with a fucking hammer to hinder a federal investigation, 6.- ran an email server in her shitter to skirt federal data retention laws, 7.- Wiped said server with a DOD data wipe tool to again hinder a federal investigation, oh and lets not forget 8.- Obviously covered up significant health issues (most likely brain damage) as she was caught on camera multiple times collapsing, falling,and being unable to give a simple speech without literally struggling to breathe.
Sorry the left gave up ANY AND ALL pretense of having ANY morals at all when they didn't call for her ass to be thrown in prison. If a first year intern would have done HALF the shit she pulled? They would be doing 10-20 and YOU KNOW THIS, you simply did not give a shit because she had a D in front of her name despite the Clintons being the most crony capitalist bunch of DINOs this country has ever seen.
So yeah the American people elected Trump, you ran a morally bankrupt crony capitalist CRIMINAL and expected people to hold their nose and vote for her cuz "its her turn" like the POTUS was her birthright...the corpse of John Gotti would have beaten her by a landslide as frankly he would have been the more honest candidate!
Uhhh yeah about that, Google was given start up funding by the NSA, so sorry but horseshit. In fact if you look at most of the now "too big to fail" corps like GOOG,FB,APPL, etc you'll find government funding or sweetheart deals during their early phases so..."private" business my ass, unless crony capitalism is a free market I call horseshit.
Nice to see I'm not the only one looking at my watch....to see if we have somehow been transported back to 1993!
For Pete's sake MSFT even the old cheapo towers we keep for "Kid's first PC" at the shop have 500Gb drives in them and even the shittiest "Walmart Special"? Comes with a Tb, most with at least 2...who in the hell is running low on disk space these days?
If you want to fix something on your OS how about fixing how much CPU and network bandwidth the damn thing sucks, how about that? I ended up switching to Zorin OS on my laptop and my netbook because anything newer than 7 has so damned much background crap constantly churning on a default install it was dragging the entire system down and your Windows 10 Mistake Edition...err I mean "Home" even made my octocore feel like it was running in second gear and that thing has 16gb of RAM and an SSD! It was so bad I tossed the Win 10 Home disc and just slapped on 8.1 with Classicshell as at last that OS is stable and actually snappy, but your "big idea" is to suck even MOAR bandwidth and dump moar shit on your cloud to clog my network so you can do more dataminging? For fucks sake MSFT!
BTW is it too soon to say "told ya so"? Because I said when they got rid of the Sweaty Monkey (TM) that we would end up missing the Ballmernator because while he was a dumbass of epic scale at least all he wanted to do was make a Windows version of everything Apple did 3 years ago while Nutella was gonna ape the worst parts of Google without any of the good parts and I think we can safely say now that...yup, all the spying and datamining of Google, NONE of the stability, ease of use, or efficiency.
MSFT of 2018 reminds me of those cheap ass phones you see on Aliexpress, trying to ape what Google and Apple has done in the past but even looking at the home screen it just looks cheap, shitty, and sad.
Who says the cores have to be bad? Those of us that owned Phenom and Athlon with cores unlocked could tell ya a LOT of the chips they were selling as X2s and X3s were perfectly working quads that just had cores disabled to meet a contract. Hell if you get your hands on a Zosma core quad those had damn near 100% unlocks to Thuban X6s, they just needed more quads to fill demand than they did hexacores so they just flipped a switch and pushed them as quads.
Second of all both AMD and Intel has been doing this since the days of the 386 and nowadays that is how both companies make their line ups and have done so for some time. If for example you bought a second gen AMD FX? It was an 8350, you either got a gold binned for power (the "e" series), a gold binned for speed (the 8370 and the 9xxx chips) or you got a chip that didn't hit the speed of the 8350 or came out with a bad core so was binned with a lower clock or lower core count. Its a hell of a lot cheaper to make a line this way than it is to make dedicated dual/quad/hexa/octo/ etc chips and if you don't have tasks that require a more powerful chip why pay for one?
If these perform like the other Ryzen chips I have no doubt when paired with something like a 1050ti or RX 570 they will make great mainstream gaming PCs and they will probably make great budget office and multimedia boxes so what is there to complain about? If you want something more powerful its not like they don't have a chip at damn near every price point from sub $100 all the way up to $1500+ so grab what fits your use case and be happy, just as I'm happy with the old Q9505s I have in the shop because for looking up parts and printing invoices? Works just fine.
Try 8.1 Pro with Classic Shell, its Win 7 with faster boot times and better SSD support. I figure I'll stay on 8.1 until it goes EOL which hopefully between Wine and Valve's work on getting everything on Steam working with Wine I'll be able to hop off before there is no choice but take Windows 10 Clusterfuck Edition.
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How EXACTLY is some spook knowing I like ancient arches "dangerous" to me? Cuz I really want to hear this, it ought to be some grade A logic hoop jumping. What are they gonna do, point at me and scream "NEERRRRDDD!"? OMG, the NSA knows I like old CPUs and bad 70s and 80s TV, why my life is ruined!...Oh wait everybody already knows that.
And as far as a MITM? I have my browser locked down with Ublock AND Privacy Badger, the DNS automatically blacklists malware addresses (thx Comodo DNS, you work great) and I can literally push one button and have it restored to a previous state, oh and now everything but my gaming box is running Zorin OS and the only thing the gaming box has is Steam so...yeah GLWT.
Meanwhile many of the old sites I go to haven't changed in 20 years, haven't gotten any malware in said 20 years, hell they don't even support the level of Javascript required to spread modern browser based junk so...yeah I smell security karaoke. Oh and 1 final note...considering GOOG got its start up funding in part from the NSA? Frankly I trust anything GOOG does about as far as I can throw their server farm, 5 will get you 10 there is some way in this that will let them increase their spying, because lets face it that is all they've really been up to the past few years, seeing how much data they can slurp and resell.
Sounds EXACTLY what we had in the early 00s with IE...and we all remember what a clusterfuck that turned out to be. Protip: Having only ONE corp control the way sites are rendered on the net? Is a BAD THING because if its one thing we should all know by now is that ALL of these corps are run by sociopath douchenozzles that will happily tilt the scales to give themselves a bigger slice of the pie.
Maybe its about time we start talking about slamming GOOG with an antitrust and hopefully break them up? Because APPL and MSFT don't seem to have enough of the pie to be a real threat but with GOOG? Starting to look a little scary,little too much like MSFT of the late 90s.
Not just that but the whole "HTTPS equals security" is a fundamentally flawed concept because not only as you point out the CA system is a mess but there are so damned many sites where it makes ZERO sense to have it encrypted in the first place!
I mean is there a reason I should give a single flying flipping fuck if someone knows I'm looking at a simple website serving only .txt and .jpg of ancient CPUs designs like 8088 and AMD K2? Or the bazillion other websites that again only serve static .txt and .jpg images that haven't be updated in forever (and probably won't be) that were made before the whole HTTPS kick? The only excuse I've heard is "it keeps "teh gubmint" from listening in"...but they are in the backbone so I really don't see that making a diddly dick of difference and do I REALLY need to give a shit if some damn spook knows I like looking at ancient tech on some website made when Geocities was a thing?
Finally with the CAs seeming to get pwned at least a couple times a year I don't even know if this should count as security theater anymore, maybe security karaoke? As in "pretends to be security but is about as good as your average barmaid trying to sing Patsy Kline on karaoke night?". So unless this is a way for GOOG to slurp down more data than a drunk at a free mini-bar (which really wouldn't surprise me) I'm really not seeing a big selling point for any of this, hell especially not from GOOG who just got who knows how many users pwned with their GOOG+ fiasco...whats the upside of this whole mess again?
I don't know what kind of drugs you were on (maybe coke since you must have been rich) but the PS1 came out in 1994...when a CD-ROM cost a couple hundred bucks. Add in the Sopundblaster and the GPU and you were looking at over a grand to do what the $300 PS1 did...oh and don't forget you will have to shitcan that PC and start over next year as that was the height of the MHz wars so that top o' the line 200mhz Pentium you got in 94 was a dinosaur in 95 because chips were coming out that were twice the clock.
Uhhh that isn't the point, its the point they made it default without asking. Or do you support MSFT constantly making Edge the default browser after updates? After all it too is easy enough to turn off, doesn't stop it from being annoying as hell.
Hell Gmail is getting so damned irritating with its constant UI changes and niggling irritants I've started using my Outlook address again, at least there the UI seems to stay the same for more than a week at a time and the changes seem to be under the hood stuff like faster load times and making it work better with Android and Apple, not annoying Clippy wannabe crap like this "Smart" compose that I swear is so bad I have to wonder if someone at Google is just trolling.
It wasn't the alt-right that said discriminating against Asians was okay in hiring and college entrance, wasn't the alt-right pushing racist shit like the BBC's "no whites" policy, wasn't the alt-right filling the senate chamber with pink haired tumblerinas going "REEE!" over Kavanaugh despite not a single person Ford said could back up her story knew WTF she was talking about...nope sorry that was all the "new left" which frankly is the most vile bunch of racist sexist dirtbags I've seen this side of a Klan rally.
So I'm sorry friend the alt-right doesn't have to do or say shit, your own bunch has become so fucking TOXIC that frankly ANY other group looks completely reasonable by default, which BTW is why Trump is gonna win in 2020, all he has to do is show a vid montage of tumblerinas going "REEE!" and showing Trump Derangement Syndrome and he will look like the most reasonable person on the planet.
And the "consoles" are just gonna be AMD PCs running mid level at best APUs...got it.
Remember the days when you got a console despite PCs being more powerful as the consoles had exotic hardware and ran bare metal so they could do more with said hardware? The NES could do color palettes PCs could only dream of on its launch, Genesis had that great sound chip, SNES had Mode 7, the PS1 was better at doing 3D than all but the most high end PCs of the time...sigh, those were the days.
I guess I got out of consoles at the right time, right when they got rid of the original Xbox (man those were great for modding, made awesome HTPCs) because all I'm seeing from the consoles these days is DRMed all to fuck PCs (and with the Switch smartphones) and the one saving grace they really had over PCs, how long they were supported with triple A titles, looks like its gonna be going by the wayside as the corps come up with new models every other year.
At least with PCs I can just add a part here, a part there and it'll cost a hell of a lot less than replacing a $400+ console every other year (hell you can pair an FX-8350 or second gen I5 from 2012 with a GTX 1060 or RX570 and play damn near every current title in 1080P at 60FPS) and now with Nintendo jumping on the "every other year" bandwagon...what exactly is the selling point for these consoles?
Oh Noes! You should get on the convention circuit, many of us still love ya from the 80s...or even better get a hold of Jan Michael Vincent and you can do an "old guys team up" flick like Badass! JMV could say "engage the turbo" and you could say "I'm getting too old for this shit", it would be great!
We should get together and hammer out a script, call it something like "Greywolf and Hawke" where the government bring you both out of retirement for one last great mission...I see a 3 picture deal AND a toy line, we could tap into that 80s nostalgia, it'd be fabulous! Hey it worked for Transformers, why not you? Lets get on this!
Because the left went from "everyone should be judged not by the color of their skin but by the content of their character" to "Die CIS scum"?
The new left is just as racist and sexist as anything out of the 1940s, the only difference is who the target of the racist and sexist bile is being directed at. Before it was "gays and lesbians should be treated like people and be left alone" and now its "if a lesbian won't suck cock they are a bigot cuz the owner of that cock says its a lesbian cock". Before it was "everyone of every color should be given equal treatment and equal opportunity to succeed" and now its the soft bigotry of low expectations and its okay to discriminate against Asians cuz...well I guess they figure Asians are just too smart for their own good and make the blacks look bad?
But that is what happens when you go from "live and let live" to "do as I say or else" and why more and more classical liberals like myself (voted straight D or G for over 30 years) are going "ya know...I really don't agree with 90% of what the right stands for...but at least they ain't completely whack-a-doodle batshit". Its sad really, you'd think they'd tone it down while Trump was in office so they would look sane by comparison but...nope doubling down on the whack-a-doodle. It makes me dread the 2020 election, might as well be the Mad Hatter VS the March Hare and the people have to try to figure out which of the two is less mad.
This is from the NYT, the same bunch that called the deputy AG a liar and said he was planning a coup by wearing a wire and some convoluted shit about invoking the 25th....yeah until I see confirmation from some site that isn't infected with Trump Derangement Syndrome? Honestly I wouldn't trust the NYT to tell me what the weather was outside their own office unless they could spin it to be Trump's fault.
Uhhh except any lawyer worth his salt is gonna point out the FSF now demands copyrights be turned over to them and RMS added such clauses to GPL V3 precisely BECAUSE he realized he fucked up and left copyrights OUT of GPL V2 and since there are no express language that says "you must give copyrights to the group you are giving the code to" then those copyrights will be still owned by the author.
So unless its a work for hire (in which case the one who did the hiring owns it) USA case law is pretty clear that "when in doubt copyright belongs to the author" which is again the whole reason RMS changed his tune WRT copyright and the FSF. If the courts treat software copyrights as equal to other copyrights (which we've seen no reason they would not) then we have plenty of precedent from bands and record labels trying to steal songs to know how the courts tend to go with these cases and its "when in doubt the author retains copyright" so I'd say that when combined with the actions of RMS wrt GPL V3 means they have a decent case.
Insightful? Really mods? While you are throwing insults you MIGHT want to read the festering SJW shitshow they are trying to shove on Linux, which is racist and sexist as fuck with an explicit stated goal to get rid of meritoracy and instead base contributions on how high you rank in the Oppression Olympics...yeah because developing extremely complex kernel code should be based on what your skin color is and whether you are a hufflepuff (no shit the one heading this bunch of whack-a-doodles calls herself a hufflepuff) not whether you can ACTUALLY WRITE GOOD FUCKING CODE.
And ya wonder why more and more are looking at the SJW movement and the regressives and going "Yeah can't stand the right....but at least they aren't batshit like these nutters, think I'll switch". I mean for fucks sake who gives a single flying flipping fuck (other than regressives because ALL they care about is being racist sexist fucks) what color someone writing KERNEL CODE is? Torvalds has certainly never given a shit, he treats ALL who act like morons as moronic no matter what color they were and only gave a shit about the quality of the code, not about whether they are a "protected class" they needed to be coddled and infantilized (cuz never forget the regressives are all about soft bigotry of low expectations) because that is the nice thing about meritoracy, cream rises to the top, shit gets flushed like it should.
Be be sure to screaming "INCELS" and "Muh FEE FEES!" at the top of your lungs and call everyone an "IST!", because I'm sure designing an OS based on promoting skin color and how many adjectives one can add to their choices in who to fuck will make a really quality product...yeah and my mama was a Kaiju and my name is Godzilla.
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No because then you get what we have now with every media bunch starting their own streaming service, more and more money spent chasing fewer and fewer customers as people get tired of the restrictions and just tune out. this might work in smaller markets where there is only one movie house but in larger cities where you can have several companies owning theaters? Its just gonna piss people off
That is why the MP model worked so well in San Fran, they went out and made deals with pretty much all the theaters and then the customer didn't have to give a shit if the movie they wanted to see was playing at theater X or only at theater Y, they just went to the most convenient location that was showing what they wanted and that was that.
This is why I think most of the ones being put out by the Movie chains themselves will end up being quietly dropped in a few years and why most streaming services will end up going tits up, its really REALLY easy to run off the customers simply with slight increases in aggravation. They find the show they want to watch isn't being shown by the chain anywhere close to them a couple times? They are gonna say "why am I wasting money on this if I can't see what I want?" and they are gonna cancel, same as I figure Netflix and Amazon will end up ruling streaming with original shows while everybody else ends up fucked. It really doesn't take much to piss customers off when the entire purpose of your service is to make things more convenient and you have to remember the kind of folks that buy into such services are a little more "into" movies and shows that Joe Average who just watches the latest tentpoles so they are a lot easier to tick off.
Actually MoviePass? If you look at its history it started out making a modest profit but its a classic case of because something worked LOCALLY does NOT mean it would work nationwide.
MoviePass originally started out in San Francisco where with the sky high costs of...well frankly being in San Fran at all, made a lot of movie theaters seriously hurt for butts in seats. The guys that started MP noticed this and made deals with several local theaters to offer them deeply discounted seats because...well having SOME money is better than NO money and it costs the theater the same to show the movie to 10 people or 100 and the duo had a reasonable price for the service, closer to what Amazon Prime costs. These two factors made them a modest if not "VC worthy" profit.
But then came a new CEO who thought he could "pull an Amazon" and went nationwide with NO deals with the theaters AND at a price so low that even if they had the same deal the original duo had (who IIRC wisely cashed out when they heard the "new business plan") would never make a red cent and...yeah surprise surprise dumb business plan? Is dumb.
The sad part is if they kept the original model and simply expanded to other cities with high costs of living and a glut of movie theaters? They could have had a modestly successful little franchise, but that model simply wouldn't work in places where theaters have no issue getting customers.
Somebody at Google said "hey, we could abuse our power for good!" and management came back saying "We don't see how its gonna increase our profits or power, so we're not doing it", and that was the end of it.....FTFY.
Dude the OS is dumping highly sensitive data in the equivalent of a .txt file....like I said they WANT to slurp all the data like Google but just as MSFT made for a shitty Apple clone they now make for a shitty Google clone.
BTW look up "Windows 10 vulnerability" to see that yeah their security is going downhill, its just not being reported nearly as much as the press are busy with their iPhones and Android tablets and really no longer give a fuck about has been MSFT. Ever since they went rolling release they have garnered such a bad rep they would basically need a Code Red level hack for anybody to give the slightest of fucks about MSFT, the expectations from that company are so damned low they...well they are looked at as about as quality as your average shitty AAA game developer now, a buggy POS is pretty much expected.
Frankly their new slogan should be "Microsoft....All of the bad practices of Apple and Google and none of the fashion taste or engineering skill"
Windows on tablets sucks and security has become a punchline under Nutella, now here is Holly with the forecast...."the sun will come up tomorrow, back to you Chuck".
I mean is ANYBODY at this point surprised? Really? The first thing Nutella did when he took over was fire the QA and testing teams and make the users the beta testers (because that worked SOOO well for the games industry) and what have we seen from Redmond ever since? They can't put out a rolling release without breaking so many pieces of common hardware and software that its now more buggy than a Linux alpha build, security is a damned joke, and now we find surprise surprise they are storing sensitive info in a fricking .DAT file like its 1996...sigh.
I told ya you'd end up missing the Sweaty Monkey, at least all he did was try to steal Apple's "make it all pretty and shit" but that crap was easily stripped out and it was still a solid OS underneath the tacky paint, under Nutella? Its a clusterfuck, its all of Google's bad habits without any of their engineering skills.
Not if your state requires auto insurance and they all begin adopting this, should make an interesting case for SCOTUS.
How many dems called for her to be thrown in prison? I rest my case.
LOL insightful? Really mods? A mummified turd of Richard Nixon could have beaten HRC! Lets see what the public knew about her before the election...
1.- Rigged the primary to keep the more electable candidate out, 2.- Interfered in the GOP primary by using her crony media connections to push Trump, 3.- Made secret deals with the major banks to fuck the American people, 4.- Was running her office as a "pay to play" by taking HUGE checks from foreign governments to her foundation, 5.- Smashed her phones with a fucking hammer to hinder a federal investigation, 6.- ran an email server in her shitter to skirt federal data retention laws, 7.- Wiped said server with a DOD data wipe tool to again hinder a federal investigation, oh and lets not forget 8.- Obviously covered up significant health issues (most likely brain damage) as she was caught on camera multiple times collapsing, falling,and being unable to give a simple speech without literally struggling to breathe.
Sorry the left gave up ANY AND ALL pretense of having ANY morals at all when they didn't call for her ass to be thrown in prison. If a first year intern would have done HALF the shit she pulled? They would be doing 10-20 and YOU KNOW THIS, you simply did not give a shit because she had a D in front of her name despite the Clintons being the most crony capitalist bunch of DINOs this country has ever seen.
So yeah the American people elected Trump, you ran a morally bankrupt crony capitalist CRIMINAL and expected people to hold their nose and vote for her cuz "its her turn" like the POTUS was her birthright...the corpse of John Gotti would have beaten her by a landslide as frankly he would have been the more honest candidate!
Uhhh yeah about that, Google was given start up funding by the NSA, so sorry but horseshit. In fact if you look at most of the now "too big to fail" corps like GOOG,FB,APPL, etc you'll find government funding or sweetheart deals during their early phases so..."private" business my ass, unless crony capitalism is a free market I call horseshit.
Nice to see I'm not the only one looking at my watch....to see if we have somehow been transported back to 1993!
For Pete's sake MSFT even the old cheapo towers we keep for "Kid's first PC" at the shop have 500Gb drives in them and even the shittiest "Walmart Special"? Comes with a Tb, most with at least 2...who in the hell is running low on disk space these days?
If you want to fix something on your OS how about fixing how much CPU and network bandwidth the damn thing sucks, how about that? I ended up switching to Zorin OS on my laptop and my netbook because anything newer than 7 has so damned much background crap constantly churning on a default install it was dragging the entire system down and your Windows 10 Mistake Edition...err I mean "Home" even made my octocore feel like it was running in second gear and that thing has 16gb of RAM and an SSD! It was so bad I tossed the Win 10 Home disc and just slapped on 8.1 with Classicshell as at last that OS is stable and actually snappy, but your "big idea" is to suck even MOAR bandwidth and dump moar shit on your cloud to clog my network so you can do more dataminging? For fucks sake MSFT!
BTW is it too soon to say "told ya so"? Because I said when they got rid of the Sweaty Monkey (TM) that we would end up missing the Ballmernator because while he was a dumbass of epic scale at least all he wanted to do was make a Windows version of everything Apple did 3 years ago while Nutella was gonna ape the worst parts of Google without any of the good parts and I think we can safely say now that...yup, all the spying and datamining of Google, NONE of the stability, ease of use, or efficiency.
MSFT of 2018 reminds me of those cheap ass phones you see on Aliexpress, trying to ape what Google and Apple has done in the past but even looking at the home screen it just looks cheap, shitty, and sad.
Who says the cores have to be bad? Those of us that owned Phenom and Athlon with cores unlocked could tell ya a LOT of the chips they were selling as X2s and X3s were perfectly working quads that just had cores disabled to meet a contract. Hell if you get your hands on a Zosma core quad those had damn near 100% unlocks to Thuban X6s, they just needed more quads to fill demand than they did hexacores so they just flipped a switch and pushed them as quads.
Second of all both AMD and Intel has been doing this since the days of the 386 and nowadays that is how both companies make their line ups and have done so for some time. If for example you bought a second gen AMD FX? It was an 8350, you either got a gold binned for power (the "e" series), a gold binned for speed (the 8370 and the 9xxx chips) or you got a chip that didn't hit the speed of the 8350 or came out with a bad core so was binned with a lower clock or lower core count. Its a hell of a lot cheaper to make a line this way than it is to make dedicated dual/quad/hexa/octo/ etc chips and if you don't have tasks that require a more powerful chip why pay for one?
If these perform like the other Ryzen chips I have no doubt when paired with something like a 1050ti or RX 570 they will make great mainstream gaming PCs and they will probably make great budget office and multimedia boxes so what is there to complain about? If you want something more powerful its not like they don't have a chip at damn near every price point from sub $100 all the way up to $1500+ so grab what fits your use case and be happy, just as I'm happy with the old Q9505s I have in the shop because for looking up parts and printing invoices? Works just fine.
Try 8.1 Pro with Classic Shell, its Win 7 with faster boot times and better SSD support. I figure I'll stay on 8.1 until it goes EOL which hopefully between Wine and Valve's work on getting everything on Steam working with Wine I'll be able to hop off before there is no choice but take Windows 10 Clusterfuck Edition.