The real bitch and a half is because everybody in the press (including many here sadly) were busy kissing Steve Jobs' ass we have NO alternative, none at all.
HTML V5 is a proprietary as hell clusterfuck, which of course was the point as Jobs didn't want anything like Flash games competing with his crappstore (and he was damned smart for doing that, as games make more money than anything else by something like 8 to 1) with H.26x being a boat anchor performance wise compared to Flash. Seriously try out any video in Flash+ VP6 and compare it to HTML V5 H.26x and disable hardware acceleration (which is a bandaid designed to cover up how big a pig H.26x is) and look at the numbers yourself. I can tell you that I can run SD DVD quality video all day long on a 2003 Sempron or 2011 middle of the road smartphone in flash but H.26x? Anything less than a Pentium D or a dual core smartphone its a slideshow. And this isn't even getting into the fact that the shit Jobs feared like games and animation is beyond pathetic in H.26x precisely because Jobs didn't want anything that could compete, why isn't anybody bitching about this?
Is Flash buggy? Sure is, do we have an alternative, something capable of giving us everything Flash did while having better security and performance? NO WE DO NOT and the simple fact that several years after Jobs first pulled that shit we STILL don't have an actual functional replacement should PISS PEOPLE OFF and rightly so! At least with Flash it ran nearly everywhere on everything, that is until St Steve killed the thing by saying "Thou shalt not be on iPad" and what did it get us? A fucking mess, with some sites working on some phones but not others, too God damned many proprietary "apps" to bring you content simply because without flash there isn't any other way to do the things Flash did, its a giant fucking mess...but Apple is making bank which was the whole damned point. Sigh, can we start over and this time NOT let a corp with a giant conflict of interest call the shots, please?
BTW how many of you are planning to split when they force us onto that shitstain that is/. beta? I don't know about you but if I wanting another tweeting twits for shits I'd be on Reddit. The thing is a mess, it looks like shit, hard to follow flow, comments even more broken, obviously designed for pads (which I bet my last buck is less than 3% of the daily readership of this site) it is the windows 8 of the web!
If they "don't make it" then I'm fricking sorry but they are too damned stupid to be doing IT, full stop. I have run Win 7 HP on a 2003 Sempron with 1Gb of RAM, that is a lot older than 6 years (6 years would be 2008, which would be in C2D and Athlon X2 territory, both VERY capable CPUs) and ya know what? Ran just fine. On a 6 year old PC, which the average PC at that time were dual cores with 2Gb of RAM and 80-160Gb HDDs? Frankly Windows 7 should fly. Hell its the exact same specs as the main box I use at the shop, a 1.86Ghz C2D with 3Gb of RAM and it runs great, the only thing it didn't run OOTB was Aero but its not like a school box really needs Aero-Flip and transparent tiles does it?
As for TFA? Unless Google is willing to spend billions becoming a national ISP? Then ChromeOS is as good as fucked, and media centric Chromeboxes like TFA will be DOA. I mean did everybody forget about how the ISPs are going to "all you can squeeze" bandwidth caps? Google missed the boat, the future is ISPs giving THEIR services unlimited pipes and screwing the holy hell out of everybody else. These are obviously HTPCs but with everything in the cloud? Yeah hope you like those overage charges friend, as you try to watch HD video with most capped lines and see how quickly you blow through your pittance.
I've seen the future of the HTPC and its some company growing a brain and doing what I've been doing for over a year, just grabbing a copy of OpenELEC and slapping it in a low cost media tank like an AMD Jaguar or one of those embedded Intel Celerons or Atoms and giving folks a nice XBMC that will play pretty much any format from anywhere, be it web, DVD, flash stick, you name it it will play it. With economies of scale there is no reason why you couldn't get it down to the $200 range, maybe even less with a good deal on the chips, and still make a decent profit while selling like hotcakes. It would be the perfect replacement for the DVD player, as it would be able to play anything from anywhere and about as hassle free as using a toaster.
Somebody will pull it off and make a damned nice niche for themselves but it sure as hell won't be running Chrome. Maybe Android but even then not Google's version, more likely their own like kindle so the company can control it, although I still think the smart money would be just to pick up an already finished product like OpenELEC and slap your own brand on it, hell the thing just screams "make me an embedded media OS".
What I don't get is why so many here get all pissy about it when it is just common damned sense!
I mean if I gave free PCs to 10 people and got a 1000 sales of brand new PCs for doing so why I'd be a fricking retard not to jump on that because I'd be making a shitload more profit than if I just sold those 10 PCs, right? So if MSFT having that little bullet point brings in a lot more business, especially knowing those are NOT costing them dick (because GoDaddy would never buy IIS for parked domains so its not a lost sale) well they'd be stupid NOT to jump on that!
So I don't see what the problem is, I really don't. Its simply smart business to try to turn a negative into a positive and from the looks of TFA handing out licenses for those parked domains is quite obviously paying for itself with positive publicity, something MSFT has had damned little of as of late, so its just good business. If this is the work of that cloud guy that just got named CEO? Good for him, lets hope he shows as much good sense and gives us a real successor to Windows 7 and puts Ballmer's Folly out to pasture where it belongs, right beside the Zune and Kin and Sidekick, Vista, that ad company he paid out the ass for...wow did Ballmer do ANYTHING besides Win 7 that didn't bomb or blow mountains of money? Don't say Xbox because we don't even know if they made a dime on it yet, nobody has crunched the numbers and added up the cost of the R&D and the 2.something billion the RROD cost them so for all we know its still in the red.
Oh please Bush and Obama are amateurs compared to DOD. We are talking BILLIONS in price hikes, overruns,kick backs, look up what went on with the M114 or M60A2 to see how REAL pros do that corruption, sheeit they knew they were turkeys before they had even left the testing ground and STILL bought it, or the M247 Sergeant York where not a damned thing worked and it failed to even hit a stationary target yet STILL got sold, because the fix was in!
So you can wave your little donkey and elephant flags all you want, the guys making the REAL money don't change every election, they stay right there in DC making bank on gov side then the lobby side.
For what you are wanting to do? Grab a copy of Hiren's Boot CD, specifically you'll want to use HDAT2 or if you are in Windows you can use HDTune and run the error scan.
I'll get hate from the programmers but fuck it, truth is truth. Wanna know what is wrong with JavaScript? The entire damned concept, that is what!
I mean think about it, if I told you "I have an idea! Just to get some information you are gonna have to run strange code from over a dozen places, you don't know these places, if they have malware, you have to trust ALL these places or you can't have the information" you'd say that is seriously fucking STUPID, wouldn't you? That is how modern ad driven web works, calling shit from God knows where with zero control or fine grained permissions, its all run by default....STUPID.
What we need is either a new language built from the ground up with the realization that there are seriously nasty people out there trying to fuck your systems up, or JavaScript seriously needs a rewrite with the modern situation in mind. As it is now everybody keeps trying to fix the bullet wounds of failed design with bandaids like sandboxing, low rights mode, but at the end of the day the very concept of clicking on a link and suddenly getting code from a dozen sites you don't know and executing that code? its just a dumb idea.
I'm talking about the pre-buyout ecogreens, look for model numbers that show them pre buyout. The 2Tb is HD204UI and the 1Tb is HD103SI. If you grab pre-buyout they are great, post buyout are just Seagate crap.
Not to mention it appears they are still using voodoo like having to degauss drives instead of simply wiping them.
Nobody has yet to show they managed to get back even a single file from a modern drive after it has had a simple zero wipe yet all these "security sites" still hold onto old wive's tales that haven't been true since the days of the MFM drives! Protip: The reason you could recover files from those old drives? The motors were VERY inaccurate and could slip the tracks, thus leaving tracks after an erase cycle. A modern drive have tracks sooo small there is no way in hell its gonna be missing tracks, you'd know there were issues because the drive would fail before it would miss a track.
So I wonder how long voodoo from the age of DOS is gonna be taken as fact? An encrypted drive with a single wipe would insure there was zero data to recover and wouldn't be based on 30+ year old info, it would also deal with the real issue, the fact that there is no way to securely wipe an SSD that I know of, because SSDs don't "erase", just mark sectors as available to minimize writes.
Well from what I've seen it appears that this is the case, some users have been using the same lame passwords all over the place, with some of them foolish enough to use their yahoo mail AND their Yahoo mail password on some third party website and naturally when the website got boned the spammers starting trying out the passwords, hence the reset.
Anyway that is what I'm seeing at the shop, the customers that don't use the same password at every site aren't seeing any resets, neither have I and I have 3 yahoo accounts, but those that recycle the hell out of passwords are the ones having to do a reset. i really don't see how this can be blamed on yahoo, anymore than one should blame Windows for those morons that fall for the "Install this "codex" to see teh big tittiez!" malware scam.
The moral of the story? You can reset passwords but you just can't fix stupid.
Hell even the Wikipedia page they link to sucks, as it gives Ferdinand this credit "Porsche was an important contributor to the German war effort during World War II"..yeah, help to the allies! The amount of resources Porsche wasted on the Porsche Panzer and Porsche Tiger was just insane and as far as the Elefant? White Elefant more like it, but this video spells out the laundry list of fail that was the Ferdinand better than I can.
As for TFA? Who didn't know there were electric cars in the old days? before ICE became standardized pretty much everything was tried, from Steam to electric to every kind of fuel it was all tried at least once. Just as tablets were sold a decade before Apple figured out the right combo of UI and size so too did everyone see that a replacement for the horse would make a bloody mint, it just took Ford to figure out how to make one "good enough" and affordable to the masses. Its a cool bit of history but it wasn't anything "revolutionary", and while TFA is light on details I bet it was the battery that ultimately made it dead end, just as the pure electrics are today for those not living in a megacity.
BULLSHIT. Go to the wayback machine and look at a thread from 2003 (if they bothered to back any up) and compare to now. There hasn't been a thread reach 100 count in a good 4 years whereas before it was almost a daily occurrence and certainly a weekly one.
As for ACs? Again BULLSHIT, all ACs have done is make it so any troll or shill can derail a thread by simply sockpuppeting a couple of posts to make sure nobody talks bad about their employers! Go look at ANY story about the big three, Google,MSFT, or Apple, and see how quickly the ACs derail the threads, hell when it came to xbone you were lucky if you got more than 2 posts before an AC tried to switch the subject to Apple or Sony o ANYTHING other than the royal fucking the users were gonna get from the draconian policies MSFT was pushing.
So I'm sorry but it doesn't have a damned thing to do with nostalgia, it has to do with what was once a tech site becoming just another 4chan only frankly not as entertaining.
Oh please! The only ones that stabbed Netscape in the back WAS NETSCAPE, by putting out that abortion that was NS4. For those too young to have experienced it let me describe what running NS4 was like....Oh yay, its installed! So I'll just go to my favorite web.../crash/. oh well must have been a glitch, it happens. So I'll just go.../crash/. Huh, maybe it just don't like that site so I'll go.../hang followed by BSOD/..&^%*&%&^%!!!!!
How soon folks forget that you had to actually go out and download those first versions of IE, and download we did, NOT because we liked IE but because Netscape put out a broken mess! At least today we have choices, back then it was NS, IE, or a buggy ad ridden version of Opera that didn't work with most sites...wow, what a great selection we had. And for the record I don't use IE, after screwing us by letting IE 6 rot I switched away never to return.
What is sad to me (and I personally blame the allowing of AC posts and broken mod system, but that's another story) is how much lower the quality of threads are now. In the golden age the only AC posts you got were in the Penisbird GNAA vein and the majority of posts were insightful and would delve quite deeply into a subject. I remember being a part of 300+ threads on the advantages and disadvantages of various file systems, 200+ threads on string theory where guys from CERN would break down some of the more heady stuff for laymen like myself, hell even if you didn't agree you LEARNED and left knowing more than you knew before you got here.
Now? Now the only thing you'll learn is that Shill/Troll/Astroturfer is shorthand for "you disagree with me", that thanks to being able to AC bomb a thread its trivially easy for a real shill to divert a thread away from a topic negative to the parent corp, and that no matter what the topic or thread it quickly degrades into a 4chan level of posts, usually trashed by AC trolls spewing insults thus making sure no thread lasts beyond a couple dozen posts.
Sigh I've been looking high and low for a site that is actually nerdy but it seems like all the nerd sites have been replaced by Digg/Reddit/ FB style garbage. Surely there has to be a place out there where geeks can talk about science and tech without it being ruined by the channers, anybody know of such a place? OSNews is good for a few topics but holwerda rules the roost so only things he personally likes/dislikes will ever be there, surely there is someplace like the old/. out there?
We call that "penny wise and pound foolish" as I have NO doubt that when you crunch the numbers Atlanta just pissed down the drain several times what it would have cost to just show some common damned sense and shut things down when they should have.
In my area when the ice hit last month we went the exact opposite, we had salt trucks ready to go, we had city workers cutting down any limbs near lines, we had the local hotel full of electric company workers, did this cost money? Yep but ya know what? While other counties were having to send police to pick up little old ladies and ferry them to makeshift shelters because the power was out we didn't lose squat, we all sat in our nice warm homes and enjoyed Xmas.
If you fail to plan you plan to fail and because Atlanta was counting pennies they now will end up losing millions. Smart move Atlanta, maybe next time you'll err on the side of caution!
This does provide us with a most excellent opportunity though, in that it allows us to see which "news organizations" are really just Pravda style government mouthpieces. Take the whole bit with Assange, all those that INSTANTLY jumped from what the Wikileaks files showed about US dirty dealing to "ZOMFG he didn't use a condom, he's a rapist ZOMFG!" the second they got the chance to change the subject? Are just propaganda mouthpieces and if you look at their later work under that light its all the more obvious.
So just look for the ones that aren't saying a word about the NSA but are instead running "Is Snowden X?" with X being anything from traitor to spy to see which ones are just propaganda shops, but frankly the whole bit with Assange should have made it clear, this is merely confirmation at this point.
Kinda sad that we have gone from making fun of Soviet style mass scale media propaganda to having it ourselves, but maybe the whole "If you live long enough you become the villain" bit is true. I know it sure as hell doesn't look or act like the country I grew up in, or my grandfather fought Nazis to protect, that's for sure.
You are forgetting we have tactical nukes that can take out as little as a couple blocks, just perfect for a false flag. As for why they would use them? Because when the stock bubble bursts the US dollar will be worth about as much as a Zimbabwe buck and they'll have a re-enactment of the French revolution on their hands.
Why have they gotten away with all the shit they have pulled the past decade with barely a peep from the populace? Bread and circuses, a concept as old as empires. With the exception of the teabag nutters (who think they are all Andrew Ryan and can build a Randian "utopia" if they were just allowed to stomp them peasants, idiots forget the poor outnumber them a good 150k to 1) those in power know that a well fed and entertained populace is a docile one, hard to get somebody with a full belly and a roof over their head to riot.
That is all gonna change when the bubble pops, without being able to just print paychecks for the poor they are gonna have millions of people with no jobs, homes, no reason not to riot and THAT is when things will get ugly. I personally think the military will be the X factor, I know many soldiers and they care about the constitution, not protecting the riches of the elite. If they try to roll the tanks it is quite possible they will end up with another Libya, where half the military turned on their commanders.
Exactly and to blame Snowden is as ridiculous as blaming Assange for Blackwater, the USA CHOSE to cover up for scumbags, the NSA CHOSE to fuck over our friends by treating them no differently than we treated the USSR back in the day, all Assange and Snowden did was highlight how US taxpayer money was being flushed down the shitter.
This is why our two party system just doesn't work, because what we've seen is there is NO party for decreased spying and less government, NONE. What we need is a "USA First" party, one dedicated to staying the hell out of everybody else's business and taking care of our own people instead of propping up third world dictators. Instead we get "big bro" or "big mommy", two sides to the same wooden nickel.
Dude go buy an AMD Bobcat board and chunk that turkey, its just pissing through the power. the bobcat gives you dual cores at 1.7GHz (and an HD6310 if you care to do any GP-GPU tasks) and under full load it sucks less power than your P4 does idling by a good 400%+ (max on bobat is just 18w).
So unless the power is cheap to free there you'd be better off tossing the P4, netburst was a dead end that didn't give a shit about anything but raw clocks. The Atom can stomp a netburst P4 for the love of pete, those huge pipelines made its IPC just crazy low so all that power you are sucking? Just wasted energy, might as well be running a hot plate. The athlons from that period were decent, the first gen Core solo and duo were nice, but the one exception I make at the shop is netburst, that shit get relegated to the "get this cheap shit outta here" junk pile because that is what it is. you can get a Bobcat board for $80 and the increased IPC and lower power and heat will quickly pay for itself, toss the turkey man.
Well I go through a lot of drives at the shop and while I haven't had a chance to try the new 4Tb I can say their 1Tb, 1.5Tb, and 2Tb had a LOT of fails, enough that I actively avoid them now. Rumor has it that its caused by Maxtor shitty ARM chips and lousy firmware but that's rumor so who knows if its true.
From what I've seen, in order from least failures to most, Samsung (especially Ecogreens, they just seem to last and last), Hitachi, WD, and finally Seagate. Maybe their business side is better but on the consumer side their 500Gb drives are good but anything bigger than the 640Gb just seem to die.
Sadly it really doesn't matter now that Samsung and Hitachi have had their drive business bought by Seagate and WD so if you need real storage space? Gotta pick one of the other. The WD blues and greens seem to be decent ATM and the red NAS drives make good storage for HTPCs.
Why did he get modded down? MS Office hasn't sold a ton of copies because folks LIKE giving piles of money to MSFT, its because its one of those tools that works damned good for most small to large businesses.
As someone who sells computers to SMBs I keep trying LibreOffice, each time hoping it gets there so I can save my customers money and each time....sigh. For home users? It is fricking GREAT, does everything your home users would ever think to do, just perfect, but for business? Maybe it'll change with the ODF but under Sun it was obvious that Writer got all the love while their versions of Access, Visio, and Excel were left sucking hind tit. While writer has reached office 2K, maybe 2K3? The rest just doesn't cut the mustard. i'm sure the Excel and Access guys can chime in and list the reasons why it doesn't cut it but at the end of the day if a tool ain't right for a job it ain't right and LO as a suite just isn't anywhere close to MSO.
You just answered your own question, with the ARMs equaling a P4 from a decade ago whereas the jag is powerful enough to be the chip for the next gen consoles while using crazy small amounts of power, from what I read a jag sucks a couple watts more than a bobcat dual, so you are talking 20w max TDP for a quad core WITH all those GPU cores that can be used for GP-GPU or turned completely off to lower power with zero tech.
So I'm sorry to you Billy and the ARM fans but as of today the ONLY places where ARM makes sense is 1.- In mobile devices with tiny batteries, like phones, and 2.- In the embedded space where a couple of cents can be the difference between profit and loss. Everywhere else? Too little IPC for the power when compared to jag and Atom.
Except you are forgetting about AMD and how they have a total lock on the console space for the next 5 to 7 years which should keep plenty of money flowing towards the Jaguar. While I haven't gotten to play with jag yet I've built more systems using bobcat (the chip jag is based on) than I can count and its great, low power, long battery life, and does 1080P over HDMI. All reports indicate that jag improves on bobcat in every area, number of cores, power draw, and graphics muscle.
So unless they can figure out how to get serious IPC out of ARM the future isn't looking so bright, it'll be used in things where cost is the number 1 factor but in everything else? It'll probably be X86. And considering I've been picking up bobcat boards for $80 and looking on Tiger the quad jag laptops are going for just $350 the price advantage of ARM may end up in the really REALLY low end, we are talking the sub $100 space, where profits are measured in pennies. Not a great market to be stuck in.
But again what EXACTLY does this give you over AMD's current offerings? Low power? nope the Jaguar has that beat. High IPC? Nope Opteron curbstomps them, so what EXACTLY are these for? After all there is a hell of a lot more X86 code for server than there is ARM and whether you are gonna run Java or not there is still gonna be bugs and headaches with switching arches, its not like every bit of code is gonna work perfectly with better efficiency than it had before.
So what am I missing here? Because other than having a checkbox that says ARM, which IMHO is a couple years too late for the party thanks to Jag and Atom, what market does this serve? Is there a market for ARM chips that suck MORE power than their Jaguar units, but less than the Opteron? The jag is actually a nice chip ya know, so I really don't see what the selling point is on these chips.
Which is why I don't get this chip. After all they have the Jaguar for ULV applications, Opteron for when you need more horsepower, what good are these ARM units?
And I'm sorry ARM fans but as we keep seeing ARM just doesn't scale, you bump up the IPC and you blow the power budget, which is why I've been saying for awhile that days of "ARM Mania" will be quickly coming to an end. Folks want their handhelds to perform like an HTPC in their pocket and that means high instructions per second which ARM can't do without blowing through the power. This is why Nvidia is up to 5 cores, Samsung to 6, because ARM just doesn't scale. Its gonna be easier for AMD and Intel to cut X86 down with jaguar and Atom than it is to get ARM to scale.
So I just don't get what the market for this is exactly. Most server code is X86 anyway, be it wintel or Linux, so you are talking about some serious expense porting it over and with jaguar on the low end and Opteron on the high? Well i just don't see a huge market for ARM servers, am I missing something?
Uhhhh...having trouble following the conversation friend? The point of a DAW is that they don't have these problems whereas software based recording? i don't care if you buy PC or Mac it will ALWAYS have issues compared to a dedicated unit.
Fostex, Alesis, and Yamaha all make damned good AIO DAW units for those starting out and for many bands? They can be all that you need. Since the band I'm playing with now is a trio frankly any decent 4 track at a time unit works well, we have a Fostex 4 track for the practice space and then the studio we use has a much nicer Yamaha 16 track that we use to lay down the songs we are doing for the new CD. We usually record live for the base track with scratch vocals and guitar and then go back and layer the real vocals and guitar tracks. this lets us keep the feel and groove we get when playing live while letting us try new leads, alternate bass lines, best of both worlds and works great for us and unless the guy is trying to record some huge 6 or 7 piece band will probably work well for him too.
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The real bitch and a half is because everybody in the press (including many here sadly) were busy kissing Steve Jobs' ass we have NO alternative, none at all.
HTML V5 is a proprietary as hell clusterfuck, which of course was the point as Jobs didn't want anything like Flash games competing with his crappstore (and he was damned smart for doing that, as games make more money than anything else by something like 8 to 1) with H.26x being a boat anchor performance wise compared to Flash. Seriously try out any video in Flash+ VP6 and compare it to HTML V5 H.26x and disable hardware acceleration (which is a bandaid designed to cover up how big a pig H.26x is) and look at the numbers yourself. I can tell you that I can run SD DVD quality video all day long on a 2003 Sempron or 2011 middle of the road smartphone in flash but H.26x? Anything less than a Pentium D or a dual core smartphone its a slideshow. And this isn't even getting into the fact that the shit Jobs feared like games and animation is beyond pathetic in H.26x precisely because Jobs didn't want anything that could compete, why isn't anybody bitching about this?
Is Flash buggy? Sure is, do we have an alternative, something capable of giving us everything Flash did while having better security and performance? NO WE DO NOT and the simple fact that several years after Jobs first pulled that shit we STILL don't have an actual functional replacement should PISS PEOPLE OFF and rightly so! At least with Flash it ran nearly everywhere on everything, that is until St Steve killed the thing by saying "Thou shalt not be on iPad" and what did it get us? A fucking mess, with some sites working on some phones but not others, too God damned many proprietary "apps" to bring you content simply because without flash there isn't any other way to do the things Flash did, its a giant fucking mess...but Apple is making bank which was the whole damned point. Sigh, can we start over and this time NOT let a corp with a giant conflict of interest call the shots, please?
BTW how many of you are planning to split when they force us onto that shitstain that is /. beta? I don't know about you but if I wanting another tweeting twits for shits I'd be on Reddit. The thing is a mess, it looks like shit, hard to follow flow, comments even more broken, obviously designed for pads (which I bet my last buck is less than 3% of the daily readership of this site) it is the windows 8 of the web!
If they "don't make it" then I'm fricking sorry but they are too damned stupid to be doing IT, full stop. I have run Win 7 HP on a 2003 Sempron with 1Gb of RAM, that is a lot older than 6 years (6 years would be 2008, which would be in C2D and Athlon X2 territory, both VERY capable CPUs) and ya know what? Ran just fine. On a 6 year old PC, which the average PC at that time were dual cores with 2Gb of RAM and 80-160Gb HDDs? Frankly Windows 7 should fly. Hell its the exact same specs as the main box I use at the shop, a 1.86Ghz C2D with 3Gb of RAM and it runs great, the only thing it didn't run OOTB was Aero but its not like a school box really needs Aero-Flip and transparent tiles does it?
As for TFA? Unless Google is willing to spend billions becoming a national ISP? Then ChromeOS is as good as fucked, and media centric Chromeboxes like TFA will be DOA. I mean did everybody forget about how the ISPs are going to "all you can squeeze" bandwidth caps? Google missed the boat, the future is ISPs giving THEIR services unlimited pipes and screwing the holy hell out of everybody else. These are obviously HTPCs but with everything in the cloud? Yeah hope you like those overage charges friend, as you try to watch HD video with most capped lines and see how quickly you blow through your pittance.
I've seen the future of the HTPC and its some company growing a brain and doing what I've been doing for over a year, just grabbing a copy of OpenELEC and slapping it in a low cost media tank like an AMD Jaguar or one of those embedded Intel Celerons or Atoms and giving folks a nice XBMC that will play pretty much any format from anywhere, be it web, DVD, flash stick, you name it it will play it. With economies of scale there is no reason why you couldn't get it down to the $200 range, maybe even less with a good deal on the chips, and still make a decent profit while selling like hotcakes. It would be the perfect replacement for the DVD player, as it would be able to play anything from anywhere and about as hassle free as using a toaster.
Somebody will pull it off and make a damned nice niche for themselves but it sure as hell won't be running Chrome. Maybe Android but even then not Google's version, more likely their own like kindle so the company can control it, although I still think the smart money would be just to pick up an already finished product like OpenELEC and slap your own brand on it, hell the thing just screams "make me an embedded media OS".
What I don't get is why so many here get all pissy about it when it is just common damned sense!
I mean if I gave free PCs to 10 people and got a 1000 sales of brand new PCs for doing so why I'd be a fricking retard not to jump on that because I'd be making a shitload more profit than if I just sold those 10 PCs, right? So if MSFT having that little bullet point brings in a lot more business, especially knowing those are NOT costing them dick (because GoDaddy would never buy IIS for parked domains so its not a lost sale) well they'd be stupid NOT to jump on that!
So I don't see what the problem is, I really don't. Its simply smart business to try to turn a negative into a positive and from the looks of TFA handing out licenses for those parked domains is quite obviously paying for itself with positive publicity, something MSFT has had damned little of as of late, so its just good business. If this is the work of that cloud guy that just got named CEO? Good for him, lets hope he shows as much good sense and gives us a real successor to Windows 7 and puts Ballmer's Folly out to pasture where it belongs, right beside the Zune and Kin and Sidekick, Vista, that ad company he paid out the ass for...wow did Ballmer do ANYTHING besides Win 7 that didn't bomb or blow mountains of money? Don't say Xbox because we don't even know if they made a dime on it yet, nobody has crunched the numbers and added up the cost of the R&D and the 2.something billion the RROD cost them so for all we know its still in the red.
Oh please Bush and Obama are amateurs compared to DOD. We are talking BILLIONS in price hikes, overruns,kick backs, look up what went on with the M114 or M60A2 to see how REAL pros do that corruption, sheeit they knew they were turkeys before they had even left the testing ground and STILL bought it, or the M247 Sergeant York where not a damned thing worked and it failed to even hit a stationary target yet STILL got sold, because the fix was in!
So you can wave your little donkey and elephant flags all you want, the guys making the REAL money don't change every election, they stay right there in DC making bank on gov side then the lobby side.
For what you are wanting to do? Grab a copy of Hiren's Boot CD, specifically you'll want to use HDAT2 or if you are in Windows you can use HDTune and run the error scan.
I'll get hate from the programmers but fuck it, truth is truth. Wanna know what is wrong with JavaScript? The entire damned concept, that is what!
I mean think about it, if I told you "I have an idea! Just to get some information you are gonna have to run strange code from over a dozen places, you don't know these places, if they have malware, you have to trust ALL these places or you can't have the information" you'd say that is seriously fucking STUPID, wouldn't you? That is how modern ad driven web works, calling shit from God knows where with zero control or fine grained permissions, its all run by default....STUPID.
What we need is either a new language built from the ground up with the realization that there are seriously nasty people out there trying to fuck your systems up, or JavaScript seriously needs a rewrite with the modern situation in mind. As it is now everybody keeps trying to fix the bullet wounds of failed design with bandaids like sandboxing, low rights mode, but at the end of the day the very concept of clicking on a link and suddenly getting code from a dozen sites you don't know and executing that code? its just a dumb idea.
I'm talking about the pre-buyout ecogreens, look for model numbers that show them pre buyout. The 2Tb is HD204UI and the 1Tb is HD103SI. If you grab pre-buyout they are great, post buyout are just Seagate crap.
Not to mention it appears they are still using voodoo like having to degauss drives instead of simply wiping them.
Nobody has yet to show they managed to get back even a single file from a modern drive after it has had a simple zero wipe yet all these "security sites" still hold onto old wive's tales that haven't been true since the days of the MFM drives! Protip: The reason you could recover files from those old drives? The motors were VERY inaccurate and could slip the tracks, thus leaving tracks after an erase cycle. A modern drive have tracks sooo small there is no way in hell its gonna be missing tracks, you'd know there were issues because the drive would fail before it would miss a track.
So I wonder how long voodoo from the age of DOS is gonna be taken as fact? An encrypted drive with a single wipe would insure there was zero data to recover and wouldn't be based on 30+ year old info, it would also deal with the real issue, the fact that there is no way to securely wipe an SSD that I know of, because SSDs don't "erase", just mark sectors as available to minimize writes.
Well from what I've seen it appears that this is the case, some users have been using the same lame passwords all over the place, with some of them foolish enough to use their yahoo mail AND their Yahoo mail password on some third party website and naturally when the website got boned the spammers starting trying out the passwords, hence the reset.
Anyway that is what I'm seeing at the shop, the customers that don't use the same password at every site aren't seeing any resets, neither have I and I have 3 yahoo accounts, but those that recycle the hell out of passwords are the ones having to do a reset. i really don't see how this can be blamed on yahoo, anymore than one should blame Windows for those morons that fall for the "Install this "codex" to see teh big tittiez!" malware scam.
The moral of the story? You can reset passwords but you just can't fix stupid.
Hell even the Wikipedia page they link to sucks, as it gives Ferdinand this credit "Porsche was an important contributor to the German war effort during World War II"..yeah, help to the allies! The amount of resources Porsche wasted on the Porsche Panzer and Porsche Tiger was just insane and as far as the Elefant? White Elefant more like it, but this video spells out the laundry list of fail that was the Ferdinand better than I can.
As for TFA? Who didn't know there were electric cars in the old days? before ICE became standardized pretty much everything was tried, from Steam to electric to every kind of fuel it was all tried at least once. Just as tablets were sold a decade before Apple figured out the right combo of UI and size so too did everyone see that a replacement for the horse would make a bloody mint, it just took Ford to figure out how to make one "good enough" and affordable to the masses. Its a cool bit of history but it wasn't anything "revolutionary", and while TFA is light on details I bet it was the battery that ultimately made it dead end, just as the pure electrics are today for those not living in a megacity.
BULLSHIT. Go to the wayback machine and look at a thread from 2003 (if they bothered to back any up) and compare to now. There hasn't been a thread reach 100 count in a good 4 years whereas before it was almost a daily occurrence and certainly a weekly one.
As for ACs? Again BULLSHIT, all ACs have done is make it so any troll or shill can derail a thread by simply sockpuppeting a couple of posts to make sure nobody talks bad about their employers! Go look at ANY story about the big three, Google,MSFT, or Apple, and see how quickly the ACs derail the threads, hell when it came to xbone you were lucky if you got more than 2 posts before an AC tried to switch the subject to Apple or Sony o ANYTHING other than the royal fucking the users were gonna get from the draconian policies MSFT was pushing.
So I'm sorry but it doesn't have a damned thing to do with nostalgia, it has to do with what was once a tech site becoming just another 4chan only frankly not as entertaining.
Oh please! The only ones that stabbed Netscape in the back WAS NETSCAPE, by putting out that abortion that was NS4. For those too young to have experienced it let me describe what running NS4 was like....Oh yay, its installed! So I'll just go to my favorite web.../crash/. oh well must have been a glitch, it happens. So I'll just go.../crash/. Huh, maybe it just don't like that site so I'll go.../hang followed by BSOD/..&^%*&%&^%!!!!!
How soon folks forget that you had to actually go out and download those first versions of IE, and download we did, NOT because we liked IE but because Netscape put out a broken mess! At least today we have choices, back then it was NS, IE, or a buggy ad ridden version of Opera that didn't work with most sites...wow, what a great selection we had. And for the record I don't use IE, after screwing us by letting IE 6 rot I switched away never to return.
What is sad to me (and I personally blame the allowing of AC posts and broken mod system, but that's another story) is how much lower the quality of threads are now. In the golden age the only AC posts you got were in the Penisbird GNAA vein and the majority of posts were insightful and would delve quite deeply into a subject. I remember being a part of 300+ threads on the advantages and disadvantages of various file systems, 200+ threads on string theory where guys from CERN would break down some of the more heady stuff for laymen like myself, hell even if you didn't agree you LEARNED and left knowing more than you knew before you got here.
Now? Now the only thing you'll learn is that Shill/Troll/Astroturfer is shorthand for "you disagree with me", that thanks to being able to AC bomb a thread its trivially easy for a real shill to divert a thread away from a topic negative to the parent corp, and that no matter what the topic or thread it quickly degrades into a 4chan level of posts, usually trashed by AC trolls spewing insults thus making sure no thread lasts beyond a couple dozen posts.
Sigh I've been looking high and low for a site that is actually nerdy but it seems like all the nerd sites have been replaced by Digg/Reddit/ FB style garbage. Surely there has to be a place out there where geeks can talk about science and tech without it being ruined by the channers, anybody know of such a place? OSNews is good for a few topics but holwerda rules the roost so only things he personally likes/dislikes will ever be there, surely there is someplace like the old /. out there?
We call that "penny wise and pound foolish" as I have NO doubt that when you crunch the numbers Atlanta just pissed down the drain several times what it would have cost to just show some common damned sense and shut things down when they should have.
In my area when the ice hit last month we went the exact opposite, we had salt trucks ready to go, we had city workers cutting down any limbs near lines, we had the local hotel full of electric company workers, did this cost money? Yep but ya know what? While other counties were having to send police to pick up little old ladies and ferry them to makeshift shelters because the power was out we didn't lose squat, we all sat in our nice warm homes and enjoyed Xmas.
If you fail to plan you plan to fail and because Atlanta was counting pennies they now will end up losing millions. Smart move Atlanta, maybe next time you'll err on the side of caution!
This does provide us with a most excellent opportunity though, in that it allows us to see which "news organizations" are really just Pravda style government mouthpieces. Take the whole bit with Assange, all those that INSTANTLY jumped from what the Wikileaks files showed about US dirty dealing to "ZOMFG he didn't use a condom, he's a rapist ZOMFG!" the second they got the chance to change the subject? Are just propaganda mouthpieces and if you look at their later work under that light its all the more obvious.
So just look for the ones that aren't saying a word about the NSA but are instead running "Is Snowden X?" with X being anything from traitor to spy to see which ones are just propaganda shops, but frankly the whole bit with Assange should have made it clear, this is merely confirmation at this point.
Kinda sad that we have gone from making fun of Soviet style mass scale media propaganda to having it ourselves, but maybe the whole "If you live long enough you become the villain" bit is true. I know it sure as hell doesn't look or act like the country I grew up in, or my grandfather fought Nazis to protect, that's for sure.
You are forgetting we have tactical nukes that can take out as little as a couple blocks, just perfect for a false flag. As for why they would use them? Because when the stock bubble bursts the US dollar will be worth about as much as a Zimbabwe buck and they'll have a re-enactment of the French revolution on their hands.
Why have they gotten away with all the shit they have pulled the past decade with barely a peep from the populace? Bread and circuses, a concept as old as empires. With the exception of the teabag nutters (who think they are all Andrew Ryan and can build a Randian "utopia" if they were just allowed to stomp them peasants, idiots forget the poor outnumber them a good 150k to 1) those in power know that a well fed and entertained populace is a docile one, hard to get somebody with a full belly and a roof over their head to riot.
That is all gonna change when the bubble pops, without being able to just print paychecks for the poor they are gonna have millions of people with no jobs, homes, no reason not to riot and THAT is when things will get ugly. I personally think the military will be the X factor, I know many soldiers and they care about the constitution, not protecting the riches of the elite. If they try to roll the tanks it is quite possible they will end up with another Libya, where half the military turned on their commanders.
Exactly and to blame Snowden is as ridiculous as blaming Assange for Blackwater, the USA CHOSE to cover up for scumbags, the NSA CHOSE to fuck over our friends by treating them no differently than we treated the USSR back in the day, all Assange and Snowden did was highlight how US taxpayer money was being flushed down the shitter.
This is why our two party system just doesn't work, because what we've seen is there is NO party for decreased spying and less government, NONE. What we need is a "USA First" party, one dedicated to staying the hell out of everybody else's business and taking care of our own people instead of propping up third world dictators. Instead we get "big bro" or "big mommy", two sides to the same wooden nickel.
Dude go buy an AMD Bobcat board and chunk that turkey, its just pissing through the power. the bobcat gives you dual cores at 1.7GHz (and an HD6310 if you care to do any GP-GPU tasks) and under full load it sucks less power than your P4 does idling by a good 400%+ (max on bobat is just 18w).
So unless the power is cheap to free there you'd be better off tossing the P4, netburst was a dead end that didn't give a shit about anything but raw clocks. The Atom can stomp a netburst P4 for the love of pete, those huge pipelines made its IPC just crazy low so all that power you are sucking? Just wasted energy, might as well be running a hot plate. The athlons from that period were decent, the first gen Core solo and duo were nice, but the one exception I make at the shop is netburst, that shit get relegated to the "get this cheap shit outta here" junk pile because that is what it is. you can get a Bobcat board for $80 and the increased IPC and lower power and heat will quickly pay for itself, toss the turkey man.
Well I go through a lot of drives at the shop and while I haven't had a chance to try the new 4Tb I can say their 1Tb, 1.5Tb, and 2Tb had a LOT of fails, enough that I actively avoid them now. Rumor has it that its caused by Maxtor shitty ARM chips and lousy firmware but that's rumor so who knows if its true.
From what I've seen, in order from least failures to most, Samsung (especially Ecogreens, they just seem to last and last), Hitachi, WD, and finally Seagate. Maybe their business side is better but on the consumer side their 500Gb drives are good but anything bigger than the 640Gb just seem to die.
Sadly it really doesn't matter now that Samsung and Hitachi have had their drive business bought by Seagate and WD so if you need real storage space? Gotta pick one of the other. The WD blues and greens seem to be decent ATM and the red NAS drives make good storage for HTPCs.
Why did he get modded down? MS Office hasn't sold a ton of copies because folks LIKE giving piles of money to MSFT, its because its one of those tools that works damned good for most small to large businesses.
As someone who sells computers to SMBs I keep trying LibreOffice, each time hoping it gets there so I can save my customers money and each time....sigh. For home users? It is fricking GREAT, does everything your home users would ever think to do, just perfect, but for business? Maybe it'll change with the ODF but under Sun it was obvious that Writer got all the love while their versions of Access, Visio, and Excel were left sucking hind tit. While writer has reached office 2K, maybe 2K3? The rest just doesn't cut the mustard. i'm sure the Excel and Access guys can chime in and list the reasons why it doesn't cut it but at the end of the day if a tool ain't right for a job it ain't right and LO as a suite just isn't anywhere close to MSO.
You just answered your own question, with the ARMs equaling a P4 from a decade ago whereas the jag is powerful enough to be the chip for the next gen consoles while using crazy small amounts of power, from what I read a jag sucks a couple watts more than a bobcat dual, so you are talking 20w max TDP for a quad core WITH all those GPU cores that can be used for GP-GPU or turned completely off to lower power with zero tech.
So I'm sorry to you Billy and the ARM fans but as of today the ONLY places where ARM makes sense is 1.- In mobile devices with tiny batteries, like phones, and 2.- In the embedded space where a couple of cents can be the difference between profit and loss. Everywhere else? Too little IPC for the power when compared to jag and Atom.
Except you are forgetting about AMD and how they have a total lock on the console space for the next 5 to 7 years which should keep plenty of money flowing towards the Jaguar. While I haven't gotten to play with jag yet I've built more systems using bobcat (the chip jag is based on) than I can count and its great, low power, long battery life, and does 1080P over HDMI. All reports indicate that jag improves on bobcat in every area, number of cores, power draw, and graphics muscle.
So unless they can figure out how to get serious IPC out of ARM the future isn't looking so bright, it'll be used in things where cost is the number 1 factor but in everything else? It'll probably be X86. And considering I've been picking up bobcat boards for $80 and looking on Tiger the quad jag laptops are going for just $350 the price advantage of ARM may end up in the really REALLY low end, we are talking the sub $100 space, where profits are measured in pennies. Not a great market to be stuck in.
But again what EXACTLY does this give you over AMD's current offerings? Low power? nope the Jaguar has that beat. High IPC? Nope Opteron curbstomps them, so what EXACTLY are these for? After all there is a hell of a lot more X86 code for server than there is ARM and whether you are gonna run Java or not there is still gonna be bugs and headaches with switching arches, its not like every bit of code is gonna work perfectly with better efficiency than it had before.
So what am I missing here? Because other than having a checkbox that says ARM, which IMHO is a couple years too late for the party thanks to Jag and Atom, what market does this serve? Is there a market for ARM chips that suck MORE power than their Jaguar units, but less than the Opteron? The jag is actually a nice chip ya know, so I really don't see what the selling point is on these chips.
Which is why I don't get this chip. After all they have the Jaguar for ULV applications, Opteron for when you need more horsepower, what good are these ARM units?
And I'm sorry ARM fans but as we keep seeing ARM just doesn't scale, you bump up the IPC and you blow the power budget, which is why I've been saying for awhile that days of "ARM Mania" will be quickly coming to an end. Folks want their handhelds to perform like an HTPC in their pocket and that means high instructions per second which ARM can't do without blowing through the power. This is why Nvidia is up to 5 cores, Samsung to 6, because ARM just doesn't scale. Its gonna be easier for AMD and Intel to cut X86 down with jaguar and Atom than it is to get ARM to scale.
So I just don't get what the market for this is exactly. Most server code is X86 anyway, be it wintel or Linux, so you are talking about some serious expense porting it over and with jaguar on the low end and Opteron on the high? Well i just don't see a huge market for ARM servers, am I missing something?
Uhhhh...having trouble following the conversation friend? The point of a DAW is that they don't have these problems whereas software based recording? i don't care if you buy PC or Mac it will ALWAYS have issues compared to a dedicated unit.
Fostex, Alesis, and Yamaha all make damned good AIO DAW units for those starting out and for many bands? They can be all that you need. Since the band I'm playing with now is a trio frankly any decent 4 track at a time unit works well, we have a Fostex 4 track for the practice space and then the studio we use has a much nicer Yamaha 16 track that we use to lay down the songs we are doing for the new CD. We usually record live for the base track with scratch vocals and guitar and then go back and layer the real vocals and guitar tracks. this lets us keep the feel and groove we get when playing live while letting us try new leads, alternate bass lines, best of both worlds and works great for us and unless the guy is trying to record some huge 6 or 7 piece band will probably work well for him too.