Problem is what is high res this year is mainstream next and in the cheapie aisle a year after that. When I started playing with cameras 0.03 MP was the norm and 2 MP cost an arm and a leg,heck even my 2011 phone is 3.2 MP . Now its getting really hard to find anything under 3 MP and 10 MP is becoming mainstream, next year I wouldn't be surprised to see 12 MP or higher become default.
And? I never understood why this so called "IP" deserves to be treated differently than regular property. Does Ford get a cut of every used Ford ever sold? Does Joe the carpenter get a cut every time a house he built changes hands for decades?
Of course not and that is because IP is bullshit and has given rise to "forever minus a single day" copyrights and to the wholesale theft of our public domain. Hell Doyle has been dead longer than most of us has been alive yet it is only coming out of copyright NOW? Copyrights were a contract between the artist and We,The People to gain a richer public domain while allowing the artist to make a living on his/her art. That contract is broken and until REAL reforms happen, such as ONLY the artist being allowed to hold their copyrights and for ONLY the length of time in the original law? Well like any other unjust law it should be disobeyed and ignored until We,The People get a seat at the negotiations again.
Do you HAVE a point, or did you just feel like mumbling a bunch of gibberish for some reason?
Please do explain to me what EXACTLY your post has to do with mine, or how it in ANY way addresses my post which was about how using credits/points instead of simply taking money is fucked up? Because i honestly can't even see any kind of thought in your post, just a rambling "its charity so you suck" without any kind of explanation or thought to go along with it.
As I said I have no problem with games for charity and have both my Steam account and the accounts of my friends overflowing with games thanks to all the Humble Bundles but this site adds complexity for no reason and from what I've seen the "ur doin it wrong" meme fits them to a T as it just makes things more complex for no discernible benefit. As i pointed out there is a reason why points/credits systems went out of style, they were mostly used to scam or hide the true cost and were a big PITA with no advantages to the end user. Tell me what EXACTLY this points systems does that makes it in ANY way, shape, or form better than what the Humble Bundles do now? After all with the HBs you can decide how much each charity gets, you can see quickly and easily what the minimum donation is, its simply a better setup than this one. Even the one "advantage" someone tried to claim, that it gives 100% to charity? All you have to do with HBs is slide the slider all the way to the right for whatever charity and they get 100%, only with HBs you can also divide that among multiple charities.
So sorry but charity or no stupid design is still stupid.
Well if they do it right it can be damned nice and useful. I have a EEE netbook that has both Win 7 X64 and Expressgate and I have to say that when i just need to check my email, find out some quick fact, do a price check on a part for a customer? Having an OS that is ready to go in under 6 seconds is pretty damned handy.
So don't think of it as a "dual boot", think of it as a fast limited mobile OS and a bigger slower full featured OS where you choose what would be best for your needs at that moment. If done right this could fix my one complaint about Expressgate, which was how big of a PITA it was to add new apps. If I could get the speed of Expressgate combined with the ease of adding apps through Google Play? Sounds like a winner to me. Its just too bad it'll probably be impossible for guys like me to simply replace Expressgate with Android as I'm quite happy with my netbook and really don't see a point on sinking a pile of money for a new unit when this one runs great.
You know what I find hilarious? How many foolishly believed they could fix a corrupt system by voting within that system. I told folks when the first "Obama Fever" spread through the land that he would be NO different than President Shrub or McSame and that his motto should really be "Yes We Can! (But I won't)" but did they listen?
Well I hope that all the bribery, kickbacks, NSA spying, curtailing of liberties, etc has taught you all a valuable lesson. The lesson is simple folks, you can't change a corrupted system from within....because its corrupted, duh! All you can do is grab as much as you can for yourself before the stock market bubble bursts because when it does? It'll make the great depression look like a flash crash.
As for TFA? Samsung didn't throw enough bribes at the CREP and so got screwed, just as those that threw money in his cup like Solyndra got billions in "free money". Like any other corrupted system only those that bribe the right people benefit, surprise surprise. Hows that "Hope and Change" working out?
Uhhhh...you DO know there are these things called "PC Shops", that pretty much every town has one, and the vast majority are more than happy to do the work FOR you,yes? You don't even need to know anything about parts as you can just walk in and say "I want a PC that does X, here is what I want to spend" and we'll be happy to sit down and go through the options and help you pick what is best for YOU, and what YOUR needs are,yes?
I just love how so many try to make it a false choice between some POS Dell and doing everything by hand. Frankly even figuring the cost of paying a shop guy like me to put one together you can get a monster for a LOT cheaper than anything from Apple inc. For example look at this Core i7 monster. You figure in the cost of an HD7790 or HD7850, Win 7 X64 and having somebody like me put it together? You'd still end up cheaper than some gimped imac or Macbook.
Yeah but all these bullshit articles misses the point and why the PC is frankly better for most of us and that is the fact that YOU get to decide what you need and YOU get to decide what is most important to YOUR way of doing things instead of being told by Apple Inc what you should and shouldn't have!
Take the system I'm typing this on...I wanted a system that would start out easy on the wallet, but could ramp up with me, that had plenty of upgrade room down the line, and because of their frankly antitrust worthy compiler rigging and OEM bribing I didn't want to go Intel. So I ended up with an AMD dual and later upgraded to a hexacore. Plenty of power for my A/V editing and plenty of horse for my gaming, the ability to go Crossfire down the line, It does everything I need and more, plenty of space at 3TB, and 8Gb of RAM means Win 7 has al my most used cached into memory.
What would have been my "choice" if I had went to Apple with those requirements? A fricking iPad, which would have been completely worthless for what I wanted to do. Sure a $10K Mac pro could do the same job, but it would be a waste of money and would spend most of its time idling. this way i have the amount of power I need and that $9300 is better off in my pocket than in Apple Inc's coffers. The simple fact is most of us aren't processing raw RED camera footage so the Mac pro would be total overkill and if you don't mind a little DIY (or you can just ask your friendly neighborhood PC shop to do it, most of us are happy to throw kits together) you can get an octocore for $450 after MIR, just slap in a copy of Win 7 and there ya go, a nice system for under $600. For most even this would be overkill so for those folks I usually recommend something like this triple core for $250 although I usually pick an Asrock board (as I've been seeing better than 70% unlocks on the Athlon triples so they get a Phenom II quad for the price of an Athlon triple) but this will do most folks for the rest of the decade easy.
The problem with Apple is their "Our way or the highway" where you are SOL if your need doesn't fit into one of only a couple use cases and thanks to everything being locked down its not like you can pick up a system and then just add what you need. My system started as an Athlon X2 with 2Gb of RAM and an HD3450 GPU, now its an X6 with 8Gb and an HD7750, no need to replace the system, no need to reinstall the OS and programs, it "just fits".
But the fact that the guy even has to ask? Just shows the site be fucked up dude.
I mean a fricking points system? That is what the cigarette companies use so you don't realize how many packs of smokes you went through to get that windbreaker. Having a charity use a points system which lets be honest folks, all those points systems are designed to fuck you by making sure your points versus what you want never add up thus making you buy more points, just makes the whole thing look and sound shady.
I have NO problem with gaming for charity, in fact my Steam is overloaded with games thanks to all the Humble Bundles I've bought in the last 6 months, but sleazy tactics like point systems really shouldn't be involved. There is no reason why they couldn't set a minimum like the Humble or Indie Royale, but points systems? That's just tacky.
It was the same thing with USPS and Fed Ex, its like they used the ice storm a few weeks back as an excuse not to do anything. I know I had some packages in south Texas that sat in the facility until I went down and complained and i had a friend IN south Texas to report the road conditions to me and she said the roads in that area were completely clear within 24 hours. BTW these were packages sent out the first week after Black Friday, so not like it was anywhere close to "last minute".
I don't know WTF was going on behind the scenes at the big three but its something they aren't telling us, as I can't picture all three companies having a case of "sit on ass" all at once like that.
Actually as long as they are not on windows 8/8.1? Old Hairy can show you how to make "Windows Washing" as you call it trivial. It'll only take you a few minutes to clean and about an hour to do initial setup. Its so easy that for those whom I've set up this way I charge a flat $40 for any windows washing they need on the unit, its so quick and easy...ready?
1.- Install Comodo Internet Security and be sure to say YES when it comes to having it install Comodo Dragon, you'll see why in a minute. Set Comodo IS to "paranoid mode". 2.- Install Comodo Time Machine and lock the first snapshot. also in the options set it to make a snapshot daily and have it set to dump snapshots older than 30 days. 3.- Toss any links to IE, making sure its nowhere to be seen. For extra performance turn off system restore.
Now what this setup has done is make an encrypted backup with a daily snapshot (in case something manages to get through) while every process and the browser is run by default in a sandbox and treated as suspect. Using this system I've had customers that USED to get every bug, the FBI bug, the Security Tool variants, all the nasties, now? I maybe hear from them one every 6 months (when they refuse to listen to the AV and try to install something dodgy) and it takes less than 20 minutes to restore them back to health. watch how easy it is, I have even walked some over the phone when i didn't have time..1.- reboot system, 2.-When you see the big clock on the screen? Hit the home key, 3.- Pick a day before they screwed up...its THAT easy.
As for the E350? I consider it one of the great little secrets, its like the raspberry pi of X86, you can do so many different things. You can use something like the OpenELEC Fusion Build to make it into an instant HTPC/Roku/Media tank, slap a PCI to IDE? You can pop them into just about any old office box for an instant upgrade. Need a cheap file server? Media Server? Netbox? Not a problem. Hell I even play some light gaming like Torchlight II, GTA Vice City, The Portal games, there are even YouTube vids of guys playing Crysis on E350s with the bling lowered and getting playable framerates.
If you do get one? The one bit of advice i can NOT stress enough is get the fastest RAM the board will take because with an APU the RAM speed DOES matter, you can get as much as 30% more oomph out of one by pairing it with decently fast RAM. I swapped out the 2Gb of 1066 mine came with for 8Gb of 1333 and it was like upgrading the whole system, everything that was skippy went smooth and the things that were choking became usable. Also be DAMN SURE to use the latest drivers, especially in Windows and take the optional codec installs. AMD has optimized codecs that will move a lot of the heavy lifting to the GPU and with the E series it does make a difference.
Anyway I hope your medical situation works itself out and any questions feel free to shoot me an email, but I would have no problem recommending a Bobcat to a member of my family as they really are great little chips.
I'm referring to the fact that you can render the exact same scene with 2 GPUs and there WILL be minor differences, even though we are talking about the exact same frame and the exact same data.
The reason that is is because not only is there no ECC RAM on the GPU but the chips themselves aren't as rigorously vetted like in the pro chips and even the software and firmware is set up for getting pure FPS over perfect accuracy. There is a reason why the pro cards are so high and its NOT economy of scale, nor is it marketing, its because the ones that end up in the pro boards are so called "golden binned" chips, those that come out as close to absolutely perfect as can be, then the ECC and software simply reinforce accuracy over speed which is the polar opposite of a consumer chip. Its no different than how the top of the line AMD octocore and their bottom of the line hexacore are in reality one and the same chip but in the latter case its had one or more cores (for whatever reason) switched off and simply can't clock as high as a golden binned octocore.
So its the difference between a top o' the line Core i7 and a Celeron, sure at the "core" (pardon the pun) they look similar, might even be able to do similar jobs in some cases, but one has had a hell of a lot more QA and QC applied and a lot more care in construction. Sure you can mine with a consumer GPU but would you REALLY want to bet your company on the figures computed on consumer GPUs?
Uhhh...the price drops in CONSUMER GPUs, you know, the thing you play the shooty boomy games on? those are NOT what you use to compute your multimillion dollar DBs on, not unless you have no problem with 1+1 occasionally equaling 4.
The cards you use for the kind of number crunching in TFA would be your Tesla and FirePro cards and ya know what? The price on those does NOT drop quickly, just the opposite in fact with cards that are a couple of gen behind still fetching high dollar. You really can't compare the two, one has massive economies of scale while the other is a teeny tiny niche.
Well hell if THAT is the only metric that matters I need to brush up on my VB as its doing great, right up there with Python as a matter of fact.
That said maybe I'm weird but I never understood the "Is X dying" and "Is Y gaining in popularity" I mean who gives a shit? Does it do what you need it to? Can you get your project completed using it? then STFU and use the dang thing, quit acting like a Valley girl chasing trends already! I mean you don't see the engineers going "ZOMFG my VHDL is as out of fashion as an iPhone 3!"/swoon/. So quit caring so damned much about whether the other little programmers will let you play their reindeer games and just use what works already!
Why EXACTLY is this marked flamebait? Does nobody remember their history? Might want to look up the soviet Atoll missile, such a perfect copy of the sidewinder that you could mix and match parts, Or the Israeli Mirage 5 copy made from stolen plans.
Countries spy on each other folks, they have since the dawn of time. When country A spies on country B what do you thinking they are spying ON, that they are spying on buildings? They spy on the citizens of the other country that will most likely have the info they are trying to gather, that is kinda the point.
The reason American citizens should be having a shitfit can be summed up in a single word, COINTELPRO where dissent against things the government (or members of) supported, like suppressing blacks or the Vietnam war was actively attacked and those they thought were a threat like Fred Hampton were straight up executed. The first step is always intelligence gathering, followed by suppression and intimidation. For a comparison of how the modern moves the USA is making compares to societies that went from being free to being oppressed I'd strongly suggest watching this lecture. It is for THIS reason we should attack the NSA policies, not because they tried to find out if somebody in another country was/is a threat, that is what their original purpose WAS after all.
Well I can tell you that I have built several systems using the E350, both as media tanks and as office boxes and they frankly run rings around the P4, especially the late 478 and early 775 units that most offices have and honestly they use less power with the whole board at 100% load than the P4 by itself does. I liked the chip enough I got rid of my full size laptop 3 years ago for a EEE netbook running an E350 and its great, I can just plug an HDMI cable in and turn it into a portable HTPC in seconds and even after 3 years I still get over 4 hours on the battery, it just sips power.
That said this chip is NOT for graphics processing, playing 3D shooters and the like, its just not got the horse for that. A much better choice if you want to go with the heavier programs would be a socket FM2 setup but those will also cost you more than double what the Bobcat does, both in price and power usage. But if you simply need to replace aging XP units with something that 1.- Has support for Win 7/8 OOTB, 2.- is VERY affordable, 3.- Does all the jobs your average office box does and does them well, and 4.- Saves electricity? You really can't go wrong with the Bobcats, they are a sweet deal few know about. And as far as XP VMs go it has native hardware virtualization as well as XP drivers for all the hardware so its really trivial to use either XP mode or just turn their old XP installs into VMs and run them on the Bobcat.
No you are idiots for sticking with a badly creaky OS that was NEVER designed with a thought about security that is about to be abandoned. That is pretty damned stupid any way you slice it. I mean if MSFT still put out patches for Win98 would you HONESTLY be standing here and arguing for keeping Win98, really? So why shouldn't people be pointing fingers and laughing when you advocate for an OS just 3 years removed from 98SE?
Look XP was good back in its day, but its day was pre slammer, pre netsky, pre code red. it was a completely different landscape then, where the biggest nasty you'd find on a system is that big purple monkey being annoying. Today malware is a billion dollar business and your hacked system can be turned into anything from a bitcoin miner to child porn server....and you want to keep an OS from 2001 designed to run as admin and which didn't even have its firewall turned on by default until service pack 2? An OS that will happily run anything from anywhere with the same credentials as the user because nobody thought to be fine grained when it came to permissions? Well considering the fact that they cooked up ActiveX, which let pretty much any page on the web have low level access to the system it really shouldn't be a surprise, but people fighting to keep that old POS and actually betting million dollar companies on it? That part IS surprising.
So yeah I think calling someone who has hundreds of XP systems in Dec 2013 an idiot is frankly being a little tame, suicidal stupid and a lawsuit waiting to happen? Much better choices I think.
Because server OSes typically get 10 years (which is what XP X64 really is, its just WinServer 2K3 64bit with an XP shell) so its right on time for EOL?
And I too ran XP X64 from RTM - Win 7 RTM, skipping Vista on my home system and it is WELL worth the upgrade friend, Win 7 runs rings around XP X64. For one thing win 7 has a sane memory manager, like XP XP X64 will start pimpslapping swap even with plenty of memory left while Win 7 will try to avoid swap and will use unneeded memory for caching to help speed up response. There is the increased security of low rights mode browsing and running everything under user instead of admin, breadcrumbs and jumplists make it trivial to get back to what you were doing previously and its more in depth performance tools make it a lot easier to hunt down bottlenecks.
All in all I'd say Win 7 X64 is a worthy upgrade, certainly a hell of a lot more than "LULZ I Iz a Cellphone LULZ" Windows 8.
What reasons are those? If its money you should know those old Pentium 4s (which in my exp at the shop is the majority chip when it comes to old XP boxen) are sucking up power and blowing through your cooling like a drunk hitting a free minibar so they are COSTING you money, not saving it.
I have had excellent luck replacing those aging P4 boards with AMD Bobcat boards. They are faster than a P4, gives you an APU that will do 1080P over HDMI, and most importantly for your wallet uses less under 100% load than a P4 does idling, just 18w under full load. Use that PCI slot to add a PCI to IDE and you an even keep your old drives if you wish, thus saving even more money.
Old software? Win 7 Pro has XP Mode and the Bobcat supports hardware VM acceleration so that isn't really an excuse. In fact the only software I've so far run into I couldn't VM was a customer's Macromedia Xres and that is because that ancient POS is soooo old (1997) that it doesn't seem to like anything above a 2.5Ghz or above an IDE HDD, something about the way it swaps.
So there really is no excuse to keep XP, the old boxes didn't care about power wasting or heat while a modern chip uses a tiny amount compared to the useful work you get, there is plenty of software out there that will turn that old XP install into a much safer VM, and most software will run better even on an ultra cheap like the bobcat over those cycle wasting power pigs of the mid 00s.
Have you tried Comodo AV? You seem like you know what you are doing and Comodo AV lets you get more fine grained than any AV that I have seen. You can tweak the sandbox, the scanning engine, you can tweak pretty much every single behavior of the entire thing so it does what YOU want it to. The reason I don't hand it to my PEBKAC users is that it isn't very hand holding, it treats you like an adult that at least understands a tiny bit about security which AV like Avira and Avast don't.
As far as Avast its gotten too nasty about yanking the board out of your hand, if I tell it to do something it should do so, not ignore my instructions. Avira can be tweaked to not be so "chatty" just as you can with Avast but if they have any basic understanding its Comodo they get.
Not if we have evidence that he has accepted bribes in the past to do that very thing which we do have now.
Its no different than how a review is required of every single case a cop was involved in if it turns out the cop was dirty because from that moment on everything that cop did in the past is now suspect. Pretty much everything RSA has ever done now is gonna have to be picked at with a fine tooth comb or even more likely tossed, because how do we know that they weren't on the NSA's payroll when they came up with them? We don't and that is why its junk now. hope that 10 mil was worth it guys, as your life's work is now worthless shit.
Here is what I personally don't get and since I'm not a crypto guy maybe I'm missing something but here goes...it looks like all these attacks come from using a RNG that has been rigged to be less than random, but why use their RNG when there are so many sources of randomness in the world?
There is the background radiation of the universe for starters, and how many webcams are freely accessible in heavily trafficked public places? It shouldn't be hard to write a program that does a quick head count, multiple that by the dollar amount of the biggest box office draw last week. How many letters is in headlines of the top 60 newspapers on the planet? Multiple that by the amount of temp detected by 30 weather stations and divide by the number of folks who went to see the fourth most popular movie yesterday squared by the ratings of the most popular reality show.
Yes i'm being silly but hopefully I'm being silly with a point, with so much random data for free on the net,everything from how many stocks sold on the NYSE for the top ten stocks to how many people watched The Daily Show it just seems to me it wouldn't be hard to pick a dozen out of a thousand different sources followed by a roulette wheel of multiply/divide/add/subtract and end up with a number that is random without needing to count on any third party program. How many vowels and consonants are in this thread? Divide by punctuation and multiply by number of posts by ACs with a troll label, ought to be pretty dang random.
I have an even better question....how much of the stuff did he just ignore what MSE told him and kept on installing? How much was an actual failure, IE a drive by or zero warning from MSE, and how much was deliberate PEBKAC?
As a PC builder and repairman I have more exp than most when it comes to bugs and AVs (disclosure, I give customers Comodo or Avira, depending on how big PEBKAC they are) and I use MSE on my gaming system and here is the thing...while MSE will TELL you, it won't yank the keyboard out of your hand and slap your wrists. You can say "I choose to ignore this" and click a single button and bypass the block. Now some AVs very much WILL yank the keyboard from you, in fact I recently stopped giving out Avast because it had gotten SO aggressive that even if you told it that it was a false positive and to let it run? it would just straight up ignore you.
But here is the two things you must keep in mind if you choose to run MSE, 1.- It don't do shit as far as webpages, in fact I don't think I have ever seen MSE block single webpage no matter what was on it, so using a browser that runs in low rights mode is a must, and 2.- It was originally Giant AntiSpy and so that is what it works best on, its not really any good at blocking the social engineering based attacks we see a lot today, the "Hey its your BFF (insert name) on (insert chat client) and I found this great page, just click here!" where the person is then led to a page full of zero days type of attack.
That said frankly you shouldn't be giving MSE to your clueless types anyway, that is what a sandboxing AV like Comodo or one that holds their hand like Avira is best at, what MSE is for is for your non clueless who aren't gonna be doing PEBKAC shit and just want a lightweight AV to scan executables and add another layer to their defenses. It was never designed to be the end all be all, you got half a dozen free AVs that do that particular job VERY well, but all of them do HELL of a lot more scanning and thus take up more cycles, and when I'm gaming or editing audio/video? I NEED those cycles, thanks anyway.
My Win 7 system has been running ME since RTM in Oct 09 and its clean as a whistle, then again I run a low rights browser with ABP (a good 85% of bugs IME come from infected ads), don't run strange executables and don't click on email links either. If you are smart enough to show common sense on the web? MSE is fine. if not? Comodo, Avira, Avast, you have choices.
Sorry gotta throw a flag, bullshit on the field. One was an enemy government with significant R&D invested in crypto so keeping the fact you broke said crypto made sense, the other is a bunch of frankly religious whack-a-doodles that have shown us that brains and even common sense? Not really a requirement and in fact probably a hindrance.
From what we have seen the shoe bomber and underwear bomber seem more the rule than exception and if there is one thing we can take away from Snowden as well as history (COINTELPRO ring any bells?) its that if they say its rainy you better get proof because their word? not really worth squat.
Dude what EXACTLY is left to "refocus"? The company has been bleeding money, the only real selling point they had, American made and supported, just went down the shitter and thanks to the NSA nobody in business is gonna trust jack shit when it comes to communications originating in the USA.
Lets face it, BB is screwed. They sat on ass for too long and let Android and OSX drink their milkshake. Their one chance would be maybe breaking it up for parts be "taking the for sale sign down" translates to "nobody would buy the company" so even that is a no go.
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Problem is what is high res this year is mainstream next and in the cheapie aisle a year after that. When I started playing with cameras 0.03 MP was the norm and 2 MP cost an arm and a leg,heck even my 2011 phone is 3.2 MP . Now its getting really hard to find anything under 3 MP and 10 MP is becoming mainstream, next year I wouldn't be surprised to see 12 MP or higher become default.
And? I never understood why this so called "IP" deserves to be treated differently than regular property. Does Ford get a cut of every used Ford ever sold? Does Joe the carpenter get a cut every time a house he built changes hands for decades?
Of course not and that is because IP is bullshit and has given rise to "forever minus a single day" copyrights and to the wholesale theft of our public domain. Hell Doyle has been dead longer than most of us has been alive yet it is only coming out of copyright NOW? Copyrights were a contract between the artist and We,The People to gain a richer public domain while allowing the artist to make a living on his/her art. That contract is broken and until REAL reforms happen, such as ONLY the artist being allowed to hold their copyrights and for ONLY the length of time in the original law? Well like any other unjust law it should be disobeyed and ignored until We,The People get a seat at the negotiations again.
Do you HAVE a point, or did you just feel like mumbling a bunch of gibberish for some reason?
Please do explain to me what EXACTLY your post has to do with mine, or how it in ANY way addresses my post which was about how using credits/points instead of simply taking money is fucked up? Because i honestly can't even see any kind of thought in your post, just a rambling "its charity so you suck" without any kind of explanation or thought to go along with it.
As I said I have no problem with games for charity and have both my Steam account and the accounts of my friends overflowing with games thanks to all the Humble Bundles but this site adds complexity for no reason and from what I've seen the "ur doin it wrong" meme fits them to a T as it just makes things more complex for no discernible benefit. As i pointed out there is a reason why points/credits systems went out of style, they were mostly used to scam or hide the true cost and were a big PITA with no advantages to the end user. Tell me what EXACTLY this points systems does that makes it in ANY way, shape, or form better than what the Humble Bundles do now? After all with the HBs you can decide how much each charity gets, you can see quickly and easily what the minimum donation is, its simply a better setup than this one. Even the one "advantage" someone tried to claim, that it gives 100% to charity? All you have to do with HBs is slide the slider all the way to the right for whatever charity and they get 100%, only with HBs you can also divide that among multiple charities.
So sorry but charity or no stupid design is still stupid.
Well if they do it right it can be damned nice and useful. I have a EEE netbook that has both Win 7 X64 and Expressgate and I have to say that when i just need to check my email, find out some quick fact, do a price check on a part for a customer? Having an OS that is ready to go in under 6 seconds is pretty damned handy.
So don't think of it as a "dual boot", think of it as a fast limited mobile OS and a bigger slower full featured OS where you choose what would be best for your needs at that moment. If done right this could fix my one complaint about Expressgate, which was how big of a PITA it was to add new apps. If I could get the speed of Expressgate combined with the ease of adding apps through Google Play? Sounds like a winner to me. Its just too bad it'll probably be impossible for guys like me to simply replace Expressgate with Android as I'm quite happy with my netbook and really don't see a point on sinking a pile of money for a new unit when this one runs great.
You know what I find hilarious? How many foolishly believed they could fix a corrupt system by voting within that system. I told folks when the first "Obama Fever" spread through the land that he would be NO different than President Shrub or McSame and that his motto should really be "Yes We Can! (But I won't)" but did they listen?
Well I hope that all the bribery, kickbacks, NSA spying, curtailing of liberties, etc has taught you all a valuable lesson. The lesson is simple folks, you can't change a corrupted system from within....because its corrupted, duh! All you can do is grab as much as you can for yourself before the stock market bubble bursts because when it does? It'll make the great depression look like a flash crash.
As for TFA? Samsung didn't throw enough bribes at the CREP and so got screwed, just as those that threw money in his cup like Solyndra got billions in "free money". Like any other corrupted system only those that bribe the right people benefit, surprise surprise. Hows that "Hope and Change" working out?
Uhhhh...you DO know there are these things called "PC Shops", that pretty much every town has one, and the vast majority are more than happy to do the work FOR you,yes? You don't even need to know anything about parts as you can just walk in and say "I want a PC that does X, here is what I want to spend" and we'll be happy to sit down and go through the options and help you pick what is best for YOU, and what YOUR needs are,yes?
I just love how so many try to make it a false choice between some POS Dell and doing everything by hand. Frankly even figuring the cost of paying a shop guy like me to put one together you can get a monster for a LOT cheaper than anything from Apple inc. For example look at this Core i7 monster. You figure in the cost of an HD7790 or HD7850, Win 7 X64 and having somebody like me put it together? You'd still end up cheaper than some gimped imac or Macbook.
Yeah but all these bullshit articles misses the point and why the PC is frankly better for most of us and that is the fact that YOU get to decide what you need and YOU get to decide what is most important to YOUR way of doing things instead of being told by Apple Inc what you should and shouldn't have!
Take the system I'm typing this on...I wanted a system that would start out easy on the wallet, but could ramp up with me, that had plenty of upgrade room down the line, and because of their frankly antitrust worthy compiler rigging and OEM bribing I didn't want to go Intel. So I ended up with an AMD dual and later upgraded to a hexacore. Plenty of power for my A/V editing and plenty of horse for my gaming, the ability to go Crossfire down the line, It does everything I need and more, plenty of space at 3TB, and 8Gb of RAM means Win 7 has al my most used cached into memory.
What would have been my "choice" if I had went to Apple with those requirements? A fricking iPad, which would have been completely worthless for what I wanted to do. Sure a $10K Mac pro could do the same job, but it would be a waste of money and would spend most of its time idling. this way i have the amount of power I need and that $9300 is better off in my pocket than in Apple Inc's coffers. The simple fact is most of us aren't processing raw RED camera footage so the Mac pro would be total overkill and if you don't mind a little DIY (or you can just ask your friendly neighborhood PC shop to do it, most of us are happy to throw kits together) you can get an octocore for $450 after MIR, just slap in a copy of Win 7 and there ya go, a nice system for under $600. For most even this would be overkill so for those folks I usually recommend something like this triple core for $250 although I usually pick an Asrock board (as I've been seeing better than 70% unlocks on the Athlon triples so they get a Phenom II quad for the price of an Athlon triple) but this will do most folks for the rest of the decade easy.
The problem with Apple is their "Our way or the highway" where you are SOL if your need doesn't fit into one of only a couple use cases and thanks to everything being locked down its not like you can pick up a system and then just add what you need. My system started as an Athlon X2 with 2Gb of RAM and an HD3450 GPU, now its an X6 with 8Gb and an HD7750, no need to replace the system, no need to reinstall the OS and programs, it "just fits".
But the fact that the guy even has to ask? Just shows the site be fucked up dude.
I mean a fricking points system? That is what the cigarette companies use so you don't realize how many packs of smokes you went through to get that windbreaker. Having a charity use a points system which lets be honest folks, all those points systems are designed to fuck you by making sure your points versus what you want never add up thus making you buy more points, just makes the whole thing look and sound shady.
I have NO problem with gaming for charity, in fact my Steam is overloaded with games thanks to all the Humble Bundles I've bought in the last 6 months, but sleazy tactics like point systems really shouldn't be involved. There is no reason why they couldn't set a minimum like the Humble or Indie Royale, but points systems? That's just tacky.
It was the same thing with USPS and Fed Ex, its like they used the ice storm a few weeks back as an excuse not to do anything. I know I had some packages in south Texas that sat in the facility until I went down and complained and i had a friend IN south Texas to report the road conditions to me and she said the roads in that area were completely clear within 24 hours. BTW these were packages sent out the first week after Black Friday, so not like it was anywhere close to "last minute".
I don't know WTF was going on behind the scenes at the big three but its something they aren't telling us, as I can't picture all three companies having a case of "sit on ass" all at once like that.
Actually as long as they are not on windows 8/8.1? Old Hairy can show you how to make "Windows Washing" as you call it trivial. It'll only take you a few minutes to clean and about an hour to do initial setup. Its so easy that for those whom I've set up this way I charge a flat $40 for any windows washing they need on the unit, its so quick and easy...ready?
1.- Install Comodo Internet Security and be sure to say YES when it comes to having it install Comodo Dragon, you'll see why in a minute. Set Comodo IS to "paranoid mode". 2.- Install Comodo Time Machine and lock the first snapshot. also in the options set it to make a snapshot daily and have it set to dump snapshots older than 30 days. 3.- Toss any links to IE, making sure its nowhere to be seen. For extra performance turn off system restore.
Now what this setup has done is make an encrypted backup with a daily snapshot (in case something manages to get through) while every process and the browser is run by default in a sandbox and treated as suspect. Using this system I've had customers that USED to get every bug, the FBI bug, the Security Tool variants, all the nasties, now? I maybe hear from them one every 6 months (when they refuse to listen to the AV and try to install something dodgy) and it takes less than 20 minutes to restore them back to health. watch how easy it is, I have even walked some over the phone when i didn't have time..1.- reboot system, 2.-When you see the big clock on the screen? Hit the home key, 3.- Pick a day before they screwed up...its THAT easy.
As for the E350? I consider it one of the great little secrets, its like the raspberry pi of X86, you can do so many different things. You can use something like the OpenELEC Fusion Build to make it into an instant HTPC/Roku/Media tank, slap a PCI to IDE? You can pop them into just about any old office box for an instant upgrade. Need a cheap file server? Media Server? Netbox? Not a problem. Hell I even play some light gaming like Torchlight II, GTA Vice City, The Portal games, there are even YouTube vids of guys playing Crysis on E350s with the bling lowered and getting playable framerates.
If you do get one? The one bit of advice i can NOT stress enough is get the fastest RAM the board will take because with an APU the RAM speed DOES matter, you can get as much as 30% more oomph out of one by pairing it with decently fast RAM. I swapped out the 2Gb of 1066 mine came with for 8Gb of 1333 and it was like upgrading the whole system, everything that was skippy went smooth and the things that were choking became usable. Also be DAMN SURE to use the latest drivers, especially in Windows and take the optional codec installs. AMD has optimized codecs that will move a lot of the heavy lifting to the GPU and with the E series it does make a difference.
Anyway I hope your medical situation works itself out and any questions feel free to shoot me an email, but I would have no problem recommending a Bobcat to a member of my family as they really are great little chips.
I'm referring to the fact that you can render the exact same scene with 2 GPUs and there WILL be minor differences, even though we are talking about the exact same frame and the exact same data.
The reason that is is because not only is there no ECC RAM on the GPU but the chips themselves aren't as rigorously vetted like in the pro chips and even the software and firmware is set up for getting pure FPS over perfect accuracy. There is a reason why the pro cards are so high and its NOT economy of scale, nor is it marketing, its because the ones that end up in the pro boards are so called "golden binned" chips, those that come out as close to absolutely perfect as can be, then the ECC and software simply reinforce accuracy over speed which is the polar opposite of a consumer chip. Its no different than how the top of the line AMD octocore and their bottom of the line hexacore are in reality one and the same chip but in the latter case its had one or more cores (for whatever reason) switched off and simply can't clock as high as a golden binned octocore.
So its the difference between a top o' the line Core i7 and a Celeron, sure at the "core" (pardon the pun) they look similar, might even be able to do similar jobs in some cases, but one has had a hell of a lot more QA and QC applied and a lot more care in construction. Sure you can mine with a consumer GPU but would you REALLY want to bet your company on the figures computed on consumer GPUs?
Uhhh...the price drops in CONSUMER GPUs, you know, the thing you play the shooty boomy games on? those are NOT what you use to compute your multimillion dollar DBs on, not unless you have no problem with 1+1 occasionally equaling 4.
The cards you use for the kind of number crunching in TFA would be your Tesla and FirePro cards and ya know what? The price on those does NOT drop quickly, just the opposite in fact with cards that are a couple of gen behind still fetching high dollar. You really can't compare the two, one has massive economies of scale while the other is a teeny tiny niche.
Well hell if THAT is the only metric that matters I need to brush up on my VB as its doing great, right up there with Python as a matter of fact.
That said maybe I'm weird but I never understood the "Is X dying" and "Is Y gaining in popularity" I mean who gives a shit? Does it do what you need it to? Can you get your project completed using it? then STFU and use the dang thing, quit acting like a Valley girl chasing trends already! I mean you don't see the engineers going "ZOMFG my VHDL is as out of fashion as an iPhone 3!" /swoon/. So quit caring so damned much about whether the other little programmers will let you play their reindeer games and just use what works already!
Why EXACTLY is this marked flamebait? Does nobody remember their history? Might want to look up the soviet Atoll missile, such a perfect copy of the sidewinder that you could mix and match parts, Or the Israeli Mirage 5 copy made from stolen plans.
Countries spy on each other folks, they have since the dawn of time. When country A spies on country B what do you thinking they are spying ON, that they are spying on buildings? They spy on the citizens of the other country that will most likely have the info they are trying to gather, that is kinda the point.
The reason American citizens should be having a shitfit can be summed up in a single word, COINTELPRO where dissent against things the government (or members of) supported, like suppressing blacks or the Vietnam war was actively attacked and those they thought were a threat like Fred Hampton were straight up executed. The first step is always intelligence gathering, followed by suppression and intimidation. For a comparison of how the modern moves the USA is making compares to societies that went from being free to being oppressed I'd strongly suggest watching this lecture. It is for THIS reason we should attack the NSA policies, not because they tried to find out if somebody in another country was/is a threat, that is what their original purpose WAS after all.
Well I can tell you that I have built several systems using the E350, both as media tanks and as office boxes and they frankly run rings around the P4, especially the late 478 and early 775 units that most offices have and honestly they use less power with the whole board at 100% load than the P4 by itself does. I liked the chip enough I got rid of my full size laptop 3 years ago for a EEE netbook running an E350 and its great, I can just plug an HDMI cable in and turn it into a portable HTPC in seconds and even after 3 years I still get over 4 hours on the battery, it just sips power.
That said this chip is NOT for graphics processing, playing 3D shooters and the like, its just not got the horse for that. A much better choice if you want to go with the heavier programs would be a socket FM2 setup but those will also cost you more than double what the Bobcat does, both in price and power usage. But if you simply need to replace aging XP units with something that 1.- Has support for Win 7/8 OOTB, 2.- is VERY affordable, 3.- Does all the jobs your average office box does and does them well, and 4.- Saves electricity? You really can't go wrong with the Bobcats, they are a sweet deal few know about. And as far as XP VMs go it has native hardware virtualization as well as XP drivers for all the hardware so its really trivial to use either XP mode or just turn their old XP installs into VMs and run them on the Bobcat.
No you are idiots for sticking with a badly creaky OS that was NEVER designed with a thought about security that is about to be abandoned. That is pretty damned stupid any way you slice it. I mean if MSFT still put out patches for Win98 would you HONESTLY be standing here and arguing for keeping Win98, really? So why shouldn't people be pointing fingers and laughing when you advocate for an OS just 3 years removed from 98SE?
Look XP was good back in its day, but its day was pre slammer, pre netsky, pre code red. it was a completely different landscape then, where the biggest nasty you'd find on a system is that big purple monkey being annoying. Today malware is a billion dollar business and your hacked system can be turned into anything from a bitcoin miner to child porn server....and you want to keep an OS from 2001 designed to run as admin and which didn't even have its firewall turned on by default until service pack 2? An OS that will happily run anything from anywhere with the same credentials as the user because nobody thought to be fine grained when it came to permissions? Well considering the fact that they cooked up ActiveX, which let pretty much any page on the web have low level access to the system it really shouldn't be a surprise, but people fighting to keep that old POS and actually betting million dollar companies on it? That part IS surprising.
So yeah I think calling someone who has hundreds of XP systems in Dec 2013 an idiot is frankly being a little tame, suicidal stupid and a lawsuit waiting to happen? Much better choices I think.
Because server OSes typically get 10 years (which is what XP X64 really is, its just WinServer 2K3 64bit with an XP shell) so its right on time for EOL?
And I too ran XP X64 from RTM - Win 7 RTM, skipping Vista on my home system and it is WELL worth the upgrade friend, Win 7 runs rings around XP X64. For one thing win 7 has a sane memory manager, like XP XP X64 will start pimpslapping swap even with plenty of memory left while Win 7 will try to avoid swap and will use unneeded memory for caching to help speed up response. There is the increased security of low rights mode browsing and running everything under user instead of admin, breadcrumbs and jumplists make it trivial to get back to what you were doing previously and its more in depth performance tools make it a lot easier to hunt down bottlenecks.
All in all I'd say Win 7 X64 is a worthy upgrade, certainly a hell of a lot more than "LULZ I Iz a Cellphone LULZ" Windows 8.
Uhhh..Win 7 comes in 32 bit as does Win 8.1, not that anybody actually buys win 8 on purpose,just to illustrate the point.
What reasons are those? If its money you should know those old Pentium 4s (which in my exp at the shop is the majority chip when it comes to old XP boxen) are sucking up power and blowing through your cooling like a drunk hitting a free minibar so they are COSTING you money, not saving it.
I have had excellent luck replacing those aging P4 boards with AMD Bobcat boards. They are faster than a P4, gives you an APU that will do 1080P over HDMI, and most importantly for your wallet uses less under 100% load than a P4 does idling, just 18w under full load. Use that PCI slot to add a PCI to IDE and you an even keep your old drives if you wish, thus saving even more money.
Old software? Win 7 Pro has XP Mode and the Bobcat supports hardware VM acceleration so that isn't really an excuse. In fact the only software I've so far run into I couldn't VM was a customer's Macromedia Xres and that is because that ancient POS is soooo old (1997) that it doesn't seem to like anything above a 2.5Ghz or above an IDE HDD, something about the way it swaps.
So there really is no excuse to keep XP, the old boxes didn't care about power wasting or heat while a modern chip uses a tiny amount compared to the useful work you get, there is plenty of software out there that will turn that old XP install into a much safer VM, and most software will run better even on an ultra cheap like the bobcat over those cycle wasting power pigs of the mid 00s.
Have you tried Comodo AV? You seem like you know what you are doing and Comodo AV lets you get more fine grained than any AV that I have seen. You can tweak the sandbox, the scanning engine, you can tweak pretty much every single behavior of the entire thing so it does what YOU want it to. The reason I don't hand it to my PEBKAC users is that it isn't very hand holding, it treats you like an adult that at least understands a tiny bit about security which AV like Avira and Avast don't.
As far as Avast its gotten too nasty about yanking the board out of your hand, if I tell it to do something it should do so, not ignore my instructions. Avira can be tweaked to not be so "chatty" just as you can with Avast but if they have any basic understanding its Comodo they get.
Not if we have evidence that he has accepted bribes in the past to do that very thing which we do have now.
Its no different than how a review is required of every single case a cop was involved in if it turns out the cop was dirty because from that moment on everything that cop did in the past is now suspect. Pretty much everything RSA has ever done now is gonna have to be picked at with a fine tooth comb or even more likely tossed, because how do we know that they weren't on the NSA's payroll when they came up with them? We don't and that is why its junk now. hope that 10 mil was worth it guys, as your life's work is now worthless shit.
Here is what I personally don't get and since I'm not a crypto guy maybe I'm missing something but here goes...it looks like all these attacks come from using a RNG that has been rigged to be less than random, but why use their RNG when there are so many sources of randomness in the world?
There is the background radiation of the universe for starters, and how many webcams are freely accessible in heavily trafficked public places? It shouldn't be hard to write a program that does a quick head count, multiple that by the dollar amount of the biggest box office draw last week. How many letters is in headlines of the top 60 newspapers on the planet? Multiple that by the amount of temp detected by 30 weather stations and divide by the number of folks who went to see the fourth most popular movie yesterday squared by the ratings of the most popular reality show.
Yes i'm being silly but hopefully I'm being silly with a point, with so much random data for free on the net,everything from how many stocks sold on the NYSE for the top ten stocks to how many people watched The Daily Show it just seems to me it wouldn't be hard to pick a dozen out of a thousand different sources followed by a roulette wheel of multiply/divide/add/subtract and end up with a number that is random without needing to count on any third party program. How many vowels and consonants are in this thread? Divide by punctuation and multiply by number of posts by ACs with a troll label, ought to be pretty dang random.
I have an even better question....how much of the stuff did he just ignore what MSE told him and kept on installing? How much was an actual failure, IE a drive by or zero warning from MSE, and how much was deliberate PEBKAC?
As a PC builder and repairman I have more exp than most when it comes to bugs and AVs (disclosure, I give customers Comodo or Avira, depending on how big PEBKAC they are) and I use MSE on my gaming system and here is the thing...while MSE will TELL you, it won't yank the keyboard out of your hand and slap your wrists. You can say "I choose to ignore this" and click a single button and bypass the block. Now some AVs very much WILL yank the keyboard from you, in fact I recently stopped giving out Avast because it had gotten SO aggressive that even if you told it that it was a false positive and to let it run? it would just straight up ignore you.
But here is the two things you must keep in mind if you choose to run MSE, 1.- It don't do shit as far as webpages, in fact I don't think I have ever seen MSE block single webpage no matter what was on it, so using a browser that runs in low rights mode is a must, and 2.- It was originally Giant AntiSpy and so that is what it works best on, its not really any good at blocking the social engineering based attacks we see a lot today, the "Hey its your BFF (insert name) on (insert chat client) and I found this great page, just click here!" where the person is then led to a page full of zero days type of attack.
That said frankly you shouldn't be giving MSE to your clueless types anyway, that is what a sandboxing AV like Comodo or one that holds their hand like Avira is best at, what MSE is for is for your non clueless who aren't gonna be doing PEBKAC shit and just want a lightweight AV to scan executables and add another layer to their defenses. It was never designed to be the end all be all, you got half a dozen free AVs that do that particular job VERY well, but all of them do HELL of a lot more scanning and thus take up more cycles, and when I'm gaming or editing audio/video? I NEED those cycles, thanks anyway.
My Win 7 system has been running ME since RTM in Oct 09 and its clean as a whistle, then again I run a low rights browser with ABP (a good 85% of bugs IME come from infected ads), don't run strange executables and don't click on email links either. If you are smart enough to show common sense on the web? MSE is fine. if not? Comodo, Avira, Avast, you have choices.
Sorry gotta throw a flag, bullshit on the field. One was an enemy government with significant R&D invested in crypto so keeping the fact you broke said crypto made sense, the other is a bunch of frankly religious whack-a-doodles that have shown us that brains and even common sense? Not really a requirement and in fact probably a hindrance.
From what we have seen the shoe bomber and underwear bomber seem more the rule than exception and if there is one thing we can take away from Snowden as well as history (COINTELPRO ring any bells?) its that if they say its rainy you better get proof because their word? not really worth squat.
Dude what EXACTLY is left to "refocus"? The company has been bleeding money, the only real selling point they had, American made and supported, just went down the shitter and thanks to the NSA nobody in business is gonna trust jack shit when it comes to communications originating in the USA.
Lets face it, BB is screwed. They sat on ass for too long and let Android and OSX drink their milkshake. Their one chance would be maybe breaking it up for parts be "taking the for sale sign down" translates to "nobody would buy the company" so even that is a no go.