If you are playing with triple screens or a 4K screen you are correct but at 1080P or lower (my screen is 1600x900) then the bandwidth difference frankly means nothing. I have seen this first hand as the youngest already bought an HD7750 and he frankly smokes my system in Borderlands II, he has everything cranked and never drops below 45FPS while I have to keep it on medium to keep it above 30FPS with large battles.
So allow me to say, which since getting engaged I so rarely get to do anymore....I TOLD YOU SO, I did, I told you so. I said "If you all go mobile it will bite you right in the ass, its all proprietary and locked down and nasty" and what do we see? Apple,Google, and MSFT all racing to see who can have the nastiest lock in and worst practices. Hell Google even took what was once a bog standard laptop and locked the thing down so damned badly that the ONLY way to install a different OS is to 1.- Put in a half page of CLI to put the system into "dev mode", 2.-WIPE THE DRIVE, no dual booting allowed citizen, 3.- Then and ONLY then can you ONLY install one of a handful of Linux distros with hacked bootloaders. No BSDs, No windows, nothing.
So I'm sorry folks but we are about to head into another computing dark age, one I call "the return of the consoles" as that is all you re gonna have, consoles that will ONLY run corp approved apps bought through a corp controlled appstore and when they no longer support it? Throw it away as you won't be able to load shit as nobody will support it anymore than they supported the original Xbox after the X360 came out. Its all gonna be locked down, first party crap with the only third party being those that pay their $699 license fees and 30% of every dime they make. And ya know what? Its gonna fucking SUUUUUCCCKKKK.
And just remember when it happens and all you iPhone and Galaxy owners are crying about being screwed old hairy told ya so, he truly did.
Actually it has to do with the fact that THIS IS A USA SITE, made in the US and targeted at a USA audience.
Now I don't see why we have to deal with arrogant jerks from other countries, I mean do we go to THEIR sites and demand they put everything in USD or give us car analogies? No we don't. So by that same token if they don't like it here they can STFU, take the/. source which is freely available BTW, and go make "Slashworld, news for those that don't live in the imperialist USA" and call it a day.
But everyone here is missing the REAL advantagse of new GPUs....power consumption and price. My HD4850 uses over 110w and reaches nearly 190c under load, the HD7770 I'm getting for my BDay? It is nearly 60% faster while uses less than HALF of the power and creating less heat by nearly half. And while my HD4850 new cost nearly $300 the HD7770? Can be had for less than $100.
Now that CPUs have pretty much maxed out the big gains will be in GPUs, both on power and price. Sure the top 'o the line will be a giant wallet raper but those are really ePeens more than anything and the biggest sales will be the $75-$150 range and that is where we are seeing some really sweet cards.
The only DRM I'd say works is Steam DRM as you actually get something in return for the DRM whereas the others just hinder you. With Steam all my games are automatically updated, don't have to mess with router rap or log in screens or any of that mess for MP and the service is just top notch, when I had a problem on a weekend night right before Xmas no less I filed a support ticket and was being helped in less than an hour.
But of course what we are talking about is less about DRM and more about the region bullshit big corps use to divide the market and squeeze every penny, see how badly Australia gets screwed as an example.
Then switch to Linux full time and stop using an ancient OS? You can very easily have XP in a VM on your Linux box and that way you won't be an STD on the net? Folks can waste their mod points and mark me down ALL they want but as someone who has to clean up the messes facts are facts and the fact is XP is the most infected OS by a country mile because security frankly wasn't even a thought upon design. To this day XP runs like crap unless you run as admin and it takes a LOT of massaging to get it to run most applications in any other permissions level.
But if you REALLY hate MSFT soooo much do us all a BIG favor and just switch to Linux with a VM of your creaky old, broken down, soon to be the biggest security nightmare since the Melissa worm XP, okay? Like it or not when patches end every script kiddie on the planet is gonna hit that OS like a Bangkok Whore on coupon day because most of the patches for Vista/7 will affect XP as well so it'll be trivial to cook up bugs that won't be patched.
Your system is powerful enough to make running a VM trivial so there really is no excuse to run a 14 year old broken mess.Fuck go download a copy of Win 7 off of TPB, at least you won't be risking the whole net that way man.If you want a legal Tiger and Newegg has been selling Win 7 OEM for just $80, that is just $13 a year to have a patched OS. There really is no excuse dude, let go of the dinosaur.
I don't think it has a thing to do with being "anti-Apple" but in reality folks just waking up and realizing the quality of Apple products has seriously gone down hill since the passing of Jobs.
Say what you will about Jobs, and from what I've read I'd say he was probably a sociopath, but the man did care about the quality of his products. If given the choice of shaving pennies and making something low quality or going for the better tech and raising the price Jobs always seemed to go for the latter which is probably why they built up a rep for quality products. Compare this to Cook who came from the supply side of Apple and seems to be more concerned with stock price and maximizing profits than he does with quality and frankly it shows, with iPhone 5s suffering BSODs and having maps that are a joke and now this?
I'm sorry but the longer we go past the death of Jobs the more it looks like Apple is taking a page from Sony's book and trading on past reputation by putting out less quality products priced as if it were quality. So while you see it as bashing I see it as customers waking up and realizing the much vaunted Apple quality just ain't what it used to be.
You are making a joke but I really don't see why so many would want to hang onto XP as frankly? Its a piece of shit, sorry but it is.
1.-When XP came out the average system had 256MB of RAM or less so XP will bitchslap the swap even when it has tons of memory to spare. 2.- Speaking of memory not only are you limited to 3.2Gb of memory but it doesn't even manage that well, requiring a reg hack to keep the system from taking 2GB for itself. 3.- Its support for newer tech like NCQ, SATA, 3G, etc is frankly bolted on and piss poor at best, 4.- Its got patches for its patches, making system instability and "Winrot" pretty much a given,hell I could go on all day.
Frankly anything from 2007 on up can run Windows 7 quite easily, I have put Win 7 Home on both a first gen C2D and a Pentium D, both with 1.5GB of RAM and they run just fine and anything older? Honestly you are just throwing money away as most of the older office machines and consumer boxes are Pentium 4 and the P4 is just insane when it comes to heat and power usage so hanging onto one is just nuts.
For those that have a system too old to take Win 7 I suggest you pick up an AMD Bobcat board, those can be found in the $80 price range and its dual cores and Radeon GPU will stomp the old P4s while sipping less than 20w under load,use a PCI-IDE adapter to keep your old HDD and DVD and there ya go,for just $100 counting a 4GB stick of RAM you have a new unit that can do 1080P while using less under load than a P4 by itself uses in idle. Tiger and Newegg has been selling Win 7 HP OEM for around $80 so for a final total of less than $200 shipped you can toss the power hog P4 AND XP AND have you a nice unit that will easily out perform the old junk you are replacing. BTW for those that want a cheap mediatank/HTPC I highly recommend the Bobcat, does 1080P over HDMI and supports hybrid crossfire so you can add a cheap discrete down the line and get more performance if/when you need it.
The problem is gonna be the patents, especially for mobile GPUs. Anybody who has looked into that stuff can tell you pretty much any way to make a screen render has a patent or hundred and they are all held by a handful of players who sure as hell don't want you playing in their sandbox. Wireless is just as bad, with pretty much every way to send a signal patented up the wazoo.
So while you might pull this off in countries without the IP bullshit but in the corporate states of America its not likely.
Uhhh...I thought they moved to CA because the old cameras needed a LOT of light and the east coast has a lot of overcast skies in the winter?
As for TFA? I'm personally loving it as it bites the globalists right on the ass. For years many of us have pointed out that globalism is bullshit, it spreads misery to many for the sake of a few but as long as they could keep sending the work overseas to places where they work for pennies while stashing their ill gotten gains in money laundering scams like double dutch and irish whip it was all good...well lets see how they like having all their IP go buh bye because they didn't like when the globalism didn't go their way. Personally I hope the bastards lose billions but then they'll just get the gov to write them a check.
Sorry but if you would have bothered to read my journal you would have seen the bug ONLY affected FF, nobody else. Because it ran as the user it allowed a hidden iFrame to use the bookmark autofill to send spam to everyone in a Yahoo address book. Again this did NOT affect anybody else, not even IE, it was ONLY FF that was vulnerable and that is because of their piss poor security.
Insightful? Really? A locked down control freak company cuts out anything that would compete with their appstore crapstore and you APPLAUD that shit? So by your logic Win 8 would be the most perfect OS evar if they nonly made it so it will only run MSFT approved software from the crapstore? You DO know that the original plan for iOS was to have it so ONLY Apple could have native apps, with everyone else stuck in an HTML ghetto and THAT is why Jobs killed any chance of Flash on iOS, yes?
As for TFA I was a FF user before it was even called FF, and the suite before that, but no more, its simply a bad idea security wise to run FF any longer from Windows. See my journal for the Yahoo Porn Bug, one of many that will ONLY run on FF thanks to their frankly piss poor security mdoel. Chromium had support for running the browser in low rights mode less than 6 months after Vista was released, this same low rights mode could trivially be added to AppArmor or SELinux yet here it is SEVEN YEARS LATER and FF still makes the browser run with the same rights as the user? Madness!
People can hate and call me names but that won't change reality and reality is good security practices are good, bad practices re bad, and to run the #1 attack vector on ANY computer at the same permission level as the user is piss poor design. You have several FOSS browsers to choose from that have MUCH better security such as Chromium, I'd recommend using one of those and staying away from FF, especially if you are on Windows where even IE runs at a lower permission level than FF.
The problem with I2P and Freenet is they haven't been tested in court and how many of you are really gonna risk 50+ years in PMITA prison just to find out what the court rules?
You see the problem as explained to me by a bud that works in the state crime lab is how vague and open ended the laws on CP are, especially distribution and possession. He explained like this..."If I give you a safe and tell you to take it down the street and you are pulled over the way the possession and distribution laws are even if you can't open the safe you can STILL be charged with distributing CP if we find it in the safe." I mean sure you can fight it,heck you might even win...how many of you could afford to spend a couple of years going from a cell to the court just to test it? For those that think it can't happen look up the guy in FLA that lost 3 years of his life because the company laptop had a rootkit that let scum download CP on his net. He lost his wife, his job, most of his friends, and spent nearly 100k just to clear himself.
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So while the ideas of hiding among the crowd and plausible deniability sound nice until the courts rule on what you will and won't be responsible for when using software like I2P? You are literally risking your life when you use it.
I agree 100%,which is why I wonder why so many attack when I suggest that we should simply discuss whether Naomi Wolf is on to something when she suggests that Snowden may be a plant working still for the NSA. After all it DOES make sense, you can't have a chilling effect if nobody knows to be scared but at the same time there would be too much backlash (not to mention giving groups like the ACLU court standing) if they just came out and said it, so what to do? The answer is simple...disgruntled employee.
This way those that you want to be scared, the ones that read up on such things, your rabble rousers, WILL be scared and the clueless can be told "its just a disgruntled employee, nothing to see here" and they will go along, finally groups like the ACLU and FSF can't get a court case unless the gov admits they are spying on everyone (because the courts say you have to show you were targeted to have standing) so the disgruntled employee angle neatly sidesteps it. You have to admit, if he is a plant? Its WELL played. I have talked to plenty of folks at the shop and on forums that fear talking out about politicians or the gov for fear of getting a file started while at the same time most of the right wing teabagger types have parroted the disgruntled employee angle, well played.
As for TFA I'm sure if you ask Bruce Schneier he'll tell you the same, that you shouldn't trust him or anybody else. Of course the bitch is everything from SELinux to most of our crypto now needs to be looked at with an aura of mistrust because much of it ame from the NSA or won NSA contests so you have to wonder, did they choose it for a nefarious reason? Like they know how to break it? And after reading up on the Kickstarter I'm fully convinced Truecrypt is worthless thanks to the extra blob it has on Windows that nobody knows WTF it does and the fact it won't compile from source and work.
What we need now is a handful of guys like Schneier to come together and give us some basic crypto tools that can be independently compiled, tested, and retested to insure that it works. But if I were forced to choose between something that has been handled or approved by the NSA, something like Truerypt where we now know that the source and binary do NOT math and there are hidden extra bits on Windows, or something approved of by Schneier or worked on by him like twofish? I think I'd choose Schneier.
BTW does anybody know of a tool that does full disc encryption on Windows like Truecrypt that ISN'T a big question mark when it comes to sewcurity?
Don't be ridiculous, the NSA control the backbone and one you have control of the backbone you don't NEED backdoors, all you need is a datacenter fast enough to process the data. Say someplace in Utah maybe?
As for TFA all the group does is let you use the little USB logo, who cares? How many people actually look for or even know WTF the little USB logo is? Not many. Just call it "USB compatible" and all it a day.
You are making a funny but....honestly its not that hard to just strip out anything you don't care for. You an use a tool like RT7Lite or VLite to strip it yourself or if you have a Windows 7 or 8 Ultimate key just go to TPB and pick up a copy of "Win 7 Lite" or "win 8 Lite" and you'll have an OS that is thin and frankly has less of a footprint than XP RTM while having pretty much every bit of bling and extra stripped out. Just for shits and giggles I tried Win 7 Lite on a 1.8GHz Sempron from 2004 and...it ran damned nice actually.
So its not like you have to put up with Windows running crap you don't like, you an strip it down almost as far as you an strip a Linux or BSD build, it just takes a little time or a trip to TPB;-)
Well lets see...its optimizing its boot files, defragging,checking the status of the homegroup...well that is what its doing on Win 7, don't know about Win 8 as I avoid it like an STD.
Exactly, you can keep the data in a single pool which the entire office has access to thus ending all the duplicates on desktops and with Ms and BYOD there really isn't a need for a full desktop anymore. This is why the consumer market is where more and more of sales are coming from as the consumer an't (yet) do such data consolidation (although ChromeOS is pushing it), not to mention the privacy issues since Joe Consumer can't run his own cloud yet.
In any case without consumer sales you are dead meat and OCZ burned that bridge, no coming back for them.
Wow, thanks, I so rarely get to use this in a sentence...WHOOSH! Way to completely miss the point! I was talking about games that RIP OFF those titles, hence why I used ONLY triple A hit titles in that description. For an example of what ripping off those titles get you? See Duke Nukem, Kane & Lynch or Yahtzee at ZP with his "Like God OF War BUT" stamp which he slaps on the bazillion knock offs of GOW.
Nobody is saying you can't make shooters, only that you have to bring more to the table than a poorly made copy of what is hot.
You are being funny but ironically the roles have reversed now, now its MSFT and IE that is making the standards complaint browser and Google that is putting in Chrome tags and making their own forks that break compatibility....EEE anyone?
I guess it doesn't really matter who is on top as being on top seems to automatically turn you into the evil asshole, I'd guess its one part greed mixed with 2 parts fear that someone will come along and beat you that makes these companies start turning nasty when they make it to the top.
Again that is a completely different use case than what killed OCZ which is the consumer market. Lets face it, with VMs you just don't buy the hardware that you used to so its the consumer market where the money is and OCZ burned that bridge a long time ago. Buggy firmware, shitty CS, they made every mistake you can make and THAT is why their sales are crap.
Sigh...correlation does NOT equal causation folks. PC sales are NOT down because of tablets, its because PCs have become insanely overpowered and therefor you don't need to replace every couple of years like during the bubble that was the MHz war.
Take myself as an example, LOVE hardcore PC shooters, practically the games that built the PC gaming business. I used to build a new PC every 2 years like clockwork and gave it a major upgrade at the 1 year mark, now? My AMD Hexacore is pushing the 5 year mark with nothing more than a GPU upgrade. I mean why should i buy a new one, when the one I got plays every game I want to play at over 30 FPS without fail? Its got 8GB of RAM, 3TB of space, I might add a caching SSD for my BDay but other than that there really isn't much more I can do that will really affect gameplay.
And THAT is why PC sales are down, its because even the low end gamers have insane amounts of cycles to spare. Hell my youngest has an AMD triple we unlocked to a quad and an HD7750 and he plays every game he wants to play at over 30FPS and his system cost less than $400! Even the low end systems are just so insanely overpowered its not even funny and with the XBone and PS4 going with a netbook chip? Really doubt we are gonna be needing octocore PCs to game any time soon.
As for TFA...how about making games that don't suck? How about that? Make smaller games that target a market instead of some crazy costing AAA title that you have to make as generic as possible to have "broad appeal" which is pretty much a codeword for "boring generic crap". Look at Payday the Heist, they listened to those that bought the first one, gave them what they asked for, they made a profit before the game even came out just on preorders. Make something special? Folks WILL buy. Make generic "Call Of Honor: Halo of Killzone Edition" and watch the numbers suck. It really IS as simple as that.
To me the real bitch is when they bricked there was ZERO way to wipe the drives and their CS would give no guarantees as to what the fuck would happen to the drive once it was sent back so my gamer customers ended up just throwing them in the trash rather than risk some Chinese refurb worker having their bank details. Needless to say I washed my hands of OCZ gear and never looked back.
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If you are playing with triple screens or a 4K screen you are correct but at 1080P or lower (my screen is 1600x900) then the bandwidth difference frankly means nothing. I have seen this first hand as the youngest already bought an HD7750 and he frankly smokes my system in Borderlands II, he has everything cranked and never drops below 45FPS while I have to keep it on medium to keep it above 30FPS with large battles.
Uhhh...this is different than Google...how exactly? In case you missed it Google is locking down Android and removing APIs and taking more and more of what was once "open"proprietary and then to add insult to injury they Google is testing giant intrusive banner ads which they swore they would NEVER do which is why some of us switched to them in the first place.
So allow me to say, which since getting engaged I so rarely get to do anymore....I TOLD YOU SO, I did, I told you so. I said "If you all go mobile it will bite you right in the ass, its all proprietary and locked down and nasty" and what do we see? Apple,Google, and MSFT all racing to see who can have the nastiest lock in and worst practices. Hell Google even took what was once a bog standard laptop and locked the thing down so damned badly that the ONLY way to install a different OS is to 1.- Put in a half page of CLI to put the system into "dev mode", 2.-WIPE THE DRIVE, no dual booting allowed citizen, 3.- Then and ONLY then can you ONLY install one of a handful of Linux distros with hacked bootloaders. No BSDs, No windows, nothing.
So I'm sorry folks but we are about to head into another computing dark age, one I call "the return of the consoles" as that is all you re gonna have, consoles that will ONLY run corp approved apps bought through a corp controlled appstore and when they no longer support it? Throw it away as you won't be able to load shit as nobody will support it anymore than they supported the original Xbox after the X360 came out. Its all gonna be locked down, first party crap with the only third party being those that pay their $699 license fees and 30% of every dime they make. And ya know what? Its gonna fucking SUUUUUCCCKKKK.
And just remember when it happens and all you iPhone and Galaxy owners are crying about being screwed old hairy told ya so, he truly did.
Actually it has to do with the fact that THIS IS A USA SITE, made in the US and targeted at a USA audience.
Now I don't see why we have to deal with arrogant jerks from other countries, I mean do we go to THEIR sites and demand they put everything in USD or give us car analogies? No we don't. So by that same token if they don't like it here they can STFU, take the /. source which is freely available BTW, and go make "Slashworld, news for those that don't live in the imperialist USA" and call it a day.
Sorry but I'm no FOSSie or zealot, all I care about is "does it work?" and Steam works and works well.
But everyone here is missing the REAL advantagse of new GPUs....power consumption and price. My HD4850 uses over 110w and reaches nearly 190c under load, the HD7770 I'm getting for my BDay? It is nearly 60% faster while uses less than HALF of the power and creating less heat by nearly half. And while my HD4850 new cost nearly $300 the HD7770? Can be had for less than $100.
Now that CPUs have pretty much maxed out the big gains will be in GPUs, both on power and price. Sure the top 'o the line will be a giant wallet raper but those are really ePeens more than anything and the biggest sales will be the $75-$150 range and that is where we are seeing some really sweet cards.
The only DRM I'd say works is Steam DRM as you actually get something in return for the DRM whereas the others just hinder you. With Steam all my games are automatically updated, don't have to mess with router rap or log in screens or any of that mess for MP and the service is just top notch, when I had a problem on a weekend night right before Xmas no less I filed a support ticket and was being helped in less than an hour.
But of course what we are talking about is less about DRM and more about the region bullshit big corps use to divide the market and squeeze every penny, see how badly Australia gets screwed as an example.
Then switch to Linux full time and stop using an ancient OS? You can very easily have XP in a VM on your Linux box and that way you won't be an STD on the net? Folks can waste their mod points and mark me down ALL they want but as someone who has to clean up the messes facts are facts and the fact is XP is the most infected OS by a country mile because security frankly wasn't even a thought upon design. To this day XP runs like crap unless you run as admin and it takes a LOT of massaging to get it to run most applications in any other permissions level.
But if you REALLY hate MSFT soooo much do us all a BIG favor and just switch to Linux with a VM of your creaky old, broken down, soon to be the biggest security nightmare since the Melissa worm XP, okay? Like it or not when patches end every script kiddie on the planet is gonna hit that OS like a Bangkok Whore on coupon day because most of the patches for Vista/7 will affect XP as well so it'll be trivial to cook up bugs that won't be patched.
Your system is powerful enough to make running a VM trivial so there really is no excuse to run a 14 year old broken mess.Fuck go download a copy of Win 7 off of TPB, at least you won't be risking the whole net that way man.If you want a legal Tiger and Newegg has been selling Win 7 OEM for just $80, that is just $13 a year to have a patched OS. There really is no excuse dude, let go of the dinosaur.
I don't think it has a thing to do with being "anti-Apple" but in reality folks just waking up and realizing the quality of Apple products has seriously gone down hill since the passing of Jobs.
Say what you will about Jobs, and from what I've read I'd say he was probably a sociopath, but the man did care about the quality of his products. If given the choice of shaving pennies and making something low quality or going for the better tech and raising the price Jobs always seemed to go for the latter which is probably why they built up a rep for quality products. Compare this to Cook who came from the supply side of Apple and seems to be more concerned with stock price and maximizing profits than he does with quality and frankly it shows, with iPhone 5s suffering BSODs and having maps that are a joke and now this?
I'm sorry but the longer we go past the death of Jobs the more it looks like Apple is taking a page from Sony's book and trading on past reputation by putting out less quality products priced as if it were quality. So while you see it as bashing I see it as customers waking up and realizing the much vaunted Apple quality just ain't what it used to be.
You are making a joke but I really don't see why so many would want to hang onto XP as frankly? Its a piece of shit, sorry but it is.
1.-When XP came out the average system had 256MB of RAM or less so XP will bitchslap the swap even when it has tons of memory to spare. 2.- Speaking of memory not only are you limited to 3.2Gb of memory but it doesn't even manage that well, requiring a reg hack to keep the system from taking 2GB for itself. 3.- Its support for newer tech like NCQ, SATA, 3G, etc is frankly bolted on and piss poor at best, 4.- Its got patches for its patches, making system instability and "Winrot" pretty much a given,hell I could go on all day.
Frankly anything from 2007 on up can run Windows 7 quite easily, I have put Win 7 Home on both a first gen C2D and a Pentium D, both with 1.5GB of RAM and they run just fine and anything older? Honestly you are just throwing money away as most of the older office machines and consumer boxes are Pentium 4 and the P4 is just insane when it comes to heat and power usage so hanging onto one is just nuts.
For those that have a system too old to take Win 7 I suggest you pick up an AMD Bobcat board, those can be found in the $80 price range and its dual cores and Radeon GPU will stomp the old P4s while sipping less than 20w under load,use a PCI-IDE adapter to keep your old HDD and DVD and there ya go,for just $100 counting a 4GB stick of RAM you have a new unit that can do 1080P while using less under load than a P4 by itself uses in idle. Tiger and Newegg has been selling Win 7 HP OEM for around $80 so for a final total of less than $200 shipped you can toss the power hog P4 AND XP AND have you a nice unit that will easily out perform the old junk you are replacing. BTW for those that want a cheap mediatank/HTPC I highly recommend the Bobcat, does 1080P over HDMI and supports hybrid crossfire so you can add a cheap discrete down the line and get more performance if/when you need it.
The problem is gonna be the patents, especially for mobile GPUs. Anybody who has looked into that stuff can tell you pretty much any way to make a screen render has a patent or hundred and they are all held by a handful of players who sure as hell don't want you playing in their sandbox. Wireless is just as bad, with pretty much every way to send a signal patented up the wazoo.
So while you might pull this off in countries without the IP bullshit but in the corporate states of America its not likely.
Except it won't because
1.-The clueless will never hear of this guy, and
2.-The ones that know WTF they are doing and put up the most files don't hang around sites that look like they were coded by a 14 year old girl.
Most likely all the "data" he collected is a bunch of clueless wannabes trying to play big fish in a teeny tiny pond and won't be worth shit.
Uhhh...I thought they moved to CA because the old cameras needed a LOT of light and the east coast has a lot of overcast skies in the winter?
As for TFA? I'm personally loving it as it bites the globalists right on the ass. For years many of us have pointed out that globalism is bullshit, it spreads misery to many for the sake of a few but as long as they could keep sending the work overseas to places where they work for pennies while stashing their ill gotten gains in money laundering scams like double dutch and irish whip it was all good...well lets see how they like having all their IP go buh bye because they didn't like when the globalism didn't go their way. Personally I hope the bastards lose billions but then they'll just get the gov to write them a check.
Sorry but if you would have bothered to read my journal you would have seen the bug ONLY affected FF, nobody else. Because it ran as the user it allowed a hidden iFrame to use the bookmark autofill to send spam to everyone in a Yahoo address book. Again this did NOT affect anybody else, not even IE, it was ONLY FF that was vulnerable and that is because of their piss poor security.
Insightful? Really? A locked down control freak company cuts out anything that would compete with their appstore crapstore and you APPLAUD that shit? So by your logic Win 8 would be the most perfect OS evar if they nonly made it so it will only run MSFT approved software from the crapstore? You DO know that the original plan for iOS was to have it so ONLY Apple could have native apps, with everyone else stuck in an HTML ghetto and THAT is why Jobs killed any chance of Flash on iOS, yes?
As for TFA I was a FF user before it was even called FF, and the suite before that, but no more, its simply a bad idea security wise to run FF any longer from Windows. See my journal for the Yahoo Porn Bug, one of many that will ONLY run on FF thanks to their frankly piss poor security mdoel. Chromium had support for running the browser in low rights mode less than 6 months after Vista was released, this same low rights mode could trivially be added to AppArmor or SELinux yet here it is SEVEN YEARS LATER and FF still makes the browser run with the same rights as the user? Madness!
People can hate and call me names but that won't change reality and reality is good security practices are good, bad practices re bad, and to run the #1 attack vector on ANY computer at the same permission level as the user is piss poor design. You have several FOSS browsers to choose from that have MUCH better security such as Chromium, I'd recommend using one of those and staying away from FF, especially if you are on Windows where even IE runs at a lower permission level than FF.
The problem with I2P and Freenet is they haven't been tested in court and how many of you are really gonna risk 50+ years in PMITA prison just to find out what the court rules?
You see the problem as explained to me by a bud that works in the state crime lab is how vague and open ended the laws on CP are, especially distribution and possession. He explained like this..."If I give you a safe and tell you to take it down the street and you are pulled over the way the possession and distribution laws are even if you can't open the safe you can STILL be charged with distributing CP if we find it in the safe." I mean sure you can fight it,heck you might even win...how many of you could afford to spend a couple of years going from a cell to the court just to test it? For those that think it can't happen look up the guy in FLA that lost 3 years of his life because the company laptop had a rootkit that let scum download CP on his net. He lost his wife, his job, most of his friends, and spent nearly 100k just to clear himself.
. So while the ideas of hiding among the crowd and plausible deniability sound nice until the courts rule on what you will and won't be responsible for when using software like I2P? You are literally risking your life when you use it.
I agree 100%,which is why I wonder why so many attack when I suggest that we should simply discuss whether Naomi Wolf is on to something when she suggests that Snowden may be a plant working still for the NSA. After all it DOES make sense, you can't have a chilling effect if nobody knows to be scared but at the same time there would be too much backlash (not to mention giving groups like the ACLU court standing) if they just came out and said it, so what to do? The answer is simple...disgruntled employee.
This way those that you want to be scared, the ones that read up on such things, your rabble rousers, WILL be scared and the clueless can be told "its just a disgruntled employee, nothing to see here" and they will go along, finally groups like the ACLU and FSF can't get a court case unless the gov admits they are spying on everyone (because the courts say you have to show you were targeted to have standing) so the disgruntled employee angle neatly sidesteps it. You have to admit, if he is a plant? Its WELL played. I have talked to plenty of folks at the shop and on forums that fear talking out about politicians or the gov for fear of getting a file started while at the same time most of the right wing teabagger types have parroted the disgruntled employee angle, well played.
As for TFA I'm sure if you ask Bruce Schneier he'll tell you the same, that you shouldn't trust him or anybody else. Of course the bitch is everything from SELinux to most of our crypto now needs to be looked at with an aura of mistrust because much of it ame from the NSA or won NSA contests so you have to wonder, did they choose it for a nefarious reason? Like they know how to break it? And after reading up on the Kickstarter I'm fully convinced Truecrypt is worthless thanks to the extra blob it has on Windows that nobody knows WTF it does and the fact it won't compile from source and work.
What we need now is a handful of guys like Schneier to come together and give us some basic crypto tools that can be independently compiled, tested, and retested to insure that it works. But if I were forced to choose between something that has been handled or approved by the NSA, something like Truerypt where we now know that the source and binary do NOT math and there are hidden extra bits on Windows, or something approved of by Schneier or worked on by him like twofish? I think I'd choose Schneier.
BTW does anybody know of a tool that does full disc encryption on Windows like Truecrypt that ISN'T a big question mark when it comes to sewcurity?
Don't be ridiculous, the NSA control the backbone and one you have control of the backbone you don't NEED backdoors, all you need is a datacenter fast enough to process the data. Say someplace in Utah maybe?
As for TFA all the group does is let you use the little USB logo, who cares? How many people actually look for or even know WTF the little USB logo is? Not many. Just call it "USB compatible" and all it a day.
You are making a funny but....honestly its not that hard to just strip out anything you don't care for. You an use a tool like RT7Lite or VLite to strip it yourself or if you have a Windows 7 or 8 Ultimate key just go to TPB and pick up a copy of "Win 7 Lite" or "win 8 Lite" and you'll have an OS that is thin and frankly has less of a footprint than XP RTM while having pretty much every bit of bling and extra stripped out. Just for shits and giggles I tried Win 7 Lite on a 1.8GHz Sempron from 2004 and...it ran damned nice actually.
So its not like you have to put up with Windows running crap you don't like, you an strip it down almost as far as you an strip a Linux or BSD build, it just takes a little time or a trip to TPB ;-)
Well lets see...its optimizing its boot files, defragging,checking the status of the homegroup...well that is what its doing on Win 7, don't know about Win 8 as I avoid it like an STD.
Exactly, you can keep the data in a single pool which the entire office has access to thus ending all the duplicates on desktops and with Ms and BYOD there really isn't a need for a full desktop anymore. This is why the consumer market is where more and more of sales are coming from as the consumer an't (yet) do such data consolidation (although ChromeOS is pushing it), not to mention the privacy issues since Joe Consumer can't run his own cloud yet.
In any case without consumer sales you are dead meat and OCZ burned that bridge, no coming back for them.
Wow, thanks, I so rarely get to use this in a sentence...WHOOSH! Way to completely miss the point! I was talking about games that RIP OFF those titles, hence why I used ONLY triple A hit titles in that description. For an example of what ripping off those titles get you? See Duke Nukem, Kane & Lynch or Yahtzee at ZP with his "Like God OF War BUT" stamp which he slaps on the bazillion knock offs of GOW.
Nobody is saying you can't make shooters, only that you have to bring more to the table than a poorly made copy of what is hot.
You are being funny but ironically the roles have reversed now, now its MSFT and IE that is making the standards complaint browser and Google that is putting in Chrome tags and making their own forks that break compatibility....EEE anyone?
I guess it doesn't really matter who is on top as being on top seems to automatically turn you into the evil asshole, I'd guess its one part greed mixed with 2 parts fear that someone will come along and beat you that makes these companies start turning nasty when they make it to the top.
Again that is a completely different use case than what killed OCZ which is the consumer market. Lets face it, with VMs you just don't buy the hardware that you used to so its the consumer market where the money is and OCZ burned that bridge a long time ago. Buggy firmware, shitty CS, they made every mistake you can make and THAT is why their sales are crap.
Sigh...correlation does NOT equal causation folks. PC sales are NOT down because of tablets, its because PCs have become insanely overpowered and therefor you don't need to replace every couple of years like during the bubble that was the MHz war.
Take myself as an example, LOVE hardcore PC shooters, practically the games that built the PC gaming business. I used to build a new PC every 2 years like clockwork and gave it a major upgrade at the 1 year mark, now? My AMD Hexacore is pushing the 5 year mark with nothing more than a GPU upgrade. I mean why should i buy a new one, when the one I got plays every game I want to play at over 30 FPS without fail? Its got 8GB of RAM, 3TB of space, I might add a caching SSD for my BDay but other than that there really isn't much more I can do that will really affect gameplay.
And THAT is why PC sales are down, its because even the low end gamers have insane amounts of cycles to spare. Hell my youngest has an AMD triple we unlocked to a quad and an HD7750 and he plays every game he wants to play at over 30FPS and his system cost less than $400! Even the low end systems are just so insanely overpowered its not even funny and with the XBone and PS4 going with a netbook chip? Really doubt we are gonna be needing octocore PCs to game any time soon.
As for TFA...how about making games that don't suck? How about that? Make smaller games that target a market instead of some crazy costing AAA title that you have to make as generic as possible to have "broad appeal" which is pretty much a codeword for "boring generic crap". Look at Payday the Heist, they listened to those that bought the first one, gave them what they asked for, they made a profit before the game even came out just on preorders. Make something special? Folks WILL buy. Make generic "Call Of Honor: Halo of Killzone Edition" and watch the numbers suck. It really IS as simple as that.
To me the real bitch is when they bricked there was ZERO way to wipe the drives and their CS would give no guarantees as to what the fuck would happen to the drive once it was sent back so my gamer customers ended up just throwing them in the trash rather than risk some Chinese refurb worker having their bank details. Needless to say I washed my hands of OCZ gear and never looked back.