I can back up this guy as I have seen it happen here in AR too. doesn't matter if the bitch cheated, she is a piss poor mother, she has a vagina and that is pretty much all that is required to get full custody in this state. I have seen friends that were fricking GREAT dads lose their kids to women that ended up being junkies or drunks or just fucking everything with a dick, didn't matter, the courts will go with the female if she has a pulse.
That isn't what I am talking about, go to some place like HuffPo and you will see outright hatred directed at anybody with white skin, if a white were to say "I hate fucking niggers" they would be up in arms but if a black said "I hate fucking honkies" they would not only NOT be censored by the site as the first post would, you would probably be moderated up!
Ok...how do you PAY the people making the software? Do you set up a nanny state, where the government pays and of course then has to do what the government says? A local tax on everyone that goes to the devs? or how about corporate interests control it, whereas you again have the same problem as with government control, in that the corporate interests take precedent over the people?
It is THIS dirty little secret that the advocates of RMS refuse to acknowledge, that he hates anybody making a cent on their software and he has VERY strong communist leanings, see his gushing over Castro and Chavez, where he talks about what "paradise' their kingdoms were...yeah ask those being oppressed what a "paradise" it was RMS.
This is gonna get a little ranty, so please tune out now if you are an RMS flag waver, but this is what bugs the piss out of me when it comes to RMS, he is a hypocrite! I mean have you EVER seen him say that doctors, plumbers, CEOs, etc should work for free? Nope ONLY programmers! And the few times that anybody finds a way to actually make money by following RMS' own teachings? He WILL turn against them! For an example when somebody asked him "How are we supposed to pay our bills when our software can be copied by anybody for nothing?" he replied "by selling documentation" well guess what he says when some devs refuse to release their docs under GPL, the ONLY fucking way you can make money selling docs? "Documentation should be free!"
Why anybody still listens to this loonie I have no damned ideas, he had ONE good idea 30 fricking years ago and with each passing year his increased militant views do their damnedest to screw it up! At least Torvalds has a good head on his shoulders and no matter whether you agree or disagree his views are well thought out and have arguable merits, with each year RMS becomes more and more "St iGNUcious" with his beliefs becoming unquestioned dogma. I mean for God's sake people, you are listening to a guy that brags he is a squatter and thought it was perfectly acceptable to sit on the middle of a crowded stage and eat toe funk like the crazy homeless guy that he is! Hello, what more fucking proof do you need the guy has gone around the fricking bend people?
Yet you watch, just because I point out that the Saint is a loonie I'll get attacked, not once will anybody look beyond the headlines at what the man actually believes and stands for, why any politician would kill for that kind of blind loyalty!
Not to mention replace trailer park with ghetto and white trash with black and you'll see its just good old fashioned racism, pure and simple.
Although I have noticed that some on the left refuse to acknowledge racism if it is directed at whites, i don't know if it is the so called "white guilt" or some sort of perverse "getting even" thinking but I have noticed that they refuse to acknowledge racism if it comes from blacks or if it is directed at whites, see huffPo as the most obvious example but there are plenty of others.
The problem with your theory is thus...the Army, especially the soldiers capable of doing what you describe? Are loyal NOT to the government but to the CONSTITUTION.
The second you order the military against the American people a good half or more will turn against the leadership, look at Libya where you had pilots crashing their aircraft rather than allowed them to be used against the people and soldiers emptying the weapons caches by handing them out to the people. i have known a LOT of soldiers in my time and I can tell you they take the constitution VERY seriously and would see an order to attack the populace as an attack on the constitution and would fight to their last breath against those that would try to destroy it, you can take that to the bank.
This is what makes me worry about all those stories of late of turning F16s into drones along with the Israeli drone tanks and the like, because something like that would allow some mercs like Blackwater to be a hell of a force multiplier, you'd only need a handful trained to use the tech to have them control a fleet or aircraft or division of tanks, seeing as how these drones can fly themselves to and from a target. This would allow those that would want to crush any opposition to take a "relatively" small merc force and turn them into a credible threat overnight, as a merc doesn't give a shit who or what he is fighting for/against as long as the check clears.
Not to mention we have undeniable proof that this is a goal thanks to the "Fast and Furious" false flag that got at least one American border agent murdered and countless civilians on both sides of the border yet NOT A SINGLE ARREST of those responsible for what is obviously a VERY serious crime, the arming of drug cartels.
I personally don't give a shit if you are left or right, I lean so socialist I'm often called "Slashdot's resident hippie" yet I think Obama should be investigated to see what he knew and Holder should be cooling his heels in prison right now, and that he is not just shows what he was doing was approved of by those at the top. Treason can only flourish if none dare call it treason and if you go by the government's own standards and consider drug cartels to be narco-terrorists? Then Holder aided terrorists and should be in jail and possibly looking at the death penalty.
The more we "learn" about this the more it sounds like Naomi Wolf was right, that Snowden was a plant designed to create a chilling effect on the US populace. After all you can't have a chilling effect if you don't know you are being watched, can you? And you can't have the government just come right out and tell you, there has to be at least some deniability to make the most loyal go with the "if you have nothing to hide" line of bullshit, so by having some "disgruntled employee" do the leaking you have a perfect scenario, all the intelligent ones are spooked and afraid to speak out while the "Joe Six Pack" type just ignores it and goes back to their day to day struggle for survival.
No matter what your feelings on Snowden this possibility at least deserves to be discussed and if it turns out he was a plant? Then you have to give the gov credit, it was well played as talking to customers the smarter ones are worried about even saying this or that politician sucks for fear they will end up with a file while the more clueless ones go back to their reality shows and don't care.
I saw a monk of all people that worked with junkies and the word he said frankly should be enshrined and used by ALL that want to help junkies: "Drug treatment doesn't work because there is nearly always ONE thing, one horror in their past that they can not face. Help them get over the one thing? You can cure them of their addiction".
He showed two of his cases to illustrate what he was talking about, with one her mom was actually making CP with her and her scumbbag BF, once she got the girl to confront her mom and have her arrested? She was able to clean up easily. In the other a guy had been in a car wreck at 19, he had been trapped with the body of his dead sister pinned against him for four hours. Even though it was a drunk driver that caused the accident it was one of those "one child is golden, the other is unwanted" with his family who disowned him because the golden child died in his car, once he took the guy across the country to vent his anger at his parents graves? He was able to easily get clean. Both hold down jobs now and are completely clean and sober.
Living on the meth highway that is what all these folks, which the monk called "broken people" seem to have in common, there is a single trauma that they just can't face and which eats at them until they take anything they can to forget. Look at Jake The Snake Roberts, his sister was coming to visit for a funeral and he couldn't take off to go get her as he had a match...she disappeared and hasn't been seen since. the fact that he didn't just go get her eats at him like a cancer, he hasn't been clean and sober more than a few weeks since the tragedy.
WTF are you babbling about? As opposed to Google that gives you jack and shit? And why EXACTLY would I give a fuck if Bing knows what parts I buy for customers?
Lets look for the last 6 hours on my searches...shall we? I searched for a C2D as I have a customer whose LGA775 board won't take any bigger and the Pentium D he has now is a power pig, FYI I got him a nice 2.2Ghz for just $12, I did a search for some parts for my nephew, he is damned determined to have a gamer rig bigger than me as he has always had hand me downs, but I raised the little guy so I'll point him in the right direction. FYI he just ordered a Socket AM3+ board as that will hold his 925 quad while letting him go octocore later, and picked up 4Gb of DDR 3 to go with it. Finally my GF has been looking for dresses for our wedding, she wants something simple and pretty and has finally settled on this nice antique looking number.
Now why in the fuck would I care if Bing knows about those? My searches are nearly all work related and boring, so I could really give a flying crap if bing has those. All they will be able to gather from me is I like 5 string basses and i buy a LOT of compter parts...so what? Anybody who spends less than 10 minutes talking to me knows that!
The reason it WILL crash before 2030, in fact may even crash before 2020 is simple and if you watch that video to the end it will explain why....its because at the current rate you will end up with more money than the GDP of the entire planet tied up into the market and when THAT much "magical money" is printed? It WILL come crashing down.
This is actually tied into the whole "job creators" myth and the constant tax breaks and dodges of the elite, as they take more and more AND MORE that money for all intents and purposes "disappears" from the world as its hoarded away in some tax dodge in the Cayman islands, it can no longer circulate so is therefor useless to the economy. So what to do? Well instead of taxing them enough to get that money circulating again the elite has convinced the gov to "just print more" which they then gobble up and gobble up and....you get the idea.
But the "magical money" Ponzi scheme can't last forever and the outcome is ALWAYS the same, it is what is happening to Zimbabwe now. Remember once upon a time Zimbabwe was the "jewel of Africa" and the "breadbasket of the Sahara" and now thanks to a complete economic collapse it can't even feed its own people. That is EXACTLY what will happen here, when the fed can't print another dollar because nobody wants it and the people can't get the checks each month that keep them from starving you WILL see things turn ugly and the amount they are cranking out each quarter will let you know when that will be...if at current rates before 2030, if they keep pulling QE schemes and trying to solve every problem with magical money? Before 2020.
And Cidar is just about dead, Transgaming has been laying people off for over a year, just like Loki they have found out that ultra niche gaming doesn't sell enough to keep the lights on.
This is what irks me, because i point out there is a serious issue i must be "for" the other guy when IRL I fricking HATE MSFT, they treat us system builders like shit, have tried for years to screw us with licensing, and Windows 8.x is a fucking disaster. But you have to AT LEAST be as good as the other guy if you expect to have a chance in hell of beating him and Linux on the desktop? Its a joke, sorry but it is. All the money being spent on Linux is being spent on the server NOT the desktop, you pick any mainstream distro and you end up with help files that are placeholders, basic functionality that doesn't even work because nobody has done any real QA, and every damned problem has only ONE answer, and that is "open up bash and type" this shit that NEVER EVER works unless you "tweak it"...which more than 90% of the populace isn't capable of doing.
Sorry about coming off a little ranty, but until I see an actual product, with a list of third parties and titles ported and ready to go? this is vaporware and thinking that Linux can compete with Windows and OSX without having tens of millions spent on it is total bullshit. Its ready for the server, its ready for embedded, its pathetic on the desktop.
Because its not even beta quality yet, much less ready for Joe Public? for every game you have that "just works" in wine you have a good hundred that MIGHT work in wine IF you have the ability to "massage" the game. this massaging often involves a shitload of hoops and CLI, and Joe Public? Is lucky if he can make a shortcut, he sure as hell isn't messing with CLI.
This is the problem that FOSS advocates simply refuse to accept and I have a feeling valve is gonna find out the hard way....just because YOU think something isn't complex does NOT mean that Joe Public will feel the same!
Until you can remove 100% of the CLI mess from wine, in fact until you can remove damned near 100% CLI mess from SteamOS? Its not gonna fly as the first time Joe Public is told with a straight face "Open up bash and type" its over, they are going back to Windows and furthermore are gonna tell a dozen people how bad SteamOS sucks. And before anybody brings up Powershell don't waste my time, its a SERVER TECH and is NOT used on the desktop. in fact I dare you to show me a single OEM of Windows Home that comes with PS. You could remove CLI from windows tomorrow and the vast majority? would never know it was gone, in fact around 2006 HP had a desktop whose image had no "run" nor did it have any way to access the CMD unless you knew the path...ever hear about it? probably not as it was a home unit and the only guys that ever noticed were guys like me that had to work on them!
While I appreciate the work the Wine guys have done they have a loooong way to go before Wine is simple enough for Joe public, for Joe to use it he has to be able to stick in the disc, go "clicky clicky, next next next" and have it work EVERY TIME, or at least work enough that the few times it don't he thinks its his fault. Wine just isn't anywhere close to that point, sorry.
Sorry but any teens shooting codeine and gas into their veins? not gonna be worth anything to anybody but the prison industrial complex. i live on what is called "the meth highway" so I see this kind of shit all the time and even if they quit meth after only a few years? they still have lifelong mental and physical problems and usually end up on disability or homeless.
So sorry anybody that is THIS hardcore when it comes to getting high? Not gonna be useful down the line.
Uhhh...they already KNOW they are being watched but don't care because unlike the peasants it won't be used against them. We know this because Dianne Feinstein Accidentally Confirms That NSA Tapped The Internet Backbone is the headline at Techdirt. Frankly none of us should be surprised by this, after all there is "rich people's laws" and the laws the peasants have to live under and rarely are they the same.
Honestly I doubt we'll be having to worry about this too much longer as when the stock market bubble bursts they won't have enough money to pay for a guy to tap a single phone, much less the entire backbone. When that bubble pops it'll make 29 look like a flash crash, we are talking a good half a century of depression, and I seriously doubt that with as much hatred as the people have for the current system it will survive another major crash. The only reason we aren't seeing our very own Arab Spring is the safety net keeps much of the poor fed, when that all dries up? I have a feeling the USA will go the way of the USSR. Oh well, no empire lasts forever and this one has gotten so corrupt they don't even pretend to give a fuck anymore, they are too busy looting the coffers and cashing bribes to care.
According to TFA that is a big YES, there was a "handler" that stood between the devs and Lucas and she would actually force them to REHEARSE what they would say, just to make sure it wouldn't offend George's delicate sensibilities.
If you haven't seen it go to Red letter Media and look up Plinket reviews Indy 4, that video has a LOT of behind the scenes stuff and you'd be amazed how many BAD ideas Lucas pushed for, it was only when Spielberg said "fuck it" and just let George do what he wanted that indy 4 turned to shit. For just one example for indy 3? he wanted it set in...get this...a HAUNTED HOUSE!! That's right, Indy meets Ghostbusters. the ONLY reason you didn't have that shit was Spielberg said "oh HELL no" but by the time of Indy 4 he was happy with a new grandkid and didn't feel like locking horns with Lucas.
But how much of that was "real" profits versus what MSFT does when they have a turkey and just shifting money around? I know that many of the triple A games they released in the last 4 years would have had to broken first day sale records just to break even, and with Riccitelo's single minded obsession with beating Call Of Dookie and Warcrack he had them sink just insane amounts into IP that went nowhere, not to mention shitting all over good IP like Deadspace by giving it "broader appeal" which translated into "make it more like Call of Dookie".
And then finally there is the shit icing on the fail cake, Origin. Many of us that actually bought their products won't anymore thanks to origin, hell I have keys for Sims 3 and Deadspace 3 from the Humble Bundle and haven't used 'em because of Origin, like GFWL its a crap service and has no chance in hell of competing with Steam, the prices are too high, sales too few, and DRM too big of a PITA.
So before I took their word for it I'd want a look at the books, just to make sure they aren't "spreading the wealth" from their frankly too few hits like medal of Honor to their flops.
Are you TRYING to be foolish, or does it just come naturally? You CAN hold a book, buy it, and have it shipped to you and you CAN hold software when its on a CD or DVD, you can order it no matter the form, and you can have it shipped to you.
Meanwhile what she said is correct, this IS vaporware. Can you hold it? Buy it? Have it shipped to you? No, and just like the Foleo and MSFT Courier until they have them for sale somewhere its just bullshit and marketing.
I'd say its annoying because there are plenty of other worthy subjects in the firehose on any given day and instead of one of those we get a commercial.
But when it comes to SteamOS and the SteamBox there is a rotting elephant that nobody seems to be willing to talk about...how in the world are they gonna pull off functional DRM in a FOSS OS without running afoul of the GPL? Are they gonna do like Google did and sink a billion into making their own GPL V2 only fork so they can use the "TiVo Trick" of code signing the DRM? Are they gonna demand boards that have TPM so they can use it against the user? How are they gonna pull it off?
I have read some say they are gonna just do it "like they do Steam on Windows" but I don't think that will work with a FOSS OS as you can always get the underlying subsystems to "lie" to the program by simply making your own recompile, something not possible with either OSX or Windows. They also can't use the kernel hooks that past DRM systems like SecuROM and StarForce used for the same reason, one could recompile the kernel to bypass it. Not to mention there are plenty of Linux hackers that hate DRM on general principle and will probably do everything they can to undermine any program that uses DRM. We have also seen this attitude from several of the devs of Linux who I wouldn't be surprised if their "updates" mainly break SteamOS. As one told me when I pointed out having updates break drivers was stupid "I hope we break every non GPL driver constantly!" because he truly believed a broken OS that was "GPL Pure" was better than a functional one.
So as a system builder while I would like nothing more than for this to work, as i think win 8 is an abomination and MSFT has always treated us like red headed stepchildren between this and the fact that a good 90% of triple A games in the last 10 years have been DirectX only? I just don't see how its gonna work, somebody really needs to do an interview with valve and ask the hard hitting questions. Maybe they have an answer, maybe they have cooked up their own GPL V2 only fork, maybe they have bought a good chunk of the Wine guys and have them working on a "clicky clicky" simple version of wine to integrate with SteamOS, I just don't know but I would MUCH rather read how they are gonna solve these VERY difficult issues, not read an oversized commercial about yet another supposedly innovative controller.
Hell that is true everywhere. I was called out on a service call with a "code red" ( means they can't function until i fix the problem, VERY expensive as i have to drop everything and head straight over) at this electronics shop because it turned out the secretary had seen a TV show the night before about how "strong password protect systems" and decided she'd "protect the company" by coming up with a strong password and...well i'm sure you know what happened next.
Well after I got the thing straightened out and this was like my fourth time of dealing with a code red because of that secretary i asked "You know she is costing you a LOT of money with all these service calls, why don't you just let her go?" and the owner got a dreamy smile at the thought, then shook his head and said "Nothing I'd love more but I'm afraid the wife would kill me if I fired our new daughter in law"
As for TFA I think we ALL know whose fault it is...George Lucas. From what I have seen talking about him behind the scenes he reminds me of Gene Roddenberry in that while he has interesting CONCEPTS he just doesn't know how to flesh things out. From the sound of LucasArts he kept coming up with new ideas and the entire place had to suddenly do a 180 every time he opened his mouth because nobody had the balls to say no to him. Look at the Prequels or Indy 4 to see what happens when nobody tells him no, same as Roddenberry kept going for those lame "God is a machine" and "Wesley is great!" stories.
Uhhhh..actually EA has been bleeding money hand over fist for the past few years, hence why the previous CEO is gone. Sure they make money hand over fist...and the previous CEO blew it like a sailor in Vegas by having a single minded obsession in beating Warcraft and Call Of Duty. I don't know if you read the articles over the past year or so but many titles such as Deadspace 3 would have to sell something like 6 million copies just to break even which is why the previous CEO had the gall to say that new games should be $80-$100 a pop!
In a way what happened to EA reminds me of MSFT. Like MSFT they had a CEO that instead of playing to their strengths got obsessed with the other guy, like MSFT they thought that making a half ass clone of the other guy's product would work and like MSFT the CEO thought the answer to any reality showing that his lame brain ideas weren't cutting it was to double down and throw ever larger piles of money on the fire.
Yeah there is also a wide world of software that likewise won't run on Linux, not to mention that most Linux software is "captain ersatz" and is frankly a piss poor copy of the real thing, see Gimp versus Corel Draw, GnuCash versus Quickbooks, Gnumeric versus excel, hell I could go on all day.
I'm sorry drinkypoo but Linux sucks, it really does and as long as Torvalds is running the show it won't get any better, just different. I mean we would laugh MSFT right off the planet if they had tried to hang onto the flaky as hell VXD driver model from the 90s but guess what? Torvalds refuses to let go of HIS driver model, which nobody else uses BTW, not even BSD and the other FOSS OSes, and his model is based on...drumroll...1970s Unix!
Now I could sit here and explain to you using math why his model is doomed to failure, with drivers breaking left and right and corps having to pay entire dev teams just to fix the hardware drivers Torvalds takes a dump on, how a model that was designed when an entire OS could fit on an 8 inch floppy just can't scale to the hundreds of thousands of drivers we have now, but i have a feeling it'll fall on deaf ears. At the end of the day despite how much I hate Metro I'd take Win 8, hell I'd take Vista over being stuck with the mess that is Linux but if you want to spend your weekends fixing whatever torvalds craps on? That is your business.
Oh and just FYI but I'm typing this on a first gen C2D with 1.5Gb of RAM and it runs Win 7 perfectly and my home system has had Win 7 since Aug 09, not a single crash, not a single BSOD, not a single broken driver in the last 4 years...can you say the same?
I don't care how less strict corporate laws are, if they were rigging the company to tank so they could sell it at a lower price that would be plain old fraud and larceny, pure and simple.
But if you want to see why Elop HAD to be brought in I do have evidence to back my claims, just look at the history of MeeGo, written with help from insiders at Nokia, to see what a toxic culture Nokia had become. You had the Symbian team actively sabotaging MeeGo because they thought it was a threat to their turf and their "partner" in Intel was likewise crippling the OS to keep the ARM version from coming about before they had an X86 phone.
So they really had no choice, they needed an outsider to come in and do the dirty work of killing Symbian and stopping the money pit that was MeeGo which thanks to the Symbian team and Intel was never gonna be completed in time and by getting a complete OS from MSFT they could concentrate on the hardware costs and trying to make a competitive smartphone. yes it failed but that is what happens when you have a board that refuses to innovate and sits on ass for too long, just look at what happened with palm.
Love how I get modded down for not drinking the Google-Aid. as for DDG I have tried it and its just not that good for image searches, not as good as Bing IMHO and as a nice added bonus I get a small slice of the search revenue in the form of Amazon gift cards from Bing. I figure if they are gonna make money off my searches they can at least give me a cut, and all those $5 gift cards I keep racking up is handy for all the little things I use around the shop like CD sleeves and cables and now I have my fiance using Bing and she is using her gift cards to buy all kinds of little knick knacks.
But to the morons who claimed I must be a shill for using Bing...which part of "I use no other MSFT services" do you not understand? I have no email or any services other than an old GFWL account and since they are shutting that down I won't even have that much longer. Oh and FYI even though MSFT has claimed (and may indeed have) increased the security of IE I will NEVER use it nor will I EVER give it out to customers, its not only got a giant bullseye painted on it I have also not forgotten how badly they screwed us with IE 6. For the record i always give out two browsers to my customers and family, so that if they ever bork one they do not have to fall back on IE, it used to be Chrome and Firefox but now its Comodo Dragon and IceDragon due to the fact they have extra security options like blacklisting of malware sites and Comodo Secure DNS. Oh and they are both FOSS, source code available on their site.
Well I was talking about this more than 5 years ago when the first 128Mb cards came out and everybody said I was batshit but think about it, even back then we were talking 400MHz cards with 128Mb worth of RAM, this is bigger than most of the Win98 PCs that the first pro malware writers cut their teeth on and since most antivirus can't touch the GPU you have a perfect hiding spot.
I think the ONLY reason it hasn't taken off before now is that malware writers really had no reason to learn anything but Windows since XP was so damned easy to infect. The moron who made running as admin the default really gave malware writers an easy target and like all criminals they are lazy and go for the low hanging fruit. Now that WinVista/7/8 brought a sane permissions model, even upping it with low rights mode (taken advantage of by IE and any Chromium based but NOT Gecko based sadly) its becoming harder and harder to infect Windows and since they had to learn to code for other platforms thanks to the Android explosion it only makes sense that they would go for the easiest target left on Windows. But I don't think network cards in and of themselves are much of a threat, routers yes, cards no, simply because nearly everybody uses what came in the system and those chips all use system memory which is scanned by AV.
For those that need a rock solid AV I can't recommend highly enough Comodo Internet Security Free as its free for BOTH home and Small Business, has won several shoot outs, has auto sandboxing by default,memory firewalling and protecting system files from alteration, and while the defaults can be left as is if you want to customize it has incredibly fine grained control of the AV. I have given CAV to some seriously "clicky clicky" customers that would get infected at the drop of a hat, with CAV they have been clean for over a year.
But the days of safe havens are over, if it has a processor and RAM its a target, be it GPUs or mobile devices, windows, Linux, Mac, doesn't matter as the malware guys make billions off this crap.
And this is why since they updated their privacy rules I no longer recommend Chrome and have switched to Bing search, I don't have any other MSFT services so they can't get anything other than my searches and frankly they way Google has been bugging the piss out of me lately to use my RealID, even on the phone, has really turned me off.
For those that like Chrome but not the phone home there are several choices, I personally use Comodo Dragon as it has several added security features, then there is SWIron, Chromium, or if you want to go back to the source and care about cross platform there is QTWeb which is just what it sounds like, Webkit with a QT based UI. This is one big advantage we have over the days of just IE and NS, today there are so many browsers you can choose one that fits you and does what YOU want, no need to just take what the corp hands you anymore.
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I can back up this guy as I have seen it happen here in AR too. doesn't matter if the bitch cheated, she is a piss poor mother, she has a vagina and that is pretty much all that is required to get full custody in this state. I have seen friends that were fricking GREAT dads lose their kids to women that ended up being junkies or drunks or just fucking everything with a dick, didn't matter, the courts will go with the female if she has a pulse.
That isn't what I am talking about, go to some place like HuffPo and you will see outright hatred directed at anybody with white skin, if a white were to say "I hate fucking niggers" they would be up in arms but if a black said "I hate fucking honkies" they would not only NOT be censored by the site as the first post would, you would probably be moderated up!
Ok...how do you PAY the people making the software? Do you set up a nanny state, where the government pays and of course then has to do what the government says? A local tax on everyone that goes to the devs? or how about corporate interests control it, whereas you again have the same problem as with government control, in that the corporate interests take precedent over the people?
It is THIS dirty little secret that the advocates of RMS refuse to acknowledge, that he hates anybody making a cent on their software and he has VERY strong communist leanings, see his gushing over Castro and Chavez, where he talks about what "paradise' their kingdoms were...yeah ask those being oppressed what a "paradise" it was RMS.
This is gonna get a little ranty, so please tune out now if you are an RMS flag waver, but this is what bugs the piss out of me when it comes to RMS, he is a hypocrite! I mean have you EVER seen him say that doctors, plumbers, CEOs, etc should work for free? Nope ONLY programmers! And the few times that anybody finds a way to actually make money by following RMS' own teachings? He WILL turn against them! For an example when somebody asked him "How are we supposed to pay our bills when our software can be copied by anybody for nothing?" he replied "by selling documentation" well guess what he says when some devs refuse to release their docs under GPL, the ONLY fucking way you can make money selling docs? "Documentation should be free!"
Why anybody still listens to this loonie I have no damned ideas, he had ONE good idea 30 fricking years ago and with each passing year his increased militant views do their damnedest to screw it up! At least Torvalds has a good head on his shoulders and no matter whether you agree or disagree his views are well thought out and have arguable merits, with each year RMS becomes more and more "St iGNUcious" with his beliefs becoming unquestioned dogma. I mean for God's sake people, you are listening to a guy that brags he is a squatter and thought it was perfectly acceptable to sit on the middle of a crowded stage and eat toe funk like the crazy homeless guy that he is! Hello, what more fucking proof do you need the guy has gone around the fricking bend people?
Yet you watch, just because I point out that the Saint is a loonie I'll get attacked, not once will anybody look beyond the headlines at what the man actually believes and stands for, why any politician would kill for that kind of blind loyalty!
Not to mention replace trailer park with ghetto and white trash with black and you'll see its just good old fashioned racism, pure and simple.
Although I have noticed that some on the left refuse to acknowledge racism if it is directed at whites, i don't know if it is the so called "white guilt" or some sort of perverse "getting even" thinking but I have noticed that they refuse to acknowledge racism if it comes from blacks or if it is directed at whites, see huffPo as the most obvious example but there are plenty of others.
The problem with your theory is thus...the Army, especially the soldiers capable of doing what you describe? Are loyal NOT to the government but to the CONSTITUTION.
The second you order the military against the American people a good half or more will turn against the leadership, look at Libya where you had pilots crashing their aircraft rather than allowed them to be used against the people and soldiers emptying the weapons caches by handing them out to the people. i have known a LOT of soldiers in my time and I can tell you they take the constitution VERY seriously and would see an order to attack the populace as an attack on the constitution and would fight to their last breath against those that would try to destroy it, you can take that to the bank.
This is what makes me worry about all those stories of late of turning F16s into drones along with the Israeli drone tanks and the like, because something like that would allow some mercs like Blackwater to be a hell of a force multiplier, you'd only need a handful trained to use the tech to have them control a fleet or aircraft or division of tanks, seeing as how these drones can fly themselves to and from a target. This would allow those that would want to crush any opposition to take a "relatively" small merc force and turn them into a credible threat overnight, as a merc doesn't give a shit who or what he is fighting for/against as long as the check clears.
Not to mention we have undeniable proof that this is a goal thanks to the "Fast and Furious" false flag that got at least one American border agent murdered and countless civilians on both sides of the border yet NOT A SINGLE ARREST of those responsible for what is obviously a VERY serious crime, the arming of drug cartels.
I personally don't give a shit if you are left or right, I lean so socialist I'm often called "Slashdot's resident hippie" yet I think Obama should be investigated to see what he knew and Holder should be cooling his heels in prison right now, and that he is not just shows what he was doing was approved of by those at the top. Treason can only flourish if none dare call it treason and if you go by the government's own standards and consider drug cartels to be narco-terrorists? Then Holder aided terrorists and should be in jail and possibly looking at the death penalty.
The more we "learn" about this the more it sounds like Naomi Wolf was right, that Snowden was a plant designed to create a chilling effect on the US populace. After all you can't have a chilling effect if you don't know you are being watched, can you? And you can't have the government just come right out and tell you, there has to be at least some deniability to make the most loyal go with the "if you have nothing to hide" line of bullshit, so by having some "disgruntled employee" do the leaking you have a perfect scenario, all the intelligent ones are spooked and afraid to speak out while the "Joe Six Pack" type just ignores it and goes back to their day to day struggle for survival.
No matter what your feelings on Snowden this possibility at least deserves to be discussed and if it turns out he was a plant? Then you have to give the gov credit, it was well played as talking to customers the smarter ones are worried about even saying this or that politician sucks for fear they will end up with a file while the more clueless ones go back to their reality shows and don't care.
I saw a monk of all people that worked with junkies and the word he said frankly should be enshrined and used by ALL that want to help junkies: "Drug treatment doesn't work because there is nearly always ONE thing, one horror in their past that they can not face. Help them get over the one thing? You can cure them of their addiction".
He showed two of his cases to illustrate what he was talking about, with one her mom was actually making CP with her and her scumbbag BF, once she got the girl to confront her mom and have her arrested? She was able to clean up easily. In the other a guy had been in a car wreck at 19, he had been trapped with the body of his dead sister pinned against him for four hours. Even though it was a drunk driver that caused the accident it was one of those "one child is golden, the other is unwanted" with his family who disowned him because the golden child died in his car, once he took the guy across the country to vent his anger at his parents graves? He was able to easily get clean. Both hold down jobs now and are completely clean and sober.
Living on the meth highway that is what all these folks, which the monk called "broken people" seem to have in common, there is a single trauma that they just can't face and which eats at them until they take anything they can to forget. Look at Jake The Snake Roberts, his sister was coming to visit for a funeral and he couldn't take off to go get her as he had a match...she disappeared and hasn't been seen since. the fact that he didn't just go get her eats at him like a cancer, he hasn't been clean and sober more than a few weeks since the tragedy.
WTF are you babbling about? As opposed to Google that gives you jack and shit? And why EXACTLY would I give a fuck if Bing knows what parts I buy for customers?
Lets look for the last 6 hours on my searches...shall we? I searched for a C2D as I have a customer whose LGA775 board won't take any bigger and the Pentium D he has now is a power pig, FYI I got him a nice 2.2Ghz for just $12, I did a search for some parts for my nephew, he is damned determined to have a gamer rig bigger than me as he has always had hand me downs, but I raised the little guy so I'll point him in the right direction. FYI he just ordered a Socket AM3+ board as that will hold his 925 quad while letting him go octocore later, and picked up 4Gb of DDR 3 to go with it. Finally my GF has been looking for dresses for our wedding, she wants something simple and pretty and has finally settled on this nice antique looking number.
Now why in the fuck would I care if Bing knows about those? My searches are nearly all work related and boring, so I could really give a flying crap if bing has those. All they will be able to gather from me is I like 5 string basses and i buy a LOT of compter parts...so what? Anybody who spends less than 10 minutes talking to me knows that!
The reason it WILL crash before 2030, in fact may even crash before 2020 is simple and if you watch that video to the end it will explain why....its because at the current rate you will end up with more money than the GDP of the entire planet tied up into the market and when THAT much "magical money" is printed? It WILL come crashing down.
This is actually tied into the whole "job creators" myth and the constant tax breaks and dodges of the elite, as they take more and more AND MORE that money for all intents and purposes "disappears" from the world as its hoarded away in some tax dodge in the Cayman islands, it can no longer circulate so is therefor useless to the economy. So what to do? Well instead of taxing them enough to get that money circulating again the elite has convinced the gov to "just print more" which they then gobble up and gobble up and....you get the idea.
But the "magical money" Ponzi scheme can't last forever and the outcome is ALWAYS the same, it is what is happening to Zimbabwe now. Remember once upon a time Zimbabwe was the "jewel of Africa" and the "breadbasket of the Sahara" and now thanks to a complete economic collapse it can't even feed its own people. That is EXACTLY what will happen here, when the fed can't print another dollar because nobody wants it and the people can't get the checks each month that keep them from starving you WILL see things turn ugly and the amount they are cranking out each quarter will let you know when that will be...if at current rates before 2030, if they keep pulling QE schemes and trying to solve every problem with magical money? Before 2020.
And Cidar is just about dead, Transgaming has been laying people off for over a year, just like Loki they have found out that ultra niche gaming doesn't sell enough to keep the lights on.
This is what irks me, because i point out there is a serious issue i must be "for" the other guy when IRL I fricking HATE MSFT, they treat us system builders like shit, have tried for years to screw us with licensing, and Windows 8.x is a fucking disaster. But you have to AT LEAST be as good as the other guy if you expect to have a chance in hell of beating him and Linux on the desktop? Its a joke, sorry but it is. All the money being spent on Linux is being spent on the server NOT the desktop, you pick any mainstream distro and you end up with help files that are placeholders, basic functionality that doesn't even work because nobody has done any real QA, and every damned problem has only ONE answer, and that is "open up bash and type" this shit that NEVER EVER works unless you "tweak it"...which more than 90% of the populace isn't capable of doing.
Sorry about coming off a little ranty, but until I see an actual product, with a list of third parties and titles ported and ready to go? this is vaporware and thinking that Linux can compete with Windows and OSX without having tens of millions spent on it is total bullshit. Its ready for the server, its ready for embedded, its pathetic on the desktop.
Because its not even beta quality yet, much less ready for Joe Public? for every game you have that "just works" in wine you have a good hundred that MIGHT work in wine IF you have the ability to "massage" the game. this massaging often involves a shitload of hoops and CLI, and Joe Public? Is lucky if he can make a shortcut, he sure as hell isn't messing with CLI.
This is the problem that FOSS advocates simply refuse to accept and I have a feeling valve is gonna find out the hard way....just because YOU think something isn't complex does NOT mean that Joe Public will feel the same!
Until you can remove 100% of the CLI mess from wine, in fact until you can remove damned near 100% CLI mess from SteamOS? Its not gonna fly as the first time Joe Public is told with a straight face "Open up bash and type" its over, they are going back to Windows and furthermore are gonna tell a dozen people how bad SteamOS sucks. And before anybody brings up Powershell don't waste my time, its a SERVER TECH and is NOT used on the desktop. in fact I dare you to show me a single OEM of Windows Home that comes with PS. You could remove CLI from windows tomorrow and the vast majority? would never know it was gone, in fact around 2006 HP had a desktop whose image had no "run" nor did it have any way to access the CMD unless you knew the path...ever hear about it? probably not as it was a home unit and the only guys that ever noticed were guys like me that had to work on them!
While I appreciate the work the Wine guys have done they have a loooong way to go before Wine is simple enough for Joe public, for Joe to use it he has to be able to stick in the disc, go "clicky clicky, next next next" and have it work EVERY TIME, or at least work enough that the few times it don't he thinks its his fault. Wine just isn't anywhere close to that point, sorry.
Sorry but any teens shooting codeine and gas into their veins? not gonna be worth anything to anybody but the prison industrial complex. i live on what is called "the meth highway" so I see this kind of shit all the time and even if they quit meth after only a few years? they still have lifelong mental and physical problems and usually end up on disability or homeless.
So sorry anybody that is THIS hardcore when it comes to getting high? Not gonna be useful down the line.
Uhhh...they already KNOW they are being watched but don't care because unlike the peasants it won't be used against them. We know this because Dianne Feinstein Accidentally Confirms That NSA Tapped The Internet Backbone is the headline at Techdirt. Frankly none of us should be surprised by this, after all there is "rich people's laws" and the laws the peasants have to live under and rarely are they the same.
Honestly I doubt we'll be having to worry about this too much longer as when the stock market bubble bursts they won't have enough money to pay for a guy to tap a single phone, much less the entire backbone. When that bubble pops it'll make 29 look like a flash crash, we are talking a good half a century of depression, and I seriously doubt that with as much hatred as the people have for the current system it will survive another major crash. The only reason we aren't seeing our very own Arab Spring is the safety net keeps much of the poor fed, when that all dries up? I have a feeling the USA will go the way of the USSR. Oh well, no empire lasts forever and this one has gotten so corrupt they don't even pretend to give a fuck anymore, they are too busy looting the coffers and cashing bribes to care.
According to TFA that is a big YES, there was a "handler" that stood between the devs and Lucas and she would actually force them to REHEARSE what they would say, just to make sure it wouldn't offend George's delicate sensibilities.
If you haven't seen it go to Red letter Media and look up Plinket reviews Indy 4, that video has a LOT of behind the scenes stuff and you'd be amazed how many BAD ideas Lucas pushed for, it was only when Spielberg said "fuck it" and just let George do what he wanted that indy 4 turned to shit. For just one example for indy 3? he wanted it set in...get this...a HAUNTED HOUSE!! That's right, Indy meets Ghostbusters. the ONLY reason you didn't have that shit was Spielberg said "oh HELL no" but by the time of Indy 4 he was happy with a new grandkid and didn't feel like locking horns with Lucas.
But how much of that was "real" profits versus what MSFT does when they have a turkey and just shifting money around? I know that many of the triple A games they released in the last 4 years would have had to broken first day sale records just to break even, and with Riccitelo's single minded obsession with beating Call Of Dookie and Warcrack he had them sink just insane amounts into IP that went nowhere, not to mention shitting all over good IP like Deadspace by giving it "broader appeal" which translated into "make it more like Call of Dookie".
And then finally there is the shit icing on the fail cake, Origin. Many of us that actually bought their products won't anymore thanks to origin, hell I have keys for Sims 3 and Deadspace 3 from the Humble Bundle and haven't used 'em because of Origin, like GFWL its a crap service and has no chance in hell of competing with Steam, the prices are too high, sales too few, and DRM too big of a PITA.
So before I took their word for it I'd want a look at the books, just to make sure they aren't "spreading the wealth" from their frankly too few hits like medal of Honor to their flops.
Are you TRYING to be foolish, or does it just come naturally? You CAN hold a book, buy it, and have it shipped to you and you CAN hold software when its on a CD or DVD, you can order it no matter the form, and you can have it shipped to you.
Meanwhile what she said is correct, this IS vaporware. Can you hold it? Buy it? Have it shipped to you? No, and just like the Foleo and MSFT Courier until they have them for sale somewhere its just bullshit and marketing.
I'd say its annoying because there are plenty of other worthy subjects in the firehose on any given day and instead of one of those we get a commercial.
But when it comes to SteamOS and the SteamBox there is a rotting elephant that nobody seems to be willing to talk about...how in the world are they gonna pull off functional DRM in a FOSS OS without running afoul of the GPL? Are they gonna do like Google did and sink a billion into making their own GPL V2 only fork so they can use the "TiVo Trick" of code signing the DRM? Are they gonna demand boards that have TPM so they can use it against the user? How are they gonna pull it off?
I have read some say they are gonna just do it "like they do Steam on Windows" but I don't think that will work with a FOSS OS as you can always get the underlying subsystems to "lie" to the program by simply making your own recompile, something not possible with either OSX or Windows. They also can't use the kernel hooks that past DRM systems like SecuROM and StarForce used for the same reason, one could recompile the kernel to bypass it. Not to mention there are plenty of Linux hackers that hate DRM on general principle and will probably do everything they can to undermine any program that uses DRM. We have also seen this attitude from several of the devs of Linux who I wouldn't be surprised if their "updates" mainly break SteamOS. As one told me when I pointed out having updates break drivers was stupid "I hope we break every non GPL driver constantly!" because he truly believed a broken OS that was "GPL Pure" was better than a functional one.
So as a system builder while I would like nothing more than for this to work, as i think win 8 is an abomination and MSFT has always treated us like red headed stepchildren between this and the fact that a good 90% of triple A games in the last 10 years have been DirectX only? I just don't see how its gonna work, somebody really needs to do an interview with valve and ask the hard hitting questions. Maybe they have an answer, maybe they have cooked up their own GPL V2 only fork, maybe they have bought a good chunk of the Wine guys and have them working on a "clicky clicky" simple version of wine to integrate with SteamOS, I just don't know but I would MUCH rather read how they are gonna solve these VERY difficult issues, not read an oversized commercial about yet another supposedly innovative controller.
Hell that is true everywhere. I was called out on a service call with a "code red" ( means they can't function until i fix the problem, VERY expensive as i have to drop everything and head straight over) at this electronics shop because it turned out the secretary had seen a TV show the night before about how "strong password protect systems" and decided she'd "protect the company" by coming up with a strong password and...well i'm sure you know what happened next.
Well after I got the thing straightened out and this was like my fourth time of dealing with a code red because of that secretary i asked "You know she is costing you a LOT of money with all these service calls, why don't you just let her go?" and the owner got a dreamy smile at the thought, then shook his head and said "Nothing I'd love more but I'm afraid the wife would kill me if I fired our new daughter in law"
As for TFA I think we ALL know whose fault it is...George Lucas. From what I have seen talking about him behind the scenes he reminds me of Gene Roddenberry in that while he has interesting CONCEPTS he just doesn't know how to flesh things out. From the sound of LucasArts he kept coming up with new ideas and the entire place had to suddenly do a 180 every time he opened his mouth because nobody had the balls to say no to him. Look at the Prequels or Indy 4 to see what happens when nobody tells him no, same as Roddenberry kept going for those lame "God is a machine" and "Wesley is great!" stories.
Uhhhh..actually EA has been bleeding money hand over fist for the past few years, hence why the previous CEO is gone. Sure they make money hand over fist...and the previous CEO blew it like a sailor in Vegas by having a single minded obsession in beating Warcraft and Call Of Duty. I don't know if you read the articles over the past year or so but many titles such as Deadspace 3 would have to sell something like 6 million copies just to break even which is why the previous CEO had the gall to say that new games should be $80-$100 a pop!
In a way what happened to EA reminds me of MSFT. Like MSFT they had a CEO that instead of playing to their strengths got obsessed with the other guy, like MSFT they thought that making a half ass clone of the other guy's product would work and like MSFT the CEO thought the answer to any reality showing that his lame brain ideas weren't cutting it was to double down and throw ever larger piles of money on the fire.
Yeah there is also a wide world of software that likewise won't run on Linux, not to mention that most Linux software is "captain ersatz" and is frankly a piss poor copy of the real thing, see Gimp versus Corel Draw, GnuCash versus Quickbooks, Gnumeric versus excel, hell I could go on all day.
I'm sorry drinkypoo but Linux sucks, it really does and as long as Torvalds is running the show it won't get any better, just different. I mean we would laugh MSFT right off the planet if they had tried to hang onto the flaky as hell VXD driver model from the 90s but guess what? Torvalds refuses to let go of HIS driver model, which nobody else uses BTW, not even BSD and the other FOSS OSes, and his model is based on...drumroll...1970s Unix!
Now I could sit here and explain to you using math why his model is doomed to failure, with drivers breaking left and right and corps having to pay entire dev teams just to fix the hardware drivers Torvalds takes a dump on, how a model that was designed when an entire OS could fit on an 8 inch floppy just can't scale to the hundreds of thousands of drivers we have now, but i have a feeling it'll fall on deaf ears. At the end of the day despite how much I hate Metro I'd take Win 8, hell I'd take Vista over being stuck with the mess that is Linux but if you want to spend your weekends fixing whatever torvalds craps on? That is your business.
Oh and just FYI but I'm typing this on a first gen C2D with 1.5Gb of RAM and it runs Win 7 perfectly and my home system has had Win 7 since Aug 09, not a single crash, not a single BSOD, not a single broken driver in the last 4 years...can you say the same?
I don't care how less strict corporate laws are, if they were rigging the company to tank so they could sell it at a lower price that would be plain old fraud and larceny, pure and simple.
But if you want to see why Elop HAD to be brought in I do have evidence to back my claims, just look at the history of MeeGo, written with help from insiders at Nokia, to see what a toxic culture Nokia had become. You had the Symbian team actively sabotaging MeeGo because they thought it was a threat to their turf and their "partner" in Intel was likewise crippling the OS to keep the ARM version from coming about before they had an X86 phone.
So they really had no choice, they needed an outsider to come in and do the dirty work of killing Symbian and stopping the money pit that was MeeGo which thanks to the Symbian team and Intel was never gonna be completed in time and by getting a complete OS from MSFT they could concentrate on the hardware costs and trying to make a competitive smartphone. yes it failed but that is what happens when you have a board that refuses to innovate and sits on ass for too long, just look at what happened with palm.
Love how I get modded down for not drinking the Google-Aid. as for DDG I have tried it and its just not that good for image searches, not as good as Bing IMHO and as a nice added bonus I get a small slice of the search revenue in the form of Amazon gift cards from Bing. I figure if they are gonna make money off my searches they can at least give me a cut, and all those $5 gift cards I keep racking up is handy for all the little things I use around the shop like CD sleeves and cables and now I have my fiance using Bing and she is using her gift cards to buy all kinds of little knick knacks.
But to the morons who claimed I must be a shill for using Bing...which part of "I use no other MSFT services" do you not understand? I have no email or any services other than an old GFWL account and since they are shutting that down I won't even have that much longer. Oh and FYI even though MSFT has claimed (and may indeed have) increased the security of IE I will NEVER use it nor will I EVER give it out to customers, its not only got a giant bullseye painted on it I have also not forgotten how badly they screwed us with IE 6. For the record i always give out two browsers to my customers and family, so that if they ever bork one they do not have to fall back on IE, it used to be Chrome and Firefox but now its Comodo Dragon and IceDragon due to the fact they have extra security options like blacklisting of malware sites and Comodo Secure DNS. Oh and they are both FOSS, source code available on their site.
Well I was talking about this more than 5 years ago when the first 128Mb cards came out and everybody said I was batshit but think about it, even back then we were talking 400MHz cards with 128Mb worth of RAM, this is bigger than most of the Win98 PCs that the first pro malware writers cut their teeth on and since most antivirus can't touch the GPU you have a perfect hiding spot.
I think the ONLY reason it hasn't taken off before now is that malware writers really had no reason to learn anything but Windows since XP was so damned easy to infect. The moron who made running as admin the default really gave malware writers an easy target and like all criminals they are lazy and go for the low hanging fruit. Now that WinVista/7/8 brought a sane permissions model, even upping it with low rights mode (taken advantage of by IE and any Chromium based but NOT Gecko based sadly) its becoming harder and harder to infect Windows and since they had to learn to code for other platforms thanks to the Android explosion it only makes sense that they would go for the easiest target left on Windows. But I don't think network cards in and of themselves are much of a threat, routers yes, cards no, simply because nearly everybody uses what came in the system and those chips all use system memory which is scanned by AV.
For those that need a rock solid AV I can't recommend highly enough Comodo Internet Security Free as its free for BOTH home and Small Business, has won several shoot outs, has auto sandboxing by default,memory firewalling and protecting system files from alteration, and while the defaults can be left as is if you want to customize it has incredibly fine grained control of the AV. I have given CAV to some seriously "clicky clicky" customers that would get infected at the drop of a hat, with CAV they have been clean for over a year.
But the days of safe havens are over, if it has a processor and RAM its a target, be it GPUs or mobile devices, windows, Linux, Mac, doesn't matter as the malware guys make billions off this crap.
And this is why since they updated their privacy rules I no longer recommend Chrome and have switched to Bing search, I don't have any other MSFT services so they can't get anything other than my searches and frankly they way Google has been bugging the piss out of me lately to use my RealID, even on the phone, has really turned me off.
For those that like Chrome but not the phone home there are several choices, I personally use Comodo Dragon as it has several added security features, then there is SWIron, Chromium, or if you want to go back to the source and care about cross platform there is QTWeb which is just what it sounds like, Webkit with a QT based UI. This is one big advantage we have over the days of just IE and NS, today there are so many browsers you can choose one that fits you and does what YOU want, no need to just take what the corp hands you anymore.