My personal opinion is that overclocking does not buy you much, other than bragging rights. Sure you can get a few more FPS, or a few hundred extra MHz out of your CPU. But does that translate into anything usable? A false edge for gaming; false because there are so many other factors that can nullify that edge such as your connection parameters. Perhaps I'm too pragmatic, but then I don't watch Jersey Shore or Kardassians or fauxlebrity shows either.
It's inevitable that some kid is going to be harmed by something at some point in time. Parents need to start taking responsibility of watching their kids. At that young age, critters don't have common sense. Parents are stupid to think otherwise and should be teaching them right, wrong, safe, danger, good, bad. he write-up says it all: the mother's first reaction was "it won't harm him". What else is she letting the kid eat because "it won't harm him"? Apparently we have a parent with no common sense either, one that is not ready to be raising children. Jeez.
It's sad to see material things and freedoms being banned or regulated by the Nanny-nuts, and it's sad to not see the right people slapping parents with a sensibility stick when they take up a crusade because of something stupid that they could have prevented. Instead, we all end up being inconvenienced or punished by their failures.
I don't know what kind of people Jill hangs around, but I for one don't not see people swallowing pennies every day.
You killed Napster, your reputation, and St. Anger's drum parts. The first two in the same tantrum.:) (can't sue me, I used a smiley to cast doubt on whether this post was in jest or serious comment on how you screwed up)
I'd +1 you if I could-- this is a very important point. I'm on my 4th generation of Android-powered phones, currently a Droid 3. All have had their "moments" at some time or another and have needed to have the battery pulled for a cold boot.
Bad title for this article. It should be "Motorola develops a thinner Android phone". The RAZR brand name is irrelevant today. I had a RAZR and it was nothing out of the ordinary. So I immediately thought: wow, Moty is throwing out a new budget phone, a rehack of a RAZR..
What I'm still not impressed with: this is still a tall/wide Android. Somebody needs to come out with a more compact one- that is also thin. That would impress me. Having a wide-tall bulky paddle-sized Android phone on my belt that gets caught on seatbelts is no longer 'cool'. It's dorky as shit, and so are all of the lame "ladies" pocket-book sized cases for these things.
I bought Eudora and loved it too... then Qualcomm changed. They started adding incremental features, considered them to be significant "upgrades" and began charging something like 50% of the purchase price for these minor revs.... which they also started rolling out rather regularly. That was my incentive to go to Thunderbird. I couldn't justify paying for features I had no interest in.
This is the same thing Forte started doing with Agent. Adding minor features on a more regular basis and wanting money for them. In the case of Agent, they started to focus more on improving Email features which appeared to really be to be more of a directional shift of the product, and IMHO should have been busted out to be a separate product or an unlockable, Because all the while, the Usenet part of Agent didn't improve significantly.
... Mac's hardware is under Draconian control and can't fail because there is no room for innovation. Unlike PCs, which have more modern hardware, gets hardware upgrades sooner, and offers the user options, not McDonalds menu choices.
So go back to Blackberry, iPhone which are McDonalds phones of single-digit model options, whereas you can get dozens of models of Smartphones that run Android.
The bleeding edge still has performance and apps that runs circles around the decrepit Blackberry. And don't even mention Siri -- an admittedly great software "killer app" designed to keep renewed interest in the aging iPhone hardware.
Faster, smaller code, way less bugs than Java. Granted no objects and the like. But it disappoints the hell out of me when I use Java, I don't get the speed or interface consistency that Sun touted so highly, and I get huge stack traces that are mostly useless. And in the end, programmers today have little clue what is actually happening under the covers- not just under Java's covers, but in the assembly code that makes the slow magic happen. And I won't event mention.NET...
Greater than 500 emails constitutes SPAM in my book. If you're not a spammer and need to send more than 500... you should be using something professional, not a cloud-based thing which by design is supposed to be light-weight and portable.
Back in April I had two people catch the same malware within a week of each other. Very similar to this, +h+s all of the files in the profile user directory so they've got nothing to click on, rewired the registry to trap the launch of executables- to call the malware with the executable name as a parameter, presumably so they could "shell" out to whatever you clicked on. Convenient way to re-infect a system. Popups for "Hard drive failing" blah-blah-bitemyass. After fixing the first one, I did the usual: uploaded the exe to Virustotal for verification then sent the sample file off to "two well known free AV vendors:". A week later, the second malware victim pops up. Tested the exe against both free AV packages. Neither complained about the executable. Uploaded it to Virustotal which immediately said this file was scanned over a week ago. Malwarebytes, Superantispyware, Spyware Doctor, Spybot- nobody got it. Then I took the executable to work where Symantec SAV Corporate with up-to-date defs happily scanned right past the malware file without a blink.
What? Oh yeah, the point. Tell your complainer that even up-to-date software can be as clueless as Sarah Palin. There's no guarantee that something out today will be detected tomorrow.
It's a computer. It can do anything. Make it do whatever I want. Use that HTML stuff if you have to." -- anonymous manager
Another 'expert' user who thinks he/she knows more than IT. And that may be very true - there are some smart people out there. But that box won't be going on the corporate/prod network if its unpatched, unmonitored, unmanaged, or improperly privileged. Users don't give a shit about policies if whatever they want or are doing is convenient for them. And it's shit attitudes like yours that puts IT on the defensive (try working with them for once. they might even host the sw on a server properly). And see life from their shoes. Uninformed users wouldn't believe the policies, especially FDA, that IT departments have to operate within. Have a 12 CFR server lose 10 seconds of data and see who's tit gets in the ringer. Users can't fathom why they're stuck with specific versions of software or operating systems. Patching? What's that? Or why they can't have free internet access, or stream audio all day. Trojans? Bandwidth? I only want to watch Youtube all day. Or have a brand X computer instead of brand Y. It's a computer just like all of those other ones, except some stuff inside- so why can't you support it? Any why can't we bring in software, or MP3 file, or a copy of that movie that my kid downloaded? Licensing? Liability? What are you-the DMV? Or why one of the 'n' IT guys doesn't respond- it's not like the n*100 computers or n*5 server they're supporting are down all the time. Yeah bud, you are one of the arrogant idiots you're talking about.
EA doesn't have a clue to what people want. They only make assumptions or (publicity) statements that are financially advantageous. They only want people to think "multi-player" in order to make more subscription sales, or sales of DRM laden crap that requires on-line connections. I for one think that multi-player games suck ass. If EA wants my money, they need to produce DRM-free single player games. (Oh, ones that don't suck ass as well).
It's the same as the music industry. Publishers still operate as if there is this huge advertising and distribution infrastructure that everything "must" work through. The lords of the system don't see the real world from their tower, so piracy/DRM and even *shock* the fact that people don't want to buy a physical CD/book is inconceivable (cue Wallace Shawn). We all know musicians don't receive as much royalty as they should from this system, I would bet writers aren't treated royally either. What the music industry doesn't get is that record stores are becoming extinct, radio is no longer a key medium for sales, people don't have a way to get informed/hooked on new music, so the file sharing de facto that filled the gap is nearly unstoppable. Publishers should get a clue and realize the same thing: bookstores are becoming extinct in the digital age, people aren't going to buy a book unless they can see it/thumb through it/read it-- so file sharing is filling the gap once again. While I am not a fan at all of "e" books and prefer physical ones, and I do not like what I've seen from Kindle (DRM, restrictions, no advantage on costs, Amazon can delete remotely, must re-buy books if you get a new Kindle) I will eventually learn to embrace the "e" crap and won't be buying anything unless I can look through it first.
Is 3-D really needed for The Hobbit? There aren't that many "action" sequences in the book. It's supposed to be about a journey, not a hollywoodized action flick. It's not frickin' Rambo. Save the 3-D for the action-packed flicks, and not film something in 3-D for marketing purposes. That said, if the goal is to make The Hobbit in 3-D, then the story will probably be butchered in order to bulk-up the action sequences. Similar to the way the Harry Potter books were butchered to make the movies action/drama-packed. PJ did a good job on LOTR. I just hope 3-D doesn't skew his book adaptation.
Yeah, well, if everybody else could use Microsoft's secret undocumented API calls, their GPU acceleration would be even faster. And safer. And not have daily security patches. And crash less. And have smaller code bases. And not suck.
/satire
I can use my Netbook as a real computing device. I can load my own software, load software off the internet. I can upgrade it, plug in peripherals. I can run Windows or Linux or whatever else I choose. The iPad is bound to the Apple store through heavy chains of DRM. Apple dictates what software I can run, and if they choose, they can change their mind and remove said software. I'm limited to fledgling mini-apps, and can't load the same software I use on my desktop. The iPad is an Apple fanboy's wet dream, a "safe" handheld toy-like device. Give me a Netbook, and give me liberty.
You don't know anything about Super SATA. There is no decimal point or digits of precision. What really happens is that the cable makes the 1's precisely straight up and down, and the 0's are made perfectly round. THAT is what makes the music sound better. I hear there is a SATA cable that will automatically slash the zeros, but that's not good for music, just data.
I'm using batch files to back up 120+ factory floor machines that run critical processes. The batch files read text files for input of which machines/partitions to back up and what org tree to store them in, makes full and incremental backups that auto-refresh depending on the percentage of data change, emails status/failure dumps and backup summaries, and archives the backups to off-line storage carts for a history. OK, so the backups, cartridge ejection and email functions are EXEs, but the mockup code written in '08 worked too well and is still running today.
Bonus fugly: a web page is used to update the text files.
Bitter twist: I'd load Perl in a heartbeat and port the batch files over if it weren't for bullhead company policies that say I can't load it.
"...new font uses about 30 percent less ink than the previous one..."
Stop using inkjets for anything but printing photos! We get people at working printings stupid emails, documents with an itty bit of color, or change their default printer to the color printer for convenience. Grr! Even colored graphs and crap for meetings are a waste- after they're read once, they get pitched anyway. Everybody wants digital copies in Email so they can keep them handy, or for forwarding. Copies are a waste, but nobody will see the trees!
I bought a cheap-ass Brother laser for home for $100. I'm still on my first (starter) cartridge, while my housemate has filled his Kodak and HP printers multiple times- and still has to leech off my printer when his are OOC. Fsck inkjets!
"But an unfortunately large majority of PC gamers ARE criminals who will steal any game they can". If that was true, wouldn't any game house be taking a huge gamble on trying to sell any game? I mean, why bother even trying, then? Becuse you're basically saying we're all pirates with that statement.
Look, everything comes down to money. People don't want to spend $60 on a game. Don't bother crying inflation, or "but it's 2010". The consumer's mind hasn't changed. $40 for a game in 1995 is still $40 now. Game software is a luxury, not a requirement. Nobody is obligated to buy games from you.
Drop the price to $40 or below. Lose the dozens of people who don't need to be involved (producer? executive producer? multiple sound studios? fluffers etc.) to save cash. Don't get professional actors to Draculize the budget. Leave out the long movies and crap, and put more gameplay and replayability in. Lose the complications that are taking two years to get that game to market.
And for Pete's sake...get a playable demo out early to hook people! Trailers don't cut it- they're only cartooned mockups, and like movie trailers, are the best parts of the movie (game) condensed down. People want to see the game, play a level or two, see if you've totally botched the controls etc. See if the thing lives up to the hype. THAT gets you the pre-orders. Not trailers. Don't wait for months after the game has been shat to market to release a demo. Whet the appetite and woo your customers.
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My personal opinion is that overclocking does not buy you much, other than bragging rights. Sure you can get a few more FPS, or a few hundred extra MHz out of your CPU. But does that translate into anything usable? A false edge for gaming; false because there are so many other factors that can nullify that edge such as your connection parameters. Perhaps I'm too pragmatic, but then I don't watch Jersey Shore or Kardassians or fauxlebrity shows either.
It's inevitable that some kid is going to be harmed by something at some point in time. Parents need to start taking responsibility of watching their kids. At that young age, critters don't have common sense. Parents are stupid to think otherwise and should be teaching them right, wrong, safe, danger, good, bad. he write-up says it all: the mother's first reaction was "it won't harm him". What else is she letting the kid eat because "it won't harm him"? Apparently we have a parent with no common sense either, one that is not ready to be raising children. Jeez.
It's sad to see material things and freedoms being banned or regulated by the Nanny-nuts, and it's sad to not see the right people slapping parents with a sensibility stick when they take up a crusade because of something stupid that they could have prevented. Instead, we all end up being inconvenienced or punished by their failures.
I don't know what kind of people Jill hangs around, but I for one don't not see people swallowing pennies every day.
You killed Napster, your reputation, and St. Anger's drum parts. The first two in the same tantrum. :)
(can't sue me, I used a smiley to cast doubt on whether this post was in jest or serious comment on how you screwed up)
I'd +1 you if I could-- this is a very important point. I'm on my 4th generation of Android-powered phones, currently a Droid 3. All have had their "moments" at some time or another and have needed to have the battery pulled for a cold boot.
Bad title for this article. It should be "Motorola develops a thinner Android phone". The RAZR brand name is irrelevant today. I had a RAZR and it was nothing out of the ordinary. So I immediately thought: wow, Moty is throwing out a new budget phone, a rehack of a RAZR..
What I'm still not impressed with: this is still a tall/wide Android. Somebody needs to come out with a more compact one- that is also thin. That would impress me. Having a wide-tall bulky paddle-sized Android phone on my belt that gets caught on seatbelts is no longer 'cool'. It's dorky as shit, and so are all of the lame "ladies" pocket-book sized cases for these things.
I bought Eudora and loved it too... then Qualcomm changed. They started adding incremental features, considered them to be significant "upgrades" and began charging something like 50% of the purchase price for these minor revs.... which they also started rolling out rather regularly. That was my incentive to go to Thunderbird. I couldn't justify paying for features I had no interest in.
This is the same thing Forte started doing with Agent. Adding minor features on a more regular basis and wanting money for them. In the case of Agent, they started to focus more on improving Email features which appeared to really be to be more of a directional shift of the product, and IMHO should have been busted out to be a separate product or an unlockable, Because all the while, the Usenet part of Agent didn't improve significantly.
... Mac's hardware is under Draconian control and can't fail because there is no room for innovation. Unlike PCs, which have more modern hardware, gets hardware upgrades sooner, and offers the user options, not McDonalds menu choices.
So go back to Blackberry, iPhone which are McDonalds phones of single-digit model options, whereas you can get dozens of models of Smartphones that run Android.
The bleeding edge still has performance and apps that runs circles around the decrepit Blackberry. And don't even mention Siri -- an admittedly great software "killer app" designed to keep renewed interest in the aging iPhone hardware.
Faster, smaller code, way less bugs than Java. Granted no objects and the like. But it disappoints the hell out of me when I use Java, I don't get the speed or interface consistency that Sun touted so highly, and I get huge stack traces that are mostly useless. And in the end, programmers today have little clue what is actually happening under the covers- not just under Java's covers, but in the assembly code that makes the slow magic happen. And I won't event mention .NET...
Greater than 500 emails constitutes SPAM in my book. If you're not a spammer and need to send more than 500... you should be using something professional, not a cloud-based thing which by design is supposed to be light-weight and portable.
The numbering should start with 1025.
You tore me away from Oprah's final show for this? Not for long...
Back in April I had two people catch the same malware within a week of each other. Very similar to this, +h+s all of the files in the profile user directory so they've got nothing to click on, rewired the registry to trap the launch of executables- to call the malware with the executable name as a parameter, presumably so they could "shell" out to whatever you clicked on. Convenient way to re-infect a system. Popups for "Hard drive failing" blah-blah-bitemyass. After fixing the first one, I did the usual: uploaded the exe to Virustotal for verification then sent the sample file off to "two well known free AV vendors:". A week later, the second malware victim pops up. Tested the exe against both free AV packages. Neither complained about the executable. Uploaded it to Virustotal which immediately said this file was scanned over a week ago. Malwarebytes, Superantispyware, Spyware Doctor, Spybot- nobody got it. Then I took the executable to work where Symantec SAV Corporate with up-to-date defs happily scanned right past the malware file without a blink.
What? Oh yeah, the point. Tell your complainer that even up-to-date software can be as clueless as Sarah Palin. There's no guarantee that something out today will be detected tomorrow.
It's a computer. It can do anything. Make it do whatever I want. Use that HTML stuff if you have to." -- anonymous manager
Another 'expert' user who thinks he/she knows more than IT. And that may be very true - there are some smart people out there. But that box won't be going on the corporate/prod network if its unpatched, unmonitored, unmanaged, or improperly privileged. Users don't give a shit about policies if whatever they want or are doing is convenient for them. And it's shit attitudes like yours that puts IT on the defensive (try working with them for once. they might even host the sw on a server properly). And see life from their shoes. Uninformed users wouldn't believe the policies, especially FDA, that IT departments have to operate within. Have a 12 CFR server lose 10 seconds of data and see who's tit gets in the ringer. Users can't fathom why they're stuck with specific versions of software or operating systems. Patching? What's that? Or why they can't have free internet access, or stream audio all day. Trojans? Bandwidth? I only want to watch Youtube all day. Or have a brand X computer instead of brand Y. It's a computer just like all of those other ones, except some stuff inside- so why can't you support it? Any why can't we bring in software, or MP3 file, or a copy of that movie that my kid downloaded? Licensing? Liability? What are you-the DMV? Or why one of the 'n' IT guys doesn't respond- it's not like the n*100 computers or n*5 server they're supporting are down all the time. Yeah bud, you are one of the arrogant idiots you're talking about.
EA doesn't have a clue to what people want. They only make assumptions or (publicity) statements that are financially advantageous. They only want people to think "multi-player" in order to make more subscription sales, or sales of DRM laden crap that requires on-line connections. I for one think that multi-player games suck ass. If EA wants my money, they need to produce DRM-free single player games. (Oh, ones that don't suck ass as well).
It's the same as the music industry. Publishers still operate as if there is this huge advertising and distribution infrastructure that everything "must" work through. The lords of the system don't see the real world from their tower, so piracy/DRM and even *shock* the fact that people don't want to buy a physical CD/book is inconceivable (cue Wallace Shawn). We all know musicians don't receive as much royalty as they should from this system, I would bet writers aren't treated royally either. What the music industry doesn't get is that record stores are becoming extinct, radio is no longer a key medium for sales, people don't have a way to get informed/hooked on new music, so the file sharing de facto that filled the gap is nearly unstoppable. Publishers should get a clue and realize the same thing: bookstores are becoming extinct in the digital age, people aren't going to buy a book unless they can see it/thumb through it/read it-- so file sharing is filling the gap once again. While I am not a fan at all of "e" books and prefer physical ones, and I do not like what I've seen from Kindle (DRM, restrictions, no advantage on costs, Amazon can delete remotely, must re-buy books if you get a new Kindle) I will eventually learn to embrace the "e" crap and won't be buying anything unless I can look through it first.
I think anyone out there who has Half Life'd will understand.
Is 3-D really needed for The Hobbit? There aren't that many "action" sequences in the book. It's supposed to be about a journey, not a hollywoodized action flick. It's not frickin' Rambo. Save the 3-D for the action-packed flicks, and not film something in 3-D for marketing purposes. That said, if the goal is to make The Hobbit in 3-D, then the story will probably be butchered in order to bulk-up the action sequences. Similar to the way the Harry Potter books were butchered to make the movies action/drama-packed. PJ did a good job on LOTR. I just hope 3-D doesn't skew his book adaptation.
Yeah, well, if everybody else could use Microsoft's secret undocumented API calls, their GPU acceleration would be even faster. And safer. And not have daily security patches. And crash less. And have smaller code bases. And not suck.
/satire
I can use my Netbook as a real computing device. I can load my own software, load software off the internet. I can upgrade it, plug in peripherals. I can run Windows or Linux or whatever else I choose. The iPad is bound to the Apple store through heavy chains of DRM. Apple dictates what software I can run, and if they choose, they can change their mind and remove said software. I'm limited to fledgling mini-apps, and can't load the same software I use on my desktop. The iPad is an Apple fanboy's wet dream, a "safe" handheld toy-like device. Give me a Netbook, and give me liberty.
You don't know anything about Super SATA. There is no decimal point or digits of precision. What really happens is that the cable makes the 1's precisely straight up and down, and the 0's are made perfectly round. THAT is what makes the music sound better. I hear there is a SATA cable that will automatically slash the zeros, but that's not good for music, just data.
One space, of course. With the advent of Fonts That Don't Suck(tm), the additional space is not necessary. So I save 'em.
That is all.
I'm using batch files to back up 120+ factory floor machines that run critical processes. The batch files read text files for input of which machines/partitions to back up and what org tree to store them in, makes full and incremental backups that auto-refresh depending on the percentage of data change, emails status/failure dumps and backup summaries, and archives the backups to off-line storage carts for a history. OK, so the backups, cartridge ejection and email functions are EXEs, but the mockup code written in '08 worked too well and is still running today.
Bonus fugly: a web page is used to update the text files.
Bitter twist: I'd load Perl in a heartbeat and port the batch files over if it weren't for bullhead company policies that say I can't load it.
"...new font uses about 30 percent less ink than the previous one..."
Stop using inkjets for anything but printing photos! We get people at working printings stupid emails, documents with an itty bit of color, or change their default printer to the color printer for convenience. Grr! Even colored graphs and crap for meetings are a waste- after they're read once, they get pitched anyway. Everybody wants digital copies in Email so they can keep them handy, or for forwarding. Copies are a waste, but nobody will see the trees!
I bought a cheap-ass Brother laser for home for $100. I'm still on my first (starter) cartridge, while my housemate has filled his Kodak and HP printers multiple times- and still has to leech off my printer when his are OOC. Fsck inkjets!
"But an unfortunately large majority of PC gamers ARE criminals who will steal any game they can". If that was true, wouldn't any game house be taking a huge gamble on trying to sell any game? I mean, why bother even trying, then? Becuse you're basically saying we're all pirates with that statement.
Look, everything comes down to money. People don't want to spend $60 on a game. Don't bother crying inflation, or "but it's 2010". The consumer's mind hasn't changed. $40 for a game in 1995 is still $40 now. Game software is a luxury, not a requirement. Nobody is obligated to buy games from you.
Drop the price to $40 or below. Lose the dozens of people who don't need to be involved (producer? executive producer? multiple sound studios? fluffers etc.) to save cash. Don't get professional actors to Draculize the budget. Leave out the long movies and crap, and put more gameplay and replayability in. Lose the complications that are taking two years to get that game to market.
And for Pete's sake...get a playable demo out early to hook people! Trailers don't cut it- they're only cartooned mockups, and like movie trailers, are the best parts of the movie (game) condensed down. People want to see the game, play a level or two, see if you've totally botched the controls etc. See if the thing lives up to the hype. THAT gets you the pre-orders. Not trailers. Don't wait for months after the game has been shat to market to release a demo. Whet the appetite and woo your customers.
JC, I read the title and almost buttered my shorts. "Steam... update.... drops.... rootkit". What a wake-up call!