Sony has been embarrassed several times, so have those other organizations. There's no evidence they've fixed anything in response, because nothing really happens to them. Only thing that's changed recently is that they've taken a page right out of HBO's comedy VEEP and now blame every one of their fuck ups on the Chinese/Russian/North Korean governments.
I think that is generally a good idea. Although America has the most innovative slimy corporations in the entire world, its really what we do best. It should be a simple matter of creating a shell company, moving the extra revenue set aside for recycling away from it and then spinning it off so it can fail to alleviate the problem of actually paying for your own mess.
The Athlon 64 was introduced in 2003. And you can still buy 32 bit Windows at least. I have as much disdain for new not-better crap that's pumped out as a lot of people, but the move to 64bit has been much slower than I thought. I'd say most applications are still made 32-bit unless they have a real good reason to go 64-bit.
Awhile back Hasbro or Mattel got into hot water, well, slightly warm water for shipping lead painted toys to kids. The end result was that regulations were passed where toy makers had to have independent labs test for lead. This is an onerous cost to small toy makers and a lot of hobby sellers, etc complained about it to no avail. Mattel and the other big toy makers, who were the cause of the laws creation were made exempt from this, the reason being was that they were large enough to have their own in house labs to test. Even though they already proved they don't.
I don't have prime, but it seems like they hide what is actually available to anyone that isn't signed up. Which leads me to reading between the lines that they're embarrassed by what they have available. And I gather many of the shows they do have are listed, but its only the first season and then you have to buy the episodes after that. I have no interest in that type of product myself, and think the first season free thing is a sneaky bait and switch tactic.
Netflix has its own irritations, like hiding expiring titles from the viewer until its ripped out from under them.
If you ask for something impossible in this situation, its the only way it can end. Honest employees that refuse to cheat will be fired by the system. They'll be replaced with new employees and the honest ones will again be filtered out of employment.
This goes further up the chain too, like with the financial crisis. How can a large bank compete using legal methods when all the other players are dirty? Even when the whole system explodes the cheaters are bailed out. Then they turn around and buy out the smaller competitors.
I just use the FlashControl add on for firefox to make the entire internet do this. One extra click when I want to see something is way easier IMO than trying to filter out what I wouldn't want.
They've actually been doing this for a long time. Windows 2000 had what by all accounts was a SP5, just renamed a rollup.
The weird part is they set the terms so there's not really much reason for the shenanigans that I can see. They could just set a drop dead date regardless of SP.
Remember when the CD-ROM was going to eliminate the need for massive expensive hard drives because you could just run all your games right off the disk?
It just turns the power on and off to different drives and installs in a drive bay.
I'd prefer a switch for the SATA data lines though, then I wouldn't need an overabundance of SATA ports on my motherboard. But I couldn't find a product like that and the power line switch is probably a more reliable method.
There's a reason that MS came up with this idea, and its not because they're such great guys. Its because this benefits the weaker player and they're that guy this time. The advantage of the dominate position is people will buy games for your system first because these systems are multiplayer and other players are part of the value. Less players on the less popular console, less valuable. I wouldn't accuse the Sony execs of not being dumb enough to take the bait, but I think they're greedy enough they won't.
I won't say the host reboot issue is gone. But I will say its not pervasive and from reading, I'd say its no longer a common problem. The issue was that the graphics cards weren't responding to device resets like they were expected to.
I just got this setup. The biggest issue I had was I wanted to use Ubuntu (linux mint actually) and almost every guide is written for arch or fedora. I'm sufficiently new to linux I couldn't easily adapt the guides. Another issue is most of the guides are actually old and do things in a complicated way that doesn't seem necessary anymore, if it ever was.
Brief overview. The hardest part is selecting the correct hardware. After you need to set some modules to load on startup. (kvm, vfio or pci-stub), set a kernel parameter to turn on IOMMU and get devices for passthrough bound to the pci-stub or vfio-pci driver. This is the cumbersome part IMO and could really be improved. I think the main problem is vfio-pci and pci-stub aren't part of the kernel (they are separate modules) and don't always load early enough to grab the hardware before other drivers do. Fedora seems to have a parameter to force it to load early, but there doesn't seem to be a working one in ubuntu/debian?.
Once you win that fight though, most guides seem to suggest building scripts to create VMs which is pretty cumbersome. I think that is obsolete. All I did is install virt-manager, create a VM, install windows, shut it down and add the devices I wanted to the VM. I leave a virtual video card behind, the passed through is a secondary card...which works fine after windows starts. I booted up and installed their drivers. And then I was done. I use a KVM to quickly swap to the VM but there are other solutions.
I will say I found ESXi easier to get up and running (and ESXi 6 actually has some nice improvements here) but its really not designed to be a good tool for this particular kind of setup.
I even RTFA but it was not helpful on that question.
Perhaps they're just relying on most people not doing that and making it easier to enforce since there will be few people to chase down.
I like the guy whining that in this day and age the cell phone is how he remembers. Apparently, at least some humans consider their wetware memories an archaic vestigial device.
This is a pack of lies. The stink of desperation wafting off of Windows 10 is so strong it would knock a buzzard off a shit wagon. The free offer will be extended...because it was so successful! As an act of good will toward our users! There's no way this nightmare will end after only one year.
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Sony has been embarrassed several times, so have those other organizations. There's no evidence they've fixed anything in response, because nothing really happens to them. Only thing that's changed recently is that they've taken a page right out of HBO's comedy VEEP and now blame every one of their fuck ups on the Chinese/Russian/North Korean governments.
I think that is generally a good idea. Although America has the most innovative slimy corporations in the entire world, its really what we do best. It should be a simple matter of creating a shell company, moving the extra revenue set aside for recycling away from it and then spinning it off so it can fail to alleviate the problem of actually paying for your own mess.
The Athlon 64 was introduced in 2003. And you can still buy 32 bit Windows at least. I have as much disdain for new not-better crap that's pumped out as a lot of people, but the move to 64bit has been much slower than I thought. I'd say most applications are still made 32-bit unless they have a real good reason to go 64-bit.
Valve is privately held, so it being snatched away in a buy and kill a competitor move isn't as likely.
Since google is responsible for youtube, chrome and android all fingers point in the same direction.
That's the attitude behind the last 12 different Microsoft phone platform reboots!
Siri, search the web for images of ungood girls and doubleplus unsmall dongs.
Awhile back Hasbro or Mattel got into hot water, well, slightly warm water for shipping lead painted toys to kids. The end result was that regulations were passed where toy makers had to have independent labs test for lead. This is an onerous cost to small toy makers and a lot of hobby sellers, etc complained about it to no avail. Mattel and the other big toy makers, who were the cause of the laws creation were made exempt from this, the reason being was that they were large enough to have their own in house labs to test. Even though they already proved they don't.
I don't have prime, but it seems like they hide what is actually available to anyone that isn't signed up. Which leads me to reading between the lines that they're embarrassed by what they have available. And I gather many of the shows they do have are listed, but its only the first season and then you have to buy the episodes after that. I have no interest in that type of product myself, and think the first season free thing is a sneaky bait and switch tactic.
Netflix has its own irritations, like hiding expiring titles from the viewer until its ripped out from under them.
How do people continue to bank with these shit shows? That's easy:
Step 1: Fight way through phone tree and cancel account
Step 2: Move to different smaller bank.
Step 3: Bank from step 1 acquires you new bank and converts your accounts back to the hell hole you left.
If you ask for something impossible in this situation, its the only way it can end. Honest employees that refuse to cheat will be fired by the system. They'll be replaced with new employees and the honest ones will again be filtered out of employment.
This goes further up the chain too, like with the financial crisis. How can a large bank compete using legal methods when all the other players are dirty? Even when the whole system explodes the cheaters are bailed out. Then they turn around and buy out the smaller competitors.
I suppose that technically a determined individual could use that on their lap, but I still don't think it quite fits the definition of a "laptop".
You wouldn't download a basket.
I just use the FlashControl add on for firefox to make the entire internet do this. One extra click when I want to see something is way easier IMO than trying to filter out what I wouldn't want.
So attach the fitbit to your dog's collar to min-max your discount points and then use the other devices.
They've actually been doing this for a long time. Windows 2000 had what by all accounts was a SP5, just renamed a rollup.
The weird part is they set the terms so there's not really much reason for the shenanigans that I can see. They could just set a drop dead date regardless of SP.
Remember when the CD-ROM was going to eliminate the need for massive expensive hard drives because you could just run all your games right off the disk?
I just use something like this:
https://www.amazon.com/gp/prod...
It just turns the power on and off to different drives and installs in a drive bay.
I'd prefer a switch for the SATA data lines though, then I wouldn't need an overabundance of SATA ports on my motherboard. But I couldn't find a product like that and the power line switch is probably a more reliable method.
There's a reason that MS came up with this idea, and its not because they're such great guys. Its because this benefits the weaker player and they're that guy this time. The advantage of the dominate position is people will buy games for your system first because these systems are multiplayer and other players are part of the value. Less players on the less popular console, less valuable. I wouldn't accuse the Sony execs of not being dumb enough to take the bait, but I think they're greedy enough they won't.
I won't say the host reboot issue is gone. But I will say its not pervasive and from reading, I'd say its no longer a common problem. The issue was that the graphics cards weren't responding to device resets like they were expected to.
I just got this setup. The biggest issue I had was I wanted to use Ubuntu (linux mint actually) and almost every guide is written for arch or fedora. I'm sufficiently new to linux I couldn't easily adapt the guides. Another issue is most of the guides are actually old and do things in a complicated way that doesn't seem necessary anymore, if it ever was.
Brief overview. The hardest part is selecting the correct hardware. After you need to set some modules to load on startup. (kvm, vfio or pci-stub), set a kernel parameter to turn on IOMMU and get devices for passthrough bound to the pci-stub or vfio-pci driver. This is the cumbersome part IMO and could really be improved. I think the main problem is vfio-pci and pci-stub aren't part of the kernel (they are separate modules) and don't always load early enough to grab the hardware before other drivers do. Fedora seems to have a parameter to force it to load early, but there doesn't seem to be a working one in ubuntu/debian?.
Once you win that fight though, most guides seem to suggest building scripts to create VMs which is pretty cumbersome. I think that is obsolete. All I did is install virt-manager, create a VM, install windows, shut it down and add the devices I wanted to the VM. I leave a virtual video card behind, the passed through is a secondary card...which works fine after windows starts. I booted up and installed their drivers. And then I was done. I use a KVM to quickly swap to the VM but there are other solutions.
I will say I found ESXi easier to get up and running (and ESXi 6 actually has some nice improvements here) but its really not designed to be a good tool for this particular kind of setup.
Can't you just cut this open with a pocket knife?
I even RTFA but it was not helpful on that question.
Perhaps they're just relying on most people not doing that and making it easier to enforce since there will be few people to chase down.
I like the guy whining that in this day and age the cell phone is how he remembers. Apparently, at least some humans consider their wetware memories an archaic vestigial device.
We can build consumer robots programmed to buy the products built by the robots.
You could run half/half resolution for perfect scaling and still get 4K desktop.
Have you tried PCI passthrough of a firewire PCI card? ESXi and KVM could probably do it.
This is a pack of lies. The stink of desperation wafting off of Windows 10 is so strong it would knock a buzzard off a shit wagon. The free offer will be extended...because it was so successful! As an act of good will toward our users! There's no way this nightmare will end after only one year.