We had a good ten year run with muscle cars until unleaded gas killed them
We had a good 30 year run with Windows until MS killed it
And now this shit...
Shift away from PC processors causes Intel to lay off 12,000 employees
Numerous reports have chronicled the decline in PC sales for some time now. For example, according to Gartner, the PC market dipped a full 9.6% in Q1 2016 compared to the prior year. Clearly, that makes life difficult for companies that rely on the sale of PCs and their related components. One such company is Intel, and according to Reuters the company is cutting 12,000 positions worldwide as it shifts away from a focus on PC chipsets.
"Now is the time to refresh old PCs! Provide your customers with increased performance with up to 1.6x better performance, 13x greater 3D graphics and 2x better photo editing than a 5 year old PC1. Add style, responsiveness, and new computing experiences with a 2 in 1 device with Intel® processors inside. Now that's compelling!"
I don't see any of this as having any real value to the way I use computers. Maybe that is the problem...
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Damn, that's disappointing to hear. Intel was truly making strides.
As I am fond of saying, the golden age of computing has come and gone.
At some point - possibly not quite yet - we will each need to secure one or more good computers, complete with spare parts, etc. that can carry us through the rest of our lives.
I wouldn't be devastated if the computing hardware and operating systems I'm using now would just be the ones I use from now on. They're all fairly powerful and lots of exciting and valuable things can be done with them.
I'm reminded a bit of the future as portrayed in "Interstellar".
-Noel
Author of the "How to Configure the 'To Work' Options" series of Windows books. Not feeling enough love to do one for Windows 10.
BAHAHAHA sounds JUST LIKE microsoft. PC are over 50% of Intels market, yet they are going to dump them for finger-fuck phones, and pokeme tablets. we will see where the majority of these lay-offs happen. IF on the motherland, they are probably putting up a fit over changes to H1-B visas. they love that cheap foreign labor, you know www.investors.com/news/technology/elephant-intel-dances-but-12000-layoffs-could-signal-recession/
Post by Locutus deBorg on Apr 22, 2016 14:06:03 GMT -6
I so need to write an essay about this:
> PC Transition Will Be ‘Messy’
um, we're not lookin for a $%^&* transition !!
I like my PC the way it is I don't need this micro über portable junk, it doesn't suit my work which requires multiple HDDs for max. performance / efficiency
portable to me is I install handles in the top of a PC case: (photo at end of post)
I don't even care much for SFF "Desktops" because they're really not much more than fat laptops with the screen and keyboard separated no real upgrade paths or extremely limited upgrade paths / options want that new - better than integrated, graphics card, better hope they offer it in low profile or it ain't going in to an SFF
SFF have Kensington lock slots, wonder why my 50 pound SuperMicro 24" tower doesn't have or Need one !? ... _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _
> Shift away from PC processors causes Intel to lay off 12,000 employees...
That's because Intel Shift the bed on that by having NDA (read collusion) contracts with MS to disallow driver Development for previous version OS and sometimes even blocking "other OS" which has been going on since the 90's
yup, good luck getting chipset, SATA /AHCI /RAID drivers etc. for anything but winders tentanic on new Intel hardware
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the move is not toward "green" it's away from it there is nothing "green" about all sealed, self contained, not user serviceable, chuck it when one thing breaks
side note about leaded > unleaded part of the problem isn't just the removal of the lead, but the subsequent reduction in octane rating as well
> what we call premium now, would barely pass for regular in the 60's and early 70's
the pseudo energy crisis brought about the negative changes in the auto industry
gone are the days of getting 102 at the pump, 91 is as good as it gets
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modified Dell Inspiron 530 Case
I find the lack of configuration options disturbing !
I felt a great disturbance in the force.. as if millions of win 7 systems suddenly cried out in terror.
Post by Locutus deBorg on Apr 24, 2016 9:44:00 GMT -6
re: 200 it's about the equivalent of current mid. to premium, the Sunoco numbers weren't / aren't actual Octane rating numbers
I know of guys who would go to the station and wait for someone else to select 260 first, then when that customer was done filling up, pull up to that pump to get an undiluted fill up
thing about those old single hose pumps and the new current single hose pumps, unless you're pumping a lot of fuel you get the dilution 1/2 to 3/4 gallon that remains in the hose after the last pump
if your tank is 5 gallons and need / want prem. it's better to wait until you are almost empty or check the pumps to find one where the last pump was mid or prem.
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I find the lack of configuration options disturbing !
I felt a great disturbance in the force.. as if millions of win 7 systems suddenly cried out in terror.
DAMMIT, i feel like such a dipshit now. it had never occured to me about the gas in the hose. WTF place around home i fill at has seperate hoses for somewhat burns(90)/vodka(89)/barely burns(87) i have alot of stuff that requires non-vodka gas. that shit getting harder and harder to find. tis great to burn our food up!
re: 200 it's about the equivalent of current mid. to premium, the Sunoco numbers weren't / aren't actual Octane rating numbers
As I recall the 190 setting = 86 octane rating and the 260 was = to 104 octane rating
I ran a 289, 275 hp, bored .30 over, with 12:1 compression alum pistons in those days in a two door Falcon Sprint body, and later a Ranchero.
Ford Torino four speed trans and clutch with Hurst alum T-handle shifter.
15 inch slicks with black steel rims on the rear, 13 inch skinny's on slotted chrome wheels in the front. 100 lb. tractor battery in the right rear of trunk, and welding cables to the starter. Air shocks on the rear helped give it a forward rake. Street legal in 1971.
Holley 780 double pumper with mechanical secondary's on a alum high rise, electric fuel pump, sodium filled exhaust valves, high strength valve springs, Teflon valve seals, ported heads, Shelby alum valve covers, Shelby alum oil pan, high strength connecting rod bolts, Shelby headers, and cherry bomb glass packs.
When stopped for excessive noise, we would pack steel wool into the tail pipe with a broom stick, drill a hole and put in a pin. After inspection, go out to the country, pull the pin, and blow it all out.
Looked something like this but had the V on the sides was painted yellow.
Post by Locutus deBorg on Apr 24, 2016 11:50:15 GMT -6
we had separate hoses until the mechanical pumps vanished, - replaced by the electronic pumps
you can still see a mechanical pump with separate hoses out in the rural small towns but even those are beginning to vanish
200 is approx. 89.x mid around here is supposed to be 89 - half the time it seems like it's not even 88 prem. around here is never higher than 91
we have a local distillery here, and you can tell when their making the ethanol for blended gas the whole neighborhood smells like a giant boiling corn cauldron
I find the lack of configuration options disturbing !
I felt a great disturbance in the force.. as if millions of win 7 systems suddenly cried out in terror.
Kind of funny that no one's talking about the damage that putting all that lead in the air/environment caused. I personally prefer not to be poisoned by the cars I'm driving near.
That being said, I'd love to have fuel with the octane of yesteryear to use in today's hardware. But it's quite possible to have some serious muscle with just today's premium. I have a 12 second Corvette with over 10:1 compression that doesn't detonate and burbles smoothly down the boulevard at 1200 RPM like a pussycat when I want it to. Only problem with the thing is that it breaks drivetrain parts from all the torque.
What people don't realize is that careful choice of parts, good machine work, and high tech control can make up for (and improve on) what the high octane rating had to make up for in the past.
-Noel
Author of the "How to Configure the 'To Work' Options" series of Windows books. Not feeling enough love to do one for Windows 10.
Post by Locutus deBorg on Apr 24, 2016 19:35:05 GMT -6
I don't think anyone here is "head in the sand" about the negative aspects of the lead in leaded gas.
"They" are still "discovering" stuff about things that were done in the past on what was originally done only in small scale operation / implementation etc. and without thought of the long term larger impact of what happens when it becomes something in mass consumption eg. the billions of tons of lead emissions from leaded gas when lead was first added there weren't millions or billions of automobiles running around on a daily basis logging trillions of miles annually
it took longer to get the sulfur additive removed from diesel which when burned in the engine, gave us H2SO4 when the sulfur dioxide particulates mixed with any water source resulting in acid rain, dead lakes, etc. and even still it's not sulfur free, it's LSD (Low Sulfur Diesel) to which they now add Uric acid to the exhaust gasses, DEF (Diesel Exhaust Fluid) and are now discovering that's not such a great idea either, but it will be years before another solution is discovered and implemented
no one is currently talking about the negative aspects of battery manufacturing, nor the negative aspects of how much toxic stuff is dumped during the manufacture of solar panels etc.
I find the lack of configuration options disturbing !
I felt a great disturbance in the force.. as if millions of win 7 systems suddenly cried out in terror.
Lead was removed from gasoline due to the catalytic converter. A better solution could have been had, like not treating the exhaust after the fact, and the lead would have been replaced with something else which allowed high octane and more efficient high compression engines.
Fully one half of people in this country live in poor air quality areas now fifty years later despite emission controls, the Clean Air Act, and the EPA.
I drove "over the road' trucks for the 15 years prior to 2012, when i re-entered the construction industry. i was lucky enough to get out of trucking before the 'weasel piss' trucks really had flooded the market. i remember that thered were alot of issues with them needing a regen in the middle of nowhere. you had no other choices but to stop and let it do its thing, as it would de-value the motor.i remember hearing about alot of issues back at the beginning of the 'weasel piss" days
now zing into 2014 when i was working for Ames Construction on a rail project up by Ray,ND. I was happy with my D8, they didnt see it my way so the moved it and replaced it with a D6, A new D6. it had like 16hrs on it. i ran it an hour. it wouldnt regen on its own it wouldnt "forced" regen.it would run for 20sec or so, then shut off. it sat out there for a week till the Cat dealer could get there to reset the computer.
I dont think a cooling system for an exhaust burner is the solution. as Noel said. better workmanship, better materiels, better made parts go a long way to solving pollution issues. we up here in the mid-west, for the most part, dont see pollution. I remember quite a few times dropping from the desert through cajone pass down into LA and seeing the thick murk hanging over the whole valley.
I suspect that the air quality up north where the tar sands oil extraction is going on, is not too pristine.
The tar sands being almost in my back yard, i.e, about 5 to 7 hours drive from where I live, depending on the site, the air quality is nowhere as bad as the media will have you believe it is. The images one sees from the strip mining operations happening at some of the sites can make it look a lot worse than it really is. In other sites where steam injection is used, you can get mini weather systems that tend to be just localized to that particular site. I've done a fair bit of contract work up there and I have to say it's very rare that one does not see a government agency of some sort doing air quality or some other type of monitoring. They have some of the tightest regulations that must adhered to regarding plant operations and those policies extend all the way down the workers and outside contractors. As for the pollution part, they do use a lot of natural gas or coal to heat the water needed to extract the oil from the tar sands. The water itself is recycled, though occasionally, a very small percentage of oil does show up in the cooling ponds from time to time. The sites are very environmentally aware of their suroundings and have strict procedures and practices in place to mitigate problems. Even with all that in place, occasionally there are incidences that seem to get blown out of proportion, getting the environmentalists to start citing "Dirty Oil" when other operations around the world could be seen as being far worse. I guess the tar sands operations being as large as they are, makes them an easy target for this kind of thing.
Post by Bayer A.User on Apr 26, 2016 16:42:33 GMT -6
After all the hard work and technology invested,at the end of the day the SN's hold the market price of the blackgold below $50. As low as $30 recently. Well over $100 per barrel not that long ago! Crazy world we live in. Rick,
It's a crazy world indeed. With oil prices falling as fast as they did, it certainly took it's toll on the workforce around here with massive layoffs. Those of us in secondary support industries are being hit pretty hard this time around too. Job security is now to the level of wether or not you will still have a job to go to after getting your next pay check these days.
Many folks don't realize Russia is going into dire straits because of the drop in oil prices. What a big, well-developed nuclear power will do when their people are faced with real economic trouble, possibly even famine, is a bit scary.
Not that I want oil prices to go up. Not one bit. But there are bad things that are going to happen out there in the world.
-Noel
Author of the "How to Configure the 'To Work' Options" series of Windows books. Not feeling enough love to do one for Windows 10.
The only way this could happen is if we get Trump for a President, in which case continued massive environmental pollution will be the least of our worries.
Australian politician Jeremy Buckingham set Condamine River "on fire" in a powerful demonstration.
Diesel and gas have been running right around $2/gal. its been ages since i seen diesel cheaper than gas, but it happened here for a couple weeks. I live in a monopolized area. go 100 miles either direction and fuel prices drop 10-20 cents per gallon
The Bakken frenzy will return. i dont see it happening this year. too much supply needs to be diminished and the price of oil has to go to at least &50/per barrel to make it profitable again. Williston/New-town/stanley areas are like ghost areas compared to 18 months ago.
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You know what finding a huge oil reserve in the US will REALLY mean?
It will mean our people will sit on their thumbs in the dark ages while the rest of the world develops ongoing sustainable energy technology and policies.
I live in Florida, where the sun comes out virtually every day. Why aren't all our houses covered with solar panels? Why don't cars' braking systems recover energy?
Why are we still doing nothing different than in 1950?
Because digging shit up out of the ground is easier than thinking. Easier than changing.
Only when people are challenged - with REAL problems, that hit home - do they change things for the better.
Sure, they'll develop a way to recover 50% of the oil locked up in the oil shale. Then all the coasts will flood, and the fertility of the great plains (think "breadbasket") will blow away as dust. Yeah, that's good for us.
-Noel
Author of the "How to Configure the 'To Work' Options" series of Windows books. Not feeling enough love to do one for Windows 10.
I see the article is dated from 4 years ago, but the potential is certainly there. Our Fort McMurray operations started off much the same way in the late 1960's and has grown to unimaginable proportions since then. In the 10 plus years since I've started going up there to do work, the changes I have seen there are to the point that one can call it astounding.
<Rick> Good video. It's almost hard to believe that at one time Windows 98 was the resource hog, but even then, it still ran circles around what Windows 10 can do on today's modern hardware and look a heck of alot better doing it.
May 25, 2021 22:55:12 GMT -6
<Rick> As stated elsewhere, So much for the launch of Windows 11, "The Great Crash." Myself, I had a hard time getting into the site listed above, when I did get in, the video was partly done and then it crashed. There has been many other reports of crashing.
Jun 24, 2021 9:52:33 GMT -6
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<Rick> I see Microsoft has been very quick to pull down reports of site crashing regarding the Launch of Windows 11 on the Microsoft Insiders forum.
Jun 24, 2021 9:57:31 GMT -6
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<Rick> The rebroadcast is working okay.
Jun 24, 2021 11:00:25 GMT -6
<Rick> With reports of people being able to install the dev-edition of Windows 11 on machines not meeting spec, I thought I would give it a what-the-heck try. Lucky me, I'm caught in the downloading, doesn't meet spec, clearing, re-downloading loop on my machine!
Jul 2, 2021 7:08:46 GMT -6
<Rick> I've recently purchased a license for ArcaOS from www.arcanoae.com/ to play with. First impressions, it's still OS/2, but it now has a Linux twist to it.
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<dozrguy> laptop shit out and am stuck buying a new one. os win11 as fucked as win10 was?
Oct 2, 2021 12:56:10 GMT -6
<Rick> Let's see ..., my impression of Windows 11 is that it is a spruced up version of Windows 10 requiring a 64-bit processor plus a piece of security hardware that is less than 4 years old in order for it to run.
Oct 4, 2021 18:25:49 GMT -6
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<Rick> On the plus side, Microsoft is supposed to be supporting Windows 10 for some time to come for those of us still using systems with I7 or older processors.
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<dozrguy> i tried installing win10 om the 'shitout' pc this morning usung media creation. EPIC FAIL! went into an endless bootloop. win7 reinstalled just fine
Oct 21, 2021 11:23:38 GMT -6
<dozrguy> STILL so much bullshit and so little time for the kiddie ideas from the hill. My new laptop (MSI GE 11-UH461) would be an awesome "10" machine but because of Winblows I can only give it a "2"......wasted $3500
Oct 27, 2021 9:36:47 GMT -6
<Rick> Hello. Just checking in.
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<isidroco> Each new w10 update adds >100000 useless files to \Windows\Servicing\LCU\Package_for_RollupFix... folders. Even in a SSD takes time to delete that stuff. In each version they manage to worsen stuff.
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<dozerguy> still traffic here?
Oct 9, 2022 17:32:44 GMT -6
<Rick> No, there does not seem to be very much traffic these days. I still check in from time to time.
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