Who on earth has a graphics card from two different manufacturers? Regardless though, it means they've directly tied PhysX to their hardware, and I just don't care for them anymore. ATI all the way baby!
If you have pr0n, keep it on a Flash drive using HFS or ext3. Since all government computers are Windows, it'll ask "Please format drive." when you stick it in.
BOOM! Instant win!
For the most part, I consider the HTC Hero the first Android phone worth owning because it looks pleasing to use. That's what the iPhone was successful. The G1 looks like a god awful brick and the myTouch 3G is only a slight improvement on that.
People buy phones to make a statement, and just wanting to support open source doesn't get a lot of "normal" people onto the platform. I think Android will change for the better once Sprint gets the HTC Hero on it's network.
Gigahertz hasn't been relevant since the Pentium 4 days. Now that Intel is focusing on more performance per clock, comparing Ghz is only useful if you are comparing two chips within the same line. Anything else and it's apples and gorillas (it's just that different!)
Or would you rather have a 1.4 Ghz Pentium III over a 1.2 Ghz CULV Core 2 Solo?
Mainly anything to do with number crunching, 64-bit is a LOT faster. Supposedly also JavaScript in 64-bit will get a boost (as Safari 4 on Snow Leopard seems to show).
I have one word: security.
To believe that an operating system that is 8 years old is still secure is quite funny. Microsoft has been patching that thing for years. Now, let's be honest, XP was designed in an era where the Internet was still kinda new and anti-virus wasn't "big". Windows Vista was HUGE leap for security and Windows 7 improves on that foundation.
At some point, running an old OS does leave yourself open for vulnerabilities. Right now, XP is in Extended Support, such that if you don't have a Software Assurance contract with Microsoft, you're tough out of luck. And security patches themselves run out in 2014. Sure, that's 5 years away, and Microsoft will have probably released 1 new OS and prepping for another, but you can't make XP stick around forever.
Software support is one thing, and hardware support is another. Though I know businesses will still stick old operating systems on brand new hardware, I find that the quicker the "public" switches to a new OS, the faster it will be come into ready acceptance by the IT crowd, and the sooner software vendors will have to support Windows 7 fully.
I should note, that to this day, some software vendors STILL don't support Windows Vista. Because of the differing software architectures from XP to Vista, trying to skip Vista and going directly to Windows 7 won't work very well in terms of software compatibility. Windows 7 being extremely compatible with Vista means that writing software for Windows 7 is basically writing software for Vista. Which means, they would have benefited from doing the same thing they are going to be doing now 2 years ago.
Oh well, hopefully the launch of Windows 7 is big. The more popular and widely adopted it is, the sooner Windows XP will be gone in consumer PCs.
It turns out that parents don't answer their kids correctly, because when you type in "how to" into a Google search field, you get some pretty interesting (albeit sad) suggestions for search results.
And to be honest, if children don't know where babies come from, then how do you expect them to NOT have kids at a young age?
Plus, most developers are ignoring IE6, so I'd say Microsoft has a much smaller share of the REAL internet browser pie. If you ignore browsers that are in locked down environments anyway (which probably won't be going to your content-rich site less they risk being fired), then Microsoft doesn't really have that much of a stranglehold anymore. And certainly in the mobile space which is growing rapidly, they are being ignored left and right (no one really codes for Mobile IE when developing a mobile site anymore, it's all about Webkit).
How would the phone know if a person is driving as opposed to sitting in the passenger's seat. It's almost as bad as car navigation systems that refuse to allow you to put in a new address while driving, even if there's a 2nd person in the car.
Cell phones are NON-essential? That's like saying you don't need a car in to get around in LA or that you can live without air conditioning in Houston. Sure, if you try hard enough, those things CAN happen, but you'd be suffering much more than you think.
No, we simply have more women. Math says more people = greater variation.
We should also have more ugly people too but the news rarely talks about that.
Next gem iPhones and iPods will not use a PPC chip. They bought PA Semi for their engineering team and ability to make low power chips, not for the chips themselves. They aren't going back to PPC for anything.
Well, the SDK is always changing. It's just that for now, it's better not to allow background apps. Heck, the only REAL reason you'd need them is for network connections. And letting developers run free on background apps isn't the best idea, especially since you can have multiple interactions between them.
I think Apple might eventually let developers request their app be allowed ot run in the background, but their code would have to actually be checked by them.
The only professions I'd say you really need to worry about undergraduate loans is medicine and law (especially medicine). Why? Because it's going to take forever to get a decent paycheck to payoff all of those loans. Other than that, stick it out, you'll make it through.
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Who on earth has a graphics card from two different manufacturers? Regardless though, it means they've directly tied PhysX to their hardware, and I just don't care for them anymore. ATI all the way baby!
You know a product is good if competitors start shaking in their boots running to government agencies for protections!
Or say they are acting inappropriately with a student of the opposite sex.
Any press when you have a good product is still good press. In the end, people are going to remember Windows 7 and not the ad.
If you have pr0n, keep it on a Flash drive using HFS or ext3. Since all government computers are Windows, it'll ask "Please format drive." when you stick it in. BOOM! Instant win!
For the most part, I consider the HTC Hero the first Android phone worth owning because it looks pleasing to use. That's what the iPhone was successful. The G1 looks like a god awful brick and the myTouch 3G is only a slight improvement on that. People buy phones to make a statement, and just wanting to support open source doesn't get a lot of "normal" people onto the platform. I think Android will change for the better once Sprint gets the HTC Hero on it's network.
Gigahertz hasn't been relevant since the Pentium 4 days. Now that Intel is focusing on more performance per clock, comparing Ghz is only useful if you are comparing two chips within the same line. Anything else and it's apples and gorillas (it's just that different!) Or would you rather have a 1.4 Ghz Pentium III over a 1.2 Ghz CULV Core 2 Solo?
2 words: 3D chips.
Yeah, if all else fails, Intel can go into the space heater business because their chips can BURN.....
We're in multi-letter territory now. I think the next proposed standard will be called 802.11ac (but it's very early in the process).
Mainly anything to do with number crunching, 64-bit is a LOT faster. Supposedly also JavaScript in 64-bit will get a boost (as Safari 4 on Snow Leopard seems to show).
Last I checked, IE had crappy JavaScript performance.
I have one word: security. To believe that an operating system that is 8 years old is still secure is quite funny. Microsoft has been patching that thing for years. Now, let's be honest, XP was designed in an era where the Internet was still kinda new and anti-virus wasn't "big". Windows Vista was HUGE leap for security and Windows 7 improves on that foundation. At some point, running an old OS does leave yourself open for vulnerabilities. Right now, XP is in Extended Support, such that if you don't have a Software Assurance contract with Microsoft, you're tough out of luck. And security patches themselves run out in 2014. Sure, that's 5 years away, and Microsoft will have probably released 1 new OS and prepping for another, but you can't make XP stick around forever.
Software support is one thing, and hardware support is another. Though I know businesses will still stick old operating systems on brand new hardware, I find that the quicker the "public" switches to a new OS, the faster it will be come into ready acceptance by the IT crowd, and the sooner software vendors will have to support Windows 7 fully. I should note, that to this day, some software vendors STILL don't support Windows Vista. Because of the differing software architectures from XP to Vista, trying to skip Vista and going directly to Windows 7 won't work very well in terms of software compatibility. Windows 7 being extremely compatible with Vista means that writing software for Windows 7 is basically writing software for Vista. Which means, they would have benefited from doing the same thing they are going to be doing now 2 years ago. Oh well, hopefully the launch of Windows 7 is big. The more popular and widely adopted it is, the sooner Windows XP will be gone in consumer PCs.
I think that's the FTCs jack-of-all-trades card, not the FCC.
It turns out that parents don't answer their kids correctly, because when you type in "how to" into a Google search field, you get some pretty interesting (albeit sad) suggestions for search results. And to be honest, if children don't know where babies come from, then how do you expect them to NOT have kids at a young age?
Plus, most developers are ignoring IE6, so I'd say Microsoft has a much smaller share of the REAL internet browser pie. If you ignore browsers that are in locked down environments anyway (which probably won't be going to your content-rich site less they risk being fired), then Microsoft doesn't really have that much of a stranglehold anymore. And certainly in the mobile space which is growing rapidly, they are being ignored left and right (no one really codes for Mobile IE when developing a mobile site anymore, it's all about Webkit).
How would the phone know if a person is driving as opposed to sitting in the passenger's seat. It's almost as bad as car navigation systems that refuse to allow you to put in a new address while driving, even if there's a 2nd person in the car.
Cell phones are NON-essential? That's like saying you don't need a car in to get around in LA or that you can live without air conditioning in Houston. Sure, if you try hard enough, those things CAN happen, but you'd be suffering much more than you think.
No, we simply have more women. Math says more people = greater variation. We should also have more ugly people too but the news rarely talks about that.
Too bad the CEO doesn't: http://www.iphonefootprint.com/2009/07/googles-eric-schmidt-is-blackberry-addicted/
The entirety of the US is not like California. And frankly, this also means you've never been in California because EVERYTHING costs more there.
Next gem iPhones and iPods will not use a PPC chip. They bought PA Semi for their engineering team and ability to make low power chips, not for the chips themselves. They aren't going back to PPC for anything.
Well, the SDK is always changing. It's just that for now, it's better not to allow background apps. Heck, the only REAL reason you'd need them is for network connections. And letting developers run free on background apps isn't the best idea, especially since you can have multiple interactions between them. I think Apple might eventually let developers request their app be allowed ot run in the background, but their code would have to actually be checked by them.
The only professions I'd say you really need to worry about undergraduate loans is medicine and law (especially medicine). Why? Because it's going to take forever to get a decent paycheck to payoff all of those loans. Other than that, stick it out, you'll make it through.