If they had half a brain they would require them to be submitted as PDFs, but regardless, Open Office can save to a word format. Also, if they did require PDFs, open office supports that out of the box, with Word, you'd need another program to do that.
No, the real reason is the lack of 3rd party 64 bit support.
I am running Windows 7 x64 now, and albeit I haven't had any problems, IE 32 bit is still the default because there is still no 64 bit flash player except for a testing version on linux. Which is also annoying because I went to get a 64 bit version of Minefield and I can't use flash!
First of all, DVDs generally cost LESS than CDs. Which is why I have a decently sized DVD collection and no CDs. For me, 5-10 bucks for a 2 hour movie is a much better deal than 10-20 bucks for 80 minutes of music, maybe 8 of which I actually want.
Second of all, I don't mind New Zealander's suggesting new taxes. At least they don't have a vested interest in collecting it. My problem is Americans who want more taxes. They'll just be on the receiving end.
Fuck the RIAA, and fuck government welfare. Let me keep my own damn money.
My advice is get any processor you want that is currently sold. Unless you are doing some serious number crunching, very rarely is the processor the bottleneck in the system. Buy a $100 or less processor and throw the savings into RAM and the best graphics card you can afford. Hell even getting a faster hard drive will make a bigger performance difference than a 2ghz processor and a 3ghz processor for 95% of applications.
That's why I suggest AMD systems. Not because they are faster, but because I can get a processor that can handle pretty much anything and then some for $30 with very low power draw and toss in a much lower power demand AMD chipset motherboard and they will save big in the short term on the hardware and save in the long term on power consumption, all while having an indistinguishable difference in performance to a $500+ processor.
Actually, if you want to be pedantic... All the letters should be capitalized, there should be no punctuation, and the verb should be at the end of the sentence. Also there should be no "u"s.
I don't think that's entirely accurate. You can't just switch out the processor. You have to switch out the entire motherboard too, so you have a different memory controller, a different northbridge, a different sound chip, a different sata controller, etc... What makes you think that the processor was the magical factor out of all those that eliminated the problem.
Additionally, you probably also did a complete reinstall of your operating system when you upgraded the parts, which de-bloats Windows and you also downloaded the latest drivers for your graphics card. Those two items alone could have given you huge performance increases without changing any hardware at all.
Actually, recent versions of Ubuntu have totally useless xorg.conf files. There just isn't anything in them, and it's annoying if you know how to fix the problem in xorg, but the configuration is now done automatically.
This is true of any encylopedia. Just because Wikipedia is generally more verbose and detailed doesn't mean it is no longer a secondary source. You wouldn't cite a newspaper article reviewing a scientific breakthrough for a research project would you?
I don't think they mentioned it because it is obvious, they mentioned it for the $$$. I mean, Intel had to pay them off to list Intel processors as the best bang for the buck, why not get paid by MS too?
You could get a $50 Athlon 64 X2 and not notice the difference in most games from the $200 Intel processor. They obviously did not do very much research...
Actually, the first tests they did were inconclusive. They revisited it and eventually did find that frozen chickens had more penetrating power than thawed ones. The final test that was conclusive was several sheets of glass, and the frozen chicken broke more panes than the thawed one.
The problem with your car analogy is that you can still buy a Jag XJ220 used. It is illegal to resell old copies of Windows XP for use in new computers. Now if Microsoft were to allow that, it might not be such a big deal.
If they are anything like laptop batteries, after a year they will get down to 50% charged and then suddenly pop up the low battery warning, and the shut off before you can do anything about it. My biggest problem is when are battery charge indicators ever close to being correct. At least with a floating meter in the gas tank, I can count on it to tell me how much further I can go.
I'd really like to see these studies. Most of my peers tend to be more conservative, but then again I'm an engineer. I also noticed when I was in high school that a lot of my peers tended more liberal. But that could be an age difference, not an education one. I don't think education has a big impact compared with income levels, religion, upbringing, etc.
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If they had half a brain they would require them to be submitted as PDFs, but regardless, Open Office can save to a word format. Also, if they did require PDFs, open office supports that out of the box, with Word, you'd need another program to do that.
No, the real reason is the lack of 3rd party 64 bit support.
I am running Windows 7 x64 now, and albeit I haven't had any problems, IE 32 bit is still the default because there is still no 64 bit flash player except for a testing version on linux. Which is also annoying because I went to get a 64 bit version of Minefield and I can't use flash!
I wonder if Silverlight is 64 bit capable?
How the fuck is this insightful... This would take the situation from the Teacher being wrong to the student being jailed for threatening murder.
I'm not complaining about the comment, but maybe a funny mod would have been more appropriate. Or maybe some mod was just spreading unnecessary karma.
Yes, heaven forbid it be the same sized laptop with a smaller screen...
God is Netcraft?
You mean how it should read "four million times as massive"? Because you know, everything weighs more near a black hole... Even light.
First of all, DVDs generally cost LESS than CDs. Which is why I have a decently sized DVD collection and no CDs. For me, 5-10 bucks for a 2 hour movie is a much better deal than 10-20 bucks for 80 minutes of music, maybe 8 of which I actually want.
Second of all, I don't mind New Zealander's suggesting new taxes. At least they don't have a vested interest in collecting it. My problem is Americans who want more taxes. They'll just be on the receiving end.
Fuck the RIAA, and fuck government welfare. Let me keep my own damn money.
My advice is get any processor you want that is currently sold. Unless you are doing some serious number crunching, very rarely is the processor the bottleneck in the system. Buy a $100 or less processor and throw the savings into RAM and the best graphics card you can afford. Hell even getting a faster hard drive will make a bigger performance difference than a 2ghz processor and a 3ghz processor for 95% of applications.
That's why I suggest AMD systems. Not because they are faster, but because I can get a processor that can handle pretty much anything and then some for $30 with very low power draw and toss in a much lower power demand AMD chipset motherboard and they will save big in the short term on the hardware and save in the long term on power consumption, all while having an indistinguishable difference in performance to a $500+ processor.
Dammit, I wasted all my mod points this morning and then a Space Balls reference...
Actually, if you want to be pedantic... All the letters should be capitalized, there should be no punctuation, and the verb should be at the end of the sentence. Also there should be no "u"s.
EGO OPEROR IGNORO TOTVS CVPIDITAS VOLO EST
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I don't think that's entirely accurate. You can't just switch out the processor. You have to switch out the entire motherboard too, so you have a different memory controller, a different northbridge, a different sound chip, a different sata controller, etc... What makes you think that the processor was the magical factor out of all those that eliminated the problem.
Additionally, you probably also did a complete reinstall of your operating system when you upgraded the parts, which de-bloats Windows and you also downloaded the latest drivers for your graphics card. Those two items alone could have given you huge performance increases without changing any hardware at all.
Actually, recent versions of Ubuntu have totally useless xorg.conf files. There just isn't anything in them, and it's annoying if you know how to fix the problem in xorg, but the configuration is now done automatically.
It would be more efficient to store pictures as pictures, and not printed as data. So just print your porn on a high quality color printer.
No, the brick on wheels is the Honda Element or the Scion xB. Which are pretty ugly cars, but the Aztek still beats everybody.
This is true of any encylopedia. Just because Wikipedia is generally more verbose and detailed doesn't mean it is no longer a secondary source. You wouldn't cite a newspaper article reviewing a scientific breakthrough for a research project would you?
Incorrect... Diffusion is a flow of material from high concentration to low concentration. Osmosis is the diffusion of water across a membrane.
I don't think they mentioned it because it is obvious, they mentioned it for the $$$. I mean, Intel had to pay them off to list Intel processors as the best bang for the buck, why not get paid by MS too?
You could get a $50 Athlon 64 X2 and not notice the difference in most games from the $200 Intel processor. They obviously did not do very much research...
Actually, the first tests they did were inconclusive. They revisited it and eventually did find that frozen chickens had more penetrating power than thawed ones. The final test that was conclusive was several sheets of glass, and the frozen chicken broke more panes than the thawed one.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MythBusters_episodes:_Season_2#Episode_14_.E2.80.94_.22Myths_Revisited.22
Not to mention setting shaped charges in just the right places to cleanly implode a hospital...
Technically, at the end there, he did kill Dent. So he did break his credo.
The problem with your car analogy is that you can still buy a Jag XJ220 used. It is illegal to resell old copies of Windows XP for use in new computers. Now if Microsoft were to allow that, it might not be such a big deal.
If they are anything like laptop batteries, after a year they will get down to 50% charged and then suddenly pop up the low battery warning, and the shut off before you can do anything about it. My biggest problem is when are battery charge indicators ever close to being correct. At least with a floating meter in the gas tank, I can count on it to tell me how much further I can go.
I'd really like to see these studies. Most of my peers tend to be more conservative, but then again I'm an engineer. I also noticed when I was in high school that a lot of my peers tended more liberal. But that could be an age difference, not an education one. I don't think education has a big impact compared with income levels, religion, upbringing, etc.
If that were symmetrical wouldn't it be http://slashdot.todhsals/?