How about charging the user after the item is recycled, or, for that matter, actually recycling it? This is nothing but a thinly-veiled way to extort the public by charging them an 'if' tax.
Not too good an idea on budget systems and servers. If I'm putting together a cheap system for someone, I'm either getting a 15" LCD for $30, which likely won't have a DVI pinout, or a 15-17" CRT for the same price (because cheap LCDs suck, for the most part), which will definitely not have a DVI pinout. The only place I can see dropping VGA ports make sense would be high-end video cards and motherboards. If I'm spending 20 on a motherboard I want good legacy support.n\
I have a feeling you'll be waiting a while for that. Not all of us like to buy new sound/tuner cards when we build a new machine. (Although, I suppose everything fails eventually.) It'd probably take around five years to wean everyone off PCI.
I really don't see so many people want to keep PS/2 ports around. I can pick up a PS/2-USB adapter for $0.30.
Call them what you will, the universities wouldn't be around without the millions of dollars coming from their students. As such, a boycott of a university wouldn't be too bad an idea. (Though I'm sure most people would move off-campus instead of switching. Much more convenient, especially if you're on a scholarship program.)
I don't know about you, but if I were in a position of power and greeted by a shitstorm of letters every day, I might consider doing something. The real problem isn't that our opinions aren't worth anything, but that we all think they are. Maybe one or two people will write in, but no one else thinks anyone cares, thus giving every congressman and all of the corporations in their pockets a license to do whatever the hell they want. What we need is some kind of organized effort. Here we have network that spans the entire developed world, but what's the most people do with it in that direction, online petitions?... Of course, it's not like I'm going to do anything beyond this little rant; I'm busy playing Civilization. I'm sure someone else will do it...right?
many notebook computers easily run 95% of the 3d games on the market.
This year, perhaps. How about in 2009, though? I'll switch to a notebook when two conditions are met: price, and serviceability. I could grab all the parts I need for a decent gaming rig for under $800, or I could pick up a notebook barebone, CPU, RAM and drives and come out spending at least $1,200 for comparable specs. Even then, I'd have to at least buy a new barebone kit once I needed a better GPU and more VRAM, which could run me upwards of $400. Also, that means I'd have to swap out the motherboard which means more WGA hassle. (That, or I could just torrent XP in the first place, but let's assume I got an OEM version, for the sake of argument.)
Define "portable". I could argue that a 30Lb. P3 rig with 256MB of RAM and a 60Lb. CRT display would fit all three criteria if I had a gas generator on hand.
I still say that Windows Vista is the best advertisement around for Ubuntu Linux.
Or perhaps the best advertisement for XP. Whether or not MS fails in releasing Vista isn't really an issue, as it gives thousands of people buying from OEMs reason to pay MS twice. I have to say this is a brilliant move on Microsoft's part.
Don't forget cost and the near-complete lack of standards. The day I buy a notebook is the day I can build one from the ground up without needing special hardware.
Maybe the PTO should treat DRM the same as they (supposedly) treat perpetual motion machines, and refuse to assign patents or trademarks on DRM technology because it's physically impossible to implement a working system?
The USPTO has no problems with inventions that break the laws of physics.
I'd always thought that it had more to do with skin pigmentation becoming a neutral trait. After all, a lot of people ate plants containing vitamin D (and if people with lighter skin aren't selected against anymore, they're bound to pass on the trait, lightening their offspring's skin somewhat as well).
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How about charging the user after the item is recycled, or, for that matter, actually recycling it? This is nothing but a thinly-veiled way to extort the public by charging them an 'if' tax.
Does it truly matter at this point? After all, that it has been used means that MS can't patent it.
So...thirty minutes?
Mod self up! (Yeah, I bet you didn't think of that, did you!)
The only place I can see dropping VGA ports make sense would be high-end video cards and motherboards. If I'm spending 20 on a motherboard I want good legacy support.n\
Every GET is a modGET. Nothing for you to see here. Please move along.
Lozenge?
PICs or it didn't happen.
I have a feeling you'll be waiting a while for that. Not all of us like to buy new sound/tuner cards when we build a new machine. (Although, I suppose everything fails eventually.) It'd probably take around five years to wean everyone off PCI.
I really don't see so many people want to keep PS/2 ports around. I can pick up a PS/2-USB adapter for $0.30.
I'm colorblind, you insensitive clod!
Well, for what it's worth, communists think you have a really nice butt.
Who 'drunk tests' a data center?
IDK, my BFF Jill?
Call them what you will, the universities wouldn't be around without the millions of dollars coming from their students. As such, a boycott of a university wouldn't be too bad an idea. (Though I'm sure most people would move off-campus instead of switching. Much more convenient, especially if you're on a scholarship program.)
I don't know about you, but if I were in a position of power and greeted by a shitstorm of letters every day, I might consider doing something. The real problem isn't that our opinions aren't worth anything, but that we all think they are. Maybe one or two people will write in, but no one else thinks anyone cares, thus giving every congressman and all of the corporations in their pockets a license to do whatever the hell they want. ...
What we need is some kind of organized effort. Here we have network that spans the entire developed world, but what's the most people do with it in that direction, online petitions?
Of course, it's not like I'm going to do anything beyond this little rant; I'm busy playing Civilization. I'm sure someone else will do it...right?
Keep up with the times, man! God changed his prayer policy last month.
This year, perhaps. How about in 2009, though? I'll switch to a notebook when two conditions are met: price, and serviceability.
I could grab all the parts I need for a decent gaming rig for under $800, or I could pick up a notebook barebone, CPU, RAM and drives and come out spending at least $1,200 for comparable specs. Even then, I'd have to at least buy a new barebone kit once I needed a better GPU and more VRAM, which could run me upwards of $400. Also, that means I'd have to swap out the motherboard which means more WGA hassle. (That, or I could just torrent XP in the first place, but let's assume I got an OEM version, for the sake of argument.)
Define "portable". I could argue that a 30Lb. P3 rig with 256MB of RAM and a 60Lb. CRT display would fit all three criteria if I had a gas generator on hand.
Don't forget cost and the near-complete lack of standards. The day I buy a notebook is the day I can build one from the ground up without needing special hardware.
I'd always thought that it had more to do with skin pigmentation becoming a neutral trait. After all, a lot of people ate plants containing vitamin D (and if people with lighter skin aren't selected against anymore, they're bound to pass on the trait, lightening their offspring's skin somewhat as well).
Doesn't karma whoring usually involve getting positive karma?
Indeed, going to a store to buy computer parts is annoying, but seriously; who wants to pay shipping on milk?