If a practice is considered acceptable for any given company in perfect competition, then the same move by a company in an oligopoly should be considered acceptable, too.
I meant that when you buy music at iTunes, Apple allows you to transfer the music to iPods, but not to portable music players made by any other company. If that isn't anti-competitive, then I don't know what is.
The fact that some music is also offered DRM-free at a higher price hardly makes it OK. After all, Windows Media player is offered free, and 3rd party media players are offered free, and yet MS got fined for it anyway.
Does Apply not bundle a media player with OSX? Do they not bundle a browser? Are they open to 3rd parties asking them to bundle their competiting products with OSX? Of course not. Why is Apple the darling of the tech world and Microsoft the beast, when I observe Apple doing the same anti-competitive practices (e.g. iTunes + iPod = iProfit).
Disclaimer: I use WinXP but am switching to Ubuntu next month. I am also an economics major so I sympathize with companies who try to make money.
While I agree that it is no longer reserved for tweens who can't type, people need to realize that it is and always will be part of informal writing. To say "it is for expressing feelings, but via a text message" is stupid because we have WORDS to do that. Hence, using emoticons in formal writing is just your signal to the world that you have no writing skills. It doesn't just apply to emoticons:
Informal: "wtfm8?"
Formal: "Sir, I am absolutely flabbergasted that you would insult my intelligence with such incoherent dribble."
A google search for "cell phones" returns numerous sponsored and non-sponsored links to vendors and providers who all offer cell phones starting at $0.
Hey, wouldn't it be nice if tech nerds had a common website to exchange comments on with other intelligent tech nerds? Yeah, on this new site, we could even allow the intelligent ones to be administrators!
where a UltraSPARC T1 customer states that MySQL 5 is up to 13.5 times faster than MySQL 5 on an AMD Opteron.
The results of the original article's data were as follows:
Postresql 8.2 on UltraSPARC T1 - 778.14 MySLQ 5 on AMD Opteron - 720.56
So using my blatantly biased (yet at the same time factual) numbers, I correct the MySQL performance number to reflect what it would be on an UltraSPARC T1: 720.56 x 13.5 = 9727.56
This publication shows that a properly tuned PostgreSQL is not only as fast or faster than MySQL, but almost as fast as Oracle (since the hardware platforms are different, it's hard to compare directly). This is something we've been saying for the last 2 years, and now we can prove it.
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You can learn how to get it fixed:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sarcasm
In Soviet Russia, LCDs watch YOU!!
This is the dumbest article in the history of mankind.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stock_Keeping_Unit
I was about to say "Slashdot accusing another news site of sensationalist reporting? Oh the irony..."
But it looks like it's even worse if Slashdot is sensationalizing a legit story to make them sound sensationalist. Absolutely amazing.
Cat got your tongue? (something important seems to be missing from your comment ... like the body or the subject!)
please send one dollar to Happy Dude.
If a practice is considered acceptable for any given company in perfect competition, then the same move by a company in an oligopoly should be considered acceptable, too.
I meant that when you buy music at iTunes, Apple allows you to transfer the music to iPods, but not to portable music players made by any other company. If that isn't anti-competitive, then I don't know what is.
The fact that some music is also offered DRM-free at a higher price hardly makes it OK. After all, Windows Media player is offered free, and 3rd party media players are offered free, and yet MS got fined for it anyway.
Does Apply not bundle a media player with OSX? Do they not bundle a browser? Are they open to 3rd parties asking them to bundle their competiting products with OSX? Of course not. Why is Apple the darling of the tech world and Microsoft the beast, when I observe Apple doing the same anti-competitive practices (e.g. iTunes + iPod = iProfit).
Disclaimer: I use WinXP but am switching to Ubuntu next month. I am also an economics major so I sympathize with companies who try to make money.
Salty burger lands McDonald's employee in jail
It's either:
"Sony's 80GB PS3"
or
"Sony's N82E16868110016 SKU"
Except SKU is assigned at the merchant level, so there are approximately eleventy billion different SKUs for the 80GB PS3. The above is Newegg's SKU.
STOP FUCKING SAYING IT
You have a heart condition and you're reading Slashdot? Well, at least we know you have balls of steel.
http://www.opera.com/support/mastering/kiosk/
Designed to be used at public terminals. Bonus points for installing it on Linux.
While I agree that it is no longer reserved for tweens who can't type, people need to realize that it is and always will be part of informal writing. To say "it is for expressing feelings, but via a text message" is stupid because we have WORDS to do that. Hence, using emoticons in formal writing is just your signal to the world that you have no writing skills. It doesn't just apply to emoticons:
Informal:
"wtfm8?"
Formal:
"Sir, I am absolutely flabbergasted that you would insult my intelligence with such incoherent dribble."
Does anyone else find it ironic how Apple has become the very thing their iconic 1984 commercial rebelled against?
http://linux.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=255419&c id=19985073
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ROOOOAAAAARR!!!
Standard def NTSC is 720x480
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Image:Video_Standard
http://secureme.blogspot.com/2005_06_01_archive.ht ml/
Scroll down to the very bottom of that page. Notice the date.
A google search for "cell phones" returns numerous sponsored and non-sponsored links to vendors and providers who all offer cell phones starting at $0.
Hey, wouldn't it be nice if tech nerds had a common website to exchange comments on with other intelligent tech nerds? Yeah, on this new site, we could even allow the intelligent ones to be administrators!
It's only written on the page 3 times. Give credit where it is due.
GT2 was the reason I sold my N64 and bought a PS1!
Led me to...
http://blogs.digitar.com/media/2/T2000_Experience
where a UltraSPARC T1 customer states that MySQL 5 is up to 13.5 times faster than MySQL 5 on an AMD Opteron.
The results of the original article's data were as follows:
Postresql 8.2 on UltraSPARC T1 - 778.14
MySLQ 5 on AMD Opteron - 720.56
So using my blatantly biased (yet at the same time factual) numbers, I correct the MySQL performance number to reflect what it would be on an UltraSPARC T1: 720.56 x 13.5 = 9727.56
9727.56 > 778.15
MySQL wins!
MySQL 5 on AMD Opteron 285
The UltraSPARC has 8 cores on 1 chip and 16GB of memory.
The Opteron has 4 cores and 8GB of memory.
The UltraSPARC should smoke it every time.