A quote in the previous article to give you that warm, fuzzy feeling inside.
"With the advent of cyberspace, we've had to evolve these policies," Farr said. "Somewhere between First Amendment rights and total repression there is a practical middle ground."
According to this article they also seem to be trying to hire several of the designers who worked on the first 2 installments at Looking Glass. This is very good news:)
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To be fair, at the moment the P4 is primarily being aimed at use in large servers, and not at the average home user.
Basically, every PC which you can buy nowadays is ludicrously overpowered for "anyone who uses only the wordprocessors". Most of the people I know in this category tend not to upgrade their PC's until they actually notice their software running too slowly (or their kids nag them about not being able to play Quake3:) Everyone I know who does fall into the "I bought an 800Mhz P3 2 months ago, but now there are 1Ghz ones out so I'll have to buy one of them" category are people who do know enough to know better, know it isn't worth it, but do it anyway.
The "average" person/family looking to buy a new PC tends to think along the lines of "I want a PC and can spend about $1500 on it". For this person the consequence of these frequent increases in processor speeds probably means that they'll get an 800Mhz machine for their $1500 rather than a 500Mhz one. Overall I don't really see this as a bad thing.
"GSM phones must be nearing saturation, in europe at least, and people are waiting for 3G to upgrade etc etc."
..."As a result, demand for mobile phone hardware in europe is about as likely to reach saturation as the demand for
trousers."
I took the usage of the term 'saturation' here to mean that the original poster feels that most people in Europe who want a mobile phone have one by now. I.e. the majority of mobile phone sales are now people upgrading rather than new customers.
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To be fair, at the moment the P4 is primarily being aimed at use in large servers, and not at the average home user.
:) Everyone I know who does fall into the "I bought an 800Mhz P3 2 months ago, but now there are 1Ghz ones out so I'll have to buy one of them" category are people who do know enough to know better, know it isn't worth it, but do it anyway.
Basically, every PC which you can buy nowadays is ludicrously overpowered for "anyone who uses only the wordprocessors". Most of the people I know in this category tend not to upgrade their PC's until they actually notice their software running too slowly (or their kids nag them about not being able to play Quake3
The "average" person/family looking to buy a new PC tends to think along the lines of "I want a PC and can spend about $1500 on it". For this person the consequence of these frequent increases in processor speeds probably means that they'll get an 800Mhz machine for their $1500 rather than a 500Mhz one. Overall I don't really see this as a bad thing.
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>... First, the N, which stands for Intuitive...
I can't put my finger on it, but there's something about this naming scheme that makes me not want to take a personality test from these people #:-)
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