I'm aware of all this. My point was that the chips became obsolete before their time through socket changes, and might still be in use today if it weren't for that.
Actually, I was thinking of it the other way around . . .
I have plenty of good Socket 478 CPUs kicking around, but I can't really buy any motherboards to stick them in. Maintaining the same socket type (and backwards compatability) means that I can keep using those perfectly good CPUs.
For many people (parents?), the parental controls implemented by the app store are part of the reason they chose to buy an Apple product for their child to use instead of a competitor's. If an app such as a web browser doesn't utilize those, it makes sense that it ought to have some sort of restriction in place.
There may be plenty of things Apple does to their customers that warrant the vitriol that gets spewed at them. This, however, is not one of them.
I recently built a small box for locking up a bottle of wine and two envelopes and the binding for our guestbook out of birdseye maple as part of my wedding ceremony. The wood was quite expensive, and my el-cheapo table saw and router were just barely up to the task of working with it. I can only imagine what it would cost to buy enough walnut and maple to build this table . . . not to mention that your neighbor's ryobi table saw is gonna burn itself up trying to cut walnut.
Sure, you can build something like this . . but you're gonna pay out the nose to get set up with the same materials (and the tools to work with them). For what it is, this probably isn't all that bad of a price. They could probably do it a lot cheaper by building it out of MDF and veneer, but that wouldn't be "heirloom quality", would it?
ELAINE: We've been thrown off course just a tad.
PASSENGER: What's that mean?
ELAINE: In space terms, about 70 million miles.
The Passengers appear interested and sensible, nod their heads.
ELAINE: The bumps you feel are car-sized asteroids smashing into the hull.
The hood of a car smashes through the cabin wall. The Passengers still appear interested and sensible.
ELAINE: Also, we're heading right for the sun and can't seem to change course.
The Passengers still appear interested and sensible. They all put on sunglasses.
PASSENGER: Are you telling us everything?
ELAINE: Not exactly. We're also out of coffee.
The Passengers errupt in total panic.
Well, that link isn't working for me, but I'm going to assume that it supports half of your statement, regarding costs. Reality isn't picking the parts you like and then making up the rest.
. . . and have the life span of a third-world country.
Ahhh, no . . .
This seems to indicate that you've got a case of proportionitis. I'm writing you a prescription to Reality . . . make sure you take the whole thing, ok?
Thanks for the link. That was also the first I've ever seen of the crow making its own tools (in the "related videos" links). Really interesting stuff.
The artists already know that the record labels are scum. They just think the huge piles of money that get waved around in front of them are more important.
IANAPhysicist/Cosmologist/whatever applies here, so please do verify this yourself.
The star isn't IN the black hole . . . yet. The black hole is somewhere close to the star, and we're seeing the energy being thrown off by the stuff being pulled into it. There's an awful lot of colliding going on, so stuff is getting thrown around in a lot of directions at once.
Light (and other stuff) outside of the event horizon can escape. That's my understanding of the definition of "event horizon" . . . the proximity to the black hole at which light can no longer escape the black hole's gravitational pull. As long as stuff happens outside of that region, we can observe it.
Are you sure? I'm fairly certain that, outside of satirical use of a laugh track, a lot of shows still pad the audience reactions with canned laughter if the audience doesn't react quite the way the producers hoped they would. I do think it would be hard to tell, and I'm mostly basing this off assumption.
I will say that I'm almost certain that Chappelle's Show had at least some canned laughter inserted. It was a bit too well-timed and consistent to have been natural. If it was meant as satire, it obviously flew right over my head.
People are complaining, "That's not what the word means!" The GGP's post shows that it does mean that. Maybe tomorrow it'll mean something completely different . . . how is my post suggesting that it shouldn't?
That was only a few centuries ago, NOT A LONG TIME (I'm european)
I'd love to know what exactly that's supposed to mean. Does time work differently in Europe than it does in the rest of the world?
These definitions were in use generations ago. Propaganda or not, it's part of the language now.
This has nothing to do with AMD competing with Intel. It appears that AMD didn't use the documents, and the employee made the copies on his own, "out of curiosity".
In Ubuntu, there are more than two releases per year.
Really?
Since I've been using it, there's only been 2 per year - the x.04 (April), and x.10 (October) releases. This has been the case since Hoary (4.10?), as far as I know.
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Are you suggesting that a fire is not natural?
. . . and the other 70%?
I'm aware of all this. My point was that the chips became obsolete before their time through socket changes, and might still be in use today if it weren't for that.
Actually, I was thinking of it the other way around . . . I have plenty of good Socket 478 CPUs kicking around, but I can't really buy any motherboards to stick them in. Maintaining the same socket type (and backwards compatability) means that I can keep using those perfectly good CPUs.
For many people (parents?), the parental controls implemented by the app store are part of the reason they chose to buy an Apple product for their child to use instead of a competitor's. If an app such as a web browser doesn't utilize those, it makes sense that it ought to have some sort of restriction in place. There may be plenty of things Apple does to their customers that warrant the vitriol that gets spewed at them. This, however, is not one of them.
I think you answered your own question.
Of course they will! It was their idea!(copyright 2009 Microsoft Corp.)
The materials are what help to pump up the cost.
I recently built a small box for locking up a bottle of wine and two envelopes and the binding for our guestbook out of birdseye maple as part of my wedding ceremony. The wood was quite expensive, and my el-cheapo table saw and router were just barely up to the task of working with it. I can only imagine what it would cost to buy enough walnut and maple to build this table . . . not to mention that your neighbor's ryobi table saw is gonna burn itself up trying to cut walnut.
Sure, you can build something like this . . but you're gonna pay out the nose to get set up with the same materials (and the tools to work with them). For what it is, this probably isn't all that bad of a price. They could probably do it a lot cheaper by building it out of MDF and veneer, but that wouldn't be "heirloom quality", would it?
ELAINE: We've been thrown off course just a tad.
PASSENGER: What's that mean?
ELAINE: In space terms, about 70 million miles.
The Passengers appear interested and sensible, nod their heads.
ELAINE: The bumps you feel are car-sized asteroids smashing into the hull.
The hood of a car smashes through the cabin wall. The Passengers still appear interested and sensible.
ELAINE: Also, we're heading right for the sun and can't seem to change course.
The Passengers still appear interested and sensible. They all put on sunglasses.
PASSENGER: Are you telling us everything?
ELAINE: Not exactly. We're also out of coffee.
The Passengers errupt in total panic.
Well, that link isn't working for me, but I'm going to assume that it supports half of your statement, regarding costs. Reality isn't picking the parts you like and then making up the rest.
Ahhh, no . . . This seems to indicate that you've got a case of proportionitis. I'm writing you a prescription to Reality . . . make sure you take the whole thing, ok?
Thanks for the link. That was also the first I've ever seen of the crow making its own tools (in the "related videos" links). Really interesting stuff.
The artists already know that the record labels are scum. They just think the huge piles of money that get waved around in front of them are more important.
IANAPhysicist/Cosmologist/whatever applies here, so please do verify this yourself.
The star isn't IN the black hole . . . yet. The black hole is somewhere close to the star, and we're seeing the energy being thrown off by the stuff being pulled into it. There's an awful lot of colliding going on, so stuff is getting thrown around in a lot of directions at once.
Light (and other stuff) outside of the event horizon can escape. That's my understanding of the definition of "event horizon" . . . the proximity to the black hole at which light can no longer escape the black hole's gravitational pull. As long as stuff happens outside of that region, we can observe it.
Are you sure? I'm fairly certain that, outside of satirical use of a laugh track, a lot of shows still pad the audience reactions with canned laughter if the audience doesn't react quite the way the producers hoped they would. I do think it would be hard to tell, and I'm mostly basing this off assumption.
I will say that I'm almost certain that Chappelle's Show had at least some canned laughter inserted. It was a bit too well-timed and consistent to have been natural. If it was meant as satire, it obviously flew right over my head.
Heh, yeah. I wondered if the Colbert Christmas stuff was a jab at the whole idea of auto-tune, too.
WRT the Joel stuff, I don't really know how much input the artist gets at gigs like that. I would guess it's not that much, though.
It's already here, and it sucks. Give a listen to Billy Joel's singing of the national anthem at the super bowl.
That performance would have undoubtedly been better without auto-tune.
Powdered water?
Perhaps we've solved Stephen Wright's problem!
You may want to check up on what a command line is. I'm pretty sure that what is described in your quote isn't it.
I don't quite know where you got that idea.
People are complaining, "That's not what the word means!" The GGP's post shows that it does mean that. Maybe tomorrow it'll mean something completely different . . . how is my post suggesting that it shouldn't?
I'd love to know what exactly that's supposed to mean. Does time work differently in Europe than it does in the rest of the world?
These definitions were in use generations ago. Propaganda or not, it's part of the language now.
This has nothing to do with AMD competing with Intel. It appears that AMD didn't use the documents, and the employee made the copies on his own, "out of curiosity".
Ahh, blew all my mod points on another article. Very informative post . . . thanks.
In Ubuntu, there are more than two releases per year.
Really? Since I've been using it, there's only been 2 per year - the x.04 (April), and x.10 (October) releases. This has been the case since Hoary (4.10?), as far as I know.
http://appdb.winehq.org/
Most of the apps listed in the "top 10" lists on that page are games.