The point you make is valid for desktop apps, however faster ram often translates into a few more fps in Direct3D, which some people care a lot about. Not sure about the actual numbers for DDR3 vs. DDR2 though (if any).
Yes, and that 5% translates to around 1-2 apps for everyone. I have around 25 apps installed. I've moved to FOSS for most of them. The showstoppers for me are "Garena" and "Foobar2000".
It's global! Food riots are only the final manifestation of the problem. Here in Turkey the price of rice went up 58% (10% inflation rate) despite local supply has doubled in the last 3 years, turns out traders have been stockpiling the rice expecting the value of rice to surge. Farmland for fuel is wreacking havoc!
The Napster affair proved that they were motivated by greed first. They could have waited the whole P2P phenomenon to come into some perspective as we now know that P2P is not killing the music business, but they chose to be militantly against it and that makes them suckers. Now that the free distribution + donations/tours model looks like its working, they want back in. No go for me, attitude is important in music.
Besides, Metallica hasn't put out anything worth listening for me since 1998 Garage Inc. (and I'm cutting them some slack there already including the 1996 Load album)
Ofcourse TV can talk to children as much as it likes! Cartoon networks and commercials for kids is the only wholesome communication for our kids. Hop off the pedo's lap, sit on Ronald McDonald's lap!
"GPU makers have been known to do the same thing. I remember when you could flash a low end card (one of the GeForce 4s?) to be a more expensive one (more shaders) and you might end up with a working card (wasn't disabled due to errors, just to 'meet quota')."
The practice is not ancient. I am running a GeForce 6800 in such a manner. It came with 2 "units" disabled (4pp, 1vp each) and I enabled 1 unit with rivatuner and ran it like that since day 1. Enabling the second disabled unit would cause artifacts so that was out. I suspect similar things are possible on newer 8xxx cards etc..
Actually, you can remove the 3.5" container (I believe running it like this voids your warranty) but it still won't fit in a laptop because apparently although 2.5" form factor, it is several mm too high for a laptop. Not that you should attempt to run a 10K drive inside a laptop in the first place, especially without that heatsink thingy.
The performance seems to be equal or better than SSD's.
source: http://www.tomshardware.com/reviews/HDD-SATA-VelociRaptor,1914.html
Why not come up with a non-objectionable name + relatively stable single window GUI version?
I always hear the argument that the best part of FOSS is that if you don't like it, you can modify it. How come despite mountains of complaints on Slashdot under every GIMP thread, no one has taken the effort to make this happen?
Why is GIMPshop always lagging so far behind GIMP versions and is so buggy? (2.2.4 as of now, but finally at least I see a decent website)
If there was ever a need for a FOSS fork, it is GIMP!
Turning to advertising will slowly and surely ruin the best aspects of wikipedia. Just think about it, rather than trying to sell things to wikipedia users and get a cut through ads, why not directly ask for the money (ie. donations), which is working so far. What you call "begging" is actually the most direct and honest way of running independent media.
Agreed. That's why I only play games that are at least 2 years old and I am happy. The communities are still there and the games are just as good. Trying to keep up with the latest and greatest is just too expensive.
Wikipedia is so awesome that it has changed by web habits, and half replaced google for me already. When I need to learn about something, from political events to computer games, I find myself starting off with a wikipedia search BEFORE going to google. I usually follow by visiting the external links from the wiki page. Great for getting to the "official page" of whatever I am interested if there is one, without crappy ad spam sites filling up the google search. Not a true knowledge source? Depends what you mean by "true", but Wiki pages beat the regular web for me hands down when what I want is just the naked knowledge and not a whole web page full of "content". Wiki gives me a concise body of text, and a relevant picture most of the times, no ads, no marketing, and no aggressive pushing of any kind of text, image, video etc. When you use wikipedia, you feel in control, while with the commercial nature of the web, you feel like a customer.
"I hate unions, I think they're by and large full of selfish, greedy people that don't give a damn about anybody not in a union."
Even if that were true, that would put them on par with what.. management and owners? If you are a worker and you think solidarity with your fellow workers is "greed", pls learn better fast. We are one person weaker without you.
Muscles are resting any time they are not contracting you don't need to be sleeping. According to my humble PSY undergrad knowledge, sleep is almost exclusively for the nervous system (that includes the brain). But the exact function is very elusive. For example, I think I recall you can keep a mammal alive indefinitely if you feed and allow it enough rest in a non-sleeping state.
And I can't wait for that cottage industry 21st century style to dominate the overgrown corporations of the 20th century.
I would mod you up if it was my mod day.
Try that and you'll get the GOP all up your ass about increasing the tax burden on the working class. The GOP? You mean The Republican Party? Since when do they care about the working class except when they want to stop them from having abortions?
Defense Of The Ancients All-Stars: A 5v5 multiplayer team game mod for Warcraft III Frozen Throne.
Runs on very modest systems (WC3 is a 5 year old game).
You can dl dota from http://dota-allstars.com/
If you play over GGC (http://www.gg-game.com/), you can get LAN-like speed.
If you have enough solar & wind power generators over a large and diversified area, and grid all of that up, let's say the whole EU, the whole US, or similar, the sun ought to be shining somewhere, and the wind ought to be blowing somehere at anytime.
2k, last I checked (about a year ago), was still the most wildly used Windows. Yup, for cross-dressing orgies, can't beat the 2k experience.. 2k is still the choice for IT people who really know how to use Windows.
I recently shopped around for a new notebook, and tried hard to get one without Windows included. There were options, either at the low end products from smaller players like MSI and Datron (sub-$900), or at extremely customised gaming notebooks (~$2000), again from not so well known brands. These products were actually cheaper than their respective counterparts that had Windows bundled, so the savings are being passed on to the consumer. These machines were advertised as w/ FreeDOS or "Linux" (distro not specified). I don't recall seeing these options 2 years ago. Unbundling is happening with the desired results (cheaper), although only in marginal segments.
Your "lesser of evils" excuse for dropping the bomb is based on false premises. Both the argument that Japan would not have surrendered if not the bomb, and the argument that more would be killed in conventional war is heavily disputed. Still, try it the other way around: Let's say Iraq had nukes, and decided to deploy them on Washington DC as a response to the US invasion. Let's say 200.000 dead. Looks better than the 500.000-1M dead Iraqis estimates. Sounds good to you?
Iran acts as rationally as any other country (and certainly USA does not excel in this regard) in terms of defending her national interests in the power struggle world of international relations. No crack pot, no apocalypse is required to explain her behavior. The USA has demonstrated in Iraq that she is willing to dominate with force non-nuclear enemies. The lesson everyone has learned is that if they are to go against the will of the US, they need to get nukes ASAP. It is the only deterrent.
I loved Foxit until I tried to print a range of pages, it didn't print, and the printer became unreachable from other programs as well until a restart. The printer was a Canon BJC940 connected to a USR router.
You say you want competition in a free market. You start out with a bunch of competitors. But every competing company strives to become a monopoly to ensure profits, it's not a secret. In the long run, one of them dominates the market and becomes such a monopoly, it's not a surprise outcome. Then you turn around and declare that to be illegal. You split the company up or write fines. Which leaves you not with the desired competitive atmosphere but a wounded monopoly, still a monopoly nevertheless. This goes on in every sector, until some catastrophic event like war or financial crisis. At which point you call in the state to fix everything up. You get state investments. And then, in the spirit of capitalism, the state will privatize these, because a free competitive market is better. Back to square 1. Repeat.
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The point you make is valid for desktop apps, however faster ram often translates into a few more fps in Direct3D, which some people care a lot about. Not sure about the actual numbers for DDR3 vs. DDR2 though (if any).
Yes, and that 5% translates to around 1-2 apps for everyone. I have around 25 apps installed. I've moved to FOSS for most of them. The showstoppers for me are "Garena" and "Foobar2000".
What the hell, is MS subsidizing them (ie giving away XP and then some) just so they use their OS?
It's global! Food riots are only the final manifestation of the problem. Here in Turkey the price of rice went up 58% (10% inflation rate) despite local supply has doubled in the last 3 years, turns out traders have been stockpiling the rice expecting the value of rice to surge. Farmland for fuel is wreacking havoc!
The Napster affair proved that they were motivated by greed first. They could have waited the whole P2P phenomenon to come into some perspective as we now know that P2P is not killing the music business, but they chose to be militantly against it and that makes them suckers. Now that the free distribution + donations/tours model looks like its working, they want back in. No go for me, attitude is important in music. Besides, Metallica hasn't put out anything worth listening for me since 1998 Garage Inc. (and I'm cutting them some slack there already including the 1996 Load album)
Ofcourse TV can talk to children as much as it likes! Cartoon networks and commercials for kids is the only wholesome communication for our kids. Hop off the pedo's lap, sit on Ronald McDonald's lap!
"GPU makers have been known to do the same thing. I remember when you could flash a low end card (one of the GeForce 4s?) to be a more expensive one (more shaders) and you might end up with a working card (wasn't disabled due to errors, just to 'meet quota')." The practice is not ancient. I am running a GeForce 6800 in such a manner. It came with 2 "units" disabled (4pp, 1vp each) and I enabled 1 unit with rivatuner and ran it like that since day 1. Enabling the second disabled unit would cause artifacts so that was out. I suspect similar things are possible on newer 8xxx cards etc..
Actually, you can remove the 3.5" container (I believe running it like this voids your warranty) but it still won't fit in a laptop because apparently although 2.5" form factor, it is several mm too high for a laptop. Not that you should attempt to run a 10K drive inside a laptop in the first place, especially without that heatsink thingy. The performance seems to be equal or better than SSD's. source: http://www.tomshardware.com/reviews/HDD-SATA-VelociRaptor,1914.html
You can check out the progress of Shrodinger (A Dirac implementation) over here: http://forum.doom9.org/showthread.php?t=135176
Why not come up with a non-objectionable name + relatively stable single window GUI version? I always hear the argument that the best part of FOSS is that if you don't like it, you can modify it. How come despite mountains of complaints on Slashdot under every GIMP thread, no one has taken the effort to make this happen? Why is GIMPshop always lagging so far behind GIMP versions and is so buggy? (2.2.4 as of now, but finally at least I see a decent website) If there was ever a need for a FOSS fork, it is GIMP!
Turning to advertising will slowly and surely ruin the best aspects of wikipedia. Just think about it, rather than trying to sell things to wikipedia users and get a cut through ads, why not directly ask for the money (ie. donations), which is working so far. What you call "begging" is actually the most direct and honest way of running independent media.
Agreed. That's why I only play games that are at least 2 years old and I am happy. The communities are still there and the games are just as good. Trying to keep up with the latest and greatest is just too expensive.
Wikipedia is so awesome that it has changed by web habits, and half replaced google for me already. When I need to learn about something, from political events to computer games, I find myself starting off with a wikipedia search BEFORE going to google. I usually follow by visiting the external links from the wiki page. Great for getting to the "official page" of whatever I am interested if there is one, without crappy ad spam sites filling up the google search. Not a true knowledge source? Depends what you mean by "true", but Wiki pages beat the regular web for me hands down when what I want is just the naked knowledge and not a whole web page full of "content". Wiki gives me a concise body of text, and a relevant picture most of the times, no ads, no marketing, and no aggressive pushing of any kind of text, image, video etc. When you use wikipedia, you feel in control, while with the commercial nature of the web, you feel like a customer.
"I hate unions, I think they're by and large full of selfish, greedy people that don't give a damn about anybody not in a union." Even if that were true, that would put them on par with what.. management and owners? If you are a worker and you think solidarity with your fellow workers is "greed", pls learn better fast. We are one person weaker without you.
Muscles are resting any time they are not contracting you don't need to be sleeping. According to my humble PSY undergrad knowledge, sleep is almost exclusively for the nervous system (that includes the brain). But the exact function is very elusive. For example, I think I recall you can keep a mammal alive indefinitely if you feed and allow it enough rest in a non-sleeping state.
And I can't wait for that cottage industry 21st century style to dominate the overgrown corporations of the 20th century. I would mod you up if it was my mod day.
Defense Of The Ancients All-Stars: A 5v5 multiplayer team game mod for Warcraft III Frozen Throne. Runs on very modest systems (WC3 is a 5 year old game). You can dl dota from http://dota-allstars.com/ If you play over GGC (http://www.gg-game.com/), you can get LAN-like speed.
AnandTech says an RC of XP SP3 is also released. http://www.dailytech.com/article.aspx?newsid=9987 Although I don't understand why "download directly from microsoft" on that page links to http://fileforum.betanews.com/detail/Microsoft_Windows_XP_Service_Pack_3/1197391546/1
If you have enough solar & wind power generators over a large and diversified area, and grid all of that up, let's say the whole EU, the whole US, or similar, the sun ought to be shining somewhere, and the wind ought to be blowing somehere at anytime.
I recently shopped around for a new notebook, and tried hard to get one without Windows included. There were options, either at the low end products from smaller players like MSI and Datron (sub-$900), or at extremely customised gaming notebooks (~$2000), again from not so well known brands. These products were actually cheaper than their respective counterparts that had Windows bundled, so the savings are being passed on to the consumer. These machines were advertised as w/ FreeDOS or "Linux" (distro not specified). I don't recall seeing these options 2 years ago. Unbundling is happening with the desired results (cheaper), although only in marginal segments.
Your "lesser of evils" excuse for dropping the bomb is based on false premises. Both the argument that Japan would not have surrendered if not the bomb, and the argument that more would be killed in conventional war is heavily disputed. Still, try it the other way around: Let's say Iraq had nukes, and decided to deploy them on Washington DC as a response to the US invasion. Let's say 200.000 dead. Looks better than the 500.000-1M dead Iraqis estimates. Sounds good to you? Iran acts as rationally as any other country (and certainly USA does not excel in this regard) in terms of defending her national interests in the power struggle world of international relations. No crack pot, no apocalypse is required to explain her behavior. The USA has demonstrated in Iraq that she is willing to dominate with force non-nuclear enemies. The lesson everyone has learned is that if they are to go against the will of the US, they need to get nukes ASAP. It is the only deterrent.
I loved Foxit until I tried to print a range of pages, it didn't print, and the printer became unreachable from other programs as well until a restart. The printer was a Canon BJC940 connected to a USR router.
You say you want competition in a free market. You start out with a bunch of competitors. But every competing company strives to become a monopoly to ensure profits, it's not a secret. In the long run, one of them dominates the market and becomes such a monopoly, it's not a surprise outcome. Then you turn around and declare that to be illegal. You split the company up or write fines. Which leaves you not with the desired competitive atmosphere but a wounded monopoly, still a monopoly nevertheless. This goes on in every sector, until some catastrophic event like war or financial crisis. At which point you call in the state to fix everything up. You get state investments. And then, in the spirit of capitalism, the state will privatize these, because a free competitive market is better. Back to square 1. Repeat.