No, I meant non-Anglo-Saxon West, in the way we use Anglo-Saxon currently (FYI: the English-speaking West). Non Anglo-Saxon West therefore is the whole of mainland Europe (which is much more than Latin-Europe) plus Japan.
Next time, before trying to be a pedant douchebag, please consider also than the term Anglo-Saxon refers to/two/ tribes from the time they moved to England, which is, a thousand years ago. Tribes haves moved many times since then in mainland Europe, so even if you somehow managed to equate Sweden with England in your mind, please open your eyes and see/what other people are actually saying/.
The music and video to psuh their ipods, and the software to 'have what Microsoft got'. The really high end software like Final Cut and Logic are of course to make money on, but I suppose they push their MacPro's too (they do sell $30000 machines after all, to this crowd).
Thing is, your theory works fine for big-volume consumer goods, but falls apart for very specialized niche-products such as AC's boat video. If you want Walmarts all over the place, then it works at the cost of diversity.
For example: another popular economic view on niche-products: people will tend to pay any price for something they really want/need, so for niche-products high prices are fine (who is going to pick up a video on boatbuilding if they weren't interested anyway?).
I just don't believe you can proof these 'theories'. I think it's the perfect example of why the little man needs protection and the big ones do not.
It's only business (in the sense that you mean it) if you allow it to be. There's no actual reason why we the people should allow megacorps to get away with stuff we actually do not really want. Looking elsewhere is exactly to problem with these megacorps, because that's getting harder and harder.
You know what I do these days is running Ubuntu inside a (seamless) virtual machine in Windows. Windows has to be native for the games, and it doesn't matter how often Windows is borked, the Ubuntu VM image is on a different partition and as soon as I've reinstalled windows I can load that image up and *boom* my entire desktop with all my sweet little apps are there again without reinstalling anything.
Best of both worlds. The only thing better (aside from Linux supporting my games;)) would be virtualizable graphics, so that I can run Linux native and Windows in a virtual machine.
That's the whole point isn't it: Q3-based games... As in, games of at least 4 years old...
Gamers do not even want Q4 anymore, and even UT3 seems to be a passed station. Every 3-6 months there's a new game in town that gamers/have/ to play./That's/ gaming in the sense that most use it, not being a diehard Q3-fan playing on 640x480 because then you can bunnyhop faster.
I don't know what you mean with "it has worked fairly well", but how is forcing companies to offer two options AND being able to vote with your dollar/euro worse than only being able to dollarvote?
Fusion power relies on theories very well known, hence A-bomb since the forties/fifties. The only problem in building a fusionplant is succesfully containing all this energy and heat, which is entirely an engineering problem, and a very difficult one at that.
Funny, because in 2000 AMD was the first to break the GHz barrier, which prompted the introduction of the Pentium 4 in 2001. I think the P4 2.8GHz was introduced in 2004, but I could be off by a year (in both directions).
In 2001 Ati introed the Radeon 9700 and more than a year later the 9800.
So, because you are clearly making stuff up, I'll post this reply here to warn others not to believe your doubletrollish post
The real question is whether Yahoo has lavadynamic chairs. Ballmer is Satan after all, and I suspect most of Microsofts chairs have turned to ashes in the lava surrounding Ballmers Altar. And the helperdevils apprently havn't come up with a good solid chair that can stand the heat yet, and I think the reasoning is that, because of all the red in Yahoos brandname, Yahoos chairs may be more resilient to the lava.
Thus it makes real good business sense to take over Yahoo, because, you know, then you get all the chairs and stuff.
They could make a layer on top of Linux (like Apple has done with Cacao or whatever its called) that basically makes sure that doesn't happen. We'd still have the Linux goodness under the hood though.
Say what you want, but together with Excel's pivot tables these two it's the centerpillar of small to medium sized business' administration. Not having a competing opensrouce product is just too bad, because there's money to be saved and it would further the use of OSS.
Linux is the competitor according to Microsoft. OSX is contained, Linux is not, and has the potenial.
A fine example of this: why Gears of War (a Microsoft-published game) is ported to OSX but not Linux (although the studio behind the game has always prted to Linux):
http://www.linuxhardware.org/article.php?story=07/11/21/0433201
Because A) I'm Dutch so I wrote foton, not really thinking about it. I'm sorry that's wrong, but please... that's under no condition a reason to question someones intellect. B) having actually done an experiment together with my prof on the subject (I was a first year physicsstudent back then). C) The no cloning theorem: when we measure a photon (see what I did there?) its state known and its state can be changed. It doesn't matter what its state is going to be, because we discard it, as long as we give the new photon the correct properties. D) Physisists can be extremely enthousisatic too and don't check for loopholes (wiretapping is still impossible, just sitting in between (which most of the time is impracticle but very much possible isn't). Above all they sometimes forget about the practicle problems of engineering such a device. E) My prof confirmed my suspicions on the subject.
So, if I'm wrong, please correct me, but spare me the "these are physisists and you havnt even read the wiki"-talk. That just makes me feel/you/ havn't a clue but cant stand someone else did or tried to.
Intercepting (and breaking) quantum crypto is very much so possible. If Charlie intercepts Bob's fotons on their way to Alice, and Charlie can transmit the very same fotons he just recieved, he can intercept the message succesfully without Alice or Bob ever noticing (perhaps a lag because Charlie has to do some work before he transmits). What Charlie cannot do is old style wiretapping: every foton is a carier of one bit and reading it causes the bit to flip and thus Alice knowing the line is tapped. Reading the foton, throwing that foton away and sending another foton with precisely the same orientation/spin as the foton he recieved to Alice will be undetectably.
Never mind that in practice not now and probably not you can have 1 foton = 1 bit, but you'll need a group of fotons = 1 bit. And when there's a group, there's room to play for a wiretapper.
Is exactly why I don't install any 3rd party software. Only my custom BIOS, OS and browser, which I whipe every night and reprogram every morning, just to be absolutely sure nothing has been slipped in by said 3rd parties.
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Small correction, the AMD 4870 has 800 stream processors (and I thought the 4850 too).
No, I meant non-Anglo-Saxon West, in the way we use Anglo-Saxon currently (FYI: the English-speaking West). Non Anglo-Saxon West therefore is the whole of mainland Europe (which is much more than Latin-Europe) plus Japan.
Next time, before trying to be a pedant douchebag, please consider also than the term Anglo-Saxon refers to /two/ tribes from the time they moved to England, which is, a thousand years ago. Tribes haves moved many times since then in mainland Europe, so even if you somehow managed to equate Sweden with England in your mind, please open your eyes and see /what other people are actually saying/.
Dutch != Deutsch == German
The proper Dutch translation would be:
Voorwerp niet voeren!
Or, the Dutch funny edition:
Niet voeren da Voorwerp!
Or, the Anglo-Dutch funny edition:
Niet food'n da Voorwerp!
I daresay such prisons don't exist in all of non Anglo-Saxon West.
Agree with whom? We sure as hell werent thinking that you were thinking of Douglas Adams.
The music and video to psuh their ipods, and the software to 'have what Microsoft got'. The really high end software like Final Cut and Logic are of course to make money on, but I suppose they push their MacPro's too (they do sell $30000 machines after all, to this crowd).
Thing is, your theory works fine for big-volume consumer goods, but falls apart for very specialized niche-products such as AC's boat video. If you want Walmarts all over the place, then it works at the cost of diversity. For example: another popular economic view on niche-products: people will tend to pay any price for something they really want/need, so for niche-products high prices are fine (who is going to pick up a video on boatbuilding if they weren't interested anyway?). I just don't believe you can proof these 'theories'. I think it's the perfect example of why the little man needs protection and the big ones do not.
It's only business (in the sense that you mean it) if you allow it to be. There's no actual reason why we the people should allow megacorps to get away with stuff we actually do not really want. Looking elsewhere is exactly to problem with these megacorps, because that's getting harder and harder.
You know what I do these days is running Ubuntu inside a (seamless) virtual machine in Windows. Windows has to be native for the games, and it doesn't matter how often Windows is borked, the Ubuntu VM image is on a different partition and as soon as I've reinstalled windows I can load that image up and *boom* my entire desktop with all my sweet little apps are there again without reinstalling anything. Best of both worlds. The only thing better (aside from Linux supporting my games ;)) would be virtualizable graphics, so that I can run Linux native and Windows in a virtual machine.
That's the whole point isn't it: Q3-based games... As in, games of at least 4 years old... Gamers do not even want Q4 anymore, and even UT3 seems to be a passed station. Every 3-6 months there's a new game in town that gamers /have/ to play. /That's/ gaming in the sense that most use it, not being a diehard Q3-fan playing on 640x480 because then you can bunnyhop faster.
I don't know what you mean with "it has worked fairly well", but how is forcing companies to offer two options AND being able to vote with your dollar/euro worse than only being able to dollarvote?
Fusion power relies on theories very well known, hence A-bomb since the forties/fifties. The only problem in building a fusionplant is succesfully containing all this energy and heat, which is entirely an engineering problem, and a very difficult one at that.
Please, stop the FUD. The Geforce 8600 is not only easily 2x faster than an integrated Intel X3100, it's easily 20x faster. Have a look at a few benchmarks and judge yourselves. http://www.notebookcheck.net/Intel-Graphics-Media-Accelerator-X3100.2176.0.html http://www.tomshardware.com/charts/graphics-cards/3dmark06-v1-0-2-hdr-sm3-0-score,538.html Note that Intel tends to optimize it's chips for these kinds of benchmarks, realworld performance their chips tend to perform even worse than Nvidia or Ati's chips.
In Soviet Russia, you fold!
Funny, because in 2000 AMD was the first to break the GHz barrier, which prompted the introduction of the Pentium 4 in 2001. I think the P4 2.8GHz was introduced in 2004, but I could be off by a year (in both directions). In 2001 Ati introed the Radeon 9700 and more than a year later the 9800. So, because you are clearly making stuff up, I'll post this reply here to warn others not to believe your doubletrollish post
The real question is whether Yahoo has lavadynamic chairs. Ballmer is Satan after all, and I suspect most of Microsofts chairs have turned to ashes in the lava surrounding Ballmers Altar. And the helperdevils apprently havn't come up with a good solid chair that can stand the heat yet, and I think the reasoning is that, because of all the red in Yahoos brandname, Yahoos chairs may be more resilient to the lava. Thus it makes real good business sense to take over Yahoo, because, you know, then you get all the chairs and stuff.
They could make a layer on top of Linux (like Apple has done with Cacao or whatever its called) that basically makes sure that doesn't happen. We'd still have the Linux goodness under the hood though.
Which is, considering there's about eight people living in rural north america, a very likely option.
Say what you want, but together with Excel's pivot tables these two it's the centerpillar of small to medium sized business' administration. Not having a competing opensrouce product is just too bad, because there's money to be saved and it would further the use of OSS.
Linux is the competitor according to Microsoft. OSX is contained, Linux is not, and has the potenial. A fine example of this: why Gears of War (a Microsoft-published game) is ported to OSX but not Linux (although the studio behind the game has always prted to Linux): http://www.linuxhardware.org/article.php?story=07/11/21/0433201
Prior to politics? Like, never?
It appears Hateful Hillary is postponed in favor of Ostentatious Obama. What happened to Mediocre McCain, I don't know.
Because
/you/ havn't a clue but cant stand someone else did or tried to.
A) I'm Dutch so I wrote foton, not really thinking about it. I'm sorry that's wrong, but please... that's under no condition a reason to question someones intellect.
B) having actually done an experiment together with my prof on the subject (I was a first year physicsstudent back then).
C) The no cloning theorem: when we measure a photon (see what I did there?) its state known and its state can be changed. It doesn't matter what its state is going to be, because we discard it, as long as we give the new photon the correct properties.
D) Physisists can be extremely enthousisatic too and don't check for loopholes (wiretapping is still impossible, just sitting in between (which most of the time is impracticle but very much possible isn't). Above all they sometimes forget about the practicle problems of engineering such a device.
E) My prof confirmed my suspicions on the subject.
So, if I'm wrong, please correct me, but spare me the "these are physisists and you havnt even read the wiki"-talk. That just makes me feel
Intercepting (and breaking) quantum crypto is very much so possible. If Charlie intercepts Bob's fotons on their way to Alice, and Charlie can transmit the very same fotons he just recieved, he can intercept the message succesfully without Alice or Bob ever noticing (perhaps a lag because Charlie has to do some work before he transmits). What Charlie cannot do is old style wiretapping: every foton is a carier of one bit and reading it causes the bit to flip and thus Alice knowing the line is tapped. Reading the foton, throwing that foton away and sending another foton with precisely the same orientation/spin as the foton he recieved to Alice will be undetectably. Never mind that in practice not now and probably not you can have 1 foton = 1 bit, but you'll need a group of fotons = 1 bit. And when there's a group, there's room to play for a wiretapper.
Is exactly why I don't install any 3rd party software. Only my custom BIOS, OS and browser, which I whipe every night and reprogram every morning, just to be absolutely sure nothing has been slipped in by said 3rd parties.