In a perfect society, yes. But these idiots will see low sales and say "SEE? PIRATE'S SAPPIN MAH SALES!" And then they'll use that to justify even more restrictive DRM in future launches.
Starfleet's new proprietary warp 3 drives far outshine the open-source models. The teracochrane output isn't even comparable! You're barely going to get warp 2, 2.1 at best out of those F/OSS things.
Kind of like how my Bright House connection claims to have "99% uptime" while going out several times an hour. As long as it's up for 99 minutes every 100, they hold up their end of the contract and can avoid doing anything to fix it, since it never says that those 99 minutes have to be continuous.
Welcome to the world of barely-regulated monopoly that is internet service.
That's far from the only error in the summary. My suspicion is that it was written just to infuriate those of us who have OCD about proper grammar and sentence structure. EG:
Konami founder and developer Hideo Kojima predicts gaming console is a dying breed. Anticipates gaming on demand via Internet.
No one's going to argue that you need to understand arithmetic, basic algebra, maybe even some geometry, statistics, and trig depending on what you're doing. That's true frankly not just for computer science and IT, but for any even semi-technical field. But integral calculus? Differential Equations? Nonsense. But yet most colleges require two to three years of calculus for CS majors. A lot of this is probably because CS is part of the Engineering department and it's easier to just make the core requirements the same, and I'm sure a lot of it is just plain greed.
Math skills are undeniably important; but there's no denying that, as with a lot of things, many universities take it to illogical extremes, which is more likely the origin of any math antipathy in the CS community.
Actually, most parliamentary bodies try to avoid roll-call votes if possible simply because they're so time-consuming. There's really no point in doing a roll call vote unless it's going to be close; when something's going to pass with an 81% majority anyways, surely that efficiency is worth something?
Now watch the same graph once you log into Dalaran, as it drops off to something like 10-20% usage. Admittedly your processor usage on a quad-core is still going to be 30% as well, so it's just horrible, horrible coding on Blizzard's part, but still.
That is a wonderful little rant you've gone on there, too bad it's not true. The Windows 7 WordPad supports standard text files, RTF, ODF, and OOXML (and not.doc, which hasn't been supported since XP) just like TextEdit.
And before you rebut that you weren't talking about Windows 7; well then what was your point? The article is about the "sins" of...Windows 7.
Well, if we want to get technical it is true that red, green, blue, and yellow are all primary colors; RGB being the primary colors of light and yellow being a primary pigment. In all fairness to the writers of TFA, they don't state primary colors of what.
Using the proprietary nVidia driver makes you a "newbie"? When you consider that the open-source driver doesn't fully support a lot of modern cards (last I checked, everything from the 8-series on), and provides inferior performance to the proprietary one on most of the cards it does support, I'd have to wonder how you figure people who haven't yet replaced the included driver aren't the "newbies."
Or perhaps it's buying nVidia cards that makes you a "newbie"? Real nerds use Intel GMA 900s!
At the risk of being moderated a troll, is this a serious question? When have the Republicans ever been right on education? No Child Left Behind is an unmitigated disaster, and the bungling of the Republican administration of the last 8 years has left the US education system nearly dead last in the western world. And it's no surprise that the worst education systems in the country - Louisiana, Texas, South Carolina, Alabama - are in die-hard red states. As a resident of Florida, the state which pioneered the poorly-written standardized tests and laughable "lower-performing schools get less money" idea that NCLB hinges on, if education were my hot-button issue I'd never vote for a Republican. (Now, to be fair, Florida has other problems as well; specifically having to teach English to half the state before they can start teaching math, science, and history.)
Actually, I noticed something similar the other day on my PC. I was reading several major news sites and I left CNN.com open in a tab in FF3. After about 20 minutes of reading other sites (with CNN just sitting open, unused), all of my bandwidth disappeared, the browser got really sluggish, FF's memory usage jumped to over 400 MB, and it began using 25% of my CPU (or an entire core of my Phenom 9850). It took me a minute to figure out what was going on, but after closing the CNN tab everything reverted to normal. And this was on XP x64, so I can't attribute it to FF on Linux sucking like I usually do.
Long story short, you may actually be running out of RAM on CNN. It seems they have some major issues,
I was wondering what was going on with 7.04 getting vastly different results from the later versions, and I think you've hit the nail on the head: Compiz starts being enabled by default as of 7.10, and somehow I doubt the writers of this totally legitimate *snicker* article bothered to disable it before benchmarking.
Somewhat unsurprisingly, I found MSNBC's feed to work only in IE (and thusly only on Windows). Didn't work in Firefox 3 or Opera 9.6b on either Ubuntu or Windows.
Um...yes. My ThinkPad, both of my desktops, my Inspiron 9300, and even my 4-year-old Gateway 7422GX all have BIOS options to boot from USB hard drives. I even had Solaris installed on my USB external HD for a while, so I know it works at least on my Dell.
"We at Blizzard Entertainment value you, the wallet mounted on the back of an entranced magpie. As such, we wanted to ensure that StarCraft 2 was the highest quality money sink possible, while still extracting money from you soon. As such, it will be released in installments for the low, low price of $59.99 each. Naturally, each new installment will break multiplayer with previous ones. We hope you enjoy playing our games as much as we enjoy taking your money!"
*Whoosh*
The point is that Vista prompts you for each and every change you make in a shared or root directory, instead of just once every 5 minutes or so. Delete folder: UAC prompt. Make new folder: UAC prompt. Rename that folder you just created: UAC prompt. Drag icons into the folder you just created and renamed: UAC prompt. Delete another folder: UAC prompt. Etc...
Actually I know for a fact it was also in 2000, and I believe it dates all the way back to 95 OSR2. So they've most definitely got Apple beat by years.
That's 10,000 gallons of fuel[...]that's less than $30,000 of fuel[.]
Wow, where do you live? Here in Flo-ri-duh we're paying $3.60 a gallon at best, and it swings as high as $3.95 any time a hurricane forms.
[A]nd my mpg estimate is ridiculous.
Sadly, it's not really that ridiculous...a lot of the really big SUVs get single-digit city mileage. No, probably not the Escape, but the Excursion or Hummer, for example.
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In a perfect society, yes. But these idiots will see low sales and say "SEE? PIRATE'S SAPPIN MAH SALES!" And then they'll use that to justify even more restrictive DRM in future launches.
Starfleet's new proprietary warp 3 drives far outshine the open-source models. The teracochrane output isn't even comparable! You're barely going to get warp 2, 2.1 at best out of those F/OSS things.
Kind of like how my Bright House connection claims to have "99% uptime" while going out several times an hour. As long as it's up for 99 minutes every 100, they hold up their end of the contract and can avoid doing anything to fix it, since it never says that those 99 minutes have to be continuous. Welcome to the world of barely-regulated monopoly that is internet service.
Konami founder and developer Hideo Kojima predicts gaming console is a dying breed. Anticipates gaming on demand via Internet.
The flow of that is positively dreadful.
No one's going to argue that you need to understand arithmetic, basic algebra, maybe even some geometry, statistics, and trig depending on what you're doing. That's true frankly not just for computer science and IT, but for any even semi-technical field. But integral calculus? Differential Equations? Nonsense. But yet most colleges require two to three years of calculus for CS majors. A lot of this is probably because CS is part of the Engineering department and it's easier to just make the core requirements the same, and I'm sure a lot of it is just plain greed.
Math skills are undeniably important; but there's no denying that, as with a lot of things, many universities take it to illogical extremes, which is more likely the origin of any math antipathy in the CS community.
Actually, most parliamentary bodies try to avoid roll-call votes if possible simply because they're so time-consuming. There's really no point in doing a roll call vote unless it's going to be close; when something's going to pass with an 81% majority anyways, surely that efficiency is worth something?
Now watch the same graph once you log into Dalaran, as it drops off to something like 10-20% usage. Admittedly your processor usage on a quad-core is still going to be 30% as well, so it's just horrible, horrible coding on Blizzard's part, but still.
That is a wonderful little rant you've gone on there, too bad it's not true. The Windows 7 WordPad supports standard text files, RTF, ODF, and OOXML (and not .doc, which hasn't been supported since XP) just like TextEdit.
And before you rebut that you weren't talking about Windows 7; well then what was your point? The article is about the "sins" of...Windows 7.
WLAN is useless on a...netbook? You and I apparently have very different definitions of "useless."
Well, if we want to get technical it is true that red, green, blue, and yellow are all primary colors; RGB being the primary colors of light and yellow being a primary pigment. In all fairness to the writers of TFA, they don't state primary colors of what.
It's about 4.4 MPH, or perhaps more usefully, a 13 minute, 40 second mile. Even us lazy nerds should be able to out-run that.
You get that logic out of here boy!
Using the proprietary nVidia driver makes you a "newbie"? When you consider that the open-source driver doesn't fully support a lot of modern cards (last I checked, everything from the 8-series on), and provides inferior performance to the proprietary one on most of the cards it does support, I'd have to wonder how you figure people who haven't yet replaced the included driver aren't the "newbies." Or perhaps it's buying nVidia cards that makes you a "newbie"? Real nerds use Intel GMA 900s!
You think Congress will help? Who do you think passed the DMCA in the first place? Fairies?
At the risk of being moderated a troll, is this a serious question? When have the Republicans ever been right on education? No Child Left Behind is an unmitigated disaster, and the bungling of the Republican administration of the last 8 years has left the US education system nearly dead last in the western world. And it's no surprise that the worst education systems in the country - Louisiana, Texas, South Carolina, Alabama - are in die-hard red states. As a resident of Florida, the state which pioneered the poorly-written standardized tests and laughable "lower-performing schools get less money" idea that NCLB hinges on, if education were my hot-button issue I'd never vote for a Republican. (Now, to be fair, Florida has other problems as well; specifically having to teach English to half the state before they can start teaching math, science, and history.)
Actually, I noticed something similar the other day on my PC. I was reading several major news sites and I left CNN.com open in a tab in FF3. After about 20 minutes of reading other sites (with CNN just sitting open, unused), all of my bandwidth disappeared, the browser got really sluggish, FF's memory usage jumped to over 400 MB, and it began using 25% of my CPU (or an entire core of my Phenom 9850). It took me a minute to figure out what was going on, but after closing the CNN tab everything reverted to normal. And this was on XP x64, so I can't attribute it to FF on Linux sucking like I usually do.
Long story short, you may actually be running out of RAM on CNN. It seems they have some major issues,
I was wondering what was going on with 7.04 getting vastly different results from the later versions, and I think you've hit the nail on the head: Compiz starts being enabled by default as of 7.10, and somehow I doubt the writers of this totally legitimate *snicker* article bothered to disable it before benchmarking.
Somewhat unsurprisingly, I found MSNBC's feed to work only in IE (and thusly only on Windows). Didn't work in Firefox 3 or Opera 9.6b on either Ubuntu or Windows.
Um...yes. My ThinkPad, both of my desktops, my Inspiron 9300, and even my 4-year-old Gateway 7422GX all have BIOS options to boot from USB hard drives. I even had Solaris installed on my USB external HD for a while, so I know it works at least on my Dell.
Do Macs really not have a boot-from-USB option?
"We at Blizzard Entertainment value you, the wallet mounted on the back of an entranced magpie. As such, we wanted to ensure that StarCraft 2 was the highest quality money sink possible, while still extracting money from you soon. As such, it will be released in installments for the low, low price of $59.99 each. Naturally, each new installment will break multiplayer with previous ones. We hope you enjoy playing our games as much as we enjoy taking your money!"
*Whoosh* The point is that Vista prompts you for each and every change you make in a shared or root directory, instead of just once every 5 minutes or so. Delete folder: UAC prompt. Make new folder: UAC prompt. Rename that folder you just created: UAC prompt. Drag icons into the folder you just created and renamed: UAC prompt. Delete another folder: UAC prompt. Etc...
Actually I know for a fact it was also in 2000, and I believe it dates all the way back to 95 OSR2. So they've most definitely got Apple beat by years.
Wait, you want your legally protected rights of first sale and fair use?! Thought...err, Copyright police, arrest him!
While adequate, other DVRs are in NO WAY as feature complete.
How can they be? If you include such radical features as a "pause" button, TiVo will sue you!
That's 10,000 gallons of fuel[...]that's less than $30,000 of fuel[.]
Wow, where do you live? Here in Flo-ri-duh we're paying $3.60 a gallon at best, and it swings as high as $3.95 any time a hurricane forms.
[A]nd my mpg estimate is ridiculous.
Sadly, it's not really that ridiculous...a lot of the really big SUVs get single-digit city mileage. No, probably not the Escape, but the Excursion or Hummer, for example.