Seriously, I've seen an install on Windows 7 behave very differently between systems as well. Rock solid on one and willing to puke at the drop of a hat on another.
Plug a power supply tester into that badboy and run memtest86+ while you're at it...
You give the average user far too much credit; there's a big difference between knowing what you want (and knowing why)... and thinking that you know what you want (when you really haven't a fucking clue).
My first programming job paid less than we now pay most freshers in India, and I was living in a major US city!
Really? When and where in the U.S. was this? It must have been a while back, if you've now accumulated enough skills and experience to be making a "ton of money" as you put it... except that programmers being paid paltry wages is a rather recent phenomenon; in the 80's and 90's, programmers, even entry-level, were able to earn significantly more than "freshers" in India now do. I call bullshit.
In other words, it sounds like we set ourselves up for this by going for the quick buck.
Alternately... we were set up by the Chinese dumping cheap product (product subsidized by prison/slave labor and complete disregard for any/all environmental consequences).
Am I the only one who thinks addressing an entire nation* in such a fashion is even fucking dumber than talking to a wall??
*What is a nation, anyhow? Northern Italy? Southern? The priveleged elite who're obviously the real ones in control? Their corrupt, inept puppets in government? Their corporate toadies? The marginalized middle/merchant class? The masses/underclass?
Stop anthropomorphizing entire nationstates as if they... as if there even was a "they!"
It's strange, Slashdot blasts Microsoft for entering the hardware space saying they're going to screw over their partners, and then when they don't completely screw over their partners by drastically undercutting the entire market, they get blasted on Slashdot again.
What's not to understand? Like a lot of stupid jerks, Microsoft either act like jerks... or act stupid. Either way, we taunt/jeer, etc.
...correct me if I'm wrong, but doesn't life, by definition, do this already... but in a nearly-infinitely more elegant, efficient fashion?
This research strikes me as comparable (scrambling around for a suitable analogy here...) to welding a bunch of pairs of vise-grips into a shape vaguely reminiscent of a pair of pliers and then loudly proclaiming that one has achieved the ability to manufacture impressive tools...
Let me guess: you're not a shill in real life but you play one on Slashdot.:p (Seriously, though...)
I live in a country where this sort of advertising is forbidden.
Conside yourself lucky that you're not here in the States to see this "over-fed, under-nourished and heavily-medicated" phenomenon we refer to as "society." My girlfriend and I only semi-jokingly refer to it as the NWO's obvious plan for population control here in the Western Hemisphere. No exaggeration: I'm about to turn 40 and virtually everyone I meet in their late 20's and 30's looks noticeably more aged and decrepit than I do...
Peo...*cough* Leon, to an informed person, your choice of words present an added layer that mean more than you might want them to, you know... kind of like a "cyber U.S.S. Maine" or a "cyber Gulf of Tonkin..."
*conspiratorial whisper* So, anyway, whatcha guys got planned? *wink, nudge*
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By then people looking to upgrade aging hardware will most likely be wanting to replace 4GB modules with 8GB modules.
Seriously, I've seen an install on Windows 7 behave very differently between systems as well. Rock solid on one and willing to puke at the drop of a hat on another.
Plug a power supply tester into that badboy and run memtest86+ while you're at it...
You give the average user far too much credit; there's a big difference between knowing what you want (and knowing why)... and thinking that you know what you want (when you really haven't a fucking clue).
Please don't mess with that formula or you'll make the internet become a lot like the older forms of media it is replacing.
But that's clearly the objective here... or is it really not that obvious??
Not being able to express discontent about your president is very different to not being able to "pirate" some films.
No, not on a technical level... and that's what it comes down to.
And you contract yourself
meet "The Incredible Shrinking... Contractionist!"
That does not jive with national salary rates
That don't jibe neither, honky! ;)
Friday night entertainment
For ze Germans.
My first programming job paid less than we now pay most freshers in India, and I was living in a major US city!
Really? When and where in the U.S. was this? It must have been a while back, if you've now accumulated enough skills and experience to be making a "ton of money" as you put it... except that programmers being paid paltry wages is a rather recent phenomenon; in the 80's and 90's, programmers, even entry-level, were able to earn significantly more than "freshers" in India now do. I call bullshit.
Soyrent Gleen Tea? :p
This.
With an example that does not in any way support his claim.
Being rather self-evident to anyone but a mouth-breather (or a shill), his "claim" isn't really begging for that much support.
In other words, it sounds like we set ourselves up for this by going for the quick buck.
Alternately... we were set up by the Chinese dumping cheap product (product subsidized by prison/slave labor and complete disregard for any/all environmental consequences).
We're not as bad as the Nazis!
The Nazis in the 20's weren't as bad as they were in the late 30's/40's, either. Hint: give us time.
How about not being in Afghanistan...
Think of the chi^H^H^H oil pipeline! And what about about the opium?!
You raise an interesting point, but how would you make money from it?
I'm sure the Chinese will be more than happy to demonstrate the answer to that question...
It's happening.
And why, pray tell, is that not, in itself, a perfectly good reason to wet ourselves? :)
Real dumb move Italy.
Am I the only one who thinks addressing an entire nation* in such a fashion is even fucking dumber than talking to a wall??
*What is a nation, anyhow? Northern Italy? Southern? The priveleged elite who're obviously the real ones in control? Their corrupt, inept puppets in government? Their corporate toadies? The marginalized middle/merchant class? The masses/underclass?
Stop anthropomorphizing entire nationstates as if they... as if there even was a "they!"
It's strange, Slashdot blasts Microsoft for entering the hardware space saying they're going to screw over their partners, and then when they don't completely screw over their partners by drastically undercutting the entire market, they get blasted on Slashdot again.
What's not to understand? Like a lot of stupid jerks, Microsoft either act like jerks... or act stupid. Either way, we taunt/jeer, etc.
Makes perfect sense to me... :p
Mod parent up; this is obviously what all this is really about and most of the 'sheeple' are too stupid or distracted to clue into it...
This research strikes me as comparable (scrambling around for a suitable analogy here...) to welding a bunch of pairs of vise-grips into a shape vaguely reminiscent of a pair of pliers and then loudly proclaiming that one has achieved the ability to manufacture impressive tools...
Mod parent up.
It'd be a waste of mod points; shills in their cubicles at Fort Meade are actually earning their salaries today! :p
Citation required
Let me guess: you're not a shill in real life but you play one on Slashdot. :p (Seriously, though...)
I live in a country where this sort of advertising is forbidden.
Conside yourself lucky that you're not here in the States to see this "over-fed, under-nourished and heavily-medicated" phenomenon we refer to as "society." My girlfriend and I only semi-jokingly refer to it as the NWO's obvious plan for population control here in the Western Hemisphere. No exaggeration: I'm about to turn 40 and virtually everyone I meet in their late 20's and 30's looks noticeably more aged and decrepit than I do...
cyber-Pearl Harbor
Peo...*cough* Leon, to an informed person, your choice of words present an added layer that mean more than you might want them to, you know... kind of like a "cyber U.S.S. Maine" or a "cyber Gulf of Tonkin..."
*conspiratorial whisper* So, anyway, whatcha guys got planned? *wink, nudge*
There is a huge populace of uneducated muslim's in the world
Ah ha! Some sort of recursive thing to make us think, eh?