That'll certainly increase bandwidth which will help outperform current integrated graphics and really low end discrete chips, but I severely doubt it will be enough to compensate for the raw number of transistors in the mid to high end discrete chips. An ATI 5670 graphics chip has just about as many transistors as a quad core Intel Core i7.
No way in your world nor mine is the Mac a BMW or Mercedes class. Where on earth did you come up with that? The Mac's internals are the freaking same as a PC. You strip that fucker down and one would question much of the design. The software core is open source. The GUI is custom design by Apple. Please, stop making it out like a BMW or Mercedes. I have seen far more powerful and advanced computers that are custom built that blow the pants off the quality and capabilities offered by Apple.
Nothing in your breakdown there argues against a Mac being a BMW or Mercedes. The BMW/Mercedes still essentially use the same parts as other cars, the basic design is largely the same. The main distinction is the styling put into the bodywork and interior (what the user sees), the fine tuning to make sure everything works together, and the name brand itself. You can even get custom built cars that outperform the BMW/Merc. Much like with a Mac.
I don't mean to defend the Mac, I just think the analogy works better than most car analogies I've seen on/.
Some people who argue against Apple just don't realize how horrible a task it is to eradicate a piece of spyware from a Windows computer. I used to work in IT and my experiences in trying to devirus a computer were just plain horrible and pathetic. Fortunately I've been an almost exclusively Apple user for many years and since I started being one, my computing experience has become far better and smoother and more fun.
I argue against Apple, I know how horrible a task it is to eradicate a piece of spyware from a Windows computer, and I've noticed that spyware doesn't affect Linux which just so happens to not take Apples overbearing steps to lock stuff down. There's a difference between making the system inherently more robust and using whitelists to only allow apps that are proven to not be spyware (or anything that they just don't like).
But do you sit there sifting through applications? I don't.
And that must mean that no-one does. Companies do look at patent applications of their competitors and should be given the opportunity to say "hey, I've already done that" before the patent is approved, not being forced to fight it during an expensive lawsuit later on.
You could teach it to any Joe Random in a couple of minutes.
You overestimate the abilities of Joe Random. Poor Joe is probably one of those fools who continuously tries to push a door open despite the large "Pull" sign, can't figure out how to set the clock on the VCR/microwave/other device, and is the target audience of the "do not eat" labels on random packing materials.
Only because of the Loudness War. CDs are quite capable of outperforming vinyl in terms of noise, distortion and dynamic range, as long as some music exec doesn't order the mastering engineer to butcher the crap out of it.
This is what most systems do... Gentoo's use of a persistent filesystem for a temporary scratch space, is ass backwards, and generally messed up behavior.
Except that using the persistent filesystem does give the benefit of larger capacity.
Regarding instant messaging, you're quite right. We've established a few habits of when to try to be online, but in practice, most people have so many problems with random unwanted messages from random stalkers that they set themselves to invisible if the client allows it. Instant messaging benefits a lot from a fine-grained access model - 'I'd like my family to be able to see that I'm online except for the hours between 9 and 5; I'd like my co-workers to see me as online between 9 and 12 and 3 and 5; I'd like that creepy woman who nonetheless happens to be an important customer of ours to be unable to detect that I am online at all, unless I specifically have to be online for a meeting with her.'
Or, you know, have a separate account specifically for work.
When you say "2/3 of 206" it means 2 / 3 * 206, which if using integer maths this would equal zero. This means you need a unanimous no vote to prevent it. The math isn't strictly wrong, just used in a silly fashion.
What you have just explained is not a legitimate justification for calling copyright infringement theft, but is instead a legitimate justification for why copyright infringement is illegal.
...put their piracy statistics through the roof. Download the game 4 or 5 times
That won't help much. I doubt they actually monitor all the downloads, if they did they'd probably be shutting more of them down. They probably just look at the sales figures and make a best guess at the pirating numbers.
I was under the impression that solar winds played a bigger part in solar sails, which turns out not to be the case (who actually reads the links posted on Slashdot?). But if I did have a brain tumour or some "interesting pathology", that wasn't the most sensitive way of confronting me about it.
Even though it uses light and not solar winds, an equivalent concept of a Heliopause would probably still take effect (the closer you get to the other star the more its light counters Sol). Using an interstellar laser to push it isn't really practical as at those distances it becomes horribly difficult to aim the laser with such precision. Assuming your laser could aim precisely, by the time you realise you are pointing in the wrong direction and make a correction, it will take years for the correction to take effect, by which time the sail has already moved.
Unless your username has the string "user" in it, that won't do a heck of a lot. Why do so many people try to create a way to suggest "replace with current user's home directory" when a syntactically correct one exists already? The added bonus is that it works even if the user's home directory is set up in a different location to the normal convention.
The definition of planet requires that the body has cleared it's orbit. So while it is forming early in the solar system it is not a planet then one day "poof" by magic we have a planet.
The moon still keeps getting in the way of the Earth. Perhaps we should demote ourselves too.
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That'll certainly increase bandwidth which will help outperform current integrated graphics and really low end discrete chips, but I severely doubt it will be enough to compensate for the raw number of transistors in the mid to high end discrete chips. An ATI 5670 graphics chip has just about as many transistors as a quad core Intel Core i7.
No way in your world nor mine is the Mac a BMW or Mercedes class. Where on earth did you come up with that? The Mac's internals are the freaking same as a PC. You strip that fucker down and one would question much of the design. The software core is open source. The GUI is custom design by Apple. Please, stop making it out like a BMW or Mercedes. I have seen far more powerful and advanced computers that are custom built that blow the pants off the quality and capabilities offered by Apple.
Nothing in your breakdown there argues against a Mac being a BMW or Mercedes. The BMW/Mercedes still essentially use the same parts as other cars, the basic design is largely the same. The main distinction is the styling put into the bodywork and interior (what the user sees), the fine tuning to make sure everything works together, and the name brand itself. You can even get custom built cars that outperform the BMW/Merc. Much like with a Mac.
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I don't mean to defend the Mac, I just think the analogy works better than most car analogies I've seen on
Some people who argue against Apple just don't realize how horrible a task it is to eradicate a piece of spyware from a Windows computer. I used to work in IT and my experiences in trying to devirus a computer were just plain horrible and pathetic. Fortunately I've been an almost exclusively Apple user for many years and since I started being one, my computing experience has become far better and smoother and more fun.
I argue against Apple, I know how horrible a task it is to eradicate a piece of spyware from a Windows computer, and I've noticed that spyware doesn't affect Linux which just so happens to not take Apples overbearing steps to lock stuff down. There's a difference between making the system inherently more robust and using whitelists to only allow apps that are proven to not be spyware (or anything that they just don't like).
With IE 9 headed toward GPU assisted acceleration, these types of "hybrid" chips will make things even faster.
Even faster than current generation discrete GPUs? I think not.
But do you sit there sifting through applications? I don't.
And that must mean that no-one does. Companies do look at patent applications of their competitors and should be given the opportunity to say "hey, I've already done that" before the patent is approved, not being forced to fight it during an expensive lawsuit later on.
You could teach it to any Joe Random in a couple of minutes.
You overestimate the abilities of Joe Random. Poor Joe is probably one of those fools who continuously tries to push a door open despite the large "Pull" sign, can't figure out how to set the clock on the VCR/microwave/other device, and is the target audience of the "do not eat" labels on random packing materials.
Records are more accurate than CDs
Only because of the Loudness War. CDs are quite capable of outperforming vinyl in terms of noise, distortion and dynamic range, as long as some music exec doesn't order the mastering engineer to butcher the crap out of it.
I say that as preface to the following comment:
They're not coolers, they're fucking fans. Get over it.
Are you sure about that? My aftermarket CPU cooler (aka "fucking fan") is a large heat sink with heat pipes and no rotating parts.
This is what most systems do... Gentoo's use of a persistent filesystem for a temporary scratch space, is ass backwards, and generally messed up behavior.
Except that using the persistent filesystem does give the benefit of larger capacity.
That's a rather subjective observation. My Android phone broke the other day, leaving me with my work phone (iPhone) as only phone for a week.
I wouldn't swap my Android for an iPhone if you paid me big bucks to do it.
Luckily for me, I don't have to pay you the big bucks. All I have to do is break your Android.
If my "Free phone" (which requires a 2 year contract) is "Free"
It isn't. The "Free phone" costs money because you are required to pay money as part of the 2 year contract, which subsidises the cost of the phone.
then that software is for *SURE* Free.
At least this software doesn't cost money.
Regarding instant messaging, you're quite right. We've established a few habits of when to try to be online, but in practice, most people have so many problems with random unwanted messages from random stalkers that they set themselves to invisible if the client allows it. Instant messaging benefits a lot from a fine-grained access model - 'I'd like my family to be able to see that I'm online except for the hours between 9 and 5; I'd like my co-workers to see me as online between 9 and 12 and 3 and 5; I'd like that creepy woman who nonetheless happens to be an important customer of ours to be unable to detect that I am online at all, unless I specifically have to be online for a meeting with her.'
Or, you know, have a separate account specifically for work.
When you say "2/3 of 206" it means 2 / 3 * 206, which if using integer maths this would equal zero. This means you need a unanimous no vote to prevent it. The math isn't strictly wrong, just used in a silly fashion.
Since the nay vote was 70 then the yea vote would have to be 140 just to be 2/3
Er... there was a fixed number of people. You can't increase the number of people to get the yes vote, you need the no votes to change.
What you have just explained is not a legitimate justification for calling copyright infringement theft, but is instead a legitimate justification for why copyright infringement is illegal.
...put their piracy statistics through the roof. Download the game 4 or 5 times
That won't help much. I doubt they actually monitor all the downloads, if they did they'd probably be shutting more of them down. They probably just look at the sales figures and make a best guess at the pirating numbers.
I was under the impression that solar winds played a bigger part in solar sails, which turns out not to be the case (who actually reads the links posted on Slashdot?). But if I did have a brain tumour or some "interesting pathology", that wasn't the most sensitive way of confronting me about it.
Not everyone here on /. is American... I mean racist.
Even though it uses light and not solar winds, an equivalent concept of a Heliopause would probably still take effect (the closer you get to the other star the more its light counters Sol). Using an interstellar laser to push it isn't really practical as at those distances it becomes horribly difficult to aim the laser with such precision. Assuming your laser could aim precisely, by the time you realise you are pointing in the wrong direction and make a correction, it will take years for the correction to take effect, by which time the sail has already moved.
(try $ echo rm -rf ~)? rm will probably not understand it
test@localhost:~$ echo rm -rf ~ /home/test
.. .bashrc
..
rm -rf
test@localhost:~$ ls -a ~
.
test@localhost:~$ rm -rf ~
rm: cannot remove directory `/home/test': Permission denied
test@localhost:~$ ls -a ~
.
Aside from my test user not having permission to remove the directory itself, "rm -rf ~" does work and is devastating.
Wouldn't solar sails fail to work once you reach the Heliopause?
Unless your username has the string "user" in it, that won't do a heck of a lot. Why do so many people try to create a way to suggest "replace with current user's home directory" when a syntactically correct one exists already? The added bonus is that it works even if the user's home directory is set up in a different location to the normal convention.
rm -rf ~
Wow, that was a rather informative way to destroy an attempt of a joke.
The definition of planet requires that the body has cleared it's orbit. So while it is forming early in the solar system it is not a planet then one day "poof" by magic we have a planet.
The moon still keeps getting in the way of the Earth. Perhaps we should demote ourselves too.
It's not demotion if you are purely going via the name of the title, but it is demotion if you are going by what the title actually means.