Heh, that's understandable. I must have missed that argument a few years ago. I typically try to avoid reading/listening to anything written by someone that zealous to a particular brand. It sort of borders on being its own religion. I'd dump any brand in a heartbeat if a better product were issued by someone else. Always seemed somewhat odd to me to stand by a product when it's inferior. If AMD happens to be better than Intel at the time I need a CPU, im buying AMD, and if Intel is better, then there's no reason I'd buy AMD, same with Nvidia/ATI and whatever else. I'd say fanboyism is similar to rooting for your last place team in sports, but you dont necessarly have to pay to watch a team.
IBM told Apple to fuck off and that they had no intention of bothering with a mobile G5 class chip.
Actually, it was the other way around.
Jobs stated that Apple's primary motivation for the transition was their disappointment with the progress of IBM's development of PowerPC technology, and their greater faith in Intel to meet Apple's needs. In particular, he cited the performance per watt (that is, the speed per unit of electrical power) projections in the roadmap provided by Intel. This is an especially important consideration in laptop design affecting hours of use per battery charge.
In June 2003, Jobs had introduced Macs based on the PowerPC G5 processor and promised that within a year the clock speed of the part would be up to 3 GHz. Two years later, 3 GHz G5s were still not available, and rumors continued that IBM's low yields on the POWER4-derived chip were to blame. Further, the heat produced by the chip proved an obstacle to deploying it in a laptop computer, which had become the fastest growing segment of the personal computer industry. wikipedia.org
Intel chips outperform the PowerPC cpus without a doubt. PowerPC cpus were horrible. The first MacBook pros with Intel chips were 2-3 times faster than the ones before with PowerPC chips. If anything, it was a good move for Apple to start using Intel. I'm not a huge Mac Fan. I own one Apple product, a Nano with RockBox currently on it. However, I do hate when people don't do their fact checking and simply want to troll about a company they hate without justification.
There's no real use for 1080i/1080p though at the moment, other than for PC usage and BluRay. By the time telecomm companies get around to broadcasting in 1080, it's most likely OLEDs will have taken over the market of LCDS, leaving you with an outdated television.
One could always siphon off power right now with an antenna if they're close enough to a power line, making for a dangerous situation, though that would be illegal. I do not condone it, but I doubt the electric company would notice, since it's power they write off as the result of transmission. Essentially, it's illegal to harvest power that's being wasted via leakage from the lines. I guess it's sort of like "dumpster diving."
"Hey, we're throwing this away, but no, you can't have it; it's our garbage, not yours!"
Anything that is going to be printed with an offset press (digital or the old fashioned kind) wont be rendered in some pixel based program such as photoshop. Either vector based Corel Draw or Illustrator would be in order. Many (but obviously not all) secure government documents are rendered with Corel products, since they have a very lengthy contract with them to use it. Pretty much Corel survives only due to government contracts period, since Adobe has the private marketshare under wraps.
This is an outrage! I'm switching to Linux only now! 3.1/3.11 were my first Windows OS back in 1994. I do hold a little nostalga for it still, though I always hated exiting to DOS to play doom.
I dont see what good either is doing MS anymore. They obviously aren't making a profit from either after 15 some years. Why dont they release the source code to the community?
I tend to think that one is a joke, though most Americans can't seem to handle drinking responsibility. It doesnt seem to be so much of a problem for the rest of the world however, where it is mostly 16-18 or not set at all. Anyways, all but the most prude of teenagers end up disregarding that law and drink regardless. All the law does is show teens that it's okay to break the law. Kids don't appricate authority telling them what to do, especially when it's the government. The only hope of curbing irresponsible behavior is for parents to instill in their children a higher purpose for their lives and why some behavior should be avoiding until they are old enough to make a conscience decision on the subject. Simply saying it's "evil" or "don't do it" will not detour any teen unless it's given a deeper explaination. That is why the government fails in this area and parents need to try harder. "Just say No" might have worked for Nancy Reagan, but it will not work for a rebellious, yet curious teen. All of us have been there and hopefully remember their later childhood.
My point is, there is no "magic" number out there for anyone's maturity level. However, in regards to video games, parents should be taking the responsibility here to say what their children can and cannot play/watch, not the government. The US has enough laws as it is. A large degree of America's problem with nudity in general or violence in video games stems from our leftovers from the Puritan Era. Thankfully, we don't listen to this group always, else we would still have a prohibition on drinking. The times we do however, it's usually due to peer pressure, similar to what we have seen in the past decade with terrorism or in the past 50 years with drugs. In those cases, if politicians don't come across as wanting to pass all sorts of absurd laws, they come across as condoning X activity.
Just to note, there have been ZERO cases where a judge turned down a warrent for wiretapping related to FISA and very few cases period where a warrent was turned down for wiretapping in general. Obviously they were up to no good. Pretty sad when Bush gets away with this and Nixon did not. Where's the public and media outcry this time? I guess Nixon couldn't scare the country with terrorism.
Although some voted nay, remember most polictians are for a nanny state it seems, regardless of political party.
Hillary said that if the game's manufacturer did not change the game's ESRB rating from M (Mature 17+) to AO (Adults Only 18+), she would introduce federal legislation to regulate video games.gamespot
Because, you know, magically the day you turn 18, you become so much more mature than the day before.
Though it's popular to say, "You're only throwing your vote away by voting for a 3rd party." I tend to believe you're only throwing your vote away if you don't vote for a 3rd party. If more people thought like this, we'd finally be able to ditch the critters currently running the government.
I'm proud to say that the senator that represents me (and that I actually voted for) voted Nay!
How about the other senator that also represents you and your state? Sadly, my state is 50/50 on it, but I guess it's better than both voting for it and losing total faith in my representatives.
In my honest opinion, I think Webster's adds buzz words like these mostly knowing it will give them free advertisement when the media lets everyone know what pop culture words are now somewhat legit. Dictionaries dont really need to add nonsense words that tend to be slang or are too silly to ever be used outside of a joke (looking at you webinar). For words like these, there's always urbandictionary.com. After all, wikipedia may have an article on Jenna Jameson, but Britannica does not.
Why shouldn't a dictionary have that word? People are going to use it, and other people are going to want to know what it means. A dictionary would be failing them by not including it.
But how many times have you used mouse potato since 1993?
I gave up on Webster's as an authoritative source on the English language after they added bling to its dictionary. Noah Webster would be angered by the himbos now in charge of his publication. Perhaps the publishers are just part of the Sandwich generation and spend too much time with their parents while their mouse potato kids edit the dictionary for them.
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Are you sure yours wasn't a forgery to begin with?
Heh, that's understandable. I must have missed that argument a few years ago. I typically try to avoid reading/listening to anything written by someone that zealous to a particular brand. It sort of borders on being its own religion. I'd dump any brand in a heartbeat if a better product were issued by someone else. Always seemed somewhat odd to me to stand by a product when it's inferior. If AMD happens to be better than Intel at the time I need a CPU, im buying AMD, and if Intel is better, then there's no reason I'd buy AMD, same with Nvidia/ATI and whatever else. I'd say fanboyism is similar to rooting for your last place team in sports, but you dont necessarly have to pay to watch a team.
I'd rather see an end scenario where virtual nanobots wipe out SL and turn it into gray/green goo.
Actually, it was the other way around.
Intel chips outperform the PowerPC cpus without a doubt. PowerPC cpus were horrible. The first MacBook pros with Intel chips were 2-3 times faster than the ones before with PowerPC chips. If anything, it was a good move for Apple to start using Intel. I'm not a huge Mac Fan. I own one Apple product, a Nano with RockBox currently on it. However, I do hate when people don't do their fact checking and simply want to troll about a company they hate without justification.
Don't Secondlife users need a first life before they start on a second?
From abc.com
I don't care to look up the others, but feel free.
There's no real use for 1080i/1080p though at the moment, other than for PC usage and BluRay. By the time telecomm companies get around to broadcasting in 1080, it's most likely OLEDs will have taken over the market of LCDS, leaving you with an outdated television.
Nader is still against FISA. Perhaps you should check out his other stances as well.
You could always rally voters to elect Nader instead, he still opposes FISA meddling
Quick link to Nader's website: voternader.org
Not dead. Just takes way too long to read and interpret.
perhaps some people DO have a life after all on slashdot. It is afterall, between 0500 and 0200 for most of the Western Hemisphere.
One could always siphon off power right now with an antenna if they're close enough to a power line, making for a dangerous situation, though that would be illegal. I do not condone it, but I doubt the electric company would notice, since it's power they write off as the result of transmission. Essentially, it's illegal to harvest power that's being wasted via leakage from the lines. I guess it's sort of like "dumpster diving."
"Hey, we're throwing this away, but no, you can't have it; it's our garbage, not yours!"
Anything that is going to be printed with an offset press (digital or the old fashioned kind) wont be rendered in some pixel based program such as photoshop. Either vector based Corel Draw or Illustrator would be in order. Many (but obviously not all) secure government documents are rendered with Corel products, since they have a very lengthy contract with them to use it. Pretty much Corel survives only due to government contracts period, since Adobe has the private marketshare under wraps.
This is an outrage! I'm switching to Linux only now! 3.1/3.11 were my first Windows OS back in 1994. I do hold a little nostalga for it still, though I always hated exiting to DOS to play doom.
I dont see what good either is doing MS anymore. They obviously aren't making a profit from either after 15 some years. Why dont they release the source code to the community?
I tend to think that one is a joke, though most Americans can't seem to handle drinking responsibility. It doesnt seem to be so much of a problem for the rest of the world however, where it is mostly 16-18 or not set at all. Anyways, all but the most prude of teenagers end up disregarding that law and drink regardless. All the law does is show teens that it's okay to break the law. Kids don't appricate authority telling them what to do, especially when it's the government. The only hope of curbing irresponsible behavior is for parents to instill in their children a higher purpose for their lives and why some behavior should be avoiding until they are old enough to make a conscience decision on the subject. Simply saying it's "evil" or "don't do it" will not detour any teen unless it's given a deeper explaination. That is why the government fails in this area and parents need to try harder. "Just say No" might have worked for Nancy Reagan, but it will not work for a rebellious, yet curious teen. All of us have been there and hopefully remember their later childhood.
My point is, there is no "magic" number out there for anyone's maturity level. However, in regards to video games, parents should be taking the responsibility here to say what their children can and cannot play/watch, not the government. The US has enough laws as it is. A large degree of America's problem with nudity in general or violence in video games stems from our leftovers from the Puritan Era. Thankfully, we don't listen to this group always, else we would still have a prohibition on drinking. The times we do however, it's usually due to peer pressure, similar to what we have seen in the past decade with terrorism or in the past 50 years with drugs. In those cases, if politicians don't come across as wanting to pass all sorts of absurd laws, they come across as condoning X activity.
Just to note, there have been ZERO cases where a judge turned down a warrent for wiretapping related to FISA and very few cases period where a warrent was turned down for wiretapping in general. Obviously they were up to no good. Pretty sad when Bush gets away with this and Nixon did not. Where's the public and media outcry this time? I guess Nixon couldn't scare the country with terrorism.
Although some voted nay, remember most polictians are for a nanny state it seems, regardless of political party.
Hillary said that if the game's manufacturer did not change the game's ESRB rating from M (Mature 17+) to AO (Adults Only 18+), she would introduce federal legislation to regulate video games.gamespot
Because, you know, magically the day you turn 18, you become so much more mature than the day before.
Does that mean we should start beheading everyone we don't like and eventually support a midget bent on conquering the world?
Though it's popular to say, "You're only throwing your vote away by voting for a 3rd party." I tend to believe you're only throwing your vote away if you don't vote for a 3rd party. If more people thought like this, we'd finally be able to ditch the critters currently running the government.
How about the other senator that also represents you and your state? Sadly, my state is 50/50 on it, but I guess it's better than both voting for it and losing total faith in my representatives.
In my honest opinion, I think Webster's adds buzz words like these mostly knowing it will give them free advertisement when the media lets everyone know what pop culture words are now somewhat legit. Dictionaries dont really need to add nonsense words that tend to be slang or are too silly to ever be used outside of a joke (looking at you webinar). For words like these, there's always urbandictionary.com. After all, wikipedia may have an article on Jenna Jameson, but Britannica does not.
But how many times have you used mouse potato since 1993?
I gave up on Webster's as an authoritative source on the English language after they added bling to its dictionary. Noah Webster would be angered by the himbos now in charge of his publication. Perhaps the publishers are just part of the Sandwich generation and spend too much time with their parents while their mouse potato kids edit the dictionary for them.
Fixed that for you. Being a decent person has very little to do with religion.