To paraphrase Yes Minister: "Americans must be allowed to panic. They need activity. It is their substitute for living." Go and smell the roses, people.
Microsoft would be the last company I'd ask for colour advice, particularly for hardware where you can't simply select the "PC Classic" theme once it has been installed... Beige (or black) may be boring, but at least it isn't eye-gouging like the Windows XP default theme.
Intel had a true, high-performance, 64-bit product out years ahead of AMD, and all you people out in Desktop-land went "EWWWWWW!!!".
Curious that you don't mention the Itanium by name... It may have its niche, but expecting the PC market to drop everything and adopt the 'Itanic was pure folly. AMD's solution may have been conservative, but by maintaining backwards compatibility with no performance penalty (often the opposite) there wasn't a good reason _not_ to buy and AMD64 processor. Yes, the x86 architecture sucks - but it works! Being "best" doesn't guarantee success (Alpha, PowerPC? etc.) and if computers are supposed to make our lives easier, why not let the microcode/compiler do the hard work?
The Core 2 Duo looks like a winner (despite the silly name), but I'll stick with AMD (and Linux) because competition is a good thing - and they work for me.
What do you mean "lately"? Movies have always been bad - with very few exceptions (e.g. the LoTR trilogy.)
The reasons as I see them are:
Formulaic Hollywood tripe. If it isn't a sequel or a rip-off of another movie, it's "movie A meets movie B".
Movies that don't make a squillion dollars in the opening week are considered failures - probably because only reasonable movies survive beyond the first week (i.e. once the marketing hype was worn off, and word gets out from audiences unfortunate enough to see it.)
Hollywood executives aren't prepared to stick their necks out and try something original. See above.
The mainstream film industry sucks for the same reason that mainstream music sucks - they've lost the plot (pun intended.)
Women do whatever they happen to enjoy -- as individuals -- and men do the same.
... Which is why there are so few women in open source. The "lone coder" model may work for men, but obviously not for (most) women. I'm sure to reasons for this can be tied back to the ancient hunter/gatherer society model of humans - but who cares.
If the way to get women involved in open source is to give them ponies, then give them ponies! The more people involved in open source, the better.
... probably in the same jurisdictions where "wife" is spelled "first cousin" or "sister".
The banjos interfere with the speech recognition - where else do you think they got the Crazy Frog lyrics from? ("Di-di-ding ding ding ding ding ding ding.")
"... Anyone who includes misleading "words" or "images" intended to confuse a minor into viewing a possibly harmful Web site could be imprisoned for up to 20 years and fined, the bill says."
Indeed - the poor dears might be scarred for life if they are exposed to images containing great tits, penduline tits, or even boobies. (And the less said about knockers, the better.)
AMD Dual-Core Optimizer - The AMD Dual-Core Optimizer can help improve some PC gaming video performance by compensating for those applications that bypass the Windows API for timing by directly using the RDTSC (Read Time Stamp Counter) instruction. Applications that rely on RDTSC do not benefit from the logic in the operating system to properly account for the affect of power management mechanisms on the rate at which a processor core's Time Stamp Counter (TSC) is incremented. The AMD Dual-Core Optimizer helps to correct the resulting video performance effects or other incorrect timing effects that these applications may experience on dual-core or multiple processor systems.
Disabling Cool 'n' Quiet and/or power management may also work.
(I've got an Athlon64 3500+; without CNQ it runs cooler and quieter than the Athlon XP it replaced, so I leave it turned off.)
Can you say "Police State"? I voted for George Bush because he promissed me a smaller and less invasive government. This is what I got.
1. Never trust a politician, particularly one on the campaign trail.
2. Politicians reserve the right to declare any "promises" made to be non-core promises. Also check to see if they have their fingers crossed behind their back.
3. See 1.
'Power tends to corrupt, and absolute power corrupts absolutely. Great men are almost always bad men.' - Lord Acton, 1887.
That android looks pissed in *every* photo. You know, if it started a rampage, the only way to disable it is to crush it in a hydraulic press, or melt it down. I'd guess they haven't prepared a bubbling pool of molten slag - just in case.
If American voters aren't happy with his decision they can always vote him out.
Doesn't the 22nd Amendment mean that voters won't get a chance to vote Dubya out? (i.e. He can't run for a third term as President.)
They can, however, vote out the Republicans.
I find it interesting that Bill Gates at a recent symposium told Microsoft affiliates that there is a 20% chance that Vista would slip again. Since I live in Seattle, I have friends who are developers over there who swear it will never make the January deadline.
Ah yes, the real world - where Engineering and Marketing collide.
Your friends are probably correct in that it shouldn't be released in January, but Marketing knows they can't keep making excuses for why it slipped again without the analysts/customers getting worried. The usual solution is to shove it out the door, and get ready with Service Pack 1.
Slashdot Mirror
There's another kind?
Investigative journalism - last seen circa 1972.
Welcome to the United State of Paranoia.
To paraphrase Yes Minister: "Americans must be allowed to panic. They need activity. It is their substitute for living." Go and smell the roses, people.
What happens if you give a Happy Fun Ball to Robosapiens V2?
"Dammit, Jim - I told you not to buy Romulan keyboards!" - Bones.
In other news, there will be weather today.
I prefer the "complex" version with temperature, precipitation and wind speed estimates.
(Yes, I hate religion)
But apparently you love Deadwood.
Let's see... 100 minus 26... carry the 9...
Carry the 9?! Oh, Pentium maths.
Microsoft would be the last company I'd ask for colour advice, particularly for hardware where you can't simply select the "PC Classic" theme once it has been installed... Beige (or black) may be boring, but at least it isn't eye-gouging like the Windows XP default theme.
Intel had a true, high-performance, 64-bit product out years ahead of AMD, and all you people out in Desktop-land went "EWWWWWW!!!".
Curious that you don't mention the Itanium by name... It may have its niche, but expecting the PC market to drop everything and adopt the 'Itanic was pure folly. AMD's solution may have been conservative, but by maintaining backwards compatibility with no performance penalty (often the opposite) there wasn't a good reason _not_ to buy and AMD64 processor. Yes, the x86 architecture sucks - but it works! Being "best" doesn't guarantee success (Alpha, PowerPC? etc.) and if computers are supposed to make our lives easier, why not let the microcode/compiler do the hard work?
The Core 2 Duo looks like a winner (despite the silly name), but I'll stick with AMD (and Linux) because competition is a good thing - and they work for me.
The reasons as I see them are:
- Formulaic Hollywood tripe. If it isn't a sequel or a rip-off of another movie, it's "movie A meets movie B".
- Movies that don't make a squillion dollars in the opening week are considered failures - probably because only reasonable movies survive beyond the first week (i.e. once the marketing hype was worn off, and word gets out from audiences unfortunate enough to see it.)
- Hollywood executives aren't prepared to stick their necks out and try something original. See above.
The mainstream film industry sucks for the same reason that mainstream music sucks - they've lost the plot (pun intended.)Women do whatever they happen to enjoy -- as individuals -- and men do the same.
... Which is why there are so few women in open source. The "lone coder" model may work for men, but obviously not for (most) women. I'm sure to reasons for this can be tied back to the ancient hunter/gatherer society model of humans - but who cares.
If the way to get women involved in open source is to give them ponies, then give them ponies! The more people involved in open source, the better.
... probably in the same jurisdictions where "wife" is spelled "first cousin" or "sister".
The banjos interfere with the speech recognition - where else do you think they got the Crazy Frog lyrics from? ("Di-di-ding ding ding ding ding ding ding.")
Arr! they only get 10/half
With parroty?
"... Anyone who includes misleading "words" or "images" intended to confuse a minor into viewing a possibly harmful Web site could be imprisoned for up to 20 years and fined, the bill says."
Indeed - the poor dears might be scarred for life if they are exposed to images containing great tits, penduline tits, or even boobies. (And the less said about knockers, the better.)
Microsoft Vista! It's the silver bullet for everyone!
Silver bullet, or dum-dum bullet?
(I've got an Athlon64 3500+; without CNQ it runs cooler and quieter than the Athlon XP it replaced, so I leave it turned off.)
Not to rain on anybodies parade, but if that supernova sends a gamma ray burst in our direction. We can kiss our asses goodby....
Only if you moon it. [rimshot]
Can you say "Police State"? I voted for George Bush because he promissed me a smaller and less invasive government. This is what I got.
1. Never trust a politician, particularly one on the campaign trail.
2. Politicians reserve the right to declare any "promises" made to be non-core promises. Also check to see if they have their fingers crossed behind their back.
3. See 1.
'Power tends to corrupt, and absolute power corrupts absolutely. Great men are almost always bad men.' - Lord Acton, 1887.
That android looks pissed in *every* photo. You know, if it started a rampage, the only way to disable it is to crush it in a hydraulic press, or melt it down. I'd guess they haven't prepared a bubbling pool of molten slag - just in case.
Relax, it's Japan - they have ninjas.
Sorry - yes I meant SP3.
If American voters aren't happy with his decision they can always vote him out.
Doesn't the 22nd Amendment mean that voters won't get a chance to vote Dubya out? (i.e. He can't run for a third term as President.)
They can, however, vote out the Republicans.
So instead of "4x4", you want it to be called the Sports Utility Computer? I can't see marketing (or customers) buying that one... :-)
I find it interesting that Bill Gates at a recent symposium told Microsoft affiliates that there is a 20% chance that Vista would slip again. Since I live in Seattle, I have friends who are developers over there who swear it will never make the January deadline.
Ah yes, the real world - where Engineering and Marketing collide.
Your friends are probably correct in that it shouldn't be released in January, but Marketing knows they can't keep making excuses for why it slipped again without the analysts/customers getting worried. The usual solution is to shove it out the door, and get ready with Service Pack 1.
(SOT: Any news on XP SP2? Seems long overdue.)
His solution to the hack that destroys a section of your profile is not that he will fix the site, but that you should install Flash 9.
So if you're not a Windows or Mac OS X (PowerPC) user, you're SOL.