I said wait for a coupon deal. There's a $200 off coupon floating around the deal websites, and it stacks on top of the $250 rebate. About this...
The e1705 has dual-core models available starting at $2221 ($1971 after rebate.)
Sorry, try again. The $2271-$250 rebate price is for the most expensive e1705 on Dell's featured page, with the 3 year warranty, 3 years antivirus subscription, and Microsoft Office. To match just the warranty you'd pay $349 for 3 years of Applecare. Go two columns over and you'll find a Dell with one year warranty, no antivirus (AVG Free works fine), and no office suite for $1399-$250 rebate-$200 coupon, add $100 to upgrade the processor to a Core Duo 1.83GHz and add $35 to match the 80GB drive. Add $300 for the Nvidia 7800 video and you're still at just $1384. You can't beat that price.
BTW, the Macbook and e1705 aren't exactly the same size class. e1705 is a desktop replacement with a 17" screen and a few pounds heavier than the Macbook with a 15.4" screen.
Sure, the thin and light models have Intel integrated video, but the desktop replacement models (9300 and e1705) offer high end video cards like the Geforce Mobile 6800 and 7800GT for about $200 extra. Just wait for a coupon deal, and you'll be paying hundreds less than for a Macbook.
This comes at a time when the No Child Left Behind Act is forcing states to spend a lot more money on testing, teacher training and school improvement to meet the law's mandates.
That's called an unfunded mandate, and it was a common complaint from Republicans in the 90s. It's all part of Bush's plan to kill public education: set impossible goals while choking off funding.
Although non-smartphone PDAs are a shrinking market, there was a time when iPAQs replaced Palms as the cool, "gotta-have-it" PDA. They were by far the most popular PocketPC PDAs at the time.
That's exactly what Microsoft is doing, giving away the server software for "free" with Exchange server. While they won't quite give away the handsets for free, they can afford to subsidize the costs with the carriers and undercut Blackberries in price.
That's exactly what bandwidth is, a commodity. The job of the ISP is to move bits. Google could do the job just as cheaply by lighting up all the dark fiber that they own. Verizon just wants to collect economics rents from their last-mile monopoly by being the gatekeeper to their residential broadband customers.
True. VMWare GSX is more similar to MS Virtual Server (based on Virtual PC acquired from Connectix), and MS already said Virtual Server is being bundled for free with Longhorn Server. Xen + Intel VT can run Windows guest OS's too, but Xensource doesn't have a comparable commercial product yet for the corporate market.
The payment would not actually be tied to which music you found worthwhile enough to pay for
Sure, it may not be very accurate distributing your $5 payment to the right artists, but in aggregate such a system is surprisingly accurate. Nielsen Soundscan already tracks paid downloads. It wouldn't be hard for them to track popularity of P2P downloads too.
Similarly, trucks don't have to be inefficient either. The Dodge Sprinter (a rebadged Mercedes) is a full size diesel van that gets over 25MPG in real world driving. This is a real truck for commercial use, not one for the soccer moms.
A virus can't create fat. Stored excess calories from food creates fat. What happens here is that some people's bodies discard excess calories to maintain a certain weight while others store more of the excess food energy as fat. People in the latter category are susceptible to obesity. They have to be more careful about diet and exercise than people whose bodies can maintain a healthy weight when they overeat, and it's very easy to overeat in the U.S. Food is cheap compared to other expenses like housing and healthcare. Portions in restaurants are huge.
"The things you mention, intelligence, good looks, and social skills, can only be meaningfully measured in comparison with the societal norms."
Not really. Expressions of intelligence, attractiveness and social skills are measured against social norms. They correspond roughly to science, fashion and ettiquette. However, you can measure raw skills in each to some extent.
Fashion changes, but physical attraction is to a large extent biological. Before modern medicine, an attractive face was a sign of good health. Softer, more rounded facial features are linked to higher levels of estrogen, which is a sign of fertility. Studies have shown that makeup can duplicate many of the visual cues of high estrogen.
Similarly, knowledge of ettiquette is important, but rigidly applying rules of ettiquette does to equate to social skills. You need to be observant to pick up non-verbal cues and have some empathy with the people around you.
customers express a strong interest in only buying american products supported by american citizens (they haven't, see the auto industry)
There's a big difference there. Japanese and German auto workers have good pay and benefits too. Most Japanese and German brands have assembly plants in the U.S. with varying degrees of imported components. The only low-wage country that exports a significant number of cars to the U.S. is Mexico. They have assembly plants for Ford, GM and VW.
Cars are complex machines, and in this case customers have generally chosen quality over low prices. In other markets like clothing and electronics, customers have chosen low prices over quality.
A kernel compile isn't all that disk intensive compared to the processor usage. Compared to hard drives this ramdrive has a small advantage in transfer rate (150MB/s vs. 60MB/s) and a big advantage in seek times (0ms vs. 9ms).
For a really simple example, compare two drives with a 60MB/s transfer rate, one drive with 0ms seek time and one with 15ms seek time*. The hard drive falls behind by 900K for every random head seek (not counting sequential seeks which are much faster).
* This is slower than advertised because in the real world you have to wait for the right sector to spin under the head after it's finished the track seek.
The idea of PS3 as BluRay video player won't work because they're ahead of the adoption curve. Consider the state of DVD adoption when the PS2 was released. DVD players cost over $200, and VHS still outsold and outrented DVD. The PS2 was hyped as a DVD player in addition to playing games, and they sold an addon infrared remote for $30-40. Well, you know what happened next. DVD players went down to $100, then $50, then $30. By the time BluRay or HD-DVD catches on as a format, standalone players will be cheap.
"Intel's typical means to mask processor bugs is microcode."
That's true. Every Intel CPU since the Pentium Pro can update its microcode. Many times, BIOS will contain microcode updates from Intel. Linux also has a microcode update driver.
"I'm sure that by saying they won't fix some bugs, they're saying that they won't respin the silicon but rather mask the bug in some other way."
I'm not sure about that. "Will fix" seems to imply the errata could be fixed in silicon or microcode, while "Will not fix" means it won't get fixed at all.
Well here's a question for you. How many new, patented drugs are actually innovative cures, rather than slight improvements over old, generic drugs that treat the same conditions? Viagra is the only one I can think of, and its purpose it pretty frivolous in the grand scheme of medicine. The world can live without another new, slightly-improved treatment for hypertension, cholesterol or whatever.
Not exactly. Service packs include more updates than just the hotfixes released since the last service pack, and they get a lot more QA testing. Microsoft has released Security Rollup Patches which are closer to what you're describing.
That's a false choice when talking about GPL software. If you make a derivative work of GPL software (which is more commonly the case), you're building on the time and labor of other programmers who gave the software freely. Nobody's stopping you from writing new software from scratch and keeping the source, although many times that makes the project uneconomical.
If OTOH, you're talking about release an original work under the GPL, you have a point. You'd have to carefully consider your business plan for revenue.
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I said wait for a coupon deal. There's a $200 off coupon floating around the deal websites, and it stacks on top of the $250 rebate. About this...
The e1705 has dual-core models available starting at $2221 ($1971 after rebate.)
Sorry, try again. The $2271-$250 rebate price is for the most expensive e1705 on Dell's featured page, with the 3 year warranty, 3 years antivirus subscription, and Microsoft Office. To match just the warranty you'd pay $349 for 3 years of Applecare. Go two columns over and you'll find a Dell with one year warranty, no antivirus (AVG Free works fine), and no office suite for $1399-$250 rebate-$200 coupon, add $100 to upgrade the processor to a Core Duo 1.83GHz and add $35 to match the 80GB drive. Add $300 for the Nvidia 7800 video and you're still at just $1384. You can't beat that price.
BTW, the Macbook and e1705 aren't exactly the same size class. e1705 is a desktop replacement with a 17" screen and a few pounds heavier than the Macbook with a 15.4" screen.
Sure, the thin and light models have Intel integrated video, but the desktop replacement models (9300 and e1705) offer high end video cards like the Geforce Mobile 6800 and 7800GT for about $200 extra. Just wait for a coupon deal, and you'll be paying hundreds less than for a Macbook.
This comes at a time when the No Child Left Behind Act is forcing states to spend a lot more money on testing, teacher training and school improvement to meet the law's mandates.
That's called an unfunded mandate, and it was a common complaint from Republicans in the 90s. It's all part of Bush's plan to kill public education: set impossible goals while choking off funding.
Although non-smartphone PDAs are a shrinking market, there was a time when iPAQs replaced Palms as the cool, "gotta-have-it" PDA. They were by far the most popular PocketPC PDAs at the time.
That's exactly what Microsoft is doing, giving away the server software for "free" with Exchange server. While they won't quite give away the handsets for free, they can afford to subsidize the costs with the carriers and undercut Blackberries in price.
Don't forget caffeine.
German grammar is more complex, but English has more exceptions in spelling and pronunciation.
That's exactly what bandwidth is, a commodity. The job of the ISP is to move bits. Google could do the job just as cheaply by lighting up all the dark fiber that they own. Verizon just wants to collect economics rents from their last-mile monopoly by being the gatekeeper to their residential broadband customers.
If you don't want 540Mb/s just keep your old router. It's not like 60GHz is going to interfere with your 2.4GHz signal.
This would be a flat fee added to your ISP bill, not paid to the P2P service. I'd pay for it to legally download all the P2P music I want.
True. VMWare GSX is more similar to MS Virtual Server (based on Virtual PC acquired from Connectix), and MS already said Virtual Server is being bundled for free with Longhorn Server. Xen + Intel VT can run Windows guest OS's too, but Xensource doesn't have a comparable commercial product yet for the corporate market.
Qemu is nice, but there's enough bugs in the CPU emulation that it's not ready for production use. It's nothing some more investment can't fix.
"Conspiring to break laws is a crime and the police should deal with them as criminals."
Right, and a keg party is a conspiracy to commit felony DUI.
The payment would not actually be tied to which music you found worthwhile enough to pay for
Sure, it may not be very accurate distributing your $5 payment to the right artists, but in aggregate such a system is surprisingly accurate. Nielsen Soundscan already tracks paid downloads. It wouldn't be hard for them to track popularity of P2P downloads too.
Similarly, trucks don't have to be inefficient either. The Dodge Sprinter (a rebadged Mercedes) is a full size diesel van that gets over 25MPG in real world driving. This is a real truck for commercial use, not one for the soccer moms.
A virus can't create fat. Stored excess calories from food creates fat. What happens here is that some people's bodies discard excess calories to maintain a certain weight while others store more of the excess food energy as fat. People in the latter category are susceptible to obesity. They have to be more careful about diet and exercise than people whose bodies can maintain a healthy weight when they overeat, and it's very easy to overeat in the U.S. Food is cheap compared to other expenses like housing and healthcare. Portions in restaurants are huge.
"The things you mention, intelligence, good looks, and social skills, can only be meaningfully measured in comparison with the societal norms."
Not really. Expressions of intelligence, attractiveness and social skills are measured against social norms. They correspond roughly to science, fashion and ettiquette. However, you can measure raw skills in each to some extent.
Fashion changes, but physical attraction is to a large extent biological. Before modern medicine, an attractive face was a sign of good health. Softer, more rounded facial features are linked to higher levels of estrogen, which is a sign of fertility. Studies have shown that makeup can duplicate many of the visual cues of high estrogen.
Similarly, knowledge of ettiquette is important, but rigidly applying rules of ettiquette does to equate to social skills. You need to be observant to pick up non-verbal cues and have some empathy with the people around you.
customers express a strong interest in only buying american products supported by american citizens (they haven't, see the auto industry)
There's a big difference there. Japanese and German auto workers have good pay and benefits too. Most Japanese and German brands have assembly plants in the U.S. with varying degrees of imported components. The only low-wage country that exports a significant number of cars to the U.S. is Mexico. They have assembly plants for Ford, GM and VW.
Cars are complex machines, and in this case customers have generally chosen quality over low prices. In other markets like clothing and electronics, customers have chosen low prices over quality.
A kernel compile isn't all that disk intensive compared to the processor usage. Compared to hard drives this ramdrive has a small advantage in transfer rate (150MB/s vs. 60MB/s) and a big advantage in seek times (0ms vs. 9ms).
For a really simple example, compare two drives with a 60MB/s transfer rate, one drive with 0ms seek time and one with 15ms seek time*. The hard drive falls behind by 900K for every random head seek (not counting sequential seeks which are much faster).
* This is slower than advertised because in the real world you have to wait for the right sector to spin under the head after it's finished the track seek.
The idea of PS3 as BluRay video player won't work because they're ahead of the adoption curve. Consider the state of DVD adoption when the PS2 was released. DVD players cost over $200, and VHS still outsold and outrented DVD. The PS2 was hyped as a DVD player in addition to playing games, and they sold an addon infrared remote for $30-40. Well, you know what happened next. DVD players went down to $100, then $50, then $30. By the time BluRay or HD-DVD catches on as a format, standalone players will be cheap.
"Intel's typical means to mask processor bugs is microcode."
That's true. Every Intel CPU since the Pentium Pro can update its microcode. Many times, BIOS will contain microcode updates from Intel. Linux also has a microcode update driver.
"I'm sure that by saying they won't fix some bugs, they're saying that they won't respin the silicon but rather mask the bug in some other way."
I'm not sure about that. "Will fix" seems to imply the errata could be fixed in silicon or microcode, while "Will not fix" means it won't get fixed at all.
Well here's a question for you. How many new, patented drugs are actually innovative cures, rather than slight improvements over old, generic drugs that treat the same conditions? Viagra is the only one I can think of, and its purpose it pretty frivolous in the grand scheme of medicine. The world can live without another new, slightly-improved treatment for hypertension, cholesterol or whatever.
Not exactly. Service packs include more updates than just the hotfixes released since the last service pack, and they get a lot more QA testing. Microsoft has released Security Rollup Patches which are closer to what you're describing.
Well, is it a P4 Celeron or a P-M Celeron? They're completely different beasts.
That's a false choice when talking about GPL software. If you make a derivative work of GPL software (which is more commonly the case), you're building on the time and labor of other programmers who gave the software freely. Nobody's stopping you from writing new software from scratch and keeping the source, although many times that makes the project uneconomical.
If OTOH, you're talking about release an original work under the GPL, you have a point. You'd have to carefully consider your business plan for revenue.