To the point that an AMD chip can sometimes be cheaper by 3 figures over a Intel chip of the same performance (that's performance, not bus speed).
Gez I remember when Duron 600s were heaps cheaper than the P6 Celeron 600 (Cu'mine), even though they trounced 'em performance wise. & still outperformed them even when one plays arround with the Celeron's bus speed & then unlocked the Duron & played arround with its bus speed & multipler, so that both chips were at the same speed & had the same memory speeds - Celeron 600@900 (FSB @ 100 rather than 66) vs Duron 600@900 (9x rather than 6x FSB muliplyer, with the memory bus multiplyer at 1 rather than 4/3, remember its only the socket A's CPU to northbridge bus that's DDR)
Only 100 people out of 6 billion have died from SARS.
Also World wide infection are easily way less than 10,000.
Meaning the fact is that statistically (taking error rates into account) the world wide rate of SARS is no different than if it never existed.
Even comparing Chinese effection rates to the Chinese population, the stats work out as within the error rate of not existing too.
These things are always blown out of proportion simply by panic merchants, hack journos trying to sell more newspapers, bureaucrats/health officials/polies who expect the world to 100% totally safe to the point that doctors will get sued if someones grany dies before doing a century, & health bureaucrats trying to justify budget increases for their dept.
Fact is the cheapest way of doing telcos is by having a govt monopoly & a single protocol.
Simply because the fixed costs make up such a huge proportion of the costs. Meaning dividing the market between competing carriers multiplies the costs by a huge amount.
Why don't design patents apply to aircraft, cars..
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'n firearms etc?
Afterall compare the Lexus LS200 & a BMW 3 series, especially at 3/4 & profile angles, or compare the front of a Mitsubishi Magna from about 5 years ago & most BMW fronts.
Or any non rear engined airliners made after the 707
Sure Apple could sue you, but one just has to arrange ones income & assets in such a way that one isn't worth suring & they always give up.
I know I've been sued twice & both times they gave up simply because I'm in the cash economy & officially on a disability pension while all my assets were in the names of relatives.
Is someone now claiming that open office worskpaces have negative side effects in regards to Multiple Sclerosis.
Did Birmingham Small Arms convert their headquarters into the open office plan style? & as a consequence rates of Multiple Sclerosis shot up? Is that what their interest is?
Moz was design to appear identical, no matter what platform its in. Now I don't mind that as I'm a multi-booter. But most people are fixed in a certain graphical enviroment & they like their apps to be consistent to that platform.
Look at the way Opera traditionally used a MDI in Windows & Linux, but not in MacOS & BeOS. That was because MDI's not consistent with the Mac platform or the the BeOS platform.
Where as, as Moz was designed to appear exactly the same, no matter what platform its on, its basically not really consistent with other programs on its compatible OSes. Well except for Linux which Moz's graphical enviriment seems to be designed for.
I saw that Attack of the Clones on Telly & I couldn't believe how bad the script, plotting & directing was. I was watching it on a DVD with some mates at my brother's place meaning I couldn't just flick it over to something else, mind you everyone else there was shocked by how bad it was too. We couldn't stop laughing at the cliches & the wooden directing.
Gez WTF does such a crapy movies series designed for children, or adults with a mental age of 10, have its own catagory on Slashdot. Mind you much of what Hollywood puts out is for adults with a mental age of 12, but that Star Wars flick was about the worst in that regard.
If you live in California & travel to Oregon to visity aunty Jill, you pay Oregan sales tax while there.
So wouldn't the simplest solution be one where you pays salestax in the state you visit vitually, IE the state the etailer resides in.
Sure it might mean some of the big etailers relocating to the state with the lowest salestax, but that sort of thing happens in regards to corporate/ business taxes anyway, so so what.
AFAIK tradition geostationary orbits are above the equator. But Perth's not on the equator
Afterall a geostationary orbit above the southpole isn't a orbit at all. IE a geostationary satellite above the pole, would not be orbiting the earth, it'd be spinning on its own axis
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But are these any Cheaper than just buying a complete 2nd hand Apple Mac G4 system, sans monitor?
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SVD not AK-whatever
They always price their chips heaps lower.
To the point that an AMD chip can sometimes be cheaper by 3 figures over a Intel chip of the same performance (that's performance, not bus speed).
Gez I remember when Duron 600s were heaps cheaper than the P6 Celeron 600 (Cu'mine), even though they trounced 'em performance wise. & still outperformed them even when one plays arround with the Celeron's bus speed & then unlocked the Duron & played arround with its bus speed & multipler, so that both chips were at the same speed & had the same memory speeds - Celeron 600@900 (FSB @ 100 rather than 66) vs Duron 600@900 (9x rather than 6x FSB muliplyer, with the memory bus multiplyer at 1 rather than 4/3, remember its only the socket A's CPU to northbridge bus that's DDR)
Only 100 people out of 6 billion have died from SARS.
Also World wide infection are easily way less than 10,000.
Meaning the fact is that statistically (taking error rates into account) the world wide rate of SARS is no different than if it never existed.
Even comparing Chinese effection rates to the Chinese population, the stats work out as within the error rate of not existing too.
These things are always blown out of proportion simply by panic merchants, hack journos trying to sell more newspapers, bureaucrats/health officials/polies who expect the world to 100% totally safe to the point that doctors will get sued if someones grany dies before doing a century, & health bureaucrats trying to justify budget increases for their dept.
So what's the big hairy deal, the modules are easily available.
They're no more hassle than a slot 1 PII or Slot A Athlon
& still chose to invade, start the war
fixed costs are huge in telcos
singler nation wide protocals save heaps too.
All this means economies of scale are king, meaning govt telco monopolies are the most efficient way to go.
Afterall that's how Nokia, Ericsson & Alcatel all started.
half these stories are made up by PR firms employed by Washington or Likudnik neo-con think tanks.
masses of innocent civilians dead who wouldn't otherwise be dead
http://www.washingtonmonthly.com/features/2003/030 4.marshall.html
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http://www.smh.com.au/articles/2003/03/07/10468
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/middle_east/2852299.
http://washingtontimes.com/upi-breaking/2003022
etc, etc, etc
Fact is the cheapest way of doing telcos is by having a govt monopoly & a single protocol.
Simply because the fixed costs make up such a huge proportion of the costs. Meaning dividing the market between competing carriers multiplies the costs by a huge amount.
'n firearms etc?
Afterall compare the Lexus LS200 & a BMW 3 series, especially at 3/4 & profile angles, or compare the front of a Mitsubishi Magna from about 5 years ago & most BMW fronts.
Or any non rear engined airliners made after the 707
Or any 'auto' pistols made after the Colt 45
Sure Apple could sue you, but one just has to arrange ones income & assets in such a way that one isn't worth suring & they always give up.
I know I've been sued twice & both times they gave up simply because I'm in the cash economy & officially on a disability pension while all my assets were in the names of relatives.
The IMF & World Bank are instruments of the US's commercial/economic empire building
Is someone now claiming that open office worskpaces have negative side effects in regards to Multiple Sclerosis.
Did Birmingham Small Arms convert their headquarters into the open office plan style? & as a consequence rates of Multiple Sclerosis shot up? Is that what their interest is?
googleplex.com, a website Googleplex Media, a business
that's life
Anyway it's every venture capitalists dream that the new business they backed becomes so synominous with that business its name becomes a verb.
IE they can't have their cake & eat it 2.
If they want success they must accept the costs of that success, one being the potential verbalisation of their trademark.
Proving that OS/2's Win16 capability was no trojan horse, because W95 was exactly the same in that regard.
But 'Clones' was definitly the pits
Moz was design to appear identical, no matter what platform its in. Now I don't mind that as I'm a multi-booter. But most people are fixed in a certain graphical enviroment & they like their apps to be consistent to that platform.
Look at the way Opera traditionally used a MDI in Windows & Linux, but not in MacOS & BeOS. That was because MDI's not consistent with the Mac platform or the the BeOS platform.
Where as, as Moz was designed to appear exactly the same, no matter what platform its on, its basically not really consistent with other programs on its compatible OSes. Well except for Linux which Moz's graphical enviriment seems to be designed for.
Or adults with a mental age of 10.
I saw that Attack of the Clones on Telly & I couldn't believe how bad the script, plotting & directing was. I was watching it on a DVD with some mates at my brother's place meaning I couldn't just flick it over to something else, mind you everyone else there was shocked by how bad it was too. We couldn't stop laughing at the cliches & the wooden directing.
Gez WTF does such a crapy movies series designed for children, or adults with a mental age of 10, have its own catagory on Slashdot. Mind you much of what Hollywood puts out is for adults with a mental age of 12, but that Star Wars flick was about the worst in that regard.
& WTF do so many slashdotters care
Its simple really.
If you live in California & travel to Oregon to visity aunty Jill, you pay Oregan sales tax while there.
So wouldn't the simplest solution be one where you pays salestax in the state you visit vitually, IE the state the etailer resides in.
Sure it might mean some of the big etailers relocating to the state with the lowest salestax, but that sort of thing happens in regards to corporate/ business taxes anyway, so so what.
AFAIK tradition geostationary orbits are above the equator. But Perth's not on the equator
Afterall a geostationary orbit above the southpole isn't a orbit at all. IE a geostationary satellite above the pole, would not be orbiting the earth, it'd be spinning on its own axis