It's the difference between hitchiking & not liking what they have on the radio and somebody sneaking into your house in the middle of the night with a boom box blasting intentionally obnoxious music.
Even if you couldn't delete them, it's not that big of a deal having 2 extra entries on a buddy list. Maybe if they routinely sent me messages, I'd have a problem but, for now, it's nothing.
I just hopped over to newegg.com and they were listing the first 6800GS for $209. The lowest priced 6800GT is $269. The lowest priced 256MB 6800 in PCIe is $209 (there are cheaper 128MB cards on AGP, but I wanted to keep the numbers relevant).
With the performance being nearly identical between the GS and the GT, the result is a 20% drop in the price at this level of performance (or a major boost in performance at the $209 level). Either way, I think it's fair to call it low cost, as long as you qualify that by placing it in the context of high-end graphics cards.
I'm just left wondering how well, compared to the GT, these new cards are going to overclock. The GT is known for overclocking rather nicely - I have doubts about this card, since it's a hotter clocked version of the 12-pipe model (which normally ships at 325MHz compared to the GS's 425) which may already be running close to its limits.
It's not simply a 'rebadged' card. Not only did they bump the clock speeds from the 6800's 325MHz core and 700MHz memory to 425MHz core and 1000MHz memory, they also switched from DDR to DDR3 memory to achieve the new memory clocks. This is as much of a difference as there is between the 6600 and the 6600GT.
It's not so much of a price cut on the 6800GT as it is an clock-speed (and price) boost to the vanilla 6800 that brings its performance to the same level as the 6800GT while still keeping a lower price point (the 12-pipe 6800 being cheaper/easier to produce than the 16-pipe 6800GT).
It's an interesting idea but how do you get developers to work on the system when they'll have to have the hardware to do any real work on it. Paying $400 for a half-finished device so that I can do free work on it does not sound like it's going to attract a whole lot of people to the project...
I have to wonder how the purchase of InnoDB is going to work into their strategy of fighting the creep of MySQL into the Oracle market. One thing that comes to mind would be to allow an 'easy' migration from MySQL to Oracle, perhaps even allowing MySQL tables to be used natively.
Geforce 6600 and Radeon x700 are perfectly playable at resolutions better than 800x600 and can be found for right at $100. As far as "confusing naming" goes, if you're making $100+ purchases without doing any research at all, you deserve whatever you get. It's not like you can't go to Tom's Hardware and check out their VGA charts and spend 5min looking and see numbers for everything from Intel integrated video up to 6800Us and x850XT-PEs.
Any webmonkey who lacks the intelligence and skill to say "Hrmm... this software won't let me place Flash on the page - maybe I should put in a filler image & then link in the Flash by hand later" shouldn't be allowed to use Flash in the first place.
First, Compact Flash isn't comparable to a 30, 40, or 60 gig HD. It sounds like they're dealing with some high res 2D and 3D images that would probably max out a 4 gig CF pretty quickly.
The first inteligent thing to do when designing software to look at images on a low-resolution portable device, be it a PDA or an iPod, is going to be to downsample it to a lower resolution. There's absolutely no point in copying a 10K x 10K image to a device that only displays 320x240 (or 640x480 for high-end PDA). With images this size, 4GB feels nearly infinite.
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OTOH, paying $10/hr for berry picking would significantly drive up the cost of berries, reducing the amount of the end product that consumers are going to buy so, while you have a few people paid attractive wages, you end up with far more unemployed Mexicans, consumers unable to afford berries and farmers closing up shop.
In a 'free market' you don't have artificial, government sanctioned price controls on goods and services. Having illegals pick your berries is a lot closer to a free market than having the government mandate that you pay $6/hr to have it done.
How many McDonald's workers get to work on a project of their chosing, on the hours of their choice, having control of how they do it and not having a high-strung highschool dropout bitching about drive-through time averages being 5s over the target time?
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Who wants the jobs that illegals are working?
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Given the numbers, there are only 2 reasonable conclusions : either that H1-B employees are considerably underpaid, or they are being brought in to fill low-ranking (ie - less skilled) positions. Either way, the H1-B program is being abused since it's supposed to find highly-skilled workers that can't be found on the local job market NOT fill up entry level positions with underpaid workers. It's really hard to argue that anyone filling an entry-level position has high-demand, specialized skills, not to mention that -not- filling entry level jobs with domestic workers will only further complicate any real existing lack of skilled domestic workers at higher levels.
This would hold if you were using identical ancilary hardware. While this is true for most of the hardware (video cards, HDDs, cases...) you're still looking at different motherboards and memory (s939 + PC3200 v. LGA755 + PC2-5400; with more combinations if you open up the competition to Semprons (s754 + single-channel pc3200) Opterons (server-class s940 boards + ECC memory) or Celerons (s755 but you can use PC2700)).
The change of language/environment from C# under.NET to C running native machine code is going to be far more significant than the use of pointers in the C program. What would be more relevant to the discussion at hand would be for you to have numbers showing how your C program was sped up by using pointer arithmetic over array indices.
It's best not to view the current monorail as a transportation option but more as an extension of the rides at the Seattle Center. It's neat, it's cool to show your relatives from out of town when you're headed to the Space Needle, but no sensible person would ever consider it to be part of their daily commute.
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It's the difference between hitchiking & not liking what they have on the radio and somebody sneaking into your house in the middle of the night with a boom box blasting intentionally obnoxious music.
Even if you couldn't delete them, it's not that big of a deal having 2 extra entries on a buddy list. Maybe if they routinely sent me messages, I'd have a problem but, for now, it's nothing.
Not to mention that it's hard to think of any woman, even Paris, having 1207 connectors inserted into her...
I just hopped over to newegg.com and they were listing the first 6800GS for $209. The lowest priced 6800GT is $269. The lowest priced 256MB 6800 in PCIe is $209 (there are cheaper 128MB cards on AGP, but I wanted to keep the numbers relevant).
With the performance being nearly identical between the GS and the GT, the result is a 20% drop in the price at this level of performance (or a major boost in performance at the $209 level). Either way, I think it's fair to call it low cost, as long as you qualify that by placing it in the context of high-end graphics cards.
I'm just left wondering how well, compared to the GT, these new cards are going to overclock. The GT is known for overclocking rather nicely - I have doubts about this card, since it's a hotter clocked version of the 12-pipe model (which normally ships at 325MHz compared to the GS's 425) which may already be running close to its limits.
It's not simply a 'rebadged' card. Not only did they bump the clock speeds from the 6800's 325MHz core and 700MHz memory to 425MHz core and 1000MHz memory, they also switched from DDR to DDR3 memory to achieve the new memory clocks. This is as much of a difference as there is between the 6600 and the 6600GT.
It's not so much of a price cut on the 6800GT as it is an clock-speed (and price) boost to the vanilla 6800 that brings its performance to the same level as the 6800GT while still keeping a lower price point (the 12-pipe 6800 being cheaper/easier to produce than the 16-pipe 6800GT).
It's an interesting idea but how do you get developers to work on the system when they'll have to have the hardware to do any real work on it. Paying $400 for a half-finished device so that I can do free work on it does not sound like it's going to attract a whole lot of people to the project...
When did a CD audio ripper become an essential part of an admin's toolkit?
If you have a DirectX 9 capable video card, here's a nice demo of some HDR lighting on simple objects.
I have to wonder how the purchase of InnoDB is going to work into their strategy of fighting the creep of MySQL into the Oracle market. One thing that comes to mind would be to allow an 'easy' migration from MySQL to Oracle, perhaps even allowing MySQL tables to be used natively.
Geforce 6600 and Radeon x700 are perfectly playable at resolutions better than 800x600 and can be found for right at $100. As far as "confusing naming" goes, if you're making $100+ purchases without doing any research at all, you deserve whatever you get. It's not like you can't go to Tom's Hardware and check out their VGA charts and spend 5min looking and see numbers for everything from Intel integrated video up to 6800Us and x850XT-PEs.
Yes, we know just how successful Sun has been at promoting computing as a utility...
I agreee.
Any webmonkey who lacks the intelligence and skill to say "Hrmm... this software won't let me place Flash on the page - maybe I should put in a filler image & then link in the Flash by hand later" shouldn't be allowed to use Flash in the first place.
First, Compact Flash isn't comparable to a 30, 40, or 60 gig HD. It sounds like they're dealing with some high res 2D and 3D images that would probably max out a 4 gig CF pretty quickly.
The first inteligent thing to do when designing software to look at images on a low-resolution portable device, be it a PDA or an iPod, is going to be to downsample it to a lower resolution. There's absolutely no point in copying a 10K x 10K image to a device that only displays 320x240 (or 640x480 for high-end PDA). With images this size, 4GB feels nearly infinite.
OTOH, paying $10/hr for berry picking would significantly drive up the cost of berries, reducing the amount of the end product that consumers are going to buy so, while you have a few people paid attractive wages, you end up with far more unemployed Mexicans, consumers unable to afford berries and farmers closing up shop.
In a 'free market' you don't have artificial, government sanctioned price controls on goods and services. Having illegals pick your berries is a lot closer to a free market than having the government mandate that you pay $6/hr to have it done.
How many McDonald's workers get to work on a project of their chosing, on the hours of their choice, having control of how they do it and not having a high-strung highschool dropout bitching about drive-through time averages being 5s over the target time?
Who wants the jobs that illegals are working?
Given the numbers, there are only 2 reasonable conclusions : either that H1-B employees are considerably underpaid, or they are being brought in to fill low-ranking (ie - less skilled) positions. Either way, the H1-B program is being abused since it's supposed to find highly-skilled workers that can't be found on the local job market NOT fill up entry level positions with underpaid workers. It's really hard to argue that anyone filling an entry-level position has high-demand, specialized skills, not to mention that -not- filling entry level jobs with domestic workers will only further complicate any real existing lack of skilled domestic workers at higher levels.
This would hold if you were using identical ancilary hardware. While this is true for most of the hardware (video cards, HDDs, cases...) you're still looking at different motherboards and memory (s939 + PC3200 v. LGA755 + PC2-5400; with more combinations if you open up the competition to Semprons (s754 + single-channel pc3200) Opterons (server-class s940 boards + ECC memory) or Celerons (s755 but you can use PC2700)).
Getting kicked in the balls by an army of midgets in steeltoed boots is "slightly more friendly" than ASN.1
How about the cases where patents are taken out on compounds primarily discovered through publicly funded research?
The change of language/environment from C# under .NET to C running native machine code is going to be far more significant than the use of pointers in the C program. What would be more relevant to the discussion at hand would be for you to have numbers showing how your C program was sped up by using pointer arithmetic over array indices.
...and a "preview" button on the comment page.
I think you're being a little harsh. They're pretty nice(NSFW).
It's best not to view the current monorail as a transportation option but more as an extension of the rides at the Seattle Center. It's neat, it's cool to show your relatives from out of town when you're headed to the Space Needle, but no sensible person would ever consider it to be part of their daily commute.
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