My biggest objection is whether Microsoft takes accountability for their own products? They should shut up, because they aren't ready for the enterprise.
I can see why you'd say churches are shills for the Republican party, but why do you say churches are shills for NAMBLA? I don't get that, I would say that most churches are [i]against[/i] what NAMBLA stands for. While I can't say I've really heard of a church that endorses pedophilia, though I imagine a few exist, somewhere, it just doesn't seem common.
I wasn't enamored of iTunes at first. I wanted an iPod and was willing to put up with iTunes to get it going. I *did* buy the huge U2 SE + song bundle, but normally, I'm not fond of digital-only music, in part because of DRM and another that it doesn't feel like I really own a copy of the music, just an odd lease.
I went with the U2 song bundle because tracking down all the original (and possibly rare) CD singles or LPs for every song variant was just going to be too much work, plus it's nice to have the 25 or so exclusive songs. Then there's the fixed song on the Joshua tree too, most of those CDs have a glitch on them that shouldn't have been there.
I don't think dual core Intels will necessarily increase the number of pins. They can both be separate cores on the same bus, much like a Xeon DP system. With the interconnects so close, they don't need to lower the FSB clock to prevent signal issues. A one processor system, the clock can go higher because it acts like a point-to-point bus. A multiprocessor system with multiple processors on the bus is more complicated from a signal transmission line perspective.
I think it shows people are willing to pay a "fair" price for poor coverage area than a high price for far better coverage area. Do not forget the coverage area. "Wi-Fi" generally can't do a few thousand feet without a huge antenna on both ends, cell phones often get several miles from any one of the plethora of towers, and the phone end of the antenna is pretty small.
And the fact that you can do that 99% of the time with zero hassle from drivers or legacy or yadda yadda is why I (as an Apple customer) don't really care what mouse Apple chooses to ship with my shinny new computer
The problem is that it affects laptops too - Apple laptops have only one button for the finger-wagger pad. I try to avoid using the finger-wagger but I think only one button makes it less useful, should I not have a regular mouse with me.
And the fact that you can do that 99% of the time with zero hassle from drivers or legacy or yadda yadda is why I (as an Apple customer) don't really care what mouse Apple chooses to ship with my shinny new computer
The problem is that it affects laptops too - Apple laptops have only one button for the finger-wagger pad. I try to avoid using the finger-wagger but I think only one button makes it less usefull.
I really should pick on Windows for two button mice - because event hat isn't enough for basic CAD. Since then, the scroll wheel has somewhat replaced the third button, but if you can press the scroll wheel without scrolling it, it acts as a third button.
I think it is time to give up the one button mouse anyway. Even my Dad can handle and use a right click and a scroll wheel.
To be fair, MacOS accepted third party multi-button mice.
The problem I have is suing people that didn't *make* or *design* the part that infringes. Intel, AMD, IBM probably. HP, Gateway & Dell? I don't think so. Integrating a part into a larger system doesn't make that system an infringer, IMO
NAT isn't that hard. IPv6 is a different ball game though.
IF (!) you could set up servers, it might be nice to have several IPs, particularly FTP servers where I've read doesn't pass through firewalls nearly as well as HTTP or email.
500GB a month is hardly anything to sneeze at. If it is single layered DVDs, that is about 111 DVDs. Per month! If you saved all of that, you'd be spending at least a couple hundred dollars a month in hard drives.
If you fully clog a T1 for a month, that is 461 GB, and I shouldn't need to tell you how much they cost.
I'll upgrade a mini or any other computer with a hard drop any day, for free. No guarantee the computer will still work afterwards, but there will be evidence of a hard drop.
The new memory card standards are there to take advantage of of the latest performing memory.
A problem with your idea is that it is like wanting to keep your CPU but upgrade your computer. You don't want a slow CPU? Why would you want slow memory? Memory you bought two years ago is only going to hobble a brand-new chip.
That post still reflects a lack of understanding in the technology.
For a given area of silicon, you could have 1 gigabit of DRAM or 128 Megabit of SRAM. Is it worth that trade-off? One can make more chips, but making chips uses a lot of expensive and toxic chemicals, and fab time isn't free either.
Bluetooth stuff is hard enough to find at a decent price. There's wireless USB, 1392, WiMAX "coming soon", as well as some cellular based standards too.
You need a heavy lead-acid battery to power an XPS furnace. Besides, short of the FSB, a Pentium-M based system is every bit as good as a Pentium 4 based laptop, but runs longer, is lighter and produces less heat.
Given the shenanigans that got them into their mess, I won't trust them for a couple versions yet, and even then, only cautiously. For the videos on my own site, I don't support Quicktime, and I am loathe to support Real.
I can imagine that the Bungee team might be able to slip some things in here and there. Bungee was primarily a Mac game developer so I can imagine them not treating their new employer as sacred.
Transmeta was influential, if nothing else, but for pushing Intel to develop the Pentium-M chips. The Pentium-M pretty much squashed the mainstream market for Transmeta, particularly after the delays in getting faster designs out.
A lot of colleges used Social Security numbers to identify students, which I think is nearly as bad as you can do pretty bad things to people's criminal and credit records by signing up infringing accounts.
I have mixed feelings about "intellectual property freedom". Thus far, the only thing China is really good at is copying and making things very cheap. I really don't think they innovate, because there is seems to be no incentive to do so. It takes too much time and effort to make a "better mousetrap" if you will, and so little time and effort to copy that it isn't worth it unless there is some protection on the design
I don't like how US patents are abused, but I don't think doing away with patents will fix anything. You'd need a constitutional ammendment to do that anyway.
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My biggest objection is whether Microsoft takes accountability for their own products? They should shut up, because they aren't ready for the enterprise.
How often do you lose the keys? I can't say I've ever lost a set of keys like that.
I can see why you'd say churches are shills for the Republican party, but why do you say churches are shills for NAMBLA? I don't get that, I would say that most churches are [i]against[/i] what NAMBLA stands for. While I can't say I've really heard of a church that endorses pedophilia, though I imagine a few exist, somewhere, it just doesn't seem common.
I wasn't enamored of iTunes at first. I wanted an iPod and was willing to put up with iTunes to get it going. I *did* buy the huge U2 SE + song bundle, but normally, I'm not fond of digital-only music, in part because of DRM and another that it doesn't feel like I really own a copy of the music, just an odd lease.
I went with the U2 song bundle because tracking down all the original (and possibly rare) CD singles or LPs for every song variant was just going to be too much work, plus it's nice to have the 25 or so exclusive songs. Then there's the fixed song on the Joshua tree too, most of those CDs have a glitch on them that shouldn't have been there.
I don't think dual core Intels will necessarily increase the number of pins. They can both be separate cores on the same bus, much like a Xeon DP system. With the interconnects so close, they don't need to lower the FSB clock to prevent signal issues. A one processor system, the clock can go higher because it acts like a point-to-point bus. A multiprocessor system with multiple processors on the bus is more complicated from a signal transmission line perspective.
I think it shows people are willing to pay a "fair" price for poor coverage area than a high price for far better coverage area. Do not forget the coverage area. "Wi-Fi" generally can't do a few thousand feet without a huge antenna on both ends, cell phones often get several miles from any one of the plethora of towers, and the phone end of the antenna is pretty small.
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And the fact that you can do that 99% of the time with zero hassle from drivers or legacy or yadda yadda is why I (as an Apple customer) don't really care what mouse Apple chooses to ship with my shinny new computer
The problem is that it affects laptops too - Apple laptops have only one button for the finger-wagger pad. I try to avoid using the finger-wagger but I think only one button makes it less useful, should I not have a regular mouse with me.
And the fact that you can do that 99% of the time with zero hassle from drivers or legacy or yadda yadda is why I (as an Apple customer) don't really care what mouse Apple chooses to ship with my shinny new computer
The problem is that it affects laptops too - Apple laptops have only one button for the finger-wagger pad. I try to avoid using the finger-wagger but I think only one button makes it less usefull.
I really should pick on Windows for two button mice - because event hat isn't enough for basic CAD. Since then, the scroll wheel has somewhat replaced the third button, but if you can press the scroll wheel without scrolling it, it acts as a third button.
I think it is time to give up the one button mouse anyway. Even my Dad can handle and use a right click and a scroll wheel.
To be fair, MacOS accepted third party multi-button mice.
The problem I have is suing people that didn't *make* or *design* the part that infringes. Intel, AMD, IBM probably. HP, Gateway & Dell? I don't think so. Integrating a part into a larger system doesn't make that system an infringer, IMO
NAT isn't that hard. IPv6 is a different ball game though.
IF (!) you could set up servers, it might be nice to have several IPs, particularly FTP servers where I've read doesn't pass through firewalls nearly as well as HTTP or email.
500GB a month is hardly anything to sneeze at. If it is single layered DVDs, that is about 111 DVDs. Per month! If you saved all of that, you'd be spending at least a couple hundred dollars a month in hard drives.
If you fully clog a T1 for a month, that is 461 GB, and I shouldn't need to tell you how much they cost.
I'll upgrade a mini or any other computer with a hard drop any day, for free. No guarantee the computer will still work afterwards, but there will be evidence of a hard drop.
Your method works only over a longer time period, such as when they've already filled orders.
From the forums I'm on, people whose orders didn't even ship yet said that their price was reduced.
The new memory card standards are there to take advantage of of the latest performing memory.
A problem with your idea is that it is like wanting to keep your CPU but upgrade your computer. You don't want a slow CPU? Why would you want slow memory? Memory you bought two years ago is only going to hobble a brand-new chip.
That post still reflects a lack of understanding in the technology.
For a given area of silicon, you could have 1 gigabit of DRAM or 128 Megabit of SRAM. Is it worth that trade-off? One can make more chips, but making chips uses a lot of expensive and toxic chemicals, and fab time isn't free either.
Bluetooth stuff is hard enough to find at a decent price. There's wireless USB, 1392, WiMAX "coming soon", as well as some cellular based standards too.
You need a heavy lead-acid battery to power an XPS furnace. Besides, short of the FSB, a Pentium-M based system is every bit as good as a Pentium 4 based laptop, but runs longer, is lighter and produces less heat.
Nintendo claimed that the N64 could do movie quality effects.
I think this is so they can move from not making money on selling music, to not making money selling music and movies.
Given the shenanigans that got them into their mess, I won't trust them for a couple versions yet, and even then, only cautiously. For the videos on my own site, I don't support Quicktime, and I am loathe to support Real.
I can imagine that the Bungee team might be able to slip some things in here and there. Bungee was primarily a Mac game developer so I can imagine them not treating their new employer as sacred.
Transmeta was influential, if nothing else, but for pushing Intel to develop the Pentium-M chips. The Pentium-M pretty much squashed the mainstream market for Transmeta, particularly after the delays in getting faster designs out.
A lot of colleges used Social Security numbers to identify students, which I think is nearly as bad as you can do pretty bad things to people's criminal and credit records by signing up infringing accounts.
I have mixed feelings about "intellectual property freedom". Thus far, the only thing China is really good at is copying and making things very cheap. I really don't think they innovate, because there is seems to be no incentive to do so. It takes too much time and effort to make a "better mousetrap" if you will, and so little time and effort to copy that it isn't worth it unless there is some protection on the design
I don't like how US patents are abused, but I don't think doing away with patents will fix anything. You'd need a constitutional ammendment to do that anyway.