Or they can start their own companies right away and get short term success, maybe even long term success. Engineers without some amount of business sense might be long term failures too, or even short term failures. It's all a gamble in many ways.
As hardware prices fall below OS cost, it will be possible for Microsoft to 'bundle' the hardware with the OS.
That's going to take a while. Last I heard, the basic version of Windows is about $40 to large volume OEMs. I think that's why they don't include a restore CD or even permission to move the license to another computer.
I suspect that those laws haven't been updated for Internet service, which might be considered emergency critical, high speed Internet is still probably considered a luxury. I would bet that VoIP doesn't count as a "land line" either.
These cards are ridiculous. ESPECIALLY in Crossfire installs.
You mean like doubly so? Like the point that the money spent on the doubling the money is almost completely wasted, the money spent on doubling the graphics chips is almost completely wasted?
I hope this means that laptops and large capacate media players with extremely long battery life are not too far away.
I think people expect too much from SSDs. The hard drive is far from the dominant power consumption component in a notebook. The CPU, chipset, GPU and display panel each consume more power than a notebook hard drive does. If you follow a modified version of Amdahl's law (not a law, but whatever), you want to fix the biggest problem first, and that is either the display or CPU. An LED backlit display can save some power, and running a lower power rating CPU saves power too. Compared to that, the savings of swapping HDD for SSD is negligible. On a standard notebook, I think you might add 15 minutes to battery life, which is still far from "extremely long battery life".
In media players, doubling in capacity every year is a reasonable expectation.
I understand, but I didn't say everything should be free. I didn't say that copyright infringement is good. I'm sorry to say that DRM is not a good solution. When it works, it's a nuisance even to legit users, when it doesn't work people that paid for the right to use a work can't use it.
The ignorance is on the side of the perpetrators of DRM because it generally only annoys legitimate users. People that are going to get something "free" will be getting cracked versions that don't have DRM, in short, the people that DRM affects are generally the customers, and the effect is usually one of annoyance.
I don't pretend to have a solution, but poorly implemented DRM only serves to make the point. A person that stays legal shouldn't have to lose a day's productivty because the WGA server is down or the internet service is down so software can't be validated.
The difference is that a lot of people know how to handle a spreadsheet, even my parents can handle them. Databases are somewhat arcane, that's one of the things that I've never really tried hard at learning. Microsoft Access was probably the most notable attempt at making it easy, but the nerd crowd certainly frowned on that. Even if it was good, I think they'd frown on it.
I think you are still better off with a cellular broadband adapter, which can be bought in USB, CardBus and ExpressCard variations. Municipal WiFi is just the wrong solution to the problem, it's a duct tape solution and somehow people sound like they are expecting custom machined quality out of it.
I think the history is that the courts have allowed temporary wartime injustices like this in the past, loss of habeas corpus during the Civil War (if you suggested peace with the South you might be arrested), internment of Germans in WWI, and the internment of Japanese in WWII.
The problem is that the current administration wants to have it both ways, wartime/emergency/crisis powers and wants the domestic life to otherwise behave as if there is no emergency, such as repeatedly cutting taxes, despite deficit spending.
There's two sides to the problem - one is that people try so hard to get out of jury duty and the other being that the remaining pool is shallower for it. Jury duty is a civic duty like voting, but of too few people do either then that leaves the respective systems up for more abuse than would otherwise happen.
I didn't buy one and I thought it was a kick in the gut. Just about everyone knows that CE devices drop in price over time, but the duration and percentage of the price drop is a bit steep. If they are pricing it for exclusivity, then dropping the price is a bad idea. Still, I wouldn't be buying it to show off, I try not to flaunt any of my consumer electronics stuff.
I wanted one but just couldn't justify it. I'm glad I didn't and it doubly puts me off buying a launch product, I can wait a product generation if I have to, I renewed my contract elsewhere because I also wanted the product to mature before buying into it. It's not a good idea to buy a first revision product anyway. The adage has been well known in the Apple world, though it should apply to any brand product, wait a while to make sure there aren't any systematic flaws.
BTW: the basic 2yr commitment was for a $60/mo plan. It's not well known, but it can be used without a contract, just that the per-minute costs are higher.
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I really don't understand why it's called an error when it would most likely have to be deliberate to do that.
A AMD 4x4 dual quad-core with DDR2 ram and dual x16 pci 2.0 and all slots with pci 2.0 and SLI, also there will also be a ATI chipset for the same system with all pci 2.0 16x-16x or 8x-8x-8x-8x CrossFire + Discrete PCI-E x4 slot. With Support for HTX slots.
The funny thing is, as far as I can tell, you really aren't even saying anything. You can spew specs and acronyms all you want, but what is the actual tested performance compared to this Skulltrail rig?
The problem I have with the "languages are just tools" adage is that they are about the most complex tools one can use, I mean hammers and screwdrivers have nothing on them. What might undo a project might be because of an obscure limitation of the language that wasn't known at the time of designing the project.
That said, I don't know much about Ruby or Rails, but I've heard that you have to follow the conventions or you're just making things hard. You can just not follow conventions, but it's just adding another pile of problems that defeat the point of using Rails.
The cost to make is certainly below the selling price. Apple is rumored to have revenue sharing, a certain amount per month, though the rumors seem to be almost completely confirmed.
Worse, Virgin is innocent in all this as well. They used the photo in a good faith assumption that the permissions granted to them by the photographer were his to give. They should immediately pull any advertising with her photo, sure, but they shouldn't be liable for damages if the photo is pulled immediately.
This is not true, if the talk of the "model release" is true. With no model release, it's not legal to use the photo commercially. Assigning copyright does not mean there is a model release.
I'm really skeptical that this would lead anywhere. When is the last time we've benefited from a class action lawsuit? Would we get $5 off the next month of TV while the business model remains the same and lawyers get rich off of nothing?
If their existence is paid by people that probably would never watch the channel, then why does it exist? Why should non-watchers help subsidize a channel that they don't watch?
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...we should look at is as the world population's inability to communicate is going extinct.
That's not the root problem. People using the SAME language often have an inability to communicate to each other.
Or they can start their own companies right away and get short term success, maybe even long term success. Engineers without some amount of business sense might be long term failures too, or even short term failures. It's all a gamble in many ways.
As hardware prices fall below OS cost, it will be possible for Microsoft to 'bundle' the hardware with the OS.
That's going to take a while. Last I heard, the basic version of Windows is about $40 to large volume OEMs. I think that's why they don't include a restore CD or even permission to move the license to another computer.
I suspect that those laws haven't been updated for Internet service, which might be considered emergency critical, high speed Internet is still probably considered a luxury. I would bet that VoIP doesn't count as a "land line" either.
I mean "doubling the memory". Stupid sleepiness.
These cards are ridiculous. ESPECIALLY in Crossfire installs.
You mean like doubly so? Like the point that the money spent on the doubling the money is almost completely wasted, the money spent on doubling the graphics chips is almost completely wasted?
I hope this means that laptops and large capacate media players with extremely long battery life are not too far away.
I think people expect too much from SSDs. The hard drive is far from the dominant power consumption component in a notebook. The CPU, chipset, GPU and display panel each consume more power than a notebook hard drive does. If you follow a modified version of Amdahl's law (not a law, but whatever), you want to fix the biggest problem first, and that is either the display or CPU. An LED backlit display can save some power, and running a lower power rating CPU saves power too. Compared to that, the savings of swapping HDD for SSD is negligible. On a standard notebook, I think you might add 15 minutes to battery life, which is still far from "extremely long battery life".
In media players, doubling in capacity every year is a reasonable expectation.
I understand, but I didn't say everything should be free. I didn't say that copyright infringement is good. I'm sorry to say that DRM is not a good solution. When it works, it's a nuisance even to legit users, when it doesn't work people that paid for the right to use a work can't use it.
The ignorance is on the side of the perpetrators of DRM because it generally only annoys legitimate users. People that are going to get something "free" will be getting cracked versions that don't have DRM, in short, the people that DRM affects are generally the customers, and the effect is usually one of annoyance.
I don't pretend to have a solution, but poorly implemented DRM only serves to make the point. A person that stays legal shouldn't have to lose a day's productivty because the WGA server is down or the internet service is down so software can't be validated.
"When used incorrectly and in direct conflict of something that you are promoting, DRM sucks!"
That's too long. DRM sucks period.
The difference is that a lot of people know how to handle a spreadsheet, even my parents can handle them. Databases are somewhat arcane, that's one of the things that I've never really tried hard at learning. Microsoft Access was probably the most notable attempt at making it easy, but the nerd crowd certainly frowned on that. Even if it was good, I think they'd frown on it.
I think you are still better off with a cellular broadband adapter, which can be bought in USB, CardBus and ExpressCard variations. Municipal WiFi is just the wrong solution to the problem, it's a duct tape solution and somehow people sound like they are expecting custom machined quality out of it.
I think the history is that the courts have allowed temporary wartime injustices like this in the past, loss of habeas corpus during the Civil War (if you suggested peace with the South you might be arrested), internment of Germans in WWI, and the internment of Japanese in WWII.
The problem is that the current administration wants to have it both ways, wartime/emergency/crisis powers and wants the domestic life to otherwise behave as if there is no emergency, such as repeatedly cutting taxes, despite deficit spending.
There's two sides to the problem - one is that people try so hard to get out of jury duty and the other being that the remaining pool is shallower for it. Jury duty is a civic duty like voting, but of too few people do either then that leaves the respective systems up for more abuse than would otherwise happen.
The record industry gets a lower net percentage with CDs, the thing is that CDs represent larger chunks of money.
Ah, some retarded offtopic trolling, nice.
I didn't buy one and I thought it was a kick in the gut. Just about everyone knows that CE devices drop in price over time, but the duration and percentage of the price drop is a bit steep. If they are pricing it for exclusivity, then dropping the price is a bad idea. Still, I wouldn't be buying it to show off, I try not to flaunt any of my consumer electronics stuff.
I wanted one but just couldn't justify it. I'm glad I didn't and it doubly puts me off buying a launch product, I can wait a product generation if I have to, I renewed my contract elsewhere because I also wanted the product to mature before buying into it. It's not a good idea to buy a first revision product anyway. The adage has been well known in the Apple world, though it should apply to any brand product, wait a while to make sure there aren't any systematic flaws.
BTW: the basic 2yr commitment was for a $60/mo plan. It's not well known, but it can be used without a contract, just that the per-minute costs are higher.
I really don't understand why it's called an error when it would most likely have to be deliberate to do that.
A AMD 4x4 dual quad-core with DDR2 ram and dual x16 pci 2.0 and all slots with pci 2.0 and SLI, also there will also be a ATI chipset for the same system with all pci 2.0 16x-16x or 8x-8x-8x-8x CrossFire + Discrete PCI-E x4 slot. With Support for HTX slots.
The funny thing is, as far as I can tell, you really aren't even saying anything. You can spew specs and acronyms all you want, but what is the actual tested performance compared to this Skulltrail rig?
I don't get it. I could have sworn that under the best conditions, Earth gets 2000 W/m^2 at ground level and that chart doesn't exceed 400.
The problem I have with the "languages are just tools" adage is that they are about the most complex tools one can use, I mean hammers and screwdrivers have nothing on them. What might undo a project might be because of an obscure limitation of the language that wasn't known at the time of designing the project.
That said, I don't know much about Ruby or Rails, but I've heard that you have to follow the conventions or you're just making things hard. You can just not follow conventions, but it's just adding another pile of problems that defeat the point of using Rails.
The cost to make is certainly below the selling price. Apple is rumored to have revenue sharing, a certain amount per month, though the rumors seem to be almost completely confirmed.
Last I heard, Africa has plenty of unused undersea fiber making a ring around the continent. I can't find the page anymore.
Worse, Virgin is innocent in all this as well. They used the photo in a good faith assumption that the permissions granted to them by the photographer were his to give. They should immediately pull any advertising with her photo, sure, but they shouldn't be liable for damages if the photo is pulled immediately.
This is not true, if the talk of the "model release" is true. With no model release, it's not legal to use the photo commercially. Assigning copyright does not mean there is a model release.
I'm really skeptical that this would lead anywhere. When is the last time we've benefited from a class action lawsuit? Would we get $5 off the next month of TV while the business model remains the same and lawyers get rich off of nothing?
If their existence is paid by people that probably would never watch the channel, then why does it exist? Why should non-watchers help subsidize a channel that they don't watch?