I don't live in a big city, but there are several local PC shops in my area that offer very competitive pricing. I've found that large chain stores sometimes can't compete with Internet retailers but most of the mom and pop stores will generally have quite competitive pricing. I don't mind spending an additional $5 or $10 to support a local retailer, and in most cases, if the price is signifigantly higher locally, the retailer will honor a Pricewatch quote. I buy a lot of hardware and that's just my personal experience. Things may be different elsewhere.
"I like not paying taxes as much as anyone, but I have to admit it's not fair that a local retailer gets taxes, but if I order from an Internet site, it's not taxes."
Actually, after you factor in shipping costs it works out to be about even if you purchase locally or over the Internet. Our current system is fair to all parties (except maybe the consumer).
I get a lot of those mailings too. I probably shouldn't be saying anything, but I got a VERY interesting piece of mail the other day. Now, I don't want to jinx it or anything, but according to the letter I received, I may already be a winner of 10 million dollars. I don't want to get my hopes up, because I don't think everything's been finalized, but the letter seemed pretty official. Imagine, out of all the people who must have entered the contest, they chose me as the finalist. I'm so excited.
Not only that, but the supreme court has ruled that "time shift" recording is completely legal. The MPAA already got bitchslapped by the supreme court in their suit against VCR manufacturers. This is no different, it's just a digital medium as opposed to an analogue one. I highly doubt we'll ever see this scheme implemented in consumer devices.
Just because a game doesn't force feed players any political propaganda doesn't mean that it's a kiddie game. In fact, I quite enjoy games that make me think such as Myst and Quake III. I just don't think a game should be designed around the creator's right-wing extremist views.
Not only that, but Mr. Kojima seems to feel the need to voluntarily censor his games for violent content. It may just be me, but I would expect some violence and death to occur in a war game. Mr. Kojima seems to be under the impression that wars are fought with tranquilizer darts and Nerf bats.
WinCE had to be coded from the ground up. The Win9x/NT kernel won't even boot on the MIPS/SH3 processors that Pocket PC's use. It will only boot on x86 architecture.
Just look at what Sun did to Java. Do we really want them to have control over the promising XML standard as well. I think XML would really start to take off (as opposed to the half-asses browser support we currently have) if Microsoft could gain control of the XML standard, and integrate it into the next version of IE.
I don't have any statistics on hand, but it seems to me that space travel would be a bit dangerous for the average person. (Challenger, Apollo 13) I know the Russians have had quite a few fatalities in space. I'd be willing to place the odds at about 1 in 20 that the "winner" wouldn't come back alive. I don't think that's a risk many people would be willing to take.
That rules out 99% of Slashdot readers. Most of us are a little chunky from sitting at the computer all day eating chips. The comic book store guy from The Simpsons comes to mind.
"the guys are trying to invent/achieve something" On the contrary, this allows Intel to avoid doing any kind or innovation. I would be willing to bet that the main reason Intel want's to shrink transistors is to provide a lower heat output so they can ramp up their same tired old x86 designs to an even higher clockspeed.
That's great, but what if you want to run software that was written in the last three years, or software that will be written in the next three years. Somehow, I don't think you'd like to wait a week to compile a new kernel or compress a movie into MPEG4 format. You were probably one of the ones who thought that "640k or RAM ought to be enough for anyone"
I'm probably going to get flamed quite a bit over this, but spam really isn't that bad. I would much rather have a mailbox full of spam than have my *real* mailbox full of junk mail.
Before you flame me, try and look at it this way: Junk mail wastes trees, costs the USPS unnecessary money to sort and deliver, and creates unnecessary waste in our nation's landfills. Spam, on the other hand, wastes nothing other than a miniscule amount of bandwidth and the electrons required to transmit it.
When I am checking my mail, I can usually tell the spam from the real mail simply be reading the subject line, and all I have to do is hit delete. We should consider loosening restrictions on spam and focusing on creating new legislation to prevent junk mail.
Sarcastic? I think not! The rape of thousands of innocent minds should hardly be considered funny. Your casual attitude about such a critical topic disturbs me. How would you describe your relationship with God? Have you found Jesus?
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Doesn't Intel have a fab in the Phillipines. Surely you could find a nice tech job there.
I don't live in a big city, but there are several local PC shops in my area that offer very competitive pricing. I've found that large chain stores sometimes can't compete with Internet retailers but most of the mom and pop stores will generally have quite competitive pricing. I don't mind spending an additional $5 or $10 to support a local retailer, and in most cases, if the price is signifigantly higher locally, the retailer will honor a Pricewatch quote. I buy a lot of hardware and that's just my personal experience. Things may be different elsewhere.
Actually, after you factor in shipping costs it works out to be about even if you purchase locally or over the Internet. Our current system is fair to all parties (except maybe the consumer).
I get a lot of those mailings too. I probably shouldn't be saying anything, but I got a VERY interesting piece of mail the other day. Now, I don't want to jinx it or anything, but according to the letter I received, I may already be a winner of 10 million dollars. I don't want to get my hopes up, because I don't think everything's been finalized, but the letter seemed pretty official. Imagine, out of all the people who must have entered the contest, they chose me as the finalist. I'm so excited.
I'm sure the guys(or girls) with 3.7 million credit cards are pretty cheerful right about now.
Um, actually all Visa card numbers begin with the number four. Get your facts straight
Not only that, but the supreme court has ruled that "time shift" recording is completely legal. The MPAA already got bitchslapped by the supreme court in their suit against VCR manufacturers. This is no different, it's just a digital medium as opposed to an analogue one. I highly doubt we'll ever see this scheme implemented in consumer devices.
There's going to be a mad rush of people trying to get their TIVO's before this copy protection scheme is adopted.
http://slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=00/12/18/00232 30&cid=33
Except for the fact that a retraction was issued within 1/2 hour of posting. Other than that, it was great.
Not only that, but Mr. Kojima seems to feel the need to voluntarily censor his games for violent content. It may just be me, but I would expect some violence and death to occur in a war game. Mr. Kojima seems to be under the impression that wars are fought with tranquilizer darts and Nerf bats.
WinCE had to be coded from the ground up. The Win9x/NT kernel won't even boot on the MIPS/SH3 processors that Pocket PC's use. It will only boot on x86 architecture.
My office has had "war room" style workspaces for years. All you need is a few Nerf guns and some rubber bands.
Just look at what Sun did to Java. Do we really want them to have control over the promising XML standard as well. I think XML would really start to take off (as opposed to the half-asses browser support we currently have) if Microsoft could gain control of the XML standard, and integrate it into the next version of IE.
WinCE has had 16 bit color and USB support for over a year now.
Not if you're using Linux, you can't.
Is that a description of the winner of the contest or Timothy?
I don't have any statistics on hand, but it seems to me that space travel would be a bit dangerous for the average person. (Challenger, Apollo 13) I know the Russians have had quite a few fatalities in space. I'd be willing to place the odds at about 1 in 20 that the "winner" wouldn't come back alive. I don't think that's a risk many people would be willing to take.
That rules out 99% of Slashdot readers. Most of us are a little chunky from sitting at the computer all day eating chips. The comic book store guy from The Simpsons comes to mind.
Actually, most users wouldn't want Linux or a Pentium 4.
"the guys are trying to invent/achieve something" On the contrary, this allows Intel to avoid doing any kind or innovation. I would be willing to bet that the main reason Intel want's to shrink transistors is to provide a lower heat output so they can ramp up their same tired old x86 designs to an even higher clockspeed.
That's great, but what if you want to run software that was written in the last three years, or software that will be written in the next three years. Somehow, I don't think you'd like to wait a week to compile a new kernel or compress a movie into MPEG4 format. You were probably one of the ones who thought that "640k or RAM ought to be enough for anyone"
Before you flame me, try and look at it this way: Junk mail wastes trees, costs the USPS unnecessary money to sort and deliver, and creates unnecessary waste in our nation's landfills. Spam, on the other hand, wastes nothing other than a miniscule amount of bandwidth and the electrons required to transmit it.
When I am checking my mail, I can usually tell the spam from the real mail simply be reading the subject line, and all I have to do is hit delete. We should consider loosening restrictions on spam and focusing on creating new legislation to prevent junk mail.
Sarcastic? I think not! The rape of thousands of innocent minds should hardly be considered funny. Your casual attitude about such a critical topic disturbs me. How would you describe your relationship with God? Have you found Jesus?
And what, exactly, makes you think that the largest, richest, most widely known software corporation in the world, needs saving in the first place?