I guess I tend to agree with the posters who are screaming to have this article marked as flamebait, but mostly because some people, like yourself, deliberately miss the point. The author has some anecdotes for why an unarguably cheaper solution works for him. All you have done is list some similarly anecdotal but otherwise different situations you have something that woks for you.
Because your situation is different, your responses to his "points" are actually irrelevant, he's already preempted you by giving *his* reasons why his solution is better in *his* circumstance.
For example you say that
I have the 32g iPad of which I haven't used half.
. Well if I don't use email, my pen and paper is better than your iPad, as it has all the functionality I use, weighs less, costs less and never runs out of batteries.
The T30 he refers to 'only' weighs twice what the iPad 1 does, (not 3-4 times), and the author already made that point saying "look what else you get for that extra pound of weight".
You either misunderstand multitasking, or just didn't pay attention to what he did when he was. He wasn't talking about opening a dozen windows that "your are (sic) using ONE AND ONLY ONE AT THIS EXACT MOMENT", he was talking about streaming a radio service in one window whilst working in another.
hoggoth and others have dealt with most of the points you've made anyway, but responding to the authors' "here are five reasons A works better than B for C" article by saying "A is worse than B for C because I don't do C" isn't useful.
Agreed with Weaselmancer... There was no DRM in the Amiga OS.
The ROM was licensed and, yes, to run an emulator you are supposed to buy a license. As for the custom chips, to say it is DRM has the argument the wrong way around. The software was written for that hardware - you seem to suggest that the hardware was made to make the software hard to copy.
My Ubuntu desktop has been compiled for some custom hardware called the 'x86 instruction set', but I wouldn't say that that was DRM.
I was there for the whole night and only one team had managed to finish before you left - in fact only 2 teams finished the problem on the night.
I had a quick go in awk (solo) after the end of the night and in that language, which is DESIGNED for dealing with columns of text, means you can solve any of the problems presented in a couple of minutes.
It's pretty clear you weren't there for long as your summary is not that close to what happened, though your description of the problem is spot on.
Most solutions were a few screens long, only the awk solution I think would have fit on a single screen, only one team would have finished the problem by the time you left, and most images were not of the melbourne area, though some were. Unless you mean the new melbourne stonehenge:-)
You should have stuck around, or asked if you could enter.
The reason I'd do it that way is so I could just cut, say, a 20 minute segment without the usual menus and so forth making it easier to sync the 2 machines side by side for comparison.
Actually, in Victoria corner of Glen Eira and Hotham Streets (you know it?) I was hit by some arsehole SPEEDING through a RED light.
The result? 50/50 (as I was turning right)
This meant he got half his car paid for, and I got my legal fees back (no car) as his was worth more.
If there'd been a red light / speedy camera someone doing the right thing would still own a car today. (I had a witness who said their light was green - which apparently isn't the same as proof that the lights at 90 degrees to them is red) The camera could have provided the difference.
I've put the cash part behind me, but the bastard could have KILLED someone.
Public safety? yeah I think so. Amber means slow down if safe - not put your foot down.
It was troll because you largely missed the point of the parent.
Your post implied the parent said Tiger was unstable however I can't find such a point in there, just that there is a "a large and quite frankly obvious bug present". Which there is.
This flaw has little to do with Microsoft, it cannot connect to my Debian linux server in the office either.
Your post bitches and moans about the observation that there is a lot of pro-Apple bias on Slashdot and draws an irrelevant comparison to Windows SMB integration.
You are the very zealot the parent eluded to.
Oh, you also have no idea what a question mark is.
Firstly I believe this legislation is an EXCELLENT idea, HOWEVER, the attrocities including expensive websites and his blatant disregard for broadband in Australia are unforgivable.
I appreciate what he is doing here, but he's basically clueless with regards to technology.
One of his advisors (or his nephew etc. for all I know) need a pat on the back. He, on the otherhand, should be ousted before he does more damage.
I agree. The other thing that crossed my mind at first is the focus change your eye has to do as well as the camera. I heard it mentioned that LCD headsets (for VR) give the user a headache after a while as the eye is focused at one depth for such a long time.
With the usual rearview mirror, the eye is focused at a relatively long range on cars etc. from looking through the windscreen, and as the mirror is reflecting light from behind the car, your eye is still at the same focal depth when you look in the mirror... if you had an lcd it would be focused on something a meter away (at most) as opposed to many meters away
I wear reasonably low powered glasses to drive, but sometimes notice this change when I look down at the speedo
can anyone with neccessary physics background confirm this?
...and given that chip prices tend to fall rapidly, I thinkthat overclocking is less of a way to get a faster chip cheaper and more of a way to get bragging rights.
I agree with the most part, but I think that the price gaps between high and low end processors can be a little puzzling. Look at any table of speed/price for Pentium IIIs or Athlons and there is a point in the table where prices suddenly rise by hundreds of dollars for a puny 50Mhz increase. A 650 Mhz Athlon (we don't have Duron here in oz yet) is 70% the speed of a 950, but less than 30% of the price. The money I'd save by purchasing a cpu for a few hundred dollars less (and overclocking for the same performance) would buy a nice stick of ram, a big hard disc etc.
Sure enough, Tom's Hardware has done it again. Although it may seem messy, removing fine lines from the cpu packaging itself with etching solution, it sure beats cracking open the Athlon casing and constructing (or buying) a hack method of setting clock multipliers.
The thing that gets me is: there is no (obvious) reason that a motherboard manufacturer couldn't produce a board that 'ignores' AMDs settings. It could provide a display such as: CPU: AMD Duron 700 @ 950Mhz because it could get the manufacturers specification from the links on the cpu and then use its own settings for the actual clock. Flashing something like an omnious red "CPU Overclocked!" message on startup would dismay would-be reseller from selling cpus out of spec to unsuspecting users and tarnishing AMDs well earned brandname. Is this a viable solution for hardcore overclockers and AMD alike?
Just my 2c but at the current abismal $AU exchange rate that comes to about 1.2c US! Utopia isn't all it's cracked up to be.
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I guess I tend to agree with the posters who are screaming to have this article marked as flamebait, but mostly because some people, like yourself, deliberately miss the point. The author has some anecdotes for why an unarguably cheaper solution works for him. All you have done is list some similarly anecdotal but otherwise different situations you have something that woks for you.
Because your situation is different, your responses to his "points" are actually irrelevant, he's already preempted you by giving *his* reasons why his solution is better in *his* circumstance.
For example you say that
I have the 32g iPad of which I haven't used half.
. Well if I don't use email, my pen and paper is better than your iPad, as it has all the functionality I use, weighs less, costs less and never runs out of batteries.
The T30 he refers to 'only' weighs twice what the iPad 1 does, (not 3-4 times), and the author already made that point saying "look what else you get for that extra pound of weight".
You either misunderstand multitasking, or just didn't pay attention to what he did when he was. He wasn't talking about opening a dozen windows that "your are (sic) using ONE AND ONLY ONE AT THIS EXACT MOMENT", he was talking about streaming a radio service in one window whilst working in another.
hoggoth and others have dealt with most of the points you've made anyway, but responding to the authors' "here are five reasons A works better than B for C" article by saying "A is worse than B for C because I don't do C" isn't useful.
Agreed with Weaselmancer... There was no DRM in the Amiga OS.
The ROM was licensed and, yes, to run an emulator you are supposed to buy a license. As for the custom chips, to say it is DRM has the argument the wrong way around. The software was written for that hardware - you seem to suggest that the hardware was made to make the software hard to copy.
My Ubuntu desktop has been compiled for some custom hardware called the 'x86 instruction set', but I wouldn't say that that was DRM.
I was there for the whole night and only one team had managed to finish before you left - in fact only 2 teams finished the problem on the night.
:-)
I had a quick go in awk (solo) after the end of the night and in that language, which is DESIGNED for dealing with columns of text, means you can solve any of the problems presented in a couple of minutes.
It's pretty clear you weren't there for long as your summary is not that close to what happened, though your description of the problem is spot on.
Most solutions were a few screens long, only the awk solution I think would have fit on a single screen, only one team would have finished the problem by the time you left, and most images were not of the melbourne area, though some were. Unless you mean the new melbourne stonehenge
You should have stuck around, or asked if you could enter.
The reason I'd do it that way is so I could just cut, say, a 20 minute segment without the usual menus and so forth making it easier to sync the 2 machines side by side for comparison.
Actually, in Victoria corner of Glen Eira and Hotham Streets (you know it?) I was hit by some arsehole SPEEDING through a RED light.
The result? 50/50 (as I was turning right)
This meant he got half his car paid for, and I got my legal fees back (no car) as his was worth more.
If there'd been a red light / speedy camera someone doing the right thing would still own a car today. (I had a witness who said their light was green - which apparently isn't the same as proof that the lights at 90 degrees to them is red) The camera could have provided the difference.
I've put the cash part behind me, but the bastard could have KILLED someone.
Public safety? yeah I think so. Amber means slow down if safe - not put your foot down.
It was troll because you largely missed the point of the parent.
Your post implied the parent said Tiger was unstable however I can't find such a point in there, just that there is a "a large and quite frankly obvious bug present". Which there is.
This flaw has little to do with Microsoft, it cannot connect to my Debian linux server in the office either.
Your post bitches and moans about the observation that there is a lot of pro-Apple bias on Slashdot and draws an irrelevant comparison to Windows SMB integration.
You are the very zealot the parent eluded to.
Oh, you also have no idea what a question mark is.
The problem with this is it is an exception rather than the rule with Alston.
As he's probably the most ignorant and facist communications minster I can remember us ever having anyway.
I agree with this.
Firstly I believe this legislation is an EXCELLENT idea, HOWEVER, the attrocities including expensive websites and his blatant disregard for broadband in Australia are unforgivable.
I appreciate what he is doing here, but he's basically clueless with regards to technology.
One of his advisors (or his nephew etc. for all I know) need a pat on the back. He, on the otherhand, should be ousted before he does more damage.
My AU$0.02
I agree. The other thing that crossed my mind at first is the focus change your eye has to do as well as the camera. I heard it mentioned that LCD headsets (for VR) give the user a headache after a while as the eye is focused at one depth for such a long time.
With the usual rearview mirror, the eye is focused at a relatively long range on cars etc. from looking through the windscreen, and as the mirror is reflecting light from behind the car, your eye is still at the same focal depth when you look in the mirror... if you had an lcd it would be focused on something a meter away (at most) as opposed to many meters away
I wear reasonably low powered glasses to drive, but sometimes notice this change when I look down at the speedo
can anyone with neccessary physics background confirm this?
- James
I agree with the most part, but I think that the price gaps between high and low end processors can be a little puzzling. Look at any table of speed/price for Pentium IIIs or Athlons and there is a point in the table where prices suddenly rise by hundreds of dollars for a puny 50Mhz increase. A 650 Mhz Athlon (we don't have Duron here in oz yet) is 70% the speed of a 950, but less than 30% of the price. The money I'd save by purchasing a cpu for a few hundred dollars less (and overclocking for the same performance) would buy a nice stick of ram, a big hard disc etc.
Sure enough, Tom's Hardware has done it again. Although it may seem messy, removing fine lines from the cpu packaging itself with etching solution, it sure beats cracking open the Athlon casing and constructing (or buying) a hack method of setting clock multipliers.
The thing that gets me is: there is no (obvious) reason that a motherboard manufacturer couldn't produce a board that 'ignores' AMDs settings. It could provide a display such as: CPU: AMD Duron 700 @ 950Mhz because it could get the manufacturers specification from the links on the cpu and then use its own settings for the actual clock. Flashing something like an omnious red "CPU Overclocked!" message on startup would dismay would-be reseller from selling cpus out of spec to unsuspecting users and tarnishing AMDs well earned brandname. Is this a viable solution for hardcore overclockers and AMD alike?
Just my 2c but at the current abismal $AU exchange rate that comes to about 1.2c US! Utopia isn't all it's cracked up to be.