Sorry, but you are wrong. Apple does not sell any machine that can compete with the SGI Fuel. The Fuel may not look faster if you are used to check specs on pc's, but it will destroy any pc you try to compare it to for graphics aps.
The problem with the Fuel or any SGI machine(as has already been stated) is the price to performance ratio. However, if money is not a factor then you cant beat SGI for graphics.
Lets see, cost money, locked file format, looks like it only supports audio. Wyh would you even bother with this.
To little, to late. I think this is just the last gasp of a dying company. why would anyone pay to use resticted p2p when you can get unresticted p2p for free.
A few people of course will, but some people still think that thae e-mail they just got is going to make them rich.
Sadly this is just the beginning. To many people are scared.
I have actually asked rooms full of people wether they think, even given the extremly long odds that they would ever be involed in a terror incedent, it is a god idea to give these controls to the goverment and let their rights to privacy, speech and fair trial be vacated. Most of them said yes they would give up a portion of the rights. One I explained to some that giving up these freedoms would only create the illusion of security, but in fact would not make them any more secure a few even said that that was ok too.(I almost started screaming at those folks)
I think it is now starting to get better, but some of it is to late. It is going to be very difficult to take away the powers that have been given to law enforcement.
I honestly don't know what to do about the situation. I try to talk to friends and family about it and even people in grocery store lines and such. But I have to admit I am worried that there is nothing to be done. And I am sadly glad that many Americans are armed and am now a left wing liberal who supports the NRA. Scary.
I personally don't purcahase any CD's any more. I also refuse to buy a DVD player, and I must say it pisses me off how everyone on Slashdot cries and whines that the MPAA is stealing there rights then talks about what anime just came out on DVD.
If you don't like these companies DO NOT BUY THEIR PRODUTS!!. Please people you guys keep g the MPAA, RIAA really suck, but heres my $20 please give it to me up the ass.
Sure it may not be as much fun and no you don't get the newest gee wiz toy, but atleast you aren't contributing to the problem.
Well that is the end of my rant. Though for the sake of honesty I must add that I did just get a new laptop with a DVD in it, however it was I did not pay for it.
The weight associated with heat shielding the satalittes would probably make it unworkable as a nano-satalitte. The whole point is cheap, light and replaceable.
My father had a VAR for Intergragh & Bently. when he ended up going bankrupt, because Bently changed there pricing retroactivley to a year back, he paid his employees and then gave stuff to some of them(and me) under the reasoning that it was all going to the bankrupcy court anyway.
Same thing happened a t a company I worked for about a year ago. The owner gave me a couple off nice office chairs, a computer desk, some monitors and a bunch of other stuff. They know people are giving it away as a kind of extra severance pay.
That's probably the main reason insurance companies won't pay for stuff.
My girlfriend went to a school that had those. At one point it had a flaw were if you unplugged it after using it it would not debit your acount. Sadly her friends told some friends who told some friends and they ended up fixing it the following year.
Who starts these companies. Someone has to program this stuff, its not just some faceless corporation. There is some guy out there thinking up better ways to patrol the internet. This guy probably thinks he's a good guy.
I think that this will merely speed up a shift away from paying for access and towards paying for bandwith. If alot of places start doing this you won't be able to pay for X dollars for high speed internet access, you will pay $X/Mb. This way ISP's aren't losing money on the deal. People need to remember that eventualy someone will need to pay for the bandwith. Maybe donations to the networks that are providing free bandwith will help offset there costs. ISP charities!!
You laugh, I was evicted from an apartment because I was accused of a crime. I decided to fight it on the grounds that I was inoccent until proven guilty. It went before a justice of the peace, whose reply to my arguement was "Come on, we all know you did it." for clarification it was a charge of drug possesion.
The whole point of the discussion on Smart Tags is that by adding links not aproved by the author you are changinging the content.
What if every time your browser came across the word linux it linked you to a site critical of Linux. Or every time it saw "Stock Market" it linked you to MSN Money Centeral.
The first example is a good way to discredit competitors and the second is a way to leverage a monopoly in desktop OS's and browsers into increased market share in other markets.
The problem with carnivore is that the FBI says yes we have this new way to read your mail and you won't be able to tell we are doing it, but we are only going to use it on the bad guys, trust us, really.
I for one don't trust them or anyone. If you give someone the ability to does something then they probaly will. If they get a little curious then all of a sudden human nature takes over and the just peek a little. Or they have this thing sitting at the ISP and here is this guy they know is a bad guy so whats the harm in a little peek in his mail no one will know. The FBI probably would not set out with the idea of watch every packet, but its real easy once you are there to bend the rules a little just this once. And from there its easy to just keeo on bending those rules until eventually you are just breaking them. And the whole time you are doing this you know that all you are doing is protecting the good people and hurting the bad people. After all if you aren't a bad person you don't have anything to worry about if they read your mail.
Once you let go of your rights it is incredibly dificult to get them back.
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The problem with the Fuel or any SGI machine(as has already been stated) is the price to performance ratio. However, if money is not a factor then you cant beat SGI for graphics.
To little, to late. I think this is just the last gasp of a dying company. why would anyone pay to use resticted p2p when you can get unresticted p2p for free.
A few people of course will, but some people still think that thae e-mail they just got is going to make them rich.
I have actually asked rooms full of people wether they think, even given the extremly long odds that they would ever be involed in a terror incedent, it is a god idea to give these controls to the goverment and let their rights to privacy, speech and fair trial be vacated. Most of them said yes they would give up a portion of the rights. One I explained to some that giving up these freedoms would only create the illusion of security, but in fact would not make them any more secure a few even said that that was ok too.(I almost started screaming at those folks)
I think it is now starting to get better, but some of it is to late. It is going to be very difficult to take away the powers that have been given to law enforcement.
I honestly don't know what to do about the situation. I try to talk to friends and family about it and even people in grocery store lines and such. But I have to admit I am worried that there is nothing to be done. And I am sadly glad that many Americans are armed and am now a left wing liberal who supports the NRA. Scary.
Not to nitpick, but Moores Law states that the transistor count(not speed) will double every 18 months(not year)
If you don't like these companies DO NOT BUY THEIR PRODUTS!!. Please people you guys keep g the MPAA, RIAA really suck, but heres my $20 please give it to me up the ass.
Sure it may not be as much fun and no you don't get the newest gee wiz toy, but atleast you aren't contributing to the problem.
Well that is the end of my rant. Though for the sake of honesty I must add that I did just get a new laptop with a DVD in it, however it was I did not pay for it.
The weight associated with heat shielding the satalittes would probably make it unworkable as a nano-satalitte. The whole point is cheap, light and replaceable.
Same thing happened a t a company I worked for about a year ago. The owner gave me a couple off nice office chairs, a computer desk, some monitors and a bunch of other stuff. They know people are giving it away as a kind of extra severance pay.
That's probably the main reason insurance companies won't pay for stuff.
My girlfriend went to a school that had those. At one point it had a flaw were if you unplugged it after using it it would not debit your acount. Sadly her friends told some friends who told some friends and they ended up fixing it the following year.
Who starts these companies. Someone has to program this stuff, its not just some faceless corporation. There is some guy out there thinking up better ways to patrol the internet. This guy probably thinks he's a good guy.
I think that this will merely speed up a shift away from paying for access and towards paying for bandwith. If alot of places start doing this you won't be able to pay for X dollars for high speed internet access, you will pay $X/Mb. This way ISP's aren't losing money on the deal. People need to remember that eventualy someone will need to pay for the bandwith. Maybe donations to the networks that are providing free bandwith will help offset there costs. ISP charities!!
You laugh, I was evicted from an apartment because I was accused of a crime. I decided to fight it on the grounds that I was inoccent until proven guilty. It went before a justice of the peace, whose reply to my arguement was "Come on, we all know you did it." for clarification it was a charge of drug possesion.
What if every time your browser came across the word linux it linked you to a site critical of Linux. Or every time it saw "Stock Market" it linked you to MSN Money Centeral.
The first example is a good way to discredit competitors and the second is a way to leverage a monopoly in desktop OS's and browsers into increased market share in other markets.
The problem with carnivore is that the FBI says yes we have this new way to read your mail and you won't be able to tell we are doing it, but we are only going to use it on the bad guys, trust us, really. I for one don't trust them or anyone. If you give someone the ability to does something then they probaly will. If they get a little curious then all of a sudden human nature takes over and the just peek a little. Or they have this thing sitting at the ISP and here is this guy they know is a bad guy so whats the harm in a little peek in his mail no one will know. The FBI probably would not set out with the idea of watch every packet, but its real easy once you are there to bend the rules a little just this once. And from there its easy to just keeo on bending those rules until eventually you are just breaking them. And the whole time you are doing this you know that all you are doing is protecting the good people and hurting the bad people. After all if you aren't a bad person you don't have anything to worry about if they read your mail. Once you let go of your rights it is incredibly dificult to get them back.