No, I don't remember Bill Gates with "640K ought to be enough for anybody.", do you have a source for that handy? (just joking... i'm guessing you actually know that he never said that).
Every app designer that cares about performance is going into data-parallel design right now, with many media apps able to use 8+ threads already. Run two of these apps in a workflow and we'll see people on the desktop enthusiastic to get ahold of 16+ core chips.
Note also that dead or not, the odds that you will appreciate those lap dances at 75 are low, due to hormonal changes. And bad news for the beer as well, you probably won't be able to taste it, nor drink it in the first place because it interacts with your medicine. Oh by the way, you can't afford those lap dances or beer because you spent the whole wad on your medicine in the first place.
I'd take issue with that. Downloading music, sharing information in general, is completely ethical (barring that information being a direct physical danger to someone, such as revealing the name of an undercover cia agent), just not legal in some cases. Violating the law is ethically neutral in general, because the law can be wrong.
The student loan case is hazier. One could argue that in some cases, you are making a promise to use the money in a certain way. For example, if the loaner is led to believe that the loanee will get an education from the loan, and instead blows all the money gambling, doesn't get an education, goes bankrupt and does not repay the loan, then the loanee's lie harmed the loaner. On the other hand, if the loanee made no such promises, and the loan was made based only on the theory that statistically students are good people to loan money to, then the student is free to do what they think is most effective with the money (and I believe that this is in fact usually the case).
I keep hearing the internet is not a series of tubes, yet the last time I looked, nearly all of it was carried by fiber or copper wound in rubber or plastic tubing. Only a small percentage of internet traffic is not carried by a series of tubes.
Net neutrality has nothing to do with the speeds of the service offerings from the network providers. And you can get 100Mbps+ high speed FTTH in select areas of the US too.
That actually strengthens my point... when a grossly inefficient use of electricity for pure heating isn't enough to deliver an even mildly scary heating bill, who is going to worry about a drastically more efficient computer that probably uses only 1/10th of the power during normal use?
No kidding... I live in a cold area, and during the winter I make extensive use of a 1500watt electric heater. My electric bill is maybe $120 in the coldest month, including everything else as well. Who cares about buying a 600-1000watt pc power supply, which isn't even going to be close to full load most of the time.
I had a problem with payment on a Macy's (department store) credit card that I accepted on one of those get 50% off your first purchase deals where I was making a big enough purchase that it saved me hundreds of dollars. I tried 6 times (over hours) to resolve the issue over the phone. But lo and behold it gets solved in ten minutes when I start making a LOUD complaint about the problems I'm having with their card on busy saturday in their store.
Even more so, I wouldn't expect that a position criticizing MS would amount to flamebait on slashdot. Probably the best criticism of my post might be to call it karma-whoring, since you might expect it to elicit positive mods. I'd say neither troll nor flamebait is really a match.
The 'right' way to make that feature work would seem to be to never have shortcuts be installed for 'all users' but instead have that type of item replicate to all users. Then you can delete your desktop shortcut if you want.
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No, I don't remember Bill Gates with "640K ought to be enough for anybody.", do you have a source for that handy? ... i'm guessing you actually know that he never said that).
(just joking
Worse. More cpu resources need more data from memory. Memory doesn't magically get any faster from this advancement.
Every app designer that cares about performance is going into data-parallel design right now, with many media apps able to use 8+ threads already. Run two of these apps in a workflow and we'll see people on the desktop enthusiastic to get ahold of 16+ core chips.
The problem is, they'll give up when you apply any of these techniques, because the results are too severely wrong for them to put up with.
A better design would be to replace every 100th image or so with a randomly chosen one from google image search.
X bushels in litres& lr=&safe=off&client=firefox-a&rls=org.mozilla%3Aen -US%3Aofficial&q=1+bushels+in+litres&btnG=Search
is also a handy access to the google unit converter, where X is the number of bushels you want converted.
http://www.google.com/search?num=100&hs=pcR&hl=en
Note also that dead or not, the odds that you will appreciate those lap dances at 75 are low, due to hormonal changes. And bad news for the beer as well, you probably won't be able to taste it, nor drink it in the first place because it interacts with your medicine. Oh by the way, you can't afford those lap dances or beer because you spent the whole wad on your medicine in the first place.
I'd take issue with that. Downloading music, sharing information in general, is completely ethical (barring that information being a direct physical danger to someone, such as revealing the name of an undercover cia agent), just not legal in some cases. Violating the law is ethically neutral in general, because the law can be wrong.
The student loan case is hazier. One could argue that in some cases, you are making a promise to use the money in a certain way. For example, if the loaner is led to believe that the loanee will get an education from the loan, and instead blows all the money gambling, doesn't get an education, goes bankrupt and does not repay the loan, then the loanee's lie harmed the loaner. On the other hand, if the loanee made no such promises, and the loan was made based only on the theory that statistically students are good people to loan money to, then the student is free to do what they think is most effective with the money (and I believe that this is in fact usually the case).
I keep hearing the internet is not a series of tubes, yet the last time I looked, nearly all of it was carried by fiber or copper wound in rubber or plastic tubing. Only a small percentage of internet traffic is not carried by a series of tubes.
Net neutrality has nothing to do with the speeds of the service offerings from the network providers.
And you can get 100Mbps+ high speed FTTH in select areas of the US too.
You can get high speed FTTH from the phone companies in select areas of the US as well.
That actually strengthens my point ... when a grossly inefficient use of electricity for pure heating isn't enough to deliver an even mildly scary heating bill, who is going to worry about a drastically more efficient computer that probably uses only 1/10th of the power during normal use?
No kidding ... I live in a cold area, and during the winter I make extensive use of a 1500watt electric heater. My electric bill is maybe $120 in the coldest month, including everything else as well. Who cares about buying a 600-1000watt pc power supply, which isn't even going to be close to full load most of the time.
I had a problem with payment on a Macy's (department store) credit card that I accepted on one of those get 50% off your first purchase deals where I was making a big enough purchase that it saved me hundreds of dollars. I tried 6 times (over hours) to resolve the issue over the phone. But lo and behold it gets solved in ten minutes when I start making a LOUD complaint about the problems I'm having with their card on busy saturday in their store.
In the US what we have is called the FTC, and that's where his complaint, if filed with them, would have gotten him a nice reaction.
Probably not ...
... this is the $100 laptop).
1) Doesn't work in the dark.
2) Expensive (that little one, only powerful enough to charge a cell phone battery, $30
I think you'd have an equally hard time not pulling your hand away from a rabid dog jumping at your hand from inside a glass too.
Well obviously, the snakes are losing.
... everyone gets a participation ribbon to boost their self esteem, even the losers.
It's like an elementary school race
Thanks, I was sure it must mean something beyond the obvious. A google search didn't turn up an obvious source in the first few hits.
Shouldn't they have gotten off easy?
1) They weren't OTA, and they didn't use public resources to distribute their speech.
2) This is the F T C not the FCC.
3) The content in question was not accessible without a DMCA violation.
Why should this have even been an issue for Take 2?
I'm a little confused by this, a steak casts no more shadow than a similarly sized fan of seaweed.
Even more so, I wouldn't expect that a position criticizing MS would amount to flamebait on slashdot. Probably the best criticism of my post might be to call it karma-whoring, since you might expect it to elicit positive mods. I'd say neither troll nor flamebait is really a match.
The 'right' way to make that feature work would seem to be to never have shortcuts be installed for 'all users' but instead have that type of item replicate to all users. Then you can delete your desktop shortcut if you want.
Video editing. Parents and young grandparents are all over that.
It's news because when you're dealing with MS software, you can't take forward progress for granted. Compare win98se to winME.
The 4x4 architecture is two dual-core CPUs on a single motherboard (2x2=4 cores).
Actually, you're wrong about that.
4x4 is a platform with 2, dual core cpus (4) X 2, dual GPU graphics cards (4).
Hence, 4x4.