Didn't someone predict that we'd only ever need 128 MB of ram and that more ram would be superfluous for most consumers?
While in theory technology might out pace demand, and I think it may very well happen someday, in practice this is something that I'll believe when I see it.
Right now there are a lot of flashy games out there. Users may want to run many more applications at once (or more likely turn on M$ poorly executed eyecandy and not notice their computers slowing down).
I don't think this is something companies like AMD should be drastically steering their policies towards. It will probably happen gradually, as most customers are already low-end.
Cow magnet, sledge hammer and crowbar. Apply liberally to hard drive. Note: use the hammer to get leverage for the bar to get the metal casing off, apply magnet when platters are visible.
I mean an OS like Ubuntu has so many options that while yes you can test to the standard install does that test mean anything? Who goes with all-standard settings for their machine if they use that machine often? And if it is a machine that you are going to leave on and never change the settings, such as a lab computer, and you are worried about power consumption per machine (which for a large institution or a large lab savings might be considerable) wouldn't you tweak the settings to get things down yourself?
Power saving to me seems to be something more in the settings, what effects you use, how quickly the monitor turns off and goes into power saving mode etc. rather than a function of the over-all os.
No what is news or rather made into news is the Google "Ban" on adds against move-on.org even though there is no such ban. The detail of the trademark will be quietly left out while the pundits loudly shout about the supposed ban.
This is how politics work or doesn't work as the case may be.
Yeah, but if DNA can narrow things down to say an handful of people and the prosecution can rule out all of them except one then reasonable doubt is satisfied.
It can also still help figure out likely suspects AND provide further evidence for the prosecution (or defense).
Heck Eye-Witness testimony has been proven unreliable by douzens if not hundreds of cases and studies. Yet it is still one of the main sources of evidence in cases today.
Reasonable Doubt is a reasonably doubtful proposition.
>>Does anyone really believe that one in five dollars spent goes to something "fake"?
Certainly once genetic code can be copyrighted, trademarked or otherwise "protected" (as it often is in the form of plant seed), you can have consumers buying fake wheat, corn, oats even copyright infringing bananas.
The thing is where did you get that music and hear it in the first place?
A lot of these radiostations, offer more than just music, but also commentary and talk. I've heard a lot of artists for the first time on net radio. Some of the songs I've heard over the net are tapes and recordings where the only copy exists at the station itself or are from local artists who don't have big record deals.
Every artist listed in the above post is main stream.
How about Becket and Frenz, Kraftwerk, or atomisk? How about traditional German, African, or any other ethnic music that isn't run through the pop-radio filter?
What is being taken out here are the artists, music and sounds that DON'T often have a record label or that you probably haven't heard of. Good stuff, that deserves to be aired. Granted perhaps most of it doesn't fit the tastes of enough people for it to belong on a major channel, but that doesn't mean it isn't good enough to be played and shared over the radio, either through the spectrum or the wires.
This is an important issue, and if net radio goes down, even if you don't listen. Just wait till they get around to your corner of the net.
As far as what to add I have to say three things as well
Better Hardware Support, especially in the music and movie hardware field, IE graphics sound and drivers for the HD/BlueRay stuff.
Better Sound, Music, and Movie presentation and support
Better Desktop User Interface
Note none of these are to the exclusion of the classic things such as reliability etc.
The reason I posit these three things in particular is with all the DRM, and Copy Right protection racketeering and general trend of pervasive spyware I feel there may be a niche opening up for users who don't want other people mucking with their systems and want to be able to play the latest tunes and watch the latest movies etc.
A fourth thing is support for mainstream games, through wine or otherwise. A lot of users would switch even if not all games are ported but "the good ones are." Working with game companies to if not develop a native version to make it easier to run under emulation.
>>We tried it once with the Ubuntu god but it just felt blasphemous and unclean.
That's because Ubuntu doesn't do anything with regular kneeling prayers like that. I find that sacrificing a rooster every quarter. Take the main sever or sys admin's computer (what ever the most powerful machine running Ubuntu) out to the parking lot, or put it near a window where it can see the sacrifice. Don't do it indoors. Oh and barbecuing the bird afterwards is bad form.
>>I know everybody bitches about the new OS coming out and vows never to upgrade, especially when it's Microsoft.
I dunno what you're talking about. I run Ubuntu and the last five major upgrades have just gotten easier and easier. Last time I didn't even have to use my keyboard other than to give admin access to the installer. I check for updates every day and generally update something at least once a week which on average takes less than five minutes during which I'm doing other cpu intensive things.
Oh and I can look at and even verify what each and every update does to my machine and choose to only update some software and not others. And new interfaces are something I can choose to try out or not (I can even go back to entirely keyboard if I wanna).
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Didn't someone predict that we'd only ever need 128 MB of ram and that more ram would be superfluous for most consumers?
While in theory technology might out pace demand, and I think it may very well happen someday, in practice this is something that I'll believe when I see it.
Right now there are a lot of flashy games out there. Users may want to run many more applications at once (or more likely turn on M$ poorly executed eyecandy and not notice their computers slowing down).
I don't think this is something companies like AMD should be drastically steering their policies towards. It will probably happen gradually, as most customers are already low-end.
If they were selling it as a normal product they would be harping MORE about their philosophy not less.
It's called advertizing.
Cow magnet, sledge hammer and crowbar. Apply liberally to hard drive.
Note: use the hammer to get leverage for the bar to get the metal casing off, apply magnet when platters are visible.
Yes but life is Millions of years old, as well as Billions. Get enough Millions and you start getting billions.
IT guys are not generally part of Unions.
Yes. Sure. Lets base judgment of an entire paradise on a single relatively small bit of software in that paradime.
Just like closed source, open source has some lemons too.
I mean after 5 years of development by the biggest software company in the world Vista shows that closed source isn't that great either.
If they are getting back semi-coherent conversation with him then it is safe to assume that the words coming back are more or less correct.
No hiding them that way MS can get more patches, and sell more antivirus/defence mechanisms.
These Antiviral softs also figure in nicely as new "Features" for new releases of OS software.
So you want to have companies build where there is an abundance of affordable housing for their staff?
Uhm.
Do you know what as city is?
That and Hitler's mental health was on the decline through the war.
The thing is the iPhone never said it was going to run legacy software.
Balmer is a master of his art. There would be no dodging.
Yes but today there are those pesky things such as those ice caps actually receding and the fabled NW passage opening.
I'm with you man.
I'm confused as to how this might matter at all.
I mean an OS like Ubuntu has so many options that while yes you can test to the standard install does that test mean anything? Who goes with all-standard settings for their machine if they use that machine often? And if it is a machine that you are going to leave on and never change the settings, such as a lab computer, and you are worried about power consumption per machine (which for a large institution or a large lab savings might be considerable) wouldn't you tweak the settings to get things down yourself?
Power saving to me seems to be something more in the settings, what effects you use, how quickly the monitor turns off and goes into power saving mode etc. rather than a function of the over-all os.
No what is news or rather made into news is the Google "Ban" on adds against move-on.org even though there is no such ban. The detail of the trademark will be quietly left out while the pundits loudly shout about the supposed ban.
This is how politics work or doesn't work as the case may be.
Yeah, but if DNA can narrow things down to say an handful of people and the prosecution can rule out all of them except one then reasonable doubt is satisfied.
It can also still help figure out likely suspects AND provide further evidence for the prosecution (or defense).
Heck Eye-Witness testimony has been proven unreliable by douzens if not hundreds of cases and studies. Yet it is still one of the main sources of evidence in cases today.
Reasonable Doubt is a reasonably doubtful proposition.
yeah but the practice isn't that widely used yet and there will likely be records of this DNA.
The DNA testing still narrows it down to a very small set of people.
Yeah but you are talking about people in power who don't see past four years and that's the ones that plan ahead.
>>Does anyone really believe that one in five dollars spent goes to something "fake"?
Certainly once genetic code can be copyrighted, trademarked or otherwise "protected" (as it often is in the form of plant seed), you can have consumers buying fake wheat, corn, oats even copyright infringing bananas.
The thing is where did you get that music and hear it in the first place?
A lot of these radiostations, offer more than just music, but also commentary and talk. I've heard a lot of artists for the first time on net radio. Some of the songs I've heard over the net are tapes and recordings where the only copy exists at the station itself or are from local artists who don't have big record deals.
Every artist listed in the above post is main stream.
How about Becket and Frenz, Kraftwerk, or atomisk? How about traditional German, African, or any other ethnic music that isn't run through the pop-radio filter?
What is being taken out here are the artists, music and sounds that DON'T often have a record label or that you probably haven't heard of. Good stuff, that deserves to be aired. Granted perhaps most of it doesn't fit the tastes of enough people for it to belong on a major channel, but that doesn't mean it isn't good enough to be played and shared over the radio, either through the spectrum or the wires.
This is an important issue, and if net radio goes down, even if you don't listen. Just wait till they get around to your corner of the net.
As far as what to add I have to say three things as well
Better Hardware Support, especially in the music and movie hardware field, IE graphics sound and drivers for the HD/BlueRay stuff.
Better Sound, Music, and Movie presentation and support
Better Desktop User Interface
Note none of these are to the exclusion of the classic things such as reliability etc.
The reason I posit these three things in particular is with all the DRM, and Copy Right protection racketeering and general trend of pervasive spyware I feel there may be a niche opening up for users who don't want other people mucking with their systems and want to be able to play the latest tunes and watch the latest movies etc.
A fourth thing is support for mainstream games, through wine or otherwise. A lot of users would switch even if not all games are ported but "the good ones are." Working with game companies to if not develop a native version to make it easier to run under emulation.
Ok... I was just taking Steven's word for it. I recall he did mention it on the show.
You know they actually did ban Steven Colbert for that and they tend to pre-emptily lock things that are brought up on the show for changing.
>>We tried it once with the Ubuntu god but it just felt blasphemous and unclean.
That's because Ubuntu doesn't do anything with regular kneeling prayers like that. I find that sacrificing a rooster every quarter. Take the main sever or sys admin's computer (what ever the most powerful machine running Ubuntu) out to the parking lot, or put it near a window where it can see the sacrifice. Don't do it indoors. Oh and barbecuing the bird afterwards is bad form.
>>I know everybody bitches about the new OS coming out and vows never to upgrade, especially when it's Microsoft.
I dunno what you're talking about. I run Ubuntu and the last five major upgrades have just gotten easier and easier. Last time I didn't even have to use my keyboard other than to give admin access to the installer. I check for updates every day and generally update something at least once a week which on average takes less than five minutes during which I'm doing other cpu intensive things.
Oh and I can look at and even verify what each and every update does to my machine and choose to only update some software and not others. And new interfaces are something I can choose to try out or not (I can even go back to entirely keyboard if I wanna).
What's the big deal about Upgrading?