The bottom line is that while yes, they do require different motherboards to work, how many of those actual chips on the motherboard are different? Are the resistors and capacitors different? Or maybe just the Northbridge, Southbridge, and a few other chips different? Maybe some other company has already done a bunch of R&D for you and has made a bunch of quality motherboards for both platforms.
Last time I checked, laptop motherboards were all proprietary, so why would someone else be making the motherboards? This isn't a PC clone where every motherboard fits in every case.
Did you know that I'm running an Athlon XP 1900+ chip? No, I bet you didn't. I'm writing about business and profit, and you're busy jumping to conclusions about me. How about you shut up about me and stick to the topic, ass?
Your WD HD is not a processor. IDE drives have an interface common to all motherboards. Is your AMD chip going to run on an Intel motherboard? No.
Nobody is dictating anything. If a laptop company decides to switch manufacturers, Intel can't block them -- this isn't a military maneuver. A manufacturer can switch to AMD any time they want.
But the point is, if they're using Intel, and all of their R&D is invested in production with Intel chips, and they're making money using Intel, and they get benefits working with Intel, why would they switch if it's going to be a hassle and quite possibly affect the bottom line?
I'm sure there are people in the accounting departments and the R&D departments at computer manufacturing companies, and they sit there and crunch the numbers and figure out whether switching to AMD is going to cost more than sticking with Intel.
Not trying to start a flame war, just curious -- how can you boo NASCAR?!?! They're all down to earth, the crews and drivers exhibit sportsmanship that is unparalleled in sports, they go really really fast, have spectacular crashes (which recently haven't involved death, let alone major injury)?
The only downside is that they're all whores for their sponsors, but that doesn't bother me, because the races are fun to watch! Seriously... I know, I know, they only turn left... FOX's NASCAR coverage really, really got me though, they make it exciting even when it's rain-delayed!
WWE already webcasts their pay-per-views, and while NASCAR doesn't do webcasts, you can access telemetry from all the cars in the Winston Cup races, and see a ton of real-time data on the races while you watch it on FOX (or ABC later in the season) using their TrackPass site features.
I'm not particularly excited that MLB is doing it. It sounds to me like another desperate ploy to get fans back after they abused us with their "I deserve more money even though I have enough $100 bills lying around to wipe my ass with for the rest of my life" spoiled rich boy player strikes.
Forget baseball -- NASCAR is the new national pastime.
If you only have one supplyer, then your pretty much locked into whatever they want to charge you. Having two is good, having three or more is even better.
Then you wind up with two or three somewhat different architectures, and have to design two or three different products, R&D costs go up, one design might not even sell......or you could stick with a known and trusted brand like Intel, focus on R&D on a single architecture and reasonably expect a better quality product...
Stand up to? Floating point bug aside, Intel chips are reliable and fast, why would you risk guaranteed profit to switch to another brand and possibly wreck your whole operation? Seems silly to me.
The willy-nilly invocation of "rights" is a sign of the culture of entitlement, you know.
I'm not invoking anything "willy nilly", though. I am discussing a very serious right (read below.)
You don't. Why should there be a line? If I want to follow you around all the time-- unbeknownst to you, of course-- and record all your comings and goings in a little book that I keep under my pillow, why should I be prevented by law?
That's called stalking... last time I checked that was illegal...
In fact, I'm having a very difficult time imagining a scenario in which having your purchases recorded in various company databases somewhere could be twisted into something harmful. I just can't think of anything off the top of my head that would involve the collection or use of that information and that would cause you, the customer, any harm at all.
No harm at all? Here's a scenario: let's say you're gay. And you buy books about being gay, and perhaps buy some gay erotica. Sexual preference is nobody's business but your own, so you decide to keep that fact about yourself private. And then let's say you decide to run for public office, and someone goes through their database and sees that you bought gay books and gay erotica. Then they contact the media, tell them you're gay, and the media makes a huge deal about it.
Your campaign goes to shit over your sexual preference, which has absolutely nothing to do with your political qualifications.
Perhaps people might decide to chain you to a fence and beat you to death, because they found out you're gay -- yes, it happens.
The Warren paper, while noteworthy, deals exclusively with the publication of personal information. The paper, written when my grandfather was my age and more than 110 years old now, provides no guidance on the question of whether it should be lawful for a company to collect information about its customers.
They make the case for publication of personal information, and in a dissenting opinion for the Supreme Court tied the above rights to the 9th Amendment: "The enumeration in the Constitution, of certain rights, shall not be construed to deny or disparage others retained by the people."
Just because it's not illegal to make note of purchases doesn't mean that you have the right to do so, necessarily. The question then becomes, well, is it ok to let companies/people track other people? Where do you draw the line when it comes to tracking what people do?
How much longer before they start introducing niggling little irritations if you buy with cash, and/or larger incentives if you buy with a credit card?
When credit card companies stop charging merchants for credit card transactions.
I'm asking people to stop posting things just to post things. I'm challenging them to actually use their brains and contribute positively to a discussion.
I'm not saying that Slashdot ignores other tech companies' monopolies... my point was, any time there IS an article regarding those other companies, the ratio of intelligent-to-asinine posts (e.g. "Oh, it figures that::insert company name:: would do that, they'd kill my firstborn if it meant a profit.") is much, much lower.
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Misleading rhetoric, you say?
Totally. Rock on, lexical lad! ;-)
A cute penguin logo!
I've got a webcam, a blacklight, and a whole can of Gold Bond medicated powder if anyone wants to see my glowing cyber-balls...
Right... it must be pathetic to support the entire free television industry.
Ass.
I doubt, however, that a whole game will be loaded into RAM, that just doesn't sound feasable to me.
Go buy a book on operating systems and read about virtual memory, it absolutely is feasible.
Either your loading the whole game into RAM, *shudder*
Isn't... that... what... console... gaming... systems... do... now...?
OK, but some people want the cool 3d visual effects and video games. If you like 3d racing games, why would you play the Sims?
The bottom line is that while yes, they do require different motherboards to work, how many of those actual chips on the motherboard are different? Are the resistors and capacitors different? Or maybe just the Northbridge, Southbridge, and a few other chips different? Maybe some other company has already done a bunch of R&D for you and has made a bunch of quality motherboards for both platforms.
Last time I checked, laptop motherboards were all proprietary, so why would someone else be making the motherboards? This isn't a PC clone where every motherboard fits in every case.
There's always exceptions, obviously :-)
::cough::Dallas Cowboys::cough::..
But at least none of the teams are 50% convicted felons
I have a Best Buy credit card, a Sam Ash credit card... they don't bother me at all (unless I start missing payments, of course.)
Did you know that I'm running an Athlon XP 1900+ chip? No, I bet you didn't. I'm writing about business and profit, and you're busy jumping to conclusions about me. How about you shut up about me and stick to the topic, ass?
Your WD HD is not a processor. IDE drives have an interface common to all motherboards. Is your AMD chip going to run on an Intel motherboard? No.
Nobody is dictating anything. If a laptop company decides to switch manufacturers, Intel can't block them -- this isn't a military maneuver. A manufacturer can switch to AMD any time they want.
But the point is, if they're using Intel, and all of their R&D is invested in production with Intel chips, and they're making money using Intel, and they get benefits working with Intel, why would they switch if it's going to be a hassle and quite possibly affect the bottom line?
I'm sure there are people in the accounting departments and the R&D departments at computer manufacturing companies, and they sit there and crunch the numbers and figure out whether switching to AMD is going to cost more than sticking with Intel.
Not trying to start a flame war, just curious -- how can you boo NASCAR?!?! They're all down to earth, the crews and drivers exhibit sportsmanship that is unparalleled in sports, they go really really fast, have spectacular crashes (which recently haven't involved death, let alone major injury)?
The only downside is that they're all whores for their sponsors, but that doesn't bother me, because the races are fun to watch! Seriously... I know, I know, they only turn left... FOX's NASCAR coverage really, really got me though, they make it exciting even when it's rain-delayed!
Not as strong as "AXIS OF EVIL".
I am disgusted that I even typed those stupid words.
WWE already webcasts their pay-per-views, and while NASCAR doesn't do webcasts, you can access telemetry from all the cars in the Winston Cup races, and see a ton of real-time data on the races while you watch it on FOX (or ABC later in the season) using their TrackPass site features.
I'm not particularly excited that MLB is doing it. It sounds to me like another desperate ploy to get fans back after they abused us with their "I deserve more money even though I have enough $100 bills lying around to wipe my ass with for the rest of my life" spoiled rich boy player strikes.
Forget baseball -- NASCAR is the new national pastime.
If you only have one supplyer, then your pretty much locked into whatever they want to charge you. Having two is good, having three or more is even better.
...or you could stick with a known and trusted brand like Intel, focus on R&D on a single architecture and reasonably expect a better quality product...
Then you wind up with two or three somewhat different architectures, and have to design two or three different products, R&D costs go up, one design might not even sell...
Stand up to? Floating point bug aside, Intel chips are reliable and fast, why would you risk guaranteed profit to switch to another brand and possibly wreck your whole operation? Seems silly to me.
...but can these chips be used for Poker?
The willy-nilly invocation of "rights" is a sign of the culture of entitlement, you know.
I'm not invoking anything "willy nilly", though. I am discussing a very serious right (read below.)
You don't. Why should there be a line? If I want to follow you around all the time-- unbeknownst to you, of course-- and record all your comings and goings in a little book that I keep under my pillow, why should I be prevented by law?
That's called stalking... last time I checked that was illegal...
In fact, I'm having a very difficult time imagining a scenario in which having your purchases recorded in various company databases somewhere could be twisted into something harmful. I just can't think of anything off the top of my head that would involve the collection or use of that information and that would cause you, the customer, any harm at all.
No harm at all? Here's a scenario: let's say you're gay. And you buy books about being gay, and perhaps buy some gay erotica. Sexual preference is nobody's business but your own, so you decide to keep that fact about yourself private. And then let's say you decide to run for public office, and someone goes through their database and sees that you bought gay books and gay erotica. Then they contact the media, tell them you're gay, and the media makes a huge deal about it.
Your campaign goes to shit over your sexual preference, which has absolutely nothing to do with your political qualifications.
Perhaps people might decide to chain you to a fence and beat you to death, because they found out you're gay -- yes, it happens.
The Warren paper, while noteworthy, deals exclusively with the publication of personal information. The paper, written when my grandfather was my age and more than 110 years old now, provides no guidance on the question of whether it should be lawful for a company to collect information about its customers.
They make the case for publication of personal information, and in a dissenting opinion for the Supreme Court tied the above rights to the 9th Amendment: "The enumeration in the Constitution, of certain rights, shall not be construed to deny or disparage others retained by the people."
Just because it's not illegal to make note of purchases doesn't mean that you have the right to do so, necessarily. The question then becomes, well, is it ok to let companies/people track other people? Where do you draw the line when it comes to tracking what people do?
"There is no right to privacy."
For US citizens, I refer you to the Warren & Brandeis paper, titled The Right to Privacy . And this page has some good summaries.
Whether or not the US Government respects privacy rights is another matter entirely, but to say we don't have them is incorrect.
How much longer before they start introducing niggling little irritations if you buy with cash, and/or larger incentives if you buy with a credit card?
When credit card companies stop charging merchants for credit card transactions.
I'm asking people to stop posting things just to post things. I'm challenging them to actually use their brains and contribute positively to a discussion.
I meant higher. Shit. You know, more intelligent posts, less asinine ones... ugh. I really should use that preview button more often.
I'm not saying that Slashdot ignores other tech companies' monopolies... my point was, any time there IS an article regarding those other companies, the ratio of intelligent-to-asinine posts (e.g. "Oh, it figures that ::insert company name:: would do that, they'd kill my firstborn if it meant a profit.") is much, much lower.