Amen, and there is nothing like being able to write web code in one monitor and reload the browser in another. Or compile a binary app to run in the one monitor while debugging in the other.
My co workers come in my office and look at my dual flat screens and think that I'm just hoarding resources. Little do they know that the money that they save from me not having to click around and precisely resize windows has paid for this other monitor many times over.
Countless sources... but here's one. I hope you don't get too much data from wherever you "heard" that they weren't because this has been common knowledge since before the first film even left the theaters. It was just a matter of whether it would make enough money to justify the production of the sequels as there wasn't a ton of faith in the original - they had to cut out some big sequences due to a budget crunch (needless to say that didn't happen this time around).
Nothing except for the ridiculous scalability of the memory subsystem that increases almost exponentially with each CPU added. The Itanium FPU is a certifiable 8-headed fire-breathing monster, but there are a number of benchmarks where the Opterons hang tight at a fraction of the cost.
Well this thread is about a chip made by IBM and primarily used by Apple.
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Thanks to your bulletproof evidence, I am a believer!! Go APPLE!!!
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Shame there is no 64-bit OS or applications for it. And I seriously doubt that it scales like a pair of Opterons. Though I welcome any evidence to the contrary.
You're not following the parent properly. They aren't saying that you're left off the hook because nobody is deprived anything, they are saying that copyright infringement and stealing are different. If you stole something the owner would be deprived of it. If you violated a copyright the owner would still have it but the value could be depreciated. Either way they are not the same. They are both still crimes, but they are not the same thing.
The RIAA is not bringing people up on theft charges.
As I can see it, the Inquirer is to tech news what the National Enquirer is to celebrity news. It not that the news is outright bad or deceptive, it's just that a lot of it is based on rumor and scuttlebutt from inside sources. For that reason, they have been able to break many stories before they are officially confirmed as well as release a bit of vapor rub. For the most part though, they seem to be on targer.
According to The Inquirer (yeah I know but bear with me), it looks like it could possibly be a security measure for their bottom line.
EULA snippet:
Replacement, Modification or Upgrade of the Software Microsoft reserves the right to replace, modify or upgrade the SOFTWARE at any time by offering you a replacement or modified version of the SOFTWARE or such upgrade and to charge for such replacement, modification or upgrade.
In the event that Microsoft offers a replacement or modified version of or any upgrade to the SOFTWARE, (a) your continued use of the SOFTWARE is conditioned on your acceptance of such replacement or modified version of or upgrade to the SOFTWARE and any accompanying superseding EULA, and (b) in the case of replacement or modified SOFTWARE, your use of all prior versions of the SOFTWARE is terminated.
TERMINATION:... Microsoft may terminate this EULA by offering you a superseding EULA for the SOFTWARE or any replacement or modified version of or upgrade to the SOFTWARE and conditioning your continued use of the SOFTWARE or such replacement, modified or upgraded version on your acceptance of such superseding EULA.
In the environment that we are talking about that 2x capable argument is pure delusion. That is unless a G4 or G5 can surf the web, check email, or create and open office documents two times faster than a PC. Also, in this place that we call the real world it's rare that you buy one computer at a time. Think about 1,000 computers. That runs your $10 a month to $10,000 a month and $240,000 over 2 years. Now tell me again how much more usable a Mac is at Office and Internet apps?
There is nothing contradictory about what I'm saying, you just don't appear to be as familiar with every aspect of this real world as you would like to think. For example, I work at a pretty large University (~28,000 enrolled) and we have over 300 independent departments that have their own budgets and put in their own POs. The vast majority of them still do the same things though. Only the hard sciences (Chemistry, Biololgy, Physics, etc) and Computer Science generally need computers above the baseline spec. That spec allows us to make sure that certain services (CD Burning as a quick and outdated example) are available everywhere on campus with a certain level of quality.
Also, people in this real world who spend real money on computers don't order through the Dell website, they have a sales rep who will make everything nice and simple for them. The organization of the website is irrelevant. Equally irrelevant, though I'll say it anyway, is that the Dell differentation is pretty simple: Dimension for home users, Optiplex for corporate desktops and Precision for higher end workstations. They all have categories within themselves but that's basically how it plays out. It's also funny how I see prices on the front page of the Dell store as well, Apple doesn't have a corner on that innovation. Maybe I've been dealing with Dell for so long that it can't help but make sense, you can have that, but for most people these advantages that Macs have are trivial.
Believe it or not, most companies will have gone through another upgrade cycle before Gigabit Ethernet is that big of a deal to them. A video card with 32 MB of RAM is more than enough for running office and terminal apps while surfing the web and checking email. Also Firewire is not a necessity as USB is not lacking in peripherals.
In a vanilla corporate environment, a lot of the Mac advantages just don't mean a lot. Why pay for a bunch of crap that your users don't need?
You must have been looking at a top of the line Dell. You'll easily beat that price with a low to mid range Dimension system.
Also, it is not so screwed up to define baseline specs when you have to support hundreds of systems that are purchased by disparate departments. A 2GHz PC with 512 MB of RAM and a 80 GB hard disk should satisfy 95% of the desktop users in most companies. It's a lot easier to dictate that and field exceptions than to order upgrades or have to ship computers back.
If he would have never become the leader of the resistance, he would have never sent his friend back to protect his mother. His friend turned out to be his father. If the war never happened, he would have never sent his father back therefore he would have never been concieved. His very existence depends him having to save his mother from a Terminator built by the machines that he is at war with.
Actually it's not as bad as you think and that's thanks to a massive plot hole in T2. If Skynet were truly destroyed in T2 and the war averted, then John Connor would have ceased to exist since his whole being was centered around the fact that he became the leader of the resistance and sent his father back to save his mother. So if you're going to harp on these details you're gonna have to jump on T2 as well.
Personally I liked T3. As shown, the continuity between the other two films wasn't bulletproof and you ALWAYS have to give the writers the benefit of the doubt on time travel stories because they always tend to be paradoxical on some level. T3 is for old school action fans who can appreciate REAL stuntwork and REAL explosions as opposed to the 3D Studio MAX fests that we see all the time now. This is how action was before people started trying to base their freaking worldviews on it and I, for one, welcome it.
I also liked the ending...
spoilers - though they'e probably been said 100 times before this post
A lot of people seem the miss the fact that the major Terminator theme is one of fate and destiny. The question is whether these can actually be changed. The ending of the 3rd film finishes an arc that gives their idea. Apparently the reason that Connor didn't disappear at the end of the second film was because the WAR STILL HAPPENS.
The first film was about preserving the humans' chance against the machines by making sure that John Connor is born. The second one was about keeping the war from ever happening. The third is the same but the reality of the situation becomes apparent, like the Terminator said, "Judgement Day is Inevitable."
I think it's cool that they took the darker path. While people say that it begs for a sequel, I think that it is the perfect ending to the story. John Connor is a classic literary JC character, which means that he CAN'T avoid his destiny. A destiny that becomes even more fitting to his type of character as you learn in T3.
You can rail on slashdotters all that you want, I'm just telling you that there is significant proof that a good shareware product can push registered sales like good singles push album sales. Also, piracy is INHERENT in business models used by RIAA, MPAA, BSA, etc. I guarantee you that if piracy is totally stamped out (and it won't be, but this statement is to be taken as hypothetical and relative), their revenue will not increase by any significant amount. Chances are that they will actually decrease in the long term, possibly after a small spike upward in the beginning.
That's the whole point! id made millions by giving away samples of their games for free, and they made millions off of people paying for it. Somewhere up the arc on this thread is somebody saying that they get a few tracks off of an album for free and then pay for it. Another person said that this was just an excuse for piracy. I'm not saying that it isn't but those who act like it is such an amazing thing to sample something online and then pay for it have a lot of evidence to the contrary with id. It is generally pretty difficult to find reliable copies of whole albums on P2P networks. You mainly get the popular stuff with a few album cuts.
Piracy is a cost of doing business when dealing with mostly intangible goods. The fact is that piracy directly correlates with popularity. If nobody wants it, nobody would pirate it. Chances are that the DOOM phenomenon would not have caught on without shareware, which is basically the equivalent of singles on the radio. As a matter of fact, DOOM is a big reason that shareware games got so big in the mid-90's. DOOM and DOOM II are two of the best selling computer games of ALL TIME. Of COURSE they are going to be heavily pirated just like Eminem and Linkin(sp?) Park are heavily pirated. This comes with the advantage of being able to produce a product that has a physical marginal cost of practically $0 once it has been designed.
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The same could be said about the Athlon. Those A64 machines all run under 32-bit Windows.
Hear Hear!
It also lets you stretch out your music visualization windows. =o)
Amen, and there is nothing like being able to write web code in one monitor and reload the browser in another. Or compile a binary app to run in the one monitor while debugging in the other.
My co workers come in my office and look at my dual flat screens and think that I'm just hoarding resources. Little do they know that the money that they save from me not having to click around and precisely resize windows has paid for this other monitor many times over.
Countless sources... but here's one. I hope you don't get too much data from wherever you "heard" that they weren't because this has been common knowledge since before the first film even left the theaters. It was just a matter of whether it would make enough money to justify the production of the sequels as there wasn't a ton of faith in the original - they had to cut out some big sequences due to a budget crunch (needless to say that didn't happen this time around).
Well you CAN buy one from IBM. Your point is still well taken though.
Nothing except for the ridiculous scalability of the memory subsystem that increases almost exponentially with each CPU added. The Itanium FPU is a certifiable 8-headed fire-breathing monster, but there are a number of benchmarks where the Opterons hang tight at a fraction of the cost.
Well this thread is about a chip made by IBM and primarily used by Apple.
Thanks to your bulletproof evidence, I am a believer!! Go APPLE!!!
Shame there is no 64-bit OS or applications for it. And I seriously doubt that it scales like a pair of Opterons. Though I welcome any evidence to the contrary.
You're not following the parent properly. They aren't saying that you're left off the hook because nobody is deprived anything, they are saying that copyright infringement and stealing are different. If you stole something the owner would be deprived of it. If you violated a copyright the owner would still have it but the value could be depreciated. Either way they are not the same. They are both still crimes, but they are not the same thing.
The RIAA is not bringing people up on theft charges.
As I can see it, the Inquirer is to tech news what the National Enquirer is to celebrity news. It not that the news is outright bad or deceptive, it's just that a lot of it is based on rumor and scuttlebutt from inside sources. For that reason, they have been able to break many stories before they are officially confirmed as well as release a bit of vapor rub. For the most part though, they seem to be on targer.
According to The Inquirer (yeah I know but bear with me), it looks like it could possibly be a security measure for their bottom line.
... Microsoft may terminate this EULA by offering you a superseding EULA for the SOFTWARE or any replacement or modified version of or upgrade to the SOFTWARE and conditioning your continued use of the SOFTWARE or such replacement, modified or upgraded version on your acceptance of such superseding EULA.
EULA snippet:
Replacement, Modification or Upgrade of the Software
Microsoft reserves the right to replace, modify or upgrade the SOFTWARE at any time by offering you a replacement or modified version of the SOFTWARE or such upgrade and to charge for such replacement, modification or upgrade.
In the event that Microsoft offers a replacement or modified version of or any upgrade to the SOFTWARE, (a) your continued use of the SOFTWARE is conditioned on your acceptance of such replacement or modified version of or upgrade to the SOFTWARE and any accompanying superseding EULA, and (b) in the case of replacement or modified SOFTWARE, your use of all prior versions of the SOFTWARE is terminated.
TERMINATION:
In the environment that we are talking about that 2x capable argument is pure delusion. That is unless a G4 or G5 can surf the web, check email, or create and open office documents two times faster than a PC. Also, in this place that we call the real world it's rare that you buy one computer at a time. Think about 1,000 computers. That runs your $10 a month to $10,000 a month and $240,000 over 2 years. Now tell me again how much more usable a Mac is at Office and Internet apps?
There is nothing contradictory about what I'm saying, you just don't appear to be as familiar with every aspect of this real world as you would like to think. For example, I work at a pretty large University (~28,000 enrolled) and we have over 300 independent departments that have their own budgets and put in their own POs. The vast majority of them still do the same things though. Only the hard sciences (Chemistry, Biololgy, Physics, etc) and Computer Science generally need computers above the baseline spec. That spec allows us to make sure that certain services (CD Burning as a quick and outdated example) are available everywhere on campus with a certain level of quality.
Also, people in this real world who spend real money on computers don't order through the Dell website, they have a sales rep who will make everything nice and simple for them. The organization of the website is irrelevant. Equally irrelevant, though I'll say it anyway, is that the Dell differentation is pretty simple: Dimension for home users, Optiplex for corporate desktops and Precision for higher end workstations. They all have categories within themselves but that's basically how it plays out. It's also funny how I see prices on the front page of the Dell store as well, Apple doesn't have a corner on that innovation. Maybe I've been dealing with Dell for so long that it can't help but make sense, you can have that, but for most people these advantages that Macs have are trivial.
Believe it or not, most companies will have gone through another upgrade cycle before Gigabit Ethernet is that big of a deal to them. A video card with 32 MB of RAM is more than enough for running office and terminal apps while surfing the web and checking email. Also Firewire is not a necessity as USB is not lacking in peripherals.
In a vanilla corporate environment, a lot of the Mac advantages just don't mean a lot. Why pay for a bunch of crap that your users don't need?
You must have been looking at a top of the line Dell. You'll easily beat that price with a low to mid range Dimension system.
Also, it is not so screwed up to define baseline specs when you have to support hundreds of systems that are purchased by disparate departments. A 2GHz PC with 512 MB of RAM and a 80 GB hard disk should satisfy 95% of the desktop users in most companies. It's a lot easier to dictate that and field exceptions than to order upgrades or have to ship computers back.
Apples (NPI) and Oranges. AMD sells ICs where Apple selles computers, Operating systems, office suites, music, and Mp3 players.
AMD probably still ships more chips - oh that's right, Apple doesn't manufacture their chips.
It's also no secret that AMD is living on the edge anyway. Apple has the advantage of a niche market with tons of customer loyalty.
Apples and Oranges...
id didn't make Hexen. It was outsourced to Raven software (a la QIV) if I'm not mistaken.
You make sense, but of course this is all pure speculation anyway so everything is welcome.
And this is my point.
If he would have never become the leader of the resistance, he would have never sent his friend back to protect his mother. His friend turned out to be his father. If the war never happened, he would have never sent his father back therefore he would have never been concieved. His very existence depends him having to save his mother from a Terminator built by the machines that he is at war with.
Actually it's not as bad as you think and that's thanks to a massive plot hole in T2. If Skynet were truly destroyed in T2 and the war averted, then John Connor would have ceased to exist since his whole being was centered around the fact that he became the leader of the resistance and sent his father back to save his mother. So if you're going to harp on these details you're gonna have to jump on T2 as well.
Personally I liked T3. As shown, the continuity between the other two films wasn't bulletproof and you ALWAYS have to give the writers the benefit of the doubt on time travel stories because they always tend to be paradoxical on some level. T3 is for old school action fans who can appreciate REAL stuntwork and REAL explosions as opposed to the 3D Studio MAX fests that we see all the time now. This is how action was before people started trying to base their freaking worldviews on it and I, for one, welcome it.
I also liked the ending...
spoilers - though they'e probably been said 100 times before this post
A lot of people seem the miss the fact that the major Terminator theme is one of fate and destiny. The question is whether these can actually be changed. The ending of the 3rd film finishes an arc that gives their idea. Apparently the reason that Connor didn't disappear at the end of the second film was because the WAR STILL HAPPENS.
The first film was about preserving the humans' chance against the machines by making sure that John Connor is born. The second one was about keeping the war from ever happening. The third is the same but the reality of the situation becomes apparent, like the Terminator said, "Judgement Day is Inevitable."
I think it's cool that they took the darker path. While people say that it begs for a sequel, I think that it is the perfect ending to the story. John Connor is a classic literary JC character, which means that he CAN'T avoid his destiny. A destiny that becomes even more fitting to his type of character as you learn in T3.
Hmmmm... works fine here. 2 1280x1024 Monitors under Win2K pro. Mozilla does have other issues with Dual Monitors though.
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Netscape has had pop up blocking since 7.02. AOL is also trumpeting pop-up blocking software with its service now.
Please try to make informed statements.
You can rail on slashdotters all that you want, I'm just telling you that there is significant proof that a good shareware product can push registered sales like good singles push album sales. Also, piracy is INHERENT in business models used by RIAA, MPAA, BSA, etc. I guarantee you that if piracy is totally stamped out (and it won't be, but this statement is to be taken as hypothetical and relative), their revenue will not increase by any significant amount. Chances are that they will actually decrease in the long term, possibly after a small spike upward in the beginning.
That's the whole point! id made millions by giving away samples of their games for free, and they made millions off of people paying for it. Somewhere up the arc on this thread is somebody saying that they get a few tracks off of an album for free and then pay for it. Another person said that this was just an excuse for piracy. I'm not saying that it isn't but those who act like it is such an amazing thing to sample something online and then pay for it have a lot of evidence to the contrary with id. It is generally pretty difficult to find reliable copies of whole albums on P2P networks. You mainly get the popular stuff with a few album cuts.
Piracy is a cost of doing business when dealing with mostly intangible goods. The fact is that piracy directly correlates with popularity. If nobody wants it, nobody would pirate it. Chances are that the DOOM phenomenon would not have caught on without shareware, which is basically the equivalent of singles on the radio. As a matter of fact, DOOM is a big reason that shareware games got so big in the mid-90's. DOOM and DOOM II are two of the best selling computer games of ALL TIME. Of COURSE they are going to be heavily pirated just like Eminem and Linkin(sp?) Park are heavily pirated. This comes with the advantage of being able to produce a product that has a physical marginal cost of practically $0 once it has been designed.