I said: "Not really that terrible now". Their prices are far less inflated than in 2005-2006. Fact.
I also said they were much better several years ago. And several means like 1999. So there's another fact.
Intel is better now, they are better since mid 2006, BUT I DIDN'T SAID IT. Is that such a huge problem?
I doesn't mean that I don't know about it, just that this was an AMD discussion so I though it was not relevant to the point (That AMD lost their soul by getting too greedy in 2005, and never recovered it). I also don't believe that AMD will leapfrog Intel in the next 3 or 4 years. I can't predict the future, but the trend seems to be that they will lag in production capacity even more. In fact in my post I was trying to explain AMD part in its own fall.
Now please stop calling me fanboy unless you can prove it, with something like an argument, and also please stop being a Intel fanboy yourself.
They were terrible just before Intel launched the Core2Duo: They only cared about the most profitable segments, being too expensive in the high end, and that happened just because limited production capacity, so they could not provide the market with a whole array of products from low end to ultra high end.
AMD was much better several years ago, with much more bang for the buck than Intel in the segments I usually buy, not the highest end, but still providing competitive value for the price.
Killing is not necessary to have success in evolution, unless it is for food.
It sometimes happens, I won't deny it. But it also doesn't happen every single time.
You can see that a lot of species benefit from helping other species, not from killing them. We know that process as symbiosis.
My point is: the fact that it happens doesn't mean that is necessary, or even prevalent among species. As a student of mathematics it is clear to me that to disprove your argument I simply need to find ONE single case where killing is not necessary. Easy enough. There is a HUGE difference to say that killing is necessary for evolution (meaning that it has to happen EVERY SINGLE time) and to say that killing sometimes happen and it even helps the killer.
In evolution the only thing that matters is to keep the genes going. By killing, or by collaborating or by whatever that works. And nature will not change to reflect your desires and moral issues. Nature is ruthless and unforgiving.
About humans... well we got where we are because we were more efficient killers than all the others who competed with us. So it's a little hard to change that.
Make it that killing makes one far less successful (by negating the possibility to have offspring for killers) and you will see that the killing traits will be less and less prevalent in the population with enough time.
but because it predicts that in the end you're either a killer (active or passive) or a dead man Are you crazy? The only thing about evolution is that the ones who have successful offspring are the winners. No killing necessary at all. Your offspring is sterile, or can't have more offspring, you lose. And that's all.
Otherwise successful vegetables would be killers. And vegetables evolve too.
In fact evolutionary speaking poor people are far more successful, simply because they breed more. And I don't see any killing involved there.
I do agree with you in the easy of use of Office 2007. For just one reason. I am a programmer. I don't use Word or Excel or that stuff in a daily basis. So, everytime I need to use Office, I have to read the menus, and search for what I need.
Office 2007 is easier for me on that basis. For an ultra-expert Office 2003 user that knows every single keyboard shortcut and menu option it surely can be traumatic.
Also, I have installed the 2007 compatibility add-on and can read 2007 docs with ease. But no, there was no dialog about patches or something, I had to hunt it down on the Web.
Not only that, but games are a huge profitable industry right now. Even losing some money on console sales, at some point there's the ROI and then heaven.
Sometimes people change the rationalization they use. Not saying you're lying though, just saying you might want to think about that possiblity. Not liking Vista doesn't make you an MS hater, but not keeping an open mind when you evaluate it, which it doesn't sound like you really did, makes me wonder though. Honestly I used to have some of those same reasons for not wanting to use MS, but then I realized they were pretty silly. This is not my discussion but I'll bite:
Vista is the only OS where I have ever typed something and then wait for 15 seconds before the damn text started to appear in screen. And it wasn't in any 'smart search' text control or something, just a plain input control. In a Vista laptop bought by a friend last year.
That's more than enough for me to dismiss it, as I can't stand that behaviour.
OTOH, I love Windows server and SQL Server 2005.
In fact, in XP I can simply double click a.rdp file and I'm in the server. Vista adds a couple of silly dialogs and I have to put the password every time, which I don't like to do. XP wins there too for me.
I have to add: Moore's law is not about density in a physics way, but about transistor density per a fixed amount of money. That's it, the cost of a fixed number of transistors will halve each two years.
So it's more like an economic law.
About your argument 'prognosis vs law', well, almost anything in economics is more a prognosis than a law, but whatever, nobody cares.
I don't know where are you from, but here gringo means someone from the United States.
White people? depends on how they speak. English accent, unless they say they're Canadians they're gringos by default. Otherwise it depends on their local accent, can be called 'paisa', 'rolo', etc.
Lots of white people here, and NO ONE is a gringo unless they say so.
Every person I've talked to (including sexy creative types) think no DVD drive and only USB port is a deal killer.
I totally agree with you in that respect. But I also have to add: Every MacBook (Pro) user I have talked to about the issue, can only count one or two times they have used the DVD in their laptops. And no one has needed more than one USB port either.
So this is really a very subjective issue.
I have to add a disclaimer: In this country if somebody sees a movie in his/her laptop, 99% of the time it has been downloaded instead of rented.
--Nowadays it is 'hip' for a startup to be bought by Yahoo. In fact it's a very succesfull exit for a startup. Google and Yahoo compete for the new startups that are coming to the Internet (like flickr in its time, etc.)
--It's very anti-'hip' to be bought by Microsoft. Most companies would prefer to go to Google than 'sell-out' by going Microsoft.
In the end, this means cheaper startups for Google. And the watering down of the Yahoo! trademark.
In English forums I often see 'too' replaced by 'to', 'than' replaced by 'then', and some other annoying stuff.
If someone corrects them, the answer is always the same, someone calling spelling-Nazi to someone else.
In other languages' forums I have seen, whenever someone has bad spelling, the correcting posts are lauded instead of criticised. No one calls names for that.
And the people corrects their spelling, quite fast, in order to fit into the community.
Even more, given that the 'than'=>'then' error was quite unknown to me 2 years ago, and now has widespread usage all over the net.
As 'trying to fit into the community' is such a strong instinct in humans, I can hypothesise that almost all the 'then' instead of 'than' is more a fault of the offending communities, than a specific fault of the individuals.
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I said: "Not really that terrible now". Their prices are far less inflated than in 2005-2006. Fact.
I also said they were much better several years ago. And several means like 1999. So there's another fact.
Intel is better now, they are better since mid 2006, BUT I DIDN'T SAID IT. Is that such a huge problem?
I doesn't mean that I don't know about it, just that this was an AMD discussion so I though it was not relevant to the point (That AMD lost their soul by getting too greedy in 2005, and never recovered it). I also don't believe that AMD will leapfrog Intel in the next 3 or 4 years. I can't predict the future, but the trend seems to be that they will lag in production capacity even more. In fact in my post I was trying to explain AMD part in its own fall.
Now please stop calling me fanboy unless you can prove it, with something like an argument, and also please stop being a Intel fanboy yourself.
Actually, I would say 'relearn'.
This mistake was totally non-existent back in 2003. Don't know why it caught up.
Not really that terrible now.
They were terrible just before Intel launched the Core2Duo: They only cared about the most profitable segments, being too expensive in the high end, and that happened just because limited production capacity, so they could not provide the market with a whole array of products from low end to ultra high end.
AMD was much better several years ago, with much more bang for the buck than Intel in the segments I usually buy, not the highest end, but still providing competitive value for the price.
Killing is not necessary to have success in evolution, unless it is for food.
It sometimes happens, I won't deny it. But it also doesn't happen every single time.
You can see that a lot of species benefit from helping other species, not from killing them. We know that process as symbiosis.
My point is: the fact that it happens doesn't mean that is necessary, or even prevalent among species. As a student of mathematics it is clear to me that to disprove your argument I simply need to find ONE single case where killing is not necessary. Easy enough. There is a HUGE difference to say that killing is necessary for evolution (meaning that it has to happen EVERY SINGLE time) and to say that killing sometimes happen and it even helps the killer.
In evolution the only thing that matters is to keep the genes going. By killing, or by collaborating or by whatever that works. And nature will not change to reflect your desires and moral issues. Nature is ruthless and unforgiving.
About humans... well we got where we are because we were more efficient killers than all the others who competed with us. So it's a little hard to change that.
Make it that killing makes one far less successful (by negating the possibility to have offspring for killers) and you will see that the killing traits will be less and less prevalent in the population with enough time.
Otherwise successful vegetables would be killers. And vegetables evolve too.
In fact evolutionary speaking poor people are far more successful, simply because they breed more. And I don't see any killing involved there.
If you try Ruby, or Python, I recommend wxRuby and/or wxPython.
You have a native GUI in every platform and it's easy to use.
Although I don't know too much about a form designer, mainly because I have never needed to use one.
I do agree with you in the easy of use of Office 2007. For just one reason. I am a programmer. I don't use Word or Excel or that stuff in a daily basis. So, everytime I need to use Office, I have to read the menus, and search for what I need.
Office 2007 is easier for me on that basis. For an ultra-expert Office 2003 user that knows every single keyboard shortcut and menu option it surely can be traumatic.
Also, I have installed the 2007 compatibility add-on and can read 2007 docs with ease. But no, there was no dialog about patches or something, I had to hunt it down on the Web.
Not only that, but games are a huge profitable industry right now. Even losing some money on console sales, at some point there's the ROI and then heaven.
Vista is the only OS where I have ever typed something and then wait for 15 seconds before the damn text started to appear in screen. And it wasn't in any 'smart search' text control or something, just a plain input control. In a Vista laptop bought by a friend last year.
That's more than enough for me to dismiss it, as I can't stand that behaviour.
OTOH, I love Windows server and SQL Server 2005.
In fact, in XP I can simply double click a
I totally agree with you. Sadly I don't mod anymore.
And meanwhile Firefox is busily copying features from Opera.
The automatic search in the address bar? Yes, it is in Opera 9.5 Beta.
In browsers Opera has the innovation AND polish. It just lacks the heavy, really heavy backing of Google that FF has.
Where the villagers win and the big corporations lose.
Fight global warming with aikido!!!
Anyway, masochism is a valid private behavior of many people, and I will respect it. U_U
I have to add: Moore's law is not about density in a physics way, but about transistor density per a fixed amount of money. That's it, the cost of a fixed number of transistors will halve each two years.
So it's more like an economic law.
About your argument 'prognosis vs law', well, almost anything in economics is more a prognosis than a law, but whatever, nobody cares.
Only by your locals. We call you 'gringos' and all people in the continent 'americanos'.
I don't know where are you from, but here gringo means someone from the United States.
White people? depends on how they speak. English accent, unless they say they're Canadians they're gringos by default. Otherwise it depends on their local accent, can be called 'paisa', 'rolo', etc.
Lots of white people here, and NO ONE is a gringo unless they say so.
After reading your comment I just went to my basement, picked up a 10lb disk, and held it in my hand pretending to draw in it.
I can really see why after about 3 minutes it could be uncomfortable. Very uncomfortable.
Now, 5lb, it really felt like nothing. I can see myself holding it for hours.
Every person I've talked to (including sexy creative types) think no DVD drive and only USB port is a deal killer.
I totally agree with you in that respect. But I also have to add: Every MacBook (Pro) user I have talked to about the issue, can only count one or two times they have used the DVD in their laptops. And no one has needed more than one USB port either.
So this is really a very subjective issue.
I have to add a disclaimer: In this country if somebody sees a movie in his/her laptop, 99% of the time it has been downloaded instead of rented.
More than insightful, there should be a 'sad but true' mod option.
I have used this since long before Vista was lauched:
http://www.ubcd4win.com/
The reasons this merger will benefit Google:
--Nowadays it is 'hip' for a startup to be bought by Yahoo. In fact it's a very succesfull exit for a startup. Google and Yahoo compete for the new startups that are coming to the Internet (like flickr in its time, etc.)
--It's very anti-'hip' to be bought by Microsoft. Most companies would prefer to go to Google than 'sell-out' by going Microsoft.
In the end, this means cheaper startups for Google. And the watering down of the Yahoo! trademark.
Both Opera and Firefox get their desktop profit from google.
I don't have to pay a dime to use Opera.
STOP YOUR FUD.
Nah, you're only a luddite if you see a basketball video game, and say: "fuck that, I'm playing outside".
Then you grab a ball and go and play outside.
I can't see how anybody can you be a luddite and play video games.
That said, when I hear luddite I often think about the 'Amish paradise' video clip.
I guess it has a cultural component.
In English forums I often see 'too' replaced by 'to', 'than' replaced by 'then', and some other annoying stuff.
If someone corrects them, the answer is always the same, someone calling spelling-Nazi to someone else.
In other languages' forums I have seen, whenever someone has bad spelling, the correcting posts are lauded instead of criticised. No one calls names for that.
And the people corrects their spelling, quite fast, in order to fit into the community.
Even more, given that the 'than'=>'then' error was quite unknown to me 2 years ago, and now has widespread usage all over the net.
As 'trying to fit into the community' is such a strong instinct in humans, I can hypothesise that almost all the 'then' instead of 'than' is more a fault of the offending communities, than a specific fault of the individuals.
Or should I say 'then' to fit here?
That has been fixed in 9.5.