I don't see it as a problem. I see it as a choice. If you don't like the iPhone and the control and safety that it offers then buy and Android, Palm, or an S90 phone. It isn't as if the iPhone is the only smart phone. Frankly I feel the Palm OS is a better OS than the iPhone. Now they they have fixed the SDK there are some really good games available for it and anybody that really wants to can side load what every they want.
Again you say they cheated the customers. Not at all. New Egg was a victim of fraud. They paid for the chips and now they are replacing them and rush shipping them as well at their cost. They are replacement the chips and rushing them to the customers. The Customers are out nothing but a little time. The problem might not have even been the distributer but could have been the shipping company or even just a few employees along the chain. I am glad you have gotten good service from JDR and that they have so far won you loyalty. However to claim that Newegg screwed over it's customers in this case is simply unfair. They may not have bent backwards far enough for your taste but to vilify them is just wrong.
I wonder if it might not make for a very good insulator? If it is 300 times as conductive in one dimension is it 300 times less in the other? If so it could make a very good insulator. You put sheets of it in your wall and it conducts well along the edges but the face would act as in insulator.
That is easy. Because software is mathematics. You can not patent or couldn't patent mathematics. That is why software was and still is covered under copyright law and shouldn't be covered under patents. Mathematics can not be invented or created only discovered. Software should be protected under copyright law so yes I a not in the all software should be free camp. But there is a HUGE difference between a patent and copyright. With a copyright I can make a copy of the iPhones OS and sell it. I can not even left large segments of code from the OS. But I can create an OS that works in much the same way by writing it from scratch.
With a patent I could write program for Linux and happen to write some code that works like some patent that I have never seen that some law firm bought say putting a shadow under a drop down menu and I put a shadow under a dialog. Then I get sued for a pile of CASH!
I agree that it is worse than jail but he should be convicted of a Felony and given a suspended sentence. The reason being that a felon may not own or purchase firearms. Not to be mean or cruel but this gun owner has shown that he can not be trusted to own a fire arm. That right for others safety should be removed.
I would also like to see this story changed. Child mistakes gun for toy and is killed. This terrible tragedy has been happening for a very long time. The other part of this tragedy is that there is an easy solution. http://www.gunsafes.com/
Before anybody makes any statement about me being a gun nut. I do not now and I have never owned a gun. I have gone target shooting with friends in the past but I have no want or need for a gun myself.
Rendering farms maybe. It would be an interesting trade off. Does this chip offer more processing power for dollar than using more but cheaper CPUs? You would have to look at power, cooling, space, system, and admin costs. I would give it a big maybe.
Companies? Most corporate PCs could run on Atoms these days but in some areas I agree I see this being great. Simulation/CAD/CAM and Video editing are the two that jump to my mind. Throw in a any number of Science applications as well.
Honestly I see them going in to gaming rigs. The "hard core" gamers are just that nuts. This CPU is right in line with the cost of a high end video card set up Two 5970s will run you that much if not more. Throw in your three 30" monitors and it all fits right into same insane price bracket.
Yes you can walk away from Newegg. Thing is they have already done what they can to rectify a problem that was not of their making. They are just as much a victim as the customer is. So as a business they have done what they think is right to fix the issue. What are you going to do? Go to ZipZoomFly? You probably already cross shop them and go with who is lowest. It is unlikely you will no do the same again. They did more than was required by law which is a good thing. At this point people demanding anything more are in the long run not worth keeping as customers because odds are they where not great sources of profit to begin with and most will be back. The people that feel most entitled are the worst customers and are not worth keeping. The only power you have to go someplace else. Odds are you went to NewEgg in the first place because their price and customer service. Odds are tiny you will find better so you will be back. Right now you are just strutting round actting like a big shot saying "The better do this for me" People that do that are just more pain than they are worth.
Okay so they no significant power to legislate. And the government is all appointed. And they are owned by European corporations and not US ones. Okay I got it now. Still better than nothing. Hopefully they will bring ACTA out into the public eye so it doesn't get passed. Yea we need to get Hollywood out of politics. Political industrial complex my butt. It is the Entertainment industry we much kick to the curb.
I feel bad for the distributer. NewEgg is probably a huge customer of theirs and I doubt they did this. If these had been mislabeled or relabeled chips I could say some company trying to pull it off. But this is a sure fail so no company would do this knowingly. Odds are somebody in some warehouse got a pallet of expensive CPUs for a good price when they "fell off the back of a truck". I am more interested in where in the supply chain this happened. Does the distributer buy straight from Intel? If so maybe the shipping company they used? or the Shipping company that was used between the distributer and NewEgg? Just wonder where the switch happened.
For motherboards I would stick with ASUS or Gigabit Because I have had good luck with both. Gigabit is my favorite. PSU yes get a good one and I would also say get a good case. CoolMaster is a good case for the most part. Why spend a little more on a Good case? Because a good case makes you life a lot easier and they don't wear out or get replaced by a faster model! CPUs I am a fan of AMD as I feel they give the best bang for the buck in the Good enough range. Then pick an Nvidia or ATI video card you like. After that you are good to go. For around $500 you can have a very nice system.
"You mean there's still a legislative body that isn't a wholly owned subsidiary of their corporations?" No. 1. They have no real power to legislate. 2. They are just not owned by US corporations. EU corporations wouldn't like that.
Actually I am happy to see this. I am sick of the power Entertainment companies have over the US government. What really burns me if when they want to not be regulated they wrap themselves in the Freedom of Speech and We are artists flag. Which the Slashdot crowd jumps right into bed with. When they want a law past they are all about "Protecting IP rights" even at the expense of free speech and Fair use.
OOP is an extension of Structured programing which is what I hope you mean by procedural. Or as Wirth wrote Data Structures + Algorithms = programs. What OOP does is combine data structures and algorithms into a single package and aid is proper abstraction.
And no most exploits come from People using OOP Languages in same manner they used CBM basic 2.0.
Of course the real reason that we have so many exploits is that most programs and languages date from a safer kinder time. You didn't expect people to try to send you misinformed data files. And frankly most OS,s where never designed to be on a planet wide network with hundreds of millions or billions of users and millions of a criminals trying to hack them.
I am not anti-patent. I hold a patent in fact but it is a hardware patent. Software like stories, music, and math really should not be patentable. I can understand Apple getting software patents just as Sun, IBM, and other companies do and as was explained in the blog they make a great defense. When any software company goes after another company with patents they are being a patent troll and are being evil. Microsoft going after Tom Tom and Amazon with Linux patents == evil. Apple going after HTC == evil. In both of these cases it was double evil. Do you really think that Jobs was showing "respect"? Or that Gates was? Both where hoping to bully their way to eliminate a potental threat. Both where hoping that they could get Sun to give up a project with only a small chance of profit with at threat of a law suit. Do you honestly think that Microsoft and Apple think they never infringe on anybodies patents? Please it was a nasty business tactic and by all rights evil. Of course Jobs and Gates are sitting on giant money mountians and Jonathan Schwartz is posting on a Wordpress blog so being evil and nasty seems to pay.
Boy I wish Google had bought Sun. Not that Google is with out sin but I would love to see Google have OO.org, Netbeans, ZFS, and Solaris. Maybe they would have even made ZFS GPL. I would classify Google as a lesser evil at this time.
That is just silly. People by desktops with separate monitors because they can upgrade them. If I want a new desktop I can buy just a new desktop. I don't have to re buy the monitor. With an all one I do. The iMac fits some people well but not everybody. The simple fact is that Apple is making money hand over fist. Their product line is working well for them. They are skimming the cream. They are selling top of the line in a few market segments where they can make the most money. What they are not doing is offering a complete product line in every segment. They are being acting like Rolls Royce and not Honda.
Not really. Coal is used for base load and wind is used for peaking power. It is not reliable enough for base-load. If you want to replace Coal right now the only alternatives are. 1. Hydro if you have a good location. 2. Nuclear 3. Geothermal if you have a good location.
But that doesn't cover land costs or the cost of maintaining the turbines. Then you have to add in the cost of the standby power plants you need for when the wind isn't blowing. Guess what they are? Natural Gas fired power plants. So for every MW of wind turbines you must also install and maintain a MW of natural gas peaking plants. So the cost of building is the much higher than just the Natural Gas fired plants! So you must save enough on fuel to cover the extra cost of the wind turbines.
They are RUSH shipping the customers replacements. That is good enough to be fair. Lets put you in the same situation. You bump into me you say I am sorry. Well you wrinkled my shirt. So you should pay for my dry cleaning. You cut me off in traffic and cost me five minutes because I hit a red light. I want cash.
Yes it is nice if they bend over backwards. In this case if you paid for rush shipping I could see them refunding it. In the end if you think they didn't do enough then don't buy from them. But this give me this or that is just a case of mistaken entitlement. It is nice when they do it but it is not a requirement.
Actually natural gas has a very low carbon footprint compared to the other fossil fuels. Shifting away from coal to natural gas would make a huge impact in CO2 production. So going to natural gas isn't terrible from a carbon production point of view. It also opens up a bit of market for biogas since it is also methane.
It was a question. I actually tend to agree but I am not a big fan of wind. I think Solar, Nuclear, Geothermal, and OTEC have more long term potential. OTEC, Solar, Geothermal, and even wind tend to be location limited. However I fear that you are over simplifying the problem. It isn't just us paying for it but it is the US not shipping it's manufacturing to counties that are not cutting their production. It will do no net good to replace electricity produced in the US with natural gas with electricity produced with coal in China when it comes to production.
I doubt he would know for sure. But if you take all the wind on the earth my guess is that it has a lot more potential energy than we use for electricity on earth. A valid question is what if any effect taking many gigawatts of power out of the wind system have on weather patterns. Most people say none but I honestly do not know if that effect has been studied. Since we have found that cities and airliners have effects on weather patterns I wouldn't bet that massive wind harvesting wouldn't. At the scale we are at now I am not worried.
The thing is people used to take pride in having nice things. Now we take pride in how little we pay for everything. The thing is that I have concluded we are cheating ourselves. Tools are a great example. I was cleaning my garage and putting my tools in order. I found a set or wrenches and they where all still good but in the same drawer was one that was badly rusted and was junk. The good wrenches where a set of craftsman while the bad one one was a cheap made in china wrench. I then noticed that I had four sets of sockets what where incomplete because the ratchet had broken or the sockets broke or stripped. I figured out that one set of good craftsman sockets would cost a lot less than all those junk sets. Then I noticed that the jeans I get at Walmart last maybe six months but the good Wranglers I get at a different store last for years.
It has nothing to do with any political agenda. Pay twice the price for something that lasts ten times as long and you will be ahead.
In a way it is all about putting me first. I don't want junk and I am don't want to pay for flash. I want good stuff that lasts and is worth the money.
"They discontinued that lifetime guarantee many years ago.' No they didn't they only discontinued it on power tools. Wrenches,socket sets, and screwdrivers and the like still have the lifetime warranty. But don't get the cheaper Craftsman essentials or what every they call them. They are made in china and you must have the original reciet to return them for replacement.
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I don't see it as a problem. I see it as a choice.
If you don't like the iPhone and the control and safety that it offers then buy and Android, Palm, or an S90 phone.
It isn't as if the iPhone is the only smart phone. Frankly I feel the Palm OS is a better OS than the iPhone. Now they they have fixed the SDK there are some really good games available for it and anybody that really wants to can side load what every they want.
Again you say they cheated the customers.
Not at all. New Egg was a victim of fraud. They paid for the chips and now they are replacing them and rush shipping them as well at their cost. They are replacement the chips and rushing them to the customers. The Customers are out nothing but a little time. The problem might not have even been the distributer but could have been the shipping company or even just a few employees along the chain.
I am glad you have gotten good service from JDR and that they have so far won you loyalty. However to claim that Newegg screwed over it's customers in this case is simply unfair. They may not have bent backwards far enough for your taste but to vilify them is just wrong.
I wonder if it might not make for a very good insulator? If it is 300 times as conductive in one dimension is it 300 times less in the other?
If so it could make a very good insulator. You put sheets of it in your wall and it conducts well along the edges but the face would act as in insulator.
That is easy.
Because software is mathematics. You can not patent or couldn't patent mathematics. That is why software was and still is covered under copyright law and shouldn't be covered under patents.
Mathematics can not be invented or created only discovered. Software should be protected under copyright law so yes I a not in the all software should be free camp. But there is a HUGE difference between a patent and copyright.
With a copyright I can make a copy of the iPhones OS and sell it. I can not even left large segments of code from the OS.
But I can create an OS that works in much the same way by writing it from scratch.
With a patent I could write program for Linux and happen to write some code that works like some patent that I have never seen that some law firm bought say putting a shadow under a drop down menu and I put a shadow under a dialog. Then I get sued for a pile of CASH!
Patents for hardware and copyright for software.
I agree that it is worse than jail but he should be convicted of a Felony and given a suspended sentence.
The reason being that a felon may not own or purchase firearms.
Not to be mean or cruel but this gun owner has shown that he can not be trusted to own a fire arm. That right for others safety should be removed.
I would also like to see this story changed. Child mistakes gun for toy and is killed. This terrible tragedy has been happening for a very long time.
The other part of this tragedy is that there is an easy solution. http://www.gunsafes.com/
Before anybody makes any statement about me being a gun nut. I do not now and I have never owned a gun. I have gone target shooting with friends in the past but I have no want or need for a gun myself.
Rendering farms maybe. It would be an interesting trade off.
Does this chip offer more processing power for dollar than using more but cheaper CPUs? You would have to look at power, cooling, space, system, and admin costs. I would give it a big maybe.
Companies? Most corporate PCs could run on Atoms these days but in some areas I agree I see this being great.
Simulation/CAD/CAM and Video editing are the two that jump to my mind. Throw in a any number of Science applications as well.
Honestly I see them going in to gaming rigs. The "hard core" gamers are just that nuts. This CPU is right in line with the cost of a high end video card set up Two 5970s will run you that much if not more. Throw in your three 30" monitors and it all fits right into same insane price bracket.
Yes you can walk away from Newegg. Thing is they have already done what they can to rectify a problem that was not of their making. They are just as much a victim as the customer is.
So as a business they have done what they think is right to fix the issue. What are you going to do? Go to ZipZoomFly?
You probably already cross shop them and go with who is lowest. It is unlikely you will no do the same again. They did more than was required by law which is a good thing. At this point people demanding anything more are in the long run not worth keeping as customers because odds are they where not great sources of profit to begin with and most will be back.
The people that feel most entitled are the worst customers and are not worth keeping.
The only power you have to go someplace else. Odds are you went to NewEgg in the first place because their price and customer service. Odds are tiny you will find better so you will be back. Right now you are just strutting round actting like a big shot saying "The better do this for me" People that do that are just more pain than they are worth.
Okay so they no significant power to legislate. And the government is all appointed.
And they are owned by European corporations and not US ones.
Okay I got it now.
Still better than nothing. Hopefully they will bring ACTA out into the public eye so it doesn't get passed.
Yea we need to get Hollywood out of politics. Political industrial complex my butt. It is the Entertainment industry we much kick to the curb.
I feel bad for the distributer. NewEgg is probably a huge customer of theirs and I doubt they did this. If these had been mislabeled or relabeled chips I could say some company trying to pull it off. But this is a sure fail so no company would do this knowingly.
Odds are somebody in some warehouse got a pallet of expensive CPUs for a good price when they "fell off the back of a truck".
I am more interested in where in the supply chain this happened.
Does the distributer buy straight from Intel? If so maybe the shipping company they used? or the Shipping company that was used between the distributer and NewEgg?
Just wonder where the switch happened.
For motherboards I would stick with ASUS or Gigabit Because I have had good luck with both. Gigabit is my favorite.
PSU yes get a good one and I would also say get a good case. CoolMaster is a good case for the most part.
Why spend a little more on a Good case? Because a good case makes you life a lot easier and they don't wear out or get replaced by a faster model!
CPUs I am a fan of AMD as I feel they give the best bang for the buck in the Good enough range.
Then pick an Nvidia or ATI video card you like.
After that you are good to go.
For around $500 you can have a very nice system.
So they act as an executive and not as a legislative branch. They can veto but not legislate.
"You mean there's still a legislative body that isn't a wholly owned subsidiary of their corporations?"
No.
1. They have no real power to legislate.
2. They are just not owned by US corporations. EU corporations wouldn't like that.
Actually I am happy to see this. I am sick of the power Entertainment companies have over the US government.
What really burns me if when they want to not be regulated they wrap themselves in the Freedom of Speech and We are artists flag. Which the Slashdot crowd jumps right into bed with.
When they want a law past they are all about "Protecting IP rights" even at the expense of free speech and Fair use.
RYN Reverse Yoda Notation.
OOP is an extension of Structured programing which is what I hope you mean by procedural.
Or as Wirth wrote Data Structures + Algorithms = programs. What OOP does is combine data structures and algorithms into a single package and aid is proper abstraction.
And no most exploits come from People using OOP Languages in same manner they used CBM basic 2.0.
Of course the real reason that we have so many exploits is that most programs and languages date from a safer kinder time. You didn't expect people to try to send you misinformed data files. And frankly most OS,s where never designed to be on a planet wide network with hundreds of millions or billions of users and millions of a criminals trying to hack them.
I am not anti-patent. I hold a patent in fact but it is a hardware patent.
Software like stories, music, and math really should not be patentable.
I can understand Apple getting software patents just as Sun, IBM, and other companies do and as was explained in the blog they make a great defense. When any software company goes after another company with patents they are being a patent troll and are being evil.
Microsoft going after Tom Tom and Amazon with Linux patents == evil.
Apple going after HTC == evil.
In both of these cases it was double evil. Do you really think that Jobs was showing "respect"? Or that Gates was?
Both where hoping to bully their way to eliminate a potental threat.
Both where hoping that they could get Sun to give up a project with only a small chance of profit with at threat of a law suit.
Do you honestly think that Microsoft and Apple think they never infringe on anybodies patents?
Please it was a nasty business tactic and by all rights evil. Of course Jobs and Gates are sitting on giant money mountians and Jonathan Schwartz is posting on a Wordpress blog so being evil and nasty seems to pay.
Boy I wish Google had bought Sun. Not that Google is with out sin but I would love to see Google have OO.org, Netbeans, ZFS, and Solaris. Maybe they would have even made ZFS GPL. I would classify Google as a lesser evil at this time.
That is just silly.
People by desktops with separate monitors because they can upgrade them.
If I want a new desktop I can buy just a new desktop. I don't have to re buy the monitor.
With an all one I do.
The iMac fits some people well but not everybody.
The simple fact is that Apple is making money hand over fist. Their product line is working well for them. They are skimming the cream. They are selling top of the line in a few market segments where they can make the most money.
What they are not doing is offering a complete product line in every segment.
They are being acting like Rolls Royce and not Honda.
Not really. Coal is used for base load and wind is used for peaking power. It is not reliable enough for base-load.
If you want to replace Coal right now the only alternatives are.
1. Hydro if you have a good location.
2. Nuclear
3. Geothermal if you have a good location.
But that doesn't cover land costs or the cost of maintaining the turbines. Then you have to add in the cost of the standby power plants you need for when the wind isn't blowing. Guess what they are? Natural Gas fired power plants.
So for every MW of wind turbines you must also install and maintain a MW of natural gas peaking plants. So the cost of building is the much higher than just the Natural Gas fired plants!
So you must save enough on fuel to cover the extra cost of the wind turbines.
They are RUSH shipping the customers replacements. That is good enough to be fair. Lets put you in the same situation. You bump into me you say I am sorry. Well you wrinkled my shirt. So you should pay for my dry cleaning.
You cut me off in traffic and cost me five minutes because I hit a red light. I want cash.
Yes it is nice if they bend over backwards. In this case if you paid for rush shipping I could see them refunding it. In the end if you think they didn't do enough then don't buy from them. But this give me this or that is just a case of mistaken entitlement.
It is nice when they do it but it is not a requirement.
Actually natural gas has a very low carbon footprint compared to the other fossil fuels.
Shifting away from coal to natural gas would make a huge impact in CO2 production.
So going to natural gas isn't terrible from a carbon production point of view. It also opens up a bit of market for biogas since it is also methane.
What it comes down to is that they are not overpriced but they are expensive.
It also means that it leaves a large number of people out when it comes to owning a Mac.
"Quite obviously, yes.
That wasn't the answer you were expecting?"
It was a question. I actually tend to agree but I am not a big fan of wind. I think Solar, Nuclear, Geothermal, and OTEC have more long term potential. OTEC, Solar, Geothermal, and even wind tend to be location limited.
However I fear that you are over simplifying the problem. It isn't just us paying for it but it is the US not shipping it's manufacturing to counties that are not cutting their production.
It will do no net good to replace electricity produced in the US with natural gas with electricity produced with coal in China when it comes to production.
I doubt he would know for sure. But if you take all the wind on the earth my guess is that it has a lot more potential energy than we use for electricity on earth.
A valid question is what if any effect taking many gigawatts of power out of the wind system have on weather patterns.
Most people say none but I honestly do not know if that effect has been studied. Since we have found that cities and airliners have effects on weather patterns I wouldn't bet that massive wind harvesting wouldn't.
At the scale we are at now I am not worried.
The thing is people used to take pride in having nice things. Now we take pride in how little we pay for everything. The thing is that I have concluded we are cheating ourselves.
Tools are a great example. I was cleaning my garage and putting my tools in order. I found a set or wrenches and they where all still good but in the same drawer was one that was badly rusted and was junk.
The good wrenches where a set of craftsman while the bad one one was a cheap made in china wrench.
I then noticed that I had four sets of sockets what where incomplete because the ratchet had broken or the sockets broke or stripped. I figured out that one set of good craftsman sockets would cost a lot less than all those junk sets.
Then I noticed that the jeans I get at Walmart last maybe six months but the good Wranglers I get at a different store last for years.
It has nothing to do with any political agenda. Pay twice the price for something that lasts ten times as long and you will be ahead.
In a way it is all about putting me first. I don't want junk and I am don't want to pay for flash.
I want good stuff that lasts and is worth the money.
"They discontinued that lifetime guarantee many years ago.' ,socket sets, and screwdrivers and the like still have the lifetime warranty.
No they didn't they only discontinued it on power tools. Wrenches
But don't get the cheaper Craftsman essentials or what every they call them. They are made in china and you must have the original reciet to return them for replacement.