So? What you are saying is if they leave then the US might get plowed under. But does that make the statement that the "US is getting plowed under by the rest of the world" any less false. One of the things that has helped the US is that the best and the brightest from around the world want to come here. Maybe the us should do more to encourage these grad students to become US citizens. It worked out great for Fermi, Einstein, Bell, and Von Braun.
"No wonder we as a country are getting plowed under by the rest of the world on the innovation front. " While I do think that this bill is dumb how do you figure that the us is getting plowed under on the innovation front? The US still leads the world in Space exploration. There are some very interesting robotic missions going on right now. The US is still a world leader in ICs And is the world leader in CPUs. Intel's core line, AMDs Barcelona, IBM's Power5, Suns' Sparc T2 are all very cutting edge. The US still leads in Aircraft. The 787 and the F22 are prime examples of innovation. And then you Burt Rutan. There is a lot of very innovative work in biology going on in the US. Then you have Software. Apple, Microsoft, Intel, Google, and IBM, are all doing a lot of interesting research and development work.
I also worry about the future of technology in the US but when you make statements that are just flat out untrue people will dismiss your concerns.
The new quad cores from AMD do beat Intel's once you get past two sockets. Even with "just" eight cores the Intel systems start to get memory constrained. The problem is most people don't need more than four cores these days. But if you need a really big server AMD does still seem to be a better solution than Intel. I really want to see a dual-core Phenom! Most desktops still don't need a quad core. The Phenom core has some real improvments over the old cores and it should be cheap and very low power. Today on the desktop the quad-core just isn't that useful. So where are the next generation dual-cores?
I would say it has more to do with political leaders lack of science knowledge. I do expect more from the BBC. I am happy to say I have seen very little bad science on PBS's Nova. So it makes me wonder when did Rupert Murdoch buy the BBC:)
I just hope that they keep them at airports. I have been stuck at the airport for so long my cell died. I had to call into my office using the public phone to let them know what was up with the flight.
I really do agree maybe I should have said "marginally tolerable". I hope like heck that they don't put it into the server product. Imagine if use where dumb enough to use such and OS for your VOIP PBX or network firewall? Another good example of it being really bad is in say a Emergency management center or any other mission critical system. What about all the copies being used by hospitals or the military! I believe that the enterprise version has unlimited reauthorizations but that is SUPER expensive. Right now with that kill switch I think Vista is dangerous for any mission critical application. Even with SP1 I question if it is wise to use for anything but a game machine.
I for one am SICK of being treated like a criminal by the companies I do business with. If I buy a copy of Vista I can forgive mistakes but this "FEATURE" is only benefits Microsoft. SO HECK YES if they make do jump through a hoop after paying them I am going to hopping mad!
Can you say splitting hairs? Okay Microsoft has been convicted of abusing it's postion as a monoply and as such should be under government oversite until it's business practices fall in line with federal law.
"WAKE UP! Gitmo is so inhumane, it is the worst atrocity of our generation. Anything (legal) I could do to end it, I would do." You have no idea of what is going on in the rest of the world. It may be the worst atrocity that the US has done in this generation but compared to many other places it is a walk in the park. I am not sure that the prisoners need to be released but if they are POWs they need to be treated like POWs.
They where trying to build a chemical factory and some people where scared of it. Both the MP and his civil servent had no idea if it was safe of not because they didn't know any science. "Minister I have a classical eduction. I don't know any science."
"exercise as punishment is prohibited."
Okay do 500 pushups and tell me that isn't punishment. Run 20 miles with no water and tell me that isn't punishment.
Actually excessive exercise is a pretty effective form of torture. There is a line between torture and punishment. Three days in solitary confinement is a punishment. Six years could be torture. Being given 20 push ups to do is punishment for a solder. two hundred... For the average Slashdot reader two push ups might be a violation of their human rights:) I am actually pretty conservative but torture is wrong.
You know Sprint, Verizon, and AT&T are pretty much going at it tooth and nail. Of all of them I still think Sprint is one of the most open. Compared to Verizon they are super open.
Why is that tough? What if the motherboard fails? Why should I have to get a new OS if I replace a part? Nope same rules should apply. Frankly since Microsoft is a convicted monopoly they should be under all sorts of control as far as things like OEM version and such.
"So, I called Microsoft, got some activation code and within 10-15 minutes I was up and running again." So it took you 15 minutes to fix something that should never have broke? Kind of like getting searched without a warrant for 15 minutes. I mean it is no big deal if you are not carrying any thing illegal right?
Just so you understand. If I install a new motherboard in my PC that is not piracy. If I format my old hard drive and install Vista on a new PC I built that is not piracy. If I have to call to take down that nag screen then you must hire enough people that I never have to wait more than two minutes to get the nag removed. You must also offer a world wide toll free number so I can call no matter where I am and you must keep that number staffed until the sun goes nova or you go out of business. Only then will any type of "activation" be acceptable. Never mind OpenSuse is working just fine as is Ubuntu. Or maybe I will just buy a Mac.
"Good luck drawing or aiming with a command line. There's a reason that the DS has a touch screen." We are talking about skills. Reading is more powerful than clicking a mouse. Aiming just isn't that vital of skill to most people in the real world. And I use a CAD system. Guess what? I use the command line a lot to draw lines. After you rough the drawing you use the command line the set the dimensions and many other functions.
"To operators it suites that handsets are limited or walled, and to operators it suites better that the brand power of an handset is less than the branding power of operator." One of the reasons I stay with Sprint is that they don't wall their phones. And as far as brand power. Well I think the Razor is a good example of how a make or model can be a big deal even in the US. I keep hoping that Apple will drop AT&T and go with Sprint.
It is possible even likely. Frankly it is possible that someone would just forget to put in in the press release or on the Website. I honestly doubt that it helps the sale of there games. Frankly I think Greenpeace is nothing but a bunch of publicly hounds that long ago decide that their goals are far more important than the truth.
"Do you have an evidence of that? Further, do you have any evidence that the game companies honestly WANT 16 and under playing M rated games?" You have got to be kidding me. They want to sell games. If not why would they fight laws limiting there sales to adults like they do in several EU countries? If you think they actually care about any type of freedom. Sony????
"But my experience has been that if a company doesn't mention something, it's for a reason. " Funny I work for a software firm. The company donates money to a camp that helps disabled children. We have not released any press releases or or made a big deal about. We also recycle and reuse paper and and aluminum cans. All small things but we are not a huge company. We do make a few million a year but not hundreds of millions. We don't publicist these things because frankly if we did it just seems tacky. Funny but with Greenpeace's history of exaggerating I trust them even less than Nintendo. I wonder if Microsoft and or Sony donate any money to them?
"Readers should fairly expect there to be an inviolable firewall between advertising and editorial in journalism, and game journalism (yes, that includes "just reviews") is no different."
I think this was an error. It should read. "Readers should be fairly suspect that there is an inviolable firewall between advertising and editorial in journalism, and game journalism." Same thing with any magazine or website. They are forced to serve two masters the readers and the advertisers.
You need to add back in Wii play. It isn't a pack in. That adds over Three million to the Wiis software sales numbers. That pushes the Wii past the 360 in total software sales.
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And only the US has sent Humans out of LEO.
So?
What you are saying is if they leave then the US might get plowed under.
But does that make the statement that the "US is getting plowed under by the rest of the world" any less false.
One of the things that has helped the US is that the best and the brightest from around the world want to come here. Maybe the us should do more to encourage these grad students to become US citizens. It worked out great for Fermi, Einstein, Bell, and Von Braun.
"No wonder we as a country are getting plowed under by the rest of the world on the innovation front. "
While I do think that this bill is dumb how do you figure that the us is getting plowed under on the innovation front?
The US still leads the world in Space exploration. There are some very interesting robotic missions going on right now.
The US is still a world leader in ICs And is the world leader in CPUs. Intel's core line, AMDs Barcelona, IBM's Power5, Suns' Sparc T2 are all very cutting edge.
The US still leads in Aircraft. The 787 and the F22 are prime examples of innovation. And then you Burt Rutan.
There is a lot of very innovative work in biology going on in the US.
Then you have Software. Apple, Microsoft, Intel, Google, and IBM, are all doing a lot of interesting research and development work.
I also worry about the future of technology in the US but when you make statements that are just flat out untrue people will dismiss your concerns.
The new quad cores from AMD do beat Intel's once you get past two sockets. Even with "just" eight cores the Intel systems start to get memory constrained.
The problem is most people don't need more than four cores these days. But if you need a really big server AMD does still seem to be a better solution than Intel.
I really want to see a dual-core Phenom! Most desktops still don't need a quad core. The Phenom core has some real improvments over the old cores and it should be cheap and very low power.
Today on the desktop the quad-core just isn't that useful. So where are the next generation dual-cores?
I would say it has more to do with political leaders lack of science knowledge. I do expect more from the BBC. I am happy to say I have seen very little bad science on PBS's Nova. :)
So it makes me wonder when did Rupert Murdoch buy the BBC
I just hope that they keep them at airports.
I have been stuck at the airport for so long my cell died. I had to call into my office using the public phone to let them know what was up with the flight.
I really do agree maybe I should have said "marginally tolerable". I hope like heck that they don't put it into the server product. Imagine if use where dumb enough to use such and OS for your VOIP PBX or network firewall?
Another good example of it being really bad is in say a Emergency management center or any other mission critical system. What about all the copies being used by hospitals or the military!
I believe that the enterprise version has unlimited reauthorizations but that is SUPER expensive.
Right now with that kill switch I think Vista is dangerous for any mission critical application. Even with SP1 I question if it is wise to use for anything but a game machine.
I for one am SICK of being treated like a criminal by the companies I do business with.
If I buy a copy of Vista I can forgive mistakes but this "FEATURE" is only benefits Microsoft. SO HECK YES if they make do jump through a hoop after paying them I am going to hopping mad!
Can you say splitting hairs?
Okay Microsoft has been convicted of abusing it's postion as a monoply and as such should be under government oversite until it's business practices fall in line with federal law.
"WAKE UP! Gitmo is so inhumane, it is the worst atrocity of our generation. Anything (legal) I could do to end it, I would do."
You have no idea of what is going on in the rest of the world. It may be the worst atrocity that the US has done in this generation but compared to many other places it is a walk in the park.
I am not sure that the prisoners need to be released but if they are POWs they need to be treated like POWs.
They where trying to build a chemical factory and some people where scared of it.
Both the MP and his civil servent had no idea if it was safe of not because they didn't know any science.
"Minister I have a classical eduction. I don't know any science."
So why RHEL for one server and CentOS for the other?
Was the support for the RHEL on the mail server worth the cost to you?
"exercise as punishment is prohibited."
... :)
Okay do 500 pushups and tell me that isn't punishment. Run 20 miles with no water and tell me that isn't punishment.
Actually excessive exercise is a pretty effective form of torture. There is a line between torture and punishment. Three days in solitary confinement is a punishment. Six years could be torture. Being given 20 push ups to do is punishment for a solder. two hundred
For the average Slashdot reader two push ups might be a violation of their human rights
I am actually pretty conservative but torture is wrong.
You know Sprint, Verizon, and AT&T are pretty much going at it tooth and nail.
Of all of them I still think Sprint is one of the most open. Compared to Verizon they are super open.
Why is that tough?
What if the motherboard fails? Why should I have to get a new OS if I replace a part? Nope same rules should apply.
Frankly since Microsoft is a convicted monopoly they should be under all sorts of control as far as things like OEM version and such.
"So, I called Microsoft, got some activation code and within 10-15 minutes I was up and running again."
So it took you 15 minutes to fix something that should never have broke?
Kind of like getting searched without a warrant for 15 minutes. I mean it is no big deal if you are not carrying any thing illegal right?
Just so you understand.
If I install a new motherboard in my PC that is not piracy.
If I format my old hard drive and install Vista on a new PC I built that is not piracy.
If I have to call to take down that nag screen then you must hire enough people that I never have to wait more than two minutes to get the nag removed. You must also offer a world wide toll free number so I can call no matter where I am and you must keep that number staffed until the sun goes nova or you go out of business.
Only then will any type of "activation" be acceptable.
Never mind OpenSuse is working just fine as is Ubuntu. Or maybe I will just buy a Mac.
"Good luck drawing or aiming with a command line. There's a reason that the DS has a touch screen."
We are talking about skills.
Reading is more powerful than clicking a mouse.
Aiming just isn't that vital of skill to most people in the real world.
And I use a CAD system. Guess what? I use the command line a lot to draw lines. After you rough the drawing you use the command line the set the dimensions and many other functions.
"I'm all for a rating system, FOR PARENTS. But leave the legality out of it, it just doesn't work."
Why not they do it in Europe?
"To operators it suites that handsets are limited or walled, and to operators it suites better that the brand power of an handset is less than the branding power of operator."
One of the reasons I stay with Sprint is that they don't wall their phones. And as far as brand power. Well I think the Razor is a good example of how a make or model can be a big deal even in the US. I keep hoping that Apple will drop AT&T and go with Sprint.
It is possible even likely. Frankly it is possible that someone would just forget to put in in the press release or on the Website. I honestly doubt that it helps the sale of there games.
Frankly I think Greenpeace is nothing but a bunch of publicly hounds that long ago decide that their goals are far more important than the truth.
"Do you have an evidence of that? Further, do you have any evidence that the game companies honestly WANT 16 and under playing M rated games?"
You have got to be kidding me.
They want to sell games. If not why would they fight laws limiting there sales to adults like they do in several EU countries? If you think they actually care about any type of freedom. Sony????
"But my experience has been that if a company doesn't mention something, it's for a reason. "
Funny I work for a software firm. The company donates money to a camp that helps disabled children. We have not released any press releases or or made a big deal about. We also recycle and reuse paper and and aluminum cans. All small things but we are not a huge company. We do make a few million a year but not hundreds of millions. We don't publicist these things because frankly if we did it just seems tacky.
Funny but with Greenpeace's history of exaggerating I trust them even less than Nintendo. I wonder if Microsoft and or Sony donate any money to them?
"Readers should fairly expect there to be an inviolable firewall between advertising and editorial in journalism, and game journalism (yes, that includes "just reviews") is no different."
I think this was an error. It should read.
"Readers should be fairly suspect that there is an inviolable firewall between advertising and editorial in journalism, and game journalism."
Same thing with any magazine or website. They are forced to serve two masters the readers and the advertisers.
You need to add back in Wii play. It isn't a pack in. That adds over Three million to the Wiis software sales numbers.
That pushes the Wii past the 360 in total software sales.