Logitech has *everything* first, though. Infrared mice? Yeah, they were doing that back in the '80s. Wheel mice? Back in '95 I think. I wouldn't expect less from a company whose sole purpose is creating pointing devices, though...
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That's *GREAT!* If you live in Phoenix.
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What about all the other areas where Time Warner cable is the only game in town for high-speed internet access? Deregulating the cable lines sometimes sounds like a good idea to me, as long as Time Warner can recoup its operating costs by charging itself and other people who want to use its lines, to keep things fair.
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It's 8 bits wide instead of the 64 bit width you get for normal SDRAM. RAMBUS can only hit 800 MB/sec, the same throughput as PC100 SDRAM. PC133 SDRAM has it beat by, of course, 33%. Real-world testing puts it either as fast as, slightly slower than, or slightly faster than SDRAM, depending on which site you go to and what day you visit it. Regardless, you won't see much difference at all, but you'll sure pay a lot.
Don't even start comparing it to DDRAM (double-rate DRAM), which will be appearing soon and which can be produced on the same production line as SDRAM is with minimal retooling. This means, of course, manufacturers will love it.
RAMBUS is, plain and simple, a scam.
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As everyone else has said: black and white TVs can still understand color signals. Nobody had to buy new ones when broadcasters switched. To contrast that, in 2006, none of your NTSC-broadcast TVs will work anymore.
YOU WILL BE FORCED TO BUY NEW TELEVISIONS!!!
That's the big difference, and it's why your argument is terrible (and sure as hell isn't worth a 4 score.)
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Slashdot is used all the time to put pressure on hardware manufacturers (Matrox), software manufacturers (Be, Apple, Sun), content providers (RealNeworks and FOX), and just about anyone else that someone here thinks should support Linux.
It's the same means to a different end, as far as I'm concerned.
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It's too huge for me. What I have now fits on my desk; that thing won't. I like the redundant power supplies and the enormous amount of room (and the bunch of LEDs on the front) though.
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Please. Soon you'll be saying that anything bad that happens to Microsoft is hurting anyone else with MSFT stock in their mutual fund. What a sleazy way to win over people by playing up emotion instead of reason.
The bottom line is this deal was legitimate and people took advantage of it. I'd have done the same thing if I lived in California or Oregon, and don't consider myself worse-off, morally, for saying so.
On a somewhat related note, however, I'm starting to question the morality and intelligence of all those that are asking "would you do this if it was RedHat offering the rebate?" Since money is money, I certainly would accept the $400 offered, and I don't see how appealing to my love of Linux versus my dislike of Microsoft would have anything to do with that.
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You actually want us to believe that a few Windows users copying DVDs (blanks of which cost $20!) are what the piracy scene is? How clueless can you possibly be? Here's a free one for you: the real pirates that the movie and music industry are truly scared of live in China and have warehouses full of high-tech equipment. They're able to copy thousands of discs per day, not one or two like the average home PC user might be able to crank out.
THINK!
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The gun analogy is dead-on accurate with regards to this case and the overall erosion of peoples' rights. Telling people to shut up because they don't agree with your slanted worldview is terribly immature.
Please, grow up, get a good grasp of the facts, and quit whining.
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I meant more that the Internet, back then, had a different purpose than its main one today. Back before it became popular with the general public, the Internet was mainly a research tool, which is mainly what I2 is today. I didn't mean to imply that the speed was similar to I2 or that the protocols used were of much importance.
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Internet 2 is a very exclusive network. At our college, which just recently got its own I2 feed, you have to petition on a per-machine basis to connect, and you'd better have a damned good reason for needing to do so. Also, when thinking about I2, try not to associate all the other, lamer parts of the "normal" internet (like the public in general) with it.
I2 is basically what the internet was back in the 80s and early 90s, before the web took over.
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Not because Microsoft owns them, and not because of this article...
I hate them because they put a META refresh of 0 seconds on their pages so it's impossible to use the f*#%ing back button in Netscape! ARGH! Die die die!!!
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People actually care about power consumption?
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That's probably the *last* thing I look at when choosing a new CPU. Price and performance come first, of course.
Why are people trumpeting that the G4 only uses 4 or 5 watts, or whatever? Who cares? The Alpha CPUs, widely regarded as the fastest money can buy, use something like 100 watts, but I'm sure the people that buy them really don't care about that either.
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...this too will be a short-lived era. Companies will find the cost of service far too much to bear, and customers will find the service progressively worse as more and more "friends" sign on for free service. Hell, I've seen this happen with ISPs you have to *pay* for! (I've jumped ship several times now from ISPs that simply would not upgrade their infrastructure in the face of a burgeoning userbase.) Once these things happen, you can start counting the days free DSL has left on one hand with fingers left over.
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We wasted more resources and human lives fighting that horrible thing than anyone should care to think of, and for purely political reasons. I'd say everyone responsible for prolonging that useless bloodbath ought to at least be considered for induction into the halls of loserdom.
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Slashdot Mirror
The only real beer in the U.S. is imported.
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Don't even start comparing it to DDRAM (double-rate DRAM), which will be appearing soon and which can be produced on the same production line as SDRAM is with minimal retooling. This means, of course, manufacturers will love it.
RAMBUS is, plain and simple, a scam.
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YOU WILL BE FORCED TO BUY NEW TELEVISIONS!!!
That's the big difference, and it's why your argument is terrible (and sure as hell isn't worth a 4 score.)
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It's the same means to a different end, as far as I'm concerned.
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Bose: Better sound through marketing.
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The bottom line is this deal was legitimate and people took advantage of it. I'd have done the same thing if I lived in California or Oregon, and don't consider myself worse-off, morally, for saying so.
On a somewhat related note, however, I'm starting to question the morality and intelligence of all those that are asking "would you do this if it was RedHat offering the rebate?" Since money is money, I certainly would accept the $400 offered, and I don't see how appealing to my love of Linux versus my dislike of Microsoft would have anything to do with that.
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THINK!
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here's the link.
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- A.P. (I find them extremely confusing too, for what it's worth. Disappointing.)
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(score 0, offtopic)
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Please, grow up, get a good grasp of the facts, and quit whining.
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I2 is basically what the internet was back in the 80s and early 90s, before the web took over.
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I hate them because they put a META refresh of 0 seconds on their pages so it's impossible to use the f*#%ing back button in Netscape! ARGH! Die die die!!!
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Why are people trumpeting that the G4 only uses 4 or 5 watts, or whatever? Who cares? The Alpha CPUs, widely regarded as the fastest money can buy, use something like 100 watts, but I'm sure the people that buy them really don't care about that either.
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Unless I get frozen. Like Walt Disney.
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Does this qualify as "show-stopper"?
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