I'm not sure you can assume that just because someone is buying a video card that it will necessarily be the most expensive thing possible.
Good thing that's not remotely what I said. We're talking about 'mid-range' here, after all. A $250 card is not a $499 card, and certainly isn't a $599 card. It's much closer to the $150 everyone here seems to WANT to be the mid-range, simply because they're cheap, I guess. But wishing doesn't make it so. I've used $150 cards for the last several generations myself, but I'm not trying to fool myself into believing that I'm getting a mid-range card for that price.
Mid-Range typically refers to what the majority are willing to spend on something, not what prices are offered. The buyers, not the sellers, determine mid-range and the buyers aren't scrambling to grab $250 cards.
People don't generally buy video cards. They buy computers with (or without) video cards. For people who actually buy video cards, $250 is mid-range.
I define it by the prices involved, since that's what people are talking about in the first place - the price of the card. You'll always find fewer users at the high end of any price range.
Somebody dropping two hundred and fifty big ones on a video card is mid-range?
I see this reaction a lot in people who don't know the market. Ignorance of what the low and high ends of the 'range' wind up surprising people. If you're ignorant of the numbers 1 through 10, someone randomly reciting the number 5 might seem high to you. In video cards, there are $350+ cards, and even $500+ cards, in the consumer space. And that's just PER CARD, and doesn't take into account multi-card setups.
So yeah, $250 is a MID-range card. That's not to say it does (or doesn't) meet your specific needs, but expressing shock at something you're obviously ignorant of really doesn't make you sound like a smart consumer.
I find it truly amazing that we can utilize this gigantic ball of burning energy that shows up every single day to help power things on Earth. Why haven't we thought of taking advantage of this abundant, renewable and FREE resource before????
Absolutely. We should send ships to that gigantic ball of burning energy to bring some back to Earth for our needs. Someone call Cillian Murphy!
You're just jealous that us Canadians have managed to find new and interesting ways to butcher the English language while ya'll just drop letters n shorten words.
Qualcomm recently demoed an upcoming SoC based on a dual-core Cortex-A9 that was putting out 1080p 3D video. I think they're planning on 1.2GHz cores, which can vary the clockrate, voltage, or just turn off a core entirely, as needed. Combine that with a smaller process, and that is likely to be VERY power efficient. EVO 2, please *grasping hands*. 2H2011 is going to be a very fun time for smartphone and tablet enthusiasts. I'm already really tired of the whole tablet craze, though. For more info on the upcoming Qualcomm SoC, check out a recently article over on AnandTech (and dig his funky footwear:).
There's a lot of public information out there, and a lot of it is wrong or misleading. Couldn't you have a case for libel if say for instance this company crafts a profile for an unknowing individual which suggests he's gay when he isn't?
Absolutely, but that's a pretty big assumption to make about what this company is going to do before they've done anything. We don't even know if they'll be marking unclaimed profiles as 'available' or 'looking' or anything like that.
Honestly, I think it's a tad shady that a company is crafting dating profiles for people who don't want them using random information from the internet of all places as a source.
I don't think they mentioned they'd be using 'random' sources, but yeah, the whole thing is definitely shady. I just don't know which particular U.S. laws, if any, are directly applicable to this, since they claim to be using public records. We'll see. We could definitely use some real laws on the books that actually talk about privacy. Aggregating public records into an individually, publicly-identifiable record, is something that has not yet been addressed in the U.S., at least not on the federal level. It's inevitable, I think, but who knows when. The GOP will certainly stop any attempt to do anything (about anything, not just this) for the next two years, so I wouldn't expect any action until 2013 at the soonest, if then.
As per the article, the Australian Privacy Commissioner has suggested the company might be running afoul of the Australian NPP.
I don't care what the Australian anything says about anything in this instance. The title of the article says, "Non-registered individuals get dating profiles in the US". Unless Aussies are now using 'US' to mean something Australian, which would be annoying. They should just call whatever it is they're talking about 'Bruce' to save confusion.:)
How does a company "not expect to face privacy issues"?
If the information is truly only from public records, then the information is - you guessed it - already public. At least in general. I think a case could be made that conflating the disparate data sources into one personally identifiable profile could cross a line, but the problem with the law and privacy is - there's generally not much of a well-defined line for privacy. A good test case, though, if someone has the financial means to pursue it to a non-settlement conclusion.
For those not in the know, Drupal 7 was just released. Not sure how much of this will apply to the new version, so you should check before spending money on this.
So does that mean the iPhone is not a modern phone? No emulators there, nosiree.
Can you not jailbreak an iPhone and run what you want?
As for 'modern', well, as of CES last week, the iPhone 4 is certainly not top-shelf, what with a single core, 3G connectivity (not even HSPA+, right?), no storage expansion slot, etc. The screen is still the highest resolution one out there, but it's so _small_, it's not for me. Some people don't mind small screens, though. *shrug* It's pretty funny - iPhone owners keep looking longingly at my EVO. "Is that new?" "No, it's over 6 months old. Old technology.":)
I think it's rather like predicting earthquakes. If each week a different person says there's going to be a big one, statistically speaking, eventually one of them will be right.:-)
A stopped analog clock is correct more often than the "iPhone on Verizon" rumors, though I think it's likely correct this time.
But wait for it - if the one that is announced is NOT an LTE phone, then let the teeth gnashing begin!:)
Meanwhile, the replacement ROM for my EVO on Sprint gives me muuuuch better battery life. (I'm using Fresh ROM.) I can wait for a nice dual-core replacement for my EVO, especially since I get no discount until June, anyway. We'll see who has the best fast data network with the best plan pricing and best phone by then. I've no problems switching to Verizon or T-Mobile if they step up their game in their respective weakspots. But something along the lines of the Motorola Atrix on something other than AT&T would be welcomed. The Bionic isn't quite up to the same specs. Plus, well, Motorola.
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So once it's cracked (and it WILL be cracked), you'll probably be able to run some version of MAME on it, or something like it. Problem solved.
HTML 5. *shrug* What can I say, if Slashdot had valid code, I don't think I'd recognize the site.
Validate -> "94 Errors, 14 warning(s)"
Some things never change. :/
I'm not sure you can assume that just because someone is buying a video card that it will necessarily be the most expensive thing possible.
Good thing that's not remotely what I said. We're talking about 'mid-range' here, after all. A $250 card is not a $499 card, and certainly isn't a $599 card. It's much closer to the $150 everyone here seems to WANT to be the mid-range, simply because they're cheap, I guess. But wishing doesn't make it so. I've used $150 cards for the last several generations myself, but I'm not trying to fool myself into believing that I'm getting a mid-range card for that price.
Mid-Range typically refers to what the majority are willing to spend on something, not what prices are offered. The buyers, not the sellers, determine mid-range and the buyers aren't scrambling to grab $250 cards.
People don't generally buy video cards. They buy computers with (or without) video cards. For people who actually buy video cards, $250 is mid-range.
So it's low end then?
Given a Quadro 6000 from nvidia will set you back between $3000 and $4000, the a mid-range card must be $1500-$2000, right?
That's not a consumer graphics card, though. :)
Depends how you define mid-range
I define it by the prices involved, since that's what people are talking about in the first place - the price of the card. You'll always find fewer users at the high end of any price range.
Somebody dropping two hundred and fifty big ones on a video card is mid-range?
I see this reaction a lot in people who don't know the market. Ignorance of what the low and high ends of the 'range' wind up surprising people. If you're ignorant of the numbers 1 through 10, someone randomly reciting the number 5 might seem high to you. In video cards, there are $350+ cards, and even $500+ cards, in the consumer space. And that's just PER CARD, and doesn't take into account multi-card setups.
So yeah, $250 is a MID-range card. That's not to say it does (or doesn't) meet your specific needs, but expressing shock at something you're obviously ignorant of really doesn't make you sound like a smart consumer.
And the search? Curiously, the article titled "Earth" is the tenth result for the search term "Earth".
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I find it truly amazing that we can utilize this gigantic ball of burning energy that shows up every single day to help power things on Earth. Why haven't we thought of taking advantage of this abundant, renewable and FREE resource before????
Absolutely. We should send ships to that gigantic ball of burning energy to bring some back to Earth for our needs. Someone call Cillian Murphy!
by using clones!
No, clones are people two!
You're just jealous that us Canadians have managed to find new and interesting ways to butcher the English language while ya'll just drop letters n shorten words.
Colour me impressed, eh!
Qualcomm recently demoed an upcoming SoC based on a dual-core Cortex-A9 that was putting out 1080p 3D video. I think they're planning on 1.2GHz cores, which can vary the clockrate, voltage, or just turn off a core entirely, as needed. Combine that with a smaller process, and that is likely to be VERY power efficient. EVO 2, please *grasping hands*. 2H2011 is going to be a very fun time for smartphone and tablet enthusiasts. I'm already really tired of the whole tablet craze, though. For more info on the upcoming Qualcomm SoC, check out a recently article over on AnandTech (and dig his funky footwear :).
There's a lot of public information out there, and a lot of it is wrong or misleading. Couldn't you have a case for libel if say for instance this company crafts a profile for an unknowing individual which suggests he's gay when he isn't?
Absolutely, but that's a pretty big assumption to make about what this company is going to do before they've done anything. We don't even know if they'll be marking unclaimed profiles as 'available' or 'looking' or anything like that.
Honestly, I think it's a tad shady that a company is crafting dating profiles for people who don't want them using random information from the internet of all places as a source.
I don't think they mentioned they'd be using 'random' sources, but yeah, the whole thing is definitely shady. I just don't know which particular U.S. laws, if any, are directly applicable to this, since they claim to be using public records. We'll see. We could definitely use some real laws on the books that actually talk about privacy. Aggregating public records into an individually, publicly-identifiable record, is something that has not yet been addressed in the U.S., at least not on the federal level. It's inevitable, I think, but who knows when. The GOP will certainly stop any attempt to do anything (about anything, not just this) for the next two years, so I wouldn't expect any action until 2013 at the soonest, if then.
As per the article, the Australian Privacy Commissioner has suggested the company might be running afoul of the Australian NPP.
I don't care what the Australian anything says about anything in this instance. The title of the article says, "Non-registered individuals get dating profiles in the US". Unless Aussies are now using 'US' to mean something Australian, which would be annoying. They should just call whatever it is they're talking about 'Bruce' to save confusion. :)
Anyone know if this is in time to make it into the next Xubuntu in April?
How does a company "not expect to face privacy issues"?
If the information is truly only from public records, then the information is - you guessed it - already public. At least in general. I think a case could be made that conflating the disparate data sources into one personally identifiable profile could cross a line, but the problem with the law and privacy is - there's generally not much of a well-defined line for privacy. A good test case, though, if someone has the financial means to pursue it to a non-settlement conclusion.
For those not in the know, Drupal 7 was just released. Not sure how much of this will apply to the new version, so you should check before spending money on this.
I don't see anything about encryption. Are you supposed to broadcast your donkey porn to the neighbor in the open?
Just make sure the first few seconds of video you play are a Carrot Top video. Nobody will be watching after that. Ever.
So does that mean the iPhone is not a modern phone? No emulators there, nosiree.
Can you not jailbreak an iPhone and run what you want?
As for 'modern', well, as of CES last week, the iPhone 4 is certainly not top-shelf, what with a single core, 3G connectivity (not even HSPA+, right?), no storage expansion slot, etc. The screen is still the highest resolution one out there, but it's so _small_, it's not for me. Some people don't mind small screens, though. *shrug* It's pretty funny - iPhone owners keep looking longingly at my EVO. "Is that new?" "No, it's over 6 months old. Old technology." :)
Not me. I'm waiting for the Commodore 64 Phone! That, or the Sinclair ZX81 Phone. THOSE will be game changers, for sure!
Run them in emulators on modern phones. :)
Heck, with the new dualcores, you could run each on its own core! Hmm, is two considered a Beowulf cluster?
I think it's rather like predicting earthquakes. If each week a different person says there's going to be a big one, statistically speaking, eventually one of them will be right. :-)
A stopped analog clock is correct more often than the "iPhone on Verizon" rumors, though I think it's likely correct this time.
But wait for it - if the one that is announced is NOT an LTE phone, then let the teeth gnashing begin! :)
Meanwhile, the replacement ROM for my EVO on Sprint gives me muuuuch better battery life. (I'm using Fresh ROM.) I can wait for a nice dual-core replacement for my EVO, especially since I get no discount until June, anyway. We'll see who has the best fast data network with the best plan pricing and best phone by then. I've no problems switching to Verizon or T-Mobile if they step up their game in their respective weakspots. But something along the lines of the Motorola Atrix on something other than AT&T would be welcomed. The Bionic isn't quite up to the same specs. Plus, well, Motorola.
Let's see: Lucifer, Beelzebub, and Legion are competing for your business, and you think that you might win? MWAHAHAHAHAHAHAAAAAAAAAA
I want the most torture for my dollar!
Speaking of murder fantasy movies, how about Machete? Slaughter those who don't vote for open borders!
Slaughter those who don't vote for open borders? You obviously didn't actually watch Machete.
it's a feature phone!