Well, there's a legitimate reason for that, in that if your friends are using it, it becomes a hell of a lot easier to manage comments, protected entries, and the like. Hence the popularity of LiveJournal.
If it's a useful subsidy to government (and hence taxpayer) backed programs, I fail to see the problem, so long as the work the taxpayer is funding still gets done.
Meaningless comment unless you know how they've optimised their code and practises. It may be they have a bunch of optimised render code that works well with the Xeon and would need to be re-written for the Opteron.
Intel are under no obligation to charge you what you would like to pay for a chip.
Perhaps you can find some Communist country where chip makers are required to produce CPUs for whatever price the buyer deems reasonable. You can live there with the SUV owners that think that petrol shouldn't be priced like any other commodity.
Unfortunately, as this article notes, efforts to have wetlands loss curtailed have run afoul of politics. No doubt too many people committed to the idea that "environmentalism = bad" to think about whether their knee is actually jerking in their own best interests.
through controlled flooding: as it's simply become impossible to fully contain the Rijn
This, as I understand it, is one of the problems in the South: there are so many levees and damns on the river systems that exit around New Orleans to avoid minor flooding they exacerbate the major problems.
That and the destruction of the wetlands has removed a major buffer to storm surges.
I've stuck to lilo because of RAID support. I soft mirror all my Linux systems, and LILO is smart enough to cope with this gracefully by writing appropriate boot blocks to all the drives in the boot mirror. Even if a drive fails, I can still boot.
The only point at which the shit might hit the popular fan is if we start seeing mass key revocation and Joe User suddenly finds his expesives DVD player/TV don't work any more for no good reason.
Of course, for this to enter the popular conciousness, you'd need the popular news media to report on it fairly. I expect Rupert Murdoch's TV stations and newspapers will do a bang-up job of reporting on how Rupert Murdoch's movie studios are fucking over the average citizen.
At which point your OSS OS is a DMCA circumvention device, and will be illegal in the US, Autralia, and other countries which have fallen into line with the US.
Apple sued, IIRC, emachines for selling PCs that they thought looked too much like the early iMacs... here we are. As it happens, I think it's a not unreasonable trademark/branding beef for Apple to have, but Apple can hardly whine when they're on the recieving end of IP lawsuits, given how happy they are to hand them out when it suits.
Not that will stop the hoards of RDF-weenies from claiming otherwise 8)
Remind me again which company sued claiming more-or-less exclusive rights to create GUIs? Which company sues over putting too much candy-coloured translucent plastic on a computer case?
The people not running XP are also the people who think Win2K is actually the best OS Mircosoft have thus far produced, and think XP is often less reliable on the same hardware.
Unfortunately, some Debian fans have taken to advocating for Debian test and unstable as "server" and "desktop" ready distributions, respectively, whenever there are gripes about the Debian release cycle. Even more unfortunately, people listen to them.
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Actually, if you're pulling a gig of images off for a deadline job, you do.
Hell, I'm hoping the Mach64 TV out will actually let me use TV Out on an old Mobility Pro chipset.
Well, there's a legitimate reason for that, in that if your friends are using it, it becomes a hell of a lot easier to manage comments, protected entries, and the like. Hence the popularity of LiveJournal.
If it's a useful subsidy to government (and hence taxpayer) backed programs, I fail to see the problem, so long as the work the taxpayer is funding still gets done.
Meaningless comment unless you know how they've optimised their code and practises. It may be they have a bunch of optimised render code that works well with the Xeon and would need to be re-written for the Opteron.
Nope. Meet the Feebles still wins, because it's based off of raping your childhood memories of the Muppet Show.
This would imply he'd been especially useful in the first place.
Why yes, I want to use my Internet banking from the spyware infested machines at the Internet cafe-du-jour.
*snerk* Right. The only ass those programmers stomped was Apples, while they fucked Copland up completely.
Intel are under no obligation to charge you what you would like to pay for a chip.
Perhaps you can find some Communist country where chip makers are required to produce CPUs for whatever price the buyer deems reasonable. You can live there with the SUV owners that think that petrol shouldn't be priced like any other commodity.
Unfortunately, as this article notes, efforts to have wetlands loss curtailed have run afoul of politics. No doubt too many people committed to the idea that "environmentalism = bad" to think about whether their knee is actually jerking in their own best interests.
This, as I understand it, is one of the problems in the South: there are so many levees and damns on the river systems that exit around New Orleans to avoid minor flooding they exacerbate the major problems.
That and the destruction of the wetlands has removed a major buffer to storm surges.
I've stuck to lilo because of RAID support. I soft mirror all my Linux systems, and LILO is smart enough to cope with this gracefully by writing appropriate boot blocks to all the drives in the boot mirror. Even if a drive fails, I can still boot.
GRUB simply doesn't support this last I checked.
Bravo. You have a job awaiting you at Fox News, scriptwriter of the future.
The only point at which the shit might hit the popular fan is if we start seeing mass key revocation and Joe User suddenly finds his expesives DVD player/TV don't work any more for no good reason.
Of course, for this to enter the popular conciousness, you'd need the popular news media to report on it fairly. I expect Rupert Murdoch's TV stations and newspapers will do a bang-up job of reporting on how Rupert Murdoch's movie studios are fucking over the average citizen.
At which point your OSS OS is a DMCA circumvention device, and will be illegal in the US, Autralia, and other countries which have fallen into line with the US.
Gee, no wonder Microsoft like the sound of this.
If you think Sin City is one of the greatest comic books ever written, pass me a pipe of whatever you have.
And the movie, while very good, is also flawed. In some cases, those flaws are a result of the slavish translation from comic to film.
No, but you can ensure that without commercial backing, Linux enjoys the broad market adoption and commercial recognition of OpenBSD or Atheos.
Apple sued, IIRC, emachines for selling PCs that they thought looked too much like the early iMacs... here we are. As it happens, I think it's a not unreasonable trademark/branding beef for Apple to have, but Apple can hardly whine when they're on the recieving end of IP lawsuits, given how happy they are to hand them out when it suits.
Not that will stop the hoards of RDF-weenies from claiming otherwise 8)
Remind me again which company sued claiming more-or-less exclusive rights to create GUIs? Which company sues over putting too much candy-coloured translucent plastic on a computer case?
MSN has a lot more photos for the United States. Not for the rest of the world.
MSN Earth. World Series Baseball.
I don't know. Go to Windows Update, which is still (as of today) issuing new Microsoft hotfixes for Win2K bugs?
The people not running XP are also the people who think Win2K is actually the best OS Mircosoft have thus far produced, and think XP is often less reliable on the same hardware.
Unfortunately, some Debian fans have taken to advocating for Debian test and unstable as "server" and "desktop" ready distributions, respectively, whenever there are gripes about the Debian release cycle. Even more unfortunately, people listen to them.