I'm sorry we were talking about power users. While power users have laptops, most of them have desktops as well for the real number-crunching. You simply can't get a fast enough CPU or graphics card on a laptop because they suck up too much power/produce too much heat to be marketable.
I agree, having built my own systems as well. But the thing about building your own system is - you have to take the time to research the components, buy them individually, and spend the hour or so assembling them. Whereas buying a pre-built system saves you that time spent on research and assembly and gets you a system that is supposed to work as specified. Granted that's not always the case, but that's the theory anyway. For that savings in time, Dell is offering a service and making a profit. Middlemen are not completely useless. Except perhaps in the publishing industry nowadays.
Well if they're middle men then why aren't you assembling your own motherboards and graphics cards from capacitors, resistors, crystals and chips. No, better yet, do it with sand and raw metal and plastic. No, better yet, dig up your own beach, drill your own oil well, and mine your own ore... The world is full of middle men. They have a function.
I agree. Anyone who is a "PC enthusiast" has long been a builder of his/her own systems and was never a customer of Dell and HP anyway. Asus and Gigabyte, maybe, but not the mass-market junk fed to the ones who don't know any better. Shame about Dell though, they used to be really really good in the late 80's/early 90's. And shame about Compaq, being bought out by HP which should have stuck to making calculators and laser printers.
Actually the power user probably will be. I certainly do. In fact hmm now that you mention it it's about time I upgrade this quad core i7 and give Ivy Bridge a try...
rather than resting satisfied within its cozy boundaries.
Right, because according to the author, there is no scientific progress at all since everyone is "satisfied". The scientific method works as is. It's up to any decent scientist to review the work of others when postulating a new hypothesis to see if the question has already been answered by someone. That's part of the steps of the scientific method. Automatically you find out that way what is known about a subject. However teaching "what we don't know" is ridiculous because there are plenty of things that we don't even know exist. In short - we don't even know what we don't know.
It takes energy to make CO2. That energy will probably come from burning fossil fuels because somehow I doubt that a solar plant will do quite well at the south pole, and as far as I know there are not many hydro or nuclear plants there. So yeah, let's burn fossil fuel and make CO2, so that we can remove CO2 and turn it into "snow". Derp. Not to mention what happens on the one freakishly warm summer when all that CO2 "snow" sublimes and ends up back in the atmosphere...
Honestly, how often do you update your BIOS? Drivers, yes. But BIOS? Have you ever "needed" to do it, in the lifetime of your computer? Apart from to correct bugs that never should have shipped in the first place I mean.
If I remember correctly that's how it used to be. BIOS could only be changed by changing out the chip and re-flashing the EPROM (when we had EPROMs). But you're right, there are many powerful companies who are desperate to see the "top down" model enforced on computers, from entertainment companies to software companies.
Fax machines were useful at sending printed material immediately over a phone line. This was a new way of doing things. Bitcoin is trying to replace something that already exists - money, and the electronic form of money in interbank transfers. In order for people to adopt it there would have to be an overwhelmingly compelling reason to do so. So far there are many reasons not to. The bitcoin "crash". The bitcoin robberies. Bitcoin's association with drugs (wait till the governments of the world start regulating this). Yeah, no thanks.
I doubt very much you will get rifling at all. The momentum of the bullet is probably far greater than the force needed to shear off any plastic rifling. Not to mention that it's probably an advantage to make the barrel's bore a little larger (gun barrels are actually slightly narrower than the bullets that go in them and they deform the bullet as it passes along) so that you don't get as much gas pressure which would tear the gun apart. Makes for a much slower bullet but the object was to shoot (without killing yourself), not to be accurate or have a fast muzzle velocity.
Get ready to swap your TV's again! Remember it's all good for the economy. That way you can watch re-runs of Friends and Home Improvement in ultra ultra high resolution.
Yes a pilot can refuse to carry any passenger, for any reason. If the airline disagrees they can discipline the pilot, but if the pilot feels like grounding the flight and walking away he can do that.
Sounds like someone is off his meds. I can't mod you down and post in the same thread. But go ahead and rage away - remember to caps lock me more, that will really hurt.
OK Ubisoft. Stop making games and you will finally win over piracy at long last, with a 0% rate. Considering the games lately it's not like you'll be missed anyway.
PS: I can make up statistics too, in fact 73.8% of all people do.
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Fraud? He "stole" pixels. Surely you're not trying to tell me that Bitcoin is a legitimate currency are you?
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I'm sorry we were talking about power users. While power users have laptops, most of them have desktops as well for the real number-crunching. You simply can't get a fast enough CPU or graphics card on a laptop because they suck up too much power/produce too much heat to be marketable.
I agree, having built my own systems as well. But the thing about building your own system is - you have to take the time to research the components, buy them individually, and spend the hour or so assembling them. Whereas buying a pre-built system saves you that time spent on research and assembly and gets you a system that is supposed to work as specified. Granted that's not always the case, but that's the theory anyway. For that savings in time, Dell is offering a service and making a profit. Middlemen are not completely useless. Except perhaps in the publishing industry nowadays.
Well if they're middle men then why aren't you assembling your own motherboards and graphics cards from capacitors, resistors, crystals and chips. No, better yet, do it with sand and raw metal and plastic. No, better yet, dig up your own beach, drill your own oil well, and mine your own ore... The world is full of middle men. They have a function.
Yeah it's absolutely impossible for someone to own a smart phone, an iPad AND a PC or two or (in my case) 4.
I agree. Anyone who is a "PC enthusiast" has long been a builder of his/her own systems and was never a customer of Dell and HP anyway. Asus and Gigabyte, maybe, but not the mass-market junk fed to the ones who don't know any better. Shame about Dell though, they used to be really really good in the late 80's/early 90's. And shame about Compaq, being bought out by HP which should have stuck to making calculators and laser printers.
Actually the power user probably will be. I certainly do. In fact hmm now that you mention it it's about time I upgrade this quad core i7 and give Ivy Bridge a try...
rather than resting satisfied within its cozy boundaries.
Right, because according to the author, there is no scientific progress at all since everyone is "satisfied". The scientific method works as is. It's up to any decent scientist to review the work of others when postulating a new hypothesis to see if the question has already been answered by someone. That's part of the steps of the scientific method. Automatically you find out that way what is known about a subject. However teaching "what we don't know" is ridiculous because there are plenty of things that we don't even know exist. In short - we don't even know what we don't know.
It takes energy to make CO2. That energy will probably come from burning fossil fuels because somehow I doubt that a solar plant will do quite well at the south pole, and as far as I know there are not many hydro or nuclear plants there. So yeah, let's burn fossil fuel and make CO2, so that we can remove CO2 and turn it into "snow". Derp. Not to mention what happens on the one freakishly warm summer when all that CO2 "snow" sublimes and ends up back in the atmosphere...
BIOS updates
Honestly, how often do you update your BIOS? Drivers, yes. But BIOS? Have you ever "needed" to do it, in the lifetime of your computer? Apart from to correct bugs that never should have shipped in the first place I mean.
If I remember correctly that's how it used to be. BIOS could only be changed by changing out the chip and re-flashing the EPROM (when we had EPROMs). But you're right, there are many powerful companies who are desperate to see the "top down" model enforced on computers, from entertainment companies to software companies.
Fax machines were useful at sending printed material immediately over a phone line. This was a new way of doing things. Bitcoin is trying to replace something that already exists - money, and the electronic form of money in interbank transfers. In order for people to adopt it there would have to be an overwhelmingly compelling reason to do so. So far there are many reasons not to. The bitcoin "crash". The bitcoin robberies. Bitcoin's association with drugs (wait till the governments of the world start regulating this). Yeah, no thanks.
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People make their own guns now. It's not that hard to do. Who needs accuracy when you press it against someone's head.
I doubt very much you will get rifling at all. The momentum of the bullet is probably far greater than the force needed to shear off any plastic rifling. Not to mention that it's probably an advantage to make the barrel's bore a little larger (gun barrels are actually slightly narrower than the bullets that go in them and they deform the bullet as it passes along) so that you don't get as much gas pressure which would tear the gun apart. Makes for a much slower bullet but the object was to shoot (without killing yourself), not to be accurate or have a fast muzzle velocity.
Get ready to swap your TV's again! Remember it's all good for the economy. That way you can watch re-runs of Friends and Home Improvement in ultra ultra high resolution.
Yes a pilot can refuse to carry any passenger, for any reason. If the airline disagrees they can discipline the pilot, but if the pilot feels like grounding the flight and walking away he can do that.
And our resident moron, Dunbal, modded me down
Sounds like someone is off his meds. I can't mod you down and post in the same thread. But go ahead and rage away - remember to caps lock me more, that will really hurt.
In the meantime we're still waiting for pictures of AC's brain. Some are saying that since there are no pictures, there is no brain.
And what exactly do you suggest the government do? Place buoys with signs on them warning the fish not to eat the plastic?
You do know that petroleum won't last forever, right? Yeah you can make plastics from other sources too, but not as cheaply as from oil.
OK Ubisoft. Stop making games and you will finally win over piracy at long last, with a 0% rate. Considering the games lately it's not like you'll be missed anyway.
PS: I can make up statistics too, in fact 73.8% of all people do.
This doesn't affect me because I keep all my valuables in the hotel safe!
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