Ohh, it's the old "physical vs. immaterial goods" argument. When you went to buy the CD, were you interested in the music on it, or the physical medium?
And even in your software counter-example you have to use a qualifying "almost always".
Last but not least: What ruckus would you raise if Apple stored the information on what songs you ever downloaded on what computer, and then went to check if you actually did erase the disk without making a backup?
Music from the Apple Music store currently can only be played on Apple computers, on Apple's AAC software and on the only handheld device able to play AACs.
BTW, when you buy a CD and your CD breaks, do you get a new one?
So how many buttons does your mouse have? And do you still need to use keyboard-mouse combinations to do some things?
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Urm, well, yes. Halliburton, the company VP Cheney worked for. Did business with Iraq before the first war, between the wars (even if Cheney denied it) and now got government contracts after this war.
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And the US (both of the above, but obviously not enough).
PS/2-keyboards are 20 cents cheaper than USB-keyboards. Well, maybe not 20 cents, but cheaper. And you don't have problems with your old BIOS - that is cheap. You see, it all adds up.
The card in the eMac is dual-headed - and there is video-out/VGA support. Sure, it only mirrors the build-in screen - but that was the case for the iMac and iBook too, and then the hacks that made them dual-headed apeared.
Everyone? Have you ever heard of Dell? Or all the other PC manufacturers? What market share do DIY PCs have? And how many of those aren't build by the actual user?
Ohh, so you don't know about easy to use libraries that lets you use SIMD in C or most other programming languages? Something you can't use in SPEC. Again, that's why SPEC-scores are more interesting to people who want to use ancient software without touching the source, yet recompiling it - but not for people who write or use software actually using some of the new features of new processors.
And C standards are the sucks anyways, but I digress. Trying to add "say, an open, standard SIMD C language extension" is doomed to failure.
And pretending that almost all video and audio software uses SIMD to get huge speed increases (as in several times faster) is - well, that's for the reader to decide. And BTW those are not the only types of apps benefiting.
How fast is regular C/Fortran code that I don't change a single bit in. BTW, SPEC uses less and less Fortran, while C is almost impossible to optimize for SIMD without (non-standard) hints - that are not in SPEC code.
Well, I don't see any 4GHz+ P4s - and even Intel doesn't mention them in their road-maps for this year. Heck, since the article came out, Intel only pushd the P4 from 2.8 to 3.2GHz (and that is still just a rumor).
But Bakula won't look like Hawk all of a sudden. So what to do, have him say "Oh Boy" a lot and make Dean Stockwell his invisible pal? Have him ride a bike with Bruce Willis, get slaughtered, and make Willis Captain? OTOH, do we want to see Bruce's Willy on board?
Well, neither the US nor Al Qaeda signed a treaty that you can't fly planes into someone's buildings. So what makes the war of Al Qaeda against the US illegal?
The story is 6 hours old, and not even a FP? Now that is breathtaking.
Anyway, apart (and maybe not even that) from using breathing for controling , this is hardly news. There have been similar simple games interfaced by biofeedback for several years.
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And even in your software counter-example you have to use a qualifying "almost always".
Last but not least: What ruckus would you raise if Apple stored the information on what songs you ever downloaded on what computer, and then went to check if you actually did erase the disk without making a backup?
TheDeal.com tells Microsoft they would be better off if they split into seperate hardware, OS and application companies.
So you never had to do a discontinuous selection (of files, say)?
BTW, when you buy a CD and your CD breaks, do you get a new one?
So how many buttons does your mouse have? And do you still need to use keyboard-mouse combinations to do some things?
Urm, well, yes. Halliburton, the company VP Cheney worked for. Did business with Iraq before the first war, between the wars (even if Cheney denied it) and now got government contracts after this war.
And the US (both of the above, but obviously not enough).
because RMS would demand to put GNU in front of any product they sell. GNU/Mac OS X, GNU/iMac ...
Only geeks buy servers?
Oops. Galactic Civilizations. I swear it was in the preview ;-)
Maybe this.
PS/2-keyboards are 20 cents cheaper than USB-keyboards. Well, maybe not 20 cents, but cheaper. And you don't have problems with your old BIOS - that is cheap. You see, it all adds up.
The card in the eMac is dual-headed - and there is video-out/VGA support. Sure, it only mirrors the build-in screen - but that was the case for the iMac and iBook too, and then the hacks that made them dual-headed apeared.
Everyone? Have you ever heard of Dell? Or all the other PC manufacturers? What market share do DIY PCs have? And how many of those aren't build by the actual user?
Actually, it's a little more than half that. Look here (at the bottom of the page).
And C standards are the sucks anyways, but I digress. Trying to add "say, an open, standard SIMD C language extension" is doomed to failure.
And pretending that almost all video and audio software uses SIMD to get huge speed increases (as in several times faster) is - well, that's for the reader to decide. And BTW those are not the only types of apps benefiting.
IOW SPEC doesn't say much about SIMD speed.
Well, I don't see any 4GHz+ P4s - and even Intel doesn't mention them in their road-maps for this year. Heck, since the article came out, Intel only pushd the P4 from 2.8 to 3.2GHz (and that is still just a rumor).
SPEC doesn't say much about SIMD speed.
But Bakula won't look like Hawk all of a sudden. So what to do, have him say "Oh Boy" a lot and make Dean Stockwell his invisible pal? Have him ride a bike with Bruce Willis, get slaughtered, and make Willis Captain? OTOH, do we want to see Bruce's Willy on board?
Maybe they need some old writers (but Borgman and Blather).
And those drones managed to survive the First Contact, I guess.
Well, neither the US nor Al Qaeda signed a treaty that you can't fly planes into someone's buildings. So what makes the war of Al Qaeda against the US illegal?
Anyway, apart (and maybe not even that) from using breathing for controling , this is hardly news. There have been similar simple games interfaced by biofeedback for several years.