If you need to perform those sort of complex calculations just buy a Tyran Thunder and drop in a pair of AthlonXP 1900+'s and go. Screw the P4, the Althlon is faster and cheaper. As for large compiles, thats mostly a factor of disk speed, go RAID or SCSI or preferably, both.
The jist of it is this: Intel has made a slightly faster P4, but the Athlon is still faster, so, who cares?
It seems like (almost?) all the benefits are for the content companies, not me!
You do of course realize that this the basic reason that corporations exist in the first place, to benefit themselves. They exist only to make a profit. Their interest in benefiting consumers is, at best, merely a side effect of this goal.
Isn't this the problem? Windows doesn't want its brand name to be associated with something that's not Microsoft, so naturally they're going to fight it.
They probably don't want the good karma of a quality product rubbing off on that which they have spent soo much effort soiling.
Try looking at it in Mozilla... it looks totally f'd up.... IE shows a crappy flash intro and an overly scripted site while Mozilla shows most of the right side of the site near the bottom and a form that's nowhere to be seen in IE. The rendering differences are so big it looks like you're looking at two different sites. Whoever these people are, they have no right to call themselves web designers or web service providers of any kind seeing as they can't even make a functional web site.
Why the heck is the icon for this story a motherboard? What does this topic have to do with electronics? Shouldn't it at least be that little pic of several computers hooked together around the world?
Thats whats great about a free market economy, if you don't like McDonalds then you are free to go across the street and have some pizza instead. If there is no pizza place then you can start one.
And no, globalisim is here to stay. Its an idea, a concept, and you can never unthink of an idea, they are perminant. And with the exception of the desktop OS market where is there a monopoly today? NOWHERE! They have LAWS against that sort of thing. Capatilisim is based on the idea of competition, the total antithisis of monopoly. Globalization cannot be stopped no matter how much the leftists whine about. There's a reason they call the right 'right':)
The process by which a planet of primitive tribal cultures becomes a type 1 civilization. The cultural and economic differences between nations erode forming a single unified global culture and economy. Of course there will always be those that resist change and they will fight vigorously to maintain there individual identity rather than let themselves be assimilated by the rest of the world. (think the end of evangalion people, the destruction of AT fields produced by nations and cultures as opposed to people) Technology, or more specificaly comunicatin is what makes this possible. Historically empires and cultures have always been limited by the difficulity of comunication over long distances. Any part of the empire or nation not within close enough contact with the rest of the nation looses its cultural ties to said nation or empire. Thus far flug colonies eventually desire independence and become seperate nations, this has been demonstrated throughout history. By the same token different cultures and nations within close proximity eventually merge. American culture is an excelent example of this, although the very existance of the EU and the Euro dollar also prove this concept. We already have a global economy and now that technology has seemlessly connected the entire world it is only a matter of time before this process replaces all of todays cultures with a global culture. And once the economy and culture are globalized the politcal systems will follow, the strength of the UN and the way it has handled recent events proves that this part of the process has already begun. Globalization: There are those that fear it, those that hate it and those that ignore it, but they shall all be swept away by what is now a trickle and will soon become a flood. Globalization is neither better nor worse than the old cultural and polital systems, its just different. The good and bad aspects of human nature will always exist in equal amounts the world, regardless of the previlant social, economic, and political systems, its human nature and no amount of tech can change that. History tells us that globalization is going to happen wether we want it to or not. The real question is are we ready for it, I know I am.
WinXP SEEMS to boot faster because it finishes 80% of the boot sequence after the desktop has already come up. As for speed, XP is between 40-80% slower than Win2k across the board. Haven't you read the benchmarks? I have WinXP installed as well (although I never user it) and although it boots fast the system itself runs slow as hell compaired to Win2k. And I'm not on some crap comp either, I run a 1.4 tbird on a AsusA7M266 with 512megs ddr ram, GeForce3, ATA RAID, ect... The simple fact is that WinXP is slow as hell.
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It would probably be easier to burn said data to DVDR.
of course some bozo actually tries to invest using information from said web sites
If you need to perform those sort of complex calculations just buy a Tyran Thunder and drop in a pair of AthlonXP 1900+'s and go. Screw the P4, the Althlon is faster and cheaper. As for large compiles, thats mostly a factor of disk speed, go RAID or SCSI or preferably, both.
The jist of it is this: Intel has made a slightly faster P4, but the Athlon is still faster, so, who cares?
musiccity.com works fine under Mozilla 0.9.7 for both Linux and Windows (Mandrake 8.1 and NT 5.2 respectively)
It works just fine in Mozilla 0.9.7 if you turn off JavaScript.
It seems like (almost?) all the benefits are for the content companies, not me!
You do of course realize that this the basic reason that corporations exist in the first place, to benefit themselves. They exist only to make a profit. Their interest in benefiting consumers is, at best, merely a side effect of this goal.
Isn't this the problem? Windows doesn't want its brand name to be associated with something that's not Microsoft, so naturally they're going to fight it.
They probably don't want the good karma of a quality product rubbing off on that which they have spent soo much effort soiling.
Mozilla has gestures as well.
Try looking at it in Mozilla... it looks totally f'd up.... IE shows a crappy flash intro and an overly scripted site while Mozilla shows most of the right side of the site near the bottom and a form that's nowhere to be seen in IE. The rendering differences are so big it looks like you're looking at two different sites. Whoever these people are, they have no right to call themselves web designers or web service providers of any kind seeing as they can't even make a functional web site.
Because its there.
Also, why don't we do these robot things on the moon first...
Because it would be rather hard for these things to function on the moon, seeing as it has no atmosphere.
Because they think Chlorine is just something you put in swimming pools. And aparently can't remember basic chemistry: Na + Cl = NaCl
Well, many people on Slashdot are full of nothing but hot air and yet we seem to consider them to be intelligent.
Why the heck is the icon for this story a motherboard? What does this topic have to do with electronics? Shouldn't it at least be that little pic of several computers hooked together around the world?
Thats whats great about a free market economy, if you don't like McDonalds then you are free to go across the street and have some pizza instead. If there is no pizza place then you can start one.
Shit happens. Deal with it.
Two words: Labor Unions.
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And no, globalisim is here to stay. Its an idea, a concept, and you can never unthink of an idea, they are perminant. And with the exception of the desktop OS market where is there a monopoly today? NOWHERE! They have LAWS against that sort of thing. Capatilisim is based on the idea of competition, the total antithisis of monopoly. Globalization cannot be stopped no matter how much the leftists whine about. There's a reason they call the right 'right'
The more things change the more they stay the same.
The process by which a planet of primitive tribal cultures becomes a type 1 civilization. The cultural and economic differences between nations erode forming a single unified global culture and economy. Of course there will always be those that resist change and they will fight vigorously to maintain there individual identity rather than let themselves be assimilated by the rest of the world. (think the end of evangalion people, the destruction of AT fields produced by nations and cultures as opposed to people) Technology, or more specificaly comunicatin is what makes this possible. Historically empires and cultures have always been limited by the difficulity of comunication over long distances. Any part of the empire or nation not within close enough contact with the rest of the nation looses its cultural ties to said nation or empire. Thus far flug colonies eventually desire independence and become seperate nations, this has been demonstrated throughout history. By the same token different cultures and nations within close proximity eventually merge. American culture is an excelent example of this, although the very existance of the EU and the Euro dollar also prove this concept. We already have a global economy and now that technology has seemlessly connected the entire world it is only a matter of time before this process replaces all of todays cultures with a global culture. And once the economy and culture are globalized the politcal systems will follow, the strength of the UN and the way it has handled recent events proves that this part of the process has already begun. Globalization: There are those that fear it, those that hate it and those that ignore it, but they shall all be swept away by what is now a trickle and will soon become a flood. Globalization is neither better nor worse than the old cultural and polital systems, its just different. The good and bad aspects of human nature will always exist in equal amounts the world, regardless of the previlant social, economic, and political systems, its human nature and no amount of tech can change that. History tells us that globalization is going to happen wether we want it to or not. The real question is are we ready for it, I know I am.
I'm using the full and final version. Not some crap beta.
WinXP SEEMS to boot faster because it finishes 80% of the boot sequence after the desktop has already come up. As for speed, XP is between 40-80% slower than Win2k across the board. Haven't you read the benchmarks? I have WinXP installed as well (although I never user it) and although it boots fast the system itself runs slow as hell compaired to Win2k. And I'm not on some crap comp either, I run a 1.4 tbird on a AsusA7M266 with 512megs ddr ram, GeForce3, ATA RAID, ect... The simple fact is that WinXP is slow as hell.
Money is a finite resource, information is not. Therefore, your analogy does not apply to the situation at hand.
The strength/validity of a contract is relative to the opinions of society as a whole.
When good men do nothing that is evil enough.
Sometimes the devil can only be struck down with his own sword.
The only way to beat the system is with system.