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AMD's New DRM
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[Sung to the tune of "Three's Company"]
"Come and buy our crap," "we're now shilling to you" "Where the rights are only ours and ours and ours," "we're now a DRM company too!"
Re:This is why my company is starting a move to Li
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The End is Nigh for XP
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Sorry but this is how capitalism works. A free marketplace is based on consumer choice and competition. If you don't like Windows Vista you can switch to any other OS that is compatible with 99% of the software out there, like...umm...ahhhh...shit.
I consider it bad news from the viewpoint that unexpected results are much more exciting to everyone involved. If you have dedicated your life to the standard model then you might not be happy about it but it would certainly wake you up.
Seeing as corporate executives can literally get away with homicidal negligence I wouldn't sit around too long waiting for criminal charges for spyware.
What pushed me to adblock isn't ads, it's ANNOYING ads. It's ads that make noise, that flash, that move around the screen, that pop up, etc. Regular simple ads were not annoying to me. Now all content providers suffer because of the behavior of some advertisers.
You're just mad that you could never "punch the monkey".
The problem with watching the Simpsons in HD is that you can see all of Marge's wrinkles and Homer's old acne scars through the makeup. You can also see that Bart has some early facial hair coming in.
I assume this is why TV tubes are made with leaded glass, to absoarb the soft x-rays being generated. This is also why tossing out a TV tube improperly is a pollution no-no.
I wouldn't let my kid play games like WOW or Neverwinter Nights. They'll grow up thinking it's ok to be prejudiced against orcs and that you can just go around robbing dragons.
On a serious note though. I'd say the biggest problem games pose for anyone, kid or adult, isn't losing track of reality vs the game it is losing track of time and wasting huge amounts of time on it. Games are supposed to be a relaxtion and a break from reality, not an escape or substitute.
I'm an old fart (compared to teen gamers) and I could do without the gruesome death gurgles and blood sprays in BF1942's Desert Combat. I'm more interested in clever gameplay than realistic gore.
What is not a joking matter is smoking in high-oxygen environments or fires in spacecraft, because they do have lots of flammable stuff, like wire insulation (which is fire-resistant, not necessarily fire-proof.)
I have to dispute his number. According to the BTS the total number of paying customers for US carriers in 2004 was 655,115,981. I doubt 100% of these people are business flyers and I also doubt 100% of those would use a cellphone in a flight. Those that do wouldn't be on the phone the whole flight so I'd say they pulled the "billions of hours" number out of the statisical ether.
Are there really that many people using SLI to provide a market for another SLI mb design? Who are these people spending their retirement fund on graphics cards?
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They are one of the few major companies that still do basic research.
Plus you could keep using the standard ATX motherboard dimensions without a sprawling CPU taking over the board's real estate.
I wonder if they are using microtubes for cooling the lower layers.
Sure this guy doesn't actually work for Intel?
[Sung to the tune of "Three's Company"]
"Come and buy our crap,"
"we're now shilling to you"
"Where the rights are only ours and ours and ours,"
"we're now a DRM company too!"
Sorry but this is how capitalism works. A free marketplace is based on consumer choice and competition. If you don't like Windows Vista you can switch to any other OS that is compatible with 99% of the software out there, like...umm...ahhhh...shit.
I consider it bad news from the viewpoint that unexpected results are much more exciting to everyone involved. If you have dedicated your life to the standard model then you might not be happy about it but it would certainly wake you up.
Seeing as corporate executives can literally get away with homicidal negligence I wouldn't sit around too long waiting for criminal charges for spyware.
I don't look forward to taking my PC to Jiffy-Lube for my 500 cpu-hour oil change.
We also need to break the dependency on foreign PC oil sources. I'm switching to bio-diesel PCs. Ummmm, my PC smells like french fries.
You're just mad that you could never "punch the monkey".
I'd like to be able to commute at the speed limit on busy days never mind 200mph.
I'm trying out this thing called "outdoors". 3D video, extreme HD, millions of colors, and it is free! The reviews say it is incredibly lifelike.
The problem with watching the Simpsons in HD is that you can see all of Marge's wrinkles and Homer's old acne scars through the makeup. You can also see that Bart has some early facial hair coming in.
I assume this is why TV tubes are made with leaded glass, to absoarb the soft x-rays being generated. This is also why tossing out a TV tube improperly is a pollution no-no.
Might as well turn on automatic updating while you are on their machines. Maybe even install some spyware cleaners too.
I wouldn't let my kid play games like WOW or Neverwinter Nights. They'll grow up thinking it's ok to be prejudiced against orcs and that you can just go around robbing dragons.
On a serious note though. I'd say the biggest problem games pose for anyone, kid or adult, isn't losing track of reality vs the game it is losing track of time and wasting huge amounts of time on it. Games are supposed to be a relaxtion and a break from reality, not an escape or substitute.
I'm an old fart (compared to teen gamers) and I could do without the gruesome death gurgles and blood sprays in BF1942's Desert Combat. I'm more interested in clever gameplay than realistic gore.
I'd add this bizarrely named game to your bloody game list: The Bilestoad
BTW, this rule applies to medical and grad school.
"I had to work 14 hours straight during residency so you should too!"
"I had to spend every night, and holidays, in the lab working on my research and getting no credit for it and so should you!"
So Fermilab, CERN's competition, designed the magnets that happened to have a basic design flaw? Hmmmm, cue The Beastie Boys tune "Sabotage"!
That sounds very familiar.
I have to dispute his number. According to the BTS the total number of paying customers for US carriers in 2004 was 655,115,981. I doubt 100% of these people are business flyers and I also doubt 100% of those would use a cellphone in a flight. Those that do wouldn't be on the phone the whole flight so I'd say they pulled the "billions of hours" number out of the statisical ether.
I hope we don't have the form of human-computer interaction they had in the first Terminator movie.
Will it also print text to the screen at teletype speeds with pointless "rata-tat-tat" sounds added? (ref: Alien)
Are there really that many people using SLI to provide a market for another SLI mb design? Who are these people spending their retirement fund on graphics cards?