You use processor speed and performance interchangeably. As we learned in CS352, the only measure of performance that matters is execution time. Your thinking is confused and misleading, and can get you into trouble.
What you say about processor speeds and price points is true. What you fail to realize is that most people just want the most value for their money, not the highest performing proc. If you don't believe me, check out AMD's market share. As an individual informed consumer, I don't much care what enthusiasts are willing to pay - I want the best value for my money, which at the moment is the 820 over the 4200.
Now, consider someone who knows relatively little about computers. Intel has tremendous mindshare among these average Joes. When he see that the lowest priced Intel dual core proc is $250 and the lowest priced AMD dual core proc is $550, what do you think he's going to do?
AMD needs to get their shit together if they really want to compete. That means offering a competitive proc at the same (or lower!) price point as Intel does. I don't care how you try to justify it; this kind of pricing strategy simply will not sell units in the general marketplace.
Please state which two comparatively priced chips, one from Intel, one from AMD, are actually considered in competition. I think it's been standard knowledge that most, if not all, of AMD's lineup runs cooler and is far cheaper than anything Intel has put out in the last few years.
Demonstrably not true - AMD's Athlon X2 4200 against Intel's Pentium D 820. They are the cheapest dual core processor from each vendor, and thus ostensibly in competition with each other. The 4200, while perhaps being the superior product, is more than twice as expensive as an 820 (Newegg: AMD X2 4200: $585, Pentium D 820: $256). I would really like to buy an AMD, but the price/performance ratio is just not there... there is no way that the X2 4200 gives over twice the performance of an 820!
I like PC gaming because you have a keyboard, which is basically the same as a console controller, paired with a mouse, which has no mainstream console equivalent. When (if) mice become standard console equipment, most of the hardcore PC guys will have a good reason to switch.
An appalling user-interface gaffe finally corrected.
I guess getting rid of the screwdriver and clawhammer folder for the Control Panel next would be too much to ask. Although I guess they are appropriate since most of the time when I run Windows I wish I had a hammer... to beat myself senseless with.
...because it just might bring us into another golden age of American science. Think about how many young people were inspired to be engineers and scientists when they saw the Appollo missions as youngsters.
Consider this: if you don't like what they're selling, then don't buy it. Instead of talking about how bad these people are, why don't we organize a boycott of DVDs for a month? How hard could it be? This would be the first step to telling Hollywood that we don't need to buy DVDs to be happy. There's more to life than DVDs and DRM.
The consumer mass-market doesn't view viruses and worms as the fault of the operating system. Rather, they blame the guys who write the bad stuff -- not the guys who make it possible.
Same reason the people who hate drunk driving aren't going after auto-manufacturers. Instead, they go after the idiots doing the drunk driving.
You are so confused and wrong it's hard to know how to begin to explain what's wrong with you.
Mostly it comes down to the fact that the situation you're talking about it is significantly different than the Microsoft scenario. As you correctly point out, drunk driving isn't the fault of the auto manufacturer, but you seem to be missing the reason they're not blamed: it is because drunk driving is not caused by faulty cars!
Microsoft, on the other hand, bears responsibility for all these worms/virii infecting their software - because, unlike auto manufacturers, their product (Windows) is faulty! Windows basically spreads its legs for that stuff! Have you ever seen any of the Windows source code? There are unchecked buffers all over the place! It's gayer than AIDS!
It is not a conviction. A conviction is handed down from a court in the legal system. Whether it is a punishment or not is a matter of opinion. The whole matter is a civil affair, not a criminal one. So why should the ISP go to jail?
Had you actually read the article, you would know that the study primarily concerned European providers, not American ones. And one conclusion of the study was that it was actually a lot harder to take down a site in the US than in Europe.
No one cares about organizing links through some website - they can already do that through their browser; not to mention that with browser bookmarks, control rests with the user. This is a stupid feature that hardly anyone will use.
For real. USB drives are the tip of the iceberg when it comes to security. There a hundred other ways that a motivated employee could steal valuable confidential data. And chances are that an employee high enough to have access to that kind of data in the first place is probably more interested in stealing the competition's data...
I side with the Brazilians here. Let everybody post in whatever language they like. The internet is all about connecting the world, most of whose inhabitants do not speak english. So if you can't read it, learn to read it.
A forthcoming bill in the U.S. Senate would, if passed, dramatically reshape copyright law by prohibiting file-trading networks and some consumer electronics devices on the grounds that they could be used for unlawful purposes.
I read a book once called 'Physics for Scientists and Engineers'. There's lots of stuff in there that could be used for unlawful purposes. For example, Newtonian mechanics. Someone better bring that to Sen. Hatch's attention...
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What you say about processor speeds and price points is true. What you fail to realize is that most people just want the most value for their money, not the highest performing proc. If you don't believe me, check out AMD's market share. As an individual informed consumer, I don't much care what enthusiasts are willing to pay - I want the best value for my money, which at the moment is the 820 over the 4200.
Now, consider someone who knows relatively little about computers. Intel has tremendous mindshare among these average Joes. When he see that the lowest priced Intel dual core proc is $250 and the lowest priced AMD dual core proc is $550, what do you think he's going to do?
AMD needs to get their shit together if they really want to compete. That means offering a competitive proc at the same (or lower!) price point as Intel does. I don't care how you try to justify it; this kind of pricing strategy simply will not sell units in the general marketplace.
This guy cannot possibly be serious!
I like PC gaming because you have a keyboard, which is basically the same as a console controller, paired with a mouse, which has no mainstream console equivalent. When (if) mice become standard console equipment, most of the hardcore PC guys will have a good reason to switch.
An appalling user-interface gaffe finally corrected. I guess getting rid of the screwdriver and clawhammer folder for the Control Panel next would be too much to ask. Although I guess they are appropriate since most of the time when I run Windows I wish I had a hammer... to beat myself senseless with.
here we come!
...because it just might bring us into another golden age of American science. Think about how many young people were inspired to be engineers and scientists when they saw the Appollo missions as youngsters.
Consider this: if you don't like what they're selling, then don't buy it. Instead of talking about how bad these people are, why don't we organize a boycott of DVDs for a month? How hard could it be? This would be the first step to telling Hollywood that we don't need to buy DVDs to be happy. There's more to life than DVDs and DRM.
...seems like a douche. I mean, really, where does he think his profits are going to go if he keeps making fun of the customer?
for bad software running on bad hardware?
Yes. Any more stupid questions? :)
Mostly it comes down to the fact that the situation you're talking about it is significantly different than the Microsoft scenario. As you correctly point out, drunk driving isn't the fault of the auto manufacturer, but you seem to be missing the reason they're not blamed: it is because drunk driving is not caused by faulty cars!
Microsoft, on the other hand, bears responsibility for all these worms/virii infecting their software - because, unlike auto manufacturers, their product (Windows) is faulty! Windows basically spreads its legs for that stuff! Have you ever seen any of the Windows source code? There are unchecked buffers all over the place! It's gayer than AIDS!
And it's completely Microsoft's fault!
It is kind of like this one: build a working nuclear reactor from spare wristwatch parts, in the dark, using only your teeth.
If hardware support was widespread like it is with Windows and (to an extent) Linux, I would.
It is not a conviction. A conviction is handed down from a court in the legal system. Whether it is a punishment or not is a matter of opinion. The whole matter is a civil affair, not a criminal one. So why should the ISP go to jail?
Why? What crime have they committed?
Had you actually read the article, you would know that the study primarily concerned European providers, not American ones. And one conclusion of the study was that it was actually a lot harder to take down a site in the US than in Europe.
No one cares about organizing links through some website - they can already do that through their browser; not to mention that with browser bookmarks, control rests with the user. This is a stupid feature that hardly anyone will use.
For real. USB drives are the tip of the iceberg when it comes to security. There a hundred other ways that a motivated employee could steal valuable confidential data. And chances are that an employee high enough to have access to that kind of data in the first place is probably more interested in stealing the competition's data...
it seems like they've already been selling this in the US for a few years
seriously, the ruling was 2+ months ago...
I side with the Brazilians here. Let everybody post in whatever language they like. The internet is all about connecting the world, most of whose inhabitants do not speak english. So if you can't read it, learn to read it.
I read a book once called 'Physics for Scientists and Engineers'. There's lots of stuff in there that could be used for unlawful purposes. For example, Newtonian mechanics. Someone better bring that to Sen. Hatch's attention...
...you're just playing around