LOL... yeah. Slightly offtopic, but have you noticed that when censoring... er.. editing films, they bleep out the word "god" in "god damn" instead of the "damn"? Just find it amusing. Apparently "god" is more offensive than "bitch" these days.
Heh, found this article, written in '97, about the state of mobile processors. Wow, much has changed in only 5 years. Just reflect. 8 watts, and they were panicking. Wow.
Here's an article that says the mobile P4 actually is the same desktop part, just test at lower powers after production and hence get approved for mobile use (half-way through the article).
If you bought an old Mustang and found out it was a four cylinder POS and not an eight cylinder monster would you feel cheated? Or would you feel stupid for not having researched a major purchase? Just because you have the cash on hand doesn't mean you have to buy something this second - check it out first. The internet is a fantastic way to learn the true specs of a product, especially computers. Use it.
Actually, I read a while back that auto manufacturers are developing a "speed-step" like engine management system for cars, if it isn't out already (can't find articles now...). Basically, when you are cruising along at moderate speeds, and don't need all your rated power from your engine, it doesn't send fuel or spark to certain cylinders to save gas. If you step on the throttle, it activates them again. I think it was Mercedes-Benz who was playing with this. I might be wrong, but I think the corvette might have something similar? Anyway, it does exist, at least on paper for now.
Actually, I don't think that it is a bad thing to release it a half-hour before market close, as it would take at least that long to come to any firm conclusions as to what all that lawyer babble means. By the time anyone REALLY gets the meaning of the resolution, the markets will be long closed. It's 20 minutes after market close, and I still haven't seen a definitive summary with implications yet. No big loss in my mind.
You can have a full meal for 3 (including drinks, loads of meat, etc) for the equivalent of 4 US$.
Houses in the rich area of Windhoek, the capital city, sell for around 150000 US$. We are talking mansions with 10 or more bedrooms, two or three floors and 24 hour security. Is where embassies are mostly located.
2000 US$ may be little for US standards, for Namibian standards is a huge amount of money.
Hate to burst your bubble, but I know many places in the US that have the same (and even lower) costs of living than your example. I'm in a decent sized college town (250K+), and you can buy some freaking huge houses for $150K USD here too. Got any better figures?
I don't get the cynical comments in the post.
First we critize MS when their securtity fails, now that their security is improving we still critize their efforts. Grow up.
Besides, a more secure Win2K should mean a better Net for everyone. If these boxes can stay locked down and free of trojans, in theory we shoul see a decrease in attack/hack attemps.
Just for the record, there is NO "off the record" record.
Make a record of that.
The certification doesn't make Win2K any more "secure" than it was before it was certified. To quote "Tommy Boy", "you can slap a guarantee on a piece of shit, but all that means is you have a guaranteed piece of shit"... or something similar. I don't see that status as anything meaningful, except that it gives the government a bit less paperwork to do when they want new hardware. I don't think that the certification process could possibly determine if something is "absolutely" secure, especially with closed source software, unless a full code audit was done (doubtful). Just my 2 cents.
...the worlds largest reboot and reformat session EVER! I can almost hear the beeps now... I hope M$ planned for this contingency when they created their computer key system for XP. There will be a lot of people reactivating their keys at the same time!
Seriously, besides the 1% of the research/development population who may need this, doesn't anyone think this is going too far, to fast? My personal computer is a G4 450, and I have yet to find something that really taxes it. I've upgraded the VC, HDs and RAM, spent maybe $300 doing so (over 3 years) and I have no problems, and I'd say I utilize the computer's resources more than maybe 97% of the population does (I am a programmer/video editor). I don't see what the difference in being able to compile the latest release of Apache in 5 minutes instead of 6.5. The scary thing is, I know people who actually think that tweaking their Athlon XP 2200+'s to eek out another 150MHz or something by using a freakin' pencil is gonna get them somewhere.
I know that there are some of you on here that will flame me saying that you DO use that power. And that's fine, you are the 1% of the population I mentioned earlier. But to do it (like most of you would... admit it) just to get another 4fps in UT2003 or whatever, it's just sick. Yes, eventually I will buy a new computer, but only when my needs exceed the resources in my computer, which hasn't happend just yet (it's getting close though...). If any of you can actually tell the difference between this 3.06GHz P4 and the 2.5GHz P4 (without using a stopwatch that measures in the milliseconds) I have a bridge to sell you. Don't let Intel make you think that you need to buy a new computer right now. It may help the economy in the short term, but you will just be wasting precious electricity (in this case gobs of it) just to say you have the latest and greatest. It's becoming a disease!
Oh they do, it's usually just to voice their opinions to have someone else's rights removed. Take, for example, all the ass-clowns who called Fox to have them take a comercial for "24" taken off the air because the brief instance of a crosshairs made people fear the Beltway Sniper. Last I checked, we still had free speech in this country (although apparently that only works if what you are saying doesn't offend anyone). All that we have to do is somehow get someone to go all postal in a way that reminds people of "digital rights restriction" and they'll go away.
Sorry about the mini-rant but the US government's recent actions to restrict everything I do is pissing me off so much I'm actually thinking of moving to another country.
Ok, so I bet when you create the account, it registers your NIC address, meaning if you change your MAC address like so many people have mentioned, you will have to re-register. Chances are each time you register you need to use a different e-mail address. Man, that must really make cheaters buy hundreds of Hotmail accounts (sure they may use other free services, but c'mon, it's fun to toy with M$. admit it).
AOL is not the only company that sends out the free CDs, which entice customers with offers of over 1,000 hours of free Internet access. The marketing strategy also is used by AT&T, Earthlink and others.
Doesn't AOL/Time Warner/Everything else own CNN? Did they have to put that blatant plug in?
Of course it's a bit rich saying it was a rouge PR or marketing drone. I'm sure the marketing gestapo at MS rules with an iron fist and may well have insisted some sort of respose to Apple's succesful campaign.
Not so sure about that. They have had their marketing come back and bite them in the ass before. One I remember is the whole Novell customer targeted marketing when they told many Novell Netware users that Novell was dead. I think they also made some ads a while back where they showed a person painted into a corner (and the paint color was Sun's color)
Anyway, my point is that I don't think they either
don't pay attention to their marketing drones
get off on causing contoversy (no such thing as bad press?)
are so out of touch with reality that making up fictional switch stories sounded like a good plan
All of the above
Hell, with all the money Ballmer and Gates make, I bet they can get some pretty powerful hallucinogens.
How many years has this been in the courts and microsoft isn't doing a damn thing to fix it. They fight and lie, and tie up the court system, and nothing comes of it. The justice department really needs to do something about this case.
Look on the bright side, it only needs to be prolonged a few more years before we get that dickless "W" out of office. Let's just hope we don't make the mistake of voting another repooplican into office again, especially one with his nose permanently glued to M$ and the media thugs.
So what RIAA exec would we have to bump off before these kind liberty-loving folks train their eyes on the DMCA? Personally, I think that infringes on more freedoms than this patriot act, and only in very limited ways (i.e. preventing unauthorized access to your computer BY the RIAA and MPAA...) actually protects our interests.
Seems like if they threw $10 million advertising on the horrors of that lame vague piece of legislation they might be able to open voters eyes to somewhat near half-open on the topic. My 2 cents.
Ok, they looked really bad. But do they actually expect us to believe that this "new" person is any more real? The PR firm probably got a call from his billness himself, and in a panic they hired some chick who fit the description to play along. Just my 2 cents.
Ok, maybe it's just me, but now I'm getting page not found on MS's site. It just worked 5 minutes ago! Looks like their campaign was shorter than ever! LOL
One that I remember from my high school days involved 2 glass stir-sticks and a beaker full of some sort of solution that had the exact index of refraction as the glass sticks. The experiment starts off by saying that you have magic water that can fix broken glass. You take one of the sticks and break it into several pieces, then drop it in the beaker of solution. You can say "abracadabra" or whatever you'd like (drama is good), then reach into the beaker and pull out the other stick still in one piece from the beaker which has been in there the whole time, invisible of course, making it look like the broken stick has been magically fixed again.
I wish I could remember what the solution consisted of, but it is a neat little experiment that teaches that various phases of matter (in this case solids and liquids) can have the same index of refraction despite being very different chemically and physically. Hope ya like it!
However Microsoft's sporatic changes to the XBox security may easily cause confusion to consumers who try to purchase mod chips (because different version exist), which in and of itself it a good tactic. Frustrated consumers are probably less likely to spend money on modifications after they find some mods don't work (because they are meant for a different version of the XBox).
I disagree. I tend to think that if anyone is going to be buying a mod chip to run Linux on their Xbox they'll most likely have the ability to figure our which chip they need. At the very least, I bet the mod chip people will have good instructions on how to figure out which chip you need, as they most likely want to avoid return issues. At least I would.
If we can't use the hardware like we want, wouldn't that imply that it's a rental or lease agreement? If I buy my house, I'm allowed to remove the security system if I don't like it. Sure it's there to protect me, but if I don't want it, I have that choice right? Now if i was renting a house, or leasing it, I could see not being able to modify it. The same goes for cars. I can remove the CPU chip from it and replace it with a "modded" one if I own the car, but they'd be pissy if I was leasing it.
So, following on that idea, when M$ releases the X-box-2 (or whatever clever name their ad guys come up with) comes out, they'll let me trade in for the new model, right? Or if I accidentally, say, bash it with a sledgehammer, would they sue me? It's "their hardware", or so they imply by not letting us mod it.
I dunno, I think they are crossing a lot of lines here that they shouldn't. I feel that once I buy something outright, I should be able to do whatever the heck I want with it. Tell bill gates that he can't remodel his house, or replace parts in his car and see how he feels.
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LOL... yeah. Slightly offtopic, but have you noticed that when censoring... er.. editing films, they bleep out the word "god" in "god damn" instead of the "damn"? Just find it amusing. Apparently "god" is more offensive than "bitch" these days.
actually, the performance valves don't open until about 6000 RPM. I have many friends with VTECs, I know.
Heh, found this article, written in '97, about the state of mobile processors. Wow, much has changed in only 5 years. Just reflect. 8 watts, and they were panicking. Wow.
Here's an article that says the mobile P4 actually is the same desktop part, just test at lower powers after production and hence get approved for mobile use (half-way through the article).
Actually, I read a while back that auto manufacturers are developing a "speed-step" like engine management system for cars, if it isn't out already (can't find articles now...). Basically, when you are cruising along at moderate speeds, and don't need all your rated power from your engine, it doesn't send fuel or spark to certain cylinders to save gas. If you step on the throttle, it activates them again. I think it was Mercedes-Benz who was playing with this. I might be wrong, but I think the corvette might have something similar? Anyway, it does exist, at least on paper for now.
They don't have enough garbage crashing back into Earth they now need to litter other planets too?
Actually, I don't think that it is a bad thing to release it a half-hour before market close, as it would take at least that long to come to any firm conclusions as to what all that lawyer babble means. By the time anyone REALLY gets the meaning of the resolution, the markets will be long closed. It's 20 minutes after market close, and I still haven't seen a definitive summary with implications yet. No big loss in my mind.
Houses in the rich area of Windhoek, the capital city, sell for around 150000 US$. We are talking mansions with 10 or more bedrooms, two or three floors and 24 hour security. Is where embassies are mostly located.
2000 US$ may be little for US standards, for Namibian standards is a huge amount of money.
Hate to burst your bubble, but I know many places in the US that have the same (and even lower) costs of living than your example. I'm in a decent sized college town (250K+), and you can buy some freaking huge houses for $150K USD here too. Got any better figures?
The certification doesn't make Win2K any more "secure" than it was before it was certified. To quote "Tommy Boy", "you can slap a guarantee on a piece of shit, but all that means is you have a guaranteed piece of shit"... or something similar. I don't see that status as anything meaningful, except that it gives the government a bit less paperwork to do when they want new hardware. I don't think that the certification process could possibly determine if something is "absolutely" secure, especially with closed source software, unless a full code audit was done (doubtful). Just my 2 cents.
...the worlds largest reboot and reformat session EVER! I can almost hear the beeps now... I hope M$ planned for this contingency when they created their computer key system for XP. There will be a lot of people reactivating their keys at the same time!
I know that there are some of you on here that will flame me saying that you DO use that power. And that's fine, you are the 1% of the population I mentioned earlier. But to do it (like most of you would... admit it) just to get another 4fps in UT2003 or whatever, it's just sick. Yes, eventually I will buy a new computer, but only when my needs exceed the resources in my computer, which hasn't happend just yet (it's getting close though...). If any of you can actually tell the difference between this 3.06GHz P4 and the 2.5GHz P4 (without using a stopwatch that measures in the milliseconds) I have a bridge to sell you. Don't let Intel make you think that you need to buy a new computer right now. It may help the economy in the short term, but you will just be wasting precious electricity (in this case gobs of it) just to say you have the latest and greatest. It's becoming a disease!
Oh they do, it's usually just to voice their opinions to have someone else's rights removed. Take, for example, all the ass-clowns who called Fox to have them take a comercial for "24" taken off the air because the brief instance of a crosshairs made people fear the Beltway Sniper. Last I checked, we still had free speech in this country (although apparently that only works if what you are saying doesn't offend anyone). All that we have to do is somehow get someone to go all postal in a way that reminds people of "digital rights restriction" and they'll go away.
Sorry about the mini-rant but the US government's recent actions to restrict everything I do is pissing me off so much I'm actually thinking of moving to another country.
Ok, so I bet when you create the account, it registers your NIC address, meaning if you change your MAC address like so many people have mentioned, you will have to re-register. Chances are each time you register you need to use a different e-mail address. Man, that must really make cheaters buy hundreds of Hotmail accounts (sure they may use other free services, but c'mon, it's fun to toy with M$. admit it).
Doesn't AOL/Time Warner/Everything else own CNN? Did they have to put that blatant plug in?
Um... at my college I was lucky to get a TA who spoke english. This person wrote like a pulitzer prize winner compared to them.
Not so sure about that. They have had their marketing come back and bite them in the ass before. One I remember is the whole Novell customer targeted marketing when they told many Novell Netware users that Novell was dead. I think they also made some ads a while back where they showed a person painted into a corner (and the paint color was Sun's color)
Anyway, my point is that I don't think they either
- don't pay attention to their marketing drones
- get off on causing contoversy (no such thing as bad press?)
- are so out of touch with reality that making up fictional switch stories sounded like a good plan
- All of the above
Hell, with all the money Ballmer and Gates make, I bet they can get some pretty powerful hallucinogens.Wasn't that orlando jones' character in "The Time Machine" movie that came out recently?
Look on the bright side, it only needs to be prolonged a few more years before we get that dickless "W" out of office. Let's just hope we don't make the mistake of voting another repooplican into office again, especially one with his nose permanently glued to M$ and the media thugs.
Seems like if they threw $10 million advertising on the horrors of that lame vague piece of legislation they might be able to open voters eyes to somewhat near half-open on the topic. My 2 cents.
Ok, they looked really bad. But do they actually expect us to believe that this "new" person is any more real? The PR firm probably got a call from his billness himself, and in a panic they hired some chick who fit the description to play along. Just my 2 cents.
Ok, maybe it's just me, but now I'm getting page not found on MS's site. It just worked 5 minutes ago! Looks like their campaign was shorter than ever! LOL
AppleWorks: $79 on apple.com
Office XP "Standard": $479 on microsoft.com.
Yep, sure does pale in comparison! It must be 6 times better!
I wish I could remember what the solution consisted of, but it is a neat little experiment that teaches that various phases of matter (in this case solids and liquids) can have the same index of refraction despite being very different chemically and physically. Hope ya like it!
I disagree. I tend to think that if anyone is going to be buying a mod chip to run Linux on their Xbox they'll most likely have the ability to figure our which chip they need. At the very least, I bet the mod chip people will have good instructions on how to figure out which chip you need, as they most likely want to avoid return issues. At least I would.
So, following on that idea, when M$ releases the X-box-2 (or whatever clever name their ad guys come up with) comes out, they'll let me trade in for the new model, right? Or if I accidentally, say, bash it with a sledgehammer, would they sue me? It's "their hardware", or so they imply by not letting us mod it.
I dunno, I think they are crossing a lot of lines here that they shouldn't. I feel that once I buy something outright, I should be able to do whatever the heck I want with it. Tell bill gates that he can't remodel his house, or replace parts in his car and see how he feels.