So a bug that renders some (albeit poorly designed) websites unusable is far less important than having to copy text a page at a time?
I send a fair amount of email, and have never had the need to copy that much text, anything much bigger should really be an attachment. As for other purposes, care to give some examples?
Nice try, but you can't interest me in tedious stars, planets, and far-off galaxies just by comparison to exciting alternative development models of personal computer software!
No, econ 101 will tell you that there are certain situations in which the free market will not produce an outcome that is acceptable to the public. A monopoly is one of them.
The market only exists to serve people. If it does not do that, the govt can intervene.
Okay, here's how it works. People who buy computers have a reasonable disposable income. They also feel windows is a necessity for their computer. Therefore their demand for windows varies little with price.
As long as the response of demand to a change in price is proportionately less, MS increases profits by increasing price. However, this does not produce a socially desirable outcome. Microsoft's surplus, or benefit derived from sales, is bigger than if the price was $50, but the consumer's is much smaller. The total is less than if the price was $50. This situation can only be maintained in the long run due to the monopoly position of MS, and is called a market failure.
Therefore, the socially desirable thing is for the government to buy/regulate/whatever microsoft to sell their supernormal profits cheaper.
If they could sell it at $45 and make a profit, then their costs are less than $45, so the margin is ($300-$45)/$45 = 567% by my count. How do you get 85%?
Point taken, but you will get something for it to offset the cost of the new ram.
Depending how cheap ram is at the moment, it might not be worth it, in which case find a friend who doesn't have much ram and give them the chips. Many people don't realise how much of a difference going from 128M to 256M or 256M to 384 or so makes.
The performance hit from this will negate any benefit you will get - you might as well just leave out the ram as it will be slowed down to PCI speed.
As you said, RAM is cheap, so sell what you've got and buy one or two 512MB sticks.
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Of course, the he forgot to take the lens cap off.
If you can access them, you don't need them ;-)
I think you might be being a bit generous ;-)
That's a fucking big sugar cube.
I send a fair amount of email, and have never had the need to copy that much text, anything much bigger should really be an attachment. As for other purposes, care to give some examples?
Did you even read the article? It's about NAFA, not NASA!
Damn slashdotters... :P
I assume you mean the X Window Ystem.
Seems jokes are easy karma
Care to make it three?
But it it Phoenix?
No. That would be a trademark.
Nice try, but you can't interest me in tedious stars, planets, and far-off galaxies just by comparison to exciting alternative development models of personal computer software!
That should be... Vote with your money, buy the XBOX, don't buy XBoxLive.
Draw your own conclusions about the crack the moderators are smoking.
The market only exists to serve people. If it does not do that, the govt can intervene.
Bill didn't like your haircut, huh?
I'm so confused.
Okay, here's how it works. People who buy computers have a reasonable disposable income. They also feel windows is a necessity for their computer. Therefore their demand for windows varies little with price.
As long as the response of demand to a change in price is proportionately less, MS increases profits by increasing price. However, this does not produce a socially desirable outcome. Microsoft's surplus, or benefit derived from sales, is bigger than if the price was $50, but the consumer's is much smaller. The total is less than if the price was $50. This situation can only be maintained in the long run due to the monopoly position of MS, and is called a market failure.
Therefore, the socially desirable thing is for the government to buy/regulate/whatever microsoft to sell their supernormal profits cheaper.
Which is it? If it came with computers, it sure as hell wasn't free.
emacs would so win.
If they could sell it at $45 and make a profit, then their costs are less than $45, so the margin is ($300-$45)/$45 = 567% by my count. How do you get 85%?
Depending how cheap ram is at the moment, it might not be worth it, in which case find a friend who doesn't have much ram and give them the chips. Many people don't realise how much of a difference going from 128M to 256M or 256M to 384 or so makes.
The performance hit from this will negate any benefit you will get - you might as well just leave out the ram as it will be slowed down to PCI speed. As you said, RAM is cheap, so sell what you've got and buy one or two 512MB sticks.
Yeah! I was just reading list of 101 uses for ants! It begins
Look at the moderation.
Now go and put a plaster on that poor guy's head.