Considering that big arc lamps power most spotlights for big shows, those suckers can put out a heck of a lot of light. Of course, they also can damage your eyes if you're too close to them, but that's a minor detail. It's still a pretty cool concept, regardless. No doubt they are expensive, though, and I just can't see an LED array being able to even come close.
My 1987 Toyota MR2 would turn the lights off as soon as the driver's door was opened. Best light system I have ever seen. My 2000 Nissan Sentra will beep at me until I turn them off, which is usually enough to stop me from getting out of the car, but even that seems like a waste compared to the simplicity of the MR2 system.
I'm another one who simply does not understand the necessity of these new cars to pack in all of this blasted technology. I like my Sentra, and some of these features are really handy (remote power door locks are a godsend for the absent minded, haven't locked the keys in the car yet!), but even though it's an economy car, it has it's moments where I think it's over-engineered. Someone desperately needs to make another car that does not have computer controlled anything, and lets the driver make all the decisions. Bah. Anyway. I imagine that one of these days I'll be a curmudgeon still driving around in an old car just because I actually -like- things like shifting gears on my own *grins*
All of these combined with the high price of the x-box, at least right after it came out (I can't really comment on it lately) really makes for a bad looking situation for Microsoft and their system. Granted, some of the games for it have quite a bit better graphics than what I've seen out of the Nintendo and Playstation camps, but nothing really extraordinary. Maybe if their packages were the same price as the Nintendo or Playstation ones the system would have taken off a bit better, but who knows.
Why does everyone keep calling this thing useless? This motherboard is made for -NEW- PCs. Why do people not seem to understand this? Most of the time, when buying a new PC, you think about things like "what peripherals will I need for this?". If you don't think about this sort of thing, you shouldn't be building a PC with this type of hardware in the first place, so, holy gods, you _don't buy this motherboard_!
I hate to sound mean here, but I hardly see how a manufacturer pushing the edge of computing can be seen in the wrong for releasing -one- product in their entire bloody lineup that doesn't cater to the needs of people who are stuck in 1995. It seems pretty simple to me; if you are building a new computer and aren't planning on using any legacy technology (I'm not, for instance), then buy this type of board. If you do need legacy support, they and practically all the other manufacturer's are -still- making boards that will work quite nicely.
Let's hear it for companies finally ditching legacy ports and moving to the future, carried by people who buy new computers.
I love hearing people blasting others for the way they choose to live. Maybe that's missing out on your best parts of being alive, but don't blast other's for that.
The slippery slope can be used in a formal argument, except that it should properly be backed by at least some evidence. Ever read writings by any of our modern philosophers? Especially in the field of medical ethics? They throw out the slippery slope argument all the time, both when trying to prove and disprove things.
That being said, I don't necessarily agree with the actual post in question; however, don't go blasting his logic without being pretty darned sure of yourself. This sort of thing, like asking that he "learn to argue" sounds really petty to me, like a cop-out by someone who is afraid of challenging the actual point.
Well, it could be damaging, but since when has it been illegal and lawsuit worthy to say something negative about a company? If that were the case, every magazine in the world that reviews different companies' products had better cease their operations, for fear that they might be sued for damages.
Personally, I say that this sort of thing is the problem with America's legal system today. It is FAR FAR too easy to decide that someone has made you mad, so you will just sue the life out of them and strongarm the problem away. Granted, I don't know the exact details about this and whether or not there truly was a "conspiracy" againt petswarehouse, but nevertheless, the lawsuit should not have even happened, much less requesting $15 million. Besides, after visiting the company's site and reading some of their information, I'm personally inclined to believe that the owner is fulfilling some sort of mission against these people who have filed legal action against him, which, in my opinion, is not the way to run a business. He has already caused himself far far more damage by pursuing action like this than any online message board could possibly have done. Before, those people who actively read the list had heard negative comments about him. Now this story seems to be getting spread to a much broader scale because of its frivolousness, so many more people will see his company in a negative light. Suits him well, I say.
hehe, it's just like people who run a standard room fan all the time, only my system is higher pitched. I have problems sleeping anywhere else anymore, though, just because the sound isn't quite right.
Besides, when I shut my computer down, the room is just so bloody silent that I can't stand it!
Yeah, considering how many of the spammers and such are from countries other than the US, I have to wonder about the effectiveness of this sort of measure. Of course, it certainly can't hurt us, in the long run, so I won't complain!
Well, no they don't provide all of the different types of packages, but don't they provide tarballs with fairly detailed instructions? Besides, the linux nvidia drivers often seem to outperform windows, at least on my machine, so I can't really fault them too much.After all, at least nvidia are providing drivers for linux, unlike, oh, the majority of other companies out there. You might have to know a little about what you're doing to get these drivers working with distros other than mandrake and redhat, but in order to get many of those other distros to work in the first place, you have to know something about what you're doing, so it really shouldn't be -that- big a deal.
You can get it for free, and use it, but a big company is not going to risk doing this sort of thing. They're going to require the support that a company like Red Hat will give them as paying customers, especially when it comes to the major servers. Besides, they're all worried about the possibility of lawsuits and intellictual property infringements, so they would really like to have another company they can push the blame onto if something goes wrong.
Linux is only really free for small time uses right now that do not require support and do not stand a chance of being audited or sued.
That sounds good on paper, but in reality, it just won't happen with today's world. People using computers for their jobs or entertainment often could care less how the whole system is working, just so long as they can use it for what they need, which often amounts to little more than a glorified typewriter and calculator. Also, it it much easier for a business to teach a new employee to use Word than to understand the fundamentals of what the computer is doing, so from that perspective, it doesn't really make sense for a business to worry about it, either.
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Considering that big arc lamps power most spotlights for big shows, those suckers can put out a heck of a lot of light. Of course, they also can damage your eyes if you're too close to them, but that's a minor detail. It's still a pretty cool concept, regardless. No doubt they are expensive, though, and I just can't see an LED array being able to even come close.
My 1987 Toyota MR2 would turn the lights off as soon as the driver's door was opened. Best light system I have ever seen. My 2000 Nissan Sentra will beep at me until I turn them off, which is usually enough to stop me from getting out of the car, but even that seems like a waste compared to the simplicity of the MR2 system.
I'm another one who simply does not understand the necessity of these new cars to pack in all of this blasted technology. I like my Sentra, and some of these features are really handy (remote power door locks are a godsend for the absent minded, haven't locked the keys in the car yet!), but even though it's an economy car, it has it's moments where I think it's over-engineered. Someone desperately needs to make another car that does not have computer controlled anything, and lets the driver make all the decisions. Bah. Anyway. I imagine that one of these days I'll be a curmudgeon still driving around in an old car just because I actually -like- things like shifting gears on my own *grins*
All of these combined with the high price of the x-box, at least right after it came out (I can't really comment on it lately) really makes for a bad looking situation for Microsoft and their system. Granted, some of the games for it have quite a bit better graphics than what I've seen out of the Nintendo and Playstation camps, but nothing really extraordinary. Maybe if their packages were the same price as the Nintendo or Playstation ones the system would have taken off a bit better, but who knows.
Why does everyone keep calling this thing useless? This motherboard is made for -NEW- PCs. Why do people not seem to understand this? Most of the time, when buying a new PC, you think about things like "what peripherals will I need for this?". If you don't think about this sort of thing, you shouldn't be building a PC with this type of hardware in the first place, so, holy gods, you _don't buy this motherboard_!
I hate to sound mean here, but I hardly see how a manufacturer pushing the edge of computing can be seen in the wrong for releasing -one- product in their entire bloody lineup that doesn't cater to the needs of people who are stuck in 1995. It seems pretty simple to me; if you are building a new computer and aren't planning on using any legacy technology (I'm not, for instance), then buy this type of board. If you do need legacy support, they and practically all the other manufacturer's are -still- making boards that will work quite nicely.
Let's hear it for companies finally ditching legacy ports and moving to the future, carried by people who buy new computers.
I love hearing people blasting others for the way they choose to live. Maybe that's missing out on your best parts of being alive, but don't blast other's for that.
The slippery slope can be used in a formal argument, except that it should properly be backed by at least some evidence. Ever read writings by any of our modern philosophers? Especially in the field of medical ethics? They throw out the slippery slope argument all the time, both when trying to prove and disprove things.
That being said, I don't necessarily agree with the actual post in question; however, don't go blasting his logic without being pretty darned sure of yourself. This sort of thing, like asking that he "learn to argue" sounds really petty to me, like a cop-out by someone who is afraid of challenging the actual point.
Well, it could be damaging, but since when has it been illegal and lawsuit worthy to say something negative about a company? If that were the case, every magazine in the world that reviews different companies' products had better cease their operations, for fear that they might be sued for damages.
Personally, I say that this sort of thing is the problem with America's legal system today. It is FAR FAR too easy to decide that someone has made you mad, so you will just sue the life out of them and strongarm the problem away. Granted, I don't know the exact details about this and whether or not there truly was a "conspiracy" againt petswarehouse, but nevertheless, the lawsuit should not have even happened, much less requesting $15 million. Besides, after visiting the company's site and reading some of their information, I'm personally inclined to believe that the owner is fulfilling some sort of mission against these people who have filed legal action against him, which, in my opinion, is not the way to run a business. He has already caused himself far far more damage by pursuing action like this than any online message board could possibly have done. Before, those people who actively read the list had heard negative comments about him. Now this story seems to be getting spread to a much broader scale because of its frivolousness, so many more people will see his company in a negative light. Suits him well, I say.
hehe, it's just like people who run a standard room fan all the time, only my system is higher pitched. I have problems sleeping anywhere else anymore, though, just because the sound isn't quite right.
Besides, when I shut my computer down, the room is just so bloody silent that I can't stand it!
Yeah, considering how many of the spammers and such are from countries other than the US, I have to wonder about the effectiveness of this sort of measure. Of course, it certainly can't hurt us, in the long run, so I won't complain!
Well, no they don't provide all of the different types of packages, but don't they provide tarballs with fairly detailed instructions? Besides, the linux nvidia drivers often seem to outperform windows, at least on my machine, so I can't really fault them too much.After all, at least nvidia are providing drivers for linux, unlike, oh, the majority of other companies out there. You might have to know a little about what you're doing to get these drivers working with distros other than mandrake and redhat, but in order to get many of those other distros to work in the first place, you have to know something about what you're doing, so it really shouldn't be -that- big a deal.
You can get it for free, and use it, but a big company is not going to risk doing this sort of thing. They're going to require the support that a company like Red Hat will give them as paying customers, especially when it comes to the major servers. Besides, they're all worried about the possibility of lawsuits and intellictual property infringements, so they would really like to have another company they can push the blame onto if something goes wrong. Linux is only really free for small time uses right now that do not require support and do not stand a chance of being audited or sued.
That sounds good on paper, but in reality, it just won't happen with today's world. People using computers for their jobs or entertainment often could care less how the whole system is working, just so long as they can use it for what they need, which often amounts to little more than a glorified typewriter and calculator. Also, it it much easier for a business to teach a new employee to use Word than to understand the fundamentals of what the computer is doing, so from that perspective, it doesn't really make sense for a business to worry about it, either.