Remember, the common consumer doesn't know anything about how a CPU works. They see a bigger number on the advertisement for the computer, think it's faster and then purchase it. Why do you think Intel went with an architecture that scales to high clock speeds so easily? And why AMD is using performance ratings? It's because there are far more common consumers than "experts" purchasing computers. Remember, processor companies are in the biz to make money, they're not out to impress the/. crowd.
i recall strategies of "taking shortcuts" being quite prominent in the Linux community. The whole rationale being that it still "works", so why's it bad?
I have to agree with you there, My XP box goes up when I get home from a LAN party, and doesn't get rebooted until I take it to the next LAN party. Even then, in a dry spell of LANnage, my XP box stays up for months without reboot. It's rock solid.
The number of bits is a meaningless as counting the number of seats in a car, twice as many seats doesnt make a faster car. In fact it makes the car harder to design to be fast, so does 64bit processors
That's not exactly accurate. A 64 bit processor has a large data pathway, and is more comparable to a roadway than a car. The cars are the data, and a 64-bit roadway has twice the space for cars (data) on it, which is where the extra speed is. But I do agree with you otherwise.
James gets angry as Kara's juice is always floating towards him due to his large gravitational effect. Rick and Julio's ongoing power struggle leads to the inevitable...taking it outside.
Uzi Nissan, if I were him, I'd sell the domain and get something else to avoid all the people who type "www.nissan.com" into their browser to see cars. If there are as many people doing this as the article on Uzi says, his costs for bandwidth must be crazy.
There are 250 Million blank CDRs and tapes bought and used this year for copying music in comparison to 213 Million prerecorded audio media. This means the owners are only being paid for 46 per cent of the musical content.
Because of course, none of those CDR's were used for data, and none of those tapes were used to record original works.
"Aw, people can come up with statistics to prove anything, Kent.
Forfty percent of all people know that." -- Homer Simpson
But $20 for crap on an obsolete medium (CD's)? HA! Never...
It isn't the medium that's obsolete here, it's the usage of uncompressed audio on the medium. I mean, really, what has replaced CD's that can remotely compare with their price? Solid state is still 1000x more costly, and small hard disks are 500x more expensive. CD's are fine, it's the way they're used thats obsolete.
sorry, it's has been almost 10 years since i last saw a ninja turtles cartoon...
how would that be a contest?
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Even more fun would be Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles vs. Power Rangers, or Pokemon vs. Dragon Ball Z. Why does everything have to be a boxing match, I want to see an all out brawl!
That's a good idea, but considering that in the DBZ world, Goku has god-like abilities (i.e. can destroy planets and such) how would this be even remotely fair? It'd be over before it began. TMNT versus Power Rangers might be good for a laugh though. But what would those turtles do when the rangers call their robots? Steal the Terror Drome?
it's been proven time and time again that a hacker can outfox Microsoft. Look at all the copies of windows and office and other MS products out there that have product activation. There were hacks and cracks for that technology out before the software's release date.
but who is going to be able to use it, really? Most ISP's have some sort of bit quota in place, somwhere around 5-10 Gigs of downstream transfer per month...is it really worth using up half, or all of your transfers for one movie?
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Remember, the common consumer doesn't know anything about how a CPU works. They see a bigger number on the advertisement for the computer, think it's faster and then purchase it. Why do you think Intel went with an architecture that scales to high clock speeds so easily? And why AMD is using performance ratings? It's because there are far more common consumers than "experts" purchasing computers. Remember, processor companies are in the biz to make money, they're not out to impress the /. crowd.
And we can also assume that all the people living in those homes are pirates. The question becomes, where are they parking their ships? ARRRRR!!
Linux is free, now MS is giving away it's stuff for free. What's the problem? It sounds like people are getting lots of free software to me.
as you can get through those first 1 010 000 results, then i'd start to worry about why it sometimes comes up with 20 000 more.
but when are they going to spend some money and teach their animators how to model a human that doesn't look like a puppet?
Isn't there a tax on blank CD's that is used to re-coup the cost of music pirating? It may not be true in the US, but we have that tax in Canada.
It's pronounced Nuke-ular...Nuke-ular.
i recall strategies of "taking shortcuts" being quite prominent in the Linux community. The whole rationale being that it still "works", so why's it bad?
or is Niklas Zennstrom the long lost brother of Bill Gates?
I have to agree with you there, My XP box goes up when I get home from a LAN party, and doesn't get rebooted until I take it to the next LAN party. Even then, in a dry spell of LANnage, my XP box stays up for months without reboot. It's rock solid.
at least they're still doing okay selling gum.
That's not exactly accurate. A 64 bit processor has a large data pathway, and is more comparable to a roadway than a car. The cars are the data, and a 64-bit roadway has twice the space for cars (data) on it, which is where the extra speed is. But I do agree with you otherwise.
James gets angry as Kara's juice is always floating towards him due to his large gravitational effect. Rick and Julio's ongoing power struggle leads to the inevitable...taking it outside.
it doesn't matter what they add to the UI, I'm just going to make it look like windows 98 anyways.
Crackers around the world have announced a crack for this copy protection due to be released 1 day after the copy protection is released.
Since when are results like these shocking? The only shock here is that Microsoft would publish the whitepaper.
than a beer fuelled rocket? I'm beaming with national pride.
Uzi Nissan, if I were him, I'd sell the domain and get something else to avoid all the people who type "www.nissan.com" into their browser to see cars. If there are as many people doing this as the article on Uzi says, his costs for bandwidth must be crazy.
Because of course, none of those CDR's were used for data, and none of those tapes were used to record original works.
"Aw, people can come up with statistics to prove anything, Kent. Forfty percent of all people know that." -- Homer Simpson
Why don't them make the next enhancement to the name?
It isn't the medium that's obsolete here, it's the usage of uncompressed audio on the medium. I mean, really, what has replaced CD's that can remotely compare with their price? Solid state is still 1000x more costly, and small hard disks are 500x more expensive. CD's are fine, it's the way they're used thats obsolete.
sorry, it's has been almost 10 years since i last saw a ninja turtles cartoon...
That's a good idea, but considering that in the DBZ world, Goku has god-like abilities (i.e. can destroy planets and such) how would this be even remotely fair? It'd be over before it began. TMNT versus Power Rangers might be good for a laugh though. But what would those turtles do when the rangers call their robots? Steal the Terror Drome?
it's been proven time and time again that a hacker can outfox Microsoft. Look at all the copies of windows and office and other MS products out there that have product activation. There were hacks and cracks for that technology out before the software's release date.
but who is going to be able to use it, really? Most ISP's have some sort of bit quota in place, somwhere around 5-10 Gigs of downstream transfer per month...is it really worth using up half, or all of your transfers for one movie?