There's a market for slower cheaper CPU's like the Semprom and Celeron but the only market for cheap video cards is in the MB/integrated category. People aren't going to get excited about an add-on video card that's slow.
People buy relatively slow add-on cards all the time. Of course, slow cards are often simply last year's fast cards. The same goes for mid-range cards. Not everyone has enough money to waste it on the latest cutting edge stuff... Furthermore, I think integrated graphics are actually fairly rare in modern desktops, aren't they.
It's kind of an odd figure to give. Bucks spent for keeping secrets relative per bucks spent declassifying them. A higher number, as has developed, could be caused by more secrets being kept, a higher cost associated with keeping them. (Both is probably happening.) Or it could be caused by fewer old secrets being declassified, or declassifying getting cheaper. Not sure if any of that is the case. The figure also doesn't really give any indication if the total number of secrets is rising (ie more new secrets than declassifieds) because keeping a secret certainly is more expensive than declassifying one. But how much more expensive, I don't know.
Owners and progenitors of huge internet community websites are not beyond taking donated money for their own nefarious purposes.
Yeah, sure. But that kind of behaviour is not so widespread that I wouldn't give a guy like Lowtax or the Penny Arcade guys the benefit of the doubt. They certainly have a lot more to lose than some noname guy with a new website.
So if I were to cut & paste his thoughts but replace the donate link to one of my own, you'd trust me too?
No, because you're not the webmaster and owner of a huge internet community website which has donated lots of money in the past. What's so difficult to understand about that?
Duh. It's (assumedly) an accurate description of what Lucovosky said, hence a quote. Whether or not what Lucovosky says is his problem, in a manner of speaking.
Anyway, whether that's a protection agains libel or slander, I don't know, but from what I read the other day, it's usually not considered either if you reasonably believe what you say is true.
I could argue that substituting "Germany" for "Federal Republic of Germany" is less problematic because - since 1990 anyway - they really both can only refer to the same thing, different connotations nonwithstanding. But I won't argue that, because I actually think you're right, substitutung "America" for the USA is rarely confusing, either. In fact in discussions I usually argue your side, anyway, pointing out to people they don't properly use the EU/Europe thing either and how that's just a normal feature of human communication.
Yeah, I was confused, too. I thought he was actually an EU official, in fact he doesn't really have anything to do with the EU. Apparently EU was just used to meant Europe, not the European Union, the governmental body or even the European Union, the geographic entity.
Which is interesting, because people around here (inside the EU) routinely make the opposite "mistake" (if you want to call it that way), referring to Europe when they actually mean the EU, or even part of the EU. Although the EU does encompass a large part of Europe these days. Kind of like talking about "America" when you're actually referring to either North America or the USA.
The Windows encryption is secure enough that it has resulted in many "power users" losing their data because they didn't know how to get to get back user credentials after reinstalling Windows or forgetting their account password.
Except you might not want to extract ALL the zip files in a given directory, just a number. For instance I have 326 zip files in my download directory right now. There is no time ever I want to extract all of them, but I might very well extract 5 to 10 at a time. Using a CLI to do this would be excrutiatingly painful; in fact the only non-painful way to do it would be by moving them into a new directory - with a GUI. On the other hand, any non-stupid GUI zip utility - including the one that comes with Windows - has various ways to extract a group of ZIP files.
Yeah I know, my kind of usage is fairly rare. It's kind of the old Mac OS way of file system browsing (aka spatial browsing), which I carried over when I made the switch in '95. Got 11 explorer windows open at the moment.;) Thanks for the headsup on the WinRAR alternatives.
Actually a lot of free programs don't do what I describe. As I said in my post, I'm not so much interested in a simple context menu of a file (7zip has got that, mostly everyone does), but in an entry in the menu that opens when right-click moving an archive. Vanilla explorer offers three entries, copy, move and create shortcut, WinRAR adds the various alternative ways of extracting an archive. Since I typically already have an open explorer window of the destination, this saves me the "ardous" work of manually selecting it in a dialogue. Maybe that's what you mean, too, and I'm only reading the post wrong, if so I apologize.
Agreed. The explorer integration is just great. Typically I don't even have to see the program, I just right-click drag, extract here. Options like extract in subfolder and, when dragging more than one archive, extract each into its own subdirectory are cool too, invaluable if you need them.
Actually, that's all I need of a compression software. 7zip is not terrible, either, but with the most recent version I tried - a month or so ago - the explorer integration wasn't there yet. It had an "Extract..." entry in the context menu, but as the ellipsis indicates, it opens up a dialog which requires you to type in or select the target folder. Which takes an eternity compared to just dragging to a folder which I typically have open anyway.
Try re-reading the article because apparently you totally missed the point. He never really mentions gaming, just once, saying that people know how to work with OpenGL because it's a standard language used for games. That's it, everything else he says is about "the average desktop user", whoever that is. (Hint: you're not it.)
But in the end one main thing it comes down to is using the enormous resources modern graphics cards offer. If you're anything like a geek, at the very least the feeling of only using a very small subset of the capabilities should be uncomfortable to you. Apart from that geeky thing, this would reduce the stress on the CPU, freeing it up for other tasks. If you're not interested in that well, whatever, don't be. Other people are. I'd love to be able to dynamically reduce my CPU clock by using specialised hardware, this would be more efficient and reduce the noise cooling the computer makes. It might also allow my laptop run a few minutes longer. Or I could re-encode audiobooks in the background a tad faster. True enough, I have spare CPU cycles most of the time, but I'm all for any measures that decrease visual feedback latency. And yes, it would allow for additional eye-candy. I don't know why this is such a derisive term. Drawing windows with their contents intact is now a standard feature, it wasn't a couple of years ago, I think it's fairly cool - useful even, and yet it can be classified as eye-candy. Translucent moving windows would be even better, come to think about it. Anti-aliased fonts are enjoyed by many; eye-candy. Drop shadows have been proven to be intuitive and useful visual cues; eye-candy. The list goes on, like I said, try re-reading the article, he mentions a few.
Hehe. I'll admit I'm not authoritative on that subject. I guess that leaves you with being home to some of the best electronic music DJs in the world, if that means anything to you. Oh and legalised marihuana, I bet the people in NO would like some of that.;)
Okay, river deltas I get. But why are earthquake areas usually desirable areas to live in? Because of the thrill? And active volcanism? Since when has that been typical for a desirable, densely populate area? There are very few cities in the vicinity of active volcanoes.
A big screen HDTV with 5.1 sound for under $500! Where? TV is worthless trash, but at those prices I might get one nevertheless. Might even get me one of those sofas.
Everybody has a monopoly in the computers of their own brand. Microsoft doesn't even sell Microsoft-branded computers, it has a market dominating position on the desktop computer operating system and office software market, with their software running on computers other people sell. The two aren't exactly comparable.
It also has been shown, if I recall correctly, that Microsoft came by this position through a number of shady and immoral means, for what that's worth. And then they used this position -- with some success -- to get the same kind of position in other markets, such as the internet browser market and more recently the media player market.
That's the story. If you don't see anything wrong with that, so be it. Many people do. If they just wanted to include the functionality in their operating system, they could have bundled third-party software with it - like they did with the AOL login software, for instance. Didn't try to build their own client in that case, now that would have been a fun case of embrace and extend to watch.
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They are re-selling painted weighted keyboards. The weighted keyboards are sold for something like 20 or 30 bucks on the web. Just so you know.
Maybe he thought it was a typo for "insanely grate".
There's a market for slower cheaper CPU's like the Semprom and Celeron but the only market for cheap video cards is in the MB/integrated category. People aren't going to get excited about an add-on video card that's slow.
People buy relatively slow add-on cards all the time. Of course, slow cards are often simply last year's fast cards. The same goes for mid-range cards. Not everyone has enough money to waste it on the latest cutting edge stuff... Furthermore, I think integrated graphics are actually fairly rare in modern desktops, aren't they.
Not really. The article was close to being deleted some time ago because lots of people said it had no place in a encyclopedia.
I love the idea that you can use an extra mic input as a center channel or something.
Is that supposed to be a great advantage about Soundstorm or what? I think most dirt cheap Realtek on-board sound outputs work that way...
It's kind of an odd figure to give. Bucks spent for keeping secrets relative per bucks spent declassifying them. A higher number, as has developed, could be caused by more secrets being kept, a higher cost associated with keeping them. (Both is probably happening.) Or it could be caused by fewer old secrets being declassified, or declassifying getting cheaper. Not sure if any of that is the case.
The figure also doesn't really give any indication if the total number of secrets is rising (ie more new secrets than declassifieds) because keeping a secret certainly is more expensive than declassifying one. But how much more expensive, I don't know.
Like I said, kind of an odd figure to give.
Owners and progenitors of huge internet community websites are not beyond taking donated money for their own nefarious purposes.
Yeah, sure. But that kind of behaviour is not so widespread that I wouldn't give a guy like Lowtax or the Penny Arcade guys the benefit of the doubt. They certainly have a lot more to lose than some noname guy with a new website.
Yeah, it certainly isn't what I said, because I'm not the original poster. And you responded to a part of a post you quoted out of context, great job.
So if I were to cut & paste his thoughts but replace the donate link to one of my own, you'd trust me too?
No, because you're not the webmaster and owner of a huge internet community website which has donated lots of money in the past. What's so difficult to understand about that?
Duh. It's (assumedly) an accurate description of what Lucovosky said, hence a quote. Whether or not what Lucovosky says is his problem, in a manner of speaking.
Anyway, whether that's a protection agains libel or slander, I don't know, but from what I read the other day, it's usually not considered either if you reasonably believe what you say is true.
I could argue that substituting "Germany" for "Federal Republic of Germany" is less problematic because - since 1990 anyway - they really both can only refer to the same thing, different connotations nonwithstanding. But I won't argue that, because I actually think you're right, substitutung "America" for the USA is rarely confusing, either. In fact in discussions I usually argue your side, anyway, pointing out to people they don't properly use the EU/Europe thing either and how that's just a normal feature of human communication.
Yeah, I was confused, too. I thought he was actually an EU official, in fact he doesn't really have anything to do with the EU. Apparently EU was just used to meant Europe, not the European Union, the governmental body or even the European Union, the geographic entity.
Which is interesting, because people around here (inside the EU) routinely make the opposite "mistake" (if you want to call it that way), referring to Europe when they actually mean the EU, or even part of the EU. Although the EU does encompass a large part of Europe these days. Kind of like talking about "America" when you're actually referring to either North America or the USA.
The Windows encryption is secure enough that it has resulted in many "power users" losing their data because they didn't know how to get to get back user credentials after reinstalling Windows or forgetting their account password.
Except you might not want to extract ALL the zip files in a given directory, just a number. For instance I have 326 zip files in my download directory right now. There is no time ever I want to extract all of them, but I might very well extract 5 to 10 at a time. Using a CLI to do this would be excrutiatingly painful; in fact the only non-painful way to do it would be by moving them into a new directory - with a GUI. On the other hand, any non-stupid GUI zip utility - including the one that comes with Windows - has various ways to extract a group of ZIP files.
Yeah I know, my kind of usage is fairly rare. It's kind of the old Mac OS way of file system browsing (aka spatial browsing), which I carried over when I made the switch in '95. Got 11 explorer windows open at the moment. ;) Thanks for the headsup on the WinRAR alternatives.
Actually a lot of free programs don't do what I describe. As I said in my post, I'm not so much interested in a simple context menu of a file (7zip has got that, mostly everyone does), but in an entry in the menu that opens when right-click moving an archive. Vanilla explorer offers three entries, copy, move and create shortcut, WinRAR adds the various alternative ways of extracting an archive. Since I typically already have an open explorer window of the destination, this saves me the "ardous" work of manually selecting it in a dialogue. Maybe that's what you mean, too, and I'm only reading the post wrong, if so I apologize.
Agreed. The explorer integration is just great. Typically I don't even have to see the program, I just right-click drag, extract here. Options like extract in subfolder and, when dragging more than one archive, extract each into its own subdirectory are cool too, invaluable if you need them.
Actually, that's all I need of a compression software. 7zip is not terrible, either, but with the most recent version I tried - a month or so ago - the explorer integration wasn't there yet. It had an "Extract..." entry in the context menu, but as the ellipsis indicates, it opens up a dialog which requires you to type in or select the target folder. Which takes an eternity compared to just dragging to a folder which I typically have open anyway.
Ars Technica publishes an excellent system guide every month. The most recent one came out only a day or so ago.
Try re-reading the article because apparently you totally missed the point. He never really mentions gaming, just once, saying that people know how to work with OpenGL because it's a standard language used for games. That's it, everything else he says is about "the average desktop user", whoever that is. (Hint: you're not it.)
But in the end one main thing it comes down to is using the enormous resources modern graphics cards offer. If you're anything like a geek, at the very least the feeling of only using a very small subset of the capabilities should be uncomfortable to you.
Apart from that geeky thing, this would reduce the stress on the CPU, freeing it up for other tasks. If you're not interested in that well, whatever, don't be. Other people are. I'd love to be able to dynamically reduce my CPU clock by using specialised hardware, this would be more efficient and reduce the noise cooling the computer makes. It might also allow my laptop run a few minutes longer. Or I could re-encode audiobooks in the background a tad faster. True enough, I have spare CPU cycles most of the time, but I'm all for any measures that decrease visual feedback latency.
And yes, it would allow for additional eye-candy. I don't know why this is such a derisive term. Drawing windows with their contents intact is now a standard feature, it wasn't a couple of years ago, I think it's fairly cool - useful even, and yet it can be classified as eye-candy. Translucent moving windows would be even better, come to think about it. Anti-aliased fonts are enjoyed by many; eye-candy. Drop shadows have been proven to be intuitive and useful visual cues; eye-candy. The list goes on, like I said, try re-reading the article, he mentions a few.
Hehe. I'll admit I'm not authoritative on that subject. I guess that leaves you with being home to some of the best electronic music DJs in the world, if that means anything to you. Oh and legalised marihuana, I bet the people in NO would like some of that. ;)
Word is you guys make excellent potato chips! ;)
Okay, river deltas I get. But why are earthquake areas usually desirable areas to live in? Because of the thrill? And active volcanism? Since when has that been typical for a desirable, densely populate area? There are very few cities in the vicinity of active volcanoes.
Telling them to simply move somewhere else is like saying "Let them eat cake."
Wow, that's got to be the first time I've seen that particular reference on Slashdot. Very nice.
A big screen HDTV with 5.1 sound for under $500! Where? TV is worthless trash, but at those prices I might get one nevertheless. Might even get me one of those sofas.
Everybody has a monopoly in the computers of their own brand. Microsoft doesn't even sell Microsoft-branded computers, it has a market dominating position on the desktop computer operating system and office software market, with their software running on computers other people sell. The two aren't exactly comparable.
It also has been shown, if I recall correctly, that Microsoft came by this position through a number of shady and immoral means, for what that's worth. And then they used this position -- with some success -- to get the same kind of position in other markets, such as the internet browser market and more recently the media player market.
That's the story. If you don't see anything wrong with that, so be it. Many people do. If they just wanted to include the functionality in their operating system, they could have bundled third-party software with it - like they did with the AOL login software, for instance. Didn't try to build their own client in that case, now that would have been a fun case of embrace and extend to watch.