From the video card manufacturers' point of view, if they can sell people cards at different prices, then they can reach all the different reservation prices. One guy wants top-of-the-line, another wants midrange, another wants cheap. It's the way the free market works.
I would take issue more with the naming conventions. They are all just strings of letters and numbers anymore, and they just get larger and more complicated.
It's not that the US doesn't care for other countries, it's just that each country has its own self-interest in mind. The US does what it thinks is best for itself, and Europe does the same. Big deal.
The point is, if they make money, then it makes sense. I don't understand your point of bringing up greed when it's their own self-interest that they and their stock-holders care about.
It's not bad enough they charge hundreds of dollars for the hardware?
Oh dear lord, they are charging lots of money for their products! How could they? Seriously, NVIDIA and ATI aren't in the business to give us nice cards for free - they are there to make a profit. If charging several hundred dollars gets them a profit, then that's what they'll do. Quit this whole "greedy" thing, please. That's what a free market is about.
Considering the costs and benefits of Linux support, I can't imagine they have that many working on it. That said, their Linux support has gotten a lot better more recently. The major problem is you can't expect the latest kernel to work with their drivers, which I can deal with.
Of course all users have different wants and needs, but OpenOffice.org is the piece of software that allows me to maintain very good MS Word compatibility and ok excel compatibility. What other software out there can do that? Is WordPerfect even good at it? I don't know, but OOo is keeping me afloat for my college needs, and there are no show-stopping bugs at all (I can't even think of bugs off the top of my head, although I'm sure there are a handful as with any software project).
My view all along has been that Intel developed the Pentium 4 as the processor technology to carry them ahead for a few years while their labs in Israel (where a lot of the R&D for Pentium M takes place) worked on improving the Pentium III, which the PM is based off of. By having two processor lines in the work they ensured decent competitiveness and lots of sales for a few years without compromising another processor technology. The P-M is maturing, the P-4 is showing its age, and Intel can make the switch. This is probably what Apple knew when they went to Intel - high performance, low power chips are coming from Intel.
Just yesterday I heard Carlos Fuentes give a speech, with the central theme being Don Quixote. His main points were that literature is what lets us use our imaginations and is essential for us to live. He mentioned how many times political regimes have attempted to remove from our collective memories various parts of history. I am not saying that the USA is a regime, but that it is indeed important that we remember the past. It is through literature that knowledge becomes transferred and that we shape the future. I do a poor job summarizing his point, but it is truly an important one.
The speed may be poor to you, but you have to realize that a system like this one should self-regulate itself in terms of the number of users and the speed. Much like traditional supply and demand, each person in Madison will have a point at which he/she finds the price/speed ratio to be favorable. For some, low prices are enough incentive despite low bandwidth. To others it isn't, and they will stick to their hardwired services.
The worst part of this, in my opinion, is that we don't even need human exploration. Right now the cheap and effective way to find things out about outer space is through robotics. No need for life support, no need to bring it back alive. And robotics will play a huge role in the future. Human exploration may be useful a few hundred years from now, but not yet.
Ironically enough, Chicago has electricity provided by Peoples Energy. The name sounds more like a socialist throwback, but they are definitely not controlled by the people:-P
What you say gives hope to people like me too - I incurred tremendous hearing loss in my right ear when I was 3-4 years old, and no doctor has known why - the best explanation was chicken pox, but that's tentative at best.
So I now live with only one ear that can hear, and it always worries me that if for some reason I get hearing loss it will be that much worse than for a regular person. I only have one chance instead of two.
If genetic therapy can help with this, I might finally be able to live a life where my condition isn't constantly nagging me in the background. For those of you with 2 ears that work, please realize how lucky you are!
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This expression can also be seen in British literature, such as Shakespeare's plays, when he uses the term "cuckold" - someone who got cheated on by his wife. Basically, it made you the laughing stock of the town.
You are basing your argument that Microsoft will become number one in security based on an analogy with its ability to take over the browser market. You have to be careful, however, because your analogy is too simplistic when you look into it. Developing a buggy browser that you force into your operating system is entirely different from designing and implementing a secure codebase onto your operating system. Think of which is harder: to design something that reads HTML and displays it, or to design a secure OS?
Microsoft can probably pull it off, but it's no simple task and will take a lot more than a simple $50/bug.
I think the more important question is: can anything move at the speed of light (besides light, obviously)? This has strong connections with time travel, among other things.
I'll give a little input about my experience of using Linux/OpenOffice only on my laptop for my first year of college:
The vast majority of the time everything worked well. The issues I have are:
Using the track-changes feature works, but MS Word has a nicer system, where the things removed are put in bubbles to the side, along with comments. Compatible, but not as nice in OpenOffice.
Graph support is lacking, badly enough that I needed to use the computer lab to get graphs that worked (otherwise my grade suffered). For example, Openoffice does not support the inclusion of standard deviation in bar charts - it totally goofs when you import it.
Powerpoints worked, but it would be nice to be able to tell it to make fonts smaller - the default fonts are ugly, so I have it replace them with Bistream Vera Sans/Bitstream Charter. However, for some reason this font is larger than Times New Roman, which means that powerpoints end up rolling off the page.
Those are the main issues, and the only one that is a major problem is the graphs. Hopefully 2.0 will fix these!
Not necessarily -- if you build "The Weather Paradigm" secret project then it doesn't matter -- you get both the ability to build the moho mines and the ability to get energy out of them.
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From the video card manufacturers' point of view, if they can sell people cards at different prices, then they can reach all the different reservation prices. One guy wants top-of-the-line, another wants midrange, another wants cheap. It's the way the free market works.
I would take issue more with the naming conventions. They are all just strings of letters and numbers anymore, and they just get larger and more complicated.
Good call, especially when you are a snail and already unfairly disadvantaged. I say Slashdot gives priority to all users who are snails!
I suppose you could have a white plus sign on a white background. That would be a little more generic.
It's not that the US doesn't care for other countries, it's just that each country has its own self-interest in mind. The US does what it thinks is best for itself, and Europe does the same. Big deal.
The point is, if they make money, then it makes sense. I don't understand your point of bringing up greed when it's their own self-interest that they and their stock-holders care about.
It's not bad enough they charge hundreds of dollars for the hardware?
Oh dear lord, they are charging lots of money for their products! How could they? Seriously, NVIDIA and ATI aren't in the business to give us nice cards for free - they are there to make a profit. If charging several hundred dollars gets them a profit, then that's what they'll do. Quit this whole "greedy" thing, please. That's what a free market is about.
Considering the costs and benefits of Linux support, I can't imagine they have that many working on it. That said, their Linux support has gotten a lot better more recently. The major problem is you can't expect the latest kernel to work with their drivers, which I can deal with.
Spelling tip: Grammar is a word, grammer is not.
Of course all users have different wants and needs, but OpenOffice.org is the piece of software that allows me to maintain very good MS Word compatibility and ok excel compatibility. What other software out there can do that? Is WordPerfect even good at it? I don't know, but OOo is keeping me afloat for my college needs, and there are no show-stopping bugs at all (I can't even think of bugs off the top of my head, although I'm sure there are a handful as with any software project).
My view all along has been that Intel developed the Pentium 4 as the processor technology to carry them ahead for a few years while their labs in Israel (where a lot of the R&D for Pentium M takes place) worked on improving the Pentium III, which the PM is based off of. By having two processor lines in the work they ensured decent competitiveness and lots of sales for a few years without compromising another processor technology. The P-M is maturing, the P-4 is showing its age, and Intel can make the switch. This is probably what Apple knew when they went to Intel - high performance, low power chips are coming from Intel.
Just yesterday I heard Carlos Fuentes give a speech, with the central theme being Don Quixote. His main points were that literature is what lets us use our imaginations and is essential for us to live. He mentioned how many times political regimes have attempted to remove from our collective memories various parts of history. I am not saying that the USA is a regime, but that it is indeed important that we remember the past. It is through literature that knowledge becomes transferred and that we shape the future. I do a poor job summarizing his point, but it is truly an important one.
The speed may be poor to you, but you have to realize that a system like this one should self-regulate itself in terms of the number of users and the speed. Much like traditional supply and demand, each person in Madison will have a point at which he/she finds the price/speed ratio to be favorable. For some, low prices are enough incentive despite low bandwidth. To others it isn't, and they will stick to their hardwired services.
The worst part of this, in my opinion, is that we don't even need human exploration. Right now the cheap and effective way to find things out about outer space is through robotics. No need for life support, no need to bring it back alive. And robotics will play a huge role in the future. Human exploration may be useful a few hundred years from now, but not yet.
Ironically enough, Chicago has electricity provided by Peoples Energy. The name sounds more like a socialist throwback, but they are definitely not controlled by the people :-P
What you say gives hope to people like me too - I incurred tremendous hearing loss in my right ear when I was 3-4 years old, and no doctor has known why - the best explanation was chicken pox, but that's tentative at best.
So I now live with only one ear that can hear, and it always worries me that if for some reason I get hearing loss it will be that much worse than for a regular person. I only have one chance instead of two.
If genetic therapy can help with this, I might finally be able to live a life where my condition isn't constantly nagging me in the background. For those of you with 2 ears that work, please realize how lucky you are!
Missing option: breasts covered in hot grits!
This expression can also be seen in British literature, such as Shakespeare's plays, when he uses the term "cuckold" - someone who got cheated on by his wife. Basically, it made you the laughing stock of the town.
You are basing your argument that Microsoft will become number one in security based on an analogy with its ability to take over the browser market. You have to be careful, however, because your analogy is too simplistic when you look into it. Developing a buggy browser that you force into your operating system is entirely different from designing and implementing a secure codebase onto your operating system. Think of which is harder: to design something that reads HTML and displays it, or to design a secure OS?
Microsoft can probably pull it off, but it's no simple task and will take a lot more than a simple $50/bug.
I, for one, welcome our new cybernetic, rail-gun bearing overlords.
I think the more important question is: can anything move at the speed of light (besides light, obviously)? This has strong connections with time travel, among other things.
Unfortunately the article is wrong in an important aspect - the man is Marc Andresson, not Jim Andresson. Thought I would bring that mistake to light.
I'll give a little input about my experience of using Linux/OpenOffice only on my laptop for my first year of college:
The vast majority of the time everything worked well. The issues I have are:
Those are the main issues, and the only one that is a major problem is the graphs. Hopefully 2.0 will fix these!
Next thing you know, scientists will be telling us they found the part of the brain responsible for intelligence! Or is there such a thing?
I hope you mean the absence of PCI express, and not PCI-X. Yay for confusing acronyms/abbreviations!
Not necessarily -- if you build "The Weather Paradigm" secret project then it doesn't matter -- you get both the ability to build the moho mines and the ability to get energy out of them.