(hint: Mac Pro is that overpriced exactly because if you buy that you're gonna buy LESS Macs in the future because of its upgreadability. Enjoy the rapidly aging CPUs)
that's apple policy to upgrades, and it always has been. That's why they don't sell low end CPUs: the point is to make machines last enough for consumer to swallow this pill and buy another mac.
Apple should simply integrate a modern GPU in their monitors: there's room to properly cool down and the monitor becomes the definitve docking station. It would also justify the price, even if it's slightly increased.
I never farmed and I never had any need for money. It's just a matter of playstyle: instead of farming gold to buy BOE epics for 500g, I devoted that time to play in endgame non-raid instances and ended up with better gear, more money and far more fun. You can apply the same reasoning for raid-obtainable BOE epics, because it takes less time to access or even create a PVE raiding guild and farm Molten Core than to amass the insame amount of money needed to buy those epics. They also are rarely on the market. Buying epics is just plain stupid, unless you prefer to grind than run an instance. In this case, you chose the wrong game. Hint: you don't need the best equipment to be able to do certain things. Wow is far more based on playskill than on gear.
Move what, excuse me? There are plenty of root servers outside the USA, one is even distributed. The point, as I explicitly written (you know, that invisibly bold "CONTENT" word) it's not the root server hardware, nor the software. It's the data, and the control over it. It's which domains are listed in the root servers, and who can change that list, that matters.
Not for a USA Citizen (maybe). My (as a non USA Citizen) perceived benefit would be that no single nation has nominal control over root servers. A government is a single point of failure: what if a particular government choose to fuck up a system and there's no one able to deter the fucking? It's not a matter of how much the rest of the world currently trusts the current USA administration. The point is that the world is made up of many parts, and one of the the ideas behind the UN is that no single part should control some particular key resource.
Besides, since the root servers content is not a matter of resources nor it is related to where the majority of cables are, can you make up a point of why the USA should have control over it and other countries don't? "having invented it" doesn't count, or us Italians can demand control over telephone systems...
How can a person use a Unix-like OS for any reasonable period of time without realizing even on a single user system how important the concept of a root user and root password is?
I've seen a lot of closed source, proprietary vendors referring in their marketing to "open standards" or "open systems" trying to leech off of the open source term
They are not (unless they explicitly pervert these definitions by adding malicious explanations).
"Open standards" refers to an implementation of a "openly" agreed definition of something. RFCs are open standards, for example, as the ISO ones.
"Open Systems" generally refers to software whose internal operation is accessible (to a certain extent) thru a standardized and/or well documented interface which is not hindered by usage license. Examples: POSIX is an open system, XBOX is not.
So for a newbie or for my parents, I'd never recommend a laptop running Linux (preinstalled or not).
Would you rather reccomend Windows with all the fuss related to viruses/spyware/malware/adware/bsodware and so on? Imho a wintel box is much more dangerous to a newbie data than anything else (including faulty hard disks and hot coffee, yes:))
Not in an absolute meaning. Even total nuclearization is not absolute meaning. The notion of damage is intrinsecally antropocentric. Some can say that "reduction" (of biodiversity, or resources[1]) is always damage, but it is true only on the short term. On the long term, generally you can't say. The Yucatan asteroid did a lot of damage, but the mammals today are what they are _because_ that happened.
[1] please note that a resource is a resource relatively to how one can use it. Oil is a resource for humans, CO2 is not. For plants, it's the other way around.
Only who think he will be the Next Big Thing (Maker) could be. If you are asking yourself "why not me" then you don't have (like me) a clue in the game for the NBT.
> This is just the usual bullshit from people who can't deal with change.
the NBT has never been about change, the NBT is always something "new" (either as in a new thing or new way to think about existing things)
and about MS not existing 30 years from now, please, do the math with their cash. I think that 30 years from now MS won't be relevant as today, but I bet far more than 2 cents that it will be there.
(of course, if I'm wrong, all we poor humans won't be relevant as we are today...)
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Did you win the Mac Pro at a nitpicking contest?
(hint: Mac Pro is that overpriced exactly because if you buy that you're gonna buy LESS Macs in the future because of its upgreadability. Enjoy the rapidly aging CPUs)
it lacks an iBicycle to power it up while you're not within distance from wall socket.
need a computer upgrade? Throw the old one away.
that's apple policy to upgrades, and it always has been. That's why they don't sell low end CPUs: the point is to make machines last enough for consumer to swallow this pill and buy another mac.
Apple should simply integrate a modern GPU in their monitors: there's room to properly cool down and the monitor becomes the definitve docking station. It would also justify the price, even if it's slightly increased.
I never farmed and I never had any need for money. It's just a matter of playstyle: instead of farming gold to buy BOE epics for 500g, I devoted that time to play in endgame non-raid instances and ended up with better gear, more money and far more fun.
You can apply the same reasoning for raid-obtainable BOE epics, because it takes less time to access or even create a PVE raiding guild and farm Molten Core than to amass the insame amount of money needed to buy those epics. They also are rarely on the market.
Buying epics is just plain stupid, unless you prefer to grind than run an instance. In this case, you chose the wrong game.
Hint: you don't need the best equipment to be able to do certain things. Wow is far more based on playskill than on gear.
How does a bunch for fanboist comments can be actual data
you must be new here...
"B to P"? Explain, please.
Business to Phisher.
(damned malfunctioning slash key...)
Move what, excuse me? There are plenty of root servers outside the USA, one is even distributed. The point, as I explicitly written (you know, that invisibly bold "CONTENT" word) it's not the root server hardware, nor the software. It's the data, and the control over it. It's which domains are listed in the root servers, and who can change that list, that matters.
oh, and about the phone: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Meucci
there is no perceived benefit to doing so.
Not for a USA Citizen (maybe). My (as a non USA Citizen) perceived benefit would be that no single nation has nominal control over root servers. A government is a single point of failure: what if a particular government choose to fuck up a system and there's no one able to deter the fucking?
It's not a matter of how much the rest of the world currently trusts the current USA administration. The point is that the world is made up of many parts, and one of the the ideas behind the UN is that no single part should control some particular key resource.
Besides, since the root servers content is not a matter of resources nor it is related to where the majority of cables are, can you make up a point of why the USA should have control over it and other countries don't? "having invented it" doesn't count, or us Italians can demand control over telephone systems...
PS: Yes, I realize only the -summit- was in Tunisia; I needed a smaller country to make my point.
do you also realize that USA is a smaller country compared to the rest of the world? (or even the EU, by the way)
How can a person use a Unix-like OS for any reasonable period of time without realizing even on a single user system how important the concept of a root user and root password is?
By using Mac OS X.
I've seen a lot of closed source, proprietary vendors referring in their marketing to "open standards" or "open systems" trying to leech off of the open source term
They are not (unless they explicitly pervert these definitions by adding malicious explanations).
"Open standards" refers to an implementation of a "openly" agreed definition of something. RFCs are open standards, for example, as the ISO ones.
"Open Systems" generally refers to software whose internal operation is accessible (to a certain extent) thru a standardized and/or well documented interface which is not hindered by usage license. Examples: POSIX is an open system, XBOX is not.
Both terms have nothing to do with "source".
We need a new four letter acronym:
Read
The
Fucking
Summary
And not only the title.
Follow instructions is not learning.
So for a newbie or for my parents, I'd never recommend a laptop running Linux (preinstalled or not).
:))
Would you rather reccomend Windows with all the fuss related to viruses/spyware/malware/adware/bsodware and so on?
Imho a wintel box is much more dangerous to a newbie data than anything else (including faulty hard disks and hot coffee, yes
using Windows computers to pursue a passion or hobby
does masochism count?
The original link is fster than the cache
was.
> we'll put the next Republican in power because he'll do a good job too
Excuse me Sir, did you vote Nixon in 1972?
Where's the free market to elect new leaders?
in a free market leaders are bought, not elected.
PS: in Saudi Arabia, leaders buys YOU!
decrease consumed power during idle periods, with the knock-on effect of reduced heat.
this means a huge power saving for the IT depts...
GATES: We're responsible for the creation of the PC industry.
Should we blame him, then, for letting millions of clueless losers disturb us geeks?
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Not in an absolute meaning. Even total nuclearization is not absolute meaning. The notion of damage is intrinsecally antropocentric. Some can say that "reduction" (of biodiversity, or resources[1]) is always damage, but it is true only on the short term. On the long term, generally you can't say. The Yucatan asteroid did a lot of damage, but the mammals today are what they are _because_ that happened.
[1] please note that a resource is a resource relatively to how one can use it. Oil is a resource for humans, CO2 is not. For plants, it's the other way around.
> I use pvcs and I'm looking into switching
Is this slashdot or a BDSM forum?
PS: try latex.
> Somebody has to be - why not me?
Only who think he will be the Next Big Thing (Maker) could be. If you are asking yourself "why not me" then you don't have (like me) a clue in the game for the NBT.
> This is just the usual bullshit from people who can't deal with change.
the NBT has never been about change, the NBT is always something "new" (either as in a new thing or new way to think about existing things)
and about MS not existing 30 years from now, please, do the math with their cash. I think that 30 years from now MS won't be relevant as today, but I bet far more than 2 cents that it will be there.
(of course, if I'm wrong, all we poor humans won't be relevant as we are today...)