So by your logic, we can call any B&W display (meaning truly 1 bit) greyscale because I can dither or flash them on and off? The hardware can only display 12-bit (4096) color, so they should just advertise it as such.
How about if you bought a 650 Mhz processor, but it turns out to be 580 Mhz? Well, the reality is that the m120 is actually 12-bit which displays 4096 colors and cheats to get the 58k magic colors. From seeing it myself, there's no mistake this is a 12-bit display, not a pseudo 15.5 bit display. Just compare it to other 12-bit displays and you'll easily see the difference (or similarities as the case may be). They lied once, and now they lie again. I suppose you could say my Pentium III is a 128 bit processor since it could do 128 bit calculations... right....
I think you're reaching a bit. I don't believe Microsoft really cares if you use C#, VB.Net, JScript.Net, Managed C++, etc... as long as you're using the.Net Framework. That's the whole point of the CLR: language independence. It's not like MS makes more money if you use VB.Net over C#.
You can always use netmon to see exactly what is being sent over the wire. If you discover that your privacy is in fact being invaded, just sue them with your proof and make a ton of money.
http://www.quicken.com/investments/stats/?symbol=M SFT
Considering that MSFT revenue increased 12% from a year ago wheras the rest of the industry increased 0.27%, I would say they haven't been affected as much as you would like.
Any company that relies so much on one customer is stupid. Now obviously the majority of Nvidia's revenue is not related to XBox (or I would hope not). Nvidia was starting to repeat the same mistakes 3dfx made, getting too comfortable at the top. It's quite possible that ATI will take #1 again.
99% of the people are obviously happy enough that they keep buying it. You guys forget that people on Slashdot are the exception and not the rule (not by a large margin).
The point is that you don't edit the registry to configure Windows (it's actually not recommended) as most configuration settings are available through a more intuitive UI. It's amazing how people didn't actually read or understand the article. He'd not saying that such things aren't possible, he's saying that such things aren't easy for the common user. It's obvious to me that people on Slashdot won't solve the problems as 80% of the people here are elitists where they say "How hard is it to add these lines in this obscure text file?" or "It's open source, so if there isn't already a solution to the problem he should code it!".
I believe the point is that the benchmarks were not *terrible*. Terrible implies that the new processor is = the old 206 Mhz one, which certainly isn't the case. The problem is that people expect a 400Mhz processor to give about a 2x performance increase over the old 206Mhz one, but for a bunch of geeks, it's amazing how easily you people forget that 1Mhz != 1Mhz when you're comparing different processors (even if they both use the same instruction set), such as AMD vs. Intel. Speaking of Intel, remember that Intel realized that common folk are easily sold on a high Mhz number rather than instructions processed per clock cycle, so Intel obviously designed their processors (Pentium family and StrongArm family) to scale up to high Mhz.
Obviously you're not aware that IE is made of inproc com servers, not out-of-proc, so, for example, mshtml.dll is loaded into every client. So the size you see for IE, is what it's actually using. The performance would be dreadful if they made it use out-of-proc com servers.
Why is it so easy to accept that there has always been a Creator who was not created, but not that there has always been a universe that was not created? Is there really a difference?
At least for the Memory Card case, it was important for them to specify the Playstation 2 version of the memory cards as customers might try to use their existing PS1 memory cards only to find out they are incompatible with those games.
So you're mom decides to give linux a try, do you really expect her or any sane person to inspect all of the source to make sure it's stable and secure? People always say, "it's open source, if you find a bug, you can fix it yourself". How many people actually do this? How many people are capable of doing this?
The difference is that you may be physically harmed by the lawn mower, but if the lawn mower stopped working and you lost money on your lawn mowing business, the lawn mower company isn't liable for such "damages".
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So by your logic, we can call any B&W display (meaning truly 1 bit) greyscale because I can dither or flash them on and off? The hardware can only display 12-bit (4096) color, so they should just advertise it as such.
How about if you bought a 650 Mhz processor, but it turns out to be 580 Mhz? Well, the reality is that the m120 is actually 12-bit which displays 4096 colors and cheats to get the 58k magic colors. From seeing it myself, there's no mistake this is a 12-bit display, not a pseudo 15.5 bit display. Just compare it to other 12-bit displays and you'll easily see the difference (or similarities as the case may be). They lied once, and now they lie again. I suppose you could say my Pentium III is a 128 bit processor since it could do 128 bit calculations... right....
I think you're reaching a bit. I don't believe Microsoft really cares if you use C#, VB.Net, JScript.Net, Managed C++, etc... as long as you're using the .Net Framework. That's the whole point of the CLR: language independence. It's not like MS makes more money if you use VB.Net over C#.
You can always use netmon to see exactly what is being sent over the wire. If you discover that your privacy is in fact being invaded, just sue them with your proof and make a ton of money.
http://www.quicken.com/investments/stats/?symbol=M SFT
Considering that MSFT revenue increased 12% from a year ago wheras the rest of the industry increased 0.27%, I would say they haven't been affected as much as you would like.
Any company that relies so much on one customer is stupid. Now obviously the majority of Nvidia's revenue is not related to XBox (or I would hope not). Nvidia was starting to repeat the same mistakes 3dfx made, getting too comfortable at the top. It's quite possible that ATI will take #1 again.
99% of the people are obviously happy enough that they keep buying it. You guys forget that people on Slashdot are the exception and not the rule (not by a large margin).
The point is that you don't edit the registry to configure Windows (it's actually not recommended) as most configuration settings are available through a more intuitive UI. It's amazing how people didn't actually read or understand the article. He'd not saying that such things aren't possible, he's saying that such things aren't easy for the common user. It's obvious to me that people on Slashdot won't solve the problems as 80% of the people here are elitists where they say "How hard is it to add these lines in this obscure text file?" or "It's open source, so if there isn't already a solution to the problem he should code it!".
I believe the point is that the benchmarks were not *terrible*. Terrible implies that the new processor is = the old 206 Mhz one, which certainly isn't the case. The problem is that people expect a 400Mhz processor to give about a 2x performance increase over the old 206Mhz one, but for a bunch of geeks, it's amazing how easily you people forget that 1Mhz != 1Mhz when you're comparing different processors (even if they both use the same instruction set), such as AMD vs. Intel. Speaking of Intel, remember that Intel realized that common folk are easily sold on a high Mhz number rather than instructions processed per clock cycle, so Intel obviously designed their processors (Pentium family and StrongArm family) to scale up to high Mhz.
Doesn't anyone actually read the articles anymore? Apache was aware of the issue before ISS posted their advisory.
Obviously you're not aware that IE is made of inproc com servers, not out-of-proc, so, for example, mshtml.dll is loaded into every client. So the size you see for IE, is what it's actually using. The performance would be dreadful if they made it use out-of-proc com servers.
The solution is simple, let the anti-abortionists take care of the babies that would have been aborted.
Why is it so easy to accept that there has always been a Creator who was not created, but not that there has always been a universe that was not created? Is there really a difference?
At least for the Memory Card case, it was important for them to specify the Playstation 2 version of the memory cards as customers might try to use their existing PS1 memory cards only to find out they are incompatible with those games.
So you're mom decides to give linux a try, do you really expect her or any sane person to inspect all of the source to make sure it's stable and secure? People always say, "it's open source, if you find a bug, you can fix it yourself". How many people actually do this? How many people are capable of doing this?
The difference is that you may be physically harmed by the lawn mower, but if the lawn mower stopped working and you lost money on your lawn mowing business, the lawn mower company isn't liable for such "damages".
Just because something is free doesn't mean you're not liable for damages it may incur.