Seriously. Is there any reason to buy one of the things? What does it do that justifies ANYONE buying one? Does it still have the "best" floating-point performance?
At least here in Iowa, they ARE fined. It's against the law to not call for a "locate" if you are going to do ANY digging. The law applies to both businesses and individuals.
Of course, no one ever calls. I work for a local utilities company, and lines get cut ALL the time by contruction crews. Because they almost NEVER call for a locate. It's insane.
The few times they do call for a locate, we go out and mark the lines, and they cut them ANYWAY. Unbelievable.
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Actually, yeah, 1.83GHz is fast again.
The new cores are better than the Pentium 4 cores. Which is amusing, since they are basically tweaked Pentium 3 cores. And the Pentium 3 is basically a tweaked Pentium 2. And the Pentium 2 is a tweaked Pentium Pro.
When did the Pentium Pro come out? 1994 or so? It's amazing that a design that is 12 years old is still the best Intel can do. Either the Pentium Pro designers were brilliant, or the Pentium 4 designers were idiots.;)
And that's the problem. Why would you read a newspaper site for ANYTHING but local news?
There are a million news sites on the web. There are a million comics on the web. There are classified ads, editorials...everything. Good quality stuff is easy to find, and there's just so MUCH of it.
Seriously. What does a local paper offer besides local news that isn't important enough to get reported on other sites? Nothing.
The only advantage newspapers still have is their portability. Reading and actual printed paper is nicer than reading off of your monitor.
I agree. It should be possible to buy a Dell PC with JUST Windows installed, and nothing else. But as far as I can tell, it isn't an option. Hell, these days, you don't even get a restore CD! You have to burn your own, or pay an extra $10 to get an actual XP CD.
It's Norton Internet Security that really pisses me off, though. I don't think I've ever seen it NOT screw up a machine. I've seen brand-new, out-of-the-box Dells (and others) that won't even BOOT properly until NIS is un-installed from Safe Mode. Insane. McAfee's equivalent product isn't much better.
I imagine that Dell's support costs for helping people remove spyware are ASTRONOMICAL. And, truly, using Firefox as your browser goes a LONG way towards preventing spyware from being installed. I mean, a lot (most?) spyware comes in the form of ActiveX controls.
I wonder if McAfee and Norton Internet Security are going to get the axe next? Both of those programs tend to be a major hassle, too. I've always been amazed that Dell would install those programs on every machine, when doing so almost GUARANTEES a support call. Or ten.
Why do users have to search their files? Because most users don't know where their files are. They don't know what their files are NAMED. They don't even really know what program they used to create their files. Is it a Word file? An Excel file? A JPEG? (usual response: "I don't know. I just used Windows 99 to make it.") A good search utility could be handy.
Of course, people that can't be bothered to give their files descriptive names aren't very likely to fill out metadata info, either. So it's not going to help much. Still, it's progress.
Seriously, if you've ever worked in a any kind of office environment, the question of "where is my file?" comes up EVERY DAY. People let Word or Excel or whatever name their files, and pay no attention to where those programs are saving things. Thankfully, most of the time things end up in "My Documents".
Uh, TV series aren't free. Firefly was a fairly expensive series. Yeah, Sci-Fi would pick it up if anyone did, but I think even they don't want to touch it at this point. A failed series, a failed movie...what's the point?
Plus, Firefly was crappy anyway. Joss blew his whole creative wad on the first 3 seasons of Buffy.
Uh...just because the code moves from the kernel into userspace doesn't mean it DISAPPEARS. It still needs RAM.
And the massive graphics card requirment is because the new graphics system does a lot more than it used to. It actually put 3D hardware to use, among other things. Which is what we want, isn't it?
Oh, I forgot. Microsoft can be criticized for not having a given feature, and it can ALSO be criticized for including TOO MANY features.
A big cache is good when you are dealing with programs that could access ANY data at ANY time (or you're running multiple programs). With games, that doesn't really happen. Game code is sort of "linear", and you're only running one at a time.. So the cache can be filled with what needs to be there, and nothing else.
Have you used their products in the last few years?
Norton Anti-Virus: An incredibly bloated AV scanner that rarely can REMOVE any viruses, on the off-chance it actually detects them.
Norton Internet Security: Includes the bloated AV scanner, and a Personal Firewall that regularly shits itself and screws up the whole TCP/IP stack. The only fix? Un-install Norton Internet Security.
Ghost: A good program until Symantec bought it, now most of the features that made it useful are gone.
Screw Symantec. They're actually WORSE than Microsoft when it comes to selling shitty software. Much worse.
There are just too many other ways to get the information a newspaper gives you. ESPECIALLY if you live in a major city.
And if you DON'T live in a major city, then the local newspaper probably sucks. There just isn't much news of interest to report in a small town. So the newspapers reprint national news, and then fill the rest of the paper with advertisements and boring local issues that few people care about.
Seriously, the newspaper market is going to end up existing solely to server that small percentage of the population who really follow local politics and write letters to the editor whenever a new stoplight is installed.
I wouldn't be surprised if Microsoft is taking a loss, but can we really believe the numbers in this article? How would they POSSIBLY know what kind of deal MS has with the parts suppliers?
I would expect that MS is paying absolutely bottom dollar for every component in the 360. I mean, if you were a supplier and MS came in and said "Yeah, we want to order 10 million units of X", you give them a hell of a deal.
Everyone knows this. The hardware is nice, but the software package and drivers are HORRIBLE. Yeah, you can get other software to capture video with, but you lose a lot of "proprietary" features of the ATI cards.
Not to mention ATIs notorious "we'll never release updated drivers for any new operating systems" policy when it comes to their AIW cards. I can almost guarantee that when Windows Vista hits, the TV features of this card won't work on it. Ever.
Honestly, you're better of picking up one of the Hauppage cards if you really want to have TV features. They're better, better drivers, and widely supported by all kinds of third-party software.
Scientific Atlanta is probably the dominant brand of equipment in almost every cable TV headend in the country. They make all kinds of stuff for cable TV networks.
As cable TV moves away from analog to digital, it will be nice to have Cisco handling the data side of things inside SA equipment. I expect to see some nice products, and it will probably accelerate the adoption of digital cable in smaller markets that haven't upgraded yet.
But it should only cost me $1 to download. And, it should download SCREAMINGLY fast. P2P doesn't cut it. They need to quit being pussies and pony up for some seriously fast servers and gobs of bandwidth.
They actually got the Department of Homeland Security to denounce them. I knew it had to be good for something;)
The great thing about all of this is that now that the Feds are aware of this evil DRM bullshit, they will start regulating it a little better. As it stands now, the DMCA basically give all the media companies "carte blanche" with regards to copy-protection schemes.
There is no compromise. That's the problem. The record companies (and really, ALL media companies) really REALLY want you to be giving them money every time you view/listen/play their stuff. At the very least, they want you to be paying for a subscription.
It's not even really a matter of preventing privacy. They finally can implement "Pay-Per-View" everything, and it's their wet-dream. They aren't going to abandon it.
I'm not so sure that the "right of free speech" should be something that non-government agencies should be able to ignore. Our lives are dominated by interaction with "private" agencies- be it a private school you attend, or the company you work for, a store you shop at, or a website you post to. If free speech isn't protected at any of these places, then where IS it protected? Is the middle-lane of the state-owned freeway the only place I can express my opinion without fear of consequences?
Private agencies shouldn't be allowed to punish an individual for LEGAL acts that they simply don't like.
Of course, no one wants the government telling them what they have to put up with. And I agree with that completely, but maybe there's some room for compromise. Maybe.
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Seriously. Is there any reason to buy one of the things? What does it do that justifies ANYONE buying one? Does it still have the "best" floating-point performance?
At least here in Iowa, they ARE fined. It's against the law to not call for a "locate" if you are going to do ANY digging. The law applies to both businesses and individuals.
Of course, no one ever calls. I work for a local utilities company, and lines get cut ALL the time by contruction crews. Because they almost NEVER call for a locate. It's insane.
The few times they do call for a locate, we go out and mark the lines, and they cut them ANYWAY. Unbelievable.
Actually, yeah, 1.83GHz is fast again.
;)
The new cores are better than the Pentium 4 cores. Which is amusing, since they are basically tweaked Pentium 3 cores. And the Pentium 3 is basically a tweaked Pentium 2. And the Pentium 2 is a tweaked Pentium Pro.
When did the Pentium Pro come out? 1994 or so? It's amazing that a design that is 12 years old is still the best Intel can do. Either the Pentium Pro designers were brilliant, or the Pentium 4 designers were idiots.
Having my porn files on my wrist gets them ONE STEP CLOSER to being truly "interactive".
And that's the problem. Why would you read a newspaper site for ANYTHING but local news?
There are a million news sites on the web. There are a million comics on the web. There are classified ads, editorials...everything. Good quality stuff is easy to find, and there's just so MUCH of it.
Seriously. What does a local paper offer besides local news that isn't important enough to get reported on other sites? Nothing.
The only advantage newspapers still have is their portability. Reading and actual printed paper is nicer than reading off of your monitor.
I agree. It should be possible to buy a Dell PC with JUST Windows installed, and nothing else. But as far as I can tell, it isn't an option. Hell, these days, you don't even get a restore CD! You have to burn your own, or pay an extra $10 to get an actual XP CD.
It's Norton Internet Security that really pisses me off, though. I don't think I've ever seen it NOT screw up a machine. I've seen brand-new, out-of-the-box Dells (and others) that won't even BOOT properly until NIS is un-installed from Safe Mode. Insane. McAfee's equivalent product isn't much better.
I imagine that Dell's support costs for helping people remove spyware are ASTRONOMICAL. And, truly, using Firefox as your browser goes a LONG way towards preventing spyware from being installed. I mean, a lot (most?) spyware comes in the form of ActiveX controls.
I wonder if McAfee and Norton Internet Security are going to get the axe next? Both of those programs tend to be a major hassle, too. I've always been amazed that Dell would install those programs on every machine, when doing so almost GUARANTEES a support call. Or ten.
Why do users have to search their files? Because most users don't know where their files are. They don't know what their files are NAMED. They don't even really know what program they used to create their files. Is it a Word file? An Excel file? A JPEG? (usual response: "I don't know. I just used Windows 99 to make it.") A good search utility could be handy.
Of course, people that can't be bothered to give their files descriptive names aren't very likely to fill out metadata info, either. So it's not going to help much. Still, it's progress.
Seriously, if you've ever worked in a any kind of office environment, the question of "where is my file?" comes up EVERY DAY. People let Word or Excel or whatever name their files, and pay no attention to where those programs are saving things. Thankfully, most of the time things end up in "My Documents".
You seem to be under the impression that the "scaffolds" in Ruby On Rails are all there is. That's not true.
Once you abandon the scaffolds, you can do whatever you want. And it's easy to maintain.
You don't know what you're talking about, in other words.
Uh, TV series aren't free. Firefly was a fairly expensive series. Yeah, Sci-Fi would pick it up if anyone did, but I think even they don't want to touch it at this point. A failed series, a failed movie...what's the point?
Plus, Firefly was crappy anyway. Joss blew his whole creative wad on the first 3 seasons of Buffy.
You know, all Microsoft did was hire a new "design" guy. Maybe you should relax. Go write a poem or something.
p.s.- poetry sucks
I just get bored to DEATH. Wander around, find objects, fight monsters to build stats. Yay.
The writing in EVERY RPG I've ever played has been laughably bad. Cliche upon cliche. Juvenile humor. Non-sensical plots.
I always felt like more or a "role player" when I was playing the LucasArts or Sierra games.
Uh...just because the code moves from the kernel into userspace doesn't mean it DISAPPEARS. It still needs RAM.
And the massive graphics card requirment is because the new graphics system does a lot more than it used to. It actually put 3D hardware to use, among other things. Which is what we want, isn't it?
Oh, I forgot. Microsoft can be criticized for not having a given feature, and it can ALSO be criticized for including TOO MANY features.
Actually, no.
A big cache is good when you are dealing with programs that could access ANY data at ANY time (or you're running multiple programs). With games, that doesn't really happen. Game code is sort of "linear", and you're only running one at a time.. So the cache can be filled with what needs to be there, and nothing else.
Are you INSANE?!
CDs are already vastly overpriced. And you'd be willing to pay more to have what YOU ALREADY SHOULD HAVE?
You're the RIAA's wet-dream, my friend.
Have you used their products in the last few years?
Norton Anti-Virus: An incredibly bloated AV scanner that rarely can REMOVE any viruses, on the off-chance it actually detects them.
Norton Internet Security: Includes the bloated AV scanner, and a Personal Firewall that regularly shits itself and screws up the whole TCP/IP stack. The only fix? Un-install Norton Internet Security.
Ghost: A good program until Symantec bought it, now most of the features that made it useful are gone.
Screw Symantec. They're actually WORSE than Microsoft when it comes to selling shitty software. Much worse.
There are just too many other ways to get the information a newspaper gives you. ESPECIALLY if you live in a major city.
And if you DON'T live in a major city, then the local newspaper probably sucks. There just isn't much news of interest to report in a small town. So the newspapers reprint national news, and then fill the rest of the paper with advertisements and boring local issues that few people care about.
Seriously, the newspaper market is going to end up existing solely to server that small percentage of the population who really follow local politics and write letters to the editor whenever a new stoplight is installed.
I wouldn't be surprised if Microsoft is taking a loss, but can we really believe the numbers in this article? How would they POSSIBLY know what kind of deal MS has with the parts suppliers?
I would expect that MS is paying absolutely bottom dollar for every component in the 360. I mean, if you were a supplier and MS came in and said "Yeah, we want to order 10 million units of X", you give them a hell of a deal.
Everyone knows this. The hardware is nice, but the software package and drivers are HORRIBLE. Yeah, you can get other software to capture video with, but you lose a lot of "proprietary" features of the ATI cards.
Not to mention ATIs notorious "we'll never release updated drivers for any new operating systems" policy when it comes to their AIW cards. I can almost guarantee that when Windows Vista hits, the TV features of this card won't work on it. Ever.
Honestly, you're better of picking up one of the Hauppage cards if you really want to have TV features. They're better, better drivers, and widely supported by all kinds of third-party software.
Scientific Atlanta is probably the dominant brand of equipment in almost every cable TV headend in the country. They make all kinds of stuff for cable TV networks.
As cable TV moves away from analog to digital, it will be nice to have Cisco handling the data side of things inside SA equipment. I expect to see some nice products, and it will probably accelerate the adoption of digital cable in smaller markets that haven't upgraded yet.
But it should only cost me $1 to download. And, it should download SCREAMINGLY fast. P2P doesn't cut it. They need to quit being pussies and pony up for some seriously fast servers and gobs of bandwidth.
Sony really screwed the pooch on this one.
;)
They actually got the Department of Homeland Security to denounce them. I knew it had to be good for something
The great thing about all of this is that now that the Feds are aware of this evil DRM bullshit, they will start regulating it a little better. As it stands now, the DMCA basically give all the media companies "carte blanche" with regards to copy-protection schemes.
There is no compromise. That's the problem. The record companies (and really, ALL media companies) really REALLY want you to be giving them money every time you view/listen/play their stuff. At the very least, they want you to be paying for a subscription.
It's not even really a matter of preventing privacy. They finally can implement "Pay-Per-View" everything, and it's their wet-dream. They aren't going to abandon it.
I see your point, but I disagree.
I'm not so sure that the "right of free speech" should be something that non-government agencies should be able to ignore. Our lives are dominated by interaction with "private" agencies- be it a private school you attend, or the company you work for, a store you shop at, or a website you post to. If free speech isn't protected at any of these places, then where IS it protected? Is the middle-lane of the state-owned freeway the only place I can express my opinion without fear of consequences?
Private agencies shouldn't be allowed to punish an individual for LEGAL acts that they simply don't like.
Of course, no one wants the government telling them what they have to put up with. And I agree with that completely, but maybe there's some room for compromise. Maybe.
Because since you'll be working 80 hour weeks, you won't have time to spend it!
As for stock options and royalties...yeah right. Carrot, meet stick.
Seriously, IGN is clueless.