I have one. Great card, hasn't missed a beat in the 5 months or so that I've owned it. Not only is it fanless, it's "overclocked" by some amount straight from the factory (maybe 5-10%)... It's also a VIVO card, meaning it can capture digital video (which interestingly enough was a standard feature of the 6600, which hardly anyone bothered to implement).
They're a big corporation with a good legal department. Both those clues could simply point to Apple keeping their options open.
I might get flamed for this but I don't really see Apple as a ground breaker. They'll come out with a video player when theres an established marked for one. Theirs will be 10x as cool and work 10x better and therefore the market will expand greatly by their entering it, but they won't create the market. Thats about what happened with the Ipod, it wasn't by far the first portable audio player, it was just cooler and better (and had much better marketing)...
You don't even have to go to Africa. Alaska has by FAR the highest ratio of pilots per-capita in the USA, in large part due to many of the reasons listed above...
This is actually far more important than siblings fighting over a toy.
For one there is a natural resources issue. There are billions of barrels of oil buried along the north slope of Alaska and Canada not too far from this island.
Second, and possibly more importantly, there is a key territory issue. The polar ice caps are melting and it is predicted that within the next 50 years they will have melted enough to allow circumpolar shipping routes to open through the arctic. The country who controls the waters this route passes through effectively controls the route and will therefore own what will likely be the worlds most important shipping lane. (Europe to west coast USA, and Europe to China/East Asia) The idea here is that this route will pass within the territorial boundary marker of Hans Island. Denmark has far more to lose in this regard, because without Hans Island their westernmost border is Greenland which is nowhere near the upcoming shipping lanes. Canada on the other hand will probably get a piece of the pie either way.
Hate to bring a voice of reason to the area 51 "debate" but those "Black Crop Circles" are nothing more than a wastewater treatment facility. Standard civilian grade stuff there...
I know you're on a rant and I hate to slow you down but I'll try anyway. The galactica uses old fashioned phones with wires quite on purpose as a low tech but highly effective answer to technological warfare. It's much much harder to jam/intercept/alter a signal that runs through a shielded wire than one that transmits via radio wave. I bet if you go look at a modern navy vessel it will also use hard wired communications onboard ship.
Second, about the water. I hear what you're saying about water being plentiful, but there are any number of reasons why a large, relatively pure liquid body of fresh water is imensely preferable to what you'd find in asteroids etc... For one, it's one stop shopping. They don't have to spend precious time which they have none of to locate and mine H2O from a myriad of astral bodies. They don't have to mine squat actualy, just drop a hose and suck. It's very concievable that they didn't have the facilities avalable to extract H2O from any but the most simple source. Think of it this way: When people first started extracting oil from the ground they looked for shallow sources of "clean" low sulphur low byproduct oil. Because the technology wasn't available to locate, extract, and refine anything else. Today they can drill miles vertically and horizontally and modern refineries can extra useable product from the nastiest of crude. The same can be said for water. Without sophisticated extraction and filtering equipment we wouldn't be able to use a large % of the water we use now because it's located miles underground in aquifers and needs to be cleaned by high-tech ultra efficient filtration systems. Now imagine that Galactica didn't get lucky enough to rescue a Britta(TM) FilterShip(TM) when they were running from the cylons in the first episode...
In other words, they needed easy water because they hadn't the time or the equipment to deal with the hard water...
Actually for anyone younger than about 35 we have only our elders to blame. Given that exactly none of the judges currently serving on the court were appointed by the current administration, that automatically rules out people
So basically to be fully accountable for this decision you would have had to have voted in the 1972 elections, putting your age at at least 51. So we have no-one but our parents/grandparents to thank for this.
Typcially the cell phone companies are pushing 3G and 4G which are for the most part, competeing with WiMax. Interesting since WiMax promises an alternative to cell phones... mobile, wireless VoIP.
People will still need a handset. Hence the involvement by Nokia. I don't see why Nokia really cares what protocol their phones are using as long as their still selling phones. Nokia, like Apple, is a hardware company.
On the other hand, if you have a hardware platform made specifically for games and one which excels in games by providing more processing muscle, people *will* make games for it.
No they won't. Game development shops don't give 1/2 a crap what hardware a system runs on when deciding to make a game for it. All that matters is how many people own it.
There is a subtle but very important difference between the publishers in the article and those of Cory Doctorow and "The YaYa Sisterhood". Cory publishes mass market books, and in that market his theory might make sense. The association in the article sells books with titles like "A Statistical Extrapolation of the Amelioration of Dichloratonium Phictophate in an Ascorbic Acetonating Solution" (don't flame me for my fake words). A book like the latter is not going to ever recieve significant word of mouth generated sales.
In other words throwing that quote at these people is like GM (high volume low margin) telling Ferrari (extremely low volume high margin) it's OK if you give away 20% of your cars for free because that will generate more sales. Hint: Ferrari sells every car they make before it even hits the assembly line.
THe horse is dead, but I'll still kick it.
What I (original ac comment) meant was:
Having worked with Oracle, I'd bet that the two winners who worked for Oracle are the same two winners who are from India. Meaning that I've yet to speak to someone from Oracle who didn't have an Indian accent. Somewhat more off topic, I've also never spoken to anyone from Oracle who was anything other than an annoying salesperson, regardless of whether they claimed to be a tech or not.
I don't think you're entirely correct. IIRC the can use the either the electric or gas or both as the primary drive source. So there is a "direct" (via a transmission) link between the engine and the wheels.
Real admins who work anywhere in the private sector do the best they can with the small amount of resources they have. They don't do anything like "verify the rest of the code" whatever the fuck that means. Real admins have 2 hours to get a new box up and running before they have to go put someone elses totally unrelated fire out. They install the OS image that they run on every other server which almost certainly has some things running that don't need to be because it's a general purpose image. Other than that they try their best to run a decent firewall in the 5 minutes a week that they have time to work on it, keep the patches as up to date as they can and hope the next time they get hit it's not too bad.
Just because you have 40 hours of unemployment related free time a week to keep your killer 3 linux box home network/server farm uber secure and updated doesn't mean people in the real world do any such thing.
You want a real test of who has the more secure product? Install IIS/Asp.net & Apache/php using as close to the default settings as possible and see which one gets hacked first. Because I guaruntee you that 80% of the time strapped overworked sysadmins out there are going to do exactly that, simply because they don't have time to do anything else./end rant
RTFA,
No one is paying for shit. Microsofts BETA liscence forbids you from running production servers on beta software. They are simply offering an exemption from this restriction. They are not charging for the software, they are simply letting you go live with the beta software before the production version is ready if you wish to do so. Then, you will buy the production liscence when available (ie when it's released).
Why does everyone assume that because there is a lot of competition in the broadband market where they live that it's the same for everyone? I, like a lot of people, can do all the shopping I want and it won't change the fact that there are exactly 2 broadband providers in my town.
Of course this is slashdot so you didn't read the article, but AnandTech is CLEARLY one of the sites the article is ranting about. They had a "special exclusive" review of the intel dual core part in which they benchmarked exactly 0 games which was the articles whole point. The entire article was obviously misleading and written for cash. Read the article and then go look at Anands dual core review, it's quite obviously a payola article.
As a matter of fact there have been Slashdot stories regarding the custom software* Curt Schilling designed and uses to study opposing batters and their reactions to certain pitches before each game/inning (I believe it's on a laptop he keeps in the dugout).
*I have no affiliation with that blog, it was just a handy link.
Price of broadband in many geographic areas: 4 figures USD for the first year.
And where is this? I live in Alaska where the cost of living is astronomical and broadband can be had for $35 a month. Add to that the fact that dialup is rarely free (sometimes up to $30 a month) and your argument is weaking rapidly. Add to that the fact the VB.Net (the entire.net runtime actually) comes with Windows XP and your download time comes to 0 minutes at a cost of 0 dollars for any modern PC.
Maybe because you gain more than you lose by going to the 90nm 64bit architecture? It's faster and cooler than the chip it replaces. It just happens to be 64bit at well.
It's not like AMD just said "hey, lets blow some smoke up the consumers arse and put a 64 bit processor in a laptop!". If you hadn't noticed they've been moving in this direction for say, a couple years now.
Think again. Unless it's an order of magnitude better than the best available where I live, your cable modem is not 1MB a sec. It's 1Mb a sec and there are somewhere around 8 Mb's in a MB. Basically, it would take your 1MegaBIT cable modem around 68 hours at full transfer speed to download your 6dvd pack. So basically you could have your DVD's overnighted and get them quicker.
The other thing that everyone overlooks is that BANDWIDTH IS NOT FREE. Everyone pretends like there aren't any real costs associated with selling high speed video downloads to millions of people. I'm guessing it costs "them" somewhere around $.10 to press a dvd. What does the corresponding amount of network usage cost? I bet it's considerable more.
Except for the single biggest industry in Alaska. Oil.
To respond to the grandparent, your sentiment about Alaskans is essentially true it just needs minor modification. Alaska doesn't want government control on things unless "Uncle Ted" says so, then it must be OK. The man is like a King up here, whatever he says goes.
Personally I'm somewhat surprised at this move because it seems like Uncle Ted usually focuses most of his attention on the gathering of pork. He usually doesn't involve himself in issues like this that don't bring money to or affect Alaska greatly.
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I have one. Great card, hasn't missed a beat in the 5 months or so that I've owned it. Not only is it fanless, it's "overclocked" by some amount straight from the factory (maybe 5-10%)... It's also a VIVO card, meaning it can capture digital video (which interestingly enough was a standard feature of the 6600, which hardly anyone bothered to implement).
They're a big corporation with a good legal department. Both those clues could simply point to Apple keeping their options open.
I might get flamed for this but I don't really see Apple as a ground breaker. They'll come out with a video player when theres an established marked for one. Theirs will be 10x as cool and work 10x better and therefore the market will expand greatly by their entering it, but they won't create the market. Thats about what happened with the Ipod, it wasn't by far the first portable audio player, it was just cooler and better (and had much better marketing)...
You don't even have to go to Africa. Alaska has by FAR the highest ratio of pilots per-capita in the USA, in large part due to many of the reasons listed above...
This is actually far more important than siblings fighting over a toy.
For one there is a natural resources issue. There are billions of barrels of oil buried along the north slope of Alaska and Canada not too far from this island.
Second, and possibly more importantly, there is a key territory issue. The polar ice caps are melting and it is predicted that within the next 50 years they will have melted enough to allow circumpolar shipping routes to open through the arctic. The country who controls the waters this route passes through effectively controls the route and will therefore own what will likely be the worlds most important shipping lane. (Europe to west coast USA, and Europe to China/East Asia) The idea here is that this route will pass within the territorial boundary marker of Hans Island. Denmark has far more to lose in this regard, because without Hans Island their westernmost border is Greenland which is nowhere near the upcoming shipping lanes. Canada on the other hand will probably get a piece of the pie either way.
Hate to bring a voice of reason to the area 51 "debate" but those "Black Crop Circles" are nothing more than a wastewater treatment facility. Standard civilian grade stuff there...
I know you're on a rant and I hate to slow you down but I'll try anyway. The galactica uses old fashioned phones with wires quite on purpose as a low tech but highly effective answer to technological warfare. It's much much harder to jam/intercept/alter a signal that runs through a shielded wire than one that transmits via radio wave. I bet if you go look at a modern navy vessel it will also use hard wired communications onboard ship.
Second, about the water. I hear what you're saying about water being plentiful, but there are any number of reasons why a large, relatively pure liquid body of fresh water is imensely preferable to what you'd find in asteroids etc... For one, it's one stop shopping. They don't have to spend precious time which they have none of to locate and mine H2O from a myriad of astral bodies. They don't have to mine squat actualy, just drop a hose and suck. It's very concievable that they didn't have the facilities avalable to extract H2O from any but the most simple source.
Think of it this way: When people first started extracting oil from the ground they looked for shallow sources of "clean" low sulphur low byproduct oil. Because the technology wasn't available to locate, extract, and refine anything else. Today they can drill miles vertically and horizontally and modern refineries can extra useable product from the nastiest of crude. The same can be said for water. Without sophisticated extraction and filtering equipment we wouldn't be able to use a large % of the water we use now because it's located miles underground in aquifers and needs to be cleaned by high-tech ultra efficient filtration systems. Now imagine that Galactica didn't get lucky enough to rescue a Britta(TM) FilterShip(TM) when they were running from the cylons in the first episode...
In other words, they needed easy water because they hadn't the time or the equipment to deal with the hard water...
Kinda makes it useless.
Not useless, just a really expensive/extravigant battery.
Actually for anyone younger than about 35 we have only our elders to blame. Given that exactly none of the judges currently serving on the court were appointed by the current administration, that automatically rules out people
So basically to be fully accountable for this decision you would have had to have voted in the 1972 elections, putting your age at at least 51. So we have no-one but our parents/grandparents to thank for this.
Typcially the cell phone companies are pushing 3G and 4G which are for the most part, competeing with WiMax. Interesting since WiMax promises an alternative to cell phones... mobile, wireless VoIP.
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People will still need a handset. Hence the involvement by Nokia. I don't see why Nokia really cares what protocol their phones are using as long as their still selling phones. Nokia, like Apple, is a hardware company.
By the way, nice shameless plug for your site
On the other hand, if you have a hardware platform made specifically for games and one which excels in games by providing more processing muscle, people *will* make games for it.
No they won't. Game development shops don't give 1/2 a crap what hardware a system runs on when deciding to make a game for it. All that matters is how many people own it.
There is a subtle but very important difference between the publishers in the article and those of Cory Doctorow and "The YaYa Sisterhood". Cory publishes mass market books, and in that market his theory might make sense. The association in the article sells books with titles like "A Statistical Extrapolation of the Amelioration of Dichloratonium Phictophate in an Ascorbic Acetonating Solution" (don't flame me for my fake words). A book like the latter is not going to ever recieve significant word of mouth generated sales.
In other words throwing that quote at these people is like GM (high volume low margin) telling Ferrari (extremely low volume high margin) it's OK if you give away 20% of your cars for free because that will generate more sales. Hint: Ferrari sells every car they make before it even hits the assembly line.
"Last time I checked, open rebellion against your country was treason.
Only if you lose.
THe horse is dead, but I'll still kick it. What I (original ac comment) meant was: Having worked with Oracle, I'd bet that the two winners who worked for Oracle are the same two winners who are from India. Meaning that I've yet to speak to someone from Oracle who didn't have an Indian accent. Somewhat more off topic, I've also never spoken to anyone from Oracle who was anything other than an annoying salesperson, regardless of whether they claimed to be a tech or not.
I don't think you're entirely correct. IIRC the can use the either the electric or gas or both as the primary drive source. So there is a "direct" (via a transmission) link between the engine and the wheels.
I'm so tired of hearing crap like that.
/end rant
Real admins who work anywhere in the private sector do the best they can with the small amount of resources they have. They don't do anything like "verify the rest of the code" whatever the fuck that means. Real admins have 2 hours to get a new box up and running before they have to go put someone elses totally unrelated fire out. They install the OS image that they run on every other server which almost certainly has some things running that don't need to be because it's a general purpose image. Other than that they try their best to run a decent firewall in the 5 minutes a week that they have time to work on it, keep the patches as up to date as they can and hope the next time they get hit it's not too bad.
Just because you have 40 hours of unemployment related free time a week to keep your killer 3 linux box home network/server farm uber secure and updated doesn't mean people in the real world do any such thing.
You want a real test of who has the more secure product? Install IIS/Asp.net & Apache/php using as close to the default settings as possible and see which one gets hacked first. Because I guaruntee you that 80% of the time strapped overworked sysadmins out there are going to do exactly that, simply because they don't have time to do anything else.
Using AOL CAN in fact kill you.
Close, but wrong.
Microsoft invented "Plug and PRAY", not "Plug and Play".
RTFA,
No one is paying for shit. Microsofts BETA liscence forbids you from running production servers on beta software. They are simply offering an exemption from this restriction. They are not charging for the software, they are simply letting you go live with the beta software before the production version is ready if you wish to do so. Then, you will buy the production liscence when available (ie when it's released).
Why does everyone assume that because there is a lot of competition in the broadband market where they live that it's the same for everyone? I, like a lot of people, can do all the shopping I want and it won't change the fact that there are exactly 2 broadband providers in my town.
Of course this is slashdot so you didn't read the article, but AnandTech is CLEARLY one of the sites the article is ranting about. They had a "special exclusive" review of the intel dual core part in which they benchmarked exactly 0 games which was the articles whole point. The entire article was obviously misleading and written for cash. Read the article and then go look at Anands dual core review, it's quite obviously a payola article.
As a matter of fact there have been Slashdot stories regarding the custom software* Curt Schilling designed and uses to study opposing batters and their reactions to certain pitches before each game/inning (I believe it's on a laptop he keeps in the dugout).
*I have no affiliation with that blog, it was just a handy link.
Price of broadband in many geographic areas: 4 figures USD for the first year.
.net runtime actually) comes with Windows XP and your download time comes to 0 minutes at a cost of 0 dollars for any modern PC.
And where is this? I live in Alaska where the cost of living is astronomical and broadband can be had for $35 a month. Add to that the fact that dialup is rarely free (sometimes up to $30 a month) and your argument is weaking rapidly. Add to that the fact the VB.Net (the entire
Maybe because you gain more than you lose by going to the 90nm 64bit architecture? It's faster and cooler than the chip it replaces. It just happens to be 64bit at well.
It's not like AMD just said "hey, lets blow some smoke up the consumers arse and put a 64 bit processor in a laptop!". If you hadn't noticed they've been moving in this direction for say, a couple years now.
Think again. Unless it's an order of magnitude better than the best available where I live, your cable modem is not 1MB a sec. It's 1Mb a sec and there are somewhere around 8 Mb's in a MB. Basically, it would take your 1MegaBIT cable modem around 68 hours at full transfer speed to download your 6dvd pack. So basically you could have your DVD's overnighted and get them quicker.
The other thing that everyone overlooks is that BANDWIDTH IS NOT FREE. Everyone pretends like there aren't any real costs associated with selling high speed video downloads to millions of people. I'm guessing it costs "them" somewhere around $.10 to press a dvd. What does the corresponding amount of network usage cost? I bet it's considerable more.
Except for the single biggest industry in Alaska. Oil.
To respond to the grandparent, your sentiment about Alaskans is essentially true it just needs minor modification. Alaska doesn't want government control on things unless "Uncle Ted" says so, then it must be OK. The man is like a King up here, whatever he says goes.
Personally I'm somewhat surprised at this move because it seems like Uncle Ted usually focuses most of his attention on the gathering of pork. He usually doesn't involve himself in issues like this that don't bring money to or affect Alaska greatly.