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the blog has been clear in its anti-SCO bias from the get-go The definition of Bias is
A preference or an inclination, especially one that inhibits impartial judgment. Groklaw has definitely been anti-SCO, but to call that a "bias" does a severe disservice to the legal analysis that is the raison d'être for Groklaw.
So Sony is selling their brand new console, which should last 5-8 years, for $599. And Slashdot is up in arms at how insane Sony is for charging this much.
But nobody complains when a new cell phone comes out that costs $500. How many years is that phone going to last you? How much in monthly service charges are you going to have to pay? PS3 is free.
Nobody complains that Nvidia just came out with a $700 video card. It'll only be 6 months that that card is top of the line. Nobody is coming out with a higher powered console any time soon.
But Sony is charging too much. Even though they are taking a loss on each unit. Right, whatever you say...
Re:"Brighter == Better", not in this test.
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LCoS Shoot-Out Results
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· Score: 2, Informative
If you read the article, you would see the results:
The JVC Professional unit consistently received the highest grades despite its being the smallest and dimmest of the units
So, no, "Brighter == Better" did not occur in this test.
Back in the 60s, my uncle was a poor college student, participating in the "field" portion of "track & field" (discus, hammer, javeline, etc). He needed to eat lots of food, and didn't have much money to pay for it. The solution he and his teammates came up with was going to all-you-can-eat buffets.
Needless to say, the poor restaurant owners were not real prepared for a dozen 250+lb college students to come in and eat many platefuls of food, and the owners were not very happy. They asked them to leave, and when they said "no, it's a buffet, we are just eating 'all-we-can-eat'", the owners called the cops on them.
Well, the cops showed up, and listened to the complaint, and talked to them. And decided against the owner! "If the sign says 'all-you-can-eat', you can't kick them out just because they can eat more than you want them to eat."
Not really applicable to the topic, but just seemed an appropriate anecdote. Not only internet companies want to cut off people who use over the average!
Now, which of those cards is the one you are claiming is "nVidia's previous AGP flagship card"? Because I only see 1 AGP nVidia card, and it is the new one...
The only meaningful card in the AnandTech review is the ATI x850. How could they POSSIBLY put together a 7800GS review and not put in a 6800GS as comparison. The 6800GS was the fastest nVidia AGP card available prior to the 7800GS, and anybody looking at upgrading their AGP based system is going to be choosing between the 6800GS or 7800GS (or an ATI solution).
To not have an older, usable, nVidia card as a comparison makes the review worthless.
Demystify the computer by showing how it is simply a stupid little logic box that sometimes "AND"s, sometimes "OR"s, sometimes "NOT"s many simply true/false questions. Once somebody no longer thinks computers are magic, it gets a whole lot easier to explain to them what it actually is doing.
It's an amazing jump... I had been writing software for over 10 years when I finally got to a hardware design course. First day of class, the professor told us that our final project would be building a 4-bit computer. Talk about panic! But 4 months later, the project was actually easy as cake.
Now obviously you can't compress a full course down to 3-5 pages, but I think you could put enough to convince people that all a computer does is answer "yes or no" billions of times per second. Makes it much easier to tell them anything beyond that.
Very strange that the lead programmer would get demoted. After all, the engine for BGE was used in all of the very successful Prince of Persia sequels.
The 512MB 7800GTX is currently their "top of the line, money no object" card. In Q1, they will have a new TOTLMNO card. There isn't much market for "2nd place, money no object" video cards.
People either by the consumer cards (6800GS, 7800 GT 256, <$400), or buy the very best.
Been searching all around and all I can find are the one-line summaries. I'd much prefer to hear the judge slapping Thompson around. Anybody have a link?
Those that fail are taken aside for more intensive questioning and, if necessary, searches. Liberman said around 12 percent of passengers tend to show stress even when they have nothing to hide.
12% does seem pretty darn high to be an effective tool.
The AP article seems to be discussing exactly what was already discussed to death both here and on the TiVo-user sites. What's going to be different between this discussion and the linked, previous, Slashdot discussion?
Ugh, there are too many ignorant posts marked "insightful" for me to pick one to respond to, so I'll just do it at the top level...
So many people are saying "this is just like movie ratings, so what's the big deal?", which is total garbage.
Plain and simple: It is not ILLEGAL to let a kid into an R-rated movie. You will not be fined. Yet these laws make that occur for video games. That is the big difference.
Until Sony/Lowes can get fined for letting kids into R-rated movies, these laws are just blatantly unfair, and deserve to be overturned.
Lots of comments here are complimenting Apple on the foresight to cancel the Mini and move to the Nano. But really they were just responding to the complaints that came out with their earlier models.
* Mini: "This thing is barely smaller than a regular iPod, costs almost the same, and still has a hard drive so I can't go jogging with it."
* Shuffle: "Great, so you shrunk it down and removed the harddrive, but no screen? How am I supposed to use this thing?"
* Nano: "Ah, perfect. Small enough to fit just about anywhere. Full screen and standard interface. And no harddrive!"
I wouldn't be surprised that Apple knew of the complaints they would get with the Mini and Shuffle even before their launches, but decided that those were the best that could be implemented at the manufacturing costs they were willing to have. It was all just stepping stones to get to the goal they had preset: Small, fully functional, flash. In short, Nano.
The article even says this, although most seem to be overlooking it.
``If a state chooses to allow direct shipment of wine, it must do so on evenhanded terms,'' Justice Anthony M. Kennedy wrote for the court in Washington.
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The decision leaves open the possibility that state legislatures can revamp their laws to ban both in-state and out- of-state direct shipments.
Simply a state must apply the same laws to wineries out of state as it does in state. But if in state wineries can't do it, out of state ones can be blocked as well.
Do the companies really believe this? That blocking a little copying is more important in ANYONE's mind than being unable to display the full resolution of consumers' new $5000 television set?
Most USB printers these days don't even come with a USB cable! Are printer manufacturers backing away from connecting their printers to computers? Get over it, folks.
As with any percentage, the more chances of change the different the outcome
What is that supposed to mean? "The more chances of change"? "The different the outcome"?
The more samples you have, the more accurate the results usually are. Of course, if the last 20 Halo reviews come from the "Podunk, Iowa Gazette", then you may be skewing your results.
I'm not sure if you were trying to be ironic or funny, but Sony will actually repair broken DVD drives free of charge, as the result of a class action lawsuit.
Check out GameFaqs for how to get yours repaired...
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So Sony is selling their brand new console, which should last 5-8 years, for $599. And Slashdot is up in arms at how insane Sony is for charging this much.
But nobody complains when a new cell phone comes out that costs $500. How many years is that phone going to last you? How much in monthly service charges are you going to have to pay? PS3 is free.
Nobody complains that Nvidia just came out with a $700 video card. It'll only be 6 months that that card is top of the line. Nobody is coming out with a higher powered console any time soon.
But Sony is charging too much. Even though they are taking a loss on each unit. Right, whatever you say...
Needless to say, the poor restaurant owners were not real prepared for a dozen 250+lb college students to come in and eat many platefuls of food, and the owners were not very happy. They asked them to leave, and when they said "no, it's a buffet, we are just eating 'all-we-can-eat'", the owners called the cops on them.
Well, the cops showed up, and listened to the complaint, and talked to them. And decided against the owner! "If the sign says 'all-you-can-eat', you can't kick them out just because they can eat more than you want them to eat."
Not really applicable to the topic, but just seemed an appropriate anecdote. Not only internet companies want to cut off people who use over the average!
* ATI Radeon X1900 XTX (PCIe)
* NVIDIA GeForce 7800 GTX 512MB (PCIe)
* NVIDIA GeForce 7800 GT (PCIe)
* NVIDIA GeForce 7800 GS (AGP)
* ATI Radeon X850 XT PE (AGP)
Now, which of those cards is the one you are claiming is "nVidia's previous AGP flagship card"? Because I only see 1 AGP nVidia card, and it is the new one...
To not have an older, usable, nVidia card as a comparison makes the review worthless.
It's an amazing jump... I had been writing software for over 10 years when I finally got to a hardware design course. First day of class, the professor told us that our final project would be building a 4-bit computer. Talk about panic! But 4 months later, the project was actually easy as cake.
Now obviously you can't compress a full course down to 3-5 pages, but I think you could put enough to convince people that all a computer does is answer "yes or no" billions of times per second. Makes it much easier to tell them anything beyond that.
Ah, guess I missed when that switch occured. Thanks for the info.
Very strange that the lead programmer would get demoted. After all, the engine for BGE was used in all of the very successful Prince of Persia sequels.
The 512MB 7800GTX is currently their "top of the line, money no object" card. In Q1, they will have a new TOTLMNO card. There isn't much market for "2nd place, money no object" video cards.
People either by the consumer cards (6800GS, 7800 GT 256, <$400), or buy the very best.
Been searching all around and all I can find are the one-line summaries. I'd much prefer to hear the judge slapping Thompson around. Anybody have a link?
I'd be more impressed if it were made of gold covered pixie dust... But this is impressive enough for me.
The AP article seems to be discussing exactly what was already discussed to death both here and on the TiVo-user sites. What's going to be different between this discussion and the linked, previous, Slashdot discussion?
Who cares if a group with voluntary membership has rules that involve fines? It's not a law.
So many people are saying "this is just like movie ratings, so what's the big deal?", which is total garbage.
Plain and simple: It is not ILLEGAL to let a kid into an R-rated movie. You will not be fined. Yet these laws make that occur for video games. That is the big difference.
Until Sony/Lowes can get fined for letting kids into R-rated movies, these laws are just blatantly unfair, and deserve to be overturned.
* Mini: "This thing is barely smaller than a regular iPod, costs almost the same, and still has a hard drive so I can't go jogging with it."
* Shuffle: "Great, so you shrunk it down and removed the harddrive, but no screen? How am I supposed to use this thing?"
* Nano: "Ah, perfect. Small enough to fit just about anywhere. Full screen and standard interface. And no harddrive!"
I wouldn't be surprised that Apple knew of the complaints they would get with the Mini and Shuffle even before their launches, but decided that those were the best that could be implemented at the manufacturing costs they were willing to have. It was all just stepping stones to get to the goal they had preset: Small, fully functional, flash. In short, Nano.
So there is nothing secretive or groundbreaking in the fact that the next version of Windows keeps the already existing feature.
A mobile home is typically carried around on a flatbed truck then mounted to the ground... This is a motor home, more usually called an RV.
It's just sad, really.
Most USB printers these days don't even come with a USB cable! Are printer manufacturers backing away from connecting their printers to computers? Get over it, folks.
The more samples you have, the more accurate the results usually are. Of course, if the last 20 Halo reviews come from the "Podunk, Iowa Gazette", then you may be skewing your results.
But no matter, your phrase makes no sense.
And includes 2 other sub-$200 cards, the 9800 Pro and 6600.
Check out GameFaqs for how to get yours repaired...