It is nice that the world is so wealthy we can spend billions of dollars of extra money watching grown men kicking balls into nets. We truly have entered the Golden Age.
When they spend the money, it often trickles down to others that actually need it quite a bit. Look around a football game next time and count how many menial jobs they have in the stadium. Better that they just save it to keep it out of the hands of the grubby poor.
Dismissing the message because of the messenger is akin to racism, in which you dismiss the person because of the race. I don't like the Daily Mail any more than you do, but this particular article had no ZOMG FOREIGNERS content, so I didn't mind. Yeah, it squeezed two sentences of information into 10 paragraphs of text, but everything does that nowadays.
Also, did you really need to tell all of Slashdot about your super Firefox extension? Don't want to read the Daily Mail? OK, don't read it in private. Bragging about it makes you look like a wanker, not an intellectual.
(Man, who peed in my Cheerios this morning? I don't normally post bile like that...)
So you browse slashdot at -2? Filtering people because they are marked troll is akin to racism...
Of course "discrimination" used to be a good thing... Discriminating taste... Now everyone is a racist just for disagreeing with someone who has a different kind of tan.
Can you show a problem one? They routinely show Windows beating Linux in graphics driver benchmarks, and they are Linux geeks. The Openbenchmark program is based on cross platform, natively compiled games and apps used by many people.
So do you have an actual, valid complaint? A reading comprehension problem? Or a love of the troll flag?
A lot of people seem to care. The arguments about who is faster, and which benchmark unfairly favors what are often on the front page of slashdot. But I guess no one cares about resolving it.
I haven't had a video driver issue with any video card from either NVIDIA or ATI/AMD for at least a few generations.. What systems and hardware are all these people with driver problems running?
If you are going to pick on an integrated video solution then you don't have to bother with Intel. None of the integrated chipsets would stack up at all against these top of the line cards.
If you want a comparison, try showing what other things you could have bought for $700+. Perhaps an XBox AND a PS3 plus a mainstream video card? Or maybe just one console, a few games, a mainstream card and a vacuum cleaner to run while playing (to simulate the sound of the high end cards).
Three hours with a mid range hooker? I know you still get screwed longer with the PS3, but it is more fun with a hooker.
Give it a week. It will be on http://www.phoronix.com/ And it will be more likely to be accurate. Of course it will have real god and useful data soon at http://openbenchmarking.org/ but that is actually helpful and will not be reported by anyone.
Stick with my 4 year old Motorola SLDR until it finally dies, then get a cheap "feature phone" from the peasant corner. And pick up a smart phone on craigslist with no plan and wifi if I really need it that bad... Which is less money for them than actually providing something I would pay for.
Just because there are less redheads than blonds, you do not bar redheads from your service. As it is, they are driving away, or at best not fully utilizing, existing customers.
Why is it that so many people I talk to feel this way, and NONE of the carriers in the US get it? I do not want a data plan. I do not want to spend $400 to "rent" a device that will have support dropped in 3 years. Apparently, they do not want my business.
In a race to the bottom, that leaves a nice niche at the top. Sure there is a bunch of cheap crap. There are also few very good phones that are not totally locked down (HelloMoto) and trapped. The point is that they dumped all the alternatives, and joined up with a very risky venture. The problem is that the normal panic war cry is too short. It is "We have do do something." It should be "We have to do something helpful."
All of those vendors also sell Linux devices. And all but Sony actively support Linux. If Redmond Washington fall off into the ocean tomorrow, they still have viable product, especially Sony. Nokia, on the other hand will have nothing.
So much for plan B...
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I guess they are really going "all in" on Windows mobile. Kinda risky making your entire company totally dependent on a single outside vendor with a track record for not caring about partners.
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"Oh the humanit... Oh wait... There is actually nobody on the thing. Never mind. Back to you, James."
It is nice that the world is so wealthy we can spend billions of dollars of extra money watching grown men kicking balls into nets. We truly have entered the Golden Age.
When they spend the money, it often trickles down to others that actually need it quite a bit. Look around a football game next time and count how many menial jobs they have in the stadium. Better that they just save it to keep it out of the hands of the grubby poor.
Dismissing the message because of the messenger is akin to racism, in which you dismiss the person because of the race. I don't like the Daily Mail any more than you do, but this particular article had no ZOMG FOREIGNERS content, so I didn't mind. Yeah, it squeezed two sentences of information into 10 paragraphs of text, but everything does that nowadays. Also, did you really need to tell all of Slashdot about your super Firefox extension? Don't want to read the Daily Mail? OK, don't read it in private. Bragging about it makes you look like a wanker, not an intellectual. (Man, who peed in my Cheerios this morning? I don't normally post bile like that...)
So you browse slashdot at -2? Filtering people because they are marked troll is akin to racism...
Of course "discrimination" used to be a good thing... Discriminating taste... Now everyone is a racist just for disagreeing with someone who has a different kind of tan.
Can you show a problem one? They routinely show Windows beating Linux in graphics driver benchmarks, and they are Linux geeks. The Openbenchmark program is based on cross platform, natively compiled games and apps used by many people.
So do you have an actual, valid complaint? A reading comprehension problem? Or a love of the troll flag?
A lot of people seem to care. The arguments about who is faster, and which benchmark unfairly favors what are often on the front page of slashdot. But I guess no one cares about resolving it.
Phoronix does these kinds of things all the time. http://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=category&item=Graphics%20Cards I wish more people know about it. And while they are a Linux Geek place, the benchmarks include Windows and OSX often.
I haven't had a video driver issue with any video card from either NVIDIA or ATI/AMD for at least a few generations.. What systems and hardware are all these people with driver problems running?
MSI motherboards? :)
I always hear this with AMD drivers but I have been using their cards (as a gamer) for years now and never had any problems.
Touch wood, fast!
No! Not that.... Eew... No I don't want to shake hands...
If you are going to pick on an integrated video solution then you don't have to bother with Intel. None of the integrated chipsets would stack up at all against these top of the line cards.
If you want a comparison, try showing what other things you could have bought for $700+. Perhaps an XBox AND a PS3 plus a mainstream video card? Or maybe just one console, a few games, a mainstream card and a vacuum cleaner to run while playing (to simulate the sound of the high end cards).
Three hours with a mid range hooker? I know you still get screwed longer with the PS3, but it is more fun with a hooker.
Give it a week. It will be on http://www.phoronix.com/ And it will be more likely to be accurate. Of course it will have real god and useful data soon at http://openbenchmarking.org/ but that is actually helpful and will not be reported by anyone.
Stick with my 4 year old Motorola SLDR until it finally dies, then get a cheap "feature phone" from the peasant corner. And pick up a smart phone on craigslist with no plan and wifi if I really need it that bad... Which is less money for them than actually providing something I would pay for.
Just because there are less redheads than blonds, you do not bar redheads from your service. As it is, they are driving away, or at best not fully utilizing, existing customers.
Why is it that so many people I talk to feel this way, and NONE of the carriers in the US get it? I do not want a data plan. I do not want to spend $400 to "rent" a device that will have support dropped in 3 years. Apparently, they do not want my business.
I think 3/14/28 will be bigger. Just a while off.
Just because you people screwed up your calendar so you do not have Pi day, is not our fault. In the US, we like our pie... I mean Pi.
About the same. You see, screwing people over for profits makes for a more appealing investment. Sucks to be the customer, however.
Yeah... He needs to quite being an eleetist snob and tell us! (No it is not spelled wrong)
OK. The statement was funny. The response was a riot! :)
Probably being busted for bank fraud? OK, only if actually caught...
He also got a lot more good press that he might have otherwise. Good for a starting up security company.
I doubt it's death, so much as transformation.
Both can be right - death is a transformation as well.
Death is also quite stable, a goal Microsoft is striving for with this. :)
In a race to the bottom, that leaves a nice niche at the top. Sure there is a bunch of cheap crap. There are also few very good phones that are not totally locked down (HelloMoto) and trapped. The point is that they dumped all the alternatives, and joined up with a very risky venture. The problem is that the normal panic war cry is too short. It is "We have do do something." It should be "We have to do something helpful."
Like HP, Dell, Asus, Acer, Sony ?
All of those vendors also sell Linux devices. And all but Sony actively support Linux. If Redmond Washington fall off into the ocean tomorrow, they still have viable product, especially Sony. Nokia, on the other hand will have nothing.
I guess they are really going "all in" on Windows mobile. Kinda risky making your entire company totally dependent on a single outside vendor with a track record for not caring about partners.
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