True, what good is a fast processor is the rest of the hardware can't keep up. That is, what is the point of having a 4 Ghz processor which is just waiting 50% of the time...
I've been wondering why competition between AMD and Intel drive up processor speeds so ridiculously high but on the harddrive front, where there are many more competitors, there's much less progress... An oligopoly shouldn't produce better results but in this case it seems to do so.
MS' claim that IE is free is an outright lie! MS has (and everyone else at least should have) realized that everybody need a web browser nowadays so MS make you pay for it with the OS (and thus force you to buy theirs - abuse of monopoly power, remember?). There is no such thing as a free lunch!
...mandating certain products having certain length warranties....
Sounds good. Another approach is what we have in Finland (and at least in Sweden as well if I recall correctly): The warranty is an extension of the rights that the consumer already has. That is, the consumer can expect a HD to last for a reasonable time and a warranty can only extend that. And it has to if it is to be called a warranty. That is, if a reasonable time is one year then a one year warranty can't be called a warranty. Unfortunately, very few people here bother to find out this sort of things and I, myself wouldn't have known unless my colleague had told me and shown the relevant "consumer rights representative" (or something like that in English) webpages. Enforcing his rights as a consumer is sort of his "favorite activity". If he has a legitimate complaint and the shop disagrees he almost takes pleasure in telling salespeople "shall you or I call the consumer rights representative?".
Slashdot discussing EULA:s again... Has any EULA been considered valid in court in the US yet?
I know that they are definitely not valid in my country, Finland, and probably not in the rest of the EU. So I don't waste my time reading them. My colleague, however, does waste his time with them - not by reading, though. He reports them as bugs: "...the installer for 'Program-with-stupid-eula 1.0' quits when I click 'I don't agree', since I don't agree with the EULA, and then I have to click 'I agree' even though I don't, please fix this!"
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True, what good is a fast processor is the rest of the hardware can't keep up. That is, what is the point of having a 4 Ghz processor which is just waiting 50% of the time...
Well what does "hackers" mean to you? And what about "crackers" then?
I've been wondering why competition between AMD and Intel drive up processor speeds so ridiculously high but on the harddrive front, where there are many more competitors, there's much less progress... An oligopoly shouldn't produce better results but in this case it seems to do so.
What? It's NT = Not Tested, isn't it?
whois microsoft.com whois apple.com whois aol.com
MS' claim that IE is free is an outright lie! MS has (and everyone else at least should have) realized that everybody need a web browser nowadays so MS make you pay for it with the OS (and thus force you to buy theirs - abuse of monopoly power, remember?). There is no such thing as a free lunch!
...mandating certain products having certain length warranties....
Sounds good. Another approach is what we have in Finland (and at least in Sweden as well if I recall correctly): The warranty is an extension of the rights that the consumer already has. That is, the consumer can expect a HD to last for a reasonable time and a warranty can only extend that. And it has to if it is to be called a warranty. That is, if a reasonable time is one year then a one year warranty can't be called a warranty. Unfortunately, very few people here bother to find out this sort of things and I, myself wouldn't have known unless my colleague had told me and shown the relevant "consumer rights representative" (or something like that in English) webpages. Enforcing his rights as a consumer is sort of his "favorite activity". If he has a legitimate complaint and the shop disagrees he almost takes pleasure in telling salespeople "shall you or I call the consumer rights representative?".
hey, let's see how ugly it can get? what will happen on /. once PayPalladium (TM), the pay-for-drm-etc. system), comes out?
Slashdot discussing EULA:s again... Has any EULA been considered valid in court in the US yet? I know that they are definitely not valid in my country, Finland, and probably not in the rest of the EU. So I don't waste my time reading them. My colleague, however, does waste his time with them - not by reading, though. He reports them as bugs: "...the installer for 'Program-with-stupid-eula 1.0' quits when I click 'I don't agree', since I don't agree with the EULA, and then I have to click 'I agree' even though I don't, please fix this!"
..solve chess! :)