I generally find that by the time upgrading the CPU is cost effective, a new motherboard makes sense as part of the package. YMMV If this company has done it's job right, this should reduce the overall cost of the board. If vendors have to keep fewer types of boards around then they are buying fewer types, giving them a price break.
By having one mainboard that is common to all daughterboards, the total cost of delivering the motherboard is cheaper (one hopes).
My two cents.
Joking aside, for me it's about Look and Feel. Firefox has everything and more, once you tweak it enough. Opera works just the way I want it to, out of the box. Your needs will be different than mine.
On a different note, I'm not going to upgrade. I LIKE the ads. You see some crazy, dark-corner-of-the-internet things being advertised.
Oh, there have been quite a few civil wars fought in America. Over time there has been less and less bloodshed, but the fight and the transition of power is still there. I qualify these as "wars" because there is a transfer of power and a redistribution of wealth.
Organized labor movement. Many people died. In the beginning, the robber barons took from the "willing". In the end, the unions redistributed the wealth in the form of imposed benefits.
The civil rights movement. There were deaths and many injuries, but mostly a huge transition of power.
The arms race. Deride if you will, but the military budget is huge. That is the direct result of decades of "necessity" and pr taking the money out of your pocket and giving it to subcontractors, who subsequently have lots of lobbying money.
The liberal media and education system. Brainwashing the youths of the nation.
Regan Era Federal Reform. Removed the teeth from many government agencies, often to the detriment of the common person.
Current Tort Reform. Citing a few high profile cases, reducing the ability to gain access to proper health care and benefits (Not that the disability system isn't rigged to allow companies to work employees to injury, and then trap them for years in courts and doctors offices trying not to pay).
The list goes on. There have been major upheavals of power in America ever since its inception. I think that someone changing your ability to run your own business, gain benefits, get a job, and have a decent healthcare system that won't leave you broken and penniless are all just as severe as the effects of machine gun fire.
My point being that as every administration changes, and as the grassroots changes, major changes affect the control of power and possesion of resources.
The IP / Open source war is just another chapter. The patent office is not deliberately hindering the alternatives, but it is indicative of the system as a whole. Open Source will remove power from those who have already paid for it. The system is currently entrenched in supporting the majority, making it just slightly harder for the open source movement.
As for your crack on the middle east; America, Europe, China, and Russia are all directly responsible for the problems over there. Ever since oil was discovered, we have all been overtly and covertly fighting for the control of the resource. So yes, it was relatively an "oasis of happiness" and yes we did fuck it up.
Re:Yes, and a fine art. Now stop asking.
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Fine art means making things purely for their beauty? No Fine art is merely defined by the holders of the official cultural reference frame. Once you start disregarding people making christmas sweaters as fine art, you are pretty much disregarding the "human" spirit as well as creative wonder.
Yes, programming is art. A conversation is art. Waking up in the morning and stretching in a certain way, then lazing about to read the paper is art. EVERYTHING is art.
Some are things that peope want to pay for, or look at, or carry with them and show other people. Most are silly and very very personal.
Actually, I do care what other people think about this and other movies. It's called criticism, and it's how things become better.
The reason why people are so exasporated, is that the original movie was at the very top of cinematic experience. Sure there were some gaffes, but it resided in my grey matter and sparked my imagination like few other things.
Personally, I would like to further that experience, not cheapen it. By talking about it, another generation of storytellers learns what makes us tick.
In my imagination I always thought that the transition was gradual, that many of the key jedi figures were hunted over time, that Vader's body parts were replaced one by one.
But then again, I'm not the one that's obscenely rich, here.
Actually the "No, I love you" "No, I love you" dialog was the most believable padme / anakin interaction. Have you ever seen young adults in love for the first time? If you sat in on a date between two sixteen year olds, you would laugh your ass off (granted the characters are older, but I've seen a few adults act this way as well).
Now the user interface for flash authoring will go from one of the worst CAD interfaces I've ever seen to one of the best! Bravo! Tighter integration into Illustrator. Now I don't have to worry where my vectors have gone. Action script might actually start to be useful! Hooray!
Maybe they are going down there with a preconceived article about prisoner abuse, because if the abuse does exist, it is extremely newsworthy.
The US will ultimately loose its war on terrorism if it doesn't stop acting without justice. If they continue to swagger and demand, and then proceed to hide people on islands and declare they can do whatever they want to the prisoners, they will inflame the passions of the easily moved. The only way to win a war on terrorism is to win potential terrorists over with psychology.
"Some don't even go and get evidence. They just make up stories and then other reporters use their stories as evidence" Or maybe some posters just make up rhetoric to support their jingoist tendencies? Yes, lots of irrelevant news stories are exploited to sell advertisements. Prisoner abuse isn't popular and doesn't sell motor oil or cleaning detergent. If your government was torturing people, wouldn't you want to know?
The counter to your argument, is that if enough reporters go to cover a story and the story flops, then they are pulled from the assignment. If something is fishy or newsworthy, then the reporters stay.
I don't know about you, but I want the world to be safe. That first requires justice, and that requires us as Americans to ask really tough questions as to our own nature. Bush likes to whitewash and ignore those very hypocritical things that are causing our enemies to be justified in their hatred. We are supposed to be the greatest country in the world, but we sure don't act like it.
...it's a nerd with low self esteem, wanting to start a mini-ego-battle on some feature / bugfix that didn't get done immediately after said nerd's submission.
Thanks for the tutorial. After about 10 seconds of trying the above motions, I fail to see how this will help ergonomics.
Instead of moving your right arm back and forth to vary the tasks (twixt mouse and keyboard), it is stuck in one place. Instead of getting the strain in my wrist, I'm going to get it in my thumb. Most of all it is awkward to use with an ergonomic keyboard to avoid wrist pinching.
No malice aimed at the parent post, but this device will not cure my ailments. I'm so fed up with the pain. I would throw hundreds of dollars at a manufacturer if it would only work for me.
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Or dystopias succeed by revealing the futility of knowing our own futility.
I think I'm beginning to see the light. If you know your control loop is critically underdamped, and that knowledge can't change the control loop, you'd better find something better to do for the next 50~60 years. Oh wait, it's just a book. Crap.
Each person chooses a way to live; people do as they please. To claim that one lifestyle is superior is hypocritical, egotistical, and superficial.
I think it's fair to say that Michael Gorman is a snobby blowhard that discredits and smears the name of intelectuals everywhere. I think it's also fair to say that it is not egotistical nor hypocritical to say that my lifestyle of not being a complete judgemental prick mired in mini-ego battles is superior to his.
That being said, I suddenly realised that I was being a hypocritical egostistical prick.
I guess, that it's fair to say, that if I ever met someone that talked to or about me like he did, I would punch him, and I am a pacifist. (A hypocritical pacifist)
Except for how much of the sin-taxes go towards the same services?
Alcohol? Fast food? Excuse me, but I moderate my unhealthy intake. If my health insurance company wants to ask me those questions and raises my premiums or lowers my payouts that's one thing. The government taxing me and putting that money into unrelated coffers is ludicrous.
You've obviously never been fucked with an arrogant ego tripping cop.
It's just a model. It encourages killing VIRTUAL cops. These virtual cops do not have souls. They do not have families. They did not exist 20 seconds before they spawned into the area. It's an effigy.
Sometimes I go on vitural cop killing sprees because it's fun and it's a good challenge to stay alive. Whats wrong with being sadistic towards a software construct. You don't have to like it, but don't judge people who do like it.
Getting high doesn't make everyone lazy. Many lazy people like to get high and relax.
All it does to me is make me want to do more things. It's probably one of the best non cognitive motivators I know. But hey, that's me.
You think pretending to shoot someone with a rocket launcher is sick? What about those poor turtles from mario, do you think jumping on turtles is sick?
I do concede though, some people playing GTA in a really creepy way. For the rest of us, it's just a model.
Think about it this way. There are 268 million people that aren't complete weirdos and abide by the law, and don't go around killing people or taking superfluous lawsuits. Then there's the other 4 million....
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I generally find that by the time upgrading the CPU is cost effective, a new motherboard makes sense as part of the package. YMMV
If this company has done it's job right, this should reduce the overall cost of the board. If vendors have to keep fewer types of boards around then they are buying fewer types, giving them a price break. By having one mainboard that is common to all daughterboards, the total cost of delivering the motherboard is cheaper (one hopes).
My two cents.
Joking aside, for me it's about Look and Feel. Firefox has everything and more, once you tweak it enough. Opera works just the way I want it to, out of the box. Your needs will be different than mine.
On a different note, I'm not going to upgrade. I LIKE the ads. You see some crazy, dark-corner-of-the-internet things being advertised.
Oh, there have been quite a few civil wars fought in America. Over time there has been less and less bloodshed, but the fight and the transition of power is still there. I qualify these as "wars" because there is a transfer of power and a redistribution of wealth.
Organized labor movement. Many people died. In the beginning, the robber barons took from the "willing". In the end, the unions redistributed the wealth in the form of imposed benefits.
The civil rights movement. There were deaths and many injuries, but mostly a huge transition of power.
The arms race. Deride if you will, but the military budget is huge. That is the direct result of decades of "necessity" and pr taking the money out of your pocket and giving it to subcontractors, who subsequently have lots of lobbying money.
The liberal media and education system. Brainwashing the youths of the nation.
Regan Era Federal Reform. Removed the teeth from many government agencies, often to the detriment of the common person.
Current Tort Reform. Citing a few high profile cases, reducing the ability to gain access to proper health care and benefits (Not that the disability system isn't rigged to allow companies to work employees to injury, and then trap them for years in courts and doctors offices trying not to pay).
The list goes on. There have been major upheavals of power in America ever since its inception. I think that someone changing your ability to run your own business, gain benefits, get a job, and have a decent healthcare system that won't leave you broken and penniless are all just as severe as the effects of machine gun fire.
My point being that as every administration changes, and as the grassroots changes, major changes affect the control of power and possesion of resources.
The IP / Open source war is just another chapter. The patent office is not deliberately hindering the alternatives, but it is indicative of the system as a whole. Open Source will remove power from those who have already paid for it. The system is currently entrenched in supporting the majority, making it just slightly harder for the open source movement.
As for your crack on the middle east; America, Europe, China, and Russia are all directly responsible for the problems over there. Ever since oil was discovered, we have all been overtly and covertly fighting for the control of the resource. So yes, it was relatively an "oasis of happiness" and yes we did fuck it up.
Fine art means making things purely for their beauty? No Fine art is merely defined by the holders of the official cultural reference frame. Once you start disregarding people making christmas sweaters as fine art, you are pretty much disregarding the "human" spirit as well as creative wonder.
Yes, programming is art. A conversation is art. Waking up in the morning and stretching in a certain way, then lazing about to read the paper is art. EVERYTHING is art.
Some are things that peope want to pay for, or look at, or carry with them and show other people. Most are silly and very very personal.
So, stop asking.
Another easter egg not mentioned in the article: If you pay close attention from 0:00:00 until 2:40:00 you will notice that the plot makes no sense!
The reason why people are so exasporated, is that the original movie was at the very top of cinematic experience. Sure there were some gaffes, but it resided in my grey matter and sparked my imagination like few other things.
Personally, I would like to further that experience, not cheapen it. By talking about it, another generation of storytellers learns what makes us tick.
But then again, I'm not the one that's obscenely rich, here.
Actually the "No, I love you" "No, I love you" dialog was the most believable padme / anakin interaction. Have you ever seen young adults in love for the first time? If you sat in on a date between two sixteen year olds, you would laugh your ass off (granted the characters are older, but I've seen a few adults act this way as well).
Just wait for APB (All Points Bulletin) It's a MMORPG being developed by a former Rockstar and will have a GTAish like game environment.
The US will ultimately loose its war on terrorism if it doesn't stop acting without justice. If they continue to swagger and demand, and then proceed to hide people on islands and declare they can do whatever they want to the prisoners, they will inflame the passions of the easily moved. The only way to win a war on terrorism is to win potential terrorists over with psychology.
"Some don't even go and get evidence. They just make up stories and then other reporters use their stories as evidence" Or maybe some posters just make up rhetoric to support their jingoist tendencies? Yes, lots of irrelevant news stories are exploited to sell advertisements. Prisoner abuse isn't popular and doesn't sell motor oil or cleaning detergent. If your government was torturing people, wouldn't you want to know?
The counter to your argument, is that if enough reporters go to cover a story and the story flops, then they are pulled from the assignment. If something is fishy or newsworthy, then the reporters stay.
I don't know about you, but I want the world to be safe. That first requires justice, and that requires us as Americans to ask really tough questions as to our own nature. Bush likes to whitewash and ignore those very hypocritical things that are causing our enemies to be justified in their hatred. We are supposed to be the greatest country in the world, but we sure don't act like it.
Now to go RTA.
Instead of moving your right arm back and forth to vary the tasks (twixt mouse and keyboard), it is stuck in one place. Instead of getting the strain in my wrist, I'm going to get it in my thumb. Most of all it is awkward to use with an ergonomic keyboard to avoid wrist pinching.
No malice aimed at the parent post, but this device will not cure my ailments. I'm so fed up with the pain. I would throw hundreds of dollars at a manufacturer if it would only work for me.
I think I'm beginning to see the light. If you know your control loop is critically underdamped, and that knowledge can't change the control loop, you'd better find something better to do for the next 50~60 years. Oh wait, it's just a book. Crap.
I think it's fair to say that Michael Gorman is a snobby blowhard that discredits and smears the name of intelectuals everywhere. I think it's also fair to say that it is not egotistical nor hypocritical to say that my lifestyle of not being a complete judgemental prick mired in mini-ego battles is superior to his.
That being said, I suddenly realised that I was being a hypocritical egostistical prick.
I guess, that it's fair to say, that if I ever met someone that talked to or about me like he did, I would punch him, and I am a pacifist. (A hypocritical pacifist)
Alcohol? Fast food? Excuse me, but I moderate my unhealthy intake. If my health insurance company wants to ask me those questions and raises my premiums or lowers my payouts that's one thing. The government taxing me and putting that money into unrelated coffers is ludicrous.
How about Texassholes?
Modders: waste your points by modding this offtopic or Trollish. Like anyone couldn't figure it out allready.
Naaaah. Smokes are just low hanging juicy fruit that people think is bad so it's okay to take said juicy, juicy fruit. Mmmmmmm....taxes.
It's just a model. It encourages killing VIRTUAL cops. These virtual cops do not have souls. They do not have families. They did not exist 20 seconds before they spawned into the area. It's an effigy.
Sometimes I go on vitural cop killing sprees because it's fun and it's a good challenge to stay alive. Whats wrong with being sadistic towards a software construct. You don't have to like it, but don't judge people who do like it.
Everything else seems to be in order though.
All it does to me is make me want to do more things. It's probably one of the best non cognitive motivators I know. But hey, that's me.
You think pretending to shoot someone with a rocket launcher is sick? What about those poor turtles from mario, do you think jumping on turtles is sick?
I do concede though, some people playing GTA in a really creepy way. For the rest of us, it's just a model.
Think about it this way. There are 268 million people that aren't complete weirdos and abide by the law, and don't go around killing people or taking superfluous lawsuits. Then there's the other 4 million....