You are correct, to a point. At one point AMD was the performance king. However, even at that time when they clearly had the better processors, Intel was paying many different companies millions of dollars in the form of "exclusivity discounts" to not carry a competitors product. What if GMC paid all car dealers in the entire country to carry only Saturns. Would you go to another country just to buy a different make of car or just settle?
Dell, HP, Gateway, and Compaq all received what amounts to bribes (in my humble opinion) of millions of dollars to not carry their competitor's product.
If those bribes (my opinion) were not paid, Intel-based computer systems would have been
A - Still slower than their AMD Counterparts B - More expensive.
Do you know of many people who, when they go computer shopping, specifically look to buy the slowest, most expensive computer?
AMD would have sold a metric ASSLOAD more computers, raking in way more capital, gaining market share, and not to be forgotten, some well-earned respect as a leader and innovator in the industry.
Intel stooped to what amounts to bribery. (in my opinion) I believe this is the crux of the charges the FTC has leveled.
You can select one of your party (stealthed rogue for example) and run them half a map away to the middle of the enemy, then select a 2nd party member (mage) and then scroll all the way to the rogue you ran half a map away and plant your spell right there on top of him/her.
Do you people not know how to play this game or what?
From Top Down 3rd person view you "can" see very far if you have a 3x1 24"LCD Eyefinity setup in Portrait Mode. I love being able to scroll 3 rooms over to get an idea of the positioning of the enemies that I'll be fighting soon.
Controlling the characters is also quite easy in DAO.
I think you read a little too much into my post. The application is called Adobe Acrobat Reader, but the quotes from the Adobe rep talk about all sorts of crap that 90% of the users at home do not need, or likely even want. As has been suggested in another post above, they need to make Acrobat Reader do one thing. Read PDFs.
I, personally, do not need the capability of filling out forms nor do I need to submit and route forms. I just need to read a motherboard manual to see some jumper pin-outs and the like. In order to accomplish these types of tasks, I use Sumatra PDF reader.
Removing that java scripting functionality from Reader and putting it into something else, like Adobe's Forms Manager makes sense from a security standpoint as well as a marketing standpoint. If they want to charge a premium for the capability of filling out forms and the like, let them. There are companies/people willing to pay extra for that set of features. It also allows them to make Reader more secure by removing the major attack vector from Reader that is exploited today, seemingly by any script kiddie.
that somewhere out there, Debbie Gibson and Lorenzo Llamas are sitting around lamenting the fact that Cameron and Company CGI'd 3/4ths of the cast while they're stuck doing "Mega Shark vs. Giant Octopus"!
If I had to hazard a guess, I'd say it is exactly 3 letters harder to write 3 more letters.
Unless of course, you bold the last 3 letters, as you've done...then you have the html code to type so it ends up being like 10 letters more difficult.
Then again...it depends on whether or not you mean 3 "additional" letters or the phrase "3 more letters." because, in that case, it's like 13...even more if you bold some of them...
are high-level summaries of how the space is assigned out to our various branches located all over the US. I follow that up with a summary report that lists the total amount of storage each branch is allocated compared to how much storage they are actually using.
That's followed up with a per-branch breakdown of total number of files, total space used, and how many of each type of file are being stored at each branch. Going deeper than that is not always necessary, but I have the following reports ready in case I am asked:
How much data (per branch) is duplicated (same filename, same modified date, same file size) How much data (per branch) is over 3 years old, over 5 years old, over 7 years old (legal requires us to keep some files for up to 7 years) How many files have ###-##-#### in them or ######### (in case someone got stupid enough to save a file with someone's SSN in it) How many Audio Files & space taken by them How many Video Files & space taken by them How many Picture Files & space taken by them How many Executable Files & space taken by them How many Outlook PST Files & space taken by them Folders with "Personal" or "Backup" or "Archive" in them (users are not allowed to store personal files on shared space) etc... (there are actually a lot more options and queries I haven't mentioned)
I also use access enumerator to show the differences in ACLs of folders in case there are permissions issues.
What about companies whose "commerce" is games? I'm sure Blizzard would love to hear that the vast majority of their revenue is specifically targeted for termination should a pandemic occur.
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Who cares? That's about as news-worthy as Alistair calling Morrigan a "sneaky witch thief".
Move along. Nothing to see here...
I for one am totally in favor of merging Oracle with the Sun. Oh wait...they meant the "other" Sun...damn :(
I make it a point to verify, with each update of Flash, that my settings to automatically deny flash based cookies remain intact.
I hate the way you change configuration with Flash and would gladly do without it if something open-source could take its place.
I just hope the people working on this keep in mind that configurability and security are as important as performance.
just duplicate the security vulnerabilities that Adobe provides us, we can finally put Adobe out of business!
You are correct, to a point. At one point AMD was the performance king. However, even at that time when they clearly had the better processors, Intel was paying many different companies millions of dollars in the form of "exclusivity discounts" to not carry a competitors product. What if GMC paid all car dealers in the entire country to carry only Saturns. Would you go to another country just to buy a different make of car or just settle?
Dell, HP, Gateway, and Compaq all received what amounts to bribes (in my humble opinion) of millions of dollars to not carry their competitor's product.
If those bribes (my opinion) were not paid, Intel-based computer systems would have been
A - Still slower than their AMD Counterparts
B - More expensive.
Do you know of many people who, when they go computer shopping, specifically look to buy the slowest, most expensive computer?
AMD would have sold a metric ASSLOAD more computers, raking in way more capital, gaining market share, and not to be forgotten, some well-earned respect as a leader and innovator in the industry.
Intel stooped to what amounts to bribery. (in my opinion) I believe this is the crux of the charges the FTC has leveled.
I liked it when Sten asked Leliana why she's trying to be a man instead of doing what a woman's supposed to do...cook
So wrong it hurts...
You can select one of your party (stealthed rogue for example) and run them half a map away to the middle of the enemy, then select a 2nd party member (mage) and then scroll all the way to the rogue you ran half a map away and plant your spell right there on top of him/her.
Do you people not know how to play this game or what?
From Top Down 3rd person view you "can" see very far if you have a 3x1 24"LCD Eyefinity setup in Portrait Mode. I love being able to scroll 3 rooms over to get an idea of the positioning of the enemies that I'll be fighting soon.
Controlling the characters is also quite easy in DAO.
I think you read a little too much into my post. The application is called Adobe Acrobat Reader, but the quotes from the Adobe rep talk about all sorts of crap that 90% of the users at home do not need, or likely even want. As has been suggested in another post above, they need to make Acrobat Reader do one thing. Read PDFs.
I, personally, do not need the capability of filling out forms nor do I need to submit and route forms. I just need to read a motherboard manual to see some jumper pin-outs and the like. In order to accomplish these types of tasks, I use Sumatra PDF reader.
Removing that java scripting functionality from Reader and putting it into something else, like Adobe's Forms Manager makes sense from a security standpoint as well as a marketing standpoint. If they want to charge a premium for the capability of filling out forms and the like, let them. There are companies/people willing to pay extra for that set of features. It also allows them to make Reader more secure by removing the major attack vector from Reader that is exploited today, seemingly by any script kiddie.
I read it as saying, "It's cheaper to patch vulnerabilities than it is to re-write the code properly in the first place"
that somewhere out there, Debbie Gibson and Lorenzo Llamas are sitting around lamenting the fact that Cameron and Company CGI'd 3/4ths of the cast while they're stuck doing "Mega Shark vs. Giant Octopus"!
a digitized remake of the Milton Berle (since he's dead) BVD commercial stating that exploding is about the only thing he hasn't done in his BVDs...
Or the maker of "Depends" commercial stating they prevent all sorts of, ehm, "accidents"...
I'd tell the court that I called in the order to take the site down to my out-sourced IT Support Center and I am still on hold...
hurt like the dickens and I felt like I was going to cry, laugh, and trow up all at the same time too!
Now that's something I'd like to see on Mythbusters!
that those Italian prosecutors are going after the really guilty parties instead of the little, misguided tykes who perpetrated the incident.
So all of you owe me $599 per use.
how hard is it to write three more letters?
If I had to hazard a guess, I'd say it is exactly 3 letters harder to write 3 more letters.
Unless of course, you bold the last 3 letters, as you've done...then you have the html code to type so it ends up being like 10 letters more difficult.
Then again...it depends on whether or not you mean 3 "additional" letters or the phrase "3 more letters." because, in that case, it's like 13...even more if you bold some of them...
They have a rewards program that will pay you money for turning in your company.
Epic if it had been created in Power Point...
Just sayin'
are high-level summaries of how the space is assigned out to our various branches located all over the US. I follow that up with a summary report that lists the total amount of storage each branch is allocated compared to how much storage they are actually using.
That's followed up with a per-branch breakdown of total number of files, total space used, and how many of each type of file are being stored at each branch. Going deeper than that is not always necessary, but I have the following reports ready in case I am asked:
How much data (per branch) is duplicated (same filename, same modified date, same file size)
How much data (per branch) is over 3 years old, over 5 years old, over 7 years old (legal requires us to keep some files for up to 7 years)
How many files have ###-##-#### in them or ######### (in case someone got stupid enough to save a file with someone's SSN in it)
How many Audio Files & space taken by them
How many Video Files & space taken by them
How many Picture Files & space taken by them
How many Executable Files & space taken by them
How many Outlook PST Files & space taken by them
Folders with "Personal" or "Backup" or "Archive" in them (users are not allowed to store personal files on shared space)
etc...
(there are actually a lot more options and queries I haven't mentioned)
I also use access enumerator to show the differences in ACLs of folders in case there are permissions issues.
I for one welcome our ROT13 encoding overlords.
Think of it this way...There's one story for each half of Africa that results from the split.
What about companies whose "commerce" is games? I'm sure Blizzard would love to hear that the vast majority of their revenue is specifically targeted for termination should a pandemic occur.
Mod parent up.