As an Intel employee, I'm all for AMD eating it bigtime. Not because their product is horrendous; I'm sure the few chip engineers they have are pretty smart guys. But because they just copy Intel. Why did they buy ATI? Are they trying to copy Intel's "platform" design? You can only copy the big guy for so long. As a developer, I can write C++ and compile with the Intel C++ compiler. I can write all versions of SSE, use OpenMP, and get awesome tech documentation. Does AMD even have a compiler? Why would I ever use 3DNow or any other AMD-only hardware feature? Intel owns the CPU roadmap and AMD has to implement Intel CPU features to survive.
I like how you claim that AMD just copies Intel, and in the next breath start talking about AMD-only features. Besides, you forgot that Intel copied AMD64, and Intel was also forced to jump on the "Ghz is not important" bandwagon when the P4 didn't pan out like they hoped.
If by "improving" you mean "throwing away and working on the P3 based Pentium M"...
The last generations of P4 with Hyperthreading and EMT64 were a heck of a lot better than the pricy Socket 423 P4's with Rambus memory that could barely outperform the P3. Though it wasn't until Intel pushed Netburst aside that they were back into the game.
I wonder if the most effective way nowadays would be simply gather a bunch of unwanted hardware and fire it all up? If I had 5 dummy laptops running next to the one I'm working on, could they still see what I'm doing from 3 offices away? Could they see what I'm doing on my Athlon system when it's in the same room with a half dozen old PII's all running?
The other way to look at it is Apple is still patching an OS they released in 2003 (Panther), while Microsoft is still releasing security patches for an OS they released way back in 1999 (Win2k). It would be like Apple still releasing patches for OS9, which hasn't happened for a long time. Apple doesn't even support Jaguar anymore, which is from 2002 and is newer than XP.
My experience is different. Since the Intel transition, a lot of the Mac users I know have gone out and bought a new Intel Mac as their main computer, and many of them have bought more than one (laptop and desktop). On the other hand, some of the PC users have upgraded in the same period of time. End result is the average PC I see around is older than the average Mac (PPC Macs are starting to get pretty scarce, actually).
So, not only did the Democrat's Daylight Savings shift FAIL to save any energy in the end, but it also imprisoned an innocent boy for 12 days. Way to go, lefties. Feel proud of the accomplishments of the "100-hours" Congress. Last year's lame ducks were more effective than these senatorial wannabes.
Are you retarded? The daylight savings time changes were put in by the last congress, you know, last years lame ducks?
I guess it depends on what you want to do with it. If you just want the old hardware to put on a shelf and show off, then the uncommon machines might be better. If you want to have something that'll boot up and allow you to do things with it, then that custom built or common Dell (plus several donor machines in the closet) might be a better choice. Looking at how the typical computer is built nowadays, I'm going to guess that getting one to boot up in 30 years might be a bit of a challenge.
"4. USE WITH VIRTUALIZATION TECHNOLOGIES. You may not use the software installed on the licensed device within a virtual (or otherwise emulated) hardware system."
Seems pretty clear to me. It doesn't appear you can weasle out of it by claiming that the licensed device is the virtualization program, because it's still emulated hardware.
No, Macs are more expensive. By playing the "build the equilivent Mac" game, you falsely conclude that they are not by ignoring all the lower PC's out there. To pull a car analogy out of my ass, it would be like arguing that a Mercedes is no more expensive than a Toyota, because once you upgrade a high end Toyota to be like the Mercedes, it's roughly the same price.
Even that's a bit much. If you want to shut down the freeways during rush hour, a handful of cars with some superficial damage parked in pairs strategically along the freeway is all you would need around here.
That whole affordability thing sounds a lot like the new car salesman, who keeps trying to steer you away from the sticker price and instead tries to talk only about the "affordable" monthly payments on some 72 month car loan. New homes have only been "affordable" in the past couple of decades by stretching out the morgages to 30 years, and in the past 5-10 years by more unconvential morgages, which lower the initial monthly payment today by having larger payments (or a balloon payment) in the future. In the past, a young family could afford to get into a home with only one income, and could reasonably expect to own it before retirement. Nowadays, it takes two incomes - and increasing more often, a gamble that they will have more money in the future for the monthly house payment. The way I see it, homes are less affordable than ever, for the middle and lower class.
Switching the settings in the OS works most of the time, but some things like some games, particularly old ones, some DOS programs, and things like the Windows installer, the Bios screens, etc. ignore the OS entirely, talk to the keyboard directly, or simply can't be configured. A real, hardwired Dvorak board is the only way to get around those issues, though I choose to just live with it myself.
I find that the M and W keys are one of the gremlins of the Dvorak layout, along with the P, Y, and F keys on the top. The Dvorak layout is not without its faults, but I still prefer it to Qwerty.
If you look around at Mac applications, most of them require atleast 10.2. A good portion of them require 10.3. I suppose someone may not be interested in newer applications, perfectly happy with what they are running. But if you want to be able to run the latest applications, you pretty much can only skip every other release of OSX or be left behind.
Also, there is the whole issue of patches. 10.2 and 10.1 have been cut off. 10.3 will be cut off once 10.5 is out. You may still be fine with those old versions, but if some major vurnability is found that affects those operating systems, Apple is just going to tell you that you have to upgrade.
For most people, a garage sale is tax-free. The reason is that the stuff at their yard sale consists of stuff that they paid tax on when they bought it new, using income that had been taxed when it was earned. So there is little reason to make them pay tax on it again. Now, there are some people I call "professional garage salers" in this area, who seem to get a hold of wholesale lots of stuff and sell it out of their garage for a profit*. Like their counterparts on eBay, these are the kind of people that the IRS are more interested in.
*I can't see them making much money on this, but some people do have a lot of time on their hands.
Godwin's law is simply that Nazi Germany will eventually come up in any discussion on the internet, given enough time. It says nothing about context. So it does apply here.
Xcel Energy has a strong policy regarding the disclosure of customer information. In general Xcel Energy does not sell or share individual customer data. Xcel Energy will not sell, rent or give away your personal information to other companies for use in selling others products or services. When we contract with another company to market or advertise products for Xcel Energy, we ask that those companies also protect your information. We will share data in limited circumstances such as:
1. As required by any necessary laws, regulations or other governmental requests with customer authorization appropriate to the situation. This includes law enforcement personnel upon receipt of a court order or proof of an emergency situation.
2. Current or prospective customers and real estate agents requesting residential energy consumption averages for a specific real estate transaction.
3. At the express written authorization of a customer to share information with a third party. For example, sharing information concerning an elderly parents billing arrangement with an adult caregiver.
4. For the business purposes of Xcel Energy.
It doesn't look like they will tell anyone, but they will share it with prospective buyers of a property (my guess is that you could easily pretend to be a prospective buyer, and count on them not checking if said property is actually for sale). Of course, number 4 there is pretty wide open to different interpetations too.
Of course, no one should use Notepad for doing anything useful... As a program, it does even less than its predecessor, MS-DOS's Edit.
I find Notepad an indispensable tool when working in Office. The reason being that if you copy text from some kind of rich environment (such as from a web browser, a PDF file, Wordpad, Office itself) into an Office program, you get all the funky formatting and crap with it, and dealing with that in Word is simply a pain in the ass. So what if I don't want all the formatting, and just the raw text? Simple: Open notepad, paste the text into notepad - a program that's simply too stupid to know about that kind of stuff, then copy it from Notepad into Office. Viola, the raw text without breaking my carefully formatted Word document. I probably use this trick on average atleast once per day at work, and ironically any real improvements to Notepad would likely make it less useful to me.
The place I have heard of them being used is for things like servers on the internet. For example, I expect that should be able to use a fuzzer to hit port 80 of a properly configured webserver with anything, and not have any crashes or strange behaviors, and no unreasonable slowdowns - for the simple reason that the rest of the internet is going to pretty much act like a giant fuzzer anyway.
The way I remember it, our "liberal" media liked Howard Dean, but they never portrayed him as a serious canidate. The Republicans were scared of Dean, as he had wide support and was widely liked - especially by the moderates and swing voters. They knew if Dean actually got the nomination, he would have destroyed Bush in the election. They wanted a competitor that they could beat. So they planted the seeds in people's minds that while Howard Dean was a pretty neat gimmick, when you go to the polls you'd better vote for a "real" canidate. So they steered the democratic voters towards other canidates that seemed reasonable enough on the surface, but they knew they could take down. So instead we ended up with John Kerry and the subsequent smear campaign against him. Dean was well dead before the Iowa primary, the scream was just a final nail in the coffin.
If you haven't been paying attention, they are trying to do pretty much exactly the same thing to Obama. They are a bit scared of Obama, as he has wide support in moderate America, and a lot of influence over swing voters. They would much rather have Hilary have the Democratic nomination, as they know they can take her down, and they know a lot of moderate America plain out hates her.
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As an Intel employee, I'm all for AMD eating it bigtime. Not because their product is horrendous; I'm sure the few chip engineers they have are pretty smart guys. But because they just copy Intel. Why did they buy ATI? Are they trying to copy Intel's "platform" design? You can only copy the big guy for so long. As a developer, I can write C++ and compile with the Intel C++ compiler. I can write all versions of SSE, use OpenMP, and get awesome tech documentation. Does AMD even have a compiler? Why would I ever use 3DNow or any other AMD-only hardware feature? Intel owns the CPU roadmap and AMD has to implement Intel CPU features to survive.
I like how you claim that AMD just copies Intel, and in the next breath start talking about AMD-only features. Besides, you forgot that Intel copied AMD64, and Intel was also forced to jump on the "Ghz is not important" bandwagon when the P4 didn't pan out like they hoped.
As long as they keep pumping out the nice Core Duo type CPUs, I really don't care if AMD disappears into the mists of oblivion.
I would be concerned. If AMD disappears, how much do you think that Intel CPU is going to cost?
If by "improving" you mean "throwing away and working on the P3 based Pentium M"...
The last generations of P4 with Hyperthreading and EMT64 were a heck of a lot better than the pricy Socket 423 P4's with Rambus memory that could barely outperform the P3. Though it wasn't until Intel pushed Netburst aside that they were back into the game.
I wonder if the most effective way nowadays would be simply gather a bunch of unwanted hardware and fire it all up? If I had 5 dummy laptops running next to the one I'm working on, could they still see what I'm doing from 3 offices away? Could they see what I'm doing on my Athlon system when it's in the same room with a half dozen old PII's all running?
The other way to look at it is Apple is still patching an OS they released in 2003 (Panther), while Microsoft is still releasing security patches for an OS they released way back in 1999 (Win2k). It would be like Apple still releasing patches for OS9, which hasn't happened for a long time. Apple doesn't even support Jaguar anymore, which is from 2002 and is newer than XP.
My experience is different. Since the Intel transition, a lot of the Mac users I know have gone out and bought a new Intel Mac as their main computer, and many of them have bought more than one (laptop and desktop). On the other hand, some of the PC users have upgraded in the same period of time. End result is the average PC I see around is older than the average Mac (PPC Macs are starting to get pretty scarce, actually).
Apple's machines from the "dying" era were cheaply and unreliably built, the big problem was that there were not priced as such. Can you say Performa?
So, not only did the Democrat's Daylight Savings shift FAIL to save any energy in the end, but it also imprisoned an innocent boy for 12 days. Way to go, lefties. Feel proud of the accomplishments of the "100-hours" Congress. Last year's lame ducks were more effective than these senatorial wannabes.
Are you retarded? The daylight savings time changes were put in by the last congress, you know, last years lame ducks?
He could have said "that's stupid", dusted off the veto stamp, and vetoed the bill. That's what I would have done, atleast.
Yeah, whatever. But can the hive run Linux?
I guess it depends on what you want to do with it. If you just want the old hardware to put on a shelf and show off, then the uncommon machines might be better. If you want to have something that'll boot up and allow you to do things with it, then that custom built or common Dell (plus several donor machines in the closet) might be a better choice. Looking at how the typical computer is built nowadays, I'm going to guess that getting one to boot up in 30 years might be a bit of a challenge.
Indeed. Check out the EULA straight from Microsoft:
W indows%20Vista_Ultimate_English_36d0fe99-75e4-4875 -8153-889cf5105718.pdf
http://download.microsoft.com/documents/useterms/
(warning: PDF file)
Right there on Page 11:
"4. USE WITH VIRTUALIZATION TECHNOLOGIES. You may not use the software installed on the licensed device within a virtual (or otherwise emulated) hardware system."
Seems pretty clear to me. It doesn't appear you can weasle out of it by claiming that the licensed device is the virtualization program, because it's still emulated hardware.
No, Macs are more expensive. By playing the "build the equilivent Mac" game, you falsely conclude that they are not by ignoring all the lower PC's out there. To pull a car analogy out of my ass, it would be like arguing that a Mercedes is no more expensive than a Toyota, because once you upgrade a high end Toyota to be like the Mercedes, it's roughly the same price.
Actually, it's mostly users of Parallels. It's perfectly within the EULA to install the most basic version of Vista using boot camp.
Even that's a bit much. If you want to shut down the freeways during rush hour, a handful of cars with some superficial damage parked in pairs strategically along the freeway is all you would need around here.
That whole affordability thing sounds a lot like the new car salesman, who keeps trying to steer you away from the sticker price and instead tries to talk only about the "affordable" monthly payments on some 72 month car loan. New homes have only been "affordable" in the past couple of decades by stretching out the morgages to 30 years, and in the past 5-10 years by more unconvential morgages, which lower the initial monthly payment today by having larger payments (or a balloon payment) in the future. In the past, a young family could afford to get into a home with only one income, and could reasonably expect to own it before retirement. Nowadays, it takes two incomes - and increasing more often, a gamble that they will have more money in the future for the monthly house payment. The way I see it, homes are less affordable than ever, for the middle and lower class.
Switching the settings in the OS works most of the time, but some things like some games, particularly old ones, some DOS programs, and things like the Windows installer, the Bios screens, etc. ignore the OS entirely, talk to the keyboard directly, or simply can't be configured. A real, hardwired Dvorak board is the only way to get around those issues, though I choose to just live with it myself.
I find that the M and W keys are one of the gremlins of the Dvorak layout, along with the P, Y, and F keys on the top. The Dvorak layout is not without its faults, but I still prefer it to Qwerty.
If you look around at Mac applications, most of them require atleast 10.2. A good portion of them require 10.3. I suppose someone may not be interested in newer applications, perfectly happy with what they are running. But if you want to be able to run the latest applications, you pretty much can only skip every other release of OSX or be left behind.
Also, there is the whole issue of patches. 10.2 and 10.1 have been cut off. 10.3 will be cut off once 10.5 is out. You may still be fine with those old versions, but if some major vurnability is found that affects those operating systems, Apple is just going to tell you that you have to upgrade.
For most people, a garage sale is tax-free. The reason is that the stuff at their yard sale consists of stuff that they paid tax on when they bought it new, using income that had been taxed when it was earned. So there is little reason to make them pay tax on it again. Now, there are some people I call "professional garage salers" in this area, who seem to get a hold of wholesale lots of stuff and sell it out of their garage for a profit*. Like their counterparts on eBay, these are the kind of people that the IRS are more interested in.
*I can't see them making much money on this, but some people do have a lot of time on their hands.
Godwin's law is simply that Nazi Germany will eventually come up in any discussion on the internet, given enough time. It says nothing about context. So it does apply here.
I just checked my local power company's website. Here is what they have to say at http://www.xcelenergy.com/XLWEB/CDA/0,3080,1-1-1_3 5439-1368-0_0_0-0,00.html:
What Information is Shared
Xcel Energy has a strong policy regarding the disclosure of customer information. In general Xcel Energy does not sell or share individual customer data. Xcel Energy will not sell, rent or give away your personal information to other companies for use in selling others products or services. When we contract with another company to market or advertise products for Xcel Energy, we ask that those companies also protect your information. We will share data in limited circumstances such as:
1. As required by any necessary laws, regulations or other governmental requests with customer authorization appropriate to the situation. This includes law enforcement personnel upon receipt of a court order or proof of an emergency situation.
2. Current or prospective customers and real estate agents requesting residential energy consumption averages for a specific real estate transaction.
3. At the express written authorization of a customer to share information with a third party. For example, sharing information concerning an elderly parents billing arrangement with an adult caregiver.
4. For the business purposes of Xcel Energy.
It doesn't look like they will tell anyone, but they will share it with prospective buyers of a property (my guess is that you could easily pretend to be a prospective buyer, and count on them not checking if said property is actually for sale). Of course, number 4 there is pretty wide open to different interpetations too.
Of course, no one should use Notepad for doing anything useful... As a program, it does even less than its predecessor, MS-DOS's Edit.
I find Notepad an indispensable tool when working in Office. The reason being that if you copy text from some kind of rich environment (such as from a web browser, a PDF file, Wordpad, Office itself) into an Office program, you get all the funky formatting and crap with it, and dealing with that in Word is simply a pain in the ass. So what if I don't want all the formatting, and just the raw text? Simple: Open notepad, paste the text into notepad - a program that's simply too stupid to know about that kind of stuff, then copy it from Notepad into Office. Viola, the raw text without breaking my carefully formatted Word document. I probably use this trick on average atleast once per day at work, and ironically any real improvements to Notepad would likely make it less useful to me.
The place I have heard of them being used is for things like servers on the internet. For example, I expect that should be able to use a fuzzer to hit port 80 of a properly configured webserver with anything, and not have any crashes or strange behaviors, and no unreasonable slowdowns - for the simple reason that the rest of the internet is going to pretty much act like a giant fuzzer anyway.
The way I remember it, our "liberal" media liked Howard Dean, but they never portrayed him as a serious canidate. The Republicans were scared of Dean, as he had wide support and was widely liked - especially by the moderates and swing voters. They knew if Dean actually got the nomination, he would have destroyed Bush in the election. They wanted a competitor that they could beat. So they planted the seeds in people's minds that while Howard Dean was a pretty neat gimmick, when you go to the polls you'd better vote for a "real" canidate. So they steered the democratic voters towards other canidates that seemed reasonable enough on the surface, but they knew they could take down. So instead we ended up with John Kerry and the subsequent smear campaign against him. Dean was well dead before the Iowa primary, the scream was just a final nail in the coffin.
If you haven't been paying attention, they are trying to do pretty much exactly the same thing to Obama. They are a bit scared of Obama, as he has wide support in moderate America, and a lot of influence over swing voters. They would much rather have Hilary have the Democratic nomination, as they know they can take her down, and they know a lot of moderate America plain out hates her.