Bootable LiveCD Linux systems seem to handle video, sound, network, etc, etc issues without a problem. Game developers can leverage off of that, or are you saying game developers are technically incompetent?
That works great for systems like the Commodore 64 and consoles because you know what people have got. However, PC hardware is always changing. Go grab a copy of Knoppix from a couple of years ago, and try to boot it on a brand new gaming rig. Sure, it'll start up, but likely it's not going to recognize all your hardware. By the time you've figured out a way for people to somehow add new drivers or whatever so it'll work with hardware newer than the game itself, you'll have just about reinvented DirectX.
The same way programs work. The rough draft is like an alpha or beta version of some piece of software. At some point during the writing of your software/paper, you deem it good enough to let others take a look at it, and you give them an alpha/beta/draft copy.
It was the liberal judges (Stevens, Breyer, Ginsberg, Souter) and wishy-washy Kennedy who sided with the city. The conservatives (Rhenquist, Scalia, Long Dong) and wishy-washy O'Connor sided with the homeowners.
In case you haven't noticed, while the neocons like to pretend they are conservatives, they hardly act it. As a matter of fact, they are pretty facist, hence the pro-corporate stance.
66k and 45k miles? How about see you in another 200k? Though if you take care of them, they'll last another 100k easy. Now if they were Chysler products, you would be doing pretty good at 66k and still running without problems.
I don't want a new window every time I click a folder. I like to store my files heirarchically, and nest directories. I don't see how this makes me a bad person. Don't bury the option to turn that shit off. It was annoying in Windows 3.1, it's just as annoying on a linux box.
Windows 3.1's File Manager was strictly heirarchical. You're either thinking of the original Windows 95's default behavior, or the Macs from that era.
I wouldn't worry too much if I was AMD. Before Intel stumbled with the P4, AMD was always lagging behind on the high end. However, in the budget end, AMD has always had the best bang-for-the-buck processors, and they still do*. So long as AMD still does well there, people like me will still be buying AMD systems because they offer the best performance at the price I'm looking at.
*Intel's Core processors are NOT budget chips. Intel's low end is still the Pentium 4/Celeron, which get stomped by the Sempron/Sempron 64/Athlon 64.
It opened up fine on my system using Opera 9.10, but having 2GB of ram probably helps. My guess is that a lessor system would eventually open it, after a long period of grinding the disk heavily and appearing to be unresponsive.
I still find it amusing that you can take down OSX with overly large images. Kind of reminds me of Windows 98 a bit.
No, they are not. They are bullying people into coughing up cash. If they were choosing their battles so carefully, why do they target people without computers? Or old ladys that cannot operate computers? Or minors who cannot be legally accused of maliciously harming them finantially? Or dead people?
They are still being careful. They can essentially drop any case they want to, without penalty. So they can (and do) still bully anyone they want to, and if they fight back, they simply drop the case unless if there is any chance they would lose.
They just know what the fuck they are doing, so it doesn't wind up a tragic, sorry mess.
I actually think Apple has taken it further, they are so cool that anything they release must automatically be cool. For example, they are the only computer company that has managed to make the all-in-one computer cool, where in the PC world the same thing is shunned everytime it has been tried. Take a look at the iPod Shuffle - if any other company tried to release such a stripped down MP3 player, we would laugh at them, yet the Shuffle is somehow cool. People are vigorously defending the iPhone, saying how cool it is despite never used one and only having seen a highly polished demo.
Though on the other hand, if you don't have blind fanboys following your every move, then maybe you aren't very cool.
Would the people who do make the comments ever have the ability to say it to someone's face?
I doubt it.
I think it's because on the Internet, it doesn't seem like your dealing with a real live human being. Instead, it's "toddestan" or "jay95859" or whatever. Much in the same way road rage happens, when instead of dealing with another real live human being, instead it's "White Chevy" or "Brown SUV". Throw in the the idea that they are anonymous hding behind their keyboard, and can often attack without revealing who and where they are, and that's how you get the Internet tough guys.
I don't think that DVD is going anywhere soon. The reason is that most people, atleast for a long time, are only going to have 1 HDTV and Blue-ray/HD-DVD player (if they have one at all). They aren't going to have HDTV's in their kitchen, office, bedroom, or whatever. The reason is that in order to take advantage of that, you need a big screen. Most people aren't putting 30"+ TVs anywhere but their living rooms. When your down to a 13-19" TV, there isn't any significant difference between DVD and the HD formats (unlike DVD and VHS, which was obvious even on a cheap 13" CRT). As such, people are going to be very slow at completely dumping DVD, atleast until the point is reached when the HD stuff is no more expensive, so you might as well buy that HD/Blue-ray player for the bedroom.
You would be pretty hardpressed to tell the difference actually, if in both cases the computer was playing a full screen video. Especially if the video's resolution was 640x480 or less.
This is basically how it was done back in the AMD Socket A days, where there was no heat spreader and you simply attached the cooler directly to the die. Problem was that people where breaking the dies, though that was more likely due to the lousy design of the CPU coolers/clips on Socket A systems and not the fact the die was exposed.
If a SAK is so necessary, why don't other operating systems need one? (Note Linux has one, but few people even know what it is much less use it.)
It might be a rare case of Microsoft thinking ahead and anticipating a vector of attack. While programs that spoof login screens aren't unheard of, I have never heard of a widespread virus/worm/whatever using this technique.
Yeah, what you self rightous and stupid Democrats don't bother to think about is that DICK CHENEY BECOMES THE PRESIDENT IF YOU IMPEACH BUSH!!!
Yeah, just like how Al Gore became president after Bill Clinton was impeached. Oh wait...
Impeachment is just part of the process that opens the doors for a trial of the accused. Impeaching Bush would hopefully just be a start of a process that would culminate in the removal from office and punishment of Bush, Cheney, Rove, Rice, Gonzolas, and others. I don't see it actually happening, but it would be nice to show the world that the people of the United States are willing to hold the current administration accountable for what they have done (which would not be an empty gusture, in my opinion).
Intrinsic value is the value an object has, despite what buyers percieve of it. For example, I could make a chair out of cast iron. Maybe no one would want to use it as a chair as it's big/ugly/heavy/uncomfortable, but that doesn't mean it's worthless. The chair would still have value because the material I made it out of has value. The value of the metal in the chair is the intrinsic value of the chair, and the chair will always have that much value (and possibly more if people considered it valuable as a chair). Now, you could get side tracked, and start talking about the value of scrap iron, but that would have nothing to do with the value of my chair as a chair.
This topic comes up from time to time. My experience is that computers that are on 24/7 have more problems than computers that run for only part of the day. I've found that they tend to blow power supplies and motherboards a lot faster, probably due capacitors, which generally have lifetimes measured in the thousands of hours, but could also be because of tin whiskers or simply dust build up. In addition, mechanical parts like the harddrives and fans are wearing out anytime they are on. While I do realize that things that get hot like the CPU/GPU/Northbridge don't like hot-cold cycles and would rather just be on all the time, I've also found those components to be extremely reliable in both cases.
You should also take into account what is installed on the computer. A fresh install of Windows XP is incredibly fast to boot, even on fairly old hardware. Once you've got all the patches in, all the proper drivers, and the software you want to use, it'll boot up considerably slower. On the other hand, a typical Linux distro is going to come with all the software and drivers you need right from the start. Though I will admit that in general, Linux is still slower than XP to boot.
How much of that stuff has Apple released because they had to (as per the GPL and other agreements), and how much of that stuff has Apple released on their own?
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That's probbaly not legal if you have OEM versions of Windows/Office on your old computer, but some people don't care about that kind of thing.
Bootable LiveCD Linux systems seem to handle video, sound, network, etc, etc issues without a problem. Game developers can leverage off of that, or are you saying game developers are technically incompetent?
That works great for systems like the Commodore 64 and consoles because you know what people have got. However, PC hardware is always changing. Go grab a copy of Knoppix from a couple of years ago, and try to boot it on a brand new gaming rig. Sure, it'll start up, but likely it's not going to recognize all your hardware. By the time you've figured out a way for people to somehow add new drivers or whatever so it'll work with hardware newer than the game itself, you'll have just about reinvented DirectX.
The same way programs work. The rough draft is like an alpha or beta version of some piece of software. At some point during the writing of your software/paper, you deem it good enough to let others take a look at it, and you give them an alpha/beta/draft copy.
If it doesn't store big brother Bill's term paper from 2006, how is it going to be able to compare it to his little brother Larry's in 2010?
It's not our problem if they don't have a valid, working business model.
It was the liberal judges (Stevens, Breyer, Ginsberg, Souter) and wishy-washy Kennedy who sided with the city. The conservatives (Rhenquist, Scalia, Long Dong) and wishy-washy O'Connor sided with the homeowners.
In case you haven't noticed, while the neocons like to pretend they are conservatives, they hardly act it. As a matter of fact, they are pretty facist, hence the pro-corporate stance.
Except it is hardly likely that sales floor staff get retirement benefits, longer vacations or anything of the sort.
What are you talking about? I just heard that Circuit City gave the top 8% of their employees each a 10 week vacaction!
66k and 45k miles? How about see you in another 200k? Though if you take care of them, they'll last another 100k easy. Now if they were Chysler products, you would be doing pretty good at 66k and still running without problems.
I don't want a new window every time I click a folder. I like to store my files heirarchically, and nest directories. I don't see how this makes me a bad person. Don't bury the option to turn that shit off. It was annoying in Windows 3.1, it's just as annoying on a linux box.
Windows 3.1's File Manager was strictly heirarchical. You're either thinking of the original Windows 95's default behavior, or the Macs from that era.
I wouldn't worry too much if I was AMD. Before Intel stumbled with the P4, AMD was always lagging behind on the high end. However, in the budget end, AMD has always had the best bang-for-the-buck processors, and they still do*. So long as AMD still does well there, people like me will still be buying AMD systems because they offer the best performance at the price I'm looking at.
*Intel's Core processors are NOT budget chips. Intel's low end is still the Pentium 4/Celeron, which get stomped by the Sempron/Sempron 64/Athlon 64.
There is more uranium all over earth , more than enough to power the whole planet, well past the end of the suns life, ie billions of years.
Keep in mind that no matter what, atleast half of it will be gone by the time the sun goes nova.
It opened up fine on my system using Opera 9.10, but having 2GB of ram probably helps. My guess is that a lessor system would eventually open it, after a long period of grinding the disk heavily and appearing to be unresponsive.
I still find it amusing that you can take down OSX with overly large images. Kind of reminds me of Windows 98 a bit.
No, they are not. They are bullying people into coughing up cash. If they were choosing their battles so carefully, why do they target people without computers? Or old ladys that cannot operate computers? Or minors who cannot be legally accused of maliciously harming them finantially? Or dead people?
They are still being careful. They can essentially drop any case they want to, without penalty. So they can (and do) still bully anyone they want to, and if they fight back, they simply drop the case unless if there is any chance they would lose.
They just know what the fuck they are doing, so it doesn't wind up a tragic, sorry mess.
I actually think Apple has taken it further, they are so cool that anything they release must automatically be cool. For example, they are the only computer company that has managed to make the all-in-one computer cool, where in the PC world the same thing is shunned everytime it has been tried. Take a look at the iPod Shuffle - if any other company tried to release such a stripped down MP3 player, we would laugh at them, yet the Shuffle is somehow cool. People are vigorously defending the iPhone, saying how cool it is despite never used one and only having seen a highly polished demo.
Though on the other hand, if you don't have blind fanboys following your every move, then maybe you aren't very cool.
Would the people who do make the comments ever have the ability to say it to someone's face?
I doubt it.
I think it's because on the Internet, it doesn't seem like your dealing with a real live human being. Instead, it's "toddestan" or "jay95859" or whatever. Much in the same way road rage happens, when instead of dealing with another real live human being, instead it's "White Chevy" or "Brown SUV". Throw in the the idea that they are anonymous hding behind their keyboard, and can often attack without revealing who and where they are, and that's how you get the Internet tough guys.
I don't think that DVD is going anywhere soon. The reason is that most people, atleast for a long time, are only going to have 1 HDTV and Blue-ray/HD-DVD player (if they have one at all). They aren't going to have HDTV's in their kitchen, office, bedroom, or whatever. The reason is that in order to take advantage of that, you need a big screen. Most people aren't putting 30"+ TVs anywhere but their living rooms. When your down to a 13-19" TV, there isn't any significant difference between DVD and the HD formats (unlike DVD and VHS, which was obvious even on a cheap 13" CRT). As such, people are going to be very slow at completely dumping DVD, atleast until the point is reached when the HD stuff is no more expensive, so you might as well buy that HD/Blue-ray player for the bedroom.
You would be pretty hardpressed to tell the difference actually, if in both cases the computer was playing a full screen video. Especially if the video's resolution was 640x480 or less.
This is basically how it was done back in the AMD Socket A days, where there was no heat spreader and you simply attached the cooler directly to the die. Problem was that people where breaking the dies, though that was more likely due to the lousy design of the CPU coolers/clips on Socket A systems and not the fact the die was exposed.
If a SAK is so necessary, why don't other operating systems need one? (Note Linux has one, but few people even know what it is much less use it.)
It might be a rare case of Microsoft thinking ahead and anticipating a vector of attack. While programs that spoof login screens aren't unheard of, I have never heard of a widespread virus/worm/whatever using this technique.
Yeah, what you self rightous and stupid Democrats don't bother to think about is that DICK CHENEY BECOMES THE PRESIDENT IF YOU IMPEACH BUSH!!!
Yeah, just like how Al Gore became president after Bill Clinton was impeached. Oh wait...
Impeachment is just part of the process that opens the doors for a trial of the accused. Impeaching Bush would hopefully just be a start of a process that would culminate in the removal from office and punishment of Bush, Cheney, Rove, Rice, Gonzolas, and others. I don't see it actually happening, but it would be nice to show the world that the people of the United States are willing to hold the current administration accountable for what they have done (which would not be an empty gusture, in my opinion).
My experience is that the Mac users aren't necessarly the smartest ones, but they all think and act like they are.
Intrinsic value is the value an object has, despite what buyers percieve of it. For example, I could make a chair out of cast iron. Maybe no one would want to use it as a chair as it's big/ugly/heavy/uncomfortable, but that doesn't mean it's worthless. The chair would still have value because the material I made it out of has value. The value of the metal in the chair is the intrinsic value of the chair, and the chair will always have that much value (and possibly more if people considered it valuable as a chair). Now, you could get side tracked, and start talking about the value of scrap iron, but that would have nothing to do with the value of my chair as a chair.
This topic comes up from time to time. My experience is that computers that are on 24/7 have more problems than computers that run for only part of the day. I've found that they tend to blow power supplies and motherboards a lot faster, probably due capacitors, which generally have lifetimes measured in the thousands of hours, but could also be because of tin whiskers or simply dust build up. In addition, mechanical parts like the harddrives and fans are wearing out anytime they are on. While I do realize that things that get hot like the CPU/GPU/Northbridge don't like hot-cold cycles and would rather just be on all the time, I've also found those components to be extremely reliable in both cases.
You should also take into account what is installed on the computer. A fresh install of Windows XP is incredibly fast to boot, even on fairly old hardware. Once you've got all the patches in, all the proper drivers, and the software you want to use, it'll boot up considerably slower. On the other hand, a typical Linux distro is going to come with all the software and drivers you need right from the start. Though I will admit that in general, Linux is still slower than XP to boot.
How much of that stuff has Apple released because they had to (as per the GPL and other agreements), and how much of that stuff has Apple released on their own?
I see them on at bars, friend's houses, waiting rooms, whatever. Whenever I do, it pretty much reconfirms why I don't bother with the TV.