1. Yes you can defend yourself with reasonable force. There have been a few people who have shot burglars and not been charged.
2. Extremely rare. Certainly so rare that it still makes headline news.
People are becoming increasingly sick of having to upgrade a large proportion of their hardware for a minimal increase in performance.
I have a AMD X2 4800 Socket 939 with 2GB of RAM. It does what I want. For me to upgrade to the next level, it's not only a new CPU but new motherboard and new RAM too and that DDR2 stuff ain't cheap if you go for the higher speed stuff to try and futureproof.
Many, including myself, are starting to see the introduction of a new CPU socket type as nothing more than a vain attempt to try and keep revenue flowing by trying to persuade us of all the benefits that these new sockets can offer which apparently the old ones can't. Two downsides to this. The first is ASROCK who have proven that the chipsets are more than up to running new sockets with the help of a low cost adapter to allow you to use the different RAM and CPU. The second is Intel who have come along with the undeniably impressive Core 2 processors that not only run on the existing 775 socket but also the i965 chipset with many boards requiring nothing more than a BIOS update to recognise the new range of processors.
So my message to you, AMD, is simple. We're sick of CPU sockets changing every 18 months. For christ sake, Socket 754 had about 6 months before it was superceeded. Slot A, Socket A, Socket 754, Socket 939, AM2 in less than 6 years with the last three having no real benefit over each other..WE'VE HAD ENOUGH.
(I'm thinking there may be appeals, etc that MS can use to pull an SCO and not have to cough up a thing for decades)
They have to pay the fine whilst they appeal. If their appeal is successful, they get their money back. THey were given a stay of execution of fine collection to give them a chance to fall in line but they refused to so now the fine is being collected.
You've got to give these Linux fanboys 10/10 for optimism. Quite why someone would wipe off a perfectly good Win98 install and put Linux on solely because Microsoft no longer support Win98 is beyond me though.
One could be forgiven for thinking that there's alot of straw grasping going on.
Doesn't say much for Linux though when they're counting on the EOL of a 9 year old OS to boost Linux on the desktop.
I don't know when you were last here but there's been somewhat of a gastronomic revolution in the UK over the past couple of years. Even McDonalds have been forced to change their menu to include salads etc etc as people were leaving them in droves.
Googling for "Jamie Oliver School Dinners" should give you a start.
On the other hand, France has one of the highest income tax rates in the world, a huge VAT rate (19.6%), the most expensive gasoline, and very low purchasing power.
Most expensive gasoline? You've obviously not seen the prices in the UK. We'd love to have prices as LOW as France.
THE CHARGES ARE BEING BROUGHT BY THE EU COMMISSION. They weren't brought about by any of the companies Microsoft is trying to subpoena. Why would Microsoft needs those documents? It's not those companies on trial. It's not those companies that make interoperability with their respective OSes impossible. Microsoft solely has to defend why it isn't in a monopolising position for the specific reasons laid out against it.
hat would make the battle between OS X and Linux the most interesting one on the computer scene. With all attention turned in that direction, there would be nothing Microsoft could do to stem a reversal of its fortunes
Two minor niche OSes duking it out for a whopping 6-7% of the desktop market. The only result of this is that Joe Public still wouldn't care and it would make them even MORE likely to go Windows. In other words Microsoft could go back to making more money for even less effort.
I mean, come on. Shite quality, shite audio quality and non of the extras. To cap it all, several hours to download for most people and to top it all, DRM'd to the eyeballs so you can only play it on the PC it is downloaded on, maybe another and a portable media player.
What makes it even worse is that even after all the above, it'll still be more expensive than buying a proper DVD from one of the many discounted e-tailers. CinemaNow has been quoted as offering prices between $9.95 and $19.95. Working on the $1=£1 internet exchange rate that seems to be the pricing norm in "Rip off Britain", a film such as Ice Age 2 or Doom, currently priced at £10.99 and £14.99 inc del, is going to be at least 1/3 cheaper than downloading a substandard and very restricted version online.
Sure it'll make the studios feel like they're getting the hang of this "t'internet" but unless they significantly slash the prices, only the stupid will bother with it.
Huh? Europe consists of some of the richest countries in the world and the economy of some of those countries has been doing far better than the US for many years now.
You just can't get your head around the fact that there's actually a State/Government that can't be bought.
It appears as though FC5 contains a bug which prevents none GPL modules (read nVidia) from being used.
Nothing like proper bug testing to find all the obvious faults eh? After all, it's not as if nVidia cards are a fringe make is it? Fedora is a stinking pile of putrid puss now and gets worse with every release.
I remember reading an article a while back which said that a great deal of people refused to upgrade from Office 97 because it did what they wanted, wasn't bloated and the newer versions didn't offer anything more to the average user.
how about the Chinese auto market? I suspect it would only take a few hundred dollars of tariffs per unit to make them less competitive than the Koreans or the Japanese. I can't imagine that the central planners there haven't started to take automobile exports to the U.S. into consideration for the next few years -- all that predicted revenue would disappear from the sheets overnight.
What a moron. Do you realise how SMALL the population of the US is compared to China? Do you think they honestly care about such a piffling little market there'd be when they've got several hundred million potential customers within their own borders?
It's funny-ish, but I don't see it running past more than a few episodes before it gets pulled, it's been geeked up too the point where there's no credible office humor. I can't see any decent relationships being possible between any of the characters, which are too few in number to carry anything for any length of time.
It's not horrid, but there's no way I can see the stereotypes, and ancient jokes being enough to support it. 3/10.
Well Simon Trevaglia has managed to have his BOFH column running for a decade now using the same style that the IT Crowd does. AFAIK, he was one of the contributors to it.
Yes, putting copyright or bootleg content in a shared directory is intent to break the law.
So you're saying that if I rip my CDs onto my computer and put them in the Shared Music folder in Shared Documents so that the wife and kids, who also use this computer, can access them that I'm breaking the law?
I've just RTFA. Talk about an excellent job in putting people off doing it the Linux way. "This didn't work so I had to do this bodge. That didn't work so I had to do this bodge. This other thing didn't work so I got out my trusty string to hold it all together."
If you want to put people off trying the very capable Linux MC distros and scare them into using Windows MCE, just point them to the article.
I've just looked at the school dinners menu. NO BLOODY WONDER AMERICAN KIDS ARE FAT. Jesus, you could get charged with Child Abuse in some countries for feeding that crap.
It started to get that way in the UK but fortunately, we've seen the error of our ways and changed.
One thing this does show is that you need to be very careful to match the filesystem type to the main tasks the PC is going to be used for. Personally, there's no real clear winner as all have major gains or deficiencies in some areas. One very interesting point was the vast difference in the amount of available space after a partition and format between the different filesystems.
Freesat and Freesat from Sky are not the same thing
Indeed. One actually exists (the one I posted) and another is still being developed. "Freesat" name applies to both though and for the end user they both work the same.
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Where do I start?
What would you rather have:
A graphics driver that has been tested as being compatible with as many system configurations as possible?
A graphics driver that drops you to a command prompt because it doesn't like the particular distro specific version of a lib file you use?
1. Yes you can defend yourself with reasonable force. There have been a few people who have shot burglars and not been charged. 2. Extremely rare. Certainly so rare that it still makes headline news.
I have a AMD X2 4800 Socket 939 with 2GB of RAM. It does what I want. For me to upgrade to the next level, it's not only a new CPU but new motherboard and new RAM too and that DDR2 stuff ain't cheap if you go for the higher speed stuff to try and futureproof.
Many, including myself, are starting to see the introduction of a new CPU socket type as nothing more than a vain attempt to try and keep revenue flowing by trying to persuade us of all the benefits that these new sockets can offer which apparently the old ones can't. Two downsides to this. The first is ASROCK who have proven that the chipsets are more than up to running new sockets with the help of a low cost adapter to allow you to use the different RAM and CPU. The second is Intel who have come along with the undeniably impressive Core 2 processors that not only run on the existing 775 socket but also the i965 chipset with many boards requiring nothing more than a BIOS update to recognise the new range of processors.
So my message to you, AMD, is simple. We're sick of CPU sockets changing every 18 months. For christ sake, Socket 754 had about 6 months before it was superceeded. Slot A, Socket A, Socket 754, Socket 939, AM2 in less than 6 years with the last three having no real benefit over each other..WE'VE HAD ENOUGH.
THey've not got a hope in hell. THe UK Govt have got far more important things to worry about such as gas supplies from Russia.
They have to pay the fine whilst they appeal. If their appeal is successful, they get their money back. THey were given a stay of execution of fine collection to give them a chance to fall in line but they refused to so now the fine is being collected.
One could be forgiven for thinking that there's alot of straw grasping going on.
Doesn't say much for Linux though when they're counting on the EOL of a 9 year old OS to boost Linux on the desktop.
No, really? Whoever would have guessed it?
Googling for "Jamie Oliver School Dinners" should give you a start.
Most expensive gasoline? You've obviously not seen the prices in the UK. We'd love to have prices as LOW as France.
THE CHARGES ARE BEING BROUGHT BY THE EU COMMISSION. They weren't brought about by any of the companies Microsoft is trying to subpoena. Why would Microsoft needs those documents? It's not those companies on trial. It's not those companies that make interoperability with their respective OSes impossible. Microsoft solely has to defend why it isn't in a monopolising position for the specific reasons laid out against it.
Two minor niche OSes duking it out for a whopping 6-7% of the desktop market. The only result of this is that Joe Public still wouldn't care and it would make them even MORE likely to go Windows. In other words Microsoft could go back to making more money for even less effort.
What makes it even worse is that even after all the above, it'll still be more expensive than buying a proper DVD from one of the many discounted e-tailers. CinemaNow has been quoted as offering prices between $9.95 and $19.95. Working on the $1=£1 internet exchange rate that seems to be the pricing norm in "Rip off Britain", a film such as Ice Age 2 or Doom, currently priced at £10.99 and £14.99 inc del, is going to be at least 1/3 cheaper than downloading a substandard and very restricted version online.
Sure it'll make the studios feel like they're getting the hang of this "t'internet" but unless they significantly slash the prices, only the stupid will bother with it.
That's OK. The US market is quite small anyway - only 50% of the size of Europe. Asia, and in particular China, is where the real money is.
Huh? Europe consists of some of the richest countries in the world and the economy of some of those countries has been doing far better than the US for many years now.
You just can't get your head around the fact that there's actually a State/Government that can't be bought.
Nothing like proper bug testing to find all the obvious faults eh? After all, it's not as if nVidia cards are a fringe make is it? Fedora is a stinking pile of putrid puss now and gets worse with every release.
I remember reading an article a while back which said that a great deal of people refused to upgrade from Office 97 because it did what they wanted, wasn't bloated and the newer versions didn't offer anything more to the average user.
What a moron. Do you realise how SMALL the population of the US is compared to China? Do you think they honestly care about such a piffling little market there'd be when they've got several hundred million potential customers within their own borders?
Well Simon Trevaglia has managed to have his BOFH column running for a decade now using the same style that the IT Crowd does. AFAIK, he was one of the contributors to it.
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Black Adder. 4-5 characters plus the odd bit parts but episodes mainly had 3 in, especially with the fourth series set in WW1.
So you're saying that if I rip my CDs onto my computer and put them in the Shared Music folder in Shared Documents so that the wife and kids, who also use this computer, can access them that I'm breaking the law?
You're not too bright are you?
If you want to put people off trying the very capable Linux MC distros and scare them into using Windows MCE, just point them to the article.
It started to get that way in the UK but fortunately, we've seen the error of our ways and changed.
One thing this does show is that you need to be very careful to match the filesystem type to the main tasks the PC is going to be used for. Personally, there's no real clear winner as all have major gains or deficiencies in some areas. One very interesting point was the vast difference in the amount of available space after a partition and format between the different filesystems.
Indeed. One actually exists (the one I posted) and another is still being developed. "Freesat" name applies to both though and for the end user they both work the same.
Set top boxes cost from as little as £30 for terrestrial thus meaning those 70 million analogue TVs will be good for years to come.