I'm not sure that's a comfort or not but in either case it shows a huge gap between costs and prices. When Apple or anyone can happily give huge discounts and rebates and coupons then the price of the product has no relation to what it took to made.
It's like when you buy a used car. You've all been sold the old story that your new car loses 30% of its value blah blah blah. Well I just looked at a 2005 Camry with 51K miles and it cost more than my NEW 2004 Camry, same model. In fact the dealer seemed to be quite proud of the fact that it was only $1800 less than the sticker price of a NEW 2007 Camry. I bet the guy who sold him his 2 year old car got about $10,000 for it if it was in 'excellent' near new condition.
It's not a law, it's simply an observation that within Intel, that's more or less the rate of progress. As we saw with the P-4 chip the problem we bumped into was not Moore's Law, but the laws of thermodynamics. So we found a good enough reason to go to multicore CPU's. Eventually though you do bump into Albert Einstein. In 1 billionth of a second, light travels about 1 foot so the entire circuit length from end to end, in order to have a switching frequency of 1 billionth of a second, has to be less than one foot.
$69 bucks for 3 years or the economic life of the machine. It's not perfect but it's something. In a college environment, a stolen laptop is bound to kept on campus and used by someone else so it's somewhat easier to find.
To turn your virgin children into islamofascists. I'm sure I saw this on Fox. No no no a thousand times no. If Global Warming were caused by man God would have given us gills.
As far as I can tell Capitalism is neither good nor bad, nor have we given the authority to corporate CEO's to dictate what social values should look like. If I'm wrong on this, please someone let me know.
Albeit my Earthlink hosting has had a few coughs recently on their web mail otherwise it's been a big dumb light switch for years and years. $50/month seems worth it, $1.65/day to not have to worry about it.
We use Lotus (Ami Pro/Freelance/123 etc) plus MS Office 2003 plus MS Office XP. Now we'll get OO. Gee I can hardly wait trying to open up some PM's 175 page converted Powerpoint presentation.
Originally only 9 of the 100 counties had tests. Then a few years ago they decided that any county with an interstate highway required a test. But last year the state, under pressure from local groups decided that they needed to rollback that requirement. On Ch14 news a few weeks ago there was a blurb I think that all emission tests will be eliminated in the next 5 years or so with the thinking that since cars are ok anyhow there's no need and the older cars and farm vehicles on the road can be brought up to any reasonable code, and, it's too expensive for the all inspection stations to maintain different standards for different cars.
Of course in Wake, with the fastest growing illegal (Hispanic) population in the United States the probability that every beater car is 'up to code' is a faint wish. Raleigh already has some of the worst air quality in the country now and it's bound to only get worse. Think about that the next time you and 300 of your neighbors are stuck at a 7 minute red light all getting 0 MPG.
North Carolina has decided that already having the 5th worst air in the country isn't nearly patriotic enough so they're doing away with emission tests on the annual inspection soon. Since 75% of all newly registered vehicles are either pickups or SUV's you can bet that they'll all have bigger dirtier engines eventually. I'm getting a ribbon magnet the size of a small child to slap on the side to proclaim that my underwear is an American flag and my blood runs red white and blue.
They would not support this kind of 'efficiency'. I'm afraid that in the world, the excuse of using technology because "it's just easier this way" has in fact lead to atrocities that will be remembered for a thousand years.
It starts out as a labor issue and they tell you it's ok because you don't have to work there. Then they give them to all convicts. Then mental patients, then the ex-sex offenders, then bullshit pot bust people, then the DUIs, then the green card holders then it becomes an automatic step in the arrest process then your car insurance needs it then your health insurance then your bank and still they keep telling you that if you have nothing to hide you have nothing to fear. And if you don't want to use a bank no one is making you. Then everyone in the armed forces gets one then everyone on the public service payroll then all the welfare recipients, then all the school children, then everyone working for a company that has any government contract, then any passport holder. And whoever's left is corralled into special camps. Trust me, I've seen this before.
Some division head inside Redmond is crafting his internal proposal to convert the update realm from a cost center to a revenue center. The rationale will be to collect the funding to staff up that function appropriately so as not to harm MS from mistakes such as this.
The ironic thing is that few people will pay - and while the level of installed patches will go down the overall level of security will not materially change given the overall poor security stance in the first place. What will happen is that interoperability will begin to fail badly.
Because I think the time has come to call the RIAA's bluff and simply refuse to kowtow to their extortion. Maybe Jay-Z will have to sell one of his solid gold Bentleys to pay for the crack rehab for his pit bulls.
Gateway - pre eMachines achieved their low costs by buying everything on spot markets. So today's PC's wasn't the same as yesterday's or tomorrows. What you got was what they managed to source at that single moment. This made support damn near impossible. And of course QA was terrible. What the guys at eMachines did was deploy only a small handful of models at a time and they were all standard and compliant. I rather like by eMachines boxes and I hope they continue.
I have officially stopped complaining or worrying about MS, their code their product or anything else they produce or support. If people think that they're getting a fair shake from Redmond, at this point, no amount contraindication is going to make any difference. My only activism will be to simply work around them.
I run a gaggle of XP machines at home (and one Win95 machine) and this will be the last turn of the MS OS crank for each of them. By the time they are ready for a refresh in the next 2-3 years I will be replacing them with either Freespire or Ubuntu.
You are of course free to do whatever you like. Any comments back to me telling me I'm misinformed, stupid, wrong or silly will be ignored. I no longer care or am interested in what anyone else on the planet has to say about this. Thank you.
Sorry but no. When Sony owns my computer and tells me legally that I only license it then they can do this sort of thing. Until then they and you should go pound sand or figure out a more transparent way to do this.
I mean don't buy their software, don't buy their PS3's, don't buy their PC's or anything else. I know one person can never make a difference so just do it for yourself.
From my home I can access two open AP's. Have been able to for years. What's great is that for whatever reason if my AP has a problem, Windows is AUTOMATICALLY set up to access the nearest open AP. That's the default behavior. So I could get arrested for not crippling the default behavior of my client OS.
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I'm not sure that's a comfort or not but in either case it shows a huge gap between costs and prices. When Apple or anyone can happily give huge discounts and rebates and coupons then the price of the product has no relation to what it took to made.
It's like when you buy a used car. You've all been sold the old story that your new car loses 30% of its value blah blah blah. Well I just looked at a 2005 Camry with 51K miles and it cost more than my NEW 2004 Camry, same model. In fact the dealer seemed to be quite proud of the fact that it was only $1800 less than the sticker price of a NEW 2007 Camry. I bet the guy who sold him his 2 year old car got about $10,000 for it if it was in 'excellent' near new condition.
It's not a law, it's simply an observation that within Intel, that's more or less the rate of progress. As we saw with the P-4 chip the problem we bumped into was not Moore's Law, but the laws of thermodynamics. So we found a good enough reason to go to multicore CPU's. Eventually though you do bump into Albert Einstein. In 1 billionth of a second, light travels about 1 foot so the entire circuit length from end to end, in order to have a switching frequency of 1 billionth of a second, has to be less than one foot.
I wonder if the vision thing is a quiet rejection of anyone over 40?
$69 bucks for 3 years or the economic life of the machine. It's not perfect but it's something. In a college environment, a stolen laptop is bound to kept on campus and used by someone else so it's somewhat easier to find.
To turn your virgin children into islamofascists. I'm sure I saw this on Fox. No no no a thousand times no. If Global Warming were caused by man God would have given us gills.
As far as I can tell Capitalism is neither good nor bad, nor have we given the authority to corporate CEO's to dictate what social values should look like. If I'm wrong on this, please someone let me know.
Albeit my Earthlink hosting has had a few coughs recently on their web mail otherwise it's been a big dumb light switch for years and years. $50/month seems worth it, $1.65/day to not have to worry about it.
MUCH bigger. Shhhhh
-you know who.
People swear on the Bible and still commit perjury.
We use Lotus (Ami Pro/Freelance/123 etc) plus MS Office 2003 plus MS Office XP. Now we'll get OO. Gee I can hardly wait trying to open up some PM's 175 page converted Powerpoint presentation.
Which is to say, less than random 50-50. I don't see a problem.
Originally only 9 of the 100 counties had tests. Then a few years ago they decided that any county with an interstate highway required a test. But last year the state, under pressure from local groups decided that they needed to rollback that requirement. On Ch14 news a few weeks ago there was a blurb I think that all emission tests will be eliminated in the next 5 years or so with the thinking that since cars are ok anyhow there's no need and the older cars and farm vehicles on the road can be brought up to any reasonable code, and, it's too expensive for the all inspection stations to maintain different standards for different cars.
Of course in Wake, with the fastest growing illegal (Hispanic) population in the United States the probability that every beater car is 'up to code' is a faint wish. Raleigh already has some of the worst air quality in the country now and it's bound to only get worse. Think about that the next time you and 300 of your neighbors are stuck at a 7 minute red light all getting 0 MPG.
North Carolina has decided that already having the 5th worst air in the country isn't nearly patriotic enough so they're doing away with emission tests on the annual inspection soon. Since 75% of all newly registered vehicles are either pickups or SUV's you can bet that they'll all have bigger dirtier engines eventually. I'm getting a ribbon magnet the size of a small child to slap on the side to proclaim that my underwear is an American flag and my blood runs red white and blue.
They would not support this kind of 'efficiency'. I'm afraid that in the world, the excuse of using technology because "it's just easier this way" has in fact lead to atrocities that will be remembered for a thousand years.
It starts out as a labor issue and they tell you it's ok because you don't have to work there. Then they give them to all convicts. Then mental patients, then the ex-sex offenders, then bullshit pot bust people, then the DUIs, then the green card holders then it becomes an automatic step in the arrest process then your car insurance needs it then your health insurance then your bank and still they keep telling you that if you have nothing to hide you have nothing to fear. And if you don't want to use a bank no one is making you. Then everyone in the armed forces gets one then everyone on the public service payroll then all the welfare recipients, then all the school children, then everyone working for a company that has any government contract, then any passport holder. And whoever's left is corralled into special camps. Trust me, I've seen this before.
Some division head inside Redmond is crafting his internal proposal to convert the update realm from a cost center to a revenue center. The rationale will be to collect the funding to staff up that function appropriately so as not to harm MS from mistakes such as this.
The ironic thing is that few people will pay - and while the level of installed patches will go down the overall level of security will not materially change given the overall poor security stance in the first place. What will happen is that interoperability will begin to fail badly.
Because I think the time has come to call the RIAA's bluff and simply refuse to kowtow to their extortion. Maybe Jay-Z will have to sell one of his solid gold Bentleys to pay for the crack rehab for his pit bulls.
Is this really such a big deal?
Which he has clearly expropriated without the corresponding copywrite.
Gateway - pre eMachines achieved their low costs by buying everything on spot markets. So today's PC's wasn't the same as yesterday's or tomorrows. What you got was what they managed to source at that single moment. This made support damn near impossible. And of course QA was terrible. What the guys at eMachines did was deploy only a small handful of models at a time and they were all standard and compliant. I rather like by eMachines boxes and I hope they continue.
Tell that to all of my digitizer tablets, scanners and other specialized hardware that isn't supported in Linux yet.
I have officially stopped complaining or worrying about MS, their code their product or anything else they produce or support. If people think that they're getting a fair shake from Redmond, at this point, no amount contraindication is going to make any difference. My only activism will be to simply work around them.
I run a gaggle of XP machines at home (and one Win95 machine) and this will be the last turn of the MS OS crank for each of them. By the time they are ready for a refresh in the next 2-3 years I will be replacing them with either Freespire or Ubuntu.
You are of course free to do whatever you like. Any comments back to me telling me I'm misinformed, stupid, wrong or silly will be ignored. I no longer care or am interested in what anyone else on the planet has to say about this. Thank you.
A court agreeing with Microsoft that you do not own your own computer you merely license it.
Sorry but no. When Sony owns my computer and tells me legally that I only license it then they can do this sort of thing. Until then they and you should go pound sand or figure out a more transparent way to do this.
I mean don't buy their software, don't buy their PS3's, don't buy their PC's or anything else. I know one person can never make a difference so just do it for yourself.
From my home I can access two open AP's. Have been able to for years. What's great is that for whatever reason if my AP has a problem, Windows is AUTOMATICALLY set up to access the nearest open AP. That's the default behavior. So I could get arrested for not crippling the default behavior of my client OS.
NIIIIIIICCCEE!