Full "Professional" versions of Office are 400+ dollars. All the stores keep them in large, locked plexiglass boxes and they will only give you it after you pay for it.
At Fry's they even have a person "escort" you and the Office box.
Much fanfare was made over the PS2 haveing a cell processor. If it was so great, why are the graphics on a PS2 so crappy? Hook a PS2 up to any high-quaily screen and you see it all fall apart.
What you have to remember is that once these fighting robots advance enough, huamns will not be involved in wars anymore. The WHOLE war effort will be producing better AI and better materials. Wars will not be won by the number of 18 year olds your country has, but by the infrastructure and the amount of metal deposits.
Soon it will be 1984, a never ending war. All metal will be reclaimed from the battlefield and all parts will be modular, meaning these wars could go on forever. It will be the
perfect war, controlling your population but with no outcry over bloodshed. Then we get into androids with real skin, and all rights are taken away in the name of "making sure your neighbor isn't a droid". May god have pitty on humanity's future, for it is bleak.
In all reality, no jokes, is this really the beginning of a real-world Skynet? What happens when they put hundreds of these things in control of a supercomputer? Not that it will become intellegent, but what if it sends an error and they all start turning 360 degrees around with their miniguns?
The download time for an HD movie (at least 30 gigabytes) on a standard DSL connection is still going to be 47.9 hours. This is not going to happen until more than 3 people in the US have residential fiber optic connections.
HD movies are going to be at least 30 gigs with mpeg4 compression (thats the HD DVD size). Great, I can store 1, maybe 2 movies on that tiny, slow drive.
Of course, all these downloaded movies will only play on one computer, require a connection to the internet each time you want to play the movie (to authenticate), and you will only "own" the movie for 48 hours.
The day they gave in to broadcasters demands and restricted recording of NFL games and other shows. I was going to buy 4 Tivos, read it, 4 Tivos, for my house, but that pushed me other to MythTV.
Pathetic. Even with this now TVtogo thing they put out, it STILL restricts what you can do with it. Since when do device makers have to be the broadcasters bitches?
When I read news, I want 3 page articles about it. Most of these stories you read online or in a paper could be put into one sentence and it would have the same value.
Gentoo? You totally lost the WHOLE POINT. People dont want to compile stuff from source or edit text files to get something to work when it installs and plays in windows in less than a minute.
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At Fry's they even have a person "escort" you and the Office box.
No?
I highly doubt any of these claims.
Only if it complies with x86. Seriously, x86 will be around for a century.
Soon it will be 1984, a never ending war. All metal will be reclaimed from the battlefield and all parts will be modular, meaning these wars could go on forever. It will be the perfect war, controlling your population but with no outcry over bloodshed. Then we get into androids with real skin, and all rights are taken away in the name of "making sure your neighbor isn't a droid". May god have pitty on humanity's future, for it is bleak.
Robots replacing humans may not be as cost-ineffective as you think.
In all reality, no jokes, is this really the beginning of a real-world Skynet? What happens when they put hundreds of these things in control of a supercomputer? Not that it will become intellegent, but what if it sends an error and they all start turning 360 degrees around with their miniguns?
I built an HDTV mythtv box, 3ghz is actually the recommended speed. I got the 2.4ghz figure from the mythtv disscusion mailing list.
The download time for an HD movie (at least 30 gigabytes) on a standard DSL connection is still going to be 47.9 hours. This is not going to happen until more than 3 people in the US have residential fiber optic connections.
HD movies are going to be at least 30 gigs with mpeg4 compression (thats the HD DVD size). Great, I can store 1, maybe 2 movies on that tiny, slow drive.
If you want a nice machine to run an HD recorder, look elsewhere.
This is an incompetent big media CEO's wet dream.
That is not the latest version, however.
God help humanity if Groakster loses. They are not just fighting for rights, they are fighting for the future of communication itself.
You can surf Slahdot on a 386. I have one right here, got it out of my high school's dumpster.
Holy crap, it even looks like a Gundam.
In third world countries companies can literally have hundreds of people in a sweatshop clicking on ads. It's amazing.
Pathetic. Even with this now TVtogo thing they put out, it STILL restricts what you can do with it. Since when do device makers have to be the broadcasters bitches?
It wont matter, because you will still have to use the commandline for everything.
However, It is still comming along
When I read news, I want 3 page articles about it. Most of these stories you read online or in a paper could be put into one sentence and it would have the same value.
Yes, for Linux users who would rather spend 30 minutes trying to figure out how to get a game working than to just boot up Windows XP
What would the point of that be?
Gentoo? You totally lost the WHOLE POINT. People dont want to compile stuff from source or edit text files to get something to work when it installs and plays in windows in less than a minute.
Linux gamers do not exist, like Mac gamers.