Sorry, but starcraft players do not play Doom3 (in general).
You sir, are the asshole. RTS games (like StarCraft) are always lower specced than their FPS counterparts. You can get a good 3 years of worth out of a PC with RTS games.
Wow, someone spelling SPEECH wrong all the way through. Not only that you quoted it, used it nearly 5 times and on top of that you are guarding the sacred constitution. Thank god we have people as good as you at english looking through our rights!
Indeed. I expect they will do a similar thing to their BBC Broadband streaming thing, where they peer with ISPs which means little to no bandwidth costs and also means that you have to be in the UK. Good idea i think.
No, you do not pay on how many TV tuners. You pay per household.
No, you don't have to pay for radio anymore. Radio makes up less than 1% of the BBCs total spending, so I guess they figured the cost of billing people for radios was over the amount they'd actually get.
It's not hard to 'fix' this problem. Just buy last gen cards - ie, upgrade to a Geforce4 TI now, or maybe even a 9700.
Graphics cards keep moving very fast, and this is great for us cheapskates who can get a very nice peice of kit off ebay for 1/3 of the price because it's a bit old..
Exactly. I miss my 2.5gb HDD from 1996 - you could hear it over everything, all over the room. Now I've gotta put up with near silents that I have to tilt my head to look at an LED. Sucks.
Because of the enviroment. People don't scratch hard drives and expect them to work. However, you will be ridiculed as a conman if a few scratches hurt your optical media.
Also, people don't like caddies. We need an advancement in error correction before we can think of using even higher density optical media.
Win2k and XP are far better, but 9x was awful. Our school used t ohave around 300 machines on 98 which all locked up if you hit suspend instead of shutdown.
Get a powerbook. PC notebooks are from what I've used (around 15 types) peices of poorly designed shit. Also, they have really cheap batteries that are just shite.
WTF is up with the "Want to make your member^H^H^H^H^H^Hjailtime longer^H^H^H^H^H^Hshorter? Just give Smith at Law a call, we will do the rest!"?
Whats the se ^H menna mean!
It's like throwing a hand grenade to a tank - if you throw it outside it will blow the tracks off at worst. If you open the top up and put it down to the crew I think the tank will be out of service for quite some time.
Personally, I agree with you apart from the affilites that carry ads part. I feel google AdSense will be sucessful in the short-term but less so in the future - the quality of the targetting to sites sometimes goes completely wacky.
AdWords are great though - usually if you type in a peice of hardware that's new you get reviews and info on the 'free' side and then go and buy it on the ads side. Something I do quite a lot when I don't have time to do massive price comparisions.
Exactly the point - I feel 'geek' users will be far more likley to purchase your product (they are not as wary as newbies to hand over their credit card number as they know how to secure themselves and check the site is secure).
Cutting off non-IE users can be cutting off upto 30% of your purchasing base. You've got to remember that many IE users are going to be using their 'leet dell PC with counterstrike hax' in their bedroom and they will not purchase anything on the internet.
I agree - this is why Apple is getting owned, well generally, in the desktop PC space.
There machines are too expensive - sure, I can get an eMac for $799 but then I've gotta stick to 1280x960 at 60hz or something insane, which means I'm not going to get one.
So I'll look at the next step up - iMac, with a 17" screen (need better than a 1024x768 resolution) - $1,800!!!
There is nothing inbetween - all Apple would have to do is produce a tower with a 1.6ghz G5 in and some amount of memory and a fairly decent video card, and boom, I'd buy one and so would everyone else I know who'd like a mac but won't pay the insane prices.
In conclusion: Jobs - ALL IN ONES are not good enough for the 'power user' who want's a mac but won't pay nearly $2,000 for a Powermac G5. I'm not going to pay $1,799 for a underpowered machine with a TFT I can't take off and use on something else when I move computers.
PS: Apple's notebook range is great, and if the desktop range was nearly as good I'm sure they would have got 10% marketshare by now. Oh well.
Do you know the amount of matience that is required for a B-52 or even a commercial 747?! Sure, you can refuel it in an hour or so, but if you want to service it it takes months.
Also, I'd like to know how you know that B52's 'plain just work'. I'm sure some of them have had server faults that you never will here about.
Thats because your phone line is of poor quality to keep the DSL sync'ed.
Considering comcast's cable has to probably go no more than 1/2 a mile to your local 'grey box' and it also runs on coax.
DSL has to however run probably 3 miles through terrible quality copper pairs which may have streches of aluminium in them - it's a purely technical problem this.
Also, with US DSL companies being flooded with crosstalk when they started it out (crosstalk occurs when people who are really too far away are still hooked up to the service and require huge amounts of power to keep sync, and therefore the signal starts to interfere with other copper pairs) and took whole exchanges down. Of course, British Telecom had to take this way too far and set ultra-low levels which they cut people off on. Ho-hum.
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Sorry, but starcraft players do not play Doom3 (in general). You sir, are the asshole. RTS games (like StarCraft) are always lower specced than their FPS counterparts. You can get a good 3 years of worth out of a PC with RTS games.
www.peoplesprimary.com has great resources.. please link it to everyone nad stop the ms apple tyranny
Wow, someone spelling SPEECH wrong all the way through. Not only that you quoted it, used it nearly 5 times and on top of that you are guarding the sacred constitution. Thank god we have people as good as you at english looking through our rights!
It's around $250-$300/yr, depending on the exchange rate. 130/yr (GBP) I think.
So do I (re: value), however, they have 9 radio stations, not 7 (BBC Asian Network and 1Xtra)
Indeed. I expect they will do a similar thing to their BBC Broadband streaming thing, where they peer with ISPs which means little to no bandwidth costs and also means that you have to be in the UK. Good idea i think.
No, you do not pay on how many TV tuners. You pay per household.
No, you don't have to pay for radio anymore. Radio makes up less than 1% of the BBCs total spending, so I guess they figured the cost of billing people for radios was over the amount they'd actually get.
Also, portable TVs are exempt from the license.
It's not hard to 'fix' this problem. Just buy last gen cards - ie, upgrade to a Geforce4 TI now, or maybe even a 9700. Graphics cards keep moving very fast, and this is great for us cheapskates who can get a very nice peice of kit off ebay for 1/3 of the price because it's a bit old..
Exactly. I miss my 2.5gb HDD from 1996 - you could hear it over everything, all over the room. Now I've gotta put up with near silents that I have to tilt my head to look at an LED. Sucks.
Because of the enviroment. People don't scratch hard drives and expect them to work. However, you will be ridiculed as a conman if a few scratches hurt your optical media.
Also, people don't like caddies. We need an advancement in error correction before we can think of using even higher density optical media.
Win2k and XP are far better, but 9x was awful. Our school used t ohave around 300 machines on 98 which all locked up if you hit suspend instead of shutdown.
Is it just me who thinks they are absolutley shit? They produce horrible light and take about 3 minutes to get upto full glow...
Get a powerbook. PC notebooks are from what I've used (around 15 types) peices of poorly designed shit. Also, they have really cheap batteries that are just shite.
WTF is up with the "Want to make your member^H^H^H^H^H^Hjailtime longer^H^H^H^H^H^Hshorter? Just give Smith at Law a call, we will do the rest!"? Whats the se ^H menna mean!
The fire occurred from within the tunneling.
It's like throwing a hand grenade to a tank - if you throw it outside it will blow the tracks off at worst. If you open the top up and put it down to the crew I think the tank will be out of service for quite some time.
Personally, I agree with you apart from the affilites that carry ads part. I feel google AdSense will be sucessful in the short-term but less so in the future - the quality of the targetting to sites sometimes goes completely wacky.
AdWords are great though - usually if you type in a peice of hardware that's new you get reviews and info on the 'free' side and then go and buy it on the ads side. Something I do quite a lot when I don't have time to do massive price comparisions.
Hmm, yea. USB2 and Firewire are definitely not standard. Neither is 802.11b or g and ethernet...
Exactly the point - I feel 'geek' users will be far more likley to purchase your product (they are not as wary as newbies to hand over their credit card number as they know how to secure themselves and check the site is secure).
Cutting off non-IE users can be cutting off upto 30% of your purchasing base. You've got to remember that many IE users are going to be using their 'leet dell PC with counterstrike hax' in their bedroom and they will not purchase anything on the internet.
Thats my theory, anyway.
I agree - this is why Apple is getting owned, well generally, in the desktop PC space.
There machines are too expensive - sure, I can get an eMac for $799 but then I've gotta stick to 1280x960 at 60hz or something insane, which means I'm not going to get one.
So I'll look at the next step up - iMac, with a 17" screen (need better than a 1024x768 resolution) - $1,800!!!
There is nothing inbetween - all Apple would have to do is produce a tower with a 1.6ghz G5 in and some amount of memory and a fairly decent video card, and boom, I'd buy one and so would everyone else I know who'd like a mac but won't pay the insane prices.
In conclusion: Jobs - ALL IN ONES are not good enough for the 'power user' who want's a mac but won't pay nearly $2,000 for a Powermac G5. I'm not going to pay $1,799 for a underpowered machine with a TFT I can't take off and use on something else when I move computers.
PS: Apple's notebook range is great, and if the desktop range was nearly as good I'm sure they would have got 10% marketshare by now. Oh well.
Nvu will do the ftp site list.
But I still use Dreamweaver for PHP code editing - it's FTP site integration is pretty great and you can mockup designs quickly..
That's a pretty good idea actually - you could have a 1mbyte 'win' data packet that you need to get down a 1mile course.
;)
Not only would it depend on athletic ability but also how good your AP and batteries were
Only on slashdot would moderators mod the post saying 'mod parent up!' higher than the actual post that needs modding up.
Ho-hum.
What? Are you insane!?
Do you know the amount of matience that is required for a B-52 or even a commercial 747?! Sure, you can refuel it in an hour or so, but if you want to service it it takes months.
Also, I'd like to know how you know that B52's 'plain just work'. I'm sure some of them have had server faults that you never will here about.
Thats because your phone line is of poor quality to keep the DSL sync'ed.
Considering comcast's cable has to probably go no more than 1/2 a mile to your local 'grey box' and it also runs on coax.
DSL has to however run probably 3 miles through terrible quality copper pairs which may have streches of aluminium in them - it's a purely technical problem this.
Also, with US DSL companies being flooded with crosstalk when they started it out (crosstalk occurs when people who are really too far away are still hooked up to the service and require huge amounts of power to keep sync, and therefore the signal starts to interfere with other copper pairs) and took whole exchanges down. Of course, British Telecom had to take this way too far and set ultra-low levels which they cut people off on. Ho-hum.
shout DAMNIT as you realise that the power adaptor does not work so you need a new plug adaptor (cheap but inconvienient).
No, no, no, no:
a) All laptops I've seen have PSUs that run from 110v (US) to 240v (UK + Europe). Most of them do this without needing changed.
b) It's just a simple 'clover' plug, which you can find on loads of things - playstations for example have one.