This has been known for ages. THG usually points out that they got a piece of HW selected for them by the manufacturer and that it might not reflect its performance in the real world versions bought at stores.
yes this is wrong, but the only way the software patent issue will be changed is if such a hugely fucked up case like this goes through and is enforced, maybe Microsoft with its warchest of unimaginable proportions will change its lobbying efforts to be against instead of for software patents.
I put together a new computer last night and between the time I installed outlook, imported my old pst files, and did my first email check. I had apparently been infected with sobig and had gotten 5 replies form mail sevres saying they blocked some emails with the virus in it.
yes, at the moment it isnt "cheap" but 5-25 years down the line when this stuff would be used in place of silicon the diamond market will have colapsed (hopefully, its a horrible monopoly, and diamonds are the currency of terrorists and criminals. it is easy to smuggle money in diamonds across borders, once thier value falls that loop hole will no longer exist).
Plus consumers are willing to pay that much but they would provide wafer to some one like intel for much much cheaper. 2 different markets.
Actually... how much do silicon wafer cost now? Basicly you need to get the diamond wafers down to a price no more that twice that of silicon because it sounds like they will eventually be forced to move to diamonds once chips start meeting the melting point of silicon.
I read this story earlier today, and i can already tell that 90% of the above posters havent read it.
If they did they would know that these are manufactured diamonds using relativly new processes that allow for some large diamonds.
Being manufactured they are rather cheap. The jewel grade stones will be sold at about half fo what debeers is selling thier diamonds for.
The big falacy about diamonds is that they are scare. They are, in fact, in great abundance but most of the world's supply is controlled by Debeers. They trickle diamonds onto the market keeping the price artificially high.
To summarize.
1. We can now make great looking diamonds for cheap. (2 different methods of doing so) 2. They can be formed into anything from gemstones to about 4 inch wide(so far) diamond wafers. 3. There are 2 forms of doping in the process of creating the diamonds that allows for + and - parts (couldnt think of the word) that means we now have the building blocks of logic for diamond based chips.
Even if it was long hours it would have to be considered a much more enjoyable time because after all he is playing a game and making a living at the same time! Wouldn't we all love to do that?!?!??!
Dark Angel's first season had some pretty good ratings. It appears that the ball was starting to roll for a show called firefly. One of the execs liked that more than Dark Angel and Fox couldn't afford to run both at the same time. So a choice was made to kill Dark Angel by moving it to a friday 8pm (central) timeslot. Coincadentally the shows largest viewer demographic was out on dates at that time. The ratings plumeted.
Me, being the dateless wonder that I am still watched the show and it was just as good if not better than the 1st season.
But they managed to kill it off and replace it with firefly. Cameron (Terminator, Titanic) was pretty pissed, and was thinking of going to another network to pitch a mini series so he could atleast finish the story instead of being truncated like it was... nothing ever came of that.
I really liked that show and surprisingly it had nothing to do with Jessica Alba being majorly hot.. in the first season she didnt look all that great anyways.
Most of the situations where HAM was considered critical involve disasters.
If the disaster itself didn't already take out the power lines then the power company can surely be contacted to disable their BPL service for a while. And it would be included in a clause in the contract you sign up when you order the service...yada yada...
But I have a quesitons, does all this interference happen at the small wodden poles, or the huge mainline supertall metal towers holding the power lines up?
What about underground wires? do they generate the interference too?
I think that is only because like you said it is so intrenched so we have come up with easy ways to estimate the measurements. If we were using SI you would develope the same tricks, yard and meter are about the same. Liters would be easy to pick up based on sodas.
Everyone else was intrenched too...even England, and they switched succesfully.
Oh, ok that makes alittle more sense. But damn there should be a law against that or something... Of course if it were up to me I would move the US to SI units to bring us up to speed with the rest of the world...
And I'm not even a scientist I would just love to have the simpler conversion tables that SI provides between their units. simply powers of ten, and 1cm^3=1ml of water things like that you can memorize much easier than 36 inches in a yard, I dont even know how many teaspoons,tablespoons,quarts,pints,and cups there are in a gallon... I did in like 1st grade when I learned it but not anymore...
I still don't believe the different units explanation for the former probes death. NO scientist on earth should be using customary units... if they did they should have all been shot.
Appeasement is the only way to contain a non rational nuclear power (in other words the USSR doesn't apply it was fairly rational). So it has everything to do with it. The problem with containment is it often leads to appeasment. We have starved N. Korea and now their only export of value is weapons and its about to get alot more valueable with the possiblity of nuclear arms sales. So now we have a problem. Do we appease Mr. Kim and hold off a few years until he becomes displeased again? Or do we do a massive first strike?
Damned if we do, damned if we dont. Thats what containment and appeasment have to do with each other.
Personally I would go with the deal this time. But the deal has to be so good that we wont even have to worry about N. Korean nukes anymore. If its anything less than we might as well attack because its is inevitable and right now N. Korea only has 1-3 Nukes give them 18 months and it iwll be closer to 10, a few years and they will have 25-50 warheads. I would rather see 3 nukes fired than 25. God have mercy on the souls who take the brunt of that. (N.Korea and its likely nuke targets S. Korea and Japan)
Something must be done and it must be done soon.
Unfortunately we have our hands tied at the moment which was my only objection to the Iraq War. In my opinion it was a good thing to do, but we had bigger fish to fry.
I think alot of people are getting lossed with these schemes of replacing all power with solar. Instead you should think of all renewable energy sources as a way to keep the environment clean and to extend the life of existing fuels buying time for more and more scientific discoveries to increase the efficiencies of the renewable systems until they can truely replace fossils fuels.
You would also probably want some regional Nuclear plants to keep the power grid at the right conditions and what not.
Solar and wind power in a decentralized form has some efficiencies like less energy loss during transmission due to much shorter cables (backyard and roof to house has to be waaay more efficient than nearest power plant to house)
A lot of people are acting as if people only use thier computer for word processing and email.
The fact is that isn't true. Alot of companies and organizations have in house software that was written for a specific purpose. to comply with their rules and regulations and what ever practices they have come up with.
Thse apps were written for windows and dos. they will have to be converted or found replacments for before they can rid themselves of windows entirely.
You also have to remember that the 9/11 planes were not at normal flying height. They imidiately dropped thier altitudes. I forgot how low they went though. (not including thier final descent...)
look, if all you mac addicts are going to act like this, fine. I am not insulting you. I am just saying that there was no need to force a higher quality/more expensive camera. It's perfectly fine to suport them but to force them is dumb.
Your analogy is so exagerated and doesnt even fit.
Windows XP doesnt run on a 486 because the 486 can't handle it.
iChat would need lower specs, not higher, if it alowed usb webcams that have lower resolutions. That is a savings on bandwidth there.
Do you see why your anaolgy doesnt work. The 486 scenario is a practicality. It cant run XP. The iChat scenario is a fabricated need for a hardware upgrade...if that's what you would call it. iChat could very easily use a lesser camera, Apple CHOSE not to allow it.
I wasnt complaining, I was commenting on Apple's poor business decisions time and time again.
Its the equivalent of AOL saying if you want to use AIM's voice chat feature you can only use a studio quality microphone setup. Because we dont want the end user to look down on us because his $10 mic made a bad noise when he breathed on it too hard.
I am not a Mac use and probably never will be, so no this wont affect me directly. But I do believe in having good healthy competition in the market. And Apple only hurts itself and makes its rich niche even smaller by doing stuff like this.
So in the long run I have to hope Linux catches on bigtime to keep MS software from skyrocketing higher.
I would much rather see A few linux vendors and Apple all chipping away at MS. It helps everyone. More competition means better quality and lower prices from all vendors and for all end users.
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The settlement tries to punish MS by giving them even more marketshare? Why did they not hold out for real money?
This has been known for ages. THG usually points out that they got a piece of HW selected for them by the manufacturer and that it might not reflect its performance in the real world versions bought at stores.
"without the Consent of the Congress"
arent they asking for the consent of Congress?
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yes this is wrong, but the only way the software patent issue will be changed is if such a hugely fucked up case like this goes through and is enforced, maybe Microsoft with its warchest of unimaginable proportions will change its lobbying efforts to be against instead of for software patents.
I put together a new computer last night and between the time I installed outlook, imported my old pst files, and did my first email check. I had apparently been infected with sobig and had gotten 5 replies form mail sevres saying they blocked some emails with the virus in it.
I was like, whoa thats was fast
lame, the only thing I would want is the chick in the iDesk pictures
yes, at the moment it isnt "cheap" but 5-25 years down the line when this stuff would be used in place of silicon the diamond market will have colapsed (hopefully, its a horrible monopoly, and diamonds are the currency of terrorists and criminals. it is easy to smuggle money in diamonds across borders, once thier value falls that loop hole will no longer exist).
Plus consumers are willing to pay that much but they would provide wafer to some one like intel for much much cheaper. 2 different markets.
Actually... how much do silicon wafer cost now? Basicly you need to get the diamond wafers down to a price no more that twice that of silicon because it sounds like they will eventually be forced to move to diamonds once chips start meeting the melting point of silicon.
oops, thanks for the correction. Like I said I read it this morning.
I read this story earlier today, and i can already tell that 90% of the above posters havent read it.
If they did they would know that these are manufactured diamonds using relativly new processes that allow for some large diamonds.
Being manufactured they are rather cheap. The jewel grade stones will be sold at about half fo what debeers is selling thier diamonds for.
The big falacy about diamonds is that they are scare. They are, in fact, in great abundance but most of the world's supply is controlled by Debeers. They trickle diamonds onto the market keeping the price artificially high.
To summarize.
1. We can now make great looking diamonds for cheap. (2 different methods of doing so)
2. They can be formed into anything from gemstones to about 4 inch wide(so far) diamond wafers.
3. There are 2 forms of doping in the process of creating the diamonds that allows for + and - parts (couldnt think of the word) that means we now have the building blocks of logic for diamond based chips.
Even if it was long hours it would have to be considered a much more enjoyable time because after all he is playing a game and making a living at the same time! Wouldn't we all love to do that?!?!??!
Fox is good at sabotaging shows.
Dark Angel's first season had some pretty good ratings. It appears that the ball was starting to roll for a show called firefly. One of the execs liked that more than Dark Angel and Fox couldn't afford to run both at the same time. So a choice was made to kill Dark Angel by moving it to a friday 8pm (central) timeslot. Coincadentally the shows largest viewer demographic was out on dates at that time. The ratings plumeted.
Me, being the dateless wonder that I am still watched the show and it was just as good if not better than the 1st season.
But they managed to kill it off and replace it with firefly. Cameron (Terminator, Titanic) was pretty pissed, and was thinking of going to another network to pitch a mini series so he could atleast finish the story instead of being truncated like it was... nothing ever came of that.
I really liked that show and surprisingly it had nothing to do with Jessica Alba being majorly hot.. in the first season she didnt look all that great anyways.
Most of the situations where HAM was considered critical involve disasters.
If the disaster itself didn't already take out the power lines then the power company can surely be contacted to disable their BPL service for a while. And it would be included in a clause in the contract you sign up when you order the service...yada yada...
But I have a quesitons, does all this interference happen at the small wodden poles, or the huge mainline supertall metal towers holding the power lines up?
What about underground wires? do they generate the interference too?
It's a good drill lol...
Can't alll the liability issues be solved in the contract that lets you play the game?
I think that is only because like you said it is so intrenched so we have come up with easy ways to estimate the measurements. If we were using SI you would develope the same tricks, yard and meter are about the same. Liters would be easy to pick up based on sodas.
Everyone else was intrenched too...even England, and they switched succesfully.
Oh, ok that makes alittle more sense. But damn there should be a law against that or something... Of course if it were up to me I would move the US to SI units to bring us up to speed with the rest of the world...
And I'm not even a scientist I would just love to have the simpler conversion tables that SI provides between their units. simply powers of ten, and 1cm^3=1ml of water things like that you can memorize much easier than 36 inches in a yard, I dont even know how many teaspoons,tablespoons,quarts,pints,and cups there are in a gallon... I did in like 1st grade when I learned it but not anymore...
I still don't believe the different units explanation for the former probes death. NO scientist on earth should be using customary units... if they did they should have all been shot.
Appeasement is the only way to contain a non rational nuclear power (in other words the USSR doesn't apply it was fairly rational). So it has everything to do with it. The problem with containment is it often leads to appeasment. We have starved N. Korea and now their only export of value is weapons and its about to get alot more valueable with the possiblity of nuclear arms sales. So now we have a problem. Do we appease Mr. Kim and hold off a few years until he becomes displeased again? Or do we do a massive first strike?
Damned if we do, damned if we dont. Thats what containment and appeasment have to do with each other.
Personally I would go with the deal this time. But the deal has to be so good that we wont even have to worry about N. Korean nukes anymore. If its anything less than we might as well attack because its is inevitable and right now N. Korea only has 1-3 Nukes give them 18 months and it iwll be closer to 10, a few years and they will have 25-50 warheads. I would rather see 3 nukes fired than 25. God have mercy on the souls who take the brunt of that. (N.Korea and its likely nuke targets S. Korea and Japan)
Something must be done and it must be done soon.
Unfortunately we have our hands tied at the moment which was my only objection to the Iraq War. In my opinion it was a good thing to do, but we had bigger fish to fry.
I think alot of people are getting lossed with these schemes of replacing all power with solar. Instead you should think of all renewable energy sources as a way to keep the environment clean and to extend the life of existing fuels buying time for more and more scientific discoveries to increase the efficiencies of the renewable systems until they can truely replace fossils fuels.
You would also probably want some regional Nuclear plants to keep the power grid at the right conditions and what not.
Solar and wind power in a decentralized form has some efficiencies like less energy loss during transmission due to much shorter cables (backyard and roof to house has to be waaay more efficient than nearest power plant to house)
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A lot of people are acting as if people only use thier computer for word processing and email.
The fact is that isn't true. Alot of companies and organizations have in house software that was written for a specific purpose. to comply with their rules and regulations and what ever practices they have come up with.
Thse apps were written for windows and dos. they will have to be converted or found replacments for before they can rid themselves of windows entirely.
You also have to remember that the 9/11 planes were not at normal flying height. They imidiately dropped thier altitudes. I forgot how low they went though. (not including thier final descent...)
look, if all you mac addicts are going to act like this, fine. I am not insulting you. I am just saying that there was no need to force a higher quality/more expensive camera. It's perfectly fine to suport them but to force them is dumb.
Your analogy is so exagerated and doesnt even fit.
Windows XP doesnt run on a 486 because the 486 can't handle it.
iChat would need lower specs, not higher, if it alowed usb webcams that have lower resolutions. That is a savings on bandwidth there.
Do you see why your anaolgy doesnt work. The 486 scenario is a practicality. It cant run XP. The iChat scenario is a fabricated need for a hardware upgrade...if that's what you would call it. iChat could very easily use a lesser camera, Apple CHOSE not to allow it.
I wasnt complaining, I was commenting on Apple's poor business decisions time and time again.
Its the equivalent of AOL saying if you want to use AIM's voice chat feature you can only use a studio quality microphone setup. Because we dont want the end user to look down on us because his $10 mic made a bad noise when he breathed on it too hard.
I am not a Mac use and probably never will be, so no this wont affect me directly. But I do believe in having good healthy competition in the market. And Apple only hurts itself and makes its rich niche even smaller by doing stuff like this.
So in the long run I have to hope Linux catches on bigtime to keep MS software from skyrocketing higher.
I would much rather see A few linux vendors and Apple all chipping away at MS. It helps everyone. More competition means better quality and lower prices from all vendors and for all end users.