"If I had to make a list of high end video cards to purchase to play DOOM 3, the GeForce 6800Ultra and GeForce 6800GT would easily take the number 1 and number 2 spots with the ATI Radeon X800XT-PE rounding out the number 3 place."
6800GT continues to look by by far the best price/performance card currently available.
what percentage of cars are stolen, not roadworthy or are used to aid an illegal activity including breaking speed limits, using horn when not in emergency and all the other little things that are illegal?
I think you'd find a huge proportion of cars are used to break at least one law, and since they have the capacity to kill many people, outlawing cars seems hugely more important than mod chips.
the solution is simple - do not buy playstations or games any more.
piracy isn't always a bad thing for companies. the day MS puts effective anti-piracy into Windows is the beginning of their end. music sharing leads to discovering new bands.
people will now have to ask, is it really worth hundreds and hundreds of $currency just to play a few games? for many the answer will be no.
or... maybe if it weren't for Windows update they would have got it right in the first place?
consider (old) console games vs. PC games - how many console games were released with bugs? how many PC games DON'T have bugs? updating leads to a "take the money now, maybe make it work later" attitude.
demanding more money for multi-core is ridiculous. if you're going to do that, why not charge more for faster CPUs? why should it cost twice as much to use, for example, a 2-core 1GHz CPU than a 1-core 2GHz CPU?
(imo) flash is a bad technology because it fundamentally makes access to information difficult, once you have a flash based website there's no searching, selecting text, deep-linking etc.
it also wastes bandwidth and client resources.
if it weren't for Flashblock, flash would be a far greater annoyance/hinderence to me than even spam.
a book may not be a recommended text or may be used rarely hence the library only has one copy. then 2 people happen to want it at the same time, so the library prints another copy, adding a barcode and making you check it out as normal.
I could imagine this being great at my university. however, since there's a cost associated with it I imagine it would be restricted to use by postgraduates.
yes, I remember relatively recently MS patenting their innovation of a screen pager system allowing easy use of multiple desktops despite it being in linux for years and Windows for er... never.
to continue your orange juice analogy; if hundreds of years later it turned out that improved diet didn't mean people needed to worry about vitamin C intake, but that orange juice killed thousands of innocent people a year, then I would be in favour of a law to ban orange juice or at least severely restrict its use to cases of provable necessity.
I would also consider an ammendment saying OJ was "necessary" for vitamin C to be ignorant of other vitamin C sources and therefore an out of date concept written by people living in a completely different world.
while (Militia necessary for free State) {
allow_bear_arms(); }
my question is: is a militia necessary for the US's security?
if so, what is the militia? where is it acting to protect the freedom of people in the state? if not, isn't the ammendment out of date, along with the concept of having an armed public?
I use my sig to draw attention to the "Militia being necessary" part because a lot of pro-gun fanatics would love people to believe it simple says "the right of the people to keep and bear Arms shall not be infringed" and propagate this myth with sigs saying "what part of shall not be infringed..."
I clicked the biology one. it's about sitting exams. so didn't bother with the others. sitting exams is not a sport. even if it's a competition, that doesn't make it a sport, it makes it a competition.
If it were, then why not Physics? or Chemistry? or Biology? or History? or Latin?
I suspect people who want maths to be a sport are those who are good at multiplication tables and think they deserve recognition for it, but are too crap to actually do any proper mathematical research.
if I only used my phone to do the things you can do then it would probably last TWO weeks.
the battery lasts about 20 days in standby mode.
in case it wasn't explicit, I meant 4 days of MY typical use - that means phone, SMS, internet, email, calendar, games, mp3, pictures, videos etc., all the time using a 208x320 65,536 colour touchscreen display.
also, my phone weighs 130g, yours is 170g. and you must have a really special battery because none of the ones Nokia list allow more than 6 hours talk time, whereas mine is 16 hours talk time.
your phone is also considerably longer and thicker than mine. mine is wider, but that's not surprising given my 208x320 65,536 colour display vs. your 5 lines of greyscale.
I have a Sony Ericsson P900. the battery takes ~3 hours to fully charge then lasts for 4 days typical use. it has a huge touchscreen and stylus handwriting input (plus the usual T9, virtual keyboard), plus a very well designed 5-way jog wheel. so you can't get any easier input than that.
as for ringtones, since it can play mp3s you can have anything you want, including old-fashioned ring. it also comes with a PC sync/dock and loads of internal memory (plus flash cards) so getting a new ring tone means drag and drop from PC file manager, not phoning some crappy company that will charge you $5/min for a barely recognisable sequence of beeps.
smartphones are fantastic. people who bitch about wanting "simple" things are either ignorant of how well-designed phones like the P900 are, or are just too poor to afford them.
yeah and what happened to PCs that just let you add numbers and print dot matrix? They're turning rather rapidly into complete work and entertainment centres.
d'uh, it's called progress. my mobile has calendar, email, internet, mp3 and lots more and that's the way I like it.
all road signs to government buildings/hospitals/schools should be removed. If terrorists get hold of this information and attack it would be bad.
Rush hour is also an unacceptable risk. If terrorists attack during this time it could be disasterous. Consequently, as of next month all work times will be randomly generated. You will be informed when you are due to start working 15 minutes before the start of your shift via the newly secured cellular phone network. Anyone travelling on the roads without prior authorisation via cellular phone will be assumed to be a terrorist attempting to cripple our vital transportation infrastructure.
last time I checked printer consumables were hardware with manufacturing costs. this analogy has absolutely nothing to do with hardware/software prices and is just another implementation of the Gilette model. it only works because there's no OSS ink/blades. however, recently printer refill shops have damaged the viability of selling printers like this, and the response has been encoding the cartridges and using DMCA to stamp out competition. remember that? the lesson is selling hardware at cost is not a viable business model unless you have total control over consumables. given that OSS exists, can you have total control over software? no. so is giving away hardware viable? no, not unless you have such immense levels of control that the hardware is rendered useless. we've seen this before. it never works.
of course 2 year old stuff costs a lot less now. get a clue ffs. the second you buy a new car it immediately loses loads of its value, that doesn't mean you can extrapolate and say in a few years cars will be free and they'll just charge for petrol.
there will always be a significant cost associated with reproducing hardware whereas software only has cost of development and even this can be practically zero so long as OSS exists.
also consider : have CPUs or GPUs gotten any cheaper during the last 10 years? no, same amount of bucks, just a lot more bang for it.
but Bill says software should cost more than hardware. fuck-a-doodle-do. what does Bill's company make again? oh yeah, software.
go tell AMD, Intel, ATI and nVidia about how you think they should give you free hardware.
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"How the Clash Between Freedom and Control is Hacking the Real World and Crashing the System"
Please, the use of such crap metaphors just loses credibility on a very important issue. This is just a few steps up from
"How teh copyrights r0x0r j00r b0x0r!!!one"
"If I had to make a list of high end video cards to purchase to play DOOM 3, the GeForce 6800Ultra and GeForce 6800GT would easily take the number 1 and number 2 spots with the ATI Radeon X800XT-PE rounding out the number 3 place."
6800GT continues to look by by far the best price/performance card currently available.
what percentage of cars are stolen, not roadworthy or are used to aid an illegal activity including breaking speed limits, using horn when not in emergency and all the other little things that are illegal?
I think you'd find a huge proportion of cars are used to break at least one law, and since they have the capacity to kill many people, outlawing cars seems hugely more important than mod chips.
the solution is simple - do not buy playstations or games any more.
piracy isn't always a bad thing for companies. the day MS puts effective anti-piracy into Windows is the beginning of their end. music sharing leads to discovering new bands.
people will now have to ask, is it really worth hundreds and hundreds of $currency just to play a few games? for many the answer will be no.
or... maybe if it weren't for Windows update they would have got it right in the first place?
consider (old) console games vs. PC games - how many console games were released with bugs? how many PC games DON'T have bugs? updating leads to a "take the money now, maybe make it work later" attitude.
demanding more money for multi-core is ridiculous. if you're going to do that, why not charge more for faster CPUs? why should it cost twice as much to use, for example, a 2-core 1GHz CPU than a 1-core 2GHz CPU?
on the other hand it may push more people to OSS.
(imo) flash is a bad technology because it fundamentally makes access to information difficult, once you have a flash based website there's no searching, selecting text, deep-linking etc.
it also wastes bandwidth and client resources.
if it weren't for Flashblock, flash would be a far greater annoyance/hinderence to me than even spam.
noob. this is actually a very good idea.
a book may not be a recommended text or may be used rarely hence the library only has one copy. then 2 people happen to want it at the same time, so the library prints another copy, adding a barcode and making you check it out as normal.
I could imagine this being great at my university. however, since there's a cost associated with it I imagine it would be restricted to use by postgraduates.
represent yourself, or can't you get free state lawyers?
you don't need a law degree to say "here's the prior art, I rest my case"
yes, I remember relatively recently MS patenting their innovation of a screen pager system allowing easy use of multiple desktops despite it being in linux for years and Windows for er... never.
the grandparent wasn't talking about overuse of acronyms, but about not knowing what the acronyms mean.
ATM = Automatic Teller Machine
PIN = Personal Identification Number
so saying "ATM machine to type in my PIN number" is incorrect repetition just like "GPL licence" (GNU Public Licence licence)
to continue your orange juice analogy; if hundreds of years later it turned out that improved diet didn't mean people needed to worry about vitamin C intake, but that orange juice killed thousands of innocent people a year, then I would be in favour of a law to ban orange juice or at least severely restrict its use to cases of provable necessity.
I would also consider an ammendment saying OJ was "necessary" for vitamin C to be ignorant of other vitamin C sources and therefore an out of date concept written by people living in a completely different world.
it reads to me like:
while (Militia necessary for free State) {
allow_bear_arms();
}
my question is: is a militia necessary for the US's security?
if so, what is the militia? where is it acting to protect the freedom of people in the state?
if not, isn't the ammendment out of date, along with the concept of having an armed public?
I use my sig to draw attention to the "Militia being necessary" part because a lot of pro-gun fanatics would love people to believe it simple says "the right of the people to keep and bear Arms shall not be infringed" and propagate this myth with sigs saying "what part of shall not be infringed..."
this dipshit should be modded down.
step 1: make absolutely retarded claims - "I'm in public, and damn it, I reserve the right not to be watched"
step 2: appeal to patriotic bullshit - "Land of the free, home of the brave"
step 3: slippery slope fallacy - "you may as well get the barcode stamped on your head and install the cameras in your home"
step 4: end with The Ben Quote
step 5: get modded up by similarly retarded people
30 years seems a bit excessive, I'd imagine 20 years would be plenty, and 10 for cheaper items?
I clicked the biology one. it's about sitting exams. so didn't bother with the others. sitting exams is not a sport. even if it's a competition, that doesn't make it a sport, it makes it a competition.
Maths is not a sport.
If it were, then why not Physics? or Chemistry? or Biology? or History? or Latin?
I suspect people who want maths to be a sport are those who are good at multiplication tables and think they deserve recognition for it, but are too crap to actually do any proper mathematical research.
if I only used my phone to do the things you can do then it would probably last TWO weeks.
the battery lasts about 20 days in standby mode.
in case it wasn't explicit, I meant 4 days of MY typical use - that means phone, SMS, internet, email, calendar, games, mp3, pictures, videos etc., all the time using a 208x320 65,536 colour touchscreen display.
also, my phone weighs 130g, yours is 170g. and you must have a really special battery because none of the ones Nokia list allow more than 6 hours talk time, whereas mine is 16 hours talk time.
your phone is also considerably longer and thicker than mine. mine is wider, but that's not surprising given my 208x320 65,536 colour display vs. your 5 lines of greyscale.
I have a Sony Ericsson P900. the battery takes ~3 hours to fully charge then lasts for 4 days typical use. it has a huge touchscreen and stylus handwriting input (plus the usual T9, virtual keyboard), plus a very well designed 5-way jog wheel. so you can't get any easier input than that.
as for ringtones, since it can play mp3s you can have anything you want, including old-fashioned ring. it also comes with a PC sync/dock and loads of internal memory (plus flash cards) so getting a new ring tone means drag and drop from PC file manager, not phoning some crappy company that will charge you $5/min for a barely recognisable sequence of beeps.
smartphones are fantastic. people who bitch about wanting "simple" things are either ignorant of how well-designed phones like the P900 are, or are just too poor to afford them.
energy sensitive? ahhhahahhahahaa are you taking the piss? or just a very suggestible type and have a habbit of watching FUD documentaries?
how did you even manage to post without gong near any electrical equipment?
yeah and what happened to PCs that just let you add numbers and print dot matrix? They're turning rather rapidly into complete work and entertainment centres.
d'uh, it's called progress. my mobile has calendar, email, internet, mp3 and lots more and that's the way I like it.
all road signs to government buildings/hospitals/schools should be removed. If terrorists get hold of this information and attack it would be bad.
Rush hour is also an unacceptable risk. If terrorists attack during this time it could be disasterous. Consequently, as of next month all work times will be randomly generated. You will be informed when you are due to start working 15 minutes before the start of your shift via the newly secured cellular phone network. Anyone travelling on the roads without prior authorisation via cellular phone will be assumed to be a terrorist attempting to cripple our vital transportation infrastructure.
last time I checked printer consumables were hardware with manufacturing costs. this analogy has absolutely nothing to do with hardware/software prices and is just another implementation of the Gilette model. it only works because there's no OSS ink/blades. however, recently printer refill shops have damaged the viability of selling printers like this, and the response has been encoding the cartridges and using DMCA to stamp out competition. remember that? the lesson is selling hardware at cost is not a viable business model unless you have total control over consumables. given that OSS exists, can you have total control over software? no. so is giving away hardware viable? no, not unless you have such immense levels of control that the hardware is rendered useless. we've seen this before. it never works.
of course 2 year old stuff costs a lot less now. get a clue ffs. the second you buy a new car it immediately loses loads of its value, that doesn't mean you can extrapolate and say in a few years cars will be free and they'll just charge for petrol.
don't be a freaking retard.
there will always be a significant cost associated with reproducing hardware whereas software only has cost of development and even this can be practically zero so long as OSS exists.
also consider : have CPUs or GPUs gotten any cheaper during the last 10 years? no, same amount of bucks, just a lot more bang for it.
but Bill says software should cost more than hardware. fuck-a-doodle-do. what does Bill's company make again? oh yeah, software.
go tell AMD, Intel, ATI and nVidia about how you think they should give you free hardware.
d'uh.
you also missed "*could* care less" and "try *and*...".