>> The article goes on to point out several flaws in the study's logic. For example, the actual cost of a >> Windows OEM hasn't increased in the last few years; Microsoft isn't passing this cost directly on to >>the consumer."T
Sure they are, by forcing people to repeatedly purchase new versions of products by ceasing support for the existing ones.
the entire gaming genre has devolved into a first person 3D shoot-em up, with game-storyline and quality of content being the only purchasing criteria.
Back in the golden age of gaming there were many more games comning out in other genres: platform games, abstract logic puzzles (tetris etc), business games (xxx tycoon), text adventures, dungeon crawlers, space operas, etc etc.
It seems first person 3D shoot-em ups is the only thing these days because EA has bought everyone else out and can now get away with reusing the same game engine over and over and just changing the artwork/storyline.
The only thing that keeps plasma tech. going is the uneducated masses who don't understand technology. The price, power consumption, relatively low native pixel count, image quality and physical weight of a plasma when compared to LCD is crazy. This massive tv is totally redundant when comapared to a front projector at a 10th of the price which could give an even (much) bigger screen at the same image quality.
No, of course its not the only issue, but it certainly weighs heavily. The fact that the Democrats can make such an obviously bad choice as this is a clear indicator to a deeper larger issue.
this means the police will start to become obliged to follow and experience first hand some of the ridiculously low speed limits and other redundant road laws are that they enforce on the rest of us, so they might finally do something about making them better.
done by the more radical fringe of the PC overclocking world for a couple of years now. Just google for it, there's plenty of references.
One thing I don't understand though... why doesn't the oil get between any of the push-fit connectors like power connectors and PCI slots etc and cause bad connections? I thought oil was both an insulator and very prone to spreading through osmosis, like spraying WD40 on a jammed nut or something, it works its way in to the thread.
trying to blame Global Warming on absolutely anything you can think of, other than us:
Sunspots DO NOT cause global warming. At all....So they're NOT the excuse you need to justify continuance of your retarded, selfish, polluting lifestyle.
Dear US Citizens: Please GET WITH THE PROGRAM. You don't need a gas-guzzling quasi-military vehicle just to go shopping.
Should cable companies care if you're using P2P or not? I assume its because they have a stupid blanket assumption that all P2P use === copyright breaching. But even if they were right (which they're not) why is it the ISP that is getting all moralistic and judgmental in the face of what their customers want to do? Its not like the Music Industry's loss affects their sales. In fact, I'd think their sales would suffer much more as a result of clamping down. Its similar but more stupid than gas stations refusing to sell you gas if they think you might then ever exceed a speed limit.
I'm glad the labels are to stupid to be less greedy even at the cost of their business. We are overdue for a shake-up to remove the talentless redundant leeches like Simon Cowell and the crappy bland muzak they promote.
You do realise that it doesn't necessarily follow that global warming == warmer climate?
One example is the gulf stream that is the only thing keeing Northern England and Scotland from being under metres of ice is already starting to change direction as a result of global warming.
>> Does anyone else see there's more going on here than environmental alarmists would have you believe? Yes, that its largely the American population (also conicidentally per capita the worst polluters by far) who are in denial and are grapsing at any available feeble excuse to avoid having to change their behviour.
>> US, Saudi Arabia, China and India, had asked for the final version to reflect less certainty than the draft.
Gee what a surpise that those countries are objecting, given that those are mostly the worst polluters and also the worst countries for politically spinning and socially engineering information.
OK point by point: 1) XP installed is ~2GB HD space and Vista is ~11GB so its more than a service pack. I can't figure out feature is taking that up as there's no obvious extra functionality in Vista that should require that.
2) sadly true, mostly because most consumers and companies don't know any better than to just buy a new Dell every few years rather than build/upgrade their own PC. No doubt XP won't be an option.
3) UAC is NOT palatable to power-users. Those damn stupid pop-ups every time you do anything at all are the most annoying thing I've ever seen. Its so annoying that I turned off UAC to be rid of it. I'm sure most people will turn off UAC as the first thing they do.
4) there's nothing truly revolutionary about vistas gui. Actually I find the extra crap you get in all the windows now is distracting, redundant and annoying as it takes up even more screen space from the stuff you're really interested in. Under XP you could disable it and use classic windows but its permanently on under vista whether you want it or not.
5) Using 700MB IS important as most PCs (especially laptops) still have 1GB of RAM or less. On a 512MB PC that means you're ALREADY paging to disk even before you do anything, which directly translates into really slow application performance.
6) totally agree. It sucks doesn't it.
7) Totally agree again. Thank god for linux, except we all know the Evil Empire will make sure there won't ever be an HD player for Linux because they'll only tell Microsoft the tech. details just like they tried to do with DVD.
Regarding your case in point: I'm (still) screaming "Vista IS shit" and my system has a core2 6800 extreme CPU, 2 watercooled 8800GTX GPU's in SLI, 2GB of 1111Mhz DDR2 and 2 150GB raptors in Raid 0. Hardly a budget PC.
Its only generally accepted by people in the US who are reaching for any lame-duck excuse that justifies them not having to take responsibility for their own actions and change their polluting lifestyle.
I enjoyed serenity but no way does it come close to the cinematic greatness of Star Wars. The only reason Serenity won is that younger people see Star Wars as being too old for their generation.
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I agree completely about the horrible degree of sterotyping. From the male perspective we have to put up with a lot of unfair crap too.
Why do people like Dr. Phil feel the need to bash gaming even when there's absolutely no evidence to support their claim?
I like Tom's Hardware reviewers comment: Look at how many millions of people play games yet haven't shot-up their local school.
You might as well blame driving cars for it, or drinking coffee, or any other thing mostly everyone has done at least once.
I bet most perpitrators of gun crime has watched Dr. Phil at least once, therefore that MUST be it.
>> The article goes on to point out several flaws in the study's logic. For example, the actual cost of a
>> Windows OEM hasn't increased in the last few years; Microsoft isn't passing this cost directly on to
>>the consumer."T
Sure they are, by forcing people to repeatedly purchase new versions of products by ceasing support for the existing ones.
But Microsoft is due to phase out XP by the end of this year.
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So does this mean they will push out XP to schools then not support it?
the entire gaming genre has devolved into a first person 3D shoot-em up, with game-storyline and quality of content being the only purchasing criteria.
Back in the golden age of gaming there were many more games comning out in other genres: platform games, abstract logic puzzles (tetris etc), business games (xxx tycoon), text adventures, dungeon crawlers, space operas, etc etc.
It seems first person 3D shoot-em ups is the only thing these days because EA has bought everyone else out and can now get away with reusing the same game engine over and over and just changing the artwork/storyline.
The only thing that keeps plasma tech. going is the uneducated masses who don't understand technology.
The price, power consumption, relatively low native pixel count, image quality and physical weight of a plasma when compared to LCD is crazy.
This massive tv is totally redundant when comapared to a front projector at a 10th of the price which could give an even (much) bigger screen at the same image quality.
No, of course its not the only issue, but it certainly weighs heavily.
The fact that the Democrats can make such an obviously bad choice as this is a clear indicator to a deeper larger issue.
Is this even news? I thought this was already in progress with IPV6 and internet2...
As the democrats are clearly in bed with the RIAA they're not getting my vote any more.
this means the police will start to become obliged to follow and experience first hand some of the ridiculously low speed limits and other redundant road laws are that they enforce on the rest of us, so they might finally do something about making them better.
done by the more radical fringe of the PC overclocking world for a couple of years now.
Just google for it, there's plenty of references.
One thing I don't understand though... why doesn't the oil get between any of the push-fit connectors like power connectors and PCI slots etc and cause bad connections? I thought oil was both an insulator and very prone to spreading through osmosis, like spraying WD40 on a jammed nut or something, it works its way in to the thread.
This sucks, as companies will presume its more OK to release buggy hardware now.
trying to blame Global Warming on absolutely anything you can think of, other than us:
...So they're NOT the excuse you need to justify continuance of your retarded, selfish, polluting lifestyle.
Sunspots DO NOT cause global warming. At all.
Dear US Citizens: Please GET WITH THE PROGRAM. You don't need a gas-guzzling quasi-military vehicle just to go shopping.
Hi, I'm:
a) a friend of a friend
b) in your church
c) in your class at school
but you've never heard of or seen me before. Can you let me copy your music downloads please?
Should cable companies care if you're using P2P or not? I assume its because they have a stupid blanket assumption that all P2P use === copyright breaching.
But even if they were right (which they're not) why is it the ISP that is getting all moralistic and judgmental in the face of what their customers want to do?
Its not like the Music Industry's loss affects their sales. In fact, I'd think their sales would suffer much more as a result of clamping down.
Its similar but more stupid than gas stations refusing to sell you gas if they think you might then ever exceed a speed limit.
the internet should refuse a connection to any country that doesn't promote free speech.
I'm glad the labels are to stupid to be less greedy even at the cost of their business.
We are overdue for a shake-up to remove the talentless redundant leeches like Simon Cowell and the crappy bland muzak they promote.
>> You're a fanboy and an idiot.
>> You're a moron.
And you're a rude little shit
lol. I hope they like living underwater then.
You do realise that it doesn't necessarily follow that global warming == warmer climate?
One example is the gulf stream that is the only thing keeing Northern England and Scotland from being under metres of ice is already starting to change direction as a result of global warming.
>> Does anyone else see there's more going on here than environmental alarmists would have you believe?
Yes, that its largely the American population (also conicidentally per capita the worst polluters by far) who are in denial and are grapsing at any available feeble excuse to avoid having to change their behviour.
>> US, Saudi Arabia, China and India, had asked for the final version to reflect less certainty than the draft.
Gee what a surpise that those countries are objecting, given that those are mostly the worst polluters and also the worst countries for politically spinning and socially engineering information.
OK point by point:
1) XP installed is ~2GB HD space and Vista is ~11GB so its more than a service pack. I can't figure out feature is taking that up as there's no obvious extra functionality in Vista that should require that.
2) sadly true, mostly because most consumers and companies don't know any better than to just buy a new Dell every few years rather than build/upgrade their own PC. No doubt XP won't be an option.
3) UAC is NOT palatable to power-users. Those damn stupid pop-ups every time you do anything at all are the most annoying thing I've ever seen. Its so annoying that I turned off UAC to be rid of it. I'm sure most people will turn off UAC as the first thing they do.
4) there's nothing truly revolutionary about vistas gui. Actually I find the extra crap you get in all the windows now is distracting, redundant and annoying as it takes up even more screen space from the stuff you're really interested in. Under XP you could disable it and use classic windows but its permanently on under vista whether you want it or not.
5) Using 700MB IS important as most PCs (especially laptops) still have 1GB of RAM or less. On a 512MB PC that means you're ALREADY paging to disk even before you do anything, which directly translates into really slow application performance.
6) totally agree. It sucks doesn't it.
7) Totally agree again. Thank god for linux, except we all know the Evil Empire will make sure there won't ever be an HD player for Linux because they'll only tell Microsoft the tech. details just like they tried to do with DVD.
Regarding your case in point: I'm (still) screaming "Vista IS shit" and my system has a core2 6800 extreme CPU, 2 watercooled 8800GTX GPU's in SLI, 2GB of 1111Mhz DDR2 and 2 150GB raptors in Raid 0. Hardly a budget PC.
Its only generally accepted by people in the US who are reaching for any lame-duck excuse that justifies them not having to take responsibility for their own actions and change their polluting lifestyle.
I enjoyed serenity but no way does it come close to the cinematic greatness of Star Wars.
The only reason Serenity won is that younger people see Star Wars as being too old for their generation.
>> All cells come from pre-exisitng cells
Well thats just not true. Evidently you're not aware that cells subdivide.