The tech industry has handed these people the biggest market opportunity in decates and all they do is bitch & moan and worry about theft. Talk about an obsession. They have abused technology to stop legitimately purchased DVDs bought in one area from playing in another, for no reason other than exercising a control over consumers that they have no natural right to exercise. I don't know anyone who downloads movies online, I know plenty of meople who have collections of hundreds of DVDs.
If a store owner worried about shoplifting tried to get a law passed where everyone must carry scanners around and wear manacles that would lock and prevent us moving whenever the scanners think there is a problem with stolen goods(and we have to foot the bill). We'd think they were crazy, but this is exactly what the entertainment industry wants to do with our computers.
When are we going to start ignoring these windbags in the entertainment industry bleating about their stolen movies? They have record box office sales and are reaping the rich rewards of technical innovation, now they want to kill the goose that produced their golden egg.
Movies & music and the systems used to distribute and sell them are not natural systems, they are artificial systems WE choose to live by. A performer used to have to perform live for his pay, there was no recording. An artist used to have to stand on stage every night and work to collect his cash. Now thanks to technology they can perform once and release a product, but it's an artificial system enabled by technology. That technology risks undermining this system is not a reason to undermine technical innovation. The people who create entertainment products must adapt to the new environment. They have no natural right to sell their products produced once and mass produced forever for very little cost. It is an ARTIFICIAL right thet we grant them in law. It's time this was made clear. These rights they claim are artificial rights in an unnatural technical environment granted to them by the people they increasingly try to control.
Let's remember your first moronic post, because you're trying to pretend that you actually had a clue. You wrote "So, out of a sample of two, one may have been ("up to") dead...".
So quit pretending that this is about some semantic subtlety, it's not.
I did have a better argument you dope, you've completely ignored it. You tried to nit pick someone elses post and got it wrong, now you're left twisting trying to cover your ass. The original post made perfect sense to anyone with a clue.
No, in means that during some periods on some products they have experienced DOA rates of 50%. It's not ambiguous in the slightest. This is a commonly used expression and has a clear and unambiguous meaning despite how hard you try to misunderstand the issue.
Are you really this retarded? 50% DOA means 50% of delivered systems are DOA on some models over some finite period referred to by the poster. PC quality varies, buy from a DELL or an HP and your results will be better than buying from someone fly by night outfit. Calling it a "pee cee" merely reveals your bias. Like all Mac advocates you are a pushy zealot. Nobody is fooled by this.
Has it occurred to you that SGI owns Alias|Wavefront and you may not get a fair answer?
The SGI advantage has gone when it comes to workstation class graphics. PC cards outperform their systems in important areas and $15k could get you at least 3 top of the line PCs. Check out the specbench.org viewperf results if you want to see what the performance is like. There are a lot of systems and configurations there to choose from.
There's a distinction to be drawn between big iron and a lot of small iron. People who've never used big iron never draw that distinction, nor do people who're trying to publicise their latest and greatest cluster, but there is a difference. A cluster of fast 32 bit PCs networked with gigabit ethernet does not big iron make.
Wrong, the CRAY-Link was an SGI invention, the ccNUMA architecture and crossbar based Origin architecture was designed build and ready to ship BEFORE SGI bought CRAY. Buying CRAY was a highly questionable move. The Origin would have killed a lot of CRAY's business and SGI sold their sparc based product design to SUN anyway. SGI ended up with a purchase that would have been their growth opportunity, they could have TAKEN huge parts of CRAY's business instead they bought it and the overheads that went with it. SGI never properly rationalized the businesses and joined the orgamizations after that, and they put a complete ass of a Cray manager in charge of the entire company. SGI beat CRAY into submission and instead of killing them, rescued them and put some of their failed management in charge. Dumb bastards.
Dude I know why they were on the comittee and what it was called, it's all in the article so how could I be missinfoirmed, but they're still supposed to do the right thing, they were in there because they were qualified. There is the issue of trust after entering into this alliance with the other parties, on top of this there is the public trust of making a good faith recommendation to the FCC. As for someone recommending these whores to be on the alliance, this just demonstrates their profoundly bad judgement, it's not a badge of honour I don't care who's on the reference, the record is there, its a stain on the advocates record. It's a real bummer when you have to sue to get the cash you were promised for your vote but that's what happened here. The really sad thing is that people like you can't see naked bribery when the evidence is presented to them like this, and run around trying to justify this disgrace.
No it is not what they did. They sold their vote in a secret alliance to deliberately keep a *foreign* technology out, by their own admission. By their own admission in testimonty they say the knew their chosen technology was not superior. They were on this committee because they had invented a codec and their hat was in the ring. They SOLD their vote rather than voting on merit.
The whole point of granting some esteemed organization a vote and membership on a committee is that they use their judgement and weigh greater interests in the ballance, not whore themselves to the highest bidder.
There is absolutely no point in giving MIT another vote on any panel. They'll just use it like a cash windfall which it's NOT supposed to be. We could actually sell standards control to the highest bidder and put the cash to some use, we don't because it's obviously a bad thing. MIT doing this by proxy is no better, in fact it's worse because they betray a trust.
This has to be the third year running I've heard how the Leonid shower is going to be a once in 33 years spectacular experience. Enough already, which year is it and can we dispense with the Leonid hype for the next 32 years if this is indeed the peak?
Excellent is indeed an opinion based on working with people educated in India. It beats fabricating quotes to criticize people and editing out inconvenient parts that prove your troll redundant. It takes a special kind of lunacy only found online to have fools like you running around making inane comments critical of people when they have already qualified their own remarks.
Why don't you quote the rest of the comment? The part where I said they lack the infrastructure to deliver it to everyone. I didn't use the word "high" I used the word excellent, there is a difference as you'd know if you were literate. Indian Universities are good but there is a strict selection process where the vast majority do not have access to that education.
I'm not convinced this can be solved from outside or that all cultures want it solved. This kind of transformation needs to start from within. Indiais a great example of a country with excellent educational expertise and literacy, but they lack the educational infrastructure to deliver it to everyone. Compounding this their culture is not geared towards allowing all childern to spend their time learning. Many children in India and other cultures are breadwinners.
Bootstsapping industries in these countries also requires profound cultural change that is often rejected.
I don't care what they choose to write, that has no bearing on my obligations. I can say on my web site that you owe me a million bucks. Would you pay up? Go on say "yah".
That is just deliberately muddled thinking, don't excuse it with a smiley, you're confusing people. They put it on the web, therefore they know you're going to view it, viewing it does not constitute an agreement. The click through license has some legal weight to it now but it does require a CLICK THROUGH, understand? You need to click your agreement, it's not a passive thing.
Nobody posted any of the contents. Of course it's legal to mention it. Besides, you don't have to accept the agreement to read it, or comment on it so you are not bound by it in any way.
Exactly. They've just removed the last vestiges of accountability. Before now most of them weren't accountable, now they don't even want to associate with anyone who IS accountable. Now they need to be disbanded before they turn into the secretive and beaurocratic money pit they aspire to be.
Just take this as evidence of another guy at the head of a company who is completely out of touch with his business, and move along. Normally the moronic ideas like this get canned before the big guy opens his mouth. Either this one slipped through or IBM have lost the cluster of technically savvy peons who usually vet the pronouncements of the senior execs. What a frikin' moron, sell your IBM stock.
Oooh you mean I can get another 15% performance is I install a fridge in my PC? Why don't I just wait a month and buy the next version and save the money, hastle and electricity.
It probably doesn't have any so he didn't think it was pretty enough to include in his review. You gotta get your priorities straight. It doesn't matter if your heat sink turns to slag and melts a hole through your motherboard, while the noise from your case blasts your eardrums to oblivion, just so long as your LEDs are the right color.
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The tech industry has handed these people the biggest market opportunity in decates and all they do is bitch & moan and worry about theft. Talk about an obsession. They have abused technology to stop legitimately purchased DVDs bought in one area from playing in another, for no reason other than exercising a control over consumers that they have no natural right to exercise. I don't know anyone who downloads movies online, I know plenty of meople who have collections of hundreds of DVDs.
If a store owner worried about shoplifting tried to get a law passed where everyone must carry scanners around and wear manacles that would lock and prevent us moving whenever the scanners think there is a problem with stolen goods(and we have to foot the bill). We'd think they were crazy, but this is exactly what the entertainment industry wants to do with our computers.
When are we going to start ignoring these windbags in the entertainment industry bleating about their stolen movies? They have record box office sales and are reaping the rich rewards of technical innovation, now they want to kill the goose that produced their golden egg.
Movies & music and the systems used to distribute and sell them are not natural systems, they are artificial systems WE choose to live by. A performer used to have to perform live for his pay, there was no recording. An artist used to have to stand on stage every night and work to collect his cash. Now thanks to technology they can perform once and release a product, but it's an artificial system enabled by technology. That technology risks undermining this system is not a reason to undermine technical innovation. The people who create entertainment products must adapt to the new environment. They have no natural right to sell their products produced once and mass produced forever for very little cost. It is an ARTIFICIAL right thet we grant them in law. It's time this was made clear. These rights they claim are artificial rights in an unnatural technical environment granted to them by the people they increasingly try to control.
Let's remember your first moronic post, because you're trying to pretend that you actually had a clue. You wrote "So, out of a sample of two, one may have been ("up to") dead...".
So quit pretending that this is about some semantic subtlety, it's not.
I did have a better argument you dope, you've completely ignored it. You tried to nit pick someone elses post and got it wrong, now you're left twisting trying to cover your ass. The original post made perfect sense to anyone with a clue.
Quit grasping at straws and admit you're wrong.
No, in means that during some periods on some products they have experienced DOA rates of 50%. It's not ambiguous in the slightest. This is a commonly used expression and has a clear and unambiguous meaning despite how hard you try to misunderstand the issue.
Are you really this retarded? 50% DOA means 50% of delivered systems are DOA on some models over some finite period referred to by the poster. PC quality varies, buy from a DELL or an HP and your results will be better than buying from someone fly by night outfit. Calling it a "pee cee" merely reveals your bias. Like all Mac advocates you are a pushy zealot. Nobody is fooled by this.
Has it occurred to you that SGI owns Alias|Wavefront and you may not get a fair answer?
The SGI advantage has gone when it comes to workstation class graphics. PC cards outperform their systems in important areas and $15k could get you at least 3 top of the line PCs. Check out the specbench.org viewperf results if you want to see what the performance is like. There are a lot of systems and configurations there to choose from.
There's a distinction to be drawn between big iron and a lot of small iron. People who've never used big iron never draw that distinction, nor do people who're trying to publicise their latest and greatest cluster, but there is a difference. A cluster of fast 32 bit PCs networked with gigabit ethernet does not big iron make.
Wrong, the CRAY-Link was an SGI invention, the ccNUMA architecture and crossbar based Origin architecture was designed build and ready to ship BEFORE SGI bought CRAY. Buying CRAY was a highly questionable move. The Origin would have killed a lot of CRAY's business and SGI sold their sparc based product design to SUN anyway. SGI ended up with a purchase that would have been their growth opportunity, they could have TAKEN huge parts of CRAY's business instead they bought it and the overheads that went with it. SGI never properly rationalized the businesses and joined the orgamizations after that, and they put a complete ass of a Cray manager in charge of the entire company. SGI beat CRAY into submission and instead of killing them, rescued them and put some of their failed management in charge. Dumb bastards.
Dude I know why they were on the comittee and what it was called, it's all in the article so how could I be missinfoirmed, but they're still supposed to do the right thing, they were in there because they were qualified. There is the issue of trust after entering into this alliance with the other parties, on top of this there is the public trust of making a good faith recommendation to the FCC. As for someone recommending these whores to be on the alliance, this just demonstrates their profoundly bad judgement, it's not a badge of honour I don't care who's on the reference, the record is there, its a stain on the advocates record. It's a real bummer when you have to sue to get the cash you were promised for your vote but that's what happened here. The really sad thing is that people like you can't see naked bribery when the evidence is presented to them like this, and run around trying to justify this disgrace.
No it is not what they did. They sold their vote in a secret alliance to deliberately keep a *foreign* technology out, by their own admission. By their own admission in testimonty they say the knew their chosen technology was not superior. They were on this committee because they had invented a codec and their hat was in the ring. They SOLD their vote rather than voting on merit.
The whole point of granting some esteemed organization a vote and membership on a committee is that they use their judgement and weigh greater interests in the ballance, not whore themselves to the highest bidder.
There is absolutely no point in giving MIT another vote on any panel. They'll just use it like a cash windfall which it's NOT supposed to be. We could actually sell standards control to the highest bidder and put the cash to some use, we don't because it's obviously a bad thing. MIT doing this by proxy is no better, in fact it's worse because they betray a trust.
Great movie, Telly Savalas has his greatest ever performance in this movie. It's worth watching just for this.
This has to be the third year running I've heard how the Leonid shower is going to be a once in 33 years spectacular experience. Enough already, which year is it and can we dispense with the Leonid hype for the next 32 years if this is indeed the peak?
Excellent is indeed an opinion based on working with people educated in India. It beats fabricating quotes to criticize people and editing out inconvenient parts that prove your troll redundant. It takes a special kind of lunacy only found online to have fools like you running around making inane comments critical of people when they have already qualified their own remarks.
Why don't you quote the rest of the comment? The part where I said they lack the infrastructure to deliver it to everyone. I didn't use the word "high" I used the word excellent, there is a difference as you'd know if you were literate. Indian Universities are good but there is a strict selection process where the vast majority do not have access to that education.
I'm not convinced this can be solved from outside or that all cultures want it solved. This kind of transformation needs to start from within. Indiais a great example of a country with excellent educational expertise and literacy, but they lack the educational infrastructure to deliver it to everyone. Compounding this their culture is not geared towards allowing all childern to spend their time learning. Many children in India and other cultures are breadwinners.
Bootstsapping industries in these countries also requires profound cultural change that is often rejected.
I don't care what they choose to write, that has no bearing on my obligations. I can say on my web site that you owe me a million bucks. Would you pay up? Go on say "yah".
That is just deliberately muddled thinking, don't excuse it with a smiley, you're confusing people. They put it on the web, therefore they know you're going to view it, viewing it does not constitute an agreement. The click through license has some legal weight to it now but it does require a CLICK THROUGH, understand? You need to click your agreement, it's not a passive thing.
Nobody posted any of the contents. Of course it's legal to mention it. Besides, you don't have to accept the agreement to read it, or comment on it so you are not bound by it in any way.
Exactly. They've just removed the last vestiges of accountability. Before now most of them weren't accountable, now they don't even want to associate with anyone who IS accountable. Now they need to be disbanded before they turn into the secretive and beaurocratic money pit they aspire to be.
Someone should hold them accountable.... oh wait!
Just take this as evidence of another guy at the head of a company who is completely out of touch with his business, and move along. Normally the moronic ideas like this get canned before the big guy opens his mouth. Either this one slipped through or IBM have lost the cluster of technically savvy peons who usually vet the pronouncements of the senior execs. What a frikin' moron, sell your IBM stock.
Oooh you mean I can get another 15% performance is I install a fridge in my PC? Why don't I just wait a month and buy the next version and save the money, hastle and electricity.
It probably doesn't have any so he didn't think it was pretty enough to include in his review. You gotta get your priorities straight. It doesn't matter if your heat sink turns to slag and melts a hole through your motherboard, while the noise from your case blasts your eardrums to oblivion, just so long as your LEDs are the right color.