It lets card manufacturers produce cards that will work with developers games, without either party having to talk to each other to ensure compatability.
Without it, your card would have to be specifically coded for, to enable the game to run. As it is, most cards from most manufacturers work with most games, as opposed to a few cards from a few manufacturers work with a few games.
Your card not being able to play those games isn't microsoft's fault. Of course, this is slashdot, where logic never impedes an anti-MS argument.
IT people in the US are earning significantly more than their Indian counterpart, even when cost of living, etc., is factored in. IT jobs in the US pay much more than their market worth. That's my point.
You clearly don't have a heart if you're a libertarian. You don't care about your fellow man who is hungry. You don't care about people from impoverished backgrounds who need help to get out. You don't care about ANYONE but yourself. That's what Libertarians are - purely selfish. Sure, your selfish stance can come off as good when dealing with an issue where the common stance agrees with yours, but that doesn't mean everyone thinks like you. Most people actually care about others. They actually give a shit that some people are born into this world with less money than others, and that racial prejudice causes some to get a much harsher life than others. You obviously don't, if you think everyone should go it alone.
America was founded by immigrants. Stopping immigrants coming over now goes against the sentiments of American history. Those visas are essential to US growth, and the growth of many countries. The US can get rid of them, and then the jobs they would fill will go abroad, and the US will miss out on all that tax they could have gained from that worker. Racism sure is ugly.
Why do we deserve to do the jobs in the first place? If I demanded a salary of £50k to sweep the streets, I'd expect my job to go to someone else. That's just logical. IT is footloose, by which I mean it's not dependent on location (no raw materials needed), and as such it can operate almost anywhere. If India can do the same work we'd do here, but for less, who are we to complain? We're the ones who have priced ourselves out of the market. If we offered something the Indians can't do (as in adding a certain value), then the jobs will stay. As it is, we offer the same service but for lots more money. Would you pay $300 to rent a video from Shop A if Shop B had the same video for $3? Exactly.
What I want to know, is why someone with a $90k job feels it's their right to have that job, especially when someone else can do it for less. If you're that worried about money, you should be able to understand why your vastly-overpaid job went elsewhere.
That's the risk you run being in a footloose sector. There are no physical requirements for the IT work being offshored, so there are no reasons for it to stay anywhere. The person who offers the best deal (note: not necessarily the cheapest) gets the business. It's not just charging a low price that gets these companies the IT work, but a certain guarantee of quality. If the US can't compete financially, then it must add some value that can't be added somewhere else.
It's the free market at work. Something the US has been pushing on everyone for a long time. Something about cakes and eating springs to mind;)
So what's the point if only new items are factually accurate? No-one's going to use Wikipedia to look at current events, only hard-to-find stuff, which by definition would be termed "shitty" by you.
Their funding is irrelevant. They're an encyclopedia, and as such need to have a clue about what they have in their database. If they can't at least guarantee some sort of review by someone knowledgeable of the facts, they shouldn't call themselves an encyclopedia. I mean, if it's just stuff someone's pulled out of their ass, it becomes less usefull.
You're branding the entire industry as bad guys, when this is clearly not the case. I work at a cellphone reseller, a business specialist that provides cellphones for entire companies. The phones are sold very cheaply (often given away), as the real money is in the line rental. Your monthly fee more than makes up for the handset after a few months, and the network makes lots more money from charging cross-network "tax", when calls originating off their network are routed across it. Saying they "shoot themselves in the foot" is pretty silly, as you wouldn't want a phone if you had to pay full trade price on it. It's not "lost profit", but ofsetted against future payments by you, the client.
If you have to lie to make sales of phones, the place you work at has shitty ethics. Honesty works, even with mobile phones. If you explain to the client exactly what they have to pay, and then fight for them over any billing errors (which do err on the side of caution for the network, by the way), you can make many clients and keep even more.
Well, it's been demonstrated that the technology is harmful. The Caller ID system is used by people to identify malicious callers, and other illegal uses of phones. Getting rid of that ability is endangering victims and making life a lot harder for law enforcement agencies. That is a far more substantial argument than that of a marketing tool.
The legitimate uses you named were far from convincing. Those agencies who need to hide their numbers already can do that, with no new help. Introducing this service would give that power to everyone, which (as I've pointed out before) can only harm.
I understand what you're saying, but I'm not sure I agree entirely.
The environmental argument was just part of the initiative. The levels of traffic in London had detremental effects in lots of ways.
I live in Islington, N1 (just outside zone 1). I work in Hanger Lane, W5 (zone 3). I use public transport every day to get to work and back. I used to live in Berkshire, and commute in and back every day. I managed that using only public transport, and it was fast. The argument that commuters need cars is kind of silly, as a perfectly adequate infrastructure for commuting exists.
There really is no reason to drive a car around london. Sure, in the outer zones, but in the centre it's just illogical. jim.
Credit/collection agencies, bail bondsmen, PIs and even Repo men can call from lines that don't announce who they are. I mean, you wouldn't have a line registered under your business if it's a liability to your profession. The use of an alternative name is understandable and legal, it doesn't warrant a technology like this. As for pretention? That's just ridiculous. You're suggesting it's use as a marketing tool is a good reason to allow it? Do those feelings extend to spam? Practical jokes? Now I know you're scraping.
The only use of it is deception. It can only do harm - there are no legitimate uses for it.
If you really want to freak people out pretending to be god, just change your name by deed poll;)
It's a conflict of interests. That should be enough to make any decent person walk away. It's incredibly disrespectful and inappropriate for them to continue.
Why do they like Bush? He keeps cutting their benefits and all the help they get. He didn't even get them the interceptor body armor that stops AK47 rounds before they went to Iraq. He's about as much of a friend to the US military is as a dog is to a steak.
I can understand the whole action hero attitude the US military likes, but the guy seems to say he likes the military, then stabs it in the back some more. Don't they read about what Bush is doing to them? He's their commander-in-chief, but seems to hate them. So very, very strange.
If you insist on driving a car in London, you deserve to get charged £6 ($10) a day. I see so many people driving around in their cars, not carrying anything large or any other activity where a car is needed. No disabled badges, no baby seats in the back, nothing. It's a LUXURY, not a necessity, and most definitely not a right. Public transport in London works wonders, considering what it's up against. If people would start leaving their cars at home and travelling with conscience, the whole city would move a lot quicker.
Coal is the most polluting fossil fuel you can burn. It chucks out shitloads of nasty gasses, and if we don't want to be breathing a thick pea soup every day, it needs to be reduced drastically. Sure, it provides electricity, but it's doing more harm than good.
Damn I sound like a tree-hugger.
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I can get them brand new for £85, which is about $145.
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Here we go again;)
I'm saying if you want a 3-in-1 device, you obviously don't want the BEST phone, the BEST pda or the BEST camera. You just want functional devices, which they clearly are (hence them being sold like hotcakes).
I work for a mobile phone company, so I can tell you EXACTLY how much the handsets cost, how much commission the place got from the network for the handset (excluding tariff), etc., to the nearest penny;)
Again, you keep pulling these extreme cases out of your hat to illustrate how bad these devices are. For each of those, I can find 100 good examples of where it'll come in handy. I admire your tenacity, though
My cellphone runs for days without charging, as do PDAs, as do cameras. I've never even thought of batteries when buying a device, short of if it's lithium-based or not. If I do have a device I need extra power for, I just get a bigger battery. It's the same no matter how many functions the device has.
When I talk about PDA/phone/camera things, I'm talking about smartphones. P800, P900, windows-based ones, etc. They have superb basic PDA features, which is about all you need for a basic PDA, which they claim to be. I don't see a problem here;) If you need a PDA, get one of those phones. Most of the consultants here at work have them, and they're great. No more phone/pda syncing, for one thing;)
Not to mention they gave everyone a free 50% speed upgrade on their accounts. I originally had the 2mb, and they gave me an extra 1mb free. That's pretty cool.
You'd just install the unsigned drivers anyway - windows doesn't require you to use WHQL-certified drivers, it just recommends it (which is good, as most crashes are through crappy drivers).
You forgot the part where they break the rest of the computer and keep it in a warehouse for 18 months, then send it back to the owner as if nothing happened:-P hehehe
The terminology is a bit misleading, only because some companies offered lower-speed DSL (150kb), and called it "broadband", much to the regulator's dismay.
We've had broadband for longer than that, and 512 isn't high-speed. My 3mb cable is much higher than that, and even that's not the fastest out there.
I have a blueyonder phone and internet connection - BT don't get a look in. There are hundreds of ISPs in Britain, now thanks to LLU and cable implementation, most of them can have a chunk of infrastructure to boot. Competition is present in the UK, we just have very, very strict regulation of the service, to ensure the service we do have is as good as it can be. We could deregulate the industry, and within 1 month you'll be crying yourself to sleep wishing for today;)
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Avalon is going to be released to XP before Longhorn is released, so in fact it'll pre-date Longhorn.
Without it, your card would have to be specifically coded for, to enable the game to run. As it is, most cards from most manufacturers work with most games, as opposed to a few cards from a few manufacturers work with a few games.
Your card not being able to play those games isn't microsoft's fault. Of course, this is slashdot, where logic never impedes an anti-MS argument.
IT people in the US are earning significantly more than their Indian counterpart, even when cost of living, etc., is factored in. IT jobs in the US pay much more than their market worth. That's my point.
You'd be fucked if you ever needed any help.
America was founded by immigrants. Stopping immigrants coming over now goes against the sentiments of American history. Those visas are essential to US growth, and the growth of many countries. The US can get rid of them, and then the jobs they would fill will go abroad, and the US will miss out on all that tax they could have gained from that worker. Racism sure is ugly.
Why do we deserve to do the jobs in the first place? If I demanded a salary of £50k to sweep the streets, I'd expect my job to go to someone else. That's just logical. IT is footloose, by which I mean it's not dependent on location (no raw materials needed), and as such it can operate almost anywhere. If India can do the same work we'd do here, but for less, who are we to complain? We're the ones who have priced ourselves out of the market. If we offered something the Indians can't do (as in adding a certain value), then the jobs will stay. As it is, we offer the same service but for lots more money. Would you pay $300 to rent a video from Shop A if Shop B had the same video for $3? Exactly.
That's the risk you run being in a footloose sector. There are no physical requirements for the IT work being offshored, so there are no reasons for it to stay anywhere. The person who offers the best deal (note: not necessarily the cheapest) gets the business. It's not just charging a low price that gets these companies the IT work, but a certain guarantee of quality. If the US can't compete financially, then it must add some value that can't be added somewhere else.
It's the free market at work. Something the US has been pushing on everyone for a long time. Something about cakes and eating springs to mind ;)
Their funding is irrelevant. They're an encyclopedia, and as such need to have a clue about what they have in their database. If they can't at least guarantee some sort of review by someone knowledgeable of the facts, they shouldn't call themselves an encyclopedia. I mean, if it's just stuff someone's pulled out of their ass, it becomes less usefull.
If you have to lie to make sales of phones, the place you work at has shitty ethics. Honesty works, even with mobile phones. If you explain to the client exactly what they have to pay, and then fight for them over any billing errors (which do err on the side of caution for the network, by the way), you can make many clients and keep even more.
It's a conflict of interests. She shouldn't be in a position where she could intefere. That reason alone means she should decline any involvement.
The legitimate uses you named were far from convincing. Those agencies who need to hide their numbers already can do that, with no new help. Introducing this service would give that power to everyone, which (as I've pointed out before) can only harm.
The environmental argument was just part of the initiative. The levels of traffic in London had detremental effects in lots of ways.
I live in Islington, N1 (just outside zone 1). I work in Hanger Lane, W5 (zone 3). I use public transport every day to get to work and back. I used to live in Berkshire, and commute in and back every day. I managed that using only public transport, and it was fast. The argument that commuters need cars is kind of silly, as a perfectly adequate infrastructure for commuting exists.
There really is no reason to drive a car around london. Sure, in the outer zones, but in the centre it's just illogical. jim.
The only use of it is deception. It can only do harm - there are no legitimate uses for it.
If you really want to freak people out pretending to be god, just change your name by deed poll ;)
It's a conflict of interests. That should be enough to make any decent person walk away. It's incredibly disrespectful and inappropriate for them to continue.
I can understand the whole action hero attitude the US military likes, but the guy seems to say he likes the military, then stabs it in the back some more. Don't they read about what Bush is doing to them? He's their commander-in-chief, but seems to hate them. So very, very strange.
If you insist on driving a car in London, you deserve to get charged £6 ($10) a day. I see so many people driving around in their cars, not carrying anything large or any other activity where a car is needed. No disabled badges, no baby seats in the back, nothing. It's a LUXURY, not a necessity, and most definitely not a right. Public transport in London works wonders, considering what it's up against. If people would start leaving their cars at home and travelling with conscience, the whole city would move a lot quicker.
Damn I sound like a tree-hugger.
I can get them brand new for £85, which is about $145.
I'm saying if you want a 3-in-1 device, you obviously don't want the BEST phone, the BEST pda or the BEST camera. You just want functional devices, which they clearly are (hence them being sold like hotcakes).
I work for a mobile phone company, so I can tell you EXACTLY how much the handsets cost, how much commission the place got from the network for the handset (excluding tariff), etc., to the nearest penny ;)
Again, you keep pulling these extreme cases out of your hat to illustrate how bad these devices are. For each of those, I can find 100 good examples of where it'll come in handy. I admire your tenacity, though
My cellphone runs for days without charging, as do PDAs, as do cameras. I've never even thought of batteries when buying a device, short of if it's lithium-based or not. If I do have a device I need extra power for, I just get a bigger battery. It's the same no matter how many functions the device has.
When I talk about PDA/phone/camera things, I'm talking about smartphones. P800, P900, windows-based ones, etc. They have superb basic PDA features, which is about all you need for a basic PDA, which they claim to be. I don't see a problem here ;) If you need a PDA, get one of those phones. Most of the consultants here at work have them, and they're great. No more phone/pda syncing, for one thing ;)
Not to mention they gave everyone a free 50% speed upgrade on their accounts. I originally had the 2mb, and they gave me an extra 1mb free. That's pretty cool.
You'd just install the unsigned drivers anyway - windows doesn't require you to use WHQL-certified drivers, it just recommends it (which is good, as most crashes are through crappy drivers).
Damn that's old. I use ROT-26 instead. Double the protection. ph33r my data!
You forgot the part where they break the rest of the computer and keep it in a warehouse for 18 months, then send it back to the owner as if nothing happened :-P hehehe
We've had broadband for longer than that, and 512 isn't high-speed. My 3mb cable is much higher than that, and even that's not the fastest out there.
I have a blueyonder phone and internet connection - BT don't get a look in. There are hundreds of ISPs in Britain, now thanks to LLU and cable implementation, most of them can have a chunk of infrastructure to boot. Competition is present in the UK, we just have very, very strict regulation of the service, to ensure the service we do have is as good as it can be. We could deregulate the industry, and within 1 month you'll be crying yourself to sleep wishing for today ;)