>> What Linux geek wouldn't want MS to pay for their new server?
> A Linux geek that doesn't want to give Microsoft money.
Huh? The grandparent was correct. MS loses money on every Xbox machine they sell: in essence they subsidise the hardware.
So if you buy an Xbox, MS doesn't get your money. (Unless you buy games, which changes everything, as per the typical console business model. Whereas Sony seems to be making a small profit on the PS2 hardware too, at least nowadays with all the volume benefits, and up until the machine's price dives permanently into the gutter. Nintendo is rumored to be breaking even quite nicely with the hardware. -- Dunno about overall profiting, which pits the possibly bigger factors, per-game revenue and marketing costs against each other.)
You mean a "limited GF4". The XGPU (NV2A) in Xbox is in essence a GF3 (NV20) with an extra VS unit. GF4MX (NV17) is GF2 class (DX7).
Incidentally, I wonder if the "NV2A" codename comes not only from "somewhere between NV20 and NV25" but also in rememberance to the NV2 console chip, which Sega back then rejected because it was based on quadratic textures instead of textured triangles (like the non-DX-compliant NV1 which also almost killed Nvidia) and thus was a PITA to develop for.
You mean "Sonera, the Finnish side of TeliaSonera". ("Telia" is not a company any more, just a brand for the Swedish side of TeliaSonera. Not that Telia didn't somewhat get the upper hand in the merger...)
FWIW, this is soon likely to take place with Sonera, Finland's biggest ISP, as well.
Swedish Telia and Finnish Sonera (both stemming from the old national telephone companies, thus big players) merged into TeliaSonera last year, but still appear under the original names in the respective countries. Certainly they have a single policy on this.
And Sonera especially has lately had serious, even nation-wide trouble delivering emails, due to worms flooding the system. Actually I wonder why it was Telia that took these measures first -- I haven't read of similar trouble there. (Yeah, maybe I didn't get the email.)
Sir, you have your heroes mixed up! It's Arnold you're thinking about. Linus would do no such thing. Unless they were fighting over the last available pint of Guinness.
Gates and Windows didn't need to be involved in any way. Netscape (and Mosaic) had already made WWW available for PC computers; and there were plenty of email programs, enough of them available for free. The Internet needed local ISPs to spread outside universities to homes, not Microsoft... all the necessary software was already there.
(BTW, what on Earth did Windows the operating system have to do with it??? -- Apart from being a handy container for railroading IE into circulation, of course.)
Well, there is another need for a camera phone. Think "Look at the mess your idiot plumber made" or "Hon, what do think about this table?" and the like... A quick pic sent over to another phone can sometimes be very handy indeed in real life situations.
Nah. If you know your Mazwell Smart, you know that the mobile phone is just an evolutionary step (no pun intended) from the rubber boot. Nothing radical there.
But they used to make cable. That was their really big business. And now they are almost exclusively making wireless devices! Now how's that for an abandonment of roots? They have truly, um, severed their connection to their past!
Ah, but "hot flashing" refers to the procedure of borrowing a Flash chip -- with a working BIOS in it -- from another mobo (of same model of course), starting your computer with it and getting to BIOS, then switching your "dirty" Flash chip in there while the computer is still on, the saving the settings: problem solved.
Needless to say, this requires a good friend from whom to borrow the chip with the "clean" BIOS in it... You can fry the chip if the switch is not not done very carefully.
This has been done succesfully many times. I'd be hesitant to try myself, tho;-)
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>> What Linux geek wouldn't want MS to pay for their new server?
> A Linux geek that doesn't want to give Microsoft money.
Huh? The grandparent was correct. MS loses money on every Xbox machine they sell: in essence they subsidise the hardware.
So if you buy an Xbox, MS doesn't get your money. (Unless you buy games, which changes everything, as per the typical console business model. Whereas Sony seems to be making a small profit on the PS2 hardware too, at least nowadays with all the volume benefits, and up until the machine's price dives permanently into the gutter. Nintendo is rumored to be breaking even quite nicely with the hardware. -- Dunno about overall profiting, which pits the possibly bigger factors, per-game revenue and marketing costs against each other.)
You mean a "limited GF4". The XGPU (NV2A) in Xbox is in essence a GF3 (NV20) with an extra VS unit. GF4MX (NV17) is GF2 class (DX7).
Incidentally, I wonder if the "NV2A" codename comes not only from "somewhere between NV20 and NV25" but also in rememberance to the NV2 console chip, which Sega back then rejected because it was based on quadratic textures instead of textured triangles (like the non-DX-compliant NV1 which also almost killed Nvidia) and thus was a PITA to develop for.
Kippis! :)
Parent deserves a mod up!
You mean "Sonera, the Finnish side of TeliaSonera". ("Telia" is not a company any more, just a brand for the Swedish side of TeliaSonera. Not that Telia didn't somewhat get the upper hand in the merger...)
FWIW, this is soon likely to take place with Sonera, Finland's biggest ISP, as well.
Swedish Telia and Finnish Sonera (both stemming from the old national telephone companies, thus big players) merged into TeliaSonera last year, but still appear under the original names in the respective countries. Certainly they have a single policy on this.
And Sonera especially has lately had serious, even nation-wide trouble delivering emails, due to worms flooding the system. Actually I wonder why it was Telia that took these measures first -- I haven't read of similar trouble there. (Yeah, maybe I didn't get the email.)
-1 again. Interesting. Let's see if it happens again.
Sir, you have your heroes mixed up! It's Arnold you're thinking about. Linus would do no such thing. Unless they were fighting over the last available pint of Guinness.
Gates and Windows didn't need to be involved in any way. Netscape (and Mosaic) had already made WWW available for PC computers; and there were plenty of email programs, enough of them available for free. The Internet needed local ISPs to spread outside universities to homes, not Microsoft... all the necessary software was already there.
(BTW, what on Earth did Windows the operating system have to do with it??? -- Apart from being a handy container for railroading IE into circulation, of course.)
"Troll"? I don't get it. Thanks, crackhead mods.
Good, a new unit, but needs further clarification to be usable.
How many Librarians of Congress can you fit in a Volkswagen? And how many Librarians of Congress can you have dancing on the head of a pin?
Until these are resolved, I'll stick to the metric system.
Mod parent up!
Well, there is another need for a camera phone. Think "Look at the mess your idiot plumber made" or "Hon, what do think about this table?" and the like... A quick pic sent over to another phone can sometimes be very handy indeed in real life situations.
Agree with you about bona fide photography, tho.
I could have sworn I used Preview to check typos... Damn. "Mazwell" indeed.
Nah. If you know your Mazwell Smart, you know that the mobile phone is just an evolutionary step (no pun intended) from the rubber boot. Nothing radical there.
But they used to make cable. That was their really big business. And now they are almost exclusively making wireless devices! Now how's that for an abandonment of roots? They have truly, um, severed their connection to their past!
Ah, but "hot flashing" refers to the procedure of borrowing a Flash chip -- with a working BIOS in it -- from another mobo (of same model of course), starting your computer with it and getting to BIOS, then switching your "dirty" Flash chip in there while the computer is still on, the saving the settings: problem solved.
;-)
Needless to say, this requires a good friend from whom to borrow the chip with the "clean" BIOS in it... You can fry the chip if the switch is not not done very carefully.
This has been done succesfully many times. I'd be hesitant to try myself, tho
I'm not exactly sure why, but I laughed my ass off! Go figure.
Their corse is laid.
I read that as "Their corpse is laid" and didn't even notice anything unusual about it! Some association to the IBM Lawyer Army I guess...
SCO fakes arms
against Blue sea of troubles
lawyer cum hits face
Where do I sign up?
Sorry, it's Windows, so they won't be stable.
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10,000 people intentionally killed by guns a year.
C'mon now, I'm sure the Iraqis lost more than that.
Do diesel engined cars have VIN Diesel?
It's "Integrated Drive Electronics", but good point anyway.
Well, wasn't it possible to hot flash the BIOS back? Or was there some physical, permanent "destruction"?