Silly parent, your starting price completely ignores the soon-to-be-arriving hyperinflation! My guess is it'll be more around the price range of 4-5000$ intro.
I was thinking that as I wrote it, but even intel said that they didn't believe raytracing was really viable until 8 core CPU's were the standard, more likely 16 core processors. Plus there seems to be very little backing in the games industry for raytracing as noted by John Carmack and others refuting that raytracing was the wave of the future. Though maybe that's the idea mentioned above with the Larrabee chipset?
Seriously - about the only thing intel graphics offers is raytracing. Their graphics chipsets are notoriously subpar, even the very best of them. Why would sony send it their way? ATI makes sense for the Wii2 since they've been working with the gamecube platform since its inception... but intel? Can someone clear this up? Do they have some magically awesome chipset that has never graced the consumer market?
Sadly I think most of today's generation has forgotten why 1984 is scary. Especially if you wrap it up in pretty colors and throw a 2.0 and a medallion that says "BETA" on it.
It seems idiotic to me. What counts as an application? What about services? What if you turn on IIS? Does that count? How about SNMP? How about explorer? How about the windows login executable? Svchost.exe? Bluetooth tracker service? Rundll32.exe? It sounds impossible to me - and very easily gotten around. Suppose each of those are signed, just remove the signature check and boom, done.
*TOTALLY* buying a 'windows 7' capable pc and suing when I can't run the most bells-and-whistles-ful version that exists. Anyone else game? We can start planning the class action lawsuit now!
I was going to say, Putin's comments sounded like they could have easily been spoken by anyone in the Bush regime. Except instead of saying our programmers are awesome, he'd make a comment about how all of our programmers are now in India.
I agree. All it takes is lawsuits to start slinging out a users and they'll jump ship to other ISP's who aren't in bed with the RIAA. Since it'd be a niche market, you can guarantee some companies will not sign. Then when the users jump, their friends and family will go with them. Soon AT&T and Comcast lose droves of customers. This is an idiotic business deal unless they can market the living hell out of it and actually provide users with something they want.
I agree, however Microsoft still has its brain firmly planted in the US with its marketing. Selling windows for 25$ in a nation where the average income per year is 100$ (just pulling numbers out of my butt) isn't going to get you any customers. Especially since most of these developing nations have a MASSIVE number of have-nots compared to the 1-2% of haves.
EEEK! You do appear to be correct. I was thinking it was pure reagent grade THC, however it isn't apparently. If the LD50 for an 80kg person is 5.2lbs, and the average content of cannabis sativa/indica is approximately 20% THC (for mid-range pot, the content is much lower on the weaker strains, but some go as high as 30% or more), that would come out to roughly 26 pounds of plant material. So, my memory was faulty. Good catch on the math:)
If this is true, then why do schools insist on giving money to sports programs while starving arts and sciences budgets? Not only do they not do their job, they're effectively making kids dumber by causing brain damage.
You're off by about 15 years. The original tax act was in 1916 and it didn't outright make pot illegal. It made it illegal without a license. However to get the license you had to have pot in hand. Since you had to have it in hand, you had to commit a crime to get the license. That wasn't an accident (as was pointed out by the Leary trials). But the whole argument behind it got shot to hell by the Laguardia report but of course the federal government refuses to recognize science as much as it recognizes zealotry and propaganda.
That's a circular argument. You're saying it should be illegal because they don't have a means to test for it as an illegal substance. If its legal, your argument dissapears. No offense, just sayin:)
No offense, but wtf are you talking about? Safer? The LD50 of THC is somewhere in the range of 25 POUNDS of crystalline reagent grade product. Its physically impossible to overdose on marijuana - you simple can't fit 25 pounds in your bloodstream. No other pain killer or appetite stimulant has that sort of LD50. It is about as safe as you can get - even safer than sugar.
Tin whiskers do exist, but only in solder joins that don't use lead. So far as I know, lead is one of the reasons you can't just throw a PC away. The only nation I could see tin whiskers being an issue would be the UK, since lead in solder is illegal there. Unless I'm wrong, that info could be dated. It's been awhile since I did any real electronics work.
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Yeah, I think the development will go something along those lines.
Silly parent, your starting price completely ignores the soon-to-be-arriving hyperinflation! My guess is it'll be more around the price range of 4-5000$ intro.
I was thinking that as I wrote it, but even intel said that they didn't believe raytracing was really viable until 8 core CPU's were the standard, more likely 16 core processors. Plus there seems to be very little backing in the games industry for raytracing as noted by John Carmack and others refuting that raytracing was the wave of the future. Though maybe that's the idea mentioned above with the Larrabee chipset?
Seriously - about the only thing intel graphics offers is raytracing. Their graphics chipsets are notoriously subpar, even the very best of them. Why would sony send it their way? ATI makes sense for the Wii2 since they've been working with the gamecube platform since its inception... but intel? Can someone clear this up? Do they have some magically awesome chipset that has never graced the consumer market?
I believe you missed the ending, when Winston gets captured. And how exactly it is that he gets captured.
Just wait til Megan's Law 2.0, when all babies are chipped at birth with RFID GPS chips! *tinfoilhat*
Sadly I think most of today's generation has forgotten why 1984 is scary. Especially if you wrap it up in pretty colors and throw a 2.0 and a medallion that says "BETA" on it.
And Loopt.
From that perspective, what if they just wanted to learn php?
Not for a light weight, low cost demo machine for trade shows, etc. Need to show your glitzy website? Voila.
It seems idiotic to me. What counts as an application? What about services? What if you turn on IIS? Does that count? How about SNMP? How about explorer? How about the windows login executable? Svchost.exe? Bluetooth tracker service? Rundll32.exe? It sounds impossible to me - and very easily gotten around. Suppose each of those are signed, just remove the signature check and boom, done.
*TOTALLY* buying a 'windows 7' capable pc and suing when I can't run the most bells-and-whistles-ful version that exists. Anyone else game? We can start planning the class action lawsuit now!
I just heard 1 billion screamin' Chinamen boggle at your comment. It sounded... well, you can imagine.
I was going to say, Putin's comments sounded like they could have easily been spoken by anyone in the Bush regime. Except instead of saying our programmers are awesome, he'd make a comment about how all of our programmers are now in India.
I agree. All it takes is lawsuits to start slinging out a users and they'll jump ship to other ISP's who aren't in bed with the RIAA. Since it'd be a niche market, you can guarantee some companies will not sign. Then when the users jump, their friends and family will go with them. Soon AT&T and Comcast lose droves of customers. This is an idiotic business deal unless they can market the living hell out of it and actually provide users with something they want.
I agree, however Microsoft still has its brain firmly planted in the US with its marketing. Selling windows for 25$ in a nation where the average income per year is 100$ (just pulling numbers out of my butt) isn't going to get you any customers. Especially since most of these developing nations have a MASSIVE number of have-nots compared to the 1-2% of haves.
EEEK! You do appear to be correct. I was thinking it was pure reagent grade THC, however it isn't apparently. If the LD50 for an 80kg person is 5.2lbs, and the average content of cannabis sativa/indica is approximately 20% THC (for mid-range pot, the content is much lower on the weaker strains, but some go as high as 30% or more), that would come out to roughly 26 pounds of plant material. So, my memory was faulty. Good catch on the math :)
If this is true, then why do schools insist on giving money to sports programs while starving arts and sciences budgets? Not only do they not do their job, they're effectively making kids dumber by causing brain damage.
because I got high, because I got high, because I got highhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh
You're off by about 15 years. The original tax act was in 1916 and it didn't outright make pot illegal. It made it illegal without a license. However to get the license you had to have pot in hand. Since you had to have it in hand, you had to commit a crime to get the license. That wasn't an accident (as was pointed out by the Leary trials). But the whole argument behind it got shot to hell by the Laguardia report but of course the federal government refuses to recognize science as much as it recognizes zealotry and propaganda.
That's a circular argument. You're saying it should be illegal because they don't have a means to test for it as an illegal substance. If its legal, your argument dissapears. No offense, just sayin :)
No offense, but wtf are you talking about? Safer? The LD50 of THC is somewhere in the range of 25 POUNDS of crystalline reagent grade product. Its physically impossible to overdose on marijuana - you simple can't fit 25 pounds in your bloodstream. No other pain killer or appetite stimulant has that sort of LD50. It is about as safe as you can get - even safer than sugar.
Let me clarify, solder joints that don't use a tin/lead alloy. Sorry, it's a party night :)
Tin whiskers do exist, but only in solder joins that don't use lead. So far as I know, lead is one of the reasons you can't just throw a PC away. The only nation I could see tin whiskers being an issue would be the UK, since lead in solder is illegal there. Unless I'm wrong, that info could be dated. It's been awhile since I did any real electronics work.
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