> Probably not. Nobody really cares about Gateway anymore... They aren't doing > anything innovative and the only thing they've ever had going for them was that stupid cow.
There isn't a computer maker in the top ten that is really doing anything innovative anyway it's all copying or refining what has gone on before them before and marketing it as something people will want. If they get that right things fall into place.
Nobody knows gateway exists any more so their marketing is has been.
Also if it hits paint which is the most likely area of a car for something to hit its going to come off easily no matter what. The only thing holding the thing on no matter what strength glue it is, is the bond between paint and metal. And thats not strong. It's like when your sister glues your hand to the car because she caught you with the cat and you think the superglue is going to bond you to the outside of the car but you find the paint comes off in the shape of your hand. You're free even if the glue has held onto the paint.
I really don't see the issue with the Uwe Boll hatred around. I mean sure he's no spielberg but his movies are fun, watchable and even if they are silly then their source material is silly too. I've enjoyed all the movies of his I've seen that I've known were his. Just good solid entertainment. If you're looking for something deeper go subscribe to the european channel, of course you won't be able to understand them without subtitles lol.
I think this is yet another reason to show why Apple was sadly mistaken dropping PPC. Imagine two of these babies in the next Powermac. sixteen cores, and the CPU is available today.
GIMP has had great colour support for many years now, you don't need colour profiles if you're working on real true colour images, so be careful because some desktops are only 16 bit not 24 bit, meaning you will need to use colour profiles, but that's not a fault of the gimp that's a fault of some desktops.
If you want more information then the gimp user mailing list is the best place for it, and they'll tell you what you want to hear.
Intel said that this development provides it with a 'considerable lead over our competitors in the 45-nanometer generation'
Recent news says AMD is readying 45nm for production now, or last I read it did. That might have been in december, so I don't know if it's still current. If it is then it seems Intel is behind the 8 ball again and this is hype.
I heard from someone that the Pentium-M is better than any of AMD's offerings for mobile CPUs; is there any truth to this?
No its incorrect. the AMD mobile CPUs still outperform pentium M and their offspring currently the core duo and core solo chips. So the AMD ones are still out in front.
The only difference is the AMD laptop chips use more power, but you can always plug in somewhere and recharge so really this is no disadvantage.
> You won't find cartridges for your printer 14 years from now, yet I'm > sure you're nowhere as outraged with your printer's manufacturer > as you appear to be with Sony.
I have a canon BJ10ex printer that's approaching 13 years old. I bought a cartridge for it from the post office just before christmas.
1.5% of the computer market of course. And when iPod is a big moneyspinner for apple it is still not the core, of their business. Most profit they make is still coming from MAC's and software with them.
So they have 1.5% of the market for their biggest selling product. Doesnt sound so good 72 billion now does it.
This is the bit people fail to notice about a company. Apple for example aren't actually worth more than 70 billion but just their shares are. They're based on speculation and hope. This might sound like mac bashing but nothing at Apple indicates 70 billion in value anywhere. 6 billion in cash, some buildings and designs, some patents and about 1.5% of the market. with 5 billion revenue quarters. that's revenue not profit. so you're looking at maybe twenty billion at the tops in what something is worth.
Looking at the fundamentals like you say is the important thing. Dell is a much bigger company and has almost 50% of the world market. That's more profit in one quarter than apple's entire value.
> That does NOT require it to send any data anywhere, and yet it chooses to do so. That's the problem.
The server does not require Firefox to send information about CPU, Operating system or specific linux distro to a web server to get a page. In fact you could manually set the browser identity to null, and the webserver would happily provide you with a page that will work more than 99% of the time.
So that information is NOT required. It is wanted by the website owners perhaps, but it is NOT required to be sent.
Yet firefox (as one example because other browsers do it too) does send that information by default. Why is it telling web sites about my distro and which CPU it is running on? I didn't ask it to.
Did you know every major web browser by default sends out info about your operating system name and version, your CPU type, usually your ISP, your browser and version and sometimes extras added onto your browser, and allows it to be logged on almost every single website you have ever visited. Most web browsers DO NOT ALLOW YOU TO CHANGE THIS.
So browsers are spyware too by the attitude some people are taking here.
In other words defining as spyware is not a black and white picture. It's shades of grey and in this situation I see iTunes as pretty white.
"The mentality was we need to get these guys, and we're going to do whatever it takes to get them," he said.
The mentality is in relation to terrorists. Not average americans, but terrorists.
They may be illegally listening to average americans, but that's illegal as a technicality. Look at their above statement. "We need to get these guys" is not referring to americans. If you're listened to by the NSA, who cares really? YOU'RE NOT THEIR TARGET. Even if you had info that they could pull out to get terrorists, if you were phoning your aunt may and you mentioned that you'd seen something that looked suspicious, but you didn't report it, I'd rather they listened in on you, used your information and then got the guys they're after.
THEY ARE NOT AFTER *YOU* is the main thing to remember. It's illegality on a technicality like sharing music with friends so they can go buy their own copy of a CD. Not immoral and not reprehensible.
> At that company, competing "edutainment" programs were dismissed as inferior, > and this study proves that the "entertainment" portion just distracts kids away > from the education part of the activity.
The problem I think is parents dont dismiss those ones as inferior because they hold the attention of kids more and the kids sit there agog at the pretty lights and the pictures and the animations and it distracts them and acts just like the television as a babysitter. And so the kids end up dumb and can't read and the parents end up getting time to themselves and a way out of having to actually 'parent' the kids.
people like that should have their kids forcibly removed and the parents sent to prison. its unethical.
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> Probably not. Nobody really cares about Gateway anymore... They aren't doing
> anything innovative and the only thing they've ever had going for them was that stupid cow.
There isn't a computer maker in the top ten that is really doing anything innovative anyway it's all copying or refining what has gone on before them before and marketing it as something people will want. If they get that right things fall into place.
Nobody knows gateway exists any more so their marketing is has been.
Also if it hits paint which is the most likely area of a car for something to hit its going to come off easily no matter what. The only thing holding the thing on no matter what strength glue it is, is the bond between paint and metal. And thats not strong. It's like when your sister glues your hand to the car because she caught you with the cat and you think the superglue is going to bond you to the outside of the car but you find the paint comes off in the shape of your hand. You're free even if the glue has held onto the paint.
I really don't see the issue with the Uwe Boll hatred around. I mean sure he's no spielberg but his movies are fun, watchable and even if they are silly then their source material is silly too. I've enjoyed all the movies of his I've seen that I've known were his. Just good solid entertainment. If you're looking for something deeper go subscribe to the european channel, of course you won't be able to understand them without subtitles lol.
> "RUN FOR THE HILLS, THE GLACIERS ARE COMING!!!"
That would be a great public response. Should we wait until they are halfway up in the hills to tell them that's where glaciers come from?
Thats what all the other nuts from places like Nexus Magazine say.
Makes you wonder when you see what kind of company he's in.
I think this is yet another reason to show why Apple was sadly mistaken dropping PPC. Imagine two of these babies in the next Powermac. sixteen cores, and the CPU is available today.
Why oh why steve?
GIMP has had great colour support for many years now, you don't need colour profiles if you're working on real true colour images, so be careful because some desktops are only 16 bit not 24 bit, meaning you will need to use colour profiles, but that's not a fault of the gimp that's a fault of some desktops.
If you want more information then the gimp user mailing list is the best place for it, and they'll tell you what you want to hear.
It means he never has to put up with re-runs on television and got to escape the entire disco era unscathed.
I'm now wondering if he's been employed as a slashdot editor, and every dupe is a fresh exciting new story.
Intel said that this development provides it with a 'considerable lead over our competitors in the 45-nanometer generation'
Recent news says AMD is readying 45nm for production now, or last I read it did. That might have been in december, so I don't know if it's still current. If it is then it seems Intel is behind the 8 ball again and this is hype.
All I have to say is then it's obvious Hideo Kojima doesn't know what art is.
I heard from someone that the Pentium-M is better than any of AMD's offerings for mobile CPUs; is there any truth to this?
No its incorrect. the AMD mobile CPUs still outperform pentium M and their offspring currently the core duo and core solo chips. So the AMD ones are still out in front.
The only difference is the AMD laptop chips use more power, but you can always plug in somewhere and recharge so really this is no disadvantage.
> I certainly would not be bugged. I could care less.
How much less?
> You won't find cartridges for your printer 14 years from now, yet I'm
> sure you're nowhere as outraged with your printer's manufacturer
> as you appear to be with Sony.
I have a canon BJ10ex printer that's approaching 13 years old. I bought a cartridge for it from the post office just before christmas.
Another reason Apple's alliance with Intel wasn't such a good idea. Should have gone AMD, Steve.
backdoor teh gibson!!!
my first impressions tell me this is not just a DUPE but a TRIPE!
1.5% of which market?
1.5% of the computer market of course. And when iPod is a big moneyspinner for apple it is still not the core, of their business. Most profit they make is still coming from MAC's and software with them.
So they have 1.5% of the market for their biggest selling product. Doesnt sound so good 72 billion now does it.
But again the share market is a funny thing.
This is the bit people fail to notice about a company. Apple for example aren't actually worth more than 70 billion but just their shares are. They're based on speculation and hope. This might sound like mac bashing but nothing at Apple indicates 70 billion in value anywhere. 6 billion in cash, some buildings and designs, some patents and about 1.5% of the market. with 5 billion revenue quarters. that's revenue not profit. so you're looking at maybe twenty billion at the tops in what something is worth.
Looking at the fundamentals like you say is the important thing. Dell is a much bigger company and has almost 50% of the world market. That's more profit in one quarter than apple's entire value.
The share market is a funny thing.
> That does NOT require it to send any data anywhere, and yet it chooses to do so. That's the problem.
The server does not require Firefox to send information about CPU, Operating system or specific linux distro to a web server to get a page. In fact you could manually set the browser identity to null, and the webserver would happily provide you with a page that will work more than 99% of the time.
So that information is NOT required. It is wanted by the website owners perhaps, but it is NOT required to be sent.
Yet firefox (as one example because other browsers do it too) does send that information by default. Why is it telling web sites about my distro and which CPU it is running on? I didn't ask it to.
> Spyware report what you do to its creators, browsers doesn't report anything to its creators.
So are you denying firefox sends any of this information when you browse http://www.mozilla.com/ ?
Did you know every major web browser by default sends out info about your operating system name and version, your CPU type, usually your ISP, your browser and version and sometimes extras added onto your browser, and allows it to be logged on almost every single website you have ever visited. Most web browsers DO NOT ALLOW YOU TO CHANGE THIS.
So browsers are spyware too by the attitude some people are taking here.
In other words defining as spyware is not a black and white picture. It's shades of grey and in this situation I see iTunes as pretty white.
> Really? I think the RIAA [riaa.com] might take issue with you on that. What a perfect refutation of your entire argument.
Because the RIAA is the upholder of all that is good in this country?
That is truly the saddest thing I have read on slashdot.
"The mentality was we need to get these guys, and we're going to do whatever it takes to get them," he said.
The mentality is in relation to terrorists. Not average americans, but terrorists.
They may be illegally listening to average americans, but that's illegal as a technicality. Look at their above statement. "We need to get these guys" is not referring to americans. If you're listened to by the NSA, who cares really? YOU'RE NOT THEIR TARGET. Even if you had info that they could pull out to get terrorists, if you were phoning your aunt may and you mentioned that you'd seen something that looked suspicious, but you didn't report it, I'd rather they listened in on you, used your information and then got the guys they're after.
THEY ARE NOT AFTER *YOU* is the main thing to remember. It's illegality on a technicality like sharing music with friends so they can go buy their own copy of a CD. Not immoral and not reprehensible.
> At that company, competing "edutainment" programs were dismissed as inferior,
> and this study proves that the "entertainment" portion just distracts kids away
> from the education part of the activity.
The problem I think is parents dont dismiss those ones as inferior because they hold the attention of kids more and the kids sit there agog at the pretty lights and the pictures and the animations and it distracts them and acts just like the television as a babysitter. And so the kids end up dumb and can't read and the parents end up getting time to themselves and a way out of having to actually 'parent' the kids.
people like that should have their kids forcibly removed and the parents sent to prison. its unethical.
The average notebook has 30GB (of hard drive storage). How long is it before the notebook has solid state memory?
I havent seen a laptop with less than 40GB in I dont know how long. A long time anyway. Maybe this is out of date.