All these media outlets and propaganduh can say all they want, all I know is there will come a time when I will still be able to compute FREELY using my cheap Kung-Pau-Dragon-Godson-V-Dear-Leader processor when all of you Linux zealots are just sitting there facing a blank EFI boot prompt:D
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But the thing that really frustrates me is that everyone complains that the Mac costs too much because it has too much stuff on it, and then when stuff is taken off, the complaint is that it doesn't have enough.
Correction, the mac costs so much because of greed. Even the top line mac has considerably less than a PC in the equivalent price range.. from *ANY* other vendor.
If Apple would accept a smaller margin instead of those insane 20% markups, you sure as hell would see prices fall.
Would the users not then be liable for precisely the same kind of charges and punishment that the spammers are?
No worries then, then they can appear in court in PERSON, and I will gladly pay them $100,000 for the "damages" I caused for that 1 incident, and likewise they can pay me $100,000 for EACH incident they sent me the spam.
Liability? You mean like the way Cingular gets sued every time I use my cell phone to call up an escort service to order a hooker and a kilo of coke?
You order coke by the kilo? We'll be right there shortly for a little visit.
Signed Your friendly neighbourhood narc
Hit 'em when it hurts!
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. Losing data once due to hard drive failure may be all that is required to convince anyone that RAID is right for them, but why wait until that happens.
Because otherwise, you can tell them all about the wonders of RAID and all they'll do is just pretend to be interested while secreting thinking that you are some mad geek.
Tell them about the wonders of RAID after they've been kicked in the nuts by a drive failure, and you sure as hell would be getting their whole undivided attention.
Making the most of your effort man.. that's what it is:)
In other news HP announced a new line of self recycling PCs with an integrated FTL drive. While inner workings are still undisclosed, insiders reveal that activating the self destruct mechanism would open a portal transporting the PC to the nearest Black Hole.. talk about convenient!
I wonder if AMD will follow suit or try and go against the flow? Interestingly I recently acquired a Mac and have been using Mac OS X now for about a month. I like it a lot. If AMD follows suit I just may switch to Mac entirely. My old x86 machines will definitely have to be linux only if it comes to that. Right now they are all dual boot with Gentoo/WinXP.
AMD probably will, but it won't be for quite a while I suppose.
One difference between AMD and Intel is, while Intel is more than happy to release a new chipset for every single CPU release, AMD always try to make their solutions pin compatible.
Short of implementing all DRM features on die (highly unlikely), I'd say freedoms from DRM may just last on AMD for so long:)
I'm using it now, and it works really well. One thing about using the hack in the article is your phone won't ring when you get a VoIP call... with the adapter it works just like a normal phone.
This falls on the "acceptable security" side for me.
What then would be unacceptable?
It is thinking like this that would amount to a slippery slope when it comes to fighting the great (and greater) govt.
So today it is more intrusive searches on 100% of all passengers for the sake of reducing body cavity searches for that unfortunate few, does that mean that tomorrow it'll be ok to have cameras in every single home just because "some home is harbouring terrorists"?
I want a game that I an play in a virtual suit like that, and FEEL every damned thing, without the physical damages involved. I want to be able to reach down, "grab" a pistol, and have my glove, which has nothign in it, only allow me to close my hand so much before it actually fits the "contours" of the gun. I want to feel the "trigger-pull" resistance, and the resulting kickback of firing off a.50 caliber slug.
What if a character in the game kicks you in the nuts?
Responses like yours do a significant disservice to people suffering from this problem - it reinforces their irrational fears and makes them more difficult to treat in the long run. And, incidentally, the link you provided (good one) shows the current status of EMF-related health disorders - there is no conclusive evidence to suggest EMF at the levels typically encountered cause any health disorders. There are a lot of hypothesis floating around, which is all well and good, but going around scaring people to death - or at least illness - in the quest for publicity and grant money is the current fashion for asshole scientists (as opposed to the scientists that are responsible with reporting their theories and results, making sure the appropriate caveats are included, &c).
I beg to differ. It all lies with where the cash is.
There was "no conclusive evidence" that smoking caused cancer... for 5 decades!
Today it is an undenable fact. There is too much cash involved to report whatever health hazards long term exposure to EMF might produce. Cell phones.. Wifi.. RFID... OMG.. the tabacco industry looks tiny in comparison.
prisoners gave up many of their rights when they commited a crime against society - theft - murder - etc. personally i dont think a murderer should have the same rights i enjoy - though they should still be treated humanely.ie no cruel and unusual.
Smoking crack in the leisure of your own home is not a crime against society...
Downloading MP3s is not a crime against society...
Crime != murder/rape ONLY...
With more and more draconian laws being passed in the US these days, anyone has an increasing chance of being a "criminal" someday. Guilty of thought "crime" perhaps?
Austrailian GDP: $579 billion, all of which cannot be brought to bear on this without destroying the country utterly. In fact only a VERY small portion could be bankrolled for this.
HP Yearly Revenue: $79.9 billion Dell Yearly Revenue: $49.2 billion Microsoft Yearly Revenue: $36.8 billion Intel Yearly Revenue: $34.2 billion Apple Yearly Revenue: $8.28 billion
Around $208.4 billion with a lot in reserves, no roads to build, no wellfare to payout, no military to support... Austrailia will loose the money game.
Let's look at some figures shall we?
So it is 4 bucks for each chipset.
Now assuming they make 4 billion laptops, and for each one of these laptops, they sell a wireless router as well.
Hence 8 billion chipsets.
That is "Only" 32 billion dollars. Are you implying that the big 5 is going to stake all of their 208.4 billion to save this 32 billion dollars?
Australia will still win ultimately. These 5 go bust, we pay a wee bit more taxes for a year, we take the place of these 5 shortly after.
Tony Blair announces that 1000 teenage thought criminals have been rounded up for thought crimes. They will be re-educated at the Ministry of Love and given a chance to repent for their crimes through death.
In further other news, Bill Gates has announced that Linux is unexist. Purge all memory of "Linux" from your brains now to prevent being labelled a thought criminal!
if you want to be a rebel, buy independent music, or buy a guitar and write your own music. those are your options. if there were no copyright laws, those would be your only options anyway. go live your life the way you want, nobody is going to stop you.
Are you saying that people will cease to create without copyright laws?
In other news, cavemen paintings have been found in ancient caves! So what copyright laws did they have dude?
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All these media outlets and propaganduh can say all they want, all I know is there will come a time when I will still be able to compute FREELY using my cheap Kung-Pau-Dragon-Godson-V-Dear-Leader processor when all of you Linux zealots are just sitting there facing a blank EFI boot prompt :D
But the thing that really frustrates me is that everyone complains that the Mac costs too much because it has too much stuff on it, and then when stuff is taken off, the complaint is that it doesn't have enough.
:)
Correction, the mac costs so much because of greed. Even the top line mac has considerably less than a PC in the equivalent price range.. from *ANY* other vendor.
If Apple would accept a smaller margin instead of those insane 20% markups, you sure as hell would see prices fall.
Just my $0.02
Would the users not then be liable for precisely the same kind of charges and punishment that the spammers are?
No worries then, then they can appear in court in PERSON, and I will gladly pay them $100,000 for the "damages" I caused for that 1 incident, and likewise they can pay me $100,000 for EACH incident they sent me the spam.
Who will win in the end?
Liability? You mean like the way Cingular gets sued every time I use my cell phone to call up an escort service to order a hooker and a kilo of coke?
You order coke by the kilo? We'll be right there shortly for a little visit.
Signed
Your friendly neighbourhood narc
. Losing data once due to hard drive failure may be all that is required to convince anyone that RAID is right for them, but why wait until that happens.
:)
Because otherwise, you can tell them all about the wonders of RAID and all they'll do is just pretend to be interested while secreting thinking that you are some mad geek.
Tell them about the wonders of RAID after they've been kicked in the nuts by a drive failure, and you sure as hell would be getting their whole undivided attention.
Making the most of your effort man.. that's what it is
So, what's the son of iPod going to be called?
:P
Son of Satan
The computer should recycle itself!
In other news HP announced a new line of self recycling PCs with an integrated FTL drive. While inner workings are still undisclosed, insiders reveal that activating the self destruct mechanism would open a portal transporting the PC to the nearest Black Hole.. talk about convenient!
Yeah, and we all know how much faster and how many more features IE has.
Indeed, IE is the source of all my pr0n.. without IE I wouldn't have all these handy shortcuts on my desktop to all these sweet sites!
I wonder if AMD will follow suit or try and go against the flow? Interestingly I recently acquired a Mac and have been using Mac OS X now for about a month. I like it a lot. If AMD follows suit I just may switch to Mac entirely. My old x86 machines will definitely have to be linux only if it comes to that. Right now they are all dual boot with Gentoo/WinXP.
AMD probably will, but it won't be for quite a while I suppose.
One difference between AMD and Intel is, while Intel is more than happy to release a new chipset for every single CPU release, AMD always try to make their solutions pin compatible.
Short of implementing all DRM features on die (highly unlikely), I'd say freedoms from DRM may just last on AMD for so long
Siemens already has a USB attachment that lets you use VoIP (skype) from your Cordless Phone.
M34 USB
I'm using it now, and it works really well. One thing about using the hack in the article is your phone won't ring when you get a VoIP call... with the adapter it works just like a normal phone.
This falls on the "acceptable security" side for me.
What then would be unacceptable?
It is thinking like this that would amount to a slippery slope when it comes to fighting the great (and greater) govt.
So today it is more intrusive searches on 100% of all passengers for the sake of reducing body cavity searches for that unfortunate few, does that mean that tomorrow it'll be ok to have cameras in every single home just because "some home is harbouring terrorists"?
I want a game that I an play in a virtual suit like that, and FEEL every damned thing, without the physical damages involved. I want to be able to reach down, "grab" a pistol, and have my glove, which has nothign in it, only allow me to close my hand so much before it actually fits the "contours" of the gun. I want to feel the "trigger-pull" resistance, and the resulting kickback of firing off a
What if a character in the game kicks you in the nuts?
does this have something to do with rumors that apple will switch to intel chips?
Responses like yours do a significant disservice to people suffering from this problem - it reinforces their irrational fears and makes them more difficult to treat in the long run. And, incidentally, the link you provided (good one) shows the current status of EMF-related health disorders - there is no conclusive evidence to suggest EMF at the levels typically encountered cause any health disorders. There are a lot of hypothesis floating around, which is all well and good, but going around scaring people to death - or at least illness - in the quest for publicity and grant money is the current fashion for asshole scientists (as opposed to the scientists that are responsible with reporting their theories and results, making sure the appropriate caveats are included, &c).
I beg to differ. It all lies with where the cash is.
There was "no conclusive evidence" that smoking caused cancer... for 5 decades!
Today it is an undenable fact. There is too much cash involved to report whatever health hazards long term exposure to EMF might produce. Cell phones.. Wifi.. RFID... OMG.. the tabacco industry looks tiny in comparison.
Complaining earns you karma and it makes you look smart. I know that's why I do it. Heh.
Yeh, it gives you the big penis kinda feeling eh?
It's a regular p2p system with bittorrent's fair tit-for-tat economics. Much better than ed2k's, for instance.
Will give Tat for some tits!
prisoners gave up many of their rights when they commited a crime against society - theft - murder - etc. personally i dont think a murderer should have the same rights i enjoy - though they should still be treated humanely
Smoking crack in the leisure of your own home is not a crime against society...
Downloading MP3s is not a crime against society...
Crime != murder/rape ONLY...
With more and more draconian laws being passed in the US these days, anyone has an increasing chance of being a "criminal" someday. Guilty of thought "crime" perhaps?
Actually... no it isn't.
:D
Austrailian GDP: $579 billion, all of which cannot be brought to bear on this without destroying the country utterly. In fact only a VERY small portion could be bankrolled for this.
HP Yearly Revenue: $79.9 billion
Dell Yearly Revenue: $49.2 billion
Microsoft Yearly Revenue: $36.8 billion
Intel Yearly Revenue: $34.2 billion
Apple Yearly Revenue: $8.28 billion
Around $208.4 billion with a lot in reserves, no roads to build, no wellfare to payout, no military to support... Austrailia will loose the money game.
Let's look at some figures shall we?
So it is 4 bucks for each chipset.
Now assuming they make 4 billion laptops, and for each one of these laptops, they sell a wireless router as well.
Hence 8 billion chipsets.
That is "Only" 32 billion dollars. Are you implying that the big 5 is going to stake all of their 208.4 billion to save this 32 billion dollars?
Australia will still win ultimately. These 5 go bust, we pay a wee bit more taxes for a year, we take the place of these 5 shortly after.
Woohoo! Up yours statue of liberty!
I'm wondering if this couldn't be explained by evolution theory where the best adapted to environment survive, not the "best"
Yeh, the same thing with those 4 armed and legged humans. Those arms and legs just keep getting into their way when having sex, and today.. look!
"Inferior" bipedal humans!
Tony Blair announces that 1000 teenage thought criminals have been rounded up for thought crimes. They will be re-educated at the Ministry of Love and given a chance to repent for their crimes through death.
In further other news, Bill Gates has announced that Linux is unexist. Purge all memory of "Linux" from your brains now to prevent being labelled a thought criminal!
The value that proprietary software can offer than F/OSS can't.
NEW! Free copy of CPUID included with every Windows XPSE now!
This Pentium4/Athlon decision makes perfect sense - if someone can afford the higher-end processor, they can afford the higher priced OS.
No it doesn't. Considering the Pentium 4 is a.. 5 years old processor?
Coupled with the fact that the XP starter's edition is meant to curb piracy in countries where it is rampant, and there you go. A total foobar.
I can buy a Pentium 4 Processor for AU$150, or a rather high end A64 CPU for about AU$200. I do not need to pay A$300 for Windows XP "Normal" edition.
Suppose you shine a projector upwards from the ground.... and take a photo of a girl... what will the technique generate?
Could it be possible that she is really lobbying for WMA support on iPods?
if you want to be a rebel, buy independent music, or buy a guitar and write your own music. those are your options. if there were no copyright laws, those would be your only options anyway. go live your life the way you want, nobody is going to stop you.
Are you saying that people will cease to create without copyright laws?
In other news, cavemen paintings have been found in ancient caves! So what copyright laws did they have dude?