The funny thing is... with all your banter and sad hatred for Microsoft, nothing you posted there was actualy illegal in itself. It's only sorta bad and frowned upon if you are a monopoly. As general business practices though, that describes a lot of compaines daily practices, as it should.
Stop being an elitest asshole and listen to the points being made.
Eating food is nothing but constant manipulation of chemicals and interactions of electrons. Does that mean that cooking is a purely a chemistry field? No, only an idiot would think that. There's a few (read: lots of) levels of abstraction to get away from the chemistry, just as there are many levels of abstraction in coding to get away from the 1s and 0s that are actually doing the calculations.
Well, just the other day there was a debate about whether or not coding was an art or a science.
Also, you missed the GPs point. The point was that computers do FAR MORE than just solve equations. Things like drawing pictures with Gimp, designing webpages, coding, word processing, gaming, high performance computing, etc. By your logic, everything derived from math is ONLY mathematical and should not be patented. The functionality of an airplane is derived from the laws of physics, which are actualized in math, and are used by engineers to create solutions to real world problems and thus overcome gravity (or at least play nice with it). But you wouldn't agree with the statement that airplanes are simply math equations, would you? I hope not, since I'm getting on one tomorrow...
Moving on...
You said, "...everything that has been done or can be done with software is performable by a purely mental process"
To quote you: "This is possibly the most idiotic statement I have ever read."
Honestly, think about this. I have an OS running a GUI with slashdot open, my email client open, UD agent running, I'm VNCed into my linux box, along with a ppc test box, and I'm on Sametime with co-workers. I'd like to see you perform that with a purely mental process. Go on, just type out the math that got me from a blank screen to the situation I just described. What? You can't?! Hmm... that's funny. It's alomst as if someone had to design something... ahh, nevermind.
The difference in processor price is only noticable if you are buying OEM components and building your own machine, which you won't be doing since we're talking about buying Macs. Also, some of that price difference is absorbed by the fact that Apple will get bulk discounts on the CPUs.
As for the second sentence, you're wrong.
I think what the GP was trying to say was that the particular cost of an item in dollars at any given time is generated directly by it's scarcity. The more scarce the item, the higher it's dollar ammount.
Money itself is indeed a paper contract to facilitate trade, but the actual dollar ammount of an item is in fact, by definition of economics, it's relative scarcity to the next best thing.
Just the whole, "if you don't understand I feel sorry for you and I won't explain anything I say becuase I feel that it's so blatantly obvious that everyone should understand it or they're stupid," attitude.
And yes, "just fine" does mean >70FPS with all of the game's detail level turned up at 1280x960 resolution and 4x anisotropic filtering.
You don't run HL2 at >70FPS with all detailed turned up at 1280x960 4X AF on a 9600pro. I'm sorry. Maybe ~30fps average at those settings. Possibly a spike to 70 if you look at the floor. When guns are firing, 20-30, if you're lucky.
But it gets really dangerous when the lost file from "drag and drop" does something to a system directory, something I've encountered at least twice! (It can almost literally render a system unusable.)
I'm curious what, "Does something to a system directory," means? It can "almost literally render a system unusable"? Could you explain what you mean?
Find the file that you want and the machine prompts you to insert the proper CD.
I really liked what you were saying, until you got to this part and i thought, "hmm, how is the computer going to know how I labeled my CD?" The logical conclusion is that when the CD is burned the computer asks what the label will be and you type it in, then write it on the CD with a sharpie. I suppose this would work, if one kept up with their labeling.
Someone who waits a year or two to save money on a video card is making a good buy. Yeah, I can agree to that as long as the person doesn't care about waiting a year or two.
Someone who buys a nice video card today to play games that come out today are responsible for all the horrible marketing that goes on and are just plain idiots for buying nice stuff. Errr, you lost me there.
How about this:
-If you want to wait a year or two to buy a video card, that's cool as long as you don't mind waiting. You aren't any better/smarter than anyone else, you just don't mind waiting. You'll most likely spend your money on something else in the meantime.
-If you DON'T want to wait a year or two to buy a video card, that's cool too as long as you don't mind paying a higher price. You aren't any better/smarter than anyone else, you just like gaming enough to spend the money. You'll most likely spend less money on other things because you have a strong interest in gaming.
You know... maybe we could all try and not be assholes? Just a thought.
Why are you deciding what people should and should not do? Also, those fps and quality settings all assume that you have the same PC as the test setup, which is usually a high end P4 or AMD64 system. For people who don't want to do a total overhaul on their entire system, buying a nice video card to keep their machine gaming well is a very nice option.
The PS3 also isn't coming out for over a year. The point is that saying that consoles are "cheaper for the same thing" is kind of bending reality. In order to get the same quality as a PC, you have to spend much more than just the cost of the console. If you want to use 1080p for your PS3, you'll have to get a HDTV that does that, for probably $2,000-3000. Any computer monitor bigger than 15" has higher resolution than 1080p.
The argument that "in a year or two the card will be half price" is absolute crap. Yeah, it will be half price... in a friggin YEAR OR TWO. How about now? What about those of us that want to play games TODAY, and we want to play them at 60+fps?
You make a good point about it being "worth the wait" for yourself, and I respect that. But don't assume that becuase it's worth it to you makes it worth it to everyone.
I'm sick of this emphasis on x86-derived chips. They're not very good, and we can already see AMD moving away with their 64-bit systems. They resemble the power series quite a lot. Still not as good as a G5 though....
You're sick of articles with information on x86 chips? Don't read them. You're sick of people talking about x86 chips? Well, sorry, but they are the most common chips in the world by far. People are going to talk about them.
You seem to be trolling a little bit and attempting to start an "x86 vs. POWER" war. Why are you so upset about it? Why are you so angry that more people don't use YOUR chip? You do work for IBM, right? I mean, that would be the only reason that you might be so upset that people aren't adopting the chip that you've been putting so many hours into at work. If you don't work for IBM, then why don't you just sit back and relax a bit. Why the "they're not very good," comment? Unfounded, biased, very vague, and with nothing to back it up with.
AMD64 chips resemble the POWER series quite a lot? "Still not as good as a G5 though"? You are really trying hard to start an argument aren't you?
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So you don't actually believe that informed users can run administrator accounts on Windows with no problems?
What planet do you live on?
He didn't say, "Informed users can use a Windows box on their perimeter to secure their network." The two situations are totally different.
Shouldn't that read, "ZoneAlarm on Win98 freezes PC?"
The funny thing is... with all your banter and sad hatred for Microsoft, nothing you posted there was actualy illegal in itself. It's only sorta bad and frowned upon if you are a monopoly. As general business practices though, that describes a lot of compaines daily practices, as it should.
Get over it.
Stop being an elitest asshole and listen to the points being made.
Eating food is nothing but constant manipulation of chemicals and interactions of electrons. Does that mean that cooking is a purely a chemistry field? No, only an idiot would think that. There's a few (read: lots of) levels of abstraction to get away from the chemistry, just as there are many levels of abstraction in coding to get away from the 1s and 0s that are actually doing the calculations.
Well, just the other day there was a debate about whether or not coding was an art or a science.
Also, you missed the GPs point. The point was that computers do FAR MORE than just solve equations. Things like drawing pictures with Gimp, designing webpages, coding, word processing, gaming, high performance computing, etc. By your logic, everything derived from math is ONLY mathematical and should not be patented. The functionality of an airplane is derived from the laws of physics, which are actualized in math, and are used by engineers to create solutions to real world problems and thus overcome gravity (or at least play nice with it). But you wouldn't agree with the statement that airplanes are simply math equations, would you? I hope not, since I'm getting on one tomorrow...
Moving on...
You said, "...everything that has been done or can be done with software is performable by a purely mental process"
To quote you: "This is possibly the most idiotic statement I have ever read."
Honestly, think about this. I have an OS running a GUI with slashdot open, my email client open, UD agent running, I'm VNCed into my linux box, along with a ppc test box, and I'm on Sametime with co-workers. I'd like to see you perform that with a purely mental process. Go on, just type out the math that got me from a blank screen to the situation I just described. What? You can't?! Hmm... that's funny. It's alomst as if someone had to design something... ahh, nevermind.
I'd like to take this time to honestly thank you for making a good post on slashdot. More people need to use logic.
Nice troll.
When did Google start a holy crusade against Microsoft?
The difference in processor price is only noticable if you are buying OEM components and building your own machine, which you won't be doing since we're talking about buying Macs. Also, some of that price difference is absorbed by the fact that Apple will get bulk discounts on the CPUs. As for the second sentence, you're wrong.
I guess the real question here is...
Why not? Rebooting WinXP on a system with a 2GHz or greater CPU and a 7200rpm hard drive takes approximatly 3min.
"...allowing Linspire users to play hundreds of popular Windows-format games right out of the box"
At about 1/3 the framerate with none of the special effects and only after about 6 hours of headache to get the game running at all!!
Seriously, I give money to transgaming...but it's just not there. Use Linux for whatever you use it for, just not games.
Windows >>> Linux... when it comes to games.
Yeah AMD makes faster chips than Intel. Are you actually going to notice it? No.
It really doesn't matter.
San Diego is the newest core, no Venice. It's the same as Venice but with more cache.
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I think what the GP was trying to say was that the particular cost of an item in dollars at any given time is generated directly by it's scarcity. The more scarce the item, the higher it's dollar ammount.
Money itself is indeed a paper contract to facilitate trade, but the actual dollar ammount of an item is in fact, by definition of economics, it's relative scarcity to the next best thing.
Just the whole, "if you don't understand I feel sorry for you and I won't explain anything I say becuase I feel that it's so blatantly obvious that everyone should understand it or they're stupid," attitude.
It reminded me of people in college.
I don't feel the need to expand on any of these points, if you don't understand then I feel sorry for you.
Let me guess... you're in college.
And yes, "just fine" does mean >70FPS with all of the game's detail level turned up at 1280x960 resolution and 4x anisotropic filtering.
You don't run HL2 at >70FPS with all detailed turned up at 1280x960 4X AF on a 9600pro. I'm sorry. Maybe ~30fps average at those settings. Possibly a spike to 70 if you look at the floor. When guns are firing, 20-30, if you're lucky.
But it gets really dangerous when the lost file from "drag and drop" does something to a system directory, something I've encountered at least twice! (It can almost literally render a system unusable.)
I'm curious what, "Does something to a system directory," means? It can "almost literally render a system unusable"? Could you explain what you mean?
Find the file that you want and the machine prompts you to insert the proper CD.
I really liked what you were saying, until you got to this part and i thought, "hmm, how is the computer going to know how I labeled my CD?" The logical conclusion is that when the CD is burned the computer asks what the label will be and you type it in, then write it on the CD with a sharpie. I suppose this would work, if one kept up with their labeling.
So let me get this straight...
Someone who waits a year or two to save money on a video card is making a good buy. Yeah, I can agree to that as long as the person doesn't care about waiting a year or two.
Someone who buys a nice video card today to play games that come out today are responsible for all the horrible marketing that goes on and are just plain idiots for buying nice stuff. Errr, you lost me there.
How about this:
-If you want to wait a year or two to buy a video card, that's cool as long as you don't mind waiting. You aren't any better/smarter than anyone else, you just don't mind waiting. You'll most likely spend your money on something else in the meantime.
-If you DON'T want to wait a year or two to buy a video card, that's cool too as long as you don't mind paying a higher price. You aren't any better/smarter than anyone else, you just like gaming enough to spend the money. You'll most likely spend less money on other things because you have a strong interest in gaming.
You know... maybe we could all try and not be assholes? Just a thought.
Why are you deciding what people should and should not do? Also, those fps and quality settings all assume that you have the same PC as the test setup, which is usually a high end P4 or AMD64 system. For people who don't want to do a total overhaul on their entire system, buying a nice video card to keep their machine gaming well is a very nice option.
Stop being a dick.
The PS3 also isn't coming out for over a year. The point is that saying that consoles are "cheaper for the same thing" is kind of bending reality. In order to get the same quality as a PC, you have to spend much more than just the cost of the console. If you want to use 1080p for your PS3, you'll have to get a HDTV that does that, for probably $2,000-3000. Any computer monitor bigger than 15" has higher resolution than 1080p.
The argument that "in a year or two the card will be half price" is absolute crap. Yeah, it will be half price... in a friggin YEAR OR TWO. How about now? What about those of us that want to play games TODAY, and we want to play them at 60+fps?
You make a good point about it being "worth the wait" for yourself, and I respect that. But don't assume that becuase it's worth it to you makes it worth it to everyone.
I'm sick of this emphasis on x86-derived chips. They're not very good, and we can already see AMD moving away with their 64-bit systems. They resemble the power series quite a lot. Still not as good as a G5 though....
You're sick of articles with information on x86 chips? Don't read them. You're sick of people talking about x86 chips? Well, sorry, but they are the most common chips in the world by far. People are going to talk about them.
You seem to be trolling a little bit and attempting to start an "x86 vs. POWER" war. Why are you so upset about it? Why are you so angry that more people don't use YOUR chip? You do work for IBM, right? I mean, that would be the only reason that you might be so upset that people aren't adopting the chip that you've been putting so many hours into at work. If you don't work for IBM, then why don't you just sit back and relax a bit. Why the "they're not very good," comment? Unfounded, biased, very vague, and with nothing to back it up with.
AMD64 chips resemble the POWER series quite a lot? "Still not as good as a G5 though"? You are really trying hard to start an argument aren't you?
Stop trolling.
That would qualify as guessing.