You're forgetting what P2-233 can do.. My dad's running W95 with Word 97 on a P133 without any difficulties. Office 2000 would have no problems on a 233..
If I leave my garden hose outside, and then somebody strangles somebody with it, am I liable?
My point is -- we know guns are made to shoot things, computers are *not* made to attack other systems. "Computers don't attack people, people attack people.":)
So, try reading the whole article, then. The "not everyone plays games" point is totally irrelevant. The article talks about kids that *do* play games.
Katz bashing is usually fun, but let's try to keep it relevant.
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I generally found that Deja had less than 10 comments and ratings on most products. Only the most popular ones had more, and I don't think I really Deja to tell me that a Sony TV seems to be good.
As someone said in another post, epinions.com does a *much* better job of this -- even the most obscure products have useful comments. I'm getting into the habit of visiting the site before any meaningful purchase decision..
Actually, quantum computing is not (just) about making transistors very small. It's a totally different way of doing the computing, as many a slashdot article has pointed out:). This Scientific American article is a good overview of the subject, as well.
With these chips, computers will be able to translate verbal commands or conversations from one language to another in real time, or search massive and complex optical databases.
Don't you just love the examples that are used to "show off" the speed of new chips to the masses? Is translating verbal commands in real time to another language really the killer app we've all been waiting for?
You: "Cocine una cena para mí!"
Computer: "Screw you."
Microsoft could offer the guarantee because they simply stopped making DOS -- that meant no new machines would run DOS, and the only OS you could've upgraded to is Windows.. The game industry could've talked as long as they wanted, eventually they would've had to switch to Windows. And, that's exactly what happened.
Except Dos and Windows were made by the same company, which guaranteed to developers that, eventually, everybody will switch to Windows. And, the games were continued to be made for Windows.
This IMO is a fairly valid point despite the cost differences.
The cost difference is everything when it comes to quality control. One could hire thousands of dedicated testers to test Minesweeper, if people were paying $10M+ for each copy of it. At current software prices, that's just not possible.
I'd say your post is much more trollish than the parent.:)
First, a computer does one thing. It rund programs. They can be audio, video, 2d3d design, internet browsers, etc, but they are all ust programs.
PCs are built to work in thousands of different configurations -- sound cards, modems, hard drives, programs, can all be interchanged/combined, and the PC is still supposed to work.
Unless you have a model I've never seen, this is not the case with the refrigerators. You turn them on, and they keep your food cold.
For example, I quit watching TV two years ago. I can't stand the ads, and having watch my favorite shows only when the network decides they should be scheduled.
Gee, get a VCR.. It fixes both of those problems:).
Kinda makes me wonder, what's the point of setting the initial price to $500 if the reserve is >$17K.. Why let people bid on it for days before even reaching the real starting point?!
Bah. The only useful items in the review are the screenshots. The verbage around them is author's bad attempt at guessing how "novice users" think.
The conclusion does not follow out of any facts whatsoever, and seems to have been added as an afterthought. The last paragraph is a collection of cliches, and the fact that it says "windows is ok" does not make it more "grown up"!
The author's idea was good. But he needs to get a couple of *real* novice users in front of his computer, observe each of them for a while, and *then* tell us what they think!
A follow-up article with this information, confirming or denying his original opinion, would be a good idea.
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You're forgetting what P2-233 can do.. My dad's running W95 with Word 97 on a P133 without any difficulties. Office 2000 would have no problems on a 233..
If I leave my garden hose outside, and then somebody strangles somebody with it, am I liable?
:)
My point is -- we know guns are made to shoot things, computers are *not* made to attack other systems. "Computers don't attack people, people attack people."
So, try reading the whole article, then. The "not everyone plays games" point is totally irrelevant. The article talks about kids that *do* play games.
Katz bashing is usually fun, but let's try to keep it relevant.
I generally found that Deja had less than 10 comments and ratings on most products. Only the most popular ones had more, and I don't think I really Deja to tell me that a Sony TV seems to be good.
As someone said in another post, epinions.com does a *much* better job of this -- even the most obscure products have useful comments. I'm getting into the habit of visiting the site before any meaningful purchase decision..
Do you really consider an unsolicited e-mail an "attack"? And one that deserves jail time?
We can discuss the punishment for breaking into a computer system and bringing it down, but jail time for spamming alone would have to be an overkill!
Actually, quantum computing is not (just) about making transistors very small. It's a totally different way of doing the computing, as many a slashdot article has pointed out :). This Scientific American article is a good overview of the subject, as well.
With these chips, computers will be able to translate verbal commands or conversations from one language to another in real time, or search massive and complex optical databases.
Don't you just love the examples that are used to "show off" the speed of new chips to the masses? Is translating verbal commands in real time to another language really the killer app we've all been waiting for?
You: "Cocine una cena para mí!"
Computer: "Screw you."
Deluded? Do you see anybody still using DOS?
Microsoft could offer the guarantee because they simply stopped making DOS -- that meant no new machines would run DOS, and the only OS you could've upgraded to is Windows.. The game industry could've talked as long as they wanted, eventually they would've had to switch to Windows. And, that's exactly what happened.
Except Dos and Windows were made by the same company, which guaranteed to developers that, eventually, everybody will switch to Windows. And, the games were continued to be made for Windows.
That's hardly the case with Linux.
The cost difference is everything when it comes to quality control. One could hire thousands of dedicated testers to test Minesweeper, if people were paying $10M+ for each copy of it. At current software prices, that's just not possible.
I'd say your post is much more trollish than the parent. :)
First, a computer does one thing. It rund programs. They can be audio, video, 2d3d design, internet browsers, etc, but they are all ust programs.
PCs are built to work in thousands of different configurations -- sound cards, modems, hard drives, programs, can all be interchanged/combined, and the PC is still supposed to work.
Unless you have a model I've never seen, this is not the case with the refrigerators. You turn them on, and they keep your food cold.
Gee, get a VCR.. It fixes both of those problems :).
Or, you could simply invert the polarity of the flux generator, that always works.
Oh, damn, there goes my company's secret.
While we're at correcting the math of the post.. 8 operations per second is.. well... 8Hz, not 12.5 :).
Ok, but this is often done in non-scam auctions as well -- most of the auctions I've seen start well before the reserve price, usually at $1.
Those aren't threads.. they are processes.
Kinda makes me wonder, what's the point of setting the initial price to $500 if the reserve is >$17K.. Why let people bid on it for days before even reaching the real starting point?!
Bah. The only useful items in the review are the screenshots. The verbage around them is author's bad attempt at guessing how "novice users" think.
The conclusion does not follow out of any facts whatsoever, and seems to have been added as an afterthought. The last paragraph is a collection of cliches, and the fact that it says "windows is ok" does not make it more "grown up"!
The author's idea was good. But he needs to get a couple of *real* novice users in front of his computer, observe each of them for a while, and *then* tell us what they think!
A follow-up article with this information, confirming or denying his original opinion, would be a good idea.
You can download all the entries from The Perl Journal Contest Page. It's not as convenient as copy&paste, but it works.
A good one, from one of the previous contests, was a piece of code that reads like a poem, and prints the same poem when executed..
And, no, it wasn't this:
print <<EOF
My Obfuscated Poem
...
EOF
I think I've heard somewhere that it has potential applications in anything from protein folding to robotic arm movement.
The issue is not whether they abide by the law -- they're supporting a silly patent, instead of "thinking differently".
As big as the new Pentiums are, I don't think there are any cards that can fit inside a CPU..
If Windows crashes in space, and no one is there to see the BSOD... it's still a piece of crap.
$ cd
I hate to break it to you, but you just typed the entire path :).