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In the Home PC market, most people shopping at Dell in the first place will have difficulty understanding that a Pentium is not the only processor in the world & when offered a choice between Intel & AMD they will go intel because they haven't heard or trust this "new fandangled processor brand"
Unless AMD suddenly went on a massive advertising campaign, got Dell to fully support them publicly & let the average joe user know about it, Dell aint going to get too many requests for the latest AMD processor.
Microsoft is probably about to release an Xpod, which will ship with xInternet Explorer installed, its Window's Media DRM isn't enough, it could try to buy out apple, but the cheaper option is to just get the government to allow microsoft to make it "compatible" with its competition, then microsoft can afford to sell its product below its cost value for 12 months until it has won the market share.
I remember how much I hated learning alegebra, trig, calculus etc & how much the theory sucked, I never saw any point to it & loved it when I discovered my TI-83 could do pretty much everything.
Although I discovered easier ways to do the arithmatic, I still knew the underlying theory of the equations & what the numbers were actually doing, not just what a computer was telling me.
Students should learn this, they are the basic building blocks of a science that dictates pretty much everything on this planet & although they won't have a use for everything they are taught they will have enough knowledge to "problem solve" which is what most of high school maths is designed to do, it trains our brains to think logically & be able to work out complex problems.
How are people going to be able to further phsyics, medicine, biology if they get into their respective tertiary courses without understanding the basic principals of all science & have to learn it all over again??
Or what about when computers just won't work & things have to be done by hand??
Its fair to integrate comuters into maths but not at the expense of the theory that makes us understand how things work, we should not put all our faith in technology just because its the easy thing to do.
Its easier to target a corporation & say "this is why your kids are shooting other kids" instead of alienate your voters by going "Your all bad parents, how could you let your 8 year old be exposed to that"
No longer will people say "i don't believe you" when I said I picked up a really hot chick on holidays far, far away. I will now have photo's to back up my story!
I remember there was a study done in London on how IT can make work more or less stressful, one part of the study was for 1 month they put solitaire on the computers & for 1 month they took solitaire off & made the network more controlled. Employee stress went up & office productivity actually decreased as users were forced to spend too much time at their desks infront of a computer with nothing to keep them mentally stimulated.
They found that solitare was not actually a time wasting device & most users would use it for a couple of minutes at a time to refresh themselves & keep them focused on their work.
Being a star wars fan, I have been dissapointed with the new movies.
George Lucas can do what he wants, he just planted Star Wars in the hearts of every fan, but it was the fans who Truley built the Star Wars Galaxy, it was the technical designers drawing up blue prints to Ships in their spare time, it was the writers bringing new stories to us to enrich our experience, it was the Game Designers building Role Play & Computer games.
To take on a project like Star Wars anyone has to have an interest in it.
Lucas may have envisioned it, but it was the fans that took it from him & created a vast universe full of detail & colour.
THese movies may be shit, but it hasn't reduced my interest in Star Wars one bit, because the movies are only now 1/10th of the experience to me.
I walked into franchised computer store in my area that deals with HP/Compaq units & a few other major brands.
I was bored & pretending I was in the market for a new PC when a salesman was trying to flog me off a 533mhz P4 2.8 with a 80gig hdd & 256mb of RAM for what I could have paid for a new Prescott running a 120gig SATA & 512mb of Ram.
When I enquired about AMD products he laughed at me and said they were unreliabale, prone to overheating, weren't compatible with as many produtcs as intel & that Windows even ran better on a P4 then an AMD processor.
I just walked off, I can't believe the amount of people that would actually walk into that store & get suckered out of their money.
After downloading music for the past 8 years, I find it a much better way to get my music, & apparently most of the world seems to think so too.
The RIAA lost its Monopoly of its industry, they spend a good 4 years writing off music downloads saying it wouldn't work because not one of the idiots thought about inventing a new buisness model to adapt to the changing technology, their current buisness model didn't fit so they decided to write it off.
They were so blind in doing so I don't understand for how much those guys must pay their strategic planners they completley failed to miss the.com revolution.
Move ahead to now & they are still trying to work it out, their own stupidity in trying to maintain a monopoly they no longer have is effecting their music sales, not Illegal downloads.
People no longer care about particular songs, music is the new fast food, u listen to it, get bored of it, chuck it out & get something new. WHen will the RIAA realise that, if they make songs 5c each people would dowload many, constantly, thats what the P2P netoworks do, no one is downloading music going "hehe sucked into the RIAA", they are downlading it because its a service that gives them what they need.
The IPod is proving that theory with people not concerned about what songs they put on there just as long as they can fill it up & with the IPpod shuffle now out playing completley random tracks it just show's that people don't really care what they listen too, they just want a lot of music.
The RIAA needs to wake up to themselves, they have lost the battle, its time to accept defeat & start re-inventing themselves
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In the Home PC market, most people shopping at Dell in the first place will have difficulty understanding that a Pentium is not the only processor in the world & when offered a choice between Intel & AMD they will go intel because they haven't heard or trust this "new fandangled processor brand"
Unless AMD suddenly went on a massive advertising campaign, got Dell to fully support them publicly & let the average joe user know about it, Dell aint going to get too many requests for the latest AMD processor.
Microsoft is probably about to release an Xpod, which will ship with xInternet Explorer installed, its Window's Media DRM isn't enough, it could try to buy out apple, but the cheaper option is to just get the government to allow microsoft to make it "compatible" with its competition, then microsoft can afford to sell its product below its cost value for 12 months until it has won the market share.
I remember how much I hated learning alegebra, trig, calculus etc & how much the theory sucked, I never saw any point to it & loved it when I discovered my TI-83 could do pretty much everything.
Although I discovered easier ways to do the arithmatic, I still knew the underlying theory of the equations & what the numbers were actually doing, not just what a computer was telling me.
Students should learn this, they are the basic building blocks of a science that dictates pretty much everything on this planet & although they won't have a use for everything they are taught they will have enough knowledge to "problem solve" which is what most of high school maths is designed to do, it trains our brains to think logically & be able to work out complex problems.
How are people going to be able to further phsyics, medicine, biology if they get into their respective tertiary courses without understanding the basic principals of all science & have to learn it all over again??
Or what about when computers just won't work & things have to be done by hand??
Its fair to integrate comuters into maths but not at the expense of the theory that makes us understand how things work, we should not put all our faith in technology just because its the easy thing to do.
Just hire the spaceballs & their Mega Maid. Operation Vacu-suck seemed to work on Druidia
Ammm Australia only has a population of 20 million, we just think we are one of the biggest & most important countries in the world.
Its all about votes,
Its easier to target a corporation & say "this is why your kids are shooting other kids" instead of alienate your voters by going "Your all bad parents, how could you let your 8 year old be exposed to that"
No longer will people say "i don't believe you" when I said I picked up a really hot chick on holidays far, far away. I will now have photo's to back up my story!
I remember there was a study done in London on how IT can make work more or less stressful, one part of the study was for 1 month they put solitaire on the computers & for 1 month they took solitaire off & made the network more controlled. Employee stress went up & office productivity actually decreased as users were forced to spend too much time at their desks infront of a computer with nothing to keep them mentally stimulated. They found that solitare was not actually a time wasting device & most users would use it for a couple of minutes at a time to refresh themselves & keep them focused on their work.
Being a star wars fan, I have been dissapointed with the new movies. George Lucas can do what he wants, he just planted Star Wars in the hearts of every fan, but it was the fans who Truley built the Star Wars Galaxy, it was the technical designers drawing up blue prints to Ships in their spare time, it was the writers bringing new stories to us to enrich our experience, it was the Game Designers building Role Play & Computer games. To take on a project like Star Wars anyone has to have an interest in it. Lucas may have envisioned it, but it was the fans that took it from him & created a vast universe full of detail & colour. THese movies may be shit, but it hasn't reduced my interest in Star Wars one bit, because the movies are only now 1/10th of the experience to me.
A boycott sounds good, But there are just too many Pepsi drinking, Brintney Spears loving 13 year old girls buying CD's to attempt such a thing.
I walked into franchised computer store in my area that deals with HP/Compaq units & a few other major brands.
I was bored & pretending I was in the market for a new PC when a salesman was trying to flog me off a 533mhz P4 2.8 with a 80gig hdd & 256mb of RAM for what I could have paid for a new Prescott running a 120gig SATA & 512mb of Ram.
When I enquired about AMD products he laughed at me and said they were unreliabale, prone to overheating, weren't compatible with as many produtcs as intel & that Windows even ran better on a P4 then an AMD processor.
I just walked off, I can't believe the amount of people that would actually walk into that store & get suckered out of their money.
After downloading music for the past 8 years, I find it a much better way to get my music, & apparently most of the world seems to think so too.
.com revolution.
The RIAA lost its Monopoly of its industry, they spend a good 4 years writing off music downloads saying it wouldn't work because not one of the idiots thought about inventing a new buisness model to adapt to the changing technology, their current buisness model didn't fit so they decided to write it off.
They were so blind in doing so I don't understand for how much those guys must pay their strategic planners they completley failed to miss the
Move ahead to now & they are still trying to work it out, their own stupidity in trying to maintain a monopoly they no longer have is effecting their music sales, not Illegal downloads.
People no longer care about particular songs, music is the new fast food, u listen to it, get bored of it, chuck it out & get something new. WHen will the RIAA realise that, if they make songs 5c each people would dowload many, constantly, thats what the P2P netoworks do, no one is downloading music going "hehe sucked into the RIAA", they are downlading it because its a service that gives them what they need.
The IPod is proving that theory with people not concerned about what songs they put on there just as long as they can fill it up & with the IPpod shuffle now out playing completley random tracks it just show's that people don't really care what they listen too, they just want a lot of music.
The RIAA needs to wake up to themselves, they have lost the battle, its time to accept defeat & start re-inventing themselves