thanks for replying thoughtfully, even though i was being a sarcastic dick.
The US foreign policy does not make sense for the US. Ask yourself a question instead of me - who does the US foreign policy make perfect sense for? What other countr[ies]?
the whole region? the whole world? who in that area WANTS iran to have nukes? who in the world wants iran to have nukes?
funny how you can just make up anything that sounds good, and get modded up for it. and since you made up a lot, you got modded up a lot.
i'd really like to see some hard evidence that we are going to start a war in iran. and how about dates, you know, like when and where? how long will it last? what are the conditions for stopping the war? are we going to have an emperor-general run the place afterwards, like we did in japan? will we use nukes, tactical or other? do we keep their oil and annex the oil fields? how, exactly, are we going to handle the terrorist/insurgents that will surely love to take us on in iran? how are we going to pay for it? by taking the money we currently use for katrina refugees?
what do you know, and when did you know it? (that is a little bit of funny.)
are you part of the decision making process at the whitehouse or pentagon? or maybe you have some audio recordings of the pillow talk between you and condi?
feel sorry for the poor schmucks who buy a new namebrand PC between the release of Vista and SP1
no, feel sorry for the poor schmucks in tech departments that have to take the heat for shit not working on vista. feel sorry for the poor schmucks at best buy and circuit city who get griped out with "i bought a computer from you on tuesday, and i keep getting this error everytime i dial up earthlink", or "my printer doesn't work", etc.
third party retail is taking the brunt of the storm.
with a title like that, it makes one think there was only one make and model of electric car. the flamebait title does not bode well for the integrity of the film.
sorry for any confusion i caused due to my own confusion. today i had to install a student/teacher version (and so i tried to payed attention), and after i got the machine online to activate, it did NOT require a live id or passport. i must have been mixing up my memories with onecare. i work on way too many different systems at once, so i'm never concentrating on one thing at a time, it all blends together....
sorry mcfarmer, i intalled another retail office2007 student/teacher edition today, and guess what... it didn't ask for passport or live id. either i'm having serious flashbacks from my life in the 80's, or MS changed the activation, or i'm just loosing my mind or something. who knows, maybe i mixed it up with OneCare...
wouldn't exactly call Boston, nor Massachusetts, conservative. there were plenty of other places that didn't freak out. what's different about Boston, that's what you have to ask.
and as far as the CEO goes, he knows he is golden now and that his "stock has gone up". you can't buy the kind of name recognition that he is getting. he is now associated with brilliant marketing.
as of it's launch a week ago, in addition to the previous anti-piracy restrictions, you now have to have a Live ID to activate, at least individual copies for personal use -- i don't know if that is a requirment for enterprise wide installations....
it is a pain for me trying to install the new Office on all my customers' computers, since i now have to explain that in order to Activate it, they have to get a Live ID, which nearly requires a birth certificate and retinal scan....
i mean, they already payed for a unique key, as was done in the "old days"...
funny. but what i really want to know is: what the hell does amd mean by "40 percent faster"??? really, has somebody cornered them on it? i bet they found some wierd statisical ratio or other hogwash that with a little fuzzy math gave a number of 40%. does it roll down a hill faster, because it is more round? GOTO loops?
how about a well known or commonly used benchmark, AMD?
and since i'm posting this question a whole seven hours after the story (an eternity in/.), the odds of someone who might have more details posting a reply are near zero. oh well....
often the best of the books featured han solo as a major story, so george did have a good idea, but the execution would have sucked. maybe harrison ford could have directed it, too....
something else i've noticed: i've never been asked to work on a machine that had a graphics card higher than a geforce 5200... usually onboard, or the mx400, etc.
i wonder if that is because those that use powerful accelerators know how to keep their machine clean and healthy?
when ever i'm cleaning spyware, there usually is a limewire/bearshare/kazaa icon on the desktop (along with the ie icon, always!); and in their documents/temp folders a half-dozen or so porn clips of the same content type/category (and usually of the same format, for some reason); usually just one film, and a hundred or two incomplete/bogus song downloads. nowdays i'm seeing an itunes folder on those machines on a regular basis as well -- but i don't take the time to see if those songs were bought or not, maybe i should, and then i could publish my own report!
AMD's argument goes like this: modern desktop and notebook processors constantly scale up and down between full speed and an idle state, which AMD has branded "Cool 'n' Quiet". At a given time, pushed to full load by an application, AMD's chips run hotter and consume more power. But across a typical computing day - where a user might check his email or surf the Web - the processor idles more often then not. At idle, AMD's 90-nm Athlon 64 X2 consumes 7.5 watts. Its latest 65-nm chips idle at 3.8 watts. By comparison, the 65-nm Core 2 Duo idles at 14.3 watts.
[...]However, directly comparing the two chips' power load, in a real-world computing environment, over the course of a day, would be a daunting task, Huynh acknowledged.
i can't wait till the hardware sites test a laptop version....
sure, it's coming. and a robot in every home is just right around the corner. and China can give you a "THIRD-BRAIN" so you can be a smart ass in your smart home.
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i guess that includes the cow at the restaurant at the end of the universe
too bad noone with mod point read that, because that was funny, informative, interesting, and insightful.
it would make an interesting study to keep track of the doom and gloom versus positive articles. maybe if i ever get a day off....
the most insightful thing you pointed out is how each story can be spun either way, according to the biases of the author/editor/site.
the whole region? the whole world? who in that area WANTS iran to have nukes? who in the world wants iran to have nukes?
maybe it takes one to know one, but he is a cock head.
i wish mit would make hugh loebner an honorary, just to piss minsky off.
funny how you can just make up anything that sounds good, and get modded up for it. and since you made up a lot, you got modded up a lot.
i'd really like to see some hard evidence that we are going to start a war in iran. and how about dates, you know, like when and where? how long will it last? what are the conditions for stopping the war? are we going to have an emperor-general run the place afterwards, like we did in japan? will we use nukes, tactical or other? do we keep their oil and annex the oil fields? how, exactly, are we going to handle the terrorist/insurgents that will surely love to take us on in iran? how are we going to pay for it? by taking the money we currently use for katrina refugees?
what do you know, and when did you know it? (that is a little bit of funny.)
are you part of the decision making process at the whitehouse or pentagon? or maybe you have some audio recordings of the pillow talk between you and condi?
We're about to start a navel and air war with Iran
and you know this how?
really, when was the last time that YRO had a positive story?
feel sorry for the poor schmucks who buy a new namebrand PC between the release of Vista and SP1
no, feel sorry for the poor schmucks in tech departments that have to take the heat for shit not working on vista. feel sorry for the poor schmucks at best buy and circuit city who get griped out with "i bought a computer from you on tuesday, and i keep getting this error everytime i dial up earthlink", or "my printer doesn't work", etc.
third party retail is taking the brunt of the storm.
how the HELL did you figure that out?
which one?
with a title like that, it makes one think there was only one make and model of electric car. the flamebait title does not bode well for the integrity of the film.
and politics in gaming? anyone heard of metal gear solid? sons of liberty?
oh yeah, this guy is breaking new ground. Not.
sorry for any confusion i caused due to my own confusion. today i had to install a student/teacher version (and so i tried to payed attention), and after i got the machine online to activate, it did NOT require a live id or passport. i must have been mixing up my memories with onecare. i work on way too many different systems at once, so i'm never concentrating on one thing at a time, it all blends together....
sorry mcfarmer, i intalled another retail office2007 student/teacher edition today, and guess what... it didn't ask for passport or live id. either i'm having serious flashbacks from my life in the 80's, or MS changed the activation, or i'm just loosing my mind or something. who knows, maybe i mixed it up with OneCare...
pretty much nothing ever posted in YRO bodes well for the future of anything.
wouldn't exactly call Boston, nor Massachusetts, conservative. there were plenty of other places that didn't freak out. what's different about Boston, that's what you have to ask.
and as far as the CEO goes, he knows he is golden now and that his "stock has gone up". you can't buy the kind of name recognition that he is getting. he is now associated with brilliant marketing.
as of it's launch a week ago, in addition to the previous anti-piracy restrictions, you now have to have a Live ID to activate, at least individual copies for personal use -- i don't know if that is a requirment for enterprise wide installations....
requiring a Windows Live ID for Office 2007 sucks
it is a pain for me trying to install the new Office on all my customers' computers, since i now have to explain that in order to Activate it, they have to get a Live ID, which nearly requires a birth certificate and retinal scan....
i mean, they already payed for a unique key, as was done in the "old days"...
funny. but what i really want to know is: what the hell does amd mean by "40 percent faster"??? really, has somebody cornered them on it? i bet they found some wierd statisical ratio or other hogwash that with a little fuzzy math gave a number of 40%. does it roll down a hill faster, because it is more round? GOTO loops?
/.), the odds of someone who might have more details posting a reply are near zero. oh well....
how about a well known or commonly used benchmark, AMD?
and since i'm posting this question a whole seven hours after the story (an eternity in
dude, you can't see the difference between pollution vs violating copyright law?
often the best of the books featured han solo as a major story, so george did have a good idea, but the execution would have sucked. maybe harrison ford could have directed it, too....
no offense to those who don't use fast cards! of course there are many of us who don't need a card nor game, who can keep their systems clean.
something else i've noticed: i've never been asked to work on a machine that had a graphics card higher than a geforce 5200... usually onboard, or the mx400, etc.
i wonder if that is because those that use powerful accelerators know how to keep their machine clean and healthy?
when ever i'm cleaning spyware, there usually is a limewire/bearshare/kazaa icon on the desktop (along with the ie icon, always!); and in their documents/temp folders a half-dozen or so porn clips of the same content type/category (and usually of the same format, for some reason); usually just one film, and a hundred or two incomplete/bogus song downloads. nowdays i'm seeing an itunes folder on those machines on a regular basis as well -- but i don't take the time to see if those songs were bought or not, maybe i should, and then i could publish my own report!
i can't wait till the hardware sites test a laptop version....
sure, it's coming. and a robot in every home is just right around the corner. and China can give you a "THIRD-BRAIN" so you can be a smart ass in your smart home.