Look at it this way: if you can get better performances for the same price, why wouldn't you buy a Core 2?
This is the reason why A64s are popular in the first place: they offered as good or better performances as P4's at equal or lower prices, and you couldn't cook eggs on them.
If intel manages to reverse the balance with Core 2, more power to them, it means that AMD'll have to do some more work on their procs and start working on the K9.
You probably missed the fact that every single chip has bugs, AMD's A64 have 'bout as many bugs as the Core Duos, and the bugs that aren't fixed in silicium are the ones around which workarounds exist (usually in microcode, so that devs don't even realise there is a bug in the silicium in the first place).
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Sure is, and they're trying to solve it.
Trying to stall something has never been a solution has never been a solution, and couldn't ever be called one.
it is their job to get you to watch TV and more specifically watch those ads
Works wonder since I don't own a TV anymore.
Obviously they haven't yet come up with better ideas
Point is that they're not even trying to, the only thing they're trying to do is to keep the current statu-quo.
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Free trade is dead. Welcome to the world of... well, what exactly? In Communism, The Party decided what's good for you. What do you call a market where the producer, and him alone, dictates what you can and may buy?
Well, it would usually be a plutocracy, but luckyly for us we now have a much better term to call it: a corporatocracy where laws are made by and for corps (yeah, it is a neologism and you won't find it in your dictionary). Corps being owned by the richests, it boils down to plutocracy in the end, but I feel that corporatocracy much better describes what the USA have turned into.
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However, I'd like to ask a simple question. If the networks can no longer count on people watching at least some ads, how are they to pay for content?
How about "that's their fucking problem not mine"?
Pro-capitalism, pro-"free trade", pro-whatever-you-think-that-is americans (I'm not american btw) usually point out that the market sorts itself out, how about letting it sort itself out for once?
They could switch to 100% pay-per-view, or a single "free" channel and some for-pay channels, or they could die altogether for all i'd care, but the fact that their current business model would be fucked is not a good enough reason for me nor for anyone else to accept that kind of crap.
How are they to pay for content? I don't give a fuck, seriously. It's their job to figure it out but it's not their job to make it impossible for me to get devices I'm interrested in.
Progress always win in the end, while they can delay the widespread use of TiVo-like devices they can't slaughter it altogether, they're merely getting some more time.
I'm not saying it's theft or agreeing with any of the other comments made by those companies, but you need to put down emotion and maybe start coming up with reasonable alternative business models if you want to see devices like this suceed.
Of course not, I don't need to come up with "reasonable alternative business models", nor does the GP, I'm not a content provider or anything, it's not my job. If they can't come up with alternative business models by themselves then they're better off dead, and the sooner the better, other more intelligent guys will think of something and take their place in no time.
Depends on the way the phone works. I know that the recently released can use it's WLAN (Wifi), Bluetooth, IR and USB connections at the same time, but I don't know if you can connect to GSM at the same time.
If not for them, then you should care for yourself, because once the technology will have "been proved solid" and "brought improvements" from chipping immigrants and felons and whatever, this will be ported over to regular citizens who will have the ability to accept being chipped. Not accepting the chipping will, of course, be unamerican and label you either as a terrorist or as a felon, or you'll just start seing the number of places you can go to, the number of services you can use, the number of things you can do, dwindle.
And at the end, you'll be chipped too, because you won't be able to work, buy groceries, rent a home or use a car without being chipped.
And by that time they'll be chipping your kids at birth too.
And maybe by then you'll wake up and realize that you shouldn't have accepted the immigrant's chipping in the first place.
Ah, and note that there is no mention in the article of the word "illegal", in fact the only example of workers that'd be chipped are perfectly legal workers.
Duh, no you idiot, the point of illegal immigrants is that you don't know they're here, the articles states that Verichip's CoB proposed to implant chips in "immigrant and guest workers" to know "who is in [his] country and why they are here", the article states that this could be initially be applied to "track seasonal workers" (such as seasonal Columbian workers) but it puts no frigging restriction on the scope of the chipping, so GP could indeed be a target of chipping.
My FF 1.5.0.3 downloaded a mere 600k, and Thunderbird's update to 1.5.0.4 was roughtly the same size (~500k).
Your FF probably failed a hash check or something and downloaded everything to reinstall from scratch, that's the fallback when the updater doesn't manager to install incremental updates.
I have very few crashing issues (the only ones I had were when I removed one of the RAM sticks, nF4 really don't like running on a single RAM stick, and DFI's Lanparty motherboards like it even less, so the whole computer was hellishly unstable anyway), and the JS rendering is much much faster than in Firefox 1.0... A good thing which is balanced by the even higher number of extensions i'm interrested in, which means that i bumped my extensions count from ~20 in the days of Firefox 1.0 to more than 40 now... bah
Why wouldn't it be? JIT compilation is merely a rather advanced kind of interpreter. AFAIK Python already has one (even though dev on it has more or less stopped) and PyPy will supposedly include one out of the box, and I think Matz would like Ruby2 to have a JIT compiler.
Whether you prefer Perl-like syntax (that PHP uses) or VBScript syntax is largely a matter of preference. I've personally found that VBScript is more of a pain in the ass than PHP.
Wrong, PHP doesn't use Perl-like syntax, it uses what it things of as Perl-ish "$" prefixes, the point that these wonderful PHP devs missed is that prefixes actually have a meaning in Perl, in PHP they don't (yes I do know that they're data access shit(1), and I do also know that this is retarded). PHP also removed much of the cryptic-but-useful Perl syntax. PHP definitely does not have a Perl-like syntax unless by perl-like you mean "not like perl's syntax at all".
You can have ADO if you want it, or you can use PDO which does support parameterized queries. Or you can use mysqli instead of mysql.
Remind me when PDO and mysqli finally made their way into the language? PHP5.1 and PHP 5? Are we supposed to be impressed? ADO was born in 1996 for god's sake, that's 4 years before the Zend devs managed to release PHP4 and and programmers had to wait 4 more years to finally get a non-braindead DB interface?
And we're only talking about ADO here, Perl's DBI was specified in 1994, Python's DBAPI was first released in 1996 and it's evolution (DBAPI 2.0) was born in 1999...
PHP security doesn't suck any worse than ASP or Perl or ColdFusion or anything else, once you disable things like magic_quotes and register_globals (which is recommended practice)
The point was why the hell do they exist in the first place?. PHP is insecure by design (in the broadest sense of the term, since PHP has no language design to speak of). Doesn't it bother you that the Zend devs built that level of insecurity in the core language, enabled it by default and are only now thinking of removing it for the next version or the one after that?
Woonderful, these tools reimplemented ECMAScript, fucked it up with ugly, $-prefixed builtins, dumbed it some more and then sprinkled their spec with illegible english. What an awesome language not to code in.
I want to avoid saying that most PHP sites are amazingly insecure. Certainly, this must be a function of the pathetic losers who use PHP, instead of some function of the language.
The language helps though, the easiest example one can give is the dozen of different functions just to escape DB query parameters (there are at least 3 for mysql alone -- addslashes, mysql_escape_string and mysql_real_escape_string, only the latter being safe), or the wonderful built-in magic quotes that basically addslashes() everything and require you to stripslash every single parameter when they're activated (cause addslashes doesn't provide safe-to-inject values and fucks them up so you can't just *_escape_string them), or the wonderful Register Globals that was finally turned off by default (not even removed) in PHP 4.2.0.
Only if the implementation of the language is idiotic enough not to be able to notice that the source has changed and should be recompiled to bytecode. While I agree this would probably be an issue with PHP, it's not in most other interpreted languages.
nForce4 mobos have always supported Raid 0+1 (mine does and it's more than a year old). The change is that recent nForce4 motherboards also support raid5 while older motherboard needed such things as Promise chips to do so. Promise chips and stuff give you 4 additional SATA connectors though (for a total of 8)
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Look at it this way: if you can get better performances for the same price, why wouldn't you buy a Core 2?
This is the reason why A64s are popular in the first place: they offered as good or better performances as P4's at equal or lower prices, and you couldn't cook eggs on them.
If intel manages to reverse the balance with Core 2, more power to them, it means that AMD'll have to do some more work on their procs and start working on the K9.
You probably missed the fact that every single chip has bugs, AMD's A64 have 'bout as many bugs as the Core Duos, and the bugs that aren't fixed in silicium are the ones around which workarounds exist (usually in microcode, so that devs don't even realise there is a bug in the silicium in the first place).
Trying to stall something has never been a solution has never been a solution, and couldn't ever be called one.
Works wonder since I don't own a TV anymore.
Point is that they're not even trying to, the only thing they're trying to do is to keep the current statu-quo.
Well, it would usually be a plutocracy, but luckyly for us we now have a much better term to call it: a corporatocracy where laws are made by and for corps (yeah, it is a neologism and you won't find it in your dictionary). Corps being owned by the richests, it boils down to plutocracy in the end, but I feel that corporatocracy much better describes what the USA have turned into.
How about "that's their fucking problem not mine"?
Pro-capitalism, pro-"free trade", pro-whatever-you-think-that-is americans (I'm not american btw) usually point out that the market sorts itself out, how about letting it sort itself out for once?
They could switch to 100% pay-per-view, or a single "free" channel and some for-pay channels, or they could die altogether for all i'd care, but the fact that their current business model would be fucked is not a good enough reason for me nor for anyone else to accept that kind of crap.
How are they to pay for content? I don't give a fuck, seriously. It's their job to figure it out but it's not their job to make it impossible for me to get devices I'm interrested in.
Progress always win in the end, while they can delay the widespread use of TiVo-like devices they can't slaughter it altogether, they're merely getting some more time.
Of course not, I don't need to come up with "reasonable alternative business models", nor does the GP, I'm not a content provider or anything, it's not my job. If they can't come up with alternative business models by themselves then they're better off dead, and the sooner the better, other more intelligent guys will think of something and take their place in no time.
There are ads on TomsHardware? How come no one ever told me?
It probably has mod_python because Series60 Nokia phones officially feature Python programming support.
Depends on the way the phone works. I know that the recently released can use it's WLAN (Wifi), Bluetooth, IR and USB connections at the same time, but I don't know if you can connect to GSM at the same time.
Just imagine the sight of someone's cell phone bursting in flame in his pocket during a slashdotting!
God damn it, do you mean that fucking for virginity doesn't work either?
Well, goodness me, some people already have had that idea
The point of GP was to use their own logic against themselves...
If not for them, then you should care for yourself, because once the technology will have "been proved solid" and "brought improvements" from chipping immigrants and felons and whatever, this will be ported over to regular citizens who will have the ability to accept being chipped. Not accepting the chipping will, of course, be unamerican and label you either as a terrorist or as a felon, or you'll just start seing the number of places you can go to, the number of services you can use, the number of things you can do, dwindle.
And at the end, you'll be chipped too, because you won't be able to work, buy groceries, rent a home or use a car without being chipped.
And by that time they'll be chipping your kids at birth too.
And maybe by then you'll wake up and realize that you shouldn't have accepted the immigrant's chipping in the first place.
But you'll be fucked to the bone.
Ask iraqis 'bout how "ridiculously fake" your speech is
Ah, and note that there is no mention in the article of the word "illegal", in fact the only example of workers that'd be chipped are perfectly legal workers.
Duh, no you idiot, the point of illegal immigrants is that you don't know they're here, the articles states that Verichip's CoB proposed to implant chips in "immigrant and guest workers" to know "who is in [his] country and why they are here", the article states that this could be initially be applied to "track seasonal workers" (such as seasonal Columbian workers) but it puts no frigging restriction on the scope of the chipping, so GP could indeed be a target of chipping.
My FF 1.5.0.3 downloaded a mere 600k, and Thunderbird's update to 1.5.0.4 was roughtly the same size (~500k).
Your FF probably failed a hash check or something and downloaded everything to reinstall from scratch, that's the fallback when the updater doesn't manager to install incremental updates.
I have very few crashing issues (the only ones I had were when I removed one of the RAM sticks, nF4 really don't like running on a single RAM stick, and DFI's Lanparty motherboards like it even less, so the whole computer was hellishly unstable anyway), and the JS rendering is much much faster than in Firefox 1.0... A good thing which is balanced by the even higher number of extensions i'm interrested in, which means that i bumped my extensions count from ~20 in the days of Firefox 1.0 to more than 40 now... bah
overall, I like 1.5 much better than 1.0.
Why wouldn't it be? JIT compilation is merely a rather advanced kind of interpreter. AFAIK Python already has one (even though dev on it has more or less stopped) and PyPy will supposedly include one out of the box, and I think Matz would like Ruby2 to have a JIT compiler.
Wrong, PHP doesn't use Perl-like syntax, it uses what it things of as Perl-ish "$" prefixes, the point that these wonderful PHP devs missed is that prefixes actually have a meaning in Perl, in PHP they don't (yes I do know that they're data access shit(1), and I do also know that this is retarded). PHP also removed much of the cryptic-but-useful Perl syntax. PHP definitely does not have a Perl-like syntax unless by perl-like you mean "not like perl's syntax at all".
Remind me when PDO and mysqli finally made their way into the language? PHP5.1 and PHP 5? Are we supposed to be impressed? ADO was born in 1996 for god's sake, that's 4 years before the Zend devs managed to release PHP4 and and programmers had to wait 4 more years to finally get a non-braindead DB interface?
And we're only talking about ADO here, Perl's DBI was specified in 1994, Python's DBAPI was first released in 1996 and it's evolution (DBAPI 2.0) was born in 1999...
The point was why the hell do they exist in the first place?. PHP is insecure by design (in the broadest sense of the term, since PHP has no language design to speak of). Doesn't it bother you that the Zend devs built that level of insecurity in the core language, enabled it by default and are only now thinking of removing it for the next version or the one after that?
Yeah, that's probably why the very first paragraphs of the front page tell me i can code in neko...
Woonderful, these tools reimplemented ECMAScript, fucked it up with ugly, $-prefixed builtins, dumbed it some more and then sprinkled their spec with illegible english. What an awesome language not to code in.
The language helps though, the easiest example one can give is the dozen of different functions just to escape DB query parameters (there are at least 3 for mysql alone -- addslashes, mysql_escape_string and mysql_real_escape_string, only the latter being safe), or the wonderful built-in magic quotes that basically addslashes() everything and require you to stripslash every single parameter when they're activated (cause addslashes doesn't provide safe-to-inject values and fucks them up so you can't just *_escape_string them), or the wonderful Register Globals that was finally turned off by default (not even removed) in PHP 4.2.0.
Only if the implementation of the language is idiotic enough not to be able to notice that the source has changed and should be recompiled to bytecode. While I agree this would probably be an issue with PHP, it's not in most other interpreted languages.
nForce4 mobos have always supported Raid 0+1 (mine does and it's more than a year old). The change is that recent nForce4 motherboards also support raid5 while older motherboard needed such things as Promise chips to do so. Promise chips and stuff give you 4 additional SATA connectors though (for a total of 8)