Are you aware that 15" are fuck fail for portable laptop? (and 17" are even worse of course). That's why some people are waiting for a Macbook (Pro or not) at or under 13" as their personal saviour.
10-14" is where you get laptops, over that it's undersized desktop with batteries.
It is in fact a great example of name: as one stated elsewhere, one of the issues Apple had in the past was that upon reaching the Apple Store website people would see Powerbooks and their extremely high prices, and not necessarily notice the ibooks. Here, when the potential customer sees Macbook Pro for $2k, either he goes "great, i'll take 5" or he sees the Pro, considers that he is not one and deduces by himself that there may be a non-pro line more fit to his wallet.
Customer Confusion? Not a snowball's chance in hell, and "Pro" suffixes are extremely common and well understood by the public: it's better, more powerful, more featured, but it's also much more expensive.
And nowadays you only need 3 letters to say all that.
Reason may be that dual-GPUs are not dual core but two GPUs (usually) on two different PCB?
In a word, they're merely sticking two full graphic cards together, while dual-core CPUs stick the cores and the dual-CPU handling logic in a single physical package.
Dual GPU is twice as expensive to buy because it's twice as expensive to make in the first place.
"Revolution" just sold among the geeks & gamers. Geeks and gamers aren't the market nintendo wants to create, it's not the segment they want to sell to, geeks&gamers already know, they know the controller, they know the console, some already know whether they'll buy it (if only at a second console next to an XBox360/PS3), most will know soon after it's release and won't base it on the name.
Revolution was good to market the console to the enthusiasts and the early adopters, but that's not the population N wants to reach now. What they want are the non gamers, the ones who like slick logos and funny names (iPod anyone?), the non gamers.
Plus the new name gives Nintendo and the Revo a unique spot among search engines. Google for "Revolution", see how many links are about the revo on page one. Now do the same with "Wii".
They're the core of much of the "non-hardcore gamer" group, and this is the group Nintendo is now targetting to expand the gaming market beyond what it currently is, while Sony and Microsoft will be battling for the current gaming market Nintendo will be (and already is, see the DS) opening new ones.
So in a sense even though you were sarcastic you're pretty much dead on.
In practice , however, you cannot charge for GPL software. Why? Say I sell a copy of the program for $100 to some guy. What's to stop that guy from turning around and giving it away to everyone and his mother for free? And more importantly, why would anyone buy it from me, when they can get it for free?
Ever noticed that some guys (RedHat or MandrakeSoft for example) built whole business models selling free stuff?
A True Geek would've waited till he had a fully functional overclocked SNES.
And would've benched his improved SNES against a regular one, too.
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Consequently a "centrist" POV for Brits looks right wing in the US.
You meant "left wing" (prob. a typo), other than that this remark is true all over europe. In most european countries, Democrats would well be the right wing and Republicans would be the far right.
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Who cares about your right-wing-american-nutjob sensibilities? BBC is not even left wing by european standards, and 5 billion people are anti-americans.
The current best PSUs are probably the Seasonic S12 series: they're extremely quiet (not fanless, but they come close) and they have extremely good stability. They don't come that cheap (500W is around $100, 600W is about $120) but they're worth it in my opinion (I do own a Seasonic S12/600, which replaced a Tagan 480W. Makes less noise AND my PSU has stopped heating my case. I was impressed.)
Because IE would become even worse than Firefox memory and speed-wise maybe?
The fact that IE's core is MSHTML, a library used throughout the whole OS and that you just can't affort to code in managed code is another very good reason. Were they to recode "Internet Explorer" in.Net, they'd only get a.Net interface on top of C runtimes and stuff. Not really useful, really.
No, Dvorak talks crap about things he doesn't know jack about.
If you want speculative, head to Cringely's website, there you'll have speculations and "sometime right, sometimes wrong", backed up by sentient reasonings. Dvorak is not speculative, he's just stupid.
One of the things that people forget is that one of the biggest reasons that most PC cases are loud is that they have to be upgradable, and re-configurable. By default, the fans are full speed, and the air flow isn't designed for quiet operation.
No, the one thing people forget about is that they didn't care about noise in the first place, not until they started going deaf, and they didn't want to put $50 into their CPU cooling solution and stuck to the crappy buldozer-engine like 60mm fans because it was cheaper.
It's fairly easy to have a quiet upgradeable reconfigurable computer with a "low" investment (low meaning above average fans, above average case, good CPU/GPU cooling solutions and a good, quiet PSU. Desn't really come cheap, but you can find them at very acceptable prices.
Silent (or quiet enough that you can fully forget about it) is another, much harder to tackle issue. And it costs far more than merely quiet too. But it's also doable. It's all about knowledge and giving you the means to reach your ends.
No it isn't you dummy, your cooling system is, now just get a knowledgeable friend to slap a Thermalright HR-01 and a Nexus 120mm fan (undervolted to 9V) on it and it'll be whisper-quiet.
Issue here is that "scripting" is used very liberally and is misleading.
Here, it is used to label every language that has anything that looks like dynamic typing, which means that Python or Ruby get labelled as "Scripting Language" while they're much closer to general purpose programming languages that allow rapid application developments and have script-type glueability.
While Python or Ruby can be used to (and often are) glue several components, they do shine on larger applications, they're not limited to scripting (Perl isn't either, of course, but it's syntax and random maintainability and readability means that it's much more dangerous, hence much less used for applications).
What so-called JVM scriting languages bring to java isn't "scripting", it's readability and development speed via the sheer expressiveness and power of languages such as Ruby or Python (or even Nice, a very good JVM language even though I'm not sure it can be seen as a JVM scripting language). And the fact that they run on the JVM, compile to bytecode and allow the reuse of Java tools and libs of course.
They have way more success on their unmanned programs
Not really, space is not your local highway and a dozen dead astronauts over twice as many years is not that high of a price. They're aware of the risks involved (as any pilot is), the NASA is aware of them too, only the public ever cries bloody murder, but that's because the public is idiotic.
Many more lives will be lost during the conquest of space, it's part of the game, and the number of lives taken by the whole space conquest is still lower than the daily death toll of car accidents across the US.
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Why dual boot when you can virtualize?
Are you aware that 15" are fuck fail for portable laptop? (and 17" are even worse of course). That's why some people are waiting for a Macbook (Pro or not) at or under 13" as their personal saviour.
10-14" is where you get laptops, over that it's undersized desktop with batteries.
It is in fact a great example of name: as one stated elsewhere, one of the issues Apple had in the past was that upon reaching the Apple Store website people would see Powerbooks and their extremely high prices, and not necessarily notice the ibooks. Here, when the potential customer sees Macbook Pro for $2k, either he goes "great, i'll take 5" or he sees the Pro, considers that he is not one and deduces by himself that there may be a non-pro line more fit to his wallet.
Customer Confusion? Not a snowball's chance in hell, and "Pro" suffixes are extremely common and well understood by the public: it's better, more powerful, more featured, but it's also much more expensive.
And nowadays you only need 3 letters to say all that.
Wanking at your... uh... number of GPUs?
Reason may be that dual-GPUs are not dual core but two GPUs (usually) on two different PCB?
In a word, they're merely sticking two full graphic cards together, while dual-core CPUs stick the cores and the dual-CPU handling logic in a single physical package.
Dual GPU is twice as expensive to buy because it's twice as expensive to make in the first place.
If you really think that's a good name you should get your brain checked asap.
"Revolution" just sold among the geeks & gamers. Geeks and gamers aren't the market nintendo wants to create, it's not the segment they want to sell to, geeks&gamers already know, they know the controller, they know the console, some already know whether they'll buy it (if only at a second console next to an XBox360/PS3), most will know soon after it's release and won't base it on the name.
Revolution was good to market the console to the enthusiasts and the early adopters, but that's not the population N wants to reach now. What they want are the non gamers, the ones who like slick logos and funny names (iPod anyone?), the non gamers.
Plus the new name gives Nintendo and the Revo a unique spot among search engines. Google for "Revolution", see how many links are about the revo on page one. Now do the same with "Wii".
They're the core of much of the "non-hardcore gamer" group, and this is the group Nintendo is now targetting to expand the gaming market beyond what it currently is, while Sony and Microsoft will be battling for the current gaming market Nintendo will be (and already is, see the DS) opening new ones.
So in a sense even though you were sarcastic you're pretty much dead on.
Eww, I think I'm going to browse /b/ for a few hours to cleanse my brain from the images this description invoked.
Ever noticed that some guys (RedHat or MandrakeSoft for example) built whole business models selling free stuff?
Stop saying that he's fat! RMS is definitely not fat, he's big-boned!
A True Geek would've waited till he had a fully functional overclocked SNES.
And would've benched his improved SNES against a regular one, too.
You meant "left wing" (prob. a typo), other than that this remark is true all over europe. In most european countries, Democrats would well be the right wing and Republicans would be the far right.
Who cares about your right-wing-american-nutjob sensibilities? BBC is not even left wing by european standards, and 5 billion people are anti-americans.
Virtual +5 insightful god damn it
The current best PSUs are probably the Seasonic S12 series: they're extremely quiet (not fanless, but they come close) and they have extremely good stability. They don't come that cheap (500W is around $100, 600W is about $120) but they're worth it in my opinion (I do own a Seasonic S12/600, which replaced a Tagan 480W. Makes less noise AND my PSU has stopped heating my case. I was impressed.)
Because IE would become even worse than Firefox memory and speed-wise maybe?
The fact that IE's core is MSHTML, a library used throughout the whole OS and that you just can't affort to code in managed code is another very good reason. Were they to recode "Internet Explorer" in .Net, they'd only get a .Net interface on top of C runtimes and stuff. Not really useful, really.
It usually is, but IE7 seems to have it's own setting, and it uses ClearType even if CT is off in the os.
No, Dvorak talks crap about things he doesn't know jack about.
If you want speculative, head to Cringely's website, there you'll have speculations and "sometime right, sometimes wrong", backed up by sentient reasonings. Dvorak is not speculative, he's just stupid.
Dvorak's a quantum clock, he's never right. Ever.
No, the one thing people forget about is that they didn't care about noise in the first place, not until they started going deaf, and they didn't want to put $50 into their CPU cooling solution and stuck to the crappy buldozer-engine like 60mm fans because it was cheaper.
It's fairly easy to have a quiet upgradeable reconfigurable computer with a "low" investment (low meaning above average fans, above average case, good CPU/GPU cooling solutions and a good, quiet PSU. Desn't really come cheap, but you can find them at very acceptable prices.
Silent (or quiet enough that you can fully forget about it) is another, much harder to tackle issue. And it costs far more than merely quiet too. But it's also doable. It's all about knowledge and giving you the means to reach your ends.
No it isn't you dummy, your cooling system is, now just get a knowledgeable friend to slap a Thermalright HR-01 and a Nexus 120mm fan (undervolted to 9V) on it and it'll be whisper-quiet.
You don't even need Cygwin, there are a few distros of GNU utils compiled for Win32.
Issue here is that "scripting" is used very liberally and is misleading.
Here, it is used to label every language that has anything that looks like dynamic typing, which means that Python or Ruby get labelled as "Scripting Language" while they're much closer to general purpose programming languages that allow rapid application developments and have script-type glueability.
While Python or Ruby can be used to (and often are) glue several components, they do shine on larger applications, they're not limited to scripting (Perl isn't either, of course, but it's syntax and random maintainability and readability means that it's much more dangerous, hence much less used for applications).
What so-called JVM scriting languages bring to java isn't "scripting", it's readability and development speed via the sheer expressiveness and power of languages such as Ruby or Python (or even Nice, a very good JVM language even though I'm not sure it can be seen as a JVM scripting language). And the fact that they run on the JVM, compile to bytecode and allow the reuse of Java tools and libs of course.
Not really, space is not your local highway and a dozen dead astronauts over twice as many years is not that high of a price. They're aware of the risks involved (as any pilot is), the NASA is aware of them too, only the public ever cries bloody murder, but that's because the public is idiotic.
Many more lives will be lost during the conquest of space, it's part of the game, and the number of lives taken by the whole space conquest is still lower than the daily death toll of car accidents across the US.