is a good pair of Open Ear headphones. Sennheiser makes some very good ones. (IMHO The Best)
This is a very bold declaration here. Sennheiser are probably the most well known cans makers, and they're extremely renowned, but their cans go head to head with Beyerdynamic's and AKG's and they don't always come out at the lead.
Sennheiser's cans are usually really good (and even then, they also have some crappy stuff), but The Best is quite stretching it.
Sorry, but macs having like 10 recent 3D games playable atm or in the future (you forgot to mention WoW BTW) still "isn't that many games" in my book, and Macs still aren't the primary gaming platform, Windows/x86 is.
Oh, and please come back when you'll have checked how Quartz behaves on a GF2MX, the fact that it can run doesn't mean that it will run smoothly.
I understand that Nvidia cards actually power down some of their 3D circuitry when it's not needed, as well.
Both ATI and nVidia can power down whole parts of the GPU when they're not in use. In fact, I think that the latest, extremely modular, ATI designs (X1xxx) is slightly more efficient there.
I'm not defending Microsoft, I'm merely saying that this kind of behaviour is childish, stupid and unproductive.
If you want to attack Microsoft, do it while still respecting what shall be respected (the name of the company), attack them on their security record, on their monopolistic behaviour, on their lobbying methods, on the personality or missteps of their leaders, that's fair game, and that's sometimes productive and at least somewhat interresting.
Oh, and everyone deserves to be defended btw, no matter who one is or what one did, one deserves a fair trial.
Probably the new way of bashing MS. Since M$, Micro$oft and MicroShit are now deemed uncool, retards have to find a new way of naming it, cause, you know, typing MS or MicroSoft is offensive or something.
There is no question or argument about freeing anything from the constraint of copyrights, the issue here is that the french notion of "fair use" (the "private copy rights") is extremely large, and the debate is whether sharing/downloading media files from the web is part of the private copy rights bestowed by law upon the french citizens or not.
French rock singer, one of the best-selling french artists with Aznavour with around 200 million albums sold worldwide during his (nearly 50 years long now) career. As of 2005, he's cranked out 1000 songs, 400 tours (for ~25 millions spectators), 18 platinum albums and 1 diamond album. He also participated in 29 films and around 80 books have been written on him.
Oh I agree! I think that a lot of the inefficiencies - WRT Quartz - are because of XML.
That's possible, but the XML would only put a strain on IO (low) and CPU (high), the matter of TFA here was purely on the GPU/graphics side of the equations, that is whether the intergrated graphics of the i945M (Napa platform's integrated graphics chipset) would have enough computing power and features to handle the graphical load of Vista.
Quartz is probably the reason why the current Macs ship with X1600s out of the box (well X1600 mobiles for notebooks), it's not like Macs had that many games to make use of that much graphical power after all.
Uh, the GPU strain doesn't come from the XML, it comes from the advanced graphics, using stuff like shaders and hardware window transparency on the desktop. In a word, rendering the desktop through your GPU, while the current Windows doesn't use the GPU at all.
RTFA, the/. headline is stupid and misses half the facts. The article is about the i945M integrated graphics, not the Core Duo itself, and whether the integrated graphics will be able to handle the load of Vista.
The iMac/x86 are bundled with ATI's X1600 and the Macbook pros have an ATI Mobility X1600, they're not using integrated graphics from the chipset.
The issue is not the processor but the graphic capacities of the i945M chipset (with integrated graphics and shared memory).
Given the fact that Vista supposedly use CG and advanced graphics a lot, the guy wonders whether the 945M will be able to give you a "full vista experience" compared to a standalone graphic card.
Well, centrino is in fact a full platform/certification (at least processor + chipset + wireless chip, probably a few other things too) so I'm not sure.
Not that Apple cares, Centrino is useful as a brand/quality indication, and Apple won't use it.
I never said that telcos were useless or had an easy job, I said that they didn't add any value to the content, and they don't have any intrisic value.
A telco without content has a net worth of 0 for the customer, and the customer won't see the content actually change by switching telco (unless tiered internet comes to be), which means that the telcos don't add value to the content. THAT is what the customer sees.
That doesn't mean that the telcos are useless and that we could get rid of them, the telcos provide service by linking the customer and the content. But that's not how the baby bells seem to see it, seems like they consider themselves necessary and the content optional and costly, while they only have customer because the content itself exists.
How hard is it to get citizenship in Canada, UK, Ireland, France, or Australia? Anybody know?
Your local canadian/english/irish/french/australian consul does know. And there are plenty of consular (does that word even exist?) and immigration services websites if you're serious about your request.
Well, except for the fact that MSFT, Google, Apple, and Amazon need the telcos more than the telcos need them. By a wide margin
Not really, the user doesn't actually need the telco per se, the telcos don't add any value to the transaction between MSFT/Google/Amazon and the customer. They don't create the content of, therefore the interest in, therefore the value of Internet. They don't create the need for users to actually use them. Content providers create the need for telcos, if the user can't get the content then the telco isn't needed anymore.
In a user-internet connection, the telco is the middleman, the one that sucks money without actually generating value.
The telcos need the content providers, even though the baby bells don't realize it (or don't care), without content they're nothing but dead weights, ball, anchor and chain.
The only argument I see Guido accepting here is that methods don't have type contracts (and, implicitely, that Python is not statically typed, which it obviously isn't).
The issue then is defining what "weakly typed" means. From what you say it seems that you equate dynamic typing with weak typing. Fine by me, I don't, end of the discussion, it won't lead anywhere since we don't agree on the basic definitions of the terms we both use.
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Your analogies are so stupid and irrelevant they don't even reach the "flawed" level
From what I read, most USians are under an effective baby bell (bell south, AT&T or verizon) monopoly and do not have the choice.
Yes they do, manipulation, extorsion (sp?) and monopoly are their 3 main business rules
s/Verizon/Baby Bells/
Except that this is not what the telcos want.
The telcos are currently fucking you in the ass, and they want you to buy their lube to boot.
Enjoy, America !
This is a very bold declaration here. Sennheiser are probably the most well known cans makers, and they're extremely renowned, but their cans go head to head with Beyerdynamic's and AKG's and they don't always come out at the lead.
Sennheiser's cans are usually really good (and even then, they also have some crappy stuff), but The Best is quite stretching it.
Thanks for the insight captain!
Sorry, but macs having like 10 recent 3D games playable atm or in the future (you forgot to mention WoW BTW) still "isn't that many games" in my book, and Macs still aren't the primary gaming platform, Windows/x86 is.
Oh, and please come back when you'll have checked how Quartz behaves on a GF2MX, the fact that it can run doesn't mean that it will run smoothly.
Both ATI and nVidia can power down whole parts of the GPU when they're not in use. In fact, I think that the latest, extremely modular, ATI designs (X1xxx) is slightly more efficient there.
I'm not defending Microsoft, I'm merely saying that this kind of behaviour is childish, stupid and unproductive.
If you want to attack Microsoft, do it while still respecting what shall be respected (the name of the company), attack them on their security record, on their monopolistic behaviour, on their lobbying methods, on the personality or missteps of their leaders, that's fair game, and that's sometimes productive and at least somewhat interresting.
Oh, and everyone deserves to be defended btw, no matter who one is or what one did, one deserves a fair trial.
Probably the new way of bashing MS. Since M$, Micro$oft and MicroShit are now deemed uncool, retards have to find a new way of naming it, cause, you know, typing MS or MicroSoft is offensive or something.
I hate Johnny, so no offense taken.
On the other hand, I mostly listen to classical music, so I'm probably even "uncooler" than a Johnny fan by your standards.
There is no question or argument about freeing anything from the constraint of copyrights, the issue here is that the french notion of "fair use" (the "private copy rights") is extremely large, and the debate is whether sharing/downloading media files from the web is part of the private copy rights bestowed by law upon the french citizens or not.
French rock singer, one of the best-selling french artists with Aznavour with around 200 million albums sold worldwide during his (nearly 50 years long now) career. As of 2005, he's cranked out 1000 songs, 400 tours (for ~25 millions spectators), 18 platinum albums and 1 diamond album. He also participated in 29 films and around 80 books have been written on him.
Whoa there, someone forgot his medications again.
Commercial videos don't make that much use of a GPU's 3D rendering capacities, they don't use shaders and stuff.
That's possible, but the XML would only put a strain on IO (low) and CPU (high), the matter of TFA here was purely on the GPU/graphics side of the equations, that is whether the intergrated graphics of the i945M (Napa platform's integrated graphics chipset) would have enough computing power and features to handle the graphical load of Vista.
Quartz is probably the reason why the current Macs ship with X1600s out of the box (well X1600 mobiles for notebooks), it's not like Macs had that many games to make use of that much graphical power after all.
Uh, the GPU strain doesn't come from the XML, it comes from the advanced graphics, using stuff like shaders and hardware window transparency on the desktop. In a word, rendering the desktop through your GPU, while the current Windows doesn't use the GPU at all.
RTFA, the /. headline is stupid and misses half the facts. The article is about the i945M integrated graphics, not the Core Duo itself, and whether the integrated graphics will be able to handle the load of Vista.
The iMac/x86 are bundled with ATI's X1600 and the Macbook pros have an ATI Mobility X1600, they're not using integrated graphics from the chipset.
The issue is not the processor but the graphic capacities of the i945M chipset (with integrated graphics and shared memory).
Given the fact that Vista supposedly use CG and advanced graphics a lot, the guy wonders whether the 945M will be able to give you a "full vista experience" compared to a standalone graphic card.
Well, centrino is in fact a full platform/certification (at least processor + chipset + wireless chip, probably a few other things too) so I'm not sure.
Not that Apple cares, Centrino is useful as a brand/quality indication, and Apple won't use it.
I never said that telcos were useless or had an easy job, I said that they didn't add any value to the content, and they don't have any intrisic value.
A telco without content has a net worth of 0 for the customer, and the customer won't see the content actually change by switching telco (unless tiered internet comes to be), which means that the telcos don't add value to the content. THAT is what the customer sees.
That doesn't mean that the telcos are useless and that we could get rid of them, the telcos provide service by linking the customer and the content. But that's not how the baby bells seem to see it, seems like they consider themselves necessary and the content optional and costly, while they only have customer because the content itself exists.
Your local canadian/english/irish/french/australian consul does know. And there are plenty of consular (does that word even exist?) and immigration services websites if you're serious about your request.
Not really, the user doesn't actually need the telco per se, the telcos don't add any value to the transaction between MSFT/Google/Amazon and the customer. They don't create the content of, therefore the interest in, therefore the value of Internet. They don't create the need for users to actually use them. Content providers create the need for telcos, if the user can't get the content then the telco isn't needed anymore.
In a user-internet connection, the telco is the middleman, the one that sucks money without actually generating value.
The telcos need the content providers, even though the baby bells don't realize it (or don't care), without content they're nothing but dead weights, ball, anchor and chain.
The only argument I see Guido accepting here is that methods don't have type contracts (and, implicitely, that Python is not statically typed, which it obviously isn't).
The issue then is defining what "weakly typed" means. From what you say it seems that you equate dynamic typing with weak typing. Fine by me, I don't, end of the discussion, it won't lead anywhere since we don't agree on the basic definitions of the terms we both use.
Have a nice day.