I've been to Asia and many "sweat shop" workers live better lives than all their neighbors combined.
Ah, the good ol' "other people have it even worse, why would you like your situation to be any better?", never ages uh?
And can be used for soo many things.
Hey, you only have AIDS while your neighbour has a cancer, you should feel lucky, now shut the fuck up
You only had bread for dinner? So what? Some people get only water, not even pure! You should feel lucky!
Stop whinning about the fact that a drunk driver hit you and you lost your leg, other people lose their lives in this kind of events, now be happy or I tear you a new one.
How the fuck does the existance of "worse" forgive "bad"?
Does the fact that Hitler killed 6 millions judes mean we should forgive the KKK for "only" killing a few hundred or thousand blacks?
I didn't say he had a low UID, I said he had a not-that-high UID.
The million slashdot troll user has more than likely already been reached, so a 50k UID, even though not *low* is not *that* high, and means that he's been visiting slashdot for some time already.
Not much point in karma-ing someone with an already maxed karma.
GGP has a not-that-high UID, and a quick peek at his late comments history shows a string of +3 and +5 insightful, informative and interresting. And GGP already gets a +2 from his karma...
One of these days, you'll understand that I tried not to take sides and merely tried to explain why the Itanic was a flop.
One of these days, you may even understand that -- for good or for bad -- some people have a hard time moving from their legacy applications and therefore can't bear platform changes.
What matters is the price point here. We don't buy AMD because they're "better" than Intel - a clock is a clock. They're no more or less stable, no better supported. We buy them because they're cheaper.
Duh, no, people DO buy AMD because it's "better". Only Intel's marketting droids and retarded monkeys used to think that "a clock is a clock". AMD chips have been outperforming Intel's for years now, clock for clock (shall I remind you that top of the line P4 reach 4GHz and still get their balls busted by Athlon64 who have yet to reach 3GHz out of the box?)
People buy AMD because they feature
Better overall performances per $
Much better performance per watt
A "true" dual core in the case of AthlonX2 and dual core Opterons
Used to be the only chips handling both 32 and 64-bit (and managed that as while still beating the crap of the purely 32-bit P4 in 32-bit apps)
Last thing about the performance/clock thing: Pentium-M beat the living shit out of P4 clock for clock 95% of the time.
Shame Intel didn't work on scaling them to high frequencies, 2.5GHz-ish desktop Pentium-M would at least put some kind of fight against Athlon64 chips.
Anyone know why Intel, with all their resources, didn't have a decent x64, multi-core product before AMD? Never mind one that uses fewer watts.
Because Intel invested all it's brainpower into the overpriced Itanic whose incompatibility with x86-32 made every single potential buyer back from, as few people are interrested in a platform with no OS and barely a handful of apps not including your own legacy apps.
H.G. Wells, Jules Verne, C.S. Lewis, men who had command of the English language as well as futuristic imaginations.
Although delighted that so many english speakers know of him, I'm just about sure that he never wrote a single word of english in his lifetime. And the first english translations sucked. Badly. Never before 1965 (he died in 1905) did he actually get english translations worthy of his works.
Not to mention that that frigging Fitz fucking blows.
The best thing that could've happened to these books would have been for the old man (Fitz' grandfather?) to drop him on the pavement and crush his head flat within 10 pages of the opening cover.
My be, even though actually knowing the maps is part of gaming (even at non-pro level).
That's pretty equivalent to satellite image and "real world" intelligence: you know how the field is, you can devise which tactics your opponent is likely to use, and you can try to counter or outsmart is.
At pro-level, everyone knows the maps, in fact most tournaments run on very specific (and quite small amounts of) maps, chosen for various factors (fun, balance, tricks, points of interrests,...) and knowing them by heart is not even required, it's logical.
Playing on new, unplayed-before maps may lead to having to use unbalanced/unplayable/uninterresting maps.
Maybe that'll be done, when mapmaking will actually be a well-payed profession and some people can take the time to actually design good maps in all kinds of games (FPS, but also RTS and such)
And gaming is bound by the very dynamics of the game.
and the best players are those who can best take advantage of their abilities within these limitations (steroids aside).
And the best gamers are those who can best take advantage of their abilities and knowledge withing the boundaries and limitations of the game (cheats aside).
The important part is that if a gamer knows an error within the system that he can take advantage of, it's possible for him to win based solely off that. You can't cheat gravity and friction.
But you can use steroids or other body-enhancing drugs. Your point?
You know...pretend, just for a moment, that *you* have a pair of breasts on your front. Now, who do *you* want to live with for the rest of your life? Yeah, your thought process probably works pretty much the same way it does now. Sure, you might like to go out with a supermodel, all else being equal, but honestly, knowing someone that's nice and that you want to spend your life with is a lot more tied into personality than whether the person is a mortician or a pop singer at the moment, you know?
Banging girls (or guys) usually doesn't involve living with them _for the rest of your life_, merely for a few weeks top until one is bored of the other.
Ah, and I fear that for most people, knowing that someone's nice isn't that much of a turn-on. 6 figures, on the other hand, may be
Not only does O'Reilly have more than half a clue and would more than likely have agreed to it, but they don't even hold any damn copyright on the Tarsier image as it's a XIXth century engraving...
Best would - of course - be to perform your own test, but enabling HT on desktops usually improves the multi-app flow and reduces the cases of boxes "locking" with one application eating all the resources.
In fact, with the dual channel memory model, dual core AMD systems might be a little better than generic dual CPU, since each processor has it's "own" memory.
Nope, both cores use the same bridge to access central memory so that point is moot. On the other hand, the cores of an AthlonX2 get to discuss with one another through a special link while regular multiprocessor have to use the FSB (or HyperThreading for AMD's Opterons) link, and therefore have to compete with every other device using said FSB/HT (on top of getting much higher latencies)
You have a much better control over them, you can span them seamlessly over multiple drives (including adding drives to already existing volumes), you can set precise sizes/quotas AND can redefine them to your heart's content whenever required in a single command (which is something you can't do with "physical" partitions)
I'm now waiting for a "true" and as unbiased as possible comparison between ZFS and Reiser, including the areas where they shine (from a flash demo, ZFS already shine in simplicity of administration and extensibility, you can setup a full FS in 4 lines in your console, and adding disks or quotas to an existing FS/array takes 1 line. It's smokin' impressive)
seems like a ridiculous infringement on user rights.
You're a bit confused here. A Sony user does not have rights. A Sony user should feel that the heavens themselves allowed him to use Sony software and hardware, and be in eternal debt to Sony for it.
Keep in mind that this is Sony/BMG, where Sony only owns 50%, and where BMG were the ones who brought DRM into the picture. Sony on the other hand is selling MP3 players and Vaio PCs with bundled ripping-hadware/software.
Wanna bet? Sony doesn't give heck about their customers, not only their products are often no more than average, but they want full control over their customers (backers of blu-ray, DRM schemes,... )
Had you ever played a SoE MMORPG (be it either EverQuest or EverQuest 2), you'd know how Sony does not give a rat's ass about customer satisfaction and has only one desire: fuck said customer until it's ass bleeds.
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Ah, the good ol' "other people have it even worse, why would you like your situation to be any better?", never ages uh?
And can be used for soo many things.
How the fuck does the existance of "worse" forgive "bad"?
Does the fact that Hitler killed 6 millions judes mean we should forgive the KKK for "only" killing a few hundred or thousand blacks?
I didn't say he had a low UID, I said he had a not-that-high UID.
The million slashdot troll user has more than likely already been reached, so a 50k UID, even though not *low* is not *that* high, and means that he's been visiting slashdot for some time already.
Not much point in karma-ing someone with an already maxed karma.
GGP has a not-that-high UID, and a quick peek at his late comments history shows a string of +3 and +5 insightful, informative and interresting. And GGP already gets a +2 from his karma...
One of these days, you'll understand that I tried not to take sides and merely tried to explain why the Itanic was a flop.
One of these days, you may even understand that -- for good or for bad -- some people have a hard time moving from their legacy applications and therefore can't bear platform changes.
Duh, I was merely telling parent that clock doesn't matter in CPU perfs...
Duh, no, people DO buy AMD because it's "better". Only Intel's marketting droids and retarded monkeys used to think that "a clock is a clock". AMD chips have been outperforming Intel's for years now, clock for clock (shall I remind you that top of the line P4 reach 4GHz and still get their balls busted by Athlon64 who have yet to reach 3GHz out of the box?)
People buy AMD because they feature
Last thing about the performance/clock thing: Pentium-M beat the living shit out of P4 clock for clock 95% of the time.
Shame Intel didn't work on scaling them to high frequencies, 2.5GHz-ish desktop Pentium-M would at least put some kind of fight against Athlon64 chips.
Because Intel invested all it's brainpower into the overpriced Itanic whose incompatibility with x86-32 made every single potential buyer back from, as few people are interrested in a platform with no OS and barely a handful of apps not including your own legacy apps.
Although delighted that so many english speakers know of him, I'm just about sure that he never wrote a single word of english in his lifetime. And the first english translations sucked. Badly. Never before 1965 (he died in 1905) did he actually get english translations worthy of his works.
Not to mention that that frigging Fitz fucking blows.
The best thing that could've happened to these books would have been for the old man (Fitz' grandfather?) to drop him on the pavement and crush his head flat within 10 pages of the opening cover.
Seconded
Now if only the first books could be rewritten by the current Terry Pratchett... oh lord...
My be, even though actually knowing the maps is part of gaming (even at non-pro level).
That's pretty equivalent to satellite image and "real world" intelligence: you know how the field is, you can devise which tactics your opponent is likely to use, and you can try to counter or outsmart is.
At pro-level, everyone knows the maps, in fact most tournaments run on very specific (and quite small amounts of) maps, chosen for various factors (fun, balance, tricks, points of interrests, ...) and knowing them by heart is not even required, it's logical.
Playing on new, unplayed-before maps may lead to having to use unbalanced/unplayable/uninterresting maps.
Maybe that'll be done, when mapmaking will actually be a well-payed profession and some people can take the time to actually design good maps in all kinds of games (FPS, but also RTS and such)
Fun counts as long as people want it to count.
This guy is a pro-gamer, he takes part in pro-gaming tournaments, and he has fun doing it.
Noone involved in pro-gaming tournament is *forced* to do it, they do it because they want to, and for some because they have fun in doing so.
The point of sports, likewise, is to have fun, not win...
Do pro-sports seem any less acceptable to you?
Which doesn't matter at all to anyone
And gaming is bound by the very dynamics of the game.
And the best gamers are those who can best take advantage of their abilities and knowledge withing the boundaries and limitations of the game (cheats aside).
But you can use steroids or other body-enhancing drugs. Your point?
Banging girls (or guys) usually doesn't involve living with them _for the rest of your life_, merely for a few weeks top until one is bored of the other.
Ah, and I fear that for most people, knowing that someone's nice isn't that much of a turn-on. 6 figures, on the other hand, may be
Not only does O'Reilly have more than half a clue and would more than likely have agreed to it, but they don't even hold any damn copyright on the Tarsier image as it's a XIXth century engraving...
Indeed, that wrong shortcut was completely stupid of me (especially since sony is a backer of Blu-Ray)
<p>Is there ANY Blu-Ray device that people look forward to?</p>
Usually not, no.
Best would - of course - be to perform your own test, but enabling HT on desktops usually improves the multi-app flow and reduces the cases of boxes "locking" with one application eating all the resources.
Nope, both cores use the same bridge to access central memory so that point is moot. On the other hand, the cores of an AthlonX2 get to discuss with one another through a special link while regular multiprocessor have to use the FSB (or HyperThreading for AMD's Opterons) link, and therefore have to compete with every other device using said FSB/HT (on top of getting much higher latencies)
You have a much better control over them, you can span them seamlessly over multiple drives (including adding drives to already existing volumes), you can set precise sizes/quotas AND can redefine them to your heart's content whenever required in a single command (which is something you can't do with "physical" partitions)
It doesn't seem to have exactly the same goals.
I'm now waiting for a "true" and as unbiased as possible comparison between ZFS and Reiser, including the areas where they shine (from a flash demo, ZFS already shine in simplicity of administration and extensibility, you can setup a full FS in 4 lines in your console, and adding disks or quotas to an existing FS/array takes 1 line. It's smokin' impressive)
You're a bit confused here. A Sony user does not have rights. A Sony user should feel that the heavens themselves allowed him to use Sony software and hardware, and be in eternal debt to Sony for it.
Wanna bet? Sony doesn't give heck about their customers, not only their products are often no more than average, but they want full control over their customers (backers of blu-ray, DRM schemes, ... )
Had you ever played a SoE MMORPG (be it either EverQuest or EverQuest 2), you'd know how Sony does not give a rat's ass about customer satisfaction and has only one desire: fuck said customer until it's ass bleeds.