This definately won't be an ATI Radeon x200 or an nVidia GeForce FX, but it may just open the door for open-source cards that are just that. People who are already on Linux don't need better graphics (AFAIC). However, to make Linux a feasable replacement for Windows, there must be a good card that can handle all the same software on Linux, and while this card may not do it, it may just get people thinking.
I wouldn't consider transplanting human organs into an animal a chimera. When they can put human DNA and make human organs grow naturally in an animal, then we'll have a chimera (and a little problem on our hands).
That in about 5 years or so they'll implement this technology and we'll see a story, "Identity Theft On The Rise As Biometrics Are Stolen From Traveller's Passports".
Of course this means you must use the mouse on this mousepad, taking away some of the big advantages of a wireless mouse.
I use my mouse on a pad so it doesn't scratch the desk. I don't have a wireless so I don't need a pad, I have it so that when I want to move, I can (instead of sitting scrunched up), and also because it involves less confusion with wires.
Also, couldn't you get shocked if the mousepad conducts electricity? Or is it like touching the edges of a battery?
I don't want to move halfway across the world to live with Buddists and othersuch people just so I can get a mediocre job. As things stand now, the US is still better.
As for all the people who are going to follow these companies, I wonder what their salary is like? $10 a month?
Let's put it this way, the more users program, the more user-friendly it is.
I know a little tiny bit of C++, but I don't pursue it because 1 I'm 13 and have no attention span and 2 it's hard to create nice programs with nice UI's IMHO.
Microsoft will be offering anyone who's "unsure" about whether they've got dodgy software the chance to have it checked out by Microsoft, with the promise that if it does turn out to be counterfeit, they'll replace it.
Apparantly, Microsoft knows. They know everything. They're right behind you.
Microsoft will be offering anyone who's "unsure" about whether they've got dodgy software the chance to have it checked out by Microsoft, with the promise that if it does turn out to be counterfeit, they'll replace it.
Apparantly, Microsoft knows. They know everything. They're right behind you.
This shows that AMD is doing way better than Intel. Doesn't AMD make mobile processor chips? If not, they should! AMD's chips have always run faster at the same rated speeds (don't ask me how that works). That's why a game's requirements may say "1 Ghz Pentium 4 or 800 Mhz AMD Athlon" , etc.
I've been using Firefox and Mozilla for close to 2 years, and have yet to run by a site that doesn't work in it that works in IE (except one that I've written with ignorance to HTML standards) so I challange you to name one site that will not display in my firefox.
Honestly, the US system of education is one of the most overfunded educational systems in the world! The fact is nobody knows how to manage it correctly (I would know, since I'm an 8th grader).
The Soviet Education system was bankrupt (mostly because the Soviet Union was bankrupt), and they still had no trouble giving what was considered to be one of the best educations in the world!
We pay $4,200 property tax yearly on a $200,000 house. Then our school goes out and gets some sort of assembly on "caring". Also, in the past two or three years, our school has spent thousands of dollars on student-helped sculptures and stuff. Has this improved our quality of education? Of course not! The only reason we stay in this district is because our school has a 'gifted' magnet class. (Oh, and the computers block slashdot!)
But that's what happens when bureaucrats manage the school system.
Plus who is more likely to cut corners so they can get more money?
The private company will do so only if it has no competition, but if there happens to be any competition (direct or indirect), they have to keep you there (in any regular capitalism people vote with their money).
If the UK privatizes the radio spectrum, it's not going to be one company managing it (from what I read, beacuse "So if one technology gets superseded, another one can get rolled out instead (subject to broadcast power limits) without Ofcom having to define what spectrum it should use." implies some sort of system like that).
They [private companies] are more efficient, they just charge more (but it's not out of taxes, so people complain less).
My general rule of thumb is that for civilian matters private companies do better but charge more, but get less complaints because it's not out of taxes (just take a look at the USPS vs. the private UPS, where do you think there are more lost packages?) and my rationale for that is because they're charging you more for a better service.
On the other hand, for military matters, the government knows best (specifically the pentagon, not the bureaucrats in congress).
At Best Buy, I can only ever find 2 purely VHS players, and maybe a few more that are VHS/DVD Player combos. Personally, I think it's a good move, because we should be phasing in DVD recorders (better quality, long lasting, no tape, etc.). The problem is that my grandma (and people in her generation) only know VHS (and she has stacks of VHS tapes, believe me), so when one breaks and we have to replace it, it's really a heartache.
Many areas are not populated enough to get Cable or close enough to an exchange get DSL. Try getting either of these in Kansas, Ohio, West Virginia, Virginia, Alaska and many other states in the more rural areas. At least until the phone companies all go fibre like Verizon is.
I live in a suburb of Chicago about 35 minutes away, and only about 2 years ago did we get DSL available in our area (and then cable, and the works). Before that it was, your loop is too long or you're too far away from our station, etc.
As soon as the phone companies start competing with the cable companis the prices will go down. Until you have both options available in your area you are stuck with high prices.
Actually, since we use SBC's phone service and signed up for a 2 year agreement, we pay $35/month, otherwise it'd be $50 (Cable here is $63 if you don't use Comcast's digital cable)
This is the most overlooked. Who needs broadband when all they do is ocationaly send and recieve email and do light web surfing for at most an hour a day? I'll agree that this isn't most slashdoters, but most of our parents are probably like this and probably our grandparents as well. Assuming that they even have internet much less a computer.
My dad uses the internet for a lot of stuff, but he could live without it. On the other hand, I do almost everything online (I even bought my new video card online).
My Main question is what do rural areas have to do with blacks, hispanics, and other minorities, aren't most of the people in rural areas conservative whites (with rifles)?
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...how long before the RIAA can come and find you by voice analysis?
This definately won't be an ATI Radeon x200 or an nVidia GeForce FX, but it may just open the door for open-source cards that are just that. People who are already on Linux don't need better graphics (AFAIC). However, to make Linux a feasable replacement for Windows, there must be a good card that can handle all the same software on Linux, and while this card may not do it, it may just get people thinking.
I wouldn't consider transplanting human organs into an animal a chimera. When they can put human DNA and make human organs grow naturally in an animal, then we'll have a chimera (and a little problem on our hands).
That in about 5 years or so they'll implement this technology and we'll see a story, "Identity Theft On The Rise As Biometrics Are Stolen From Traveller's Passports".
Of course this means you must use the mouse on this mousepad, taking away some of the big advantages of a wireless mouse.
I use my mouse on a pad so it doesn't scratch the desk. I don't have a wireless so I don't need a pad, I have it so that when I want to move, I can (instead of sitting scrunched up), and also because it involves less confusion with wires.
Also, couldn't you get shocked if the mousepad conducts electricity? Or is it like touching the edges of a battery?
Who pays for the recount if the dems win?
I haven't been bothered by any religion, but India's somewhat buddhist, Japan's got like everything from that area.
And if you actually go to a regular college you can start at say $60k a year in the US -- if you have a regular job (not tree-hugger).
I don't want to move halfway across the world to live with Buddists and othersuch people just so I can get a mediocre job. As things stand now, the US is still better.
As for all the people who are going to follow these companies, I wonder what their salary is like? $10 a month?
Let's put it this way, the more users program, the more user-friendly it is.
I know a little tiny bit of C++, but I don't pursue it because 1 I'm 13 and have no attention span and 2 it's hard to create nice programs with nice UI's IMHO.
You do know that the GUI was first invented at the PARC (Xerox Plao-Alto Reasearch Center), right?
That's like the movie Paycheck.
"I didn't life the bulky monitor...so I got rid of it."
With no tricks I managed to memorize 3.14159265358979323 (my friend has about 5-10 more digits memorized). Needless to say, I have no life.
Microsoft will be offering anyone who's "unsure" about whether they've got dodgy software the chance to have it checked out by Microsoft, with the promise that if it does turn out to be counterfeit, they'll replace it.
Apparantly, Microsoft knows. They know everything. They're right behind you.
Microsoft will be offering anyone who's "unsure" about whether they've got dodgy software the chance to have it checked out by Microsoft, with the promise that if it does turn out to be counterfeit, they'll replace it.
Apparantly, Microsoft knows. They know everything. They're right behind you.
This shows that AMD is doing way better than Intel. Doesn't AMD make mobile processor chips? If not, they should! AMD's chips have always run faster at the same rated speeds (don't ask me how that works). That's why a game's requirements may say "1 Ghz Pentium 4 or 800 Mhz AMD Athlon" , etc.
I still have an AOL 4.0 floppy. It only works for Windows 95. Perhaps I should go down to my school and install it there.
80 hours of week done in 2 weeks
[insert bad pun here]
I've been using Firefox and Mozilla for close to 2 years, and have yet to run by a site that doesn't work in it that works in IE (except one that I've written with ignorance to HTML standards) so I challange you to name one site that will not display in my firefox.
Don't be touting it quite so much when it has yet to produce anyone important for the game industry.
The Soviet Education system was bankrupt (mostly because the Soviet Union was bankrupt), and they still had no trouble giving what was considered to be one of the best educations in the world!
We pay $4,200 property tax yearly on a $200,000 house. Then our school goes out and gets some sort of assembly on "caring". Also, in the past two or three years, our school has spent thousands of dollars on student-helped sculptures and stuff. Has this improved our quality of education? Of course not! The only reason we stay in this district is because our school has a 'gifted' magnet class. (Oh, and the computers block slashdot!)
But that's what happens when bureaucrats manage the school system.
The private company will do so only if it has no competition, but if there happens to be any competition (direct or indirect), they have to keep you there (in any regular capitalism people vote with their money).
If the UK privatizes the radio spectrum, it's not going to be one company managing it (from what I read, beacuse "So if one technology gets superseded, another one can get rolled out instead (subject to broadcast power limits) without Ofcom having to define what spectrum it should use." implies some sort of system like that).
My general rule of thumb is that for civilian matters private companies do better but charge more, but get less complaints because it's not out of taxes (just take a look at the USPS vs. the private UPS, where do you think there are more lost packages?) and my rationale for that is because they're charging you more for a better service.
On the other hand, for military matters, the government knows best (specifically the pentagon, not the bureaucrats in congress).
At Best Buy, I can only ever find 2 purely VHS players, and maybe a few more that are VHS/DVD Player combos. Personally, I think it's a good move, because we should be phasing in DVD recorders (better quality, long lasting, no tape, etc.). The problem is that my grandma (and people in her generation) only know VHS (and she has stacks of VHS tapes, believe me), so when one breaks and we have to replace it, it's really a heartache.
I live in a suburb of Chicago about 35 minutes away, and only about 2 years ago did we get DSL available in our area (and then cable, and the works). Before that it was, your loop is too long or you're too far away from our station, etc.
As soon as the phone companies start competing with the cable companis the prices will go down. Until you have both options available in your area you are stuck with high prices.
Actually, since we use SBC's phone service and signed up for a 2 year agreement, we pay $35/month, otherwise it'd be $50 (Cable here is $63 if you don't use Comcast's digital cable)
This is the most overlooked. Who needs broadband when all they do is ocationaly send and recieve email and do light web surfing for at most an hour a day? I'll agree that this isn't most slashdoters, but most of our parents are probably like this and probably our grandparents as well. Assuming that they even have internet much less a computer.
My dad uses the internet for a lot of stuff, but he could live without it. On the other hand, I do almost everything online (I even bought my new video card online). My Main question is what do rural areas have to do with blacks, hispanics, and other minorities, aren't most of the people in rural areas conservative whites (with rifles)?
Of course then the kids will be using the phone (somehow) and they'll need to use something else (let's say a microwave) to jam the phone.