Converting Euros to dollars using current exchange rate isn't going to work out too well. PC's are always cheaper in the USA and the dollar is in a bottomless pit right now.
You need to calculate how many Big Macs it works out to and compare prices that way.
Assuming that Joe Sixpack knows that "Find more providers" really means "Change search engine"...and then after he;s added google via the tortuous web page he can navigate his way around to change the default setting (most users I've seen select google from the drop-down list and assume it changed the default - which it ought to, but this is Microsoft). And assuming he didn't install windows live or anything like that which will change it back again...then yes, it's really easy to change.
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Some people pay more for Macs - because they see value somewhere.
Some people will pay extra to drive a Toyota Prius - because they're idiots.
Some people will pay more for "open" computing - for the same reasons.
Converting Euros to dollars using current exchange rate isn't going to work out too well. PC's are always cheaper in the USA and the dollar is in a bottomless pit right now.
You need to calculate how many Big Macs it works out to and compare prices that way.
I'm guessing:
a) The people who buy this won't be gamers (not everybody's first thought when evaluating a PC is "what's the 3DMark score?")
b) The 950 is a good buy right now and is tried/tested in the open source driver world.
Came here to hear somebody moan about the graphics and am leaving satisfied.
Well, yes ... but the people who are most interested in GPGPU aren't generally all that interested in saving $50 to get less processors.
Thing is, you don't "read" source code the way you read normal text.
a) Almost everybody has PDF reader installed (it's preinstalled on most PCs)
b) Firefox managed to contain it.
c) We all know IE is way more promiscuous than other browsers.
Assuming that Joe Sixpack knows that "Find more providers" really means "Change search engine"...and then after he;s added google via the tortuous web page he can navigate his way around to change the default setting (most users I've seen select google from the drop-down list and assume it changed the default - which it ought to, but this is Microsoft). And assuming he didn't install windows live or anything like that which will change it back again...then yes, it's really easy to change.
Speaking as somebody who's coded his own GIF decoder ... yes GIF format is trivial.
No good for /. readers - Model M keyboards don't have a Windows key.
That depends ... with Firefox+NoScript it's an opt-in.
NoScript uses whitelisting so you have to click "allow scripts" whenever a website breaks. Permissions can be temporary or permanent.
Huh? The ticket is proportional to your wealth. How can it be excessive?
The socket is much cheaper.
The weak link is in the apostrophe.
Remind me again how much Windows 7 costs them to buy...?
Monopolies are only illegal when you abuse them.
The biggest selling graphics chip is Intel - selling more than NVIDIA/ATI combined.
This could open up 3D gaming to all those people with 'underpowered' machines (generally their CPU/RAM/Disk is as good as yours).
So far this thread is all "Well, I'm sitting here in my armchair and I believe..."
History will judge them, not self-important speculation.
PS: They're aiming at iPhones, not your $10,000 nitrogen-cooled neon-lit gaming rig.
They employed one person to take a look at OO?
Yep, definitely a threat to their core business model. Not.
What did he do exactly? He sure didn't invent the mp3 player.
SJ is probably the best of that list, sure, but what a crappy list.
Is Afghanistan the definition of "real war" these days?
If we garantee their income then what's their incentive to produce good product?
If their profit is guaranteed by law then they're going to make the minimum possible effort to 'earn' it.
>"...all the innocent people caught in the crossfire in Iraq and Afghanistan?
> Over 100,000 people dead"
C'mon, everybody knows an American life is worth a hundred darkies.