Hopefully government workers aren't watching TV when they're at work.
How about this: All government documents should be in an open, well documented format. This way software vendors can compete for government contracts on level ground. Including Microsoft, who should be competing on features, not lock-in.
When you're online you need to be seen playing the very latest game, right?
I mean playing last year's game is like listening to last year's music - not something you want to be seen doing in public when you're under 25 years old.
Looking at the new graph it's still pretty obvious that the trend is "downwards", there was about 2 million square kilometers less ice in September 2007 than in September 2003.
Is your GPU going to control the hard disk? How about the USB mouse and keyboard?
CPUs and GPUs are utterly different architectures and live in different places inside the machine. Even if it had access to the peripherals a GPU couldn't run Office or Firefox, not even close.
What the NVIDIA guy is saying makes no sense at all, he's just spouting off. Intel has nothing to worry about, it's NVIDIA who should be scared of Intel taking away the low-end market from them - that's where all NVIDIA's profit is, not in the handful of high end cards they manage to sell.
Well, yes, if it was one-on-one tutoring, but it isn't. If you have to stop the entire class every time some kid decides that rules don't apply to them then you won't get much teaching done.
Even if Microsoft doesn't make physical cash from this you can bet they insisted on a contract which says: "If you don't charge $60 extra for XP we send the guy with the chairs.".
Did Windows firewall also do all that other stuff?
ie: "locked you out of your own Local Settings folder; has denied you permission to move or delete the modified DLL; and refuses to allow the replacement of the Local Settings folder after it is unlocked with Unlocker to move it to the Desktop for examination (where it also denies you entry to your own folder). Setting permissions to 'allow everyone' was disabled! "
Yes, there's some people who wouldn't pay but they won't pay no matter what you do. The media giants should just forget about them and stop tarring the potential customers with the same brush.
There's tons of people who get TV programs off the 'net because it's more convenient and/or better quality (no adverts or DRM). In short, The Pirate Bay provides BETTER SERVICE.
Rubbish... you could easily double these people's wages and it would add less then $1 to the total cost of your PC. Would you really stop buying if they did that?
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Hopefully government workers aren't watching TV when they're at work.
How about this: All government documents should be in an open, well documented format. This way software vendors can compete for government contracts on level ground. Including Microsoft, who should be competing on features, not lock-in.
Two words: Networked gameplay.
When you're online you need to be seen playing the very latest game, right?
I mean playing last year's game is like listening to last year's music - not something you want to be seen doing in public when you're under 25 years old.
Just one: Do you know anything about a place called "Easter Island"?
One of the two will make them unpopular in the long term.
It'll be like MS Messenger and classify all .mp3 files as "dangerous".
Also "zip", just in case there's any virus-ridden mp3 files inside them.
Who's going to clean this up?
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Great_Pacific_Garbage_Patch
It's a direct result of people exercising their "rights". As is the current economic crisis, etc.
Luckily for us, science always corrects itself in the long run.
This new data doesn't change anything except possibly the timescale. The effects of dumping billions of tons of CO2 into the air is still a bad thing.
You think unfettered consumerism is a human right?
At least we HAVE a calculation. The CDPs are just pulling crap out of their asses.
Looking at the new graph it's still pretty obvious that the trend is "downwards", there was about 2 million square kilometers less ice in September 2007 than in September 2003.
http://www.ijis.iarc.uaf.edu/en/home/seaice_extent.htm
But yeah, the deniers will be all over this.
Is your GPU going to control the hard disk? How about the USB mouse and keyboard?
CPUs and GPUs are utterly different architectures and live in different places inside the machine. Even if it had access to the peripherals a GPU couldn't run Office or Firefox, not even close.
What the NVIDIA guy is saying makes no sense at all, he's just spouting off. Intel has nothing to worry about, it's NVIDIA who should be scared of Intel taking away the low-end market from them - that's where all NVIDIA's profit is, not in the handful of high end cards they manage to sell.
Well, yes, if it was one-on-one tutoring, but it isn't. If you have to stop the entire class every time some kid decides that rules don't apply to them then you won't get much teaching done.
Oh, wait, that's exactly what's happening....
http://www.ted.com/index.php/talks/barry_schwartz_on_our_loss_of_wisdom.html
How you gonna do that when she stuffs it down her underwear? And if you let her get away with it, what's she going to do next?
Snowflake had hidden the 'phone in her underwear so having Police present is the only way to avoid a lawsuit.
Even if Microsoft doesn't make physical cash from this you can bet they insisted on a contract which says: "If you don't charge $60 extra for XP we send the guy with the chairs.".
...either that or
1) Sell them
2) Buy a graphics card which will do more SETIs
3) Profit
TPB is just a specialized version of Google. I can find more torrents via Google than I can via TPB.
Did Windows firewall also do all that other stuff?
ie: "locked you out of your own Local Settings folder; has denied you permission to move or delete the modified DLL; and refuses to allow the replacement of the Local Settings folder after it is unlocked with Unlocker to move it to the Desktop for examination (where it also denies you entry to your own folder). Setting permissions to 'allow everyone' was disabled! "
Yep. This is a major part of it.
Yes, there's some people who wouldn't pay but they won't pay no matter what you do. The media giants should just forget about them and stop tarring the potential customers with the same brush.
There's tons of people who get TV programs off the 'net because it's more convenient and/or better quality (no adverts or DRM). In short, The Pirate Bay provides BETTER SERVICE.
As long as American consumers remain ignorant, they will chase lower prices.
If real information was available I bet a lot of them would pay the extra $1 on a $49 item.
Hell, people pay $1 extra on a bag of "fair trade" coffee.
As a consumer, how do I know the way a company treats its workers? At the moment, I don't.
I'm betting quite a lot of people would choose goods based on this information if it was readily available (ie. printed on the box).
Those doctors should be struck off for doing so.
Can people buy antibiotics over the counter in the USA? That's when the real problems start...
Rubbish ... you could easily double these people's wages and it would add less then $1 to the total cost of your PC. Would you really stop buying if they did that?
105 keys at 1.1s per key is about two minutes per keyboard, that's 1.36 cents in labor costs.
You could pay a massive $0.02 more for your keyboard and give these people shorter working hours *and* the weekends off.
Imagine what a difference it would make if we all paid $1 extra for our computers, or $0.50 more for a pair of sneakers.
Something to ponder next time you're enjoying a $5 Starbucks coffee.
This is what happens when your OS is closed/proprietary.