that $1000 is the _bottom_ of the itanium line. $1000 barely gets your foot in the door with itanium. $1000 is _top_ of the amd64 line.
True, but the Itanium is pretty much stuck as a server/workstation chip these days. It's still pretty pricey, but compared to the price of a decently laid out workstation or server, it's expensive, but not TOO bad.
I'm not too surprised that the chips cost that much, considering how much the projected market has shrunk.
Personally, I don't disagree with you - I wouldn't want to spend more than $500 for ANY chip. It's just that for certain specialized fields, that $1000 chip might be worth it.
I'd have to agree with the parent poster. At the university I was going to, a couple of students got arrested for stealing textbooks from backpacks near the dining commons of the dorms - the university hadn't bothered to set up lockers yet. Buying new (replacement) textbooks was a real financial pain - there weren't any good used textbooks in the middle of the semester.
few people like paying $1000+ for a cpu alone, for example.
No one WANTS to spend that much on a CPU, except for those who want bragging rights. I think the point that the parent poster makes is valid. Very few people would complain about getting the top of the line AMD64 FX-57 chips - there would be more "oohs" and "aahs" amongst the/. crowd. In fact, those chips go for over $1100 each at Amazon or New Egg
FYI, the Athlon 64 X2 4800+ is also going for over $100 as well at New Egg
For anyone with the need or desire to have a fast top-end CPU (or plenty of cash to burn), $1000 isn't a big deal.
Actually, Yahoo only gives out one gig of free email. I'm looking at my (free) Yahoo mailbox, and I only have a gig. The two gigs is for people who upgrade to Yahoo Mail Plus.
The point that another poster makes about Yahoo leading the charge for fee email service is true. Before gmail arrived, Yahoo initially offered 6 megs for free accounts, then later cut the quota down to only 4 megs for newer accounts.
No, regular troops would be insufficient. It would require naval or airborne troops of some sort.
A bit of a nit-pick here, but that's only somewhat true. Transportation would be an issue, but the regular troops could be used. Regular troops can be dropped off via air (helicopter) or sea (ships, boats, etc.), as you mentioned.
The main character, Frodo Baggins, starts as an ingenue
Er, I was pretty sure that Frodo is/was male.
Sorry to nitpick here, but according to dictionary.com (http://dictionary.reference.com/search?q=ingenue) , an ingenue is either a naive, innocent girl or young woman, or an actress playing such a role in a dramatic production.
Very true. More advanced civilizations may have gone into stealth mode to avoid being detected by more aggressive/hostile civilizations. If so, our radio transmissions might be causing us a lot of problems in the future.
It would be ironic if our demise really was due to pop culture.
Technically, they're leasing a black box to you, so they still own the appliance. We have one here at the office, and we're not allowed to open up those pizza boxes. If there's a problem, they ship us another one or send a tech over.
Sounds more like Costco (or any other membership club) to me - pay your membership fee of $45 or $100 a year, and shop til you drop.
Clever way of getting people to shop exclusively with Amazon. Unfortunately, the fly in the soup here is that people will still be able to ship for free for $25 purchases. Most./ers would probably build up big orders for free shipping.
... due to some potential controversial issues (gender changing characters for one)...
Actually if gender changing is a big issue, why is Ranma 1/2 a big hit? It has not just gender changing, but species changing as well! Shampoo or Ryoga, anyone?
Ruhrpumpen. Best company name ever. Bet they have many Blinkenlights.
Good thing that the company name wasn't Humpenpumpen./. would've had a field day with that one.:)
The only problem is that if someone were able to completely understand a great coach, enough to code an AI, why wouldn't that programmer just go out and coach on the college or professional level? Such programmers could earn a more money doing that than programming, if they're in it for the money.
True, I've taken a look at Outlook. It's not a bad tool for searching within Outlook. The native Outlook search tool is pretty slow.
However, my personal preference was to go with something like GDS. It's been handy to be able to do a relatively comprehensive system search, including documents, especially when I was searching for project documents too.
Now if only GDS would allow me to select the directories to search from...
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that $1000 is the _bottom_ of the itanium line. $1000 barely gets your foot in the door with itanium. $1000 is _top_ of the amd64 line.
True, but the Itanium is pretty much stuck as a server/workstation chip these days. It's still pretty pricey, but compared to the price of a decently laid out workstation or server, it's expensive, but not TOO bad.
I'm not too surprised that the chips cost that much, considering how much the projected market has shrunk.
Personally, I don't disagree with you - I wouldn't want to spend more than $500 for ANY chip. It's just that for certain specialized fields, that $1000 chip might be worth it.
I'd have to agree with the parent poster. At the university I was going to, a couple of students got arrested for stealing textbooks from backpacks near the dining commons of the dorms - the university hadn't bothered to set up lockers yet. Buying new (replacement) textbooks was a real financial pain - there weren't any good used textbooks in the middle of the semester.
few people like paying $1000+ for a cpu alone, for example.
No one WANTS to spend that much on a CPU, except for those who want bragging rights. I think the point that the parent poster makes is valid. Very few people would complain about getting the top of the line AMD64 FX-57 chips - there would be more "oohs" and "aahs" amongst the /. crowd. In fact, those chips go for over $1100 each at Amazon or New Egg
FYI, the Athlon 64 X2 4800+ is also going for over $100 as well at New Egg
For anyone with the need or desire to have a fast top-end CPU (or plenty of cash to burn), $1000 isn't a big deal.
in fact, I've passed it three times, and turned MSFT down two of the times as I didn't feel the job was a good fit.
So what happened the third time? Did you end up working for MSFT in the end?
They give you two gigs of free email...
Actually, Yahoo only gives out one gig of free email. I'm looking at my (free) Yahoo mailbox, and I only have a gig. The two gigs is for people who upgrade to Yahoo Mail Plus.
The point that another poster makes about Yahoo leading the charge for fee email service is true. Before gmail arrived, Yahoo initially offered 6 megs for free accounts, then later cut the quota down to only 4 megs for newer accounts.
Are you absolutely sure that the Wikipedia entry is correct? It's certainly possibly that the entry may not be entirely accurate.
That's pretty funny. I'm guessing that the grandparent poster meant experience with maneuvering in that terrain.
A bit of a nit-pick here, but that's only somewhat true. Transportation would be an issue, but the regular troops could be used. Regular troops can be dropped off via air (helicopter) or sea (ships, boats, etc.), as you mentioned.
since eBay's located in San Jose and Amazon's not. Some hometown bias here, I'd guess.
The main character, Frodo Baggins, starts as an ingenue
Er, I was pretty sure that Frodo is/was male.
Sorry to nitpick here, but according to dictionary.com (http://dictionary.reference.com/search?q=ingenue) , an ingenue is either a naive, innocent girl or young woman, or an actress playing such a role in a dramatic production.
Otherwise, you make some good points here.
Very true. More advanced civilizations may have gone into stealth mode to avoid being detected by more aggressive/hostile civilizations. If so, our radio transmissions might be causing us a lot of problems in the future.
It would be ironic if our demise really was due to pop culture.
Do their appliances qualify as redistribution?
Technically, they're leasing a black box to you, so they still own the appliance. We have one here at the office, and we're not allowed to open up those pizza boxes. If there's a problem, they ship us another one or send a tech over.
So that's why reading takes so long. I just needed to upgrade from ISDN to T3!
Sounds more like Costco (or any other membership club) to me - pay your membership fee of $45 or $100 a year, and shop til you drop.
Clever way of getting people to shop exclusively with Amazon. Unfortunately, the fly in the soup here is that people will still be able to ship for free for $25 purchases. Most ./ers would probably build up big orders for free shipping.
Actually if gender changing is a big issue, why is Ranma 1/2 a big hit? It has not just gender changing, but species changing as well! Shampoo or Ryoga, anyone?
Ruhrpumpen. Best company name ever. Bet they have many Blinkenlights. Good thing that the company name wasn't Humpenpumpen. /. would've had a field day with that one. :)
The only problem is that if someone were able to completely understand a great coach, enough to code an AI, why wouldn't that programmer just go out and coach on the college or professional level? Such programmers could earn a more money doing that than programming, if they're in it for the money.
True, I've taken a look at Outlook. It's not a bad tool for searching within Outlook. The native Outlook search tool is pretty slow. However, my personal preference was to go with something like GDS. It's been handy to be able to do a relatively comprehensive system search, including documents, especially when I was searching for project documents too. Now if only GDS would allow me to select the directories to search from...
The problem with Outlook search is that it can be incredibly slow if you have a bit mailbox. The search options are also limited.
Going with Google search is a lot faster in this case. It's also convenient to see all possible results in one search location.
Of course, there are security issues involved, but that's another story.