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There may be laws to prevent this kind of behavior: for example non-"consumed" rivals might approach the DoJ with an anti-trust plea. But as Netscape vs. M$ has proved, the 800 pound gorilla wins in the long run. Winning matters, noone cares how you won. This is the side-effect of capitalism. I think U.S. really needs to revise its policies. Do you think a $5 million company needs to pay the same amount of sales tax as a $5 billion company for the same amount of sales? I don't know much about U.S. economy or business laws, but the government seriously needs to find ways to help smaller companies flourish in the face of competition from big predators.
I think Microsoft has come to realize that its more profitable to allocate resources for arresting hackers and worm-writers than setting aside teams devoted to bug-fixing. Remember the Stephen Glass story Hack Heaven? Sometimes life imitates con-art.
In the forest of nerds find the red "Karma Whore" materia which summons all nearby Slashdotters for a 48-hour long beat-about-the-bush-and-then-beat-the-bush festival.
And if you pair it up with "Grand Summon" the world will come to an end.
It is ironic that in a country that goes to war against other under the colours of freedom (much like Constantine used Christianity for) attempts to segregate the very people who claim the right given by the constitution. We had seen similar hypocrisy in New York during the 2004 RNC, when protesters were forbidden from meeting in central park and were arrested for using loudspeakers. Makes you wonder who gets to excercise their rights and who doesn't.
For anyone interested in the FSRN broadcast about Katrina here is the link.
The current situation is that Windows XP provides all the functionality that most people need. Further, a 128-megabyte Pentium-III-powered box running at 500 megahertz is all the horsepower that most people need.
Bill Gates is notorious for saying that "640K ought to be enough for anybody." and "No one will need more than 637 kb of memory for a personal computer."
I agree, but the requirements for a G5 cpu are different from those in the 360, and I stressed that M$ has removed some perks. Infact, the older Xbox cpu is more efficient for the very reasons you mentioned as it uses a pentium. Your facts are correct, but they justify the pricing of XBox 360 nevertheless. As far as the PS3 is concerned, the facts are here:
cell.scei.co.jp
and IBM's Overview
I think people getting ready to do some M$ bashing should look into the past and go over microsoft's releases. When they released NT, windows 95, 98, 2000, xp they always went for the median hardware configuration of the upcoming 6 to 10 years. That is part of the reason you could run windows XP on a 32MB Pentium-II (I've done it, and it chugs along just fine, enough to run a browser for surfing and playing flash games).
From the article: 2GB is the ideal configuration for 64-bit Vista, we're told. Vista 32-bit will work ideally at 1GB, and minimum 512. However, since 64-bit is handling data chunks that are double the size, you'll need double the memory, hence the 2GB. Nigel mentions DDR3 - which is a little odd, since the roadmap for DDR3, on Intel gear at least, doesn't really kick in until 2007. Unlike Linux, windows is not under released constantly for free, so M$ releases snapshots of Windows: in 95, 97, 98, 99, 2000 etc. Such foresight is good in many ways, I mean how many features that Vista has are currently available in Linux distros? Maybe we don't need them, or maybe Linux developers haven't developed such good relations with hardware companies yet.
Now, for the XBox 360 issue, you should know (if you are interested in further scrutiny) that it uses IBM Power PC chips (similar to those used in Apple G5). Add a couple of perks to that architecture and remove some and it seems that 360 isn't that badly priced at all. I'd like to see the people trashing 360 show similar zeal in ridiculing the PS3 which ironically isn't all that different (except for its cell architecture) and could be priced in the same bracket as the 360.
First off, it's hard to see *any* species as being in anything other than a state of evolution. To suggest otherwise implies a superficial understand of what evolution is about.
I beg to differ. With the current state of affairs in several countries and the way people in the east are connected to what the west does, I propose that we consider not only the human brain, but the human species itself as an exception. We are undergoing convolution instead of evolution. Besides, human evolution is not a safe subject in some countries anymore...
I'd start by submitting a question to Ask Slashdot.
Upon which the global "wankfest" will commence, leading to solutions ranging from Novell to qmail based solutions, upon which the OP will look for someone else for advice, upon which the OP will end up paying an IBM consultant to set up his company's email.
Your rhetoric is only good if you consider the student to be the pilot and the teacher to be the passenger. Sandly, this again shows how poorly understood the relationship between students and teachers is.
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How are you gentlemen.... ...
What you say? ...
Like windows was rushing to deliver Vista just 9 months ago?
To compliment his German accent,
Now where are the language lawyers of slashdot?
There may be laws to prevent this kind of behavior: for example non-"consumed" rivals might approach the DoJ with an anti-trust plea. But as Netscape vs. M$ has proved, the 800 pound gorilla wins in the long run. Winning matters, noone cares how you won. This is the side-effect of capitalism. I think U.S. really needs to revise its policies. Do you think a $5 million company needs to pay the same amount of sales tax as a $5 billion company for the same amount of sales? I don't know much about U.S. economy or business laws, but the government seriously needs to find ways to help smaller companies flourish in the face of competition from big predators.
I bet they used Chocobo power...
Soon to be sued and outlawed!!!
I think Microsoft has come to realize that its more profitable to allocate resources for arresting hackers and worm-writers than setting aside teams devoted to bug-fixing. Remember the Stephen Glass story Hack Heaven? Sometimes life imitates con-art.
Hasta la Vista, XP!!!
Reminds me of the movie "Dumb and Dumber".
In the forest of nerds find the red "Karma Whore" materia which summons all nearby Slashdotters for a 48-hour long beat-about-the-bush-and-then-beat-the-bush festival.
And if you pair it up with "Grand Summon" the world will come to an end.
Inhibition of Mars will change the 2048 electoral map?
But you won't get Xtra Problems that way!!!
It is ironic that in a country that goes to war against other under the colours of freedom (much like Constantine used Christianity for) attempts to segregate the very people who claim the right given by the constitution. We had seen similar hypocrisy in New York during the 2004 RNC, when protesters were forbidden from meeting in central park and were arrested for using loudspeakers. Makes you wonder who gets to excercise their rights and who doesn't.
For anyone interested in the FSRN broadcast about Katrina here is the link.
The current situation is that Windows XP provides all the functionality that most people need. Further, a 128-megabyte Pentium-III-powered box running at 500 megahertz is all the horsepower that most people need.
Bill Gates is notorious for saying that "640K ought to be enough for anybody." and "No one will need more than 637 kb of memory for a personal computer."
No wonder you decided to stay anonymous!!!
I agree, but the requirements for a G5 cpu are different from those in the 360, and I stressed that M$ has removed some perks. Infact, the older Xbox cpu is more efficient for the very reasons you mentioned as it uses a pentium. Your facts are correct, but they justify the pricing of XBox 360 nevertheless. As far as the PS3 is concerned, the facts are here: cell.scei.co.jp and IBM's Overview
I think people getting ready to do some M$ bashing should look into the past and go over microsoft's releases. When they released NT, windows 95, 98, 2000, xp they always went for the median hardware configuration of the upcoming 6 to 10 years. That is part of the reason you could run windows XP on a 32MB Pentium-II (I've done it, and it chugs along just fine, enough to run a browser for surfing and playing flash games).
From the article: 2GB is the ideal configuration for 64-bit Vista, we're told. Vista 32-bit will work ideally at 1GB, and minimum 512. However, since 64-bit is handling data chunks that are double the size, you'll need double the memory, hence the 2GB. Nigel mentions DDR3 - which is a little odd, since the roadmap for DDR3, on Intel gear at least, doesn't really kick in until 2007. Unlike Linux, windows is not under released constantly for free, so M$ releases snapshots of Windows: in 95, 97, 98, 99, 2000 etc. Such foresight is good in many ways, I mean how many features that Vista has are currently available in Linux distros? Maybe we don't need them, or maybe Linux developers haven't developed such good relations with hardware companies yet.
Now, for the XBox 360 issue, you should know (if you are interested in further scrutiny) that it uses IBM Power PC chips (similar to those used in Apple G5). Add a couple of perks to that architecture and remove some and it seems that 360 isn't that badly priced at all. I'd like to see the people trashing 360 show similar zeal in ridiculing the PS3 which ironically isn't all that different (except for its cell architecture) and could be priced in the same bracket as the 360.
Please continue wanking...
An IBM Consultant could tell you better what a "solution" entails.
Wait till the day when slashdot will be owned by Fox!
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First off, it's hard to see *any* species as being in anything other than a state of evolution. To suggest otherwise implies a superficial understand of what evolution is about.
I beg to differ. With the current state of affairs in several countries and the way people in the east are connected to what the west does, I propose that we consider not only the human brain, but the human species itself as an exception. We are undergoing convolution instead of evolution. Besides, human evolution is not a safe subject in some countries anymore...
If you live in america, relationship has only one meaning. In other countries databases are more advanced...
the best one liner on Slashdot ever...sad the moderators don't understand. What has the world come to!
I'd start by submitting a question to Ask Slashdot.
Upon which the global "wankfest" will commence, leading to solutions ranging from Novell to qmail based solutions, upon which the OP will look for someone else for advice, upon which the OP will end up paying an IBM consultant to set up his company's email.
This service has been spotted crawling at a slower pace than epsilon miles a day.
Won't it be shameful if no difference exists between /. and DoS?
Your rhetoric is only good if you consider the student to be the pilot and the teacher to be the passenger. Sandly, this again shows how poorly understood the relationship between students and teachers is.