Judging from personal experience, I believe he is right. My best pieces of code come out when I'm in a great mood without pressures from elsewhere and plenty of time to finish the project. In my worst days I've produced code that simply met expectations.
You sound just like a PHB who has no understanding of the beauty of code [...] I don't know what type of sweat shop you are running
It has been tried before. Cyrix did it with their "+" marking. You would get an 166+ Cyrix processor which would supposedly perform better than an Pentium 166. But when people started playing software rendered 3D games on their systems they noticed performance was less than Pentium 133. AMD did it a few years later. But then Intel started producing better chips (abandoning the Netburst joke) and the + marking became obsolete once again.
It's impossible to tell from a single number anymore because of differences in architecture. Some processors offer a better score in generic benchmarks, other get a better score in games, others in encoding. Intel chips generally do very well in encoding. AMD are quite competitive in games. The only way to figure out what you are getting is to find a benchmark for your applications. That's why hardware sites are so useful and have generally gone through the dot com bubble unharmed.
I don't know that you can say that Apple is doing it more "Successfully"
Timothy said it. Browse for stories posted by timothy and you'll figure out that he most definitely can say anything as long as it's good publicity for Apple.
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And in particular of type 419
I don't even know why I'm posting this.
Spoken like a true Apple fan. Doesn't matter to you if your point is right...
It will be modded into obscurity shortly anyway
...only publicity, especially to the groups of casual readers who ignore comments based on the opinions of other people, does.
You were not meant to. Understanding his point requires ability to freely criticize Apple.
Such as ATI, perhaps, or nVidia ?
That's a reply to the frosty pisser ?
I don't think Walt Disney would force the issue
You've lost the context of the parent postings.
What will ultimately kill XP, and the older applications which run on it, is new hardware
Such as ? Who would make a hardware product without XP support and instantly lose all that market ?
Heavy Office user since the early 90s here (see my first posts in Slashdot defending it)
You have a point and I've felt the heat as well.
That's why I switched to OpenOffice. They won't get me by surprise here.
Sorry, it was meant to be hyperlinked http://www.jpost.com/Israel/Article.aspx?id=173945
This question baffled me too until I read a Jerusalem Post article.
just that the operating system is locked
In other words, trivia.
The question is whether the effect can be reproduced without need for a volcano.
you didn't mind grounding all your own aircraft as well
That wouldn't be a problem in fighting against a superior (in the air) enemy. Also I'm wondering whether this would block satellite spying.
Don't tell me you didn't think of the potential of an artificial ash cloud as a weapon
Judging from personal experience, I believe he is right. My best pieces of code come out when I'm in a great mood without pressures from elsewhere and plenty of time to finish the project. In my worst days I've produced code that simply met expectations.
You sound just like a PHB who has no understanding of the beauty of code [...] I don't know what type of sweat shop you are running
He is serious through sarcasm. Read him again.
With or without the toupee ?
It has been tried before. Cyrix did it with their "+" marking. You would get an 166+ Cyrix processor which would supposedly perform better than an Pentium 166. But when people started playing software rendered 3D games on their systems they noticed performance was less than Pentium 133. AMD did it a few years later. But then Intel started producing better chips (abandoning the Netburst joke) and the + marking became obsolete once again.
It's impossible to tell from a single number anymore because of differences in architecture. Some processors offer a better score in generic benchmarks, other get a better score in games, others in encoding. Intel chips generally do very well in encoding. AMD are quite competitive in games. The only way to figure out what you are getting is to find a benchmark for your applications. That's why hardware sites are so useful and have generally gone through the dot com bubble unharmed.
You confuse rarely with never.
And then one could then argue that you have the right to sell what you manufacture.
This kind of science has been known before and has been dealt with before.
I don't know that you can say that Apple is doing it more "Successfully"
Timothy said it. Browse for stories posted by timothy and you'll figure out that he most definitely can say anything as long as it's good publicity for Apple.
I don't think his contribution is thoughtful. He is talking about killing and enslaving people; how can that be a thoughtful thing to say ?
You are wasting your time with a fanboy.
You are right. I was considering buying an iPad but after reading your comment I decided to wait for the WePad.
When played with Flash or Chrome, yes. But play h264 with VLC or Media Player Classic + FFdshow and you'll revise your statement.
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