As a citizen of the UK, I feel the need to point out that the EU taking action on any issue is always unnessecary, and therefore this does not surprise me in the slightest.
Not to troll, but the EU is out of touch with the general population of at least this country on practically every issue, I don't see why they would make the right decision on this.
If we need this to access the NHS does this mean if I get run down by a truck and I don't have an ID card on my person then I don't get treated?
If this is the case I might try cutting an artery and running around the hospital foyer spraying projectile blood and taunting the doctors because they can't treat me, as I won't have registered for an ID card.
either by avoiding using certain words at all that could be flagged for possible criminal context (like "bombed)
So if you don't talk about things which a terrorist would talk about, you are a terrorist?
like several people e-mailing one person but not each other, which is how some criminal networks operate.
Yes, it's also how every other nuclear network of friends operates. Not all my friends know eachother. Not all a bank's customer's know eachother, not all a mailing list's users know eachother.
have been very popular in Britain recently... They really don't perform very well on their own, because all they are are projectors with touch sensitive screens. It doesn't change the way teaching is carried out because the teacher is still turned away from the class to work on the board. (In fact, he/she has her back to the class for more time because more time is spent using the whiteboard)
A system which does work and has *gasp* -- found a use for tablet PCs -- is where the teacher has the TabletPC and walks around the classroom with it. The TabletPC is wirelessly linked to the projector, so the teacher can work as if he/she was at the whiteboard but on the tablet PC. This is great for explaining to students and actually offers an advantage over traditional whiteboard setup, rather than just being a "wow look at the pretty transition effects" toy. HWLC have been using this for a while.
Of course, some will always prefer the inferior route, in the handjob realm as well as software. In the former situation we call these people paedophiles. What is so different about the second group?
I don't think the reason we call them paedophiles is because 12 yearolds don't give very good hand jobs, is it?
This probably has more to do with them giving him one for free rather than them actually being any better hardware wise, as we saw with the recent article comparing x86 workstations CPUs and Dual G5s which I won't link to as people seem to get mysteriously modded down for linking to it.
Actually it tend to be other way around: In the developing world a lot of PCs are sold with Linux/No OS on them right away because it's free and then immediately have a pirate copy of XP loaded onto them. With piracy rates almost as high as 90% in countries like Vietnam and China on Windows and populations like 1Billion in China, it's bound to counteract anybody in the developed world who buys a Dell and later decides they wanna give Fedora a spin. Not only would it counteract it but it would probably have a tenfold change in the opposite direction.
...now if only MS released XP on CD-RW so I could make those changes without sacrificing the bootability of the CD. (e.g. the reason I have an XP CD on my desk almost constantly.)
Steve B of Microsoft described Linux as a Communist Cancer... if they're selling these things to "the Developing World" (from TFA) e.g. China I think he might actually have a point...
That's explained in the blurb, because console makers are willing to take losses upfront and make the money back on their "Sony Tax" or "Nintendo Tax" they charge software houses to make games for their system. For instance even the PIII powered Xbox made MS need to sell 7 games for each unit in order to break even. (Or a sufficiently long Live subscription.)
Bittorrent and RSS together actually make an excellent subscription broadcasting solution. An excellent example of which is Kedora.
Kedora lets you subscribe to a number of shows (including MS's Channel 9) and you're alerted by RSS whenever a new show comes out. You then click the link in the RSS and it downloads the show via bittorrent. If somebody could create a totally integrated solution with an iTunes style frontend (I'm thining in the playlists sidebar have all the subscribed shows) and then release good shows on it in decent quality without DRM then I would actually pay good money for a subscription to this service in the same was as people subscribe to cable and sattelite TV.
The pocket PC does have the disadvantage of not having any controls apart from the stylus, although I concur that it's programming environment is definately easier to work with as everything doesn't have to be hacked before it can be used.
This really highlights the differences between MS and Google. A while ago you could sign an exclusive deal with Microsoft to liscence some of their unused tech projects which they figured were too expensive/superflous to work on. Now Google is paying YOU to work on software which is free for everyone.
I was gonna try and fit a Soviet Russia joke in there but I felt it would detract from my post.
I actually saw this exact claim being made on Yahoo News this morning and was a bit pissed off. The chips have almost identical price points.
AMD's low end goes for $537 which is almost identical to the Pentium at $530 it actually outperforms. The high end goes for $1001 which is almost identical to the PDEE which goes for $999. And guess what, it outperforms that. Intel has a lower starting point and AMD doesn't match it, THAT is true, but if you actually compare the chips like for like it's obvious to even a brain dead monkey that X2s come at the same price points as the PDs and to anyone who thinks of looking at benchmarks, the X2s easily out perform them.
How are X2's twice the price, I thought people understood the whole Mhz thing now...
...A Honda spokesperson said they expected flying cars to follow shortly after. They promised heavy device integration between the two products, possibly hinting that the robots would be able to drive the said flying cars.
Bill Gates was heard to comment that he hoped the open source community would rise to the challenge of writing open Operating Systems for both the cars and robots.
I have not yet gotten any viruses or worms on my Windows XP computer, nor have I experienced nearly as many system crashes as I did with pre-XP Windows versions.
I like the fact that he's realistic; if you keep XP SP2 autoupdated, run Windows Update every now and again and keep the Firewall up it's actually very easy to avoid viruses and worms unless you have a habit of retardedly clicking everything people show you.
This is 2 cards with 2 GPUs on them each, not 4 cards. Last year Gigabyte launched their dual GPU cards, but they couldn't run in SLi. At the time one of the main comments from reviewers and fans who were shocked by the power was "Whoa, wouldn't it be cool to run 2 of those in SLi and have 4 GPUs!"
One of the major limitations of the GB Dual GPU cards is that they only worked on their propreitary motherboards, which is useless for people who use other brands of motherboards; this was supposedly because it was using the SLi in some strange way. (2 SLi links accross the GPUs as opposed to 2 boards)
I would hope that they would be able to get these to run on all SLi boards, I've always thought one of the main strengths of building your own PC was the compatibility between differnet brands of components.
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Not to troll, but the EU is out of touch with the general population of at least this country on practically every issue, I don't see why they would make the right decision on this.
If this is the case I might try cutting an artery and running around the hospital foyer spraying projectile blood and taunting the doctors because they can't treat me, as I won't have registered for an ID card.
I haven't been able to find it on any Bittorrent networks yet, it must be only newsgroups so far.
So if you don't talk about things which a terrorist would talk about, you are a terrorist?
like several people e-mailing one person but not each other, which is how some criminal networks operate.
Yes, it's also how every other nuclear network of friends operates. Not all my friends know eachother. Not all a bank's customer's know eachother, not all a mailing list's users know eachother.
A system which does work and has *gasp* -- found a use for tablet PCs -- is where the teacher has the TabletPC and walks around the classroom with it. The TabletPC is wirelessly linked to the projector, so the teacher can work as if he/she was at the whiteboard but on the tablet PC. This is great for explaining to students and actually offers an advantage over traditional whiteboard setup, rather than just being a "wow look at the pretty transition effects" toy. HWLC have been using this for a while.
I don't think the reason we call them paedophiles is because 12 yearolds don't give very good hand jobs, is it?
This probably has more to do with them giving him one for free rather than them actually being any better hardware wise, as we saw with the recent article comparing x86 workstations CPUs and Dual G5s which I won't link to as people seem to get mysteriously modded down for linking to it.
Actually it tend to be other way around: In the developing world a lot of PCs are sold with Linux/No OS on them right away because it's free and then immediately have a pirate copy of XP loaded onto them. With piracy rates almost as high as 90% in countries like Vietnam and China on Windows and populations like 1Billion in China, it's bound to counteract anybody in the developed world who buys a Dell and later decides they wanna give Fedora a spin. Not only would it counteract it but it would probably have a tenfold change in the opposite direction.
...now if only MS released XP on CD-RW so I could make those changes without sacrificing the bootability of the CD. (e.g. the reason I have an XP CD on my desk almost constantly.)
Steve B of Microsoft described Linux as a Communist Cancer... if they're selling these things to "the Developing World" (from TFA) e.g. China I think he might actually have a point...
If this bear had so many "Mitochondria" then what's the possibility that someone might consider genetically recreating them and training them as Jedi?
AHAHAHAHHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAH!
That's explained in the blurb, because console makers are willing to take losses upfront and make the money back on their "Sony Tax" or "Nintendo Tax" they charge software houses to make games for their system. For instance even the PIII powered Xbox made MS need to sell 7 games for each unit in order to break even. (Or a sufficiently long Live subscription.)
Kedora lets you subscribe to a number of shows (including MS's Channel 9) and you're alerted by RSS whenever a new show comes out. You then click the link in the RSS and it downloads the show via bittorrent. If somebody could create a totally integrated solution with an iTunes style frontend (I'm thining in the playlists sidebar have all the subscribed shows) and then release good shows on it in decent quality without DRM then I would actually pay good money for a subscription to this service in the same was as people subscribe to cable and sattelite TV.
The pocket PC does have the disadvantage of not having any controls apart from the stylus, although I concur that it's programming environment is definately easier to work with as everything doesn't have to be hacked before it can be used.
I was gonna try and fit a Soviet Russia joke in there but I felt it would detract from my post.
AMD's low end goes for $537 which is almost identical to the Pentium at $530 it actually outperforms. The high end goes for $1001 which is almost identical to the PDEE which goes for $999. And guess what, it outperforms that. Intel has a lower starting point and AMD doesn't match it, THAT is true, but if you actually compare the chips like for like it's obvious to even a brain dead monkey that X2s come at the same price points as the PDs and to anyone who thinks of looking at benchmarks, the X2s easily out perform them.
How are X2's twice the price, I thought people understood the whole Mhz thing now...
Bill Gates was heard to comment that he hoped the open source community would rise to the challenge of writing open Operating Systems for both the cars and robots.
A sure sign of the show's success is that it is now being shown first in the US as opposed to the UK as the first season was.
Get a black turtle neck and a camp voice and you're all set!
...on Slashdot would something like this work; Where everyone comments on the article before actually clicking the link.
Don't count on it, Dell and friends are probably going to lap these things up.
I like the fact that he's realistic; if you keep XP SP2 autoupdated, run Windows Update every now and again and keep the Firewall up it's actually very easy to avoid viruses and worms unless you have a habit of retardedly clicking everything people show you.
This is 2 cards with 2 GPUs on them each, not 4 cards. Last year Gigabyte launched their dual GPU cards, but they couldn't run in SLi. At the time one of the main comments from reviewers and fans who were shocked by the power was "Whoa, wouldn't it be cool to run 2 of those in SLi and have 4 GPUs!"
I would hope that they would be able to get these to run on all SLi boards, I've always thought one of the main strengths of building your own PC was the compatibility between differnet brands of components.