Im just assuming here, but most components come with warenties that are voided when you overclock them, so this ASUS board may very well be coming with a void warranty before you open the box. Also it has a good chance of voiding the warranty on any other components that now run at a higer speed than specified, (i.e. everything) so if it does void all your warranties, then it is a big deal.
We may be past the point of a peaceful resolution to the totalitarianism that is overwhelming us. Historically, only violence has been a successful solution to dictatorship.
any instrument through which one can locate information that is available by means of the Internet or any other digital network.
My browser is a tool, that, through its use of a DNS, which is just an instrument, through which I locate information, by converting a url into a ip address (location) to a page (information). Well then the page is cached on my computer. So browsers with a cache (all of them) would be illigal.
However even browsers without a cache have to hold the information on the home system, even if only for a short ammount of time, in order to display it.
This could also kill things like web proxys, which cache sites, or even an ISP that the information is put on, could get sued. After all, giving the site an ip address is a method of locating it.
There are some real geniouses out there, who dont have a clue how the internet works.
Come on now. Bill Gates is only doing what the market demands he do. Its a simple law of business. People obviously want their system to be slower, buggier, and riddled with adware. Everyone installs it, so Bill is just cutting out the middle man.
However this could have more long term effects. Such as weve seen a Gizmondo "Add supported" version. (An odd gadget thingie, that you can pay less for, if you watch ten to fifteen minutes of adverts a day). I can see this being integrated into longhorn. Possibly giving users an option to pay less for Windows, but have addverts right there. Or as a way to combat pirated versions of windows. See, if he does intergrate it into Longhorn, it would be excellent use of it (From an MS point of view) to activate it on all those pirated disks. The spyware element of explorer phones home, checks if the uniquie product id is being used elsewhere, and if it is, sprays a load of advert filled, income generating, goodness all over the nasty pirate/thief/terrorist, or whatever were calling people who copy software theese days.
Either that, or you pay for Longhorn, and get the adds. That does sound more MS. But I can see an adware type thingie being intergrated into MS in the near future. Possibly too late for longhorn, but Longhorn SP1? Not a problem.
They can't force developing countries like us to solely use legal software since we can't afford it. They want us to gradually reduce our use of it.
Erm, is it just me or does that sentance read like MS want indonesia to reduce their use of legal software? Oh well, if they insist.
The way your talking, your acting like you (the general populance that is, not/. in particular) get a choice.
The way I see the market going in the future is the console will get all the quality titles, whilst the PC market will dwindle down to homebrew.
There is no real advantage to major companies to go PC. Sure its cheaper, royalty wise, but there is all the hassle of competition. On the console competition is relatively limmated. Its a manufacturer controlled market, because you need a development lisence to actually make anything on it. And to get one of those you need to have made a decent game, or fall in line getting bought out by one of the major game producers. Now with the power theese massive developers have, I cant see it being difficult to stiffle the wretched original and creative competition. The established developers have so much sway over a manufacturer (a good game lineup can make or break a console, look at the dreamcast) that they can effectively block a rival developer.
The PC land is where the innovation is going to come from. All the small creative folk will live there thinking up great new addictive games. But all the great fps, driving games, and the rest of the established generes will remain firmly in the grasp of the console except possibly the RPG.
Wow, a whole post about gaming, and it didnt turn into an EA rant! Arent I good.
Not sure how true this is, but I was told that you are allowed to reproduce part of a work of non-fiction in the UK. This is what allows for quotations and things. It was a certain fraction of the total work, I think it was as long as it was less than one third of the total number of characters, or something similar.
Photocopied it in front of the librarian anyways.
In my experience of academic quotations from recognised publications, it is usually solely there for the purpose of having a clever looking quotation from a recognised publication. It doesnt matter if the quote supports the point in its original context, as long as the bibliography makes the piece look well reasearched and smart. These people dont read the books, or even take the arguament in, they have already made their mind up. Some of the most closed minded people I have met have been academics.
I also met someone who collected hardback edditions of the fattest smartest sounding books he could, just to have a good looking bookcase full of smart books (It did look rather good though). He had never read a single one of them. The spines of each and everyone was in immaculate condition, but he must have spent upwards of £300 on the massive mahogany case alone. I dread to think of the ammount he spent on the books.
Little off topic, but I saw a Natwest cash machine (ATM) last week, with a Microsoft Vicual C++ Runtime Error. Probably not actually M$es fault, but youd think something like a cash machine would need to be secure. Oh well, some people never learn...
I cant see this making that much of a difference. Is there going to be a price tag on OOo? Will it actually affect any end-users. I doubt it. The only people this will affect are serious afficondos of the GPL. They are just cutting off their nose to spite their face. OOo is a great suite. I havent tried this new java dependant version, but I cant see any actual practical implications. Oh noes, java is owned by sun!11!!!one!!1! So?
Call me stupid, but why isnt it possible to just cycle through every single possible combination?
If they have such a powerful cluster, couldnt they just start at "a" and then "b" and so on?
Why does this not work? Just how many possible combinations are there, and how long would it take to just go through them all if they have such a powerful computer network?
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Im just assuming here, but most components come with warenties that are voided when you overclock them, so this ASUS board may very well be coming with a void warranty before you open the box. Also it has a good chance of voiding the warranty on any other components that now run at a higer speed than specified, (i.e. everything) so if it does void all your warranties, then it is a big deal.
Berlin wall anyone?
My browser is a tool, that, through its use of a DNS, which is just an instrument, through which I locate information, by converting a url into a ip address (location) to a page (information). Well then the page is cached on my computer. So browsers with a cache (all of them) would be illigal.
However even browsers without a cache have to hold the information on the home system, even if only for a short ammount of time, in order to display it.
This could also kill things like web proxys, which cache sites, or even an ISP that the information is put on, could get sued. After all, giving the site an ip address is a method of locating it.
There are some real geniouses out there, who dont have a clue how the internet works.
Come on now. Bill Gates is only doing what the market demands he do. Its a simple law of business. People obviously want their system to be slower, buggier, and riddled with adware. Everyone installs it, so Bill is just cutting out the middle man. However this could have more long term effects. Such as weve seen a Gizmondo "Add supported" version. (An odd gadget thingie, that you can pay less for, if you watch ten to fifteen minutes of adverts a day). I can see this being integrated into longhorn. Possibly giving users an option to pay less for Windows, but have addverts right there. Or as a way to combat pirated versions of windows. See, if he does intergrate it into Longhorn, it would be excellent use of it (From an MS point of view) to activate it on all those pirated disks. The spyware element of explorer phones home, checks if the uniquie product id is being used elsewhere, and if it is, sprays a load of advert filled, income generating, goodness all over the nasty pirate/thief/terrorist, or whatever were calling people who copy software theese days. Either that, or you pay for Longhorn, and get the adds. That does sound more MS. But I can see an adware type thingie being intergrated into MS in the near future. Possibly too late for longhorn, but Longhorn SP1? Not a problem.
They can't force developing countries like us to solely use legal software since we can't afford it. They want us to gradually reduce our use of it. Erm, is it just me or does that sentance read like MS want indonesia to reduce their use of legal software? Oh well, if they insist.
The way your talking, your acting like you (the general populance that is, not /. in particular) get a choice.
The way I see the market going in the future is the console will get all the quality titles, whilst the PC market will dwindle down to homebrew.
There is no real advantage to major companies to go PC. Sure its cheaper, royalty wise, but there is all the hassle of competition. On the console competition is relatively limmated. Its a manufacturer controlled market, because you need a development lisence to actually make anything on it. And to get one of those you need to have made a decent game, or fall in line getting bought out by one of the major game producers. Now with the power theese massive developers have, I cant see it being difficult to stiffle the wretched original and creative competition. The established developers have so much sway over a manufacturer (a good game lineup can make or break a console, look at the dreamcast) that they can effectively block a rival developer.
The PC land is where the innovation is going to come from. All the small creative folk will live there thinking up great new addictive games. But all the great fps, driving games, and the rest of the established generes will remain firmly in the grasp of the console except possibly the RPG.
Wow, a whole post about gaming, and it didnt turn into an EA rant! Arent I good.
Not sure how true this is, but I was told that you are allowed to reproduce part of a work of non-fiction in the UK. This is what allows for quotations and things. It was a certain fraction of the total work, I think it was as long as it was less than one third of the total number of characters, or something similar. Photocopied it in front of the librarian anyways. In my experience of academic quotations from recognised publications, it is usually solely there for the purpose of having a clever looking quotation from a recognised publication. It doesnt matter if the quote supports the point in its original context, as long as the bibliography makes the piece look well reasearched and smart. These people dont read the books, or even take the arguament in, they have already made their mind up. Some of the most closed minded people I have met have been academics. I also met someone who collected hardback edditions of the fattest smartest sounding books he could, just to have a good looking bookcase full of smart books (It did look rather good though). He had never read a single one of them. The spines of each and everyone was in immaculate condition, but he must have spent upwards of £300 on the massive mahogany case alone. I dread to think of the ammount he spent on the books.
Little off topic, but I saw a Natwest cash machine (ATM) last week, with a Microsoft Vicual C++ Runtime Error. Probably not actually M$es fault, but youd think something like a cash machine would need to be secure. Oh well, some people never learn...
I cant see this making that much of a difference. Is there going to be a price tag on OOo? Will it actually affect any end-users. I doubt it. The only people this will affect are serious afficondos of the GPL. They are just cutting off their nose to spite their face. OOo is a great suite. I havent tried this new java dependant version, but I cant see any actual practical implications. Oh noes, java is owned by sun!11!!!one!!1! So?
Call me stupid, but why isnt it possible to just cycle through every single possible combination? If they have such a powerful cluster, couldnt they just start at "a" and then "b" and so on? Why does this not work? Just how many possible combinations are there, and how long would it take to just go through them all if they have such a powerful computer network?