You must be new to slashdot^H^H^H^H^Hpolitics. There is no such thing as a left wing zealot. They are all apparently "moderates", and the real "moderates" are basically right wing zealots to them...
Not if those approving the edits have a bias, which I have seen on numerous occasions...and could provide you the talk page of the article to prove it, but the discussion isn't there anymore and I don't remember when this was.
With WiMax and 4G/LTE Networks deploying all over the place, we are starting to see real competition. Real unlimited data, just capped speeds (and very reasonable at that-- CLEAR has plans starting at $20/mo. and unlimited data @ 768/128).
Free market solving in a way we never expected it to, please leave alone for now.
Oh and FYI, Comcast here is now at $20/monthly no contract for their internet. Didn't see that till CLEAR deployed their WiMax stuff here.
With WiMax and 4G/LTE Networks deploying all over the place, we are starting to see real competition. Real unlimited data, just capped speeds (and very reasonable at that-- CLEAR has plans starting at $20/mo. and unlimited data @ 768/128).
Free market solving in a way we never expected it to, please leave alone for now.
Remember folks, this is why you pay your high end executives lots of money....
What? To fuck over a company, the people working there, and the customers? That's all I see executives with over-the-top salaries and perks do. And don't give me the old "best money attracts the best talent" bullshit - I've seen kids running lemonade stands with more business sense than most big-shot execs.
YAWN, as usual, troll @ "the overpaid elite" from a/. AC.
You know what's happened as I've grown older? The more I think about starting my own company, the more amazed I am at the talent required to run one.
Aside from all that, $1m vs $2m isn't the issue-- for you it is, but you're just bitter with envy. It's all about incentives: what's going to motivate someone to work harder, when they've already got so much money? If you don't offer it, then it's not worth it to them, and they're not going to do it. If you were in the CEO's position 5 years ago, you would have been allured by the very same pressures they were-- outsource the jobs, reap massive profit for about 3-4 years, and get out and unload my shares before the consequences catch up to us.
Slashdot, get off your collective high horse and stop being bitter about supposedly overpaid execs. YOU worry about YOU, and you'll be paid quite a lot, as well. Maybe not $2m, but plenty enough to live a more than comfortable life. Most of the people that visit Slashdot are definitely above average folk. Pity that some of you waste it on bitter envy that leads to nothing but malice and unhappiness. Get up and do something about it! Master your job better! Get better at story telling, socializing, fraternizing; and soon you'll find yourself making friends with the higher ups and, while maybe not a promotion, you'll definitely make it through the layoffs.
Meh, free market actually is solving this, through 4G and WiMax wireless. For $80/month from Sprint you can get unlimited phones, text, internet, and PC internet (real unlimited bandwidth). If you think you just need it for travels here and there, you can get a 5GB plan.
CLEAR wireless doing the same thing, also WiMax. WiMax deployment cost simply involves lasso'ing yet another antennae to already erected cell wireless towers. No last mile problems.
Nobody ever said the Free Market always solved all problems first. But I'm confident with multiple wireless carriers entering the scene, our solution will be better than what would have come about if our government [even more] got involved. Remember-- just because it worked somewhere else, DOESN'T mean it'll work here. Our legislature is different, the people are different, and seem far more readily disposed to slinging money at the problem (the Healthcare plan) than actually making a solution that works.
It has 6-8h (wlan/no wlan, depending on brightness). it's got an Atom z520 and the GMA500 graphics chip (very low power) which has PowerVR which can accelerate 1080p videos. There's some driver issues ATM (jumping through hoops with special settings in KMPlayer) but h264, AVC1 play great. VC.1 plays as well, but I have use DXVA checker to get it to play without dropping frames-- showing that the capability is in the hardware, just needs some driver work.
It weighs 3lbs, has a 11.6" screen (1366x768) and a full-sized keyboard. It's the perfect size for a netbook; the 10.1" screens don't have enough vertical viewing resolution and you end up scrolling up/down all the time in Excel spreadsheets and Firefox/Chrome, especially if you roll with the taskbar on the bottom like most people. 768vert is 28% more viewing area vertically compared with the 10.1" models.
With Win7 on it and 2GB RAM, it flies; I love it. There's really no need to wait.
No, then they can basically make the game more difficult/boring to progress in without giving them more money....no thanks...I'd rather have the black market.
To the GP: You're right-- it would be better to starve than stay alive and grind a game. We should outlaw it. How dare I give them a chance to make money that buys food, rather than say them having to fight against the elements to get enough rice to grow for a bowl every other day.
The efficiency gained from the information age is the only thing that will save us from an increasingly inefficient and spend-happy bureaucracy.
To be honest, Clinton did little to balance the budget. IMO, our GDP grew so fast as we replaced typewriters and recordbooks with MS Word and Excel that the government couldn't help but run a balanced book. They may not have caught up just yet, but as we saw, fear not, they certainly do not struggle with spending more than they take in...and I used to think Bush was good at spending...
Well, it's no surprise that there are lots of people in the Army who didn't like education much and wanted out after highschool. I don't condemn them, I'm glad they are willing to serve, and I'm glad they're doing something instead of sitting around collecting welfare.
Anyways, a solution would be to have a field engineer tagging along at all times, and task him with the documentation. Pay better and I'll sign up; touring the world would be fun.
Oh, and it only weighs 3lbs, too, with the 6-cell battery. I used to have a full 6-7lb laptop, it was fine at first but I soon got sick of having to carry it around. This thing being only 3lbs, I can just throw into my bag and go. And, because of the 7-8h battery life, I don't have to worry about bringing the charger with me (before this brought the laptop up to 7-8lbs)
I used a friend's 10" netbook for a few minutes and immediately knew I couldn't buy one with a screen that small. 600 pixels is not nearly enough for vertical resolution.
I researched all of the netbooks and just purchased (2 days ago) an Acer AO751h. It has an 11.6" display (1366x768), a full sized keyboard and a 6 cell battery that lasts ~7-8h depending on drivers.
That's not possible, the new DX10&11 render path is still there, and with it all the overhead of switching between user and kernel mode to talk to the game and drivers and baton passing in between.
Just FYI-- the claims of better gaming performance from 7 than Vista or XP have not materialized (not on my machine at least). It's just as slow as Vista.
That said, it's still worth having (like Vista) with UAC turned off, simply because the aggressive prefetching loads frequently used programs into RAM. Stuff opens faster.
Your situation obviously isn't the norm because plenty of people are running netbooks just fine. You should return it, there must be a defect. Just because it's small doesn't mean it's going to throw up errors.
What exactly were you hoping to add to the discussion? That "it was useless till we put linux on it"? Meh, heard that one before...
I put mine on the side, makes the most sense, especially with these vertically-starved-display netbooks.
It's also easier on the eyes to scan down a column than across a row (assuming you have it in the old taskbar buttons method not the new weird grouping thing).
Aside from the Bluray I'd say the Xbox360 has better hardware. Having 3 dual threaded in order processors is infinitely better than one single threaded in order processor with 7 crippled DSPs strapped on. The graphics card on the PS3 is no better; had the PS3 come out when scheduled it would have been top of the line hardware, but having a 7800GT in the console was rather unimpressive given when it came out, IMHO...
The Cell was built to easily pump through HD media (they were planning it for handling their Bluray content) and was designed before ATI/Nvidia started decoding HD video on the card. It was not designed for games.
I don't really care though. Bluray will likely be to DVD what the CD was to the cassette-- there will be no need for a new video content format. Theater quality (or better) video with as many sound channels as you want? DVD was nice, but there was still room for improvement. Any new format from now on will likely go the way of the SACD or DVD-Audio....
Great article, that's exactly why I didn't use WA more than twice. First time I typed in something complicated and it got confused and didn't know what I was asking. Second time it understood the topic of what I was asking about but completely failed to understand what data it was I wanted. So I closed that tab and moved on. I probably would have stayed if I could have controlled the results a bit more. I recall feeling it was mostly a black box with hype written all over it-- put something in and get something probably not useful out.
The whole point of Slashdot is that you run into great stuff without visiting and reading a million sites. The crap gets filtered out. If I'm a software engineer, and I have expertise to recommend on a subject, is it more profitable for me to just be quiet, or is it better to copy and paste the relevant parts so people can spend 4 minutes and understand the important parts? This is simple marketing, nobody has the time to read everything on the net. Give them good links, or better yet give them slashdot, and they'll find it all much faster.
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You must be new to slashdot^H^H^H^H^Hpolitics. There is no such thing as a left wing zealot. They are all apparently "moderates", and the real "moderates" are basically right wing zealots to them...
Not if those approving the edits have a bias, which I have seen on numerous occasions...and could provide you the talk page of the article to prove it, but the discussion isn't there anymore and I don't remember when this was.
With WiMax and 4G/LTE Networks deploying all over the place, we are starting to see real competition. Real unlimited data, just capped speeds (and very reasonable at that-- CLEAR has plans starting at $20/mo. and unlimited data @ 768/128).
Free market solving in a way we never expected it to, please leave alone for now.
Oh and FYI, Comcast here is now at $20/monthly no contract for their internet. Didn't see that till CLEAR deployed their WiMax stuff here.
With WiMax and 4G/LTE Networks deploying all over the place, we are starting to see real competition. Real unlimited data, just capped speeds (and very reasonable at that-- CLEAR has plans starting at $20/mo. and unlimited data @ 768/128).
Free market solving in a way we never expected it to, please leave alone for now.
Haven't you heard of government?
Remember folks, this is why you pay your high end executives lots of money....
What? To fuck over a company, the people working there, and the customers? That's all I see executives with over-the-top salaries and perks do. And don't give me the old "best money attracts the best talent" bullshit - I've seen kids running lemonade stands with more business sense than most big-shot execs.
YAWN, as usual, troll @ "the overpaid elite" from a /. AC.
You know what's happened as I've grown older? The more I think about starting my own company, the more amazed I am at the talent required to run one.
Aside from all that, $1m vs $2m isn't the issue-- for you it is, but you're just bitter with envy. It's all about incentives: what's going to motivate someone to work harder, when they've already got so much money? If you don't offer it, then it's not worth it to them, and they're not going to do it. If you were in the CEO's position 5 years ago, you would have been allured by the very same pressures they were-- outsource the jobs, reap massive profit for about 3-4 years, and get out and unload my shares before the consequences catch up to us.
Slashdot, get off your collective high horse and stop being bitter about supposedly overpaid execs. YOU worry about YOU, and you'll be paid quite a lot, as well. Maybe not $2m, but plenty enough to live a more than comfortable life. Most of the people that visit Slashdot are definitely above average folk. Pity that some of you waste it on bitter envy that leads to nothing but malice and unhappiness. Get up and do something about it! Master your job better! Get better at story telling, socializing, fraternizing; and soon you'll find yourself making friends with the higher ups and, while maybe not a promotion, you'll definitely make it through the layoffs.
Meh, free market actually is solving this, through 4G and WiMax wireless. For $80/month from Sprint you can get unlimited phones, text, internet, and PC internet (real unlimited bandwidth). If you think you just need it for travels here and there, you can get a 5GB plan.
CLEAR wireless doing the same thing, also WiMax. WiMax deployment cost simply involves lasso'ing yet another antennae to already erected cell wireless towers. No last mile problems.
Nobody ever said the Free Market always solved all problems first.
But I'm confident with multiple wireless carriers entering the scene, our solution will be better than what would have come about if our government [even more] got involved. Remember-- just because it worked somewhere else, DOESN'T mean it'll work here. Our legislature is different, the people are different, and seem far more readily disposed to slinging money at the problem (the Healthcare plan) than actually making a solution that works.
That's because running Windows Vista costs you both an ARM and a LEG to get a computer that can run it. Can't do it with just one.
I just bought an Acer Aspire One AO751h.
It has 6-8h (wlan/no wlan, depending on brightness). it's got an Atom z520 and the GMA500 graphics chip (very low power) which has PowerVR which can accelerate 1080p videos. There's some driver issues ATM (jumping through hoops with special settings in KMPlayer) but h264, AVC1 play great. VC.1 plays as well, but I have use DXVA checker to get it to play without dropping frames-- showing that the capability is in the hardware, just needs some driver work.
It weighs 3lbs, has a 11.6" screen (1366x768) and a full-sized keyboard. It's the perfect size for a netbook; the 10.1" screens don't have enough vertical viewing resolution and you end up scrolling up/down all the time in Excel spreadsheets and Firefox/Chrome, especially if you roll with the taskbar on the bottom like most people. 768vert is 28% more viewing area vertically compared with the 10.1" models.
With Win7 on it and 2GB RAM, it flies; I love it.
There's really no need to wait.
No, then they can basically make the game more difficult/boring to progress in without giving them more money....no thanks...I'd rather have the black market.
To the GP: You're right-- it would be better to starve than stay alive and grind a game. We should outlaw it. How dare I give them a chance to make money that buys food, rather than say them having to fight against the elements to get enough rice to grow for a bowl every other day.
Define grinding better--
I find running "Find an NPC" or "Kill 20 x and 10 y's" or "Collect 10 x's and 7 y's, then return to me" style quests to be grinding, too.
The efficiency gained from the information age is the only thing that will save us from an increasingly inefficient and spend-happy bureaucracy.
To be honest, Clinton did little to balance the budget. IMO, our GDP grew so fast as we replaced typewriters and recordbooks with MS Word and Excel that the government couldn't help but run a balanced book. They may not have caught up just yet, but as we saw, fear not, they certainly do not struggle with spending more than they take in...and I used to think Bush was good at spending...
Well, it's no surprise that there are lots of people in the Army who didn't like education much and wanted out after highschool.
I don't condemn them, I'm glad they are willing to serve, and I'm glad they're doing something instead of sitting around collecting welfare.
Anyways, a solution would be to have a field engineer tagging along at all times, and task him with the documentation. Pay better and I'll sign up; touring the world would be fun.
Oh, and it only weighs 3lbs, too, with the 6-cell battery.
I used to have a full 6-7lb laptop, it was fine at first but I soon got sick of having to carry it around. This thing being only 3lbs, I can just throw into my bag and go. And, because of the 7-8h battery life, I don't have to worry about bringing the charger with me (before this brought the laptop up to 7-8lbs)
I used a friend's 10" netbook for a few minutes and immediately knew I couldn't buy one with a screen that small. 600 pixels is not nearly enough for vertical resolution.
I researched all of the netbooks and just purchased (2 days ago) an Acer AO751h. It has an 11.6" display (1366x768), a full sized keyboard and a 6 cell battery that lasts ~7-8h depending on drivers.
FYI, if you decide to get one as well, be sure to update the GMA500 drivers to the versions this guy is talking about because other versions will cause it to lock up, and also have terrible performance.
That's not possible, the new DX10&11 render path is still there, and with it all the overhead of switching between user and kernel mode to talk to the game and drivers and baton passing in between.
Shutting down is part of the restart process, which I personally do several times a day just to make sure everything is running A-OK!!!
Just FYI-- the claims of better gaming performance from 7 than Vista or XP have not materialized (not on my machine at least). It's just as slow as Vista.
That said, it's still worth having (like Vista) with UAC turned off, simply because the aggressive prefetching loads frequently used programs into RAM. Stuff opens faster.
Your situation obviously isn't the norm because plenty of people are running netbooks just fine. You should return it, there must be a defect. Just because it's small doesn't mean it's going to throw up errors.
What exactly were you hoping to add to the discussion? That "it was useless till we put linux on it"? Meh, heard that one before...
I put mine on the side, makes the most sense, especially with these vertically-starved-display netbooks.
It's also easier on the eyes to scan down a column than across a row (assuming you have it in the old taskbar buttons method not the new weird grouping thing).
The GP forgets, too, that for all of known history peace has been held by the hands of a ruthless, iron-fisted dictator.
And, as far as military dictators go, the USA is a teddy bear.
Because the point of playing an orc or zerg is so you can be evil?
Aside from the Bluray I'd say the Xbox360 has better hardware. Having 3 dual threaded in order processors is infinitely better than one single threaded in order processor with 7 crippled DSPs strapped on. The graphics card on the PS3 is no better; had the PS3 come out when scheduled it would have been top of the line hardware, but having a 7800GT in the console was rather unimpressive given when it came out, IMHO...
The Cell was built to easily pump through HD media (they were planning it for handling their Bluray content) and was designed before ATI/Nvidia started decoding HD video on the card. It was not designed for games.
I don't really care though. Bluray will likely be to DVD what the CD was to the cassette-- there will be no need for a new video content format. Theater quality (or better) video with as many sound channels as you want? DVD was nice, but there was still room for improvement. Any new format from now on will likely go the way of the SACD or DVD-Audio....
Great article, that's exactly why I didn't use WA more than twice. First time I typed in something complicated and it got confused and didn't know what I was asking. Second time it understood the topic of what I was asking about but completely failed to understand what data it was I wanted. So I closed that tab and moved on. I probably would have stayed if I could have controlled the results a bit more. I recall feeling it was mostly a black box with hype written all over it-- put something in and get something probably not useful out.
The whole point of Slashdot is that you run into great stuff without visiting and reading a million sites. The crap gets filtered out. If I'm a software engineer, and I have expertise to recommend on a subject, is it more profitable for me to just be quiet, or is it better to copy and paste the relevant parts so people can spend 4 minutes and understand the important parts? This is simple marketing, nobody has the time to read everything on the net. Give them good links, or better yet give them slashdot, and they'll find it all much faster.