Well, if you take the cross-section of the population that isn't a hipster douche and doesn't have a scraggly, patchy, irregular beard-like growth running down the entirety of their neck - that's the "who".
Nonsensical. By including anti-malware in the OS they would probably be opening a new golden age of Johnny Trustbuster bullshit. Just because the last period ended doesn't mean they won't open a new one if their competitors mewl about it enough.
God it's going to be funny watching the Mac fall to the same malware issues as Windows. Microsoft, through sheer blundering brunt force over the years, undertstands OS security very well. All Apple has is platitudes and wishful thinking to fall back on.
What nonsense. Only idiots say there should be no taxes. I think the point is there is a reasonable and optimal limit for reasonable taxation. We're nearing that limit. Frankly we'll probably have to marginally raise taxes, but we also need to drastically cut spending.
There's a certain brand of fucktard who thinks we can just keep infinitely raising taxes to pay for more and more social spending, though.
Don't be silly. When you make an outdated product and don't keep it cutting edge, you pay the price. Then you go crawling to Microsoft out of desperation. Microsoft didn't cause Nokia's problems, Nokia did.
Your points are silly, coal power has killed many times more people than nuclear power ever has. It's just not as flashy to die from various medical conditions compared to super-scary radiation because, to the plebes, radiation is damn near magic.
Because... a head shot from a high powered rifle with almost _always_ kill..immediately? Your anecdote does nothing to dismiss this fact. Some yokel firing a 22 into a think-skulled cow or the fluke 1/1000000 animal that survives a high caliber head shot is meaningless.
Once in a while some guy jumps out of a plane and his parachute doesn't open, and somehow he survives landing.
"This just in! Rubycodez on Slashdot scoffs at people who think skydiving without a parachute is dangerous! 'Yeah, people have survived it.', he is quoted as saying, while mocking all the fools who think it will almost always kill you.
No, the reason to outright reject them is they're complete nonsense. When they can prove something by actually doing it I'll listen, until then it's just sci-fi voodoo physics bullshit.
You don't have to be a brilliant quantum algorithm complexity professor to know the whole thing is bullshit snake oil, the cold fusion of our time. Wake me up when a "quantum computer" (what a bullshit sci-fi name) can do anything faster than a conventional computer. Oh, wait. You won't be able to because I will have been dead for 300 years.
Yeah, seems a bit of a joke. How long does it take a goat to die with a slashed throat and how much pain does it feel. Compare that with a gun or captive bolt pistol, which should offer immediate cessation of sensation.
We keep seeing this argument over and over, and it's nonsense. A drug maker sells you a product and is responsible for verifying the safety of the product, you enter into an implicit contract. A seismologist is like a weather man, they can give pretty good estimates close to an event, but even then not always. Any longer period of time and you might as well use a magic 8 ball.
A seismologist has no responsibility to you, implicit or explicit. At worst these guys should be fired for inappropriately opening their big mouths.
Manslaughter? What fucking next, sue the weather man because he didn't warn you about a tornado or said a Hurricane wouldn't be as bad as it turned out to be? Bullshit.
Only.. there are only so many valid design choices for what a modern smartphone looks like. Patents like this are idiotic anyway. What's novel about "Durr, I'll use a chrome strip around the thing to bling it up!".
Umm, clearly you missed the part about Apple trademarking, patenting, and holding the copyright for "thinness". Ergo, if Samsung is trying to be thinner (like the iPad 2, which they are clearly copying this thinness from) then they are violating Apple's IP.
I almost refuse to read real books anymore, I just prefer the ebook so much. I wonder how many people who don't like it are reading on some shitty iProduct or on an ebook reader that doesn't use e-ink. Reading ebooks on LCD sucks. My wife has a Nook Color, I have a Nook. I lost my Nook, and didn't think twice about buying the old school Nook instead of the Nook Color. The NC is a great (as in cheap) Tablet, but a shitty ebook reader as is anything with an LCD display.
The other problem is those assholes are raping us over price. There's no good reason an ebook should be priced like a hardcover basically forever. It's silly.
ARM Cortex-A8 matched or even beat the Intel Atom N450 across a significant number of our integer-based tests, especially when compensating for the Atom’s 25 percent clock speed advantage.
Disqualifies anything else written, as this is idiotic. You don't compensate for clock speed advantage, it's part of the definition of a CPU's performance. If a 5GHz CPU performs 1% better than a 3GHz CPU, the 5GHz CPU is faster. Period. Of course, one would also take into consideration power usage and other metrics, but those are not performance. One might say "this 5GHz CPU is faster than the 3GHz competition, but uses twice the power". But one doesn't "compensate" for a clock speed advantage. An advantage is, well...an advantage.
It is not 100 times more power hungry than an ARM. In fact in the phone and tablet spheres it's competitive on power. Not class leading, but let's say 2X more power hungry than ARM (to be generous to ARM). It also performs better. This gap is only going to close (and get turned on its head) as Intel puts more focus on mobile in terms of design resources and top-end FAB process access.
It's laughable hubris to claim Intel doesn't have a chance in mobile with Atom, in fact I'd say it's wrong to say they have anything less than a very very good chance.
You do know there are companies that sell Linux products, including Linux support, right? You can shill anything that makes someone money. Shit, you can shill free stuff you developed for ego gratification if you really want.
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Well, if you take the cross-section of the population that isn't a hipster douche and doesn't have a scraggly, patchy, irregular beard-like growth running down the entirety of their neck - that's the "who".
Security is one of Microsoft's top concerns, it's a piece of every development methodology they espouse.
Nonsensical. By including anti-malware in the OS they would probably be opening a new golden age of Johnny Trustbuster bullshit. Just because the last period ended doesn't mean they won't open a new one if their competitors mewl about it enough.
God it's going to be funny watching the Mac fall to the same malware issues as Windows. Microsoft, through sheer blundering brunt force over the years, undertstands OS security very well. All Apple has is platitudes and wishful thinking to fall back on.
What nonsense. Only idiots say there should be no taxes. I think the point is there is a reasonable and optimal limit for reasonable taxation. We're nearing that limit. Frankly we'll probably have to marginally raise taxes, but we also need to drastically cut spending.
There's a certain brand of fucktard who thinks we can just keep infinitely raising taxes to pay for more and more social spending, though.
Don't be silly. When you make an outdated product and don't keep it cutting edge, you pay the price. Then you go crawling to Microsoft out of desperation. Microsoft didn't cause Nokia's problems, Nokia did.
Yeah, you seem to have the cause and the symptom confused there, dude.
Your points are silly, coal power has killed many times more people than nuclear power ever has. It's just not as flashy to die from various medical conditions compared to super-scary radiation because, to the plebes, radiation is damn near magic.
Since you're yapping about how wonderful coal is, care to compare the deaths from coal power to the deaths from nuclear power over the last decades?
Because... a head shot from a high powered rifle with almost _always_ kill..immediately? Your anecdote does nothing to dismiss this fact. Some yokel firing a 22 into a think-skulled cow or the fluke 1/1000000 animal that survives a high caliber head shot is meaningless.
Once in a while some guy jumps out of a plane and his parachute doesn't open, and somehow he survives landing.
"This just in! Rubycodez on Slashdot scoffs at people who think skydiving without a parachute is dangerous! 'Yeah, people have survived it.', he is quoted as saying, while mocking all the fools who think it will almost always kill you.
No, the reason to outright reject them is they're complete nonsense. When they can prove something by actually doing it I'll listen, until then it's just sci-fi voodoo physics bullshit.
You don't have to be a brilliant quantum algorithm complexity professor to know the whole thing is bullshit snake oil, the cold fusion of our time. Wake me up when a "quantum computer" (what a bullshit sci-fi name) can do anything faster than a conventional computer. Oh, wait. You won't be able to because I will have been dead for 300 years.
Yeah, seems a bit of a joke. How long does it take a goat to die with a slashed throat and how much pain does it feel. Compare that with a gun or captive bolt pistol, which should offer immediate cessation of sensation.
We keep seeing this argument over and over, and it's nonsense. A drug maker sells you a product and is responsible for verifying the safety of the product, you enter into an implicit contract. A seismologist is like a weather man, they can give pretty good estimates close to an event, but even then not always. Any longer period of time and you might as well use a magic 8 ball.
A seismologist has no responsibility to you, implicit or explicit. At worst these guys should be fired for inappropriately opening their big mouths.
Manslaughter? What fucking next, sue the weather man because he didn't warn you about a tornado or said a Hurricane wouldn't be as bad as it turned out to be? Bullshit.
Yeah, someone's never seen 'sudo' in use. You don't always need your "special" password (which is 90% of the time the same anyway for home users).
The iPhone defined it, but it didn't create it.
Only.. there are only so many valid design choices for what a modern smartphone looks like. Patents like this are idiotic anyway. What's novel about "Durr, I'll use a chrome strip around the thing to bling it up!".
Yeah, because people will totally get confused by "Samsung Android phone" and "Apple iPhone". Looks aren't the distinguishing factor here.
Umm, clearly you missed the part about Apple trademarking, patenting, and holding the copyright for "thinness". Ergo, if Samsung is trying to be thinner (like the iPad 2, which they are clearly copying this thinness from) then they are violating Apple's IP.
ClickOnce for Linux. Not exactly a new idea.
I almost refuse to read real books anymore, I just prefer the ebook so much. I wonder how many people who don't like it are reading on some shitty iProduct or on an ebook reader that doesn't use e-ink. Reading ebooks on LCD sucks. My wife has a Nook Color, I have a Nook. I lost my Nook, and didn't think twice about buying the old school Nook instead of the Nook Color. The NC is a great (as in cheap) Tablet, but a shitty ebook reader as is anything with an LCD display.
The other problem is those assholes are raping us over price. There's no good reason an ebook should be priced like a hardcover basically forever. It's silly.
It isn't. It's useful in 0 ways, especially between entirely different processor architectures. Literally 0 as in zero ways.
ARM Cortex-A8 matched or even beat the Intel Atom N450 across a significant number of our integer-based tests, especially when compensating for the Atom’s 25 percent clock speed advantage.
Disqualifies anything else written, as this is idiotic. You don't compensate for clock speed advantage, it's part of the definition of a CPU's performance. If a 5GHz CPU performs 1% better than a 3GHz CPU, the 5GHz CPU is faster. Period. Of course, one would also take into consideration power usage and other metrics, but those are not performance. One might say "this 5GHz CPU is faster than the 3GHz competition, but uses twice the power". But one doesn't "compensate" for a clock speed advantage. An advantage is, well...an advantage.
It is not 100 times more power hungry than an ARM. In fact in the phone and tablet spheres it's competitive on power. Not class leading, but let's say 2X more power hungry than ARM (to be generous to ARM). It also performs better. This gap is only going to close (and get turned on its head) as Intel puts more focus on mobile in terms of design resources and top-end FAB process access.
It's laughable hubris to claim Intel doesn't have a chance in mobile with Atom, in fact I'd say it's wrong to say they have anything less than a very very good chance.
You do know there are companies that sell Linux products, including Linux support, right? You can shill anything that makes someone money. Shit, you can shill free stuff you developed for ego gratification if you really want.