I should go back some time and figure out when SlashDot became a bastion of smug left wing douches. Didn't used to be this way. The Republican party has its issues with obstructionists and religious whackos, but the ideals they're _supposed_ to uphold are closer to the libertarianish views SlashDot used to hold.
Now every time there's a political story I know exactly what to expect...
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Blah blah... Bush..blah blah... Right wing whackos...
Yes, of course they do. A corporation is a group of people. People have first amendment rights, and they aren't stripped when they group together under the label of a "corporation". This is simple stuff, it amuses me the anti-corporate brigade make this out like it's just soooooo craaaaaazy!
Your sarcasm is laughable. A corporation is composed of people, people in aggregate have freedom of speech. If you and 50 of your friends get together and decide to get a pool to pay for a commercial it's no different than 50 people who happen to form a corporation doing it.
What next, if my family decides to buy an ad are you going to snark "'freedom of speech' for families - WTF?"? Rank idiocy.
No. An activist judge is one who, for example, uses the constitution as a justification for striking down a ban on gay marriage when the US Constitution has absolutely nothing about homosexuality or even fucking marriage in it. Seriously - guh?
And don't get me wrong. I think banning gay marriage is silly, just more busybody religious right nonsense. But unfortunately there's no Constitutional excuse baring extremely ridiculous, sophist interpretations.
Riiight. Just like the x86's "crufty" instruction set couldn't compete in the scientific computing/HPC domain. Oh, wait... I think you'll find Moorestown already proves you wrong, and Medfield will prove you completely wrong. ARM is (and will be for a long time) dominant in the low end embedded market in terms of power/performance, but it's being threatened from above as the Atom chips get more and more integrated.
And yet x86 has stormed through the performance computing market leaving only very niche players. This is because nobody but a few nerds cares how nice the ISA is, and Intel/AMD have proven that they can can make it perform.
Makes no difference to Intel either, nobody's going to stop them integrating the GPU onto the CPU, the very idea is ridiculous. It's one product, and AMD does it as well. And no, being a monopoly does not mean you can't make the same business decisions your rivals do, it just means you can't use your monopoly to do things they can't. AMD can (and will) integrate their GPU as well.
Let's say Company X sells 100k computers a year. Let's say Intel offers them a discount of 10% if they order 20k or more processors, 15% if they order 40k or more, and 25% if they order 100k processors.
Now this company decides it's going to sell other computers using different products and drop their order down to 80k. Now, of course, their discount drops to 15%. This is a standard discount business process, and there's nothing wrong with it even for a "monopoly". Now, if the company still bought 100k processors and Intel dropped their discount because they _also_ bought other chips, you might have a point. Does anyone have any actual evidence of this happening?
It does add value, if done right. Avatar did it exactly right, now everyone thinks all you have to do is shoot or process it into 3D and you'll get the same affect. It's like that auto-tuner bullshit. Used properly it can make a song better, but now it's a god damn toy.
Oh Whaaaa. You sound like that ridiculous whiner David Brin.
I hate to break this to you, but reality doesn't always fit our views of how the world should be. Some people are born better looking than others. Some people are born smarter than others. Some people are born with perfect looks, perfect health, and a 150 IQ. Such is life, and it's largely genetic. Life's not fair, get over it. Not everyone is capable of bench pressing 500 pounds, play professional baseball, or being a Ph.D physicist.
It's so refreshing to finally see someone admit this. Really, if you're in any field of endeavor and no matter how much of an expert you are, how many decades you've been doing it, there's always some nameless uber-nerd on Slashdot who knows more about it than you. Similarly, no matter if you're a senior fellow software developer with 2 Ph.Ds and you make $500k a year you are a simple minded dolt programmer compared to some of these Slashdot UNIX guys cranking out Next Generation PHP and Next Generation Ruby hot-ass advanced web sites.
I have seen the future, and it is the flavor of the day interpreted rapid prototyping web development platform!
I love the idiotic double standards people apply. When Apple releases essentially a new mp3 player (iPod) - oh my God, they innovated! When they release a new smartphone, iPhone - oh my God, Apple invented the SmartPhone! When they "invent" the Tablet PC they totally innovated the shit out of that 10 year old + idea!
If you want to play that silly game you can do the same thing with real game changers like the TiVo back in the day. "Omg, they just copied the VCR lolroflcatz!". It's idiocy.
The problem is for the most part the anti-GWers use the same tactics as the anti-evolution people. They throw so much garbage and nonsense out they it muddies the whole conversation and makes it more difficult to pick out the real science from the junk.
Microsoft fanboys don't care what computer illiterate people think, and only a computer illiterate wouldn't know that you can hack a system at multiple levels, both above and below the operating system. Microsoft only wrote the operating system, and it wasn't hacked here.
True enough. Desalination, for example, would become a huge power sink if we found a cheap source of near inexhaustible power. That would be the end of the "water problem".
However - even if instead of hundreds of thousands of years it was only thousands of years, I think anyone sane would be quite happy with that.
Your point is getting sillier and sillier. Xbox profits are a monolith. They sell the hardware at a loss, or barely break even on it. Their profits come from game licensing and xbox live.
Trying to divorce the Xbox game console from Microsofts "XBox profits" is like trying to HP barely breaks even on their inkjet printers because they're sold barely above cost. Of course, they make a lot of their money on ink.
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I should go back some time and figure out when SlashDot became a bastion of smug left wing douches. Didn't used to be this way. The Republican party has its issues with obstructionists and religious whackos, but the ideals they're _supposed_ to uphold are closer to the libertarianish views SlashDot used to hold.
Now every time there's a political story I know exactly what to expect...
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Blah blah... Bush..blah blah... Right wing whackos...
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Blah blah... Corporations..blah blah...Blah blah......
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Blah blah... Works better in Europe..blah blah...Right wing nuts afraid of socialism...Blah blah......
Like clockwork. I don't know if nerd demographics are changing or what, but it's a pronounced change over the last 5-6 years.
Or how corporations have first amendment rights
Yes, of course they do. A corporation is a group of people. People have first amendment rights, and they aren't stripped when they group together under the label of a "corporation". This is simple stuff, it amuses me the anti-corporate brigade make this out like it's just soooooo craaaaaazy!
believe that it implies nothing at all for those who don't happen to be in a "well regulated Militia
Small nitpick, there is no valid argument for a native English speaker who knows what the word "parenthetical" means to believe this.
Your sarcasm is laughable. A corporation is composed of people, people in aggregate have freedom of speech. If you and 50 of your friends get together and decide to get a pool to pay for a commercial it's no different than 50 people who happen to form a corporation doing it.
What next, if my family decides to buy an ad are you going to snark "'freedom of speech' for families - WTF?"? Rank idiocy.
No. An activist judge is one who, for example, uses the constitution as a justification for striking down a ban on gay marriage when the US Constitution has absolutely nothing about homosexuality or even fucking marriage in it. Seriously - guh?
And don't get me wrong. I think banning gay marriage is silly, just more busybody religious right nonsense. But unfortunately there's no Constitutional excuse baring extremely ridiculous, sophist interpretations.
Riiight. Just like the x86's "crufty" instruction set couldn't compete in the scientific computing/HPC domain. Oh, wait... I think you'll find Moorestown already proves you wrong, and Medfield will prove you completely wrong. ARM is (and will be for a long time) dominant in the low end embedded market in terms of power/performance, but it's being threatened from above as the Atom chips get more and more integrated.
Sure. And now they're buying 20% fewer Intel chips, and any volume discount would be affected by that reduction in volume.
And yet x86 has stormed through the performance computing market leaving only very niche players. This is because nobody but a few nerds cares how nice the ISA is, and Intel/AMD have proven that they can can make it perform.
Makes no difference to Intel either, nobody's going to stop them integrating the GPU onto the CPU, the very idea is ridiculous. It's one product, and AMD does it as well. And no, being a monopoly does not mean you can't make the same business decisions your rivals do, it just means you can't use your monopoly to do things they can't. AMD can (and will) integrate their GPU as well.
Balderdash.
Let's say Company X sells 100k computers a year. Let's say Intel offers them a discount of 10% if they order 20k or more processors, 15% if they order 40k or more, and 25% if they order 100k processors.
Now this company decides it's going to sell other computers using different products and drop their order down to 80k. Now, of course, their discount drops to 15%. This is a standard discount business process, and there's nothing wrong with it even for a "monopoly". Now, if the company still bought 100k processors and Intel dropped their discount because they _also_ bought other chips, you might have a point. Does anyone have any actual evidence of this happening?
Nonsense. 3D added to the immersion of Avatar, so it can add to the moviegoing experience. It's just that it's almost never done right.
It does add value, if done right. Avatar did it exactly right, now everyone thinks all you have to do is shoot or process it into 3D and you'll get the same affect. It's like that auto-tuner bullshit. Used properly it can make a song better, but now it's a god damn toy.
Sadly, regardless of how it did so, "irregardless" is working itself into the lexicon.
Oh Whaaaa. You sound like that ridiculous whiner David Brin.
I hate to break this to you, but reality doesn't always fit our views of how the world should be. Some people are born better looking than others. Some people are born smarter than others. Some people are born with perfect looks, perfect health, and a 150 IQ. Such is life, and it's largely genetic. Life's not fair, get over it. Not everyone is capable of bench pressing 500 pounds, play professional baseball, or being a Ph.D physicist.
Lucas doesn't have to write the story you want.
It's so refreshing to finally see someone admit this. Really, if you're in any field of endeavor and no matter how much of an expert you are, how many decades you've been doing it, there's always some nameless uber-nerd on Slashdot who knows more about it than you. Similarly, no matter if you're a senior fellow software developer with 2 Ph.Ds and you make $500k a year you are a simple minded dolt programmer compared to some of these Slashdot UNIX guys cranking out Next Generation PHP and Next Generation Ruby hot-ass advanced web sites.
I have seen the future, and it is the flavor of the day interpreted rapid prototyping web development platform!
You mean Microsoft is a business and they're not in a dick measuring, Not Invented Here contest with the rest of the world?! Color me shocked.
I love the idiotic double standards people apply. When Apple releases essentially a new mp3 player (iPod) - oh my God, they innovated! When they release a new smartphone, iPhone - oh my God, Apple invented the SmartPhone! When they "invent" the Tablet PC they totally innovated the shit out of that 10 year old + idea!
If you want to play that silly game you can do the same thing with real game changers like the TiVo back in the day. "Omg, they just copied the VCR lolroflcatz!". It's idiocy.
Yeah, like they were a decade ago? You do know Tablet PC's have been around for a long time, right?
MS had been caught ripping off Apple's code and selling it as their own.
I'll never understand why people insist on being lying liars on the internet when it's so easy to see that they're lying through their liar's teeth.
The truth.
The problem is for the most part the anti-GWers use the same tactics as the anti-evolution people. They throw so much garbage and nonsense out they it muddies the whole conversation and makes it more difficult to pick out the real science from the junk.
Probably someone who knows that the application running on top of the OS is what would be hacked in this case, not the OS itself.
I find most people making these decisions know more than Joe Random, smarmy nerd, on SlashDot in most cases.
Microsoft fanboys don't care what computer illiterate people think, and only a computer illiterate wouldn't know that you can hack a system at multiple levels, both above and below the operating system. Microsoft only wrote the operating system, and it wasn't hacked here.
Did you actually read it? They used the absolute best, unicorns and candy case for solar pricing and the absolute worst for Nuclear.
He pointed out _why_ they lied (their affiliations and agenda) and _how_ they lied.
True enough. Desalination, for example, would become a huge power sink if we found a cheap source of near inexhaustible power. That would be the end of the "water problem".
However - even if instead of hundreds of thousands of years it was only thousands of years, I think anyone sane would be quite happy with that.
Your point is getting sillier and sillier. Xbox profits are a monolith. They sell the hardware at a loss, or barely break even on it. Their profits come from game licensing and xbox live.
Trying to divorce the Xbox game console from Microsofts "XBox profits" is like trying to HP barely breaks even on their inkjet printers because they're sold barely above cost. Of course, they make a lot of their money on ink.