There are plenty of uses for this. Especially when you consider the large capacity 1" hard drives mentioned earlier. It's probably fast enough to do some streaming video at low resolution and that sort of thing. You could play online games on your phone. You could synchronize your address book. You could use an online mapping system along the lines of google maps maybe integrated with gps based on the location of your phone. etc.
Maybe if you're a satan worshiper. I suppose that's technically a religion also.
It's really a horrible reason to follow a religion though. I don't believe that religion and science have to be mutually exclusive. At some point science can't explain everything and that's where religion fits in. The idea that the universe is infinitely big and infinetly small, and has been here an infinite amount of time is beyond me.
The thing with religion is that as illogical as it may seem, it is more illogical to not try to believe.
If you renounce all religion for the sake of science, then when you die there is either nothing or hell waiting for you. If you believe then there is either nothing or heaven waiting for you.
Just how many times are people going to the apple store to buy a $200 to $500 product that it really benefits them to take the time to put in their information to make checkout faster?
This might make sense at a grocery store or gas station where you go back often and buy small things. Even then I would rather them not know who I am because they just don't need to know.
I don't particularly like IE either. Like I said, I'm using Firefox right now.
But from Microsoft's point of view, they can just put out IE 7.0, with everything turned off by default, and the average user will be perfectly happy with it.
I don't believe that purchasing a standards compliant browser would help either, since it would just be modified to be backward compatible with older IE versions. And don't forget "Embrace and extend", commonly known as "we are the standard, resistance is futile.".
Microsoft already covered this when they based IE on Mosaic years ago. Mosaic used to run on more platforms. They could just take the Opera code base and do the same thing they did with Mosaic, knee-cap and labotomize it.
Seriously though, I think it's one of the worst ideas I've ever heard. I don't see why MS should want to sink so much money into something that they already have and don't really make money on anyway. It may be pocket change for MS at this point, but that doesn't mean they should throw their pocket change in the gutter. The future not incredibly rosey for this point, they need better planning than to buy someone elses product that does the same thing as something they already have. You may not like IE, but it's good enough for the majority of users. I'm not trying to evangelize MS BTW, I'm writing this message through Firefox.
one of those old Ukrainian IBM/Hitachi ones, I still shy away from Western Digital who now makes them also.
I thought that Hitachi was the one making the Deskstars now. I had 3 Deskstars from IBM and all of them failed within a year. So I do not buy Hitachi now.
I don't really see why Seagate would want Maxtor. Maxtor doesn't make particularly great drives in my opinion Seagate already has superior technology. I think the market would eventually have worked Maxtor out of the picture anyway, this just accelerates things.
In my opinion Western Digital and Seagate are the best drive manufacturers out there right now. That could all change in the next round of technology though. Maybe someone will come up with a really sweet perpendicular drive. Or a really fast holographic drive, rendering traditional magnetic drives obsolete.
If you actually want to see videos for new songs you are better off going to an online source. I think Yahoo and Launch made a pretty decent streaming video site. You do have to watch ads between them sometimes though.
They're not what they used to be, it's not their fault though. Pricewatch has gotten to be a bit of a pain to sift through their search results. There are just too many misleading listings on there now. I mean there are listings that are actually for some crappy product, but in their description they list the product you actually want as items they also sell. You know, I don't care if they also sell the item I want if it's not the lowest price and especially if I've never heard of them.
With any site like resellerratings how do you know that these people are actually customers? It is quite helpful though as there are obvious ones that are bad. If you're buying it can't hurt to look there but it's still not a solid guarantee.
"Always" is a little to solid of a statement. I think it is perfectly safe to buy from major online retailers such as Amazon or newegg. At least from the point of view that you will not be scammed out of a bunch of money.
There is a case to be made for local customer service instead of shipping something back if it doesn't work though. It would suck to have to ship back your new plasma TV if you buy from a place that expects you to cover the cost of shipping. This particular topic is cameras though. I think cameras are pretty safe to buy from a major retailer online. If your other option is Circuit City or Best Buy then even from them you can order online and pick up at a store, sometimes they even give a discount if you do that.
It amazes me how many people don't understand what letterbox format is doing. And they think I'm crazy when I tell them that Fullscreen is actually cutting off the edges of the original movie. It's like they don't notice that movie theaters have a wider rectangle than their nearly square television.
It's to see if mixing a dual core opteron with an existing single core opteron that you already have is a reasonable upgrade path. Doesn't sound very good to me from the article. There are enough minor differences in the single and dual core opterons to cause some of the tests to fail. Most people with opterons are using them as servers. You don't want your server to only work sometimes.
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There are plenty of uses for this. Especially when you consider the large capacity 1" hard drives mentioned earlier. It's probably fast enough to do some streaming video at low resolution and that sort of thing. You could play online games on your phone. You could synchronize your address book. You could use an online mapping system along the lines of google maps maybe integrated with gps based on the location of your phone. etc.
Maybe if you're a satan worshiper. I suppose that's technically a religion also.
It's really a horrible reason to follow a religion though. I don't believe that religion and science have to be mutually exclusive. At some point science can't explain everything and that's where religion fits in. The idea that the universe is infinitely big and infinetly small, and has been here an infinite amount of time is beyond me.
Excellent post. If only I had some mod points.
There is, and he saw what you were doing last night.
No, I'm not saying that should be your reason, but if you want a logical reason to follow a religion then there it is.
The thing with religion is that as illogical as it may seem, it is more illogical to not try to believe.
If you renounce all religion for the sake of science, then when you die there is either nothing or hell waiting for you. If you believe then there is either nothing or heaven waiting for you.
They're not sleeping, they're just waiting for the next shuffleboard game.
Just how many times are people going to the apple store to buy a $200 to $500 product that it really benefits them to take the time to put in their information to make checkout faster?
This might make sense at a grocery store or gas station where you go back often and buy small things. Even then I would rather them not know who I am because they just don't need to know.
Yes, worst idea, from Microsoft's point of view.
I don't particularly like IE either. Like I said, I'm using Firefox right now.
But from Microsoft's point of view, they can just put out IE 7.0, with everything turned off by default, and the average user will be perfectly happy with it.
I don't believe that purchasing a standards compliant browser would help either, since it would just be modified to be backward compatible with older IE versions. And don't forget "Embrace and extend", commonly known as "we are the standard, resistance is futile.".
Microsoft already covered this when they based IE on Mosaic years ago. Mosaic used to run on more platforms. They could just take the Opera code base and do the same thing they did with Mosaic, knee-cap and labotomize it.
Seriously though, I think it's one of the worst ideas I've ever heard. I don't see why MS should want to sink so much money into something that they already have and don't really make money on anyway. It may be pocket change for MS at this point, but that doesn't mean they should throw their pocket change in the gutter. The future not incredibly rosey for this point, they need better planning than to buy someone elses product that does the same thing as something they already have. You may not like IE, but it's good enough for the majority of users. I'm not trying to evangelize MS BTW, I'm writing this message through Firefox.
I don't really see why Seagate would want Maxtor. Maxtor doesn't make particularly great drives in my opinion Seagate already has superior technology. I think the market would eventually have worked Maxtor out of the picture anyway, this just accelerates things.
In my opinion Western Digital and Seagate are the best drive manufacturers out there right now. That could all change in the next round of technology though. Maybe someone will come up with a really sweet perpendicular drive. Or a really fast holographic drive, rendering traditional magnetic drives obsolete.
Now you can surf the internet at high speed while you're being roasted in the electric chair.
Let me guess your favorite movie quote. It's from Top Gun, "I feel the need, the need for speed!".
If you actually want to see videos for new songs you are better off going to an online source. I think Yahoo and Launch made a pretty decent streaming video site. You do have to watch ads between them sometimes though.
They're not what they used to be, it's not their fault though. Pricewatch has gotten to be a bit of a pain to sift through their search results. There are just too many misleading listings on there now. I mean there are listings that are actually for some crappy product, but in their description they list the product you actually want as items they also sell. You know, I don't care if they also sell the item I want if it's not the lowest price and especially if I've never heard of them.
With any site like resellerratings how do you know that these people are actually customers? It is quite helpful though as there are obvious ones that are bad. If you're buying it can't hurt to look there but it's still not a solid guarantee.
"Always" is a little to solid of a statement. I think it is perfectly safe to buy from major online retailers such as Amazon or newegg. At least from the point of view that you will not be scammed out of a bunch of money.
There is a case to be made for local customer service instead of shipping something back if it doesn't work though. It would suck to have to ship back your new plasma TV if you buy from a place that expects you to cover the cost of shipping. This particular topic is cameras though. I think cameras are pretty safe to buy from a major retailer online. If your other option is Circuit City or Best Buy then even from them you can order online and pick up at a store, sometimes they even give a discount if you do that.
That's because those movies suck in the first place. Any decent movie is going to be available in real widescreen.
Does this mean there is a girl that reads Slashdot? Or a guy who gets manicures?
It amazes me how many people don't understand what letterbox format is doing. And they think I'm crazy when I tell them that Fullscreen is actually cutting off the edges of the original movie. It's like they don't notice that movie theaters have a wider rectangle than their nearly square television.
Installing AOL will fix all of your computer problems. Really. I saw it on a commercial.
The funny thing is that it's on MSNBC.
The Borg know their stuff.
It's to see if mixing a dual core opteron with an existing single core opteron that you already have is a reasonable upgrade path. Doesn't sound very good to me from the article. There are enough minor differences in the single and dual core opterons to cause some of the tests to fail. Most people with opterons are using them as servers. You don't want your server to only work sometimes.
Please stop sending us those Terminators. They're causing a lot of problems and they can't stop fate anyway.
And here I was thinking that 3dfx's work was all for nothing.