AntiTrust legislation was designed to protect consumers, not competitors. I fail to see how the consumer market has been hurt by Intel's actions when we can now purchase laptops and servers for well under $1000, prices that weren't even considered possible ten years ago.
AMD is failing to reach the mainstream market because Intel has spent a lot of money on marketing. When was the last time you saw a commercial for AMD?
Name recognition plays a big part in sales in this industry, and it doesn't take strongarm tactics for users to be fooled into thinking they NEED "Intel Inside"
When I start seeing "AMD for me!" on billboards and magazine ads and on TV, then maybe I'll start to believe they really tried.
The extra 4 MB is probably not worth the $200 it'll cost you to put that in, anyway. Use DBLSPACE to get more drive space, and then put a big honkin' swap file on the drive. Maybe 25% of your total drive space.
Let's compare apples to apples, though, shall we?
Microsoft doesn't re-release a distribution of a product every month.
Since 1.00, this is now the fifth update in as many months.
The federal government has two different minumum wages. One is the "standard" that most of us are aware of, which is $5.15/hr.
The other is a wage given to employees whose income is generated primarily from tips. This is $2.13/hr.
The reason there are two distinct wages is because employeers who hire service works are given a "tipping credit," meaning that they can pay a smaller hourly wage as long as the combination of the earned tips and the wages meet the standard. For restaurateurs, this is important, because it minimizes the costs of running a restaurant, which is not cheap.
However, a few states, like Washington, have a much higher minimum wage, and no tipping credit. In this state, it's not unusual for service workers at places like Applebees to make over $20/hr
For this reason, I despise tipping in states that have no tipping credit. A tip is gratuity, not a requirement, and the cost of my service is included in the price of my meal.
I don't get that. How can "illegally invading" an oil producting nation can we have HIGHER oil costs.
The anti-war folks shouted from their SUVs "No Blood For Oil" but now they complain that prices are too high because demand isn't being met.
If all you're storing is data, that's all well and good.
But if you want to make uncompressed (or minmially compressed) copies of commercial dual layer DVDs (for archival purposes of course) then the dual layer recorder is the way to go. Sure, the media is expensive, but so were CD-Rs when they first came out. I bought a dual-layer recorder, and will probably only use dual layer discs to transfer my star wars laserdiscs to DVD, until the media gets cheaper.
$79 bucks for a Memorex 16x Dual Layer recorder ain't a bad deal, though.
My dad still has 2 BetaMax VCRs. He's had one of them for about 25 years.
I'll disagree with the technical superiority of VHS. It looks like crap compared to betamax. Since the casing was roughly the same (hard plastic shell) you can't say VHS is any better or any worse, and BetaMax tapes are smaller than VHS, which means you can store more in less space.
I've bought and sold used games and DVD at GameStop. I don't know what's wrong with the store you go to, but all the ones here (there are even three within a mile of one another) will.
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Sweet.
AntiTrust legislation was designed to protect consumers, not competitors. I fail to see how the consumer market has been hurt by Intel's actions when we can now purchase laptops and servers for well under $1000, prices that weren't even considered possible ten years ago. AMD is failing to reach the mainstream market because Intel has spent a lot of money on marketing. When was the last time you saw a commercial for AMD? Name recognition plays a big part in sales in this industry, and it doesn't take strongarm tactics for users to be fooled into thinking they NEED "Intel Inside" When I start seeing "AMD for me!" on billboards and magazine ads and on TV, then maybe I'll start to believe they really tried.
Paraphrasing an old Steve Martin bit...
"So I bought the GoogolPhonic system... That sounded like shit, too. And then I thought... maybe it's the needle."
From the album "Comedy is Not Pretty"
The extra 4 MB is probably not worth the $200 it'll cost you to put that in, anyway. Use DBLSPACE to get more drive space, and then put a big honkin' swap file on the drive. Maybe 25% of your total drive space.
It can be, in more formal writing. Casually, the pas is not required. And we're all friends here, right?
The open source community inventing information!
Ce n'est possible!
Who's paying a buck a piece for DVD+Rs? I bought a 25-pack for 8 bucks at CompUSA last week?
That's kinda like NBC's "If you haven't seen it, it's new to you!" summer rerun campaign.
If I didn't watch Friends the first time around, I'm not going to waste my summer watching it now.
Do you remember Typing of the Dead? Better than Mavis Beacon any day!
Why does it have to be open source? Why can't you build a new sim game from the ground up that has all of the features you want or need?
No one noticed this was already covered last month in Wired?
Let's compare apples to apples, though, shall we? Microsoft doesn't re-release a distribution of a product every month. Since 1.00, this is now the fifth update in as many months.
"de jure?"
You mean "du jour," I'm sure!
Let me explain how this works.
The federal government has two different minumum wages. One is the "standard" that most of us are aware of, which is $5.15/hr.
The other is a wage given to employees whose income is generated primarily from tips. This is $2.13/hr.
The reason there are two distinct wages is because employeers who hire service works are given a "tipping credit," meaning that they can pay a smaller hourly wage as long as the combination of the earned tips and the wages meet the standard. For restaurateurs, this is important, because it minimizes the costs of running a restaurant, which is not cheap.
However, a few states, like Washington, have a much higher minimum wage, and no tipping credit. In this state, it's not unusual for service workers at places like Applebees to make over $20/hr
For this reason, I despise tipping in states that have no tipping credit. A tip is gratuity, not a requirement, and the cost of my service is included in the price of my meal.
This post is the troll and the parent is "offtopic?" Something's rotten in the state of /.
I don't get that. How can "illegally invading" an oil producting nation can we have HIGHER oil costs. The anti-war folks shouted from their SUVs "No Blood For Oil" but now they complain that prices are too high because demand isn't being met.
Your math is off though. Canada is a socialist economy, you pay a much larger percentage of tax then the US does.
No, they control the rise and fall of crude oil prices, which are hella-cheap, relatively speaking.
It's the companies that run the refineries that take advantage of "supply-and-demand" concepts to drive up prices at the pump.
i.e. "we had to produce xxx gallons of heating oil, and so we couldn't produce enough gasoline"
But what they don't tell you is that they intentionally shut down the refineries to drive demand and raise the market price.
I voted for GWB, and don't regret my decision, but I'm no fool about where the bucks are being spent.
Common to whom? And I think you mean "misspelling"
You misspelled existence in your sig.
If all you're storing is data, that's all well and good. But if you want to make uncompressed (or minmially compressed) copies of commercial dual layer DVDs (for archival purposes of course) then the dual layer recorder is the way to go. Sure, the media is expensive, but so were CD-Rs when they first came out. I bought a dual-layer recorder, and will probably only use dual layer discs to transfer my star wars laserdiscs to DVD, until the media gets cheaper. $79 bucks for a Memorex 16x Dual Layer recorder ain't a bad deal, though.
My dad still has 2 BetaMax VCRs.
He's had one of them for about 25 years.
I'll disagree with the technical superiority of VHS. It looks like crap compared to betamax.
Since the casing was roughly the same (hard plastic shell) you can't say VHS is any better or any worse,
and BetaMax tapes are smaller than VHS, which means you can store more in less space.
I think I still have a Hexen CD somewhere. I may have to install that.
Didn't Raven do Hexen?
That game was freaking awesome.
Used to date a girl in Madison
I've bought and sold used games and DVD at GameStop. I don't know what's wrong with the store you go to, but all the ones here (there are even three within a mile of one another) will.