If you've spent enough time to have an opinion on a linux-centric geek debate, you're probably using Arch, Gentoo, Slackware, or Debian. Possibly Fedora if you've got to admin Red Hat boxes for work. At the very least you'll already be using Mint.
The difference between today and the bad old days of proprietary, locked down, or otherwise incompatible platforms is the number of consumers. It's easily possible to have a company that caters to only one niche market and make money simply because of the numbers. There's no need to get 30% of users to buy your product to make ends meet; less than 1% will pay the bills unless you've got Google overhead.
I'm pretty sure he was saying that it always continues warming from one ice age until we hit the next. Whether we melt all the ice a hundred years sooner is unimportant in both the short and long term. In the medium term you have a bunch of people pissing and moaning because they got stuck with the changing real estate rather than their great-grandkids.
The ice is going to melt. We are going to have another ice age. There's not a damned thing anyone can do about it and it's probably not going to happen in my lifetime, so why should I give a fuck?
Did you miss the part where they tested at 400x but the standard says 8x is too much? Over five weeks, that's roughly equal to the exposure they'd see in 4.8 years of 8x background. Assuming the food/water the mice were eating was equally contaminated, it's a pretty fair test.
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But once again, I think the people who will pay the price are the honest gamers who are going to be forced into piracy some day just to play the game they actually paid for.
Legally? Beats me. Try demonoid or TPB if you're unconcerned about copyright issues.
Personally, I stopped reading, legally or otherwise, when Disney bought out Marvel. McFarlane was enough of a whore, I couldn't stand to see how much worse Disney would do.
No, aside from the K6-pre-Pentium2 days and a year or two around Athlon64/Pentium4, AMD has lagged behind in performance of their top of the line processors. Yeah, they've always given better value for the dollar spent but that's not especially useful when you're 10-20% behind in performance.
Mobile devices had nothing to do with it. Mobile chips are easy. Take your desktop chip and cut the clock speed in half. Poof, it runs cooler and with less power. Yes, that's an oversimplification.
The problem was AMD didn't bet hard enough on ramping up clock speeds. Hertz to Hertz, AMD makes a better processor. Dollar to dollar, AMD makes a better processor. Top of the line to top of the line, Intel beats the pants off AMD. THAT is their problem.
Firing a teacher for anything short of driving their car into the school while drunk and getting a hummer from the head cheerleader is nearly impossible because of them.
Not even remotely. Using it publicly in a for-profit (all politics is for profit) situation without paying any kind of license fee is definitely enough to get you sued.
Sure it will. It's like tossing your ratty old spare tire out because you have four spankin new ones on the wheels. You lose a security blanket you might need for the sake of not having anything ugly and old around.
Is it now? How hard is it to remove the IPv4 assignments from your network interfaces and lo? Oh, that was pretty easy. Took seconds.
I'm happy for all the BSD guys who are doing the IPv6-only dance of joy but it's a political move rather than a useful one to remove the IPv4 stack from the kernel on anything but extremely limited devices. You don't actually gain anything by removing it on a desktop, laptop, server, or most consumer embedded devices.
At this point, it's a lot like buying an electric car when your power comes from a coal plant. It may make you feel better about yourself but nobody actually gains anything.
Yes but you already stated the main problem with that idea, the students. They're worse than users. Plus the pay flat sucks in comparison to the private sector for someone with serious skills.
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If you've spent enough time to have an opinion on a linux-centric geek debate, you're probably using Arch, Gentoo, Slackware, or Debian. Possibly Fedora if you've got to admin Red Hat boxes for work. At the very least you'll already be using Mint.
If you call it GNULinux, Ubuntu and its derivatives aren't for you anyway.
The difference between today and the bad old days of proprietary, locked down, or otherwise incompatible platforms is the number of consumers. It's easily possible to have a company that caters to only one niche market and make money simply because of the numbers. There's no need to get 30% of users to buy your product to make ends meet; less than 1% will pay the bills unless you've got Google overhead.
I'm pretty sure he was saying that it always continues warming from one ice age until we hit the next. Whether we melt all the ice a hundred years sooner is unimportant in both the short and long term. In the medium term you have a bunch of people pissing and moaning because they got stuck with the changing real estate rather than their great-grandkids.
The ice is going to melt. We are going to have another ice age. There's not a damned thing anyone can do about it and it's probably not going to happen in my lifetime, so why should I give a fuck?
If you're talking about back in the 80s, that wasn't G.I. Joe. It was Reagan and you were watching the news.
Did you miss the part where they tested at 400x but the standard says 8x is too much? Over five weeks, that's roughly equal to the exposure they'd see in 4.8 years of 8x background. Assuming the food/water the mice were eating was equally contaminated, it's a pretty fair test.
But once again, I think the people who will pay the price are the honest gamers who are going to be forced into piracy some day just to play the game they actually paid for.
What do you mean some day?
Legally? Beats me. Try demonoid or TPB if you're unconcerned about copyright issues.
Personally, I stopped reading, legally or otherwise, when Disney bought out Marvel. McFarlane was enough of a whore, I couldn't stand to see how much worse Disney would do.
I believe you posted that to one of the most heavily trafficed sites on the net that's spent most of its existence being a collection of perl scripts.
Sorry, unless you're a hot chick you'll have to move along. We're already over our quota of males with extremist views sitting at their computers.
I was going to say Lobo and Deadpool but then he'd be ruined for all other comics. Spiderman and She-Hulk then.
Look, I don't know about terrorists but just the porn pretty well describes quite a lot of my plans.
Nah, it's just pining for the fjords.
I don't know about you but most of my ancestors are dead and on their way to trying to become fossil fuels.
Which does pretty much nothing once they're running under your credentials after having brute forced your passcode.
You're probably thinking of this: http://www.coolchips.gi/
They haven't posted any news in over a year and their stock's currently trading at 11 cents a share, down from >$2.
No, aside from the K6-pre-Pentium2 days and a year or two around Athlon64/Pentium4, AMD has lagged behind in performance of their top of the line processors. Yeah, they've always given better value for the dollar spent but that's not especially useful when you're 10-20% behind in performance.
Mobile devices had nothing to do with it. Mobile chips are easy. Take your desktop chip and cut the clock speed in half. Poof, it runs cooler and with less power. Yes, that's an oversimplification.
The problem was AMD didn't bet hard enough on ramping up clock speeds. Hertz to Hertz, AMD makes a better processor. Dollar to dollar, AMD makes a better processor. Top of the line to top of the line, Intel beats the pants off AMD. THAT is their problem.
Teachers' Unions.
Firing a teacher for anything short of driving their car into the school while drunk and getting a hummer from the head cheerleader is nearly impossible because of them.
Not even remotely. Using it publicly in a for-profit (all politics is for profit) situation without paying any kind of license fee is definitely enough to get you sued.
Sure it will. It's like tossing your ratty old spare tire out because you have four spankin new ones on the wheels. You lose a security blanket you might need for the sake of not having anything ugly and old around.
Is it now? How hard is it to remove the IPv4 assignments from your network interfaces and lo? Oh, that was pretty easy. Took seconds.
I'm happy for all the BSD guys who are doing the IPv6-only dance of joy but it's a political move rather than a useful one to remove the IPv4 stack from the kernel on anything but extremely limited devices. You don't actually gain anything by removing it on a desktop, laptop, server, or most consumer embedded devices.
At this point, it's a lot like buying an electric car when your power comes from a coal plant. It may make you feel better about yourself but nobody actually gains anything.
Yes but you already stated the main problem with that idea, the students. They're worse than users. Plus the pay flat sucks in comparison to the private sector for someone with serious skills.
The experiment is currently running. Check back in 2k years or so for the results.