that there isn't 'the single smallest iota of doubt' that Microsoft... 'harms competition between web browsers, undermines product innovation and ultimately reduces consumer choice.'
Did you get turned away from an emergency room because your heart attack isn't serious enough of an injury to warrant you cutting everyone else in line? You're probably a customer of Canadian government-provided healthcare.
My high school physics teacher taught us something over the course of the year that I love re-telling in the evolutionary debate. Allow me to paraphrase:
At the time of Galileo, we had never really gone outside the surface of the Earth, so everywhere we went, we observed gravitational force to be a constant: approximately 9.8m/s^2.
Newton later discovered that this wasn't quite true: gravity changed based on the distance between objects. He therefore derived a new equation: F = G(m1 x m2)/r^2. Galileo's observations weren't proven wrong; gravity is still approximately 9.8m/s^2 on the Earth's surface. It's just that Galileo's equations only applied to a limited context. If you're standing on the Earth's surface, Galileo's equation is still an excellent approximation if you only need a few significant digits.
In the 20th Century, Einstein found that Newton's equations weren't quite right either: gravitational force also depended on the speed of the objects. Once again, Newton wasn't wrong, it's just that his formulations work in a smaller context than he originally believed. However, as long as all objects involved are moving at less than 10% the speed of light, Newton's equation is still a good approximation.
Today, Einstein's equations are being supplanted by quantum mechanics, string theory, and other newfangled ideas. It's not that Einstein was wrong, he just didn't have the advantage of what we know today.
In the same vein, just because Darwin wasn't 100% right doesn't mean that he was 100% wrong. We're improving upon his ideas with new research.
Are you saying Democrat ideology is bad? Nationalized health care would also be a monopoly... A monopoly is bad only when it fails to address the needs it serves. Not just because it exists.
I'll say it: [ahem] The monopoly of the Democratic party, and any possible implementation of nationalized health care, are bad.
The reason is that the Democratic party are just as authoritarian and power-hungry as the Republican party; they're just leftists instead of rightists.
What about people like me, who pick and choose the textbooks to buy?
For most Computer Science classes, all I needed was a language reference. The professors would assign a $90 textbook that was little more than a language reference, and I'd buy the O'Reilly book on the language for $20-50. C, C++, Perl, SML... I even bought one for Java, then never used it, cause I always had Sun's copy of the API reference available online. The only other class I bought a book for was Artificial Intelligence, cause I needed an AI algorithm reference.
Most of my other classes really didn't require buying the books, either. For my Political Science classes, most of the material was public domain anyway (I don't need a hardcopy of the Communist Manifesto). Math was about the only exception, but then you only need one copy among 3-4 friends who do the homework together.
So, if I were a student of yours, I wouldn't buy a Kindle on your logic that I'd save money on textbooks, because I really wouldn't.
I still wonder, even today, why people made such a big stink about it that it became one of the longest, if not *the* longest, first run cinema film in history.
Easy. Leonardo DiCaprio. Teenage girls went back to that movie time and again just to see him.
Well, I guess teenage guys went too, cause Kate Winslet's not bad either.
It took us many years after that movie to find out that DiCaprio is actually a good actor.
He also told PCPro that they are worried about becoming the next monopoly just like Microsoft is now.
I, for one, welcome our new monopolistic overlords. I'd like to remind them that as a trusted TV personality, I can be helpful in rounding up others to toil in their underground coding caves.
I doubt too many of those children have cell phones, either.
mcgrew was postulating that maybe the Mass Media hype of "Your kids aren't safe!" is pure hype, and nothing else.
What ever happened to "Think Globally, Act Locally"? Can't we worry about problems in our hometown, like whether we're smothering our kids with the bubble wrap in which we put them for protection? Why do we have to complicate the issue with the international sex slave trade?
What an americentric way to look at a global problem.
I'm pretty sure mcgrew is British. How "Americentric" is your thought process that you spew hate at America for the world's problems?
Sir Ranulph Fiennes (the famous arctic explorer, among other things) was actually kicked out of the SAS for destroying a dam using stolen explosives. You can google for more detailed accounts of the story, but here's one:
According to Anandtech, currently Creative still has the best game compatibility, because the game devs write to their cards, but Asus' Xonar line has better sound quality, and nearly the same level of game compatibility. I know if I were to build a new machine I'd take their advice on that, what with Creative's driver troubles, especially on x86-64.
Based on Valve's stats, it looks like only about 3.5% of Steam users have an X-Fi card. I do know of a large portion of people who were weary of the X-Fi series though, and kept buying Audigys, and people like me who kept their "Creative Live!" cards, which are likely a good portion of that 33% with "other" sound devices.
GP is right though; most people are perfectly happy with onboard sound. This is especially true in the laptop market, which last I heard was now well over 50% of total computer sales.
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that there isn't 'the single smallest iota of doubt' that Microsoft... 'harms competition between web browsers, undermines product innovation and ultimately reduces consumer choice.'
I agree. They never should've made IE for OSX.
Did you get turned away from an emergency room because your heart attack isn't serious enough of an injury to warrant you cutting everyone else in line? You're probably a customer of Canadian government-provided healthcare.
[pedantic]Although she used that character on "Laugh-in", that particular quote is from her character's appearance on SNL, in 1976.[/pedantic]
My high school physics teacher taught us something over the course of the year that I love re-telling in the evolutionary debate. Allow me to paraphrase:
At the time of Galileo, we had never really gone outside the surface of the Earth, so everywhere we went, we observed gravitational force to be a constant: approximately 9.8m/s^2.
Newton later discovered that this wasn't quite true: gravity changed based on the distance between objects. He therefore derived a new equation: F = G(m1 x m2)/r^2. Galileo's observations weren't proven wrong; gravity is still approximately 9.8m/s^2 on the Earth's surface. It's just that Galileo's equations only applied to a limited context. If you're standing on the Earth's surface, Galileo's equation is still an excellent approximation if you only need a few significant digits.
In the 20th Century, Einstein found that Newton's equations weren't quite right either: gravitational force also depended on the speed of the objects. Once again, Newton wasn't wrong, it's just that his formulations work in a smaller context than he originally believed. However, as long as all objects involved are moving at less than 10% the speed of light, Newton's equation is still a good approximation.
Today, Einstein's equations are being supplanted by quantum mechanics, string theory, and other newfangled ideas. It's not that Einstein was wrong, he just didn't have the advantage of what we know today.
In the same vein, just because Darwin wasn't 100% right doesn't mean that he was 100% wrong. We're improving upon his ideas with new research.
I can see it now:
$> svn co *
If this technology saves just one battery, then it's worth it.
Won't someone please think of the batteries!
I'm not trying to sound like a fanboy, but it's fairly easy to get an x86 CPU to run only off of passive cooling.
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16835887001
Even with no forced airflow, that cooler should do well for almost any CPU.
Unless you were talking about working in an enclosed space?
Are you saying Democrat ideology is bad? Nationalized health care would also be a monopoly... A monopoly is bad only when it fails to address the needs it serves. Not just because it exists.
I'll say it: [ahem] The monopoly of the Democratic party, and any possible implementation of nationalized health care, are bad.
The reason is that the Democratic party are just as authoritarian and power-hungry as the Republican party; they're just leftists instead of rightists.
What about people like me, who pick and choose the textbooks to buy?
For most Computer Science classes, all I needed was a language reference. The professors would assign a $90 textbook that was little more than a language reference, and I'd buy the O'Reilly book on the language for $20-50. C, C++, Perl, SML... I even bought one for Java, then never used it, cause I always had Sun's copy of the API reference available online. The only other class I bought a book for was Artificial Intelligence, cause I needed an AI algorithm reference.
Most of my other classes really didn't require buying the books, either. For my Political Science classes, most of the material was public domain anyway (I don't need a hardcopy of the Communist Manifesto). Math was about the only exception, but then you only need one copy among 3-4 friends who do the homework together.
So, if I were a student of yours, I wouldn't buy a Kindle on your logic that I'd save money on textbooks, because I really wouldn't.
:/
I think it's still too soon to go spoiling this one for people. The game's only been out a year.
I still wonder, even today, why people made such a big stink about it that it became one of the longest, if not *the* longest, first run cinema film in history.
Easy. Leonardo DiCaprio. Teenage girls went back to that movie time and again just to see him.
Well, I guess teenage guys went too, cause Kate Winslet's not bad either.
It took us many years after that movie to find out that DiCaprio is actually a good actor.
He also told PCPro that they are worried about becoming the next monopoly just like Microsoft is now.
I, for one, welcome our new monopolistic overlords. I'd like to remind them that as a trusted TV personality, I can be helpful in rounding up others to toil in their underground coding caves.
I love that game, you insensitive clod!
Played it all the time. I finally acquired the original Zelda game less than 10 years ago.
Can't you just connect to your server by searching for Steam Group servers? I was pretty sure this was possible without console commands.
Hey, he came up with a brilliant idea! Double-post, and people can keep modding your comment up! Right now that one comment has a score of 6!
Recognizing a physical bar code is easy. Looking up the current price at nearby retailers? More difficult.
According to the TV ads, T-Mobile claims that the Google Android can do this already.
I have a 2-year-old $15 prepaid phone, so I can neither confirm nor deny their claims.
I can't help but think of The Game.
As of 1991, the final date was August 29, 1997.
It was then delayed to April 21, 2011. However, in 1999, it was delayed again, to an unknown date.
We'll have to wait to see how that pans out.
http://images.starcraftmazter.net/4chan/for_forums/thats_the_joke.jpg
I doubt too many of those children have cell phones, either.
mcgrew was postulating that maybe the Mass Media hype of "Your kids aren't safe!" is pure hype, and nothing else.
What ever happened to "Think Globally, Act Locally"? Can't we worry about problems in our hometown, like whether we're smothering our kids with the bubble wrap in which we put them for protection? Why do we have to complicate the issue with the international sex slave trade?
What an americentric way to look at a global problem.
I'm pretty sure mcgrew is British. How "Americentric" is your thought process that you spew hate at America for the world's problems?
They hardly ever give statistics themselves, they leave that to the experts who come on the show. :)
As Penn says -- "We may be biased as fuck, but we're fair."
If you want more information, it's up to you to do more research; they have to squeeze all that into a 1/2 hour show.
I'd bet kids are SAFER now than we were then
You're very right.
Sir Ranulph Fiennes (the famous arctic explorer, among other things) was actually kicked out of the SAS for destroying a dam using stolen explosives. You can google for more detailed accounts of the story, but here's one:
http://www.independent.co.uk/student/career-planning/getting-job/my-first-job-explorer-sir-ranulph-fiennes-was-an-sas-officer-420601.html
According to Anandtech, currently Creative still has the best game compatibility, because the game devs write to their cards, but Asus' Xonar line has better sound quality, and nearly the same level of game compatibility. I know if I were to build a new machine I'd take their advice on that, what with Creative's driver troubles, especially on x86-64.
http://anandtech.com/guides/showdoc.aspx?i=3497&p=5
Based on Valve's stats, it looks like only about 3.5% of Steam users have an X-Fi card. I do know of a large portion of people who were weary of the X-Fi series though, and kept buying Audigys, and people like me who kept their "Creative Live!" cards, which are likely a good portion of that 33% with "other" sound devices.
GP is right though; most people are perfectly happy with onboard sound. This is especially true in the laptop market, which last I heard was now well over 50% of total computer sales.
I think it was Tycho from Penny Arcade who said something like this, though I can't find the quote:
"I'm glad we have Jack Thompson as the spokesman for the anti-videogames movement, lest we have someone more competent to take his place."