I think it is comparable to leaving your door unlocked, letting people stay in extra rooms for however long they please.
Then, the local hotel industry panics and pushes a bill to the local legislature ensures that anyone who needs to stay in a room pays for an individual hotel room and doesn't take advantage of the many unlocked doors in a neighborly town.
The proposed law would make it illegal for anyone to leave their door unlocked allowing strangers to stay in their house if they want.
I wonder if the local ISPs had anything to do with the proposal of this bill?
The only reason I can't use Firefox 100% of the time is Yahoo! Stattracker. I know I am a fantasy football nerd, but this app WILL NOT run under Firefox.
I agree with the parent; if more sites (especially the larger ones) offered proper compliance, it would be much easier for people to give up IE entirely.
I think that part of the problem in getting web developers to support firefox in addition to IE is that IE exists in addition to firefox on 90% of these machines. The logic is probably something like, "Why should we bother re-writing all our code when they can just fire up IE?"
So let me get this straight. Say I buy a razor. After using it in a benign manner as it was designed, it became dull, impairing a core function (shaving). Does this mean that the saw manufacturer was engaging in illegal business practices and I can sue them?
I knew Gillette was crooked for selling me these damned $15/pack razor blades, but KNOWING they were going to get dull after normal usage, well that must be illegal;)
Perhaps they will now have reason to ask their cronies in congress to author a bill allowing for mandatory chemical castration of convicted copy-right offenders.
I know there will be a flood of comments about how easily someone could build a computer for $3.57 using spare dishwasher parts, but all kidding aside, AMD might have priced this machine a bit too high for the intended market.
One can build a base model Dell desktop (running XP Home on a 2.4Ghz processor) for around $300 (less with rebates and special offers).
Considering this is running a neutered version of Windows and is designed to perform only the most basic tasks, I'm surpised it is priced so high.
I feel that crossfire's biggest flaw is that there is a resolution limit at 1600x1200 @ 60Hz with crossfire enabld.
The customers who ATI developed this product for (the most rabid and devout hardware addicts with large budgets) most likely have either large CRTs (FW900) or high resolution widescreen LCD's (2405FPW, etc).
The failure to recognize that these customers would want to run games at their display's native resolution is unexcusable.
Seriously, why elso would someone drop $1000 to upgrade their graphics hardware if it wasn't so they could run the latest games at high resolution with full detail settings.
If Google had known about this pending suit, perhaps they are planning to rename the service and the generic mail names provide an easy transition to that.
The point of a benchmark is not to 'balance things out'.
The ATI card is pushing more pixels in 6x mode. Period. Whether it takes a bigger performance hit or not isn't the issue, it's doing calculations on more pixels, which will affect it's score in an adverse way.
I believe that has changed with the modern line up of ATI cards. I could be wrong however, but I think that the differences in AA quality were more prominent with the older generation cards from both manufacturers.
I don't think Nvidia cards CAN run that 6x mode, it's ATI only. Perhaps these were driver defaults? As in, the driver defaults one is supposed to have set for "official" 3dMark tests?
Then why not run the ATI cards at 4x like the Nvidia ones?
If the predictions are accurate, these tests will be meaningless when the R520 based card from ATI is released.
The comparison that matters in the uber-high end will be the 7800GTX in SLI vs. R520 in Crossfire.
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They figure out how to get managed copy on holographic storage, they'll make the transition
Did you hear she's currently unemployed? The shipping department just axed her ;)
With all the video files on that page his server is about to suffer more than a little hemorrhage...
An analogy to the unlocked door scenario:
I think it is comparable to leaving your door unlocked, letting people stay in extra rooms for however long they please.
Then, the local hotel industry panics and pushes a bill to the local legislature ensures that anyone who needs to stay in a room pays for an individual hotel room and doesn't take advantage of the many unlocked doors in a neighborly town.
The proposed law would make it illegal for anyone to leave their door unlocked allowing strangers to stay in their house if they want.
I wonder if the local ISPs had anything to do with the proposal of this bill?
The only reason I can't use Firefox 100% of the time is Yahoo! Stattracker. I know I am a fantasy football nerd, but this app WILL NOT run under Firefox.
I agree with the parent; if more sites (especially the larger ones) offered proper compliance, it would be much easier for people to give up IE entirely.
I think that part of the problem in getting web developers to support firefox in addition to IE is that IE exists in addition to firefox on 90% of these machines. The logic is probably something like, "Why should we bother re-writing all our code when they can just fire up IE?"
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So let me get this straight. Say I buy a razor. After using it in a benign manner as it was designed, it became dull, impairing a core function (shaving). Does this mean that the saw manufacturer was engaging in illegal business practices and I can sue them? I knew Gillette was crooked for selling me these damned $15/pack razor blades, but KNOWING they were going to get dull after normal usage, well that must be illegal ;)
I am running it on my own domain at http://domojo.com/
You can try it using your own IMAP server if you want to.
Cheers!
Perhaps they will now have reason to ask their cronies in congress to author a bill allowing for mandatory chemical castration of convicted copy-right offenders.
God forbid they should have children.
Well said! I'd mod you up if I had points!
I know there will be a flood of comments about how easily someone could build a computer for $3.57 using spare dishwasher parts, but all kidding aside, AMD might have priced this machine a bit too high for the intended market.
One can build a base model Dell desktop (running XP Home on a 2.4Ghz processor) for around $300 (less with rebates and special offers).
Considering this is running a neutered version of Windows and is designed to perform only the most basic tasks, I'm surpised it is priced so high.
I feel that crossfire's biggest flaw is that there is a resolution limit at 1600x1200 @ 60Hz with crossfire enabld.
The customers who ATI developed this product for (the most rabid and devout hardware addicts with large budgets) most likely have either large CRTs (FW900) or high resolution widescreen LCD's (2405FPW, etc).
The failure to recognize that these customers would want to run games at their display's native resolution is unexcusable.
Seriously, why elso would someone drop $1000 to upgrade their graphics hardware if it wasn't so they could run the latest games at high resolution with full detail settings.
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I noticed about 6 months ago, gmail.google.com started redirecting to mail.google.com as well as the address of the actual service changing from:
http://gmail.google.com/gmail/
to
http://mail.google.com/mail
If Google had known about this pending suit, perhaps they are planning to rename the service and the generic mail names provide an easy transition to that.
The point of a benchmark is not to 'balance things out'. The ATI card is pushing more pixels in 6x mode. Period. Whether it takes a bigger performance hit or not isn't the issue, it's doing calculations on more pixels, which will affect it's score in an adverse way.
I believe that has changed with the modern line up of ATI cards. I could be wrong however, but I think that the differences in AA quality were more prominent with the older generation cards from both manufacturers.
If the predictions are accurate, these tests will be meaningless when the R520 based card from ATI is released. The comparison that matters in the uber-high end will be the 7800GTX in SLI vs. R520 in Crossfire.
In the last test (3DMark05 - 1280x1024 4xAA 16xAF), they are running the Nvidia cards at 4x Anti-Aliasing, while the ATI cards are running at 6x.