Through improved and increased communication between individuals. As more and more people get online and come in contact with new ideas and people, the average level of awareness of the voting population will grow. In time they will effect the needed political changes. In developing countries this will not be as easy, the developed countries will have to remove blocks to free trade so that the developing countries are able to export their wares to us more easily. I believe this will enable them to eventually industrialise to the same level as the developed world, and eventually become completely automatised as well.
The latter. Eventually production of some things will become so inexpensive that some people will just give away the product for free, eventually this will cause corporations to disappear from that part of the market. An example of this would be software, eventually software companies will have to give up their "make copies for nothing, sell for profit" business model as people are willing to make copies and give them away; most likely the companies will start to produce some value adding services that allow them to give away their software but charge for services. Eventually technology will advance to the point where the same can be done with physical products like food, clothing and shelter; this is when the machines will be doing all of our work. There will probably be a cutting edge that the unemployed won't be able to afford, but with time even that will trickle down. In the future no one will have to work just to stay fed/clothed/sheltered, and can work on more important things, like advancing science or whatever else one likes to do in their free time.
Think Marxian utopia à la Star Trek. Before the industrial revolution there was 0% unemployment, but I think you'll agree that even the unemployed of today have things better than even the royalty of that time. When technology has advanced far enough that human labour is unnecessary (human mental labour will still be needed though to design and program the machines), things will be well indeed. We still have a long way to go, but after the 3rd world gets industrialised and technology progresses for some decades, it'll be possible.
Or should I wait a while as AM2 prices drop, and then purchase lots of RAM I'll be sure to find reusable for several years to come?
I recommend waiting. AMD is planning nice ~50% price drops on dualcores at the end of July, and I'm guessing it is a major reason for AMD's slowing sales (because a lot of people are waiting until end of July before upgrading).
There's a good reason for that. There will only be two versions that have WMP stripped from them, Vista Home Basic N and Vista Business N. Vista Home Basic N will not include Aero (the new GUI), so if you want to buy a version of Vista that doesn't have WMP but does have all the new eyecandy, you will be forced to buy the much more expensive Business edition. This will practically guarantee that no home users will buy the WMP-free editions, thus again only giving the illusion of compliance from Microsoft.
I think it's pretty obviously a joke, doesn't even take a moment to "digest". While there are statutes (statue is probably not the word you were looking for) that describe the maximum curvature (among other attributes) bananas can have and still be sold as bananas, it really isn't as silly as you make it sound; would you want to order a ton of A-class bananas only to wind up with a truckload of fucked up mutant banana lookalikes that noone will buy? Having minimal quality standards isn't a bad thing IMO, YMMV.
I really don't see what's so ironic about the post. An IE user is trying to install the IE beta on SuSe and is bitching about the vendor not supporting WGA; seems like something that could happen to anyone.
As long as I don't get thrown into jail for it, it's still freedom of speech. Like I said, if you threaten to kill someone, and that person ends up dead then you would be a prime suspect. As long as the SS would only show up at my house to investigate a bit, then it would still be freedom of speech. If I would get punished for the letter, then it really isn't freedom of speech.
You can setup it to prevent calls to specific pre-selected numbers. If you're too drunk to call, you're most likely too drunk to disable the block from the settings as well.
I was about to post in a similar vein, wondering how 10% of 400 Mbps can be faster than 100 Mbps, but after reading your post it makes sense; the question submitter is saturating the LAN connection and getting ~10 MBps, and is also saturating the firewire connection thinking it can do faster because he is expecting it to go 400 MBps.
Why do you assume people are abandoning religion by leaving the church? I don't remember there being anything in the bible about people not getting to heaven unless they pay their church income taxes...
In my experience you get about a factor of 10 performance hit with the GUI inside virtual machines, perhaps larger if you turn on fancy eye-candy.
But this would be several years in the future, presumably AMD's and Intel's processors that have hardware virtualization will be much more common by then.
I've always had the view that every project was a wild animal. Worse yet, it's a wild animal in sheep's clothing. And you approach the sheep with a shepherd's hook. When the veil is lifted and you see man eating marsupial with alligator teeth and a scorpion's tail, you have no choice but to throw the shepherd's hook at them and give it all you've got.
That's what cracks are for. And Vista is better, I don't really give a damn if I can't play Bluray discs or HD-DVDs at full resolution, hell I have only bought one DVD in my entire life so I'm not even their target audience. Looking forward to HD-DVD rips though.
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Through improved and increased communication between individuals. As more and more people get online and come in contact with new ideas and people, the average level of awareness of the voting population will grow. In time they will effect the needed political changes. In developing countries this will not be as easy, the developed countries will have to remove blocks to free trade so that the developing countries are able to export their wares to us more easily. I believe this will enable them to eventually industrialise to the same level as the developed world, and eventually become completely automatised as well.
The latter. Eventually production of some things will become so inexpensive that some people will just give away the product for free, eventually this will cause corporations to disappear from that part of the market. An example of this would be software, eventually software companies will have to give up their "make copies for nothing, sell for profit" business model as people are willing to make copies and give them away; most likely the companies will start to produce some value adding services that allow them to give away their software but charge for services. Eventually technology will advance to the point where the same can be done with physical products like food, clothing and shelter; this is when the machines will be doing all of our work. There will probably be a cutting edge that the unemployed won't be able to afford, but with time even that will trickle down. In the future no one will have to work just to stay fed/clothed/sheltered, and can work on more important things, like advancing science or whatever else one likes to do in their free time.
Think Marxian utopia à la Star Trek. Before the industrial revolution there was 0% unemployment, but I think you'll agree that even the unemployed of today have things better than even the royalty of that time. When technology has advanced far enough that human labour is unnecessary (human mental labour will still be needed though to design and program the machines), things will be well indeed. We still have a long way to go, but after the 3rd world gets industrialised and technology progresses for some decades, it'll be possible.
Does this thing use the same tech? Looks a lot smaller though, and doesn't have an ugly antenna...
Only the microphone part utilises vibrations, the sounds are still outputted with standard soundwaves-into-your-eardrum technologies...
People won't need to work anymore, and can spend their time pursuing something worthwhile.
Or should I wait a while as AM2 prices drop, and then purchase lots of RAM I'll be sure to find reusable for several years to come?
I recommend waiting. AMD is planning nice ~50% price drops on dualcores at the end of July, and I'm guessing it is a major reason for AMD's slowing sales (because a lot of people are waiting until end of July before upgrading).
Did I miss something?
Are you implying that Republicans aren't human beings? ;)
VLC plays WMV files, so one doesn't have to use WMP. As an added bonus, it doesn't use external codecs, so no more codec pack bloat for me.
There's a good reason for that. There will only be two versions that have WMP stripped from them, Vista Home Basic N and Vista Business N. Vista Home Basic N will not include Aero (the new GUI), so if you want to buy a version of Vista that doesn't have WMP but does have all the new eyecandy, you will be forced to buy the much more expensive Business edition. This will practically guarantee that no home users will buy the WMP-free editions, thus again only giving the illusion of compliance from Microsoft.
I think it's pretty obviously a joke, doesn't even take a moment to "digest". While there are statutes (statue is probably not the word you were looking for) that describe the maximum curvature (among other attributes) bananas can have and still be sold as bananas, it really isn't as silly as you make it sound; would you want to order a ton of A-class bananas only to wind up with a truckload of fucked up mutant banana lookalikes that noone will buy? Having minimal quality standards isn't a bad thing IMO, YMMV.
I really don't see what's so ironic about the post. An IE user is trying to install the IE beta on SuSe and is bitching about the vendor not supporting WGA; seems like something that could happen to anyone.
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As long as I don't get thrown into jail for it, it's still freedom of speech. Like I said, if you threaten to kill someone, and that person ends up dead then you would be a prime suspect. As long as the SS would only show up at my house to investigate a bit, then it would still be freedom of speech. If I would get punished for the letter, then it really isn't freedom of speech.
Bottom line, free speech doesn't give people the freedom to say "kill XXX".
Yes it does. But if something happens to X you'll be a prime suspect, so if you're going to kill someone, don't tell about it to everyone.
You can setup it to prevent calls to specific pre-selected numbers. If you're too drunk to call, you're most likely too drunk to disable the block from the settings as well.
I was about to post in a similar vein, wondering how 10% of 400 Mbps can be faster than 100 Mbps, but after reading your post it makes sense; the question submitter is saturating the LAN connection and getting ~10 MBps, and is also saturating the firewire connection thinking it can do faster because he is expecting it to go 400 MBps.
"Enough is enough! I've had it with these motherfucking jokes on this motherfucking site!" - Samuel Jackson
I find your religion interesting. Where do I sign up and where are the cute blond go... I mean women?
Why do you assume people are abandoning religion by leaving the church? I don't remember there being anything in the bible about people not getting to heaven unless they pay their church income taxes...
In my experience you get about a factor of 10 performance hit with the GUI inside virtual machines, perhaps larger if you turn on fancy eye-candy.
But this would be several years in the future, presumably AMD's and Intel's processors that have hardware virtualization will be much more common by then.
I've always had the view that every project was a wild animal. Worse yet, it's a wild animal in sheep's clothing. And you approach the sheep with a shepherd's hook. When the veil is lifted and you see man eating marsupial with alligator teeth and a scorpion's tail, you have no choice but to throw the shepherd's hook at them and give it all you've got.
BadAnalogyGuy, is that you?
That's what cracks are for. And Vista is better, I don't really give a damn if I can't play Bluray discs or HD-DVDs at full resolution, hell I have only bought one DVD in my entire life so I'm not even their target audience. Looking forward to HD-DVD rips though.