There is very little they can prove, which is why they throw spaghetti on the wall. Of course they want to portray the accused as evil as possible. Most lawyers do this to dehumanize and humiliate the suspect, because when you have people judging people, this type of psychology actually helps.
Glossy screens look more attractive when sold in stores. I guess that's why so many manufacturers choose such screens over matte screens, simply because presentations look better. Furthermore, black looks better on glossy screens, which seems to be a huge selling-point with both TV sets and monitors nowadays.
As an aside, did anyone notice that half of the Slashdot description sounded like an advertisement for Asus GPU cooling? Advertisement or announcement? Does it really matter, since most news items could be considered as advertisements?
I think the talk about the cooling is important since one of the most difficult tasks is not how to get three GPUs on a single chip, but to get a viable cooling solution that doesn't sound like a vacuum cleaner and one that doesn't require too much space (or it would essentially kill the whole concept).
It should be able to handle running 3D games at low resolutions... 1024x768, say, or a widescreen version of that. It shouldn't be able to handle Crisis at 1900x1200 without a flicker, but at least let me putter about on World of Warcraft and Sims 2 without feeling like I'm working on something from five years ago. Are you serious or just trying to get modded as 'Funny'? The word budget should be a clear indicator to any gamer that this laptop is not intended for gaming. History will tell you the very same thing. It is true that laptops have become more capable at the lower segments, but 3D power has remained consistent (more or less). Budget segments will always target businesses and people who intend to browse the web, check e-mail and so forth. Maybe that will change some day, but not in the next five years.
AMD dies, then Intel will jack their rates up about double.
We saw something like this with Blu-Ray when HDDVD was announced to be dead. You're obviously correct that Intel would drop the fast pace a bit and increase the rates, but comparing this situation to the media disk war of HDDVD and BD is just wrong. The industry was basically waiting for a winner because two competitors on this type of market is just too much. Certainly, the industry is not waiting for AMD or Intel to die.
On the other hand, I doubt that Intel would eliminate competition completely because there is certainly room for more than just one company. I'm not saying AMD is going to survive, but sometimes the best thing for a business is to terminate and reinstate itself.
Taken from the open letter:
It has now been more than two months since we made our proposal to acquire Yahoo! at a 62% premium to its closing price on January 31, 2008, the day prior to our announcement.
By any fair measure, the large premium we offered in January is even more significant today. We believe that the majority of your shareholders share this assessment, even after reviewing your public disclosures relating to your future prospects. If Microsoft is willing to pay a 62%+ premium, why is this not enough for Yahoo and why are they not making a counter-offer? I am not an expert, but to me, this sounds like extremely personal business.
That's the last day when large computer makers -- the Dells, HPs and Lenovos of the world -- will be allowed to preinstall Windows XP on new PCs. It also marks the official end of XP as a retail product. I wouldn't bet against anyone who thinks torrents will be flooded with cracked XP copies when this happens. Windows XP is actually selling remarkably well now that people agree Vista isn't what it once promised. Now that Microsoft is cutting off the supply, people will see piracy as a more viable option and say that it's either that or OSX/Linux.
I know Google wishes to maintain this don't be evil motto, but be realistic here.. A multi billion dollar company like Google certainly didn't plunge out $3.1 billion just to find out only a year later that it's immoral. Dig a little deeper and I'm sure you will find out that money is the issue, not morality.
I suppose you could take that a few steps further saying that all apples are unique since none are 100% identical. So I suppose it's all about relativity of perception.
Ironic how you can have multiple unique objects but if you use "unique" as a catergory they all become the same. Why is it ironic? Of course stars will always be unique because of differences in its mass (etc). But unique by category is not illogical at all. For example, if you have a 10 inches long tail, its length may be unique but the condition is not, since it is shared by others. However, if you were the only one to have a tail, your condition would be unique.
In other words, the world unique must not have anything to do with the mass, position or temperature of an object.
PC Perspective also features an article written in January on the impact of ray tracing in games. It provides many pictures of what it will look like and what the benefits are vs rasterization. It's written by Daniel Pohl, a research scientist at Intel.
As I understand it, the next gen Eee (with larger screen and larger touchpad -- see, for example, this article [dailytech.com]) will come in linux and Windows flavours, but the big difference is that the linux one comes with a larger flash drive (12Gb vs 8Gb) for the same price (since Asus doesn't need to pay Microsoft).
Microsoft is never going to win this one, and I think they know it.. And you say this because you are the average PC buyer? You know, Linux geek, Slashdot reader.. Sounds like just about anyone, right?
My friend runs an online store and 90% of his sales are laptops. It's not a small business since he's selling hundreds of lappies every month, so his facts are interesting. According to him, the Windows-equipped $499 laptops outsell the Linux-equipped $399 laptops 5 to 1.
I don't think the average Eee buyer is going to care much for specifications as much as they care for the whole concept, which is why I think you are wrong.
The last damned thing I want to see on the phone network is an iPhone worm getting it's hooks into the core of every iPhone in the default settings, PHONE SPAMMING half the planet, and generally turning the phone network into the same power-hungry firewalled, bloaty security nightmare that the Internet is. Give me a break, will you? There is a plethora of phones out there that allow applications running in the background and it seems to work just fine. In the end, you must realize that these smartphones are intended for experienced users who already understand that if they install malicious software, it is their responsibility.
Or to put it in layman's terms, why should experienced users suffer on the expense of the inexperienced?
What on earth has Quad-SLI got to do with 'saving us from consoles' ?
You don't even need a single top-end card to provide an alternative to a console, let alone *four* top-end cards. More interestingly, the Playstation 3 has shown that we aren't very picky about HD gaming when most games don't even play in 1080p, but considerably lower resolutions. Additionally, far from all titles play in optimal frame rates.
With a PC, you can do this at an added cost because what's new inside the console will eventually be replaced by faster PC hardware.
PC:s will always be better at high-end gaming, because consoles are unified pieces of hardware. You don't want to see a sticker on a game saying "only works with Playstation 3 v2.0. On a PC, you just lower the resolution or game details, but even a medium range computer of today can play games that are released in two years. And more importantly, we can upgrade them quite easily.
Otherwise...is this a slashvertisement? That depends on where you want to draw the line on news and advertisements. For example, if Intel launches a new CPU architecture, wouldn't that be very much like this news item?
Having said that, this news looks like pure spam on a page like Slashdot. None of its featured games are new or spectacular in any way and the concept is dated back to at least 2001.
They don't complain when google sends them traffic (for free). Many businesses are depending entirely on ads and search results. Ultimately, however, Google depends on quality web sites, because without it, a search engine would be pointless. So it's a beautiful equilibrium where one can only exist if the other does as well.
My point is that if you are topping Google results, there is a lot of hard work behind it, which is also why people find your page interesting. Ultimately, (again) this is why a search engine is interesting - because it finds interesting pages.
I agree with the TIME editor on this one. And by saying that Americans don't give a squat about it, he obviously talks about Americans in general, not that the entire population holds this stance.
As for the poll that was mentioned in the Slashdot summary that claims the direct opposite:
[..]shows that the percentage of Americans who believe the Federal Government is "very secretive" has doubled in the last two years alone (to 44%) How is this direct proof of the opposite? And how can we know that the poll was conducted in an unbiased manner?
There is little evidence that [the average] American cares about these issues. We rarely see any protests and almost no media coverage. The TIME editor may be wrong (or not), but at least he ignited a much needed debate that could eventually prove that if a blowjob can lead to impeachment, so should Bush's deeds.
That graph is based on 30 open windows at a time, not 'basic web browsing'. Which is exactly the point of why a memory-hogging application is bad. I don't think anyone is experiencing problems with what you call basic web browsing, but we all have moments when we suddenly end up with 10+ windows. That's when it matters the most, too.
Sure search.yahoo.com is good, but I am under the perception their priorities lie elsewhere... Their priorities are elsewhere. I can't say that Google is perfect in its results, but Yahoo has a big problem with multi word searches. The results on large search terms are generally good, but if you go for a smaller phrase, you get far more nonsense than Google's results. Even worse, if you go for smaller phrases with at least two words, you get even worse results. Maybe the average Yahoo user doesn't care about it, but check out SEO forums and you'll see how aggravated people are over this.
Regardless, now I don't feel so bad, as they do not have pizza in space. How do they cope? I know you are joking, but you should read the word pizza from a more symbolical point of view. The point is that if you are on a long mission in space and deprived from eating whatever you want (such as pizza), you will end up dealing with issues you had no idea you could be having. I don't like eating pizza and I rarely eat any, but if I was forbidden to eat it, it would definitely make me want one more.
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There is very little they can prove, which is why they throw spaghetti on the wall. Of course they want to portray the accused as evil as possible. Most lawyers do this to dehumanize and humiliate the suspect, because when you have people judging people, this type of psychology actually helps.
Glossy screens look more attractive when sold in stores. I guess that's why so many manufacturers choose such screens over matte screens, simply because presentations look better. Furthermore, black looks better on glossy screens, which seems to be a huge selling-point with both TV sets and monitors nowadays.
I think the talk about the cooling is important since one of the most difficult tasks is not how to get three GPUs on a single chip, but to get a viable cooling solution that doesn't sound like a vacuum cleaner and one that doesn't require too much space (or it would essentially kill the whole concept).
We saw something like this with Blu-Ray when HDDVD was announced to be dead. You're obviously correct that Intel would drop the fast pace a bit and increase the rates, but comparing this situation to the media disk war of HDDVD and BD is just wrong. The industry was basically waiting for a winner because two competitors on this type of market is just too much. Certainly, the industry is not waiting for AMD or Intel to die.
On the other hand, I doubt that Intel would eliminate competition completely because there is certainly room for more than just one company. I'm not saying AMD is going to survive, but sometimes the best thing for a business is to terminate and reinstate itself.
I know Google wishes to maintain this don't be evil motto, but be realistic here.. A multi billion dollar company like Google certainly didn't plunge out $3.1 billion just to find out only a year later that it's immoral. Dig a little deeper and I'm sure you will find out that money is the issue, not morality.
More info on blackjack professionals can be found over at blackjack.org. They cover some info on the MIT team as well.
In other words, the world unique must not have anything to do with the mass, position or temperature of an object.
PC Perspective also features an article written in January on the impact of ray tracing in games. It provides many pictures of what it will look like and what the benefits are vs rasterization. It's written by Daniel Pohl, a research scientist at Intel.
My friend runs an online store and 90% of his sales are laptops. It's not a small business since he's selling hundreds of lappies every month, so his facts are interesting. According to him, the Windows-equipped $499 laptops outsell the Linux-equipped $399 laptops 5 to 1.
I don't think the average Eee buyer is going to care much for specifications as much as they care for the whole concept, which is why I think you are wrong.
Or to put it in layman's terms, why should experienced users suffer on the expense of the inexperienced?
With a PC, you can do this at an added cost because what's new inside the console will eventually be replaced by faster PC hardware.
PC:s will always be better at high-end gaming, because consoles are unified pieces of hardware. You don't want to see a sticker on a game saying "only works with Playstation 3 v2.0. On a PC, you just lower the resolution or game details, but even a medium range computer of today can play games that are released in two years. And more importantly, we can upgrade them quite easily.
Having said that, this news looks like pure spam on a page like Slashdot. None of its featured games are new or spectacular in any way and the concept is dated back to at least 2001.
My point is that if you are topping Google results, there is a lot of hard work behind it, which is also why people find your page interesting. Ultimately, (again) this is why a search engine is interesting - because it finds interesting pages.
As for the poll that was mentioned in the Slashdot summary that claims the direct opposite: [..]shows that the percentage of Americans who believe the Federal Government is "very secretive" has doubled in the last two years alone (to 44%) How is this direct proof of the opposite? And how can we know that the poll was conducted in an unbiased manner?
There is little evidence that [the average] American cares about these issues. We rarely see any protests and almost no media coverage. The TIME editor may be wrong (or not), but at least he ignited a much needed debate that could eventually prove that if a blowjob can lead to impeachment, so should Bush's deeds.
You seem to know your way around making bombs. Say, would you be interested in moving to Tehran?
If so, drop me a message.