I'm sick of hearing about Vista and OSX.
Vista I could care less about.
OSX and it's creepy pc vs mac ads are doing my head in !
To even suggest that you need a Mac to be young and hip is retarded. Also portraying the Mac to be the center of multimedia is total crap and leads to the misinformed vision that you need a mac to make music or play with video.
XP ROCKS !!!!!!!!!!!!!!
or should I say XP IS ROCK STABLE !!!!!!!!!!!!
With a world of software at your fingertips.
Why not start again with a massively parallel GPU, skipping all the years of catchup that will be necessary with multi-core cpu's.
Make an OS for your chips...
Can someone please tell me what is so revolutionary about this ?
This is EXACTLY the same technique used with JAWS 3D 25 years ago.
Gimmick to drag people to the cinema.
My PC is wiping it's ass with all the 'next gen' consoles.
Crysis is fucking awesome and makes the consoles look like toys.
OK, so you need a $200 Geforce 8800, it's still a cheaper upgrade for anyone who has a pc than buying a $500 PS3.
Sure not every pc can play the latest games, but that is the genius of the pc market, there are pc's for all functions and prices.
It's the console market that is dead. Since the horrible Wii is the 'winner', a rehashed last gen gimmicky piece of crap.
Seeing how absolutely amazing my 8800GT nvidia card is in Crysis and Gears of War, the bottleneck is the 3d software like max and maya, not the card. 3d animation software is definitely laging behind games. But Nvidia's recent purchase of mental ray might change that... I hope...
I think the difference between a pro card and a high end gaming card is minimal. It would be great to see comparative benchmarks though.
I did absorb your comments but I found them vacuous and incorrect.
"hype machine is always driven by the press and word of mouth" you are so deluded, Apples hype machine runs off a multi million dollar account with Shiat-day, who built an entire building to house just one advertising account, plus millions of dollars of tv and street advertising all over the world.
"and they really don't want the RIAA driven DRM" yeah, they 'really don't want it' they cry every night over it, that is why any music player can interface with itunes, and itunes allows you to freely swap songs back and forth with friends as you please. BULLSHIT.
They have monopolized online music sales, and only allow their player to interface with itunes !
"They've kept prices low for the consumer" are you joking ? How come their machines are the most expensive usually by 50% ?
They are also helping to completely destroy normal music retail, further increase there monopoly over the industry.
end of line.
Yes, Apple was ahead of the curve. But to say there is no competition is naive.
Apple has a monopoly, pure and simple.
This is anti-competitive and has lead to the spread of drm and the incorrect notion that the ipod is 'the best'.
Any usb stick with a headphone jack is capable of the same music performance as an ipod.
But most housewives and teenage girls are too blinded by the apple hype machine to notice.
The US is not the last super power. China and Russia are still huge, with massive armies, economies, population and natural resources, not to mention up and coming India.
The problem isn't a lack of protest in the US. It's the lack of coverage of said protests in the media.
YOU CANNOT HAVE A FREE DEMOCRACY WITHOUT A FREE AND FUNCTIONING MEDIA.
The media has undisputably sold it's soul to the corporations and is no longer free or unbiased.
I agree with a lot of what you have written. But it is only part of the picture.
You assume all this chaos and hatred has somehow been accidental and a knock-on effect. It isn't and hasn't. It is the result of a sustained effort by various empires (namely the US). The US has consistently entered a country and separated it into 2 regions or clans or whatever and then armed them both, before raping that region of everything. Divide and conquer. Over and over again. Guns and ammunition don't build themselves. It takes investment, planning and expertise to arm an army, and a constant input of ammunition and money. The fact is most people are kept oblivious to this because the truth is so repugnant.
Yeah, I'm sure they are looking closely at 'facial expressions'.
Probably the dismayed expression of a brown skinned man who is being stared at by 3 security guards.
OK. Vista is dead in the water.
But how about refining some of the Vista interface niceties into a light XP upgrade.
Just a few interface improvements, no under the hood stuff.
Refresh the franchise a bit.
I mean, it'd probably only take a team of 3-5 people to transfer some widgets, revamp windows.exe with some gloss and bevels, or just add some nice 'dock' features like stardock. Probably adding less than 1% cpu usage.
That would do A LOT to improve Microsoft's image to the XP world, and probably placate the osx loving housewives out there.
How on earth is your shrinking US army based on ANY current trends ?
Extrapolating from what we have now, everyone will be involved in the military to one extent or another.
I know the universe it stable because we are here and it took billions of years for us to evolve, evident by fossils. We can see billions of years into the past by looking into the night sky, so I know the universe is billions of years old.
Laws of Physics can change, and this is what I believe the big bang was.
One set of timeless laws sounds too much like a nod to some imaginary god.
This question is loaded. The laws of nature (actually physics) didn't 'come from' anywhere.
The laws of Physics, EVOLVED (nature is based on physical laws).
The same way we did and the universe did.
The same people would ask 'where did we come from'.
We didn't just 'come into being randomly' as the I.D. guys like to badly critique evolution theory.
We and our universe came into being because this is the only way stability (ie. survival) could be achieved.
As is often mentioned, any change in the fundamental laws would result in a universe unfavorable for cosmological structures or life.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fine-tuned_Universe
I would hazard a guess that we are either,
1) in a favorable sector of a vast universe (ie. laws of physics change beyond our
limited visible universe)
2) The Universe has evolved ie. expanding and collapsing many times before it reached this stable version.
I would hazard a guess that we are either 1) in a favorable sector of a vast universe (ie. laws of physics change beyond our limited visible universe) 2) The Universe has evolved ie. expanding and collapsing many times before it reached this stable version.
Dude, just buy a Quad or Octo core Mac already !
If you can't afford that on your college fund mega money build your own machine.
The Quad core xeons just halved in price.
A single machine bought from New Egg with dual processor, quad core xeons would wipe it's ass with this beopuppy piece of crap.
Amateurs. Hope they don't kill themselves spilling tea on some exposed motherboard.
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I'm sick of hearing about Vista and OSX. Vista I could care less about. OSX and it's creepy pc vs mac ads are doing my head in ! To even suggest that you need a Mac to be young and hip is retarded. Also portraying the Mac to be the center of multimedia is total crap and leads to the misinformed vision that you need a mac to make music or play with video. XP ROCKS !!!!!!!!!!!!!! or should I say XP IS ROCK STABLE !!!!!!!!!!!! With a world of software at your fingertips.
Why not start again with a massively parallel GPU, skipping all the years of catchup that will be necessary with multi-core cpu's. Make an OS for your chips...
Further reading... http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Philosophy_of_mathematics
Can someone please tell me what is so revolutionary about this ? This is EXACTLY the same technique used with JAWS 3D 25 years ago. Gimmick to drag people to the cinema.
My PC is wiping it's ass with all the 'next gen' consoles. Crysis is fucking awesome and makes the consoles look like toys. OK, so you need a $200 Geforce 8800, it's still a cheaper upgrade for anyone who has a pc than buying a $500 PS3. Sure not every pc can play the latest games, but that is the genius of the pc market, there are pc's for all functions and prices. It's the console market that is dead. Since the horrible Wii is the 'winner', a rehashed last gen gimmicky piece of crap.
Seeing how absolutely amazing my 8800GT nvidia card is in Crysis and Gears of War, the bottleneck is the 3d software like max and maya, not the card. 3d animation software is definitely laging behind games. But Nvidia's recent purchase of mental ray might change that... I hope... I think the difference between a pro card and a high end gaming card is minimal. It would be great to see comparative benchmarks though.
I did absorb your comments but I found them vacuous and incorrect. "hype machine is always driven by the press and word of mouth" you are so deluded, Apples hype machine runs off a multi million dollar account with Shiat-day, who built an entire building to house just one advertising account, plus millions of dollars of tv and street advertising all over the world. "and they really don't want the RIAA driven DRM" yeah, they 'really don't want it' they cry every night over it, that is why any music player can interface with itunes, and itunes allows you to freely swap songs back and forth with friends as you please. BULLSHIT. They have monopolized online music sales, and only allow their player to interface with itunes ! "They've kept prices low for the consumer" are you joking ? How come their machines are the most expensive usually by 50% ? They are also helping to completely destroy normal music retail, further increase there monopoly over the industry. end of line.
Yes, Apple was ahead of the curve. But to say there is no competition is naive. Apple has a monopoly, pure and simple. This is anti-competitive and has lead to the spread of drm and the incorrect notion that the ipod is 'the best'. Any usb stick with a headphone jack is capable of the same music performance as an ipod. But most housewives and teenage girls are too blinded by the apple hype machine to notice.
The Ipod got huge because it was marketed and sold to people who did not know any better.
Word ! Hilarious :)
The US is not the last super power. China and Russia are still huge, with massive armies, economies, population and natural resources, not to mention up and coming India. The problem isn't a lack of protest in the US. It's the lack of coverage of said protests in the media. YOU CANNOT HAVE A FREE DEMOCRACY WITHOUT A FREE AND FUNCTIONING MEDIA. The media has undisputably sold it's soul to the corporations and is no longer free or unbiased.
I agree with a lot of what you have written. But it is only part of the picture. You assume all this chaos and hatred has somehow been accidental and a knock-on effect. It isn't and hasn't. It is the result of a sustained effort by various empires (namely the US). The US has consistently entered a country and separated it into 2 regions or clans or whatever and then armed them both, before raping that region of everything. Divide and conquer. Over and over again. Guns and ammunition don't build themselves. It takes investment, planning and expertise to arm an army, and a constant input of ammunition and money. The fact is most people are kept oblivious to this because the truth is so repugnant.
Yeah, I'm sure they are looking closely at 'facial expressions'. Probably the dismayed expression of a brown skinned man who is being stared at by 3 security guards.
OK. Vista is dead in the water. But how about refining some of the Vista interface niceties into a light XP upgrade. Just a few interface improvements, no under the hood stuff. Refresh the franchise a bit. I mean, it'd probably only take a team of 3-5 people to transfer some widgets, revamp windows.exe with some gloss and bevels, or just add some nice 'dock' features like stardock. Probably adding less than 1% cpu usage. That would do A LOT to improve Microsoft's image to the XP world, and probably placate the osx loving housewives out there.
If you needed Ron Paul to figure that out, you need help.
Word. This is the closest to the real future I have read.
Sounds like a utopia. We can only hope.
How on earth is your shrinking US army based on ANY current trends ? Extrapolating from what we have now, everyone will be involved in the military to one extent or another.
? How can you argue with that ??? Yeah, and there are fairy's up my a$$
I know the universe it stable because we are here and it took billions of years for us to evolve, evident by fossils. We can see billions of years into the past by looking into the night sky, so I know the universe is billions of years old. Laws of Physics can change, and this is what I believe the big bang was. One set of timeless laws sounds too much like a nod to some imaginary god.
This question is loaded. The laws of nature (actually physics) didn't 'come from' anywhere. The laws of Physics, EVOLVED (nature is based on physical laws). The same way we did and the universe did. The same people would ask 'where did we come from'. We didn't just 'come into being randomly' as the I.D. guys like to badly critique evolution theory. We and our universe came into being because this is the only way stability (ie. survival) could be achieved. As is often mentioned, any change in the fundamental laws would result in a universe unfavorable for cosmological structures or life. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fine-tuned_Universe I would hazard a guess that we are either, 1) in a favorable sector of a vast universe (ie. laws of physics change beyond our limited visible universe) 2) The Universe has evolved ie. expanding and collapsing many times before it reached this stable version.
The laws of nature Physics, EVOLVED.
The same way we did and the universe did.
They didn't just 'come into being randomly' as the I.D. guys like to describe our evolution.
They came into being because this is the only way stability could be achieved.
As is often mentioned, any change in the fundamental laws would result in a universe unfavorable for cosmological structures or life.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fine-tuned_Universe
I would hazard a guess that we are either
1) in a favorable sector of a vast universe (ie. laws of physics change beyond our
limited visible universe)
2) The Universe has evolved ie. expanding and collapsing many times before it reached this stable version.
US government sides with corporations again, wow, that soo unexpected. Nice one Verizon and At&t you scum bags.
Dude, just buy a Quad or Octo core Mac already ! If you can't afford that on your college fund mega money build your own machine. The Quad core xeons just halved in price. A single machine bought from New Egg with dual processor, quad core xeons would wipe it's ass with this beopuppy piece of crap. Amateurs. Hope they don't kill themselves spilling tea on some exposed motherboard.
Wow. How stupid and very racist. (parent post)