That seems to be a growing trend in the industry, too. At my company the Network Admin gave us new CAD workstations equipped with ATI Radeon x600's, a mid-range gaming card at best. When you have bean-counters in control, they tend to think that they're not going to reap $1000 in increased productivity by spending that much more on 3D cards.
If your 3D design department is running gaming cards instead of workstation boards than either you have an extremely stupid IT department, or what you're designing is extremely simple.
I hate to break it to you, but workstation cards are alive and kicking. The Quadro and FireGL are still available, and for $500 is it MUCH better to have a low-end workstation card than a high-end gaming card. Gaming cards do not have the full OpenGL functionality that 3D design applications need. In my experience, using the wrong type of 3D card can result in random program crashes and data corruption, since the gaming cards are designed to throw as many pixels and textures at the screen as possible, and not accurately render polygons.
FYI, there are PLENTY of video cards in the $1500-$2000 range. They're for CAD workstations.
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And Rock and Roll was originally a slang term for the same thing. I'd be hard-pressed to find ANY type of music that isn't named after sex. Like Country, mysteriously close to "Cunt-tree." Hmmmm
see, I did not know (haven't watched epi. 1 in a while). This changes everything.
Of course no series has violated Star Trek canon more than the original, simply because there was no ST canon when the show was aired.
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"11But actually, I wrote to you not to associate with any so-called (A)brother if he is an immoral person, or covetous, or (B)an idolater, or a reviler, or a drunkard, or a swindler--not even to eat with such a one.
12For what have I to do with judging (C)outsiders? (D)Do you not judge those who are within the church?
13But those who are outside, God judges. (E)REMOVE THE WICKED MAN FROM AMONG YOURSELVES. "
1 Corinthians 5:11-13
Just so you know it's from the Bible, and not just their books.
The Borg on enterprise wasn't a problem to me at all. It fulfills what happened in First Contact since they were in the wreckage of the sphere destroyed by the Enterprise-E.
By Kirk's time, it would have been a curious insignificant event about 100 years in past but nothing more, since the rest of the Borg were still across the galaxy about that time.
The only conflict I see is that at the end of the Enterprise episode a signal was sent to the Delta Quadrant and they said it would take them 200 years to reach earth. In TNG, humanity met the Borg because of Q, but that doesn't mean they weren't on their way to discovering Earth anyway.
I'm happy Microsoft is actually shipping Windows with something turned off. It'd be so nice to get an OS without 20+ on-by-default resources that almost nobody uses.
And this is why Movie ratings and Tipper stickers exist. It's not the law, otherwise the IFC would be in huge trouble. Movies are rated because it's a compulsory practice in the policy of the MPAA, not because it's the law. Similarly, warning labels exist on records because the RIAA didn't want to fight with an organization of morality Nazi's.
It's actually WORSE than working on comission in EVERY way.
I worked there for a few months each employee is set up to fail. They are given no training but are thrown to the wolves the first day and expected to sell. The store only tracks the sales of computer packages (the rebate-laden "deals" that include a cheap printer and monitor) and how many extras you sell. So if a manager wants to get rid of you, he/she (a female manager at BB? that's a laugh) just assigns you to the printers or accesories aisle, then drags you into the backroom for not selling computer packages.
I am not surprised at all that BB had the worst service in the article (the people in the other stores could answer at least SOME questions). I saw it every day. For this reason I'll never buy another computer from BB, of course since I only buy one once every 5 years, have more knowledge than and therefore don't need Geek Squad service, and buy my accessories from online retailers at a fraction of the cost, Best Buy doesn't really value me as a customer anyway.
I worked for an Automotive OEM in Plymouth a few years ago and as long as you came in between 7-9 am, consisitently, and worked at least 8 hours they were cool with it.
Gotta love working in a company so big you're too small to be noticed.
I know someone in West Virginia who claims a lot of these anti-wind groups are secretly funded by the Coal and Oil companies. I know it sounds paranoid but I wouldn't be surprised if it was true. Also, it's pretty hard to support wind when you rely on Coal mining, and therefore Coal energy usage to put food on your table. Pennsylvania and West Virginia being against it is no big surprise.
I'm not sure about how the series actually handles the first meeting of Kirk and Spock but I don't see any problem with them going to the academy together.
One wouldn't graduate from the academy and immediately become senior officers. Kirk and Spock probably served at their respective assignments after graduating and years later they just happen to be assigned to the same ship.
I can definently agree with that. I did some research too and found that Lenovo's offerings are actually cheaper than Dell in the high-end. The one set of specs I checked Lenovo was close to $400 less.
As far as Chinese quality, I have a very nice wool coat made in China that has so far proved extremely durable. People have this perception that all Chinese product is flimsy like the crap they sell at Wal-Mart, but there is quite a big difference in quality control standards between companies selling a camping knife for $2 and a laptop for $2000
What alternatives to nVidia and ATI are out there? The only suggestion the Fedora site offers is Intel, but i'm sure as hell not downgrading to Integrated Graphics with shared memory.
I don't see what the big deal is tho, even Windows doesn't offer hardware 3D acceleration out of the box, and you still have to install the VC driver. It just happens to be a bit more complicated to do this in Linux at the moment.
I care, and a lot of other people do too. Performance is very important to me. I'm not going to pay over $1000 for only slightly higher, or even the same specs on my current 5-year-old machine.
"I much prefer the fact that a 280lb geek could step on one closed 600E on the floor at 2AM and not break the screen, or a hatchback is opened and your bag was open and your T21 bounces out onto the pavement and you open it up and it works fine, or a X40 gets a full bottle of Jones Berry Cola poured into it and other than a black cherry-licious smell it keeps working (ok so I replaced the keyboard a few weeks later)"
Here's a little something you might want to know: most people take care of their things, we all learned this in kindergarden. Sure, accidents happen, you spill things, whatever, but a computer is not a dinner plate and should not be treated as one. Did you pay for your laptop yourself? I'd hate to see what shape the rest of your stuff is in.
"Slight Disclaimer: I work for em, and no matter what happens to them they get repaired, but so far I've not managed to do much to them that requires it, and I'm not gentle with my systems. I shudder to think if I treated the Dell, HPs or Toshibas (little while since I've used on of the Toshibas though). I see bits-o-plastic everywhere."
That's great, except that the purpose of a computer is to do work, not double as a dinner plate.
In the early 90's there was a PC game called "Quest for Fame" that included a "virtual pick" that connected to a joystick/game port (a 15-pin serial port made for joysticks & gamepads specifically, before the days of USB). Basically you had to strike something with the pick in time with the music. The whole object of the game was to play gigs and eventually be a guest guitarist at an Aerosmith show.
It's kind of funny to think about it now but also sad that no one can think of original ideas anymore.
"Yeah, I bet you can find several examples of b*stard GeekSquad managers with no integrity--in a chain as big as Best Buy, there're bound to be some of them. But you WON'T hear any stories about the ones that just do their jobs and try to please the customer."
That's because anyone working for Best Buy with any integrity and genuine desire to please the customer is routinely fired. I'm sure there are good stores out there but after reading all the stories from literally hundreds of former Best Buy employees at bestbuysux.org, and judging from my own experience working for them, I can say with confidence that BBuy truly is only concerned with leeching as much money as possible from the customer.
If one thinks about the enormous amounts of food that developed countries waste it's mind-boggling. In the US alone we even have an obesity EPIDEMIC. Our leftovers even feed the homeless.
There is plenty of food in this world to feed every man, woman, and child on it, and then some. The problem is getting food to people in areas where corrupt and violent governments exist.
If we lose hundreds of millions of tons of grain crops, there will be mass death, but only because the richest people in this world will have priority (as it is now) and there won't be anything left for the poor.
If Google goes with subscriptions, they won't be any different. I've said it before, the subscription model blows. Most people don't regularly purchase enough music to justify a subscription fee. If you buy less than 60 songs a month like me, then iTunes is the cheapest option. CD sales are simple, you buy the CD and you leave the store, complicating this transaction is a hard sell for a lot of people. This is why iTunes is number one.
"--You can't tell your friends, "no big deal, buy another X RAM chip, it's only $49.95" unless you plan to go with them to buy it and plan to go to their house and install it for them."
If you're much of a friend, turning off the machine, plugging the RAM chip in, and turning it back on again isn't that big of a deal.
Who says you have to upgrade? Isn't the fact that you don't have to one of the great things about Linux? Fedora isn't forcing you to do it.
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That seems to be a growing trend in the industry, too. At my company the Network Admin gave us new CAD workstations equipped with ATI Radeon x600's, a mid-range gaming card at best. When you have bean-counters in control, they tend to think that they're not going to reap $1000 in increased productivity by spending that much more on 3D cards.
If your 3D design department is running gaming cards instead of workstation boards than either you have an extremely stupid IT department, or what you're designing is extremely simple.
I hate to break it to you, but workstation cards are alive and kicking. The Quadro and FireGL are still available, and for $500 is it MUCH better to have a low-end workstation card than a high-end gaming card. Gaming cards do not have the full OpenGL functionality that 3D design applications need. In my experience, using the wrong type of 3D card can result in random program crashes and data corruption, since the gaming cards are designed to throw as many pixels and textures at the screen as possible, and not accurately render polygons.
FYI, there are PLENTY of video cards in the $1500-$2000 range. They're for CAD workstations.
And Rock and Roll was originally a slang term for the same thing. I'd be hard-pressed to find ANY type of music that isn't named after sex. Like Country, mysteriously close to "Cunt-tree." Hmmmm
see, I did not know (haven't watched epi. 1 in a while). This changes everything.
Of course no series has violated Star Trek canon more than the original, simply because there was no ST canon when the show was aired.
"11But actually, I wrote to you not to associate with any so-called (A)brother if he is an immoral person, or covetous, or (B)an idolater, or a reviler, or a drunkard, or a swindler--not even to eat with such a one.
12For what have I to do with judging (C)outsiders? (D)Do you not judge those who are within the church?
13But those who are outside, God judges. (E)REMOVE THE WICKED MAN FROM AMONG YOURSELVES. "
1 Corinthians 5:11-13
Just so you know it's from the Bible, and not just their books.
The Borg on enterprise wasn't a problem to me at all. It fulfills what happened in First Contact since they were in the wreckage of the sphere destroyed by the Enterprise-E.
By Kirk's time, it would have been a curious insignificant event about 100 years in past but nothing more, since the rest of the Borg were still across the galaxy about that time.
The only conflict I see is that at the end of the Enterprise episode a signal was sent to the Delta Quadrant and they said it would take them 200 years to reach earth. In TNG, humanity met the Borg because of Q, but that doesn't mean they weren't on their way to discovering Earth anyway.
I'm happy Microsoft is actually shipping Windows with something turned off. It'd be so nice to get an OS without 20+ on-by-default resources that almost nobody uses.
And this is why Movie ratings and Tipper stickers exist. It's not the law, otherwise the IFC would be in huge trouble. Movies are rated because it's a compulsory practice in the policy of the MPAA, not because it's the law. Similarly, warning labels exist on records because the RIAA didn't want to fight with an organization of morality Nazi's.
It's actually WORSE than working on comission in EVERY way.
I worked there for a few months each employee is set up to fail. They are given no training but are thrown to the wolves the first day and expected to sell. The store only tracks the sales of computer packages (the rebate-laden "deals" that include a cheap printer and monitor) and how many extras you sell. So if a manager wants to get rid of you, he/she (a female manager at BB? that's a laugh) just assigns you to the printers or accesories aisle, then drags you into the backroom for not selling computer packages.
I am not surprised at all that BB had the worst service in the article (the people in the other stores could answer at least SOME questions). I saw it every day. For this reason I'll never buy another computer from BB, of course since I only buy one once every 5 years, have more knowledge than and therefore don't need Geek Squad service, and buy my accessories from online retailers at a fraction of the cost, Best Buy doesn't really value me as a customer anyway.
I worked for an Automotive OEM in Plymouth a few years ago and as long as you came in between 7-9 am, consisitently, and worked at least 8 hours they were cool with it.
Gotta love working in a company so big you're too small to be noticed.
So I guess http://pantsonfire.multiply.com/photos/hi-res/5/1? xurl=%2Fphotos%2Fphoto%2F5%2F1my version of Andy Warhol's Marylin Monroe painting is copyright infringement too.
I know someone in West Virginia who claims a lot of these anti-wind groups are secretly funded by the Coal and Oil companies. I know it sounds paranoid but I wouldn't be surprised if it was true. Also, it's pretty hard to support wind when you rely on Coal mining, and therefore Coal energy usage to put food on your table. Pennsylvania and West Virginia being against it is no big surprise.
Remember, Wind Turbines don't create jobs.
I'm not sure about how the series actually handles the first meeting of Kirk and Spock but I don't see any problem with them going to the academy together. One wouldn't graduate from the academy and immediately become senior officers. Kirk and Spock probably served at their respective assignments after graduating and years later they just happen to be assigned to the same ship.
The plot of this new movie is actually what they pitched for the first movie 30-odd years ago.
I can definently agree with that. I did some research too and found that Lenovo's offerings are actually cheaper than Dell in the high-end. The one set of specs I checked Lenovo was close to $400 less.
As far as Chinese quality, I have a very nice wool coat made in China that has so far proved extremely durable. People have this perception that all Chinese product is flimsy like the crap they sell at Wal-Mart, but there is quite a big difference in quality control standards between companies selling a camping knife for $2 and a laptop for $2000
What alternatives to nVidia and ATI are out there? The only suggestion the Fedora site offers is Intel, but i'm sure as hell not downgrading to Integrated Graphics with shared memory.
I don't see what the big deal is tho, even Windows doesn't offer hardware 3D acceleration out of the box, and you still have to install the VC driver. It just happens to be a bit more complicated to do this in Linux at the moment.
"Who cares if it's a little slower"
I care, and a lot of other people do too. Performance is very important to me. I'm not going to pay over $1000 for only slightly higher, or even the same specs on my current 5-year-old machine.
"I much prefer the fact that a 280lb geek could step on one closed 600E on the floor at 2AM and not break the screen, or a hatchback is opened and your bag was open and your T21 bounces out onto the pavement and you open it up and it works fine, or a X40 gets a full bottle of Jones Berry Cola poured into it and other than a black cherry-licious smell it keeps working (ok so I replaced the keyboard a few weeks later)"
Here's a little something you might want to know: most people take care of their things, we all learned this in kindergarden. Sure, accidents happen, you spill things, whatever, but a computer is not a dinner plate and should not be treated as one. Did you pay for your laptop yourself? I'd hate to see what shape the rest of your stuff is in.
"Slight Disclaimer: I work for em, and no matter what happens to them they get repaired, but so far I've not managed to do much to them that requires it, and I'm not gentle with my systems. I shudder to think if I treated the Dell, HPs or Toshibas (little while since I've used on of the Toshibas though). I see bits-o-plastic everywhere."
That's great, except that the purpose of a computer is to do work, not double as a dinner plate.
In the early 90's there was a PC game called "Quest for Fame" that included a "virtual pick" that connected to a joystick/game port (a 15-pin serial port made for joysticks & gamepads specifically, before the days of USB). Basically you had to strike something with the pick in time with the music. The whole object of the game was to play gigs and eventually be a guest guitarist at an Aerosmith show. It's kind of funny to think about it now but also sad that no one can think of original ideas anymore.
"Yeah, I bet you can find several examples of b*stard GeekSquad managers with no integrity--in a chain as big as Best Buy, there're bound to be some of them. But you WON'T hear any stories about the ones that just do their jobs and try to please the customer."
That's because anyone working for Best Buy with any integrity and genuine desire to please the customer is routinely fired. I'm sure there are good stores out there but after reading all the stories from literally hundreds of former Best Buy employees at bestbuysux.org, and judging from my own experience working for them, I can say with confidence that BBuy truly is only concerned with leeching as much money as possible from the customer.
If one thinks about the enormous amounts of food that developed countries waste it's mind-boggling. In the US alone we even have an obesity EPIDEMIC. Our leftovers even feed the homeless. There is plenty of food in this world to feed every man, woman, and child on it, and then some. The problem is getting food to people in areas where corrupt and violent governments exist. If we lose hundreds of millions of tons of grain crops, there will be mass death, but only because the richest people in this world will have priority (as it is now) and there won't be anything left for the poor.
If Google goes with subscriptions, they won't be any different. I've said it before, the subscription model blows. Most people don't regularly purchase enough music to justify a subscription fee. If you buy less than 60 songs a month like me, then iTunes is the cheapest option. CD sales are simple, you buy the CD and you leave the store, complicating this transaction is a hard sell for a lot of people. This is why iTunes is number one.
"--You can't tell your friends, "no big deal, buy another X RAM chip, it's only $49.95" unless you plan to go with them to buy it and plan to go to their house and install it for them." If you're much of a friend, turning off the machine, plugging the RAM chip in, and turning it back on again isn't that big of a deal.
Who says you have to upgrade? Isn't the fact that you don't have to one of the great things about Linux? Fedora isn't forcing you to do it.
At least we can all agree that it's not like allowing administrative access to any or all user accounts while not requiring a password for anything, or providing any feedback when things get installed in the background, unlike certain operating systems that shall remain nameless.