I buy my laptops for gaming, and I went i7 and not Core 2 Duo.
Shit, my two year old laptop I just replaced had Core 2 Duo..
Battery life is not an issue. I always run plugged in. I also always have my gaming PC in whichever house I'm calling home at the time.
Am I running desktop level graphics? No. Although SLI mobile graphics runs sufficiently close for any games I'm likely to play in the next two years, and puts me way ahead of most consumer desktops..
It's not a cheap way to game, and the games don't use the 4 cores/8 hyperthreads on the i7, but I can run an MMO and a FPS shooter at the same time as each other, my web browser, the TV tuner and skype. Plus various other windows, but they have trivial CPU needs.
A 'good' cheap laptop wont do that, and a gaming rig in the wrong house is utterly useless. My circumstances are just different to yours.
My two year old laptop has a 7200rpm disk in it. When I bought it, nobody was putting anything faster into desktops unless they were paying £3k+ for one.
My new laptop (using to type this response) has 3 drive bays so could use SSD and a couple of 7200rpm disks, but still wont compete with a desktop running 10000rpm disks.
It does however have an i7 920 CPU though, and I can confirm that it isn't slow.
the reasons why the press may sometimes be reluctant to run stories about accused criminals that might remotely suggest their guilt before they are convicted is that Britain has the kind of libel laws being discussed in the case, not because of the legal presumption of innocence
No, the newspapers do not discuss ongoing cases in detail as that may prejudice the case leading to a miscarriage of justice.
Libel doesn't come into it - newspapers are pretty good at stepping around the libel laws.
Sorry, thought you said 'beefy' servers. In my world your $50k total hardware cost doesn't buy the firewalls.
Apart from that, your arguments are spot on, although there are further reasons large companies could be interested in the cloud.
I worked for a travel company. Why would a company that owns, runs and sells capacity in hotels, boats and aircraft want a large in-house IT team, buildings full of servers, expensive developers. Wouldn't it be far better to let someone else manage all of that?
Outsourcing IT departments isn't new. Cloud Computing merely applies a commodity model to the outsourced capacity. Computers are not free, support for them is not free, maintaining them is not free, running them is not free. Why shouldn't someone charge for doing all of that?
Interestingly my preview failed to spot that the angle-bracket return angle-bracket had been stripped from my comment on a couple of lines. Mentally insert it after "then" in that previous post.
Because hitting 'n' then is a fuck of a lot quicker than - typing news.bbc.co.uk then - taking hand off keyboard onto mouse, moving to a button then pressing it - using alt-b then scrolling down/up to bookmark
Firefox 2 would give me one letter access to my most commonly accessed sites. c for cricinfo.com, n for BBC news, w for my webmail account, g for google.
Firefox 3 needed a lot of config before it got close to that level of usability for me, and even now it's not as good.
I subscribe to an online games service. They offer over 300 games to download with the rights holders blessing (and recompense).
Sky TV offer film and TV show downloads. They use p2p technologies to minimise server costs.
I download films from time to time by independent and low-budget film makers that want to share their work. They own the copyright to their own films but can't afford the bandwidth to distribute them, so they use p2p.
There's a lot of material out there using bandwidth that is legal to share.
And vodka from plastic containers tastes shit compared to vodka from glass containers.
Student bars get away with it by being so bloody cheap. Nightclubs get away with it by being places people don't go to drink.
Personally I've never seen anybody hit anybody else with a broken glass, and I worked in a city centre pub for two years. How about the government just fuck off and leave us alone - on glasses and on downloading.
The best treatment for this is a behavioural therapy known as CBT.
While I concede that Cock and Ball Torture would indeed dampen my enthusiasm for online gaming I hadn't heard of it being a professional behavioural therapy option.
I can go to my GP regarding dietary issues. My local health centre's website has an entire webpage devoted to safe and sensible diet techniques. My local nurse offers regular "well man checks" where she'll check blood pressure, weight, etc and discuss diet and lifestyle.
$0.5 on an item isn't a major decision for someone.
$50 on a full weekly shop of 100 items easily could be.
Do you buy expensive food and walk 8 miles to work each day, or buy the cheaper food and catch the bus?
Someone in that situation may still be struggling to pay rent, raise kids, buy their meth, but they don't need food stamps. They just need cheaper healthy food.
Although we can still buy private health insurance, and/or private treatment. There are also successful cases where individuals have taken their local health authority to court for treatment..
I'm not pretending it's perfect, and right now we're putting far too much money into it, but it's a lot lot better than the US system.
Other ranged weapons are even easier. I have five perfectly legal ones in the house right now, capable of killing at ranges of up to 20 to 1200 yards (they vary).
My proposal is to repeal a law that lets people be locked up for failing to provide an encryption key for a file that may or may not be encrypted and that they may or may not actually have a key for.
The law as written merely requires the police to _believe_ a file is encrypted, not that it actually is. Similarly, you have to prove that you've destroyed a key to be able to avoid producing it, so if you've lost it, destroyed it without retaining suitable proof of destruction or never had it in the first place, you go to jail.
I don't find it remotely difficult to see how the law could be different. Unfortunately my MP is a cunt, the current Government is full of cunts and political protest is having fuck-all effect. If I visit parliament I'll get arrested, because apparently it's illegal to hurt the corrupt fuckwits sat in the Commons chamber, and unfortunately that appears to be my only available option.
The users can then download and install those apps by using their Android browser on their mobile phone to browse to the apps' websites.
It's not as quick, or easy, and it's harder for the developers to get their apps known to the market, but the option is there. It's better than no app at all..
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It's hard, but only due to a funds shortage. If I was a millionaire then I would happily pay the $150k for an Urwerk UR-202.
It's not compensating for anything, it's the raw engineering brilliance that evokes the desire.
Any girl that goes for me because I have a Rolex on frankly isn't a girl I want.
Admittedly I don't like Rolex watches myself.
I was comparing laptop with SSD and 7200rpm disks with a desktop with SSD and 10000rpm disks.
SSDs are too bloody expensive for terabyte storage just yet. For me anyway.
Wrong.
I buy my laptops for gaming, and I went i7 and not Core 2 Duo.
Shit, my two year old laptop I just replaced had Core 2 Duo..
Battery life is not an issue. I always run plugged in. I also always have my gaming PC in whichever house I'm calling home at the time.
Am I running desktop level graphics? No. Although SLI mobile graphics runs sufficiently close for any games I'm likely to play in the next two years, and puts me way ahead of most consumer desktops..
It's not a cheap way to game, and the games don't use the 4 cores/8 hyperthreads on the i7, but I can run an MMO and a FPS shooter at the same time as each other, my web browser, the TV tuner and skype. Plus various other windows, but they have trivial CPU needs.
A 'good' cheap laptop wont do that, and a gaming rig in the wrong house is utterly useless. My circumstances are just different to yours.
I'm using a laptop with an i7 CPU in it now. It's a few weeks old.
Clevo made the chassis; they're bloody good at it, and it's not the first one I've bought.
My two year old laptop has a 7200rpm disk in it. When I bought it, nobody was putting anything faster into desktops unless they were paying £3k+ for one.
My new laptop (using to type this response) has 3 drive bays so could use SSD and a couple of 7200rpm disks, but still wont compete with a desktop running 10000rpm disks.
It does however have an i7 920 CPU though, and I can confirm that it isn't slow.
Battery life? Not pertinent to my use..
the reasons why the press may sometimes be reluctant to run stories about accused criminals that might remotely suggest their guilt before they are convicted is that Britain has the kind of libel laws being discussed in the case, not because of the legal presumption of innocence
No, the newspapers do not discuss ongoing cases in detail as that may prejudice the case leading to a miscarriage of justice.
Libel doesn't come into it - newspapers are pretty good at stepping around the libel laws.
Sorry, thought you said 'beefy' servers. In my world your $50k total hardware cost doesn't buy the firewalls.
Apart from that, your arguments are spot on, although there are further reasons large companies could be interested in the cloud.
I worked for a travel company. Why would a company that owns, runs and sells capacity in hotels, boats and aircraft want a large in-house IT team, buildings full of servers, expensive developers. Wouldn't it be far better to let someone else manage all of that?
Outsourcing IT departments isn't new. Cloud Computing merely applies a commodity model to the outsourced capacity. Computers are not free, support for them is not free, maintaining them is not free, running them is not free. Why shouldn't someone charge for doing all of that?
Doctorow's full of shit on this one.
2400lb is not light.
1200lb is light.
Hell, my 5-door car capable of fitting 4 adults and all their sporting equipment for a National competition only weighs 2400lb.
Interestingly my preview failed to spot that the angle-bracket return angle-bracket had been stripped from my comment on a couple of lines. Mentally insert it after "then" in that previous post.
bah.
Because hitting 'n' then is a fuck of a lot quicker than
- typing news.bbc.co.uk then
- taking hand off keyboard onto mouse, moving to a button then pressing it
- using alt-b then scrolling down/up to bookmark
Firefox 2 would give me one letter access to my most commonly accessed sites. c for cricinfo.com, n for BBC news, w for my webmail account, g for google.
Firefox 3 needed a lot of config before it got close to that level of usability for me, and even now it's not as good.
You may be right. My company's corporate firewall blocks communications with myspace.com but not farmsex.com
I think.
Sadly none of your options match the optimal answer that so many Firefox 2 lovers want:
Give us the fucking Firefox 2 location bar.
That's nothing to do with porn and everything to do with the fucked up unusable cock-up that's pretty seriously not awesome bar.
Disclaimer: Yes, I am too lazy to download the source and write it myself.
Hmm. I can download, install and play Fallout in around 20 minutes.
(Legally)
Baldur's Gate would admittedly be trickier, as I'd need to rummage through the cupboard..
I subscribe to an online games service. They offer over 300 games to download with the rights holders blessing (and recompense).
Sky TV offer film and TV show downloads. They use p2p technologies to minimise server costs.
I download films from time to time by independent and low-budget film makers that want to share their work. They own the copyright to their own films but can't afford the bandwidth to distribute them, so they use p2p.
There's a lot of material out there using bandwidth that is legal to share.
Forgive my sheltered lifestyle, but I've never met a murderer. Let alone been attacked by one.
Where do you live, a village in Afghanistan?
And vodka from plastic containers tastes shit compared to vodka from glass containers.
Student bars get away with it by being so bloody cheap. Nightclubs get away with it by being places people don't go to drink.
Personally I've never seen anybody hit anybody else with a broken glass, and I worked in a city centre pub for two years. How about the government just fuck off and leave us alone - on glasses and on downloading.
The best treatment for this is a behavioural therapy known as CBT.
While I concede that Cock and Ball Torture would indeed dampen my enthusiasm for online gaming I hadn't heard of it being a professional behavioural therapy option.
At least, not that type of professional..
I can go to my GP regarding dietary issues. My local health centre's website has an entire webpage devoted to safe and sensible diet techniques. My local nurse offers regular "well man checks" where she'll check blood pressure, weight, etc and discuss diet and lifestyle.
Total cost to me at the point of use: £0.
$0.5 on an item isn't a major decision for someone.
$50 on a full weekly shop of 100 items easily could be.
Do you buy expensive food and walk 8 miles to work each day, or buy the cheaper food and catch the bus?
Someone in that situation may still be struggling to pay rent, raise kids, buy their meth, but they don't need food stamps. They just need cheaper healthy food.
Although we can still buy private health insurance, and/or private treatment. There are also successful cases where individuals have taken their local health authority to court for treatment..
I'm not pretending it's perfect, and right now we're putting far too much money into it, but it's a lot lot better than the US system.
Firearms aren't difficult to acquire in the UK.
Other ranged weapons are even easier. I have five perfectly legal ones in the house right now, capable of killing at ranges of up to 20 to 1200 yards (they vary).
My proposal is to repeal a law that lets people be locked up for failing to provide an encryption key for a file that may or may not be encrypted and that they may or may not actually have a key for.
The law as written merely requires the police to _believe_ a file is encrypted, not that it actually is. Similarly, you have to prove that you've destroyed a key to be able to avoid producing it, so if you've lost it, destroyed it without retaining suitable proof of destruction or never had it in the first place, you go to jail.
I don't find it remotely difficult to see how the law could be different. Unfortunately my MP is a cunt, the current Government is full of cunts and political protest is having fuck-all effect. If I visit parliament I'll get arrested, because apparently it's illegal to hurt the corrupt fuckwits sat in the Commons chamber, and unfortunately that appears to be my only available option.
Although he was also correct :)
The users can then download and install those apps by using their Android browser on their mobile phone to browse to the apps' websites.
It's not as quick, or easy, and it's harder for the developers to get their apps known to the market, but the option is there. It's better than no app at all..