second, precursors of age of enlightenment that are recounted in the above article were already there, starting with early pioneers like erasmus, and going into spinoza, long before charles ii and 1660.
please dont make up ahistoric shit to back up loose arguments.
I also really don't see the market for AMD's APU offerings I think part of the reason that Intel invests so little in the integrated graphics on their desktop chips is precisely because there is so little interest beyond basic 2D, HTPC and very light gaming usage. For anything else, users are going to buy a dedicated graphics card.
if you are unable to see that, then dont go deciding what is troll and what is not.
i just had to advice approx 2 guild members because they had to upgrade their outdated hardware in order to be able to play swtor with full settings. they cant buy desktops due to mobility requirements, and they dont have the finances to shell out on a high end gaming laptop.
there is that market for amd's apu offerings. a low end notebook can play starcraft 2. situation wont be too different in desktop - people will readily shell out cpu+gpu in one shot instead of paying almost 40% more for cpu and dedicated graphics, and power users will buy the cpugpu, and then buy 2 more cards to run in 16x 4x 4x crossfire - which would be 30% more expensive to do in current cpu + 3 cards route.
as in the capability of a private corporation being able to lock down your computer remotely from somewhere on the internet. thats what intel plans. ah, i forgot the built-in drm to offer you 'better content delivery'.
anyone who vies for such 'features' translates into 'moron' in my dictionary.
really ? this is outright violation of first amendment of the constitution your country is based upon. these representatives can propose and attempt such a thing. when does the 'right to revolt against tyranny' in your constitution gets invoked ? never ?
if, the board you have is crossfire capable, and the generations match each other (it has to be in XXYY range and first XXes must match from what i know, but exceptions are possible), ati catalyst control center will see that you have crossfire possibility, and it may auto enable it. you may enable crossfire, or disable it. with windows 7 and vision control center more customizations may be possible, however if you consider that hardware acceleration is even used for web page rendering in firefox, you would probably leave it on all the time.
for its possible to play starcraft 2 with that shit, even on a low end portable if it has the llano.
in a desktop, you can even crossfire it with its equivalent 6xxx card, therefore reaching major performance for ridiculous price.
if you went with a traditional route, you would need to get the cpu, and then get a separate 6xxx equivalent card, and then one more to do the crossfire.
llano pieces give you 1 good cpu and 1 good graphics card in one shot, and in future they will be upgradeable. you will be able to upgrade both the cpu and 'graphics card' of your rig by upgrading just 1 piece of hardware.
There are software patents in us of a. Inevitably any regulation you put forth for ensuring quality of code in software will be hampered by privately owned patents taken related to whatever practice/format you were requiring. You cant talk about any kind of regulation for quality of anything or good practices in such an environment.
And is it really the fault of everyone else that a planned economy in the Soviet Union didn't take off like a jet plane and so enjoy the grand successes of all the other planned economies of the world?
actually it is. our ancestors, with their support of what their governments were doing, had provided the grounds for the huge invasion of the budding revolution, and subsequent militarization of the world - to zero benefit for you and me.
there is nothing wrong with collective decision making. in capitalist system, actually, the collective is let with the decision making - the 'market'. so nothing is too different. however, with capitalism, there is the opportunity for a minority to control majority with majority being able to claim no legal right on what is happening - due to the concept of ownership. in a planned economy, at least citizens would have the inalienable legal right.
when it came out that they paid pc manufacturers to not use its competitor's cpus. or, when it came out that flat-panel lcd manufacturers fixed prices in usa.
all they got was a small 'fine' compared to the profits they made from the deal. aaaaand - voila - other companies did similar things too. why not just pay $21 million fine, making hundreds of millions or even billions in the process ?
if intel got a major hit, other companies would not dare doing the same. but see, they made PROFIT out of their bastardry, and voila - there are others doing that too !
cant. the socially irresponsible ones will gain more wealth which they will use in undoing any kind of limitation you attempt on them.
Otherwise we will just reinvent the centrally planned economy that was practiced in the Soviet Union..
there was nothing wrong with that centrally planned economy apart from entirety of it being arranged and planned not for well being of its citizens, but for militarization. and its hard to blame them for that - the moment revolution happened, 'leader of the free world', 'democratic' great britain landed in russia, leading 18 nations in an attempt to reinstitute the monarchy. they failed, and this time resorted to funding civil war. they failed, but succeeded in effecting paranoid-schizophrenic militarist factions taking power in soviet union. a natural result of continual attacks.
it didnt get any better during 1930s-40s, with psychopath nazis attempting to destroy what they see as a threat again. and it didnt get any better after thw war either - this time there was an alliance of 'free nations' which blockaded the entire soviet bloc with increasingly destructive weapons. not surprisingly, in socialist enternational of 1960, soviet union declared that they were going to dedicate themselves to surpassing entire west militarily and in space race, in order to not be left behind.
so you see, that planned economy didnt have even a decade of chance to be geared for, and work for the benefit and enjoyment of ordinary citizens. it always had to work for military purposes, and its sole purpose was what the 'free' 'democratic' nations of the west had done to budding revolution circa 1917 and on.
to see what happens when bloodthirsty countries do not land on your shores or meddle in your affairs, you can look at social democracies of scandinavian countries.
The reason our society works is a combination of a socialist democracy and an ultimately wealthy state, combined with a very low population
this.
this means, you are not just materialistic or self centered as much as the ones in america. if you were, your society would just like be america.
I often invite professional, middle-class westerners to come work in Norway
beats immigrants from middle east, but still, professional middle class westerners will carry over their societal mindset to norway - including self centricism of america. which would be ultimately far worse in the end.
you should stop accepting immigrants from middle east.
"We need to balance our capitalistic nature with some form of societal responsibility."
with the above.... in a system in which only the most ruthless ones can survive and undo others, you cannot talk about social responsibility. at the point you become socially responsible, the shareholders, who have no obligation to morality, will pull their money from your company and invest it in socially irresponsible ones to make money.
this is the fault of capitalism. it cannot be fixed without totally changing capitalism to something that is not capitalism anymore.
I very much doubt that any contributor to slashdot is a biblethumping, gun-toting redneck
this shows that your view of threat to any kind of egalitarian, prosperous, social society is just too shallow and short sighted. precisely fitting of a norwegian who has lived in a relatively harmonious and socially conscious society.
'biblethumping, gun toting rednecks' are just the bottom layer of what the philosophy and self-centricism in america produces. and, they are not the ones doing the production either - the very 'educated' people with their philosophy of furthering of self-interest at the cost of social conscience, and as a result, other people, are the ones producing the environment to breed those people.
the culture of 'me me me, my my my, mine mine mine', supported by the belief that 'everything will SOMEhow work out' even if you are totally socially irresponsible, is what produced today's america.
inviting the people who produced this environment with their mindset, would just be the invitation for the same environment in your own country.
Having seen a similar process happening at a political party, I strongly advise against it. Certain people will demand to know every last dollar you spend and everybody will be a critic of your expenses. As long as you're asking for money some people see it as justification to grope deeply into your personal life.
it is already foreseen when you engage in such an endeavor.
and there are no problems about anything you mentioned. i dont see any issues in justifying my spending, for example. and it is definite that a lot of discussions regarding the disparage in between income and spending of people everywhere would come up. and it actually should, too.
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and age of enlightenment. First, age of enlightenment doesnt start well into 18th century.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Age_of_Enlightenment
second, precursors of age of enlightenment that are recounted in the above article were already there, starting with early pioneers like erasmus, and going into spinoza, long before charles ii and 1660.
please dont make up ahistoric shit to back up loose arguments.
llano low end notebooks are able to play starcraft 2.
there is no relevance of declaration of independence to the basis of your culture or nation ?
I also really don't see the market for AMD's APU offerings I think part of the reason that Intel invests so little in the integrated graphics on their desktop chips is precisely because there is so little interest beyond basic 2D, HTPC and very light gaming usage. For anything else, users are going to buy a dedicated graphics card.
if you are unable to see that, then dont go deciding what is troll and what is not.
i just had to advice approx 2 guild members because they had to upgrade their outdated hardware in order to be able to play swtor with full settings. they cant buy desktops due to mobility requirements, and they dont have the finances to shell out on a high end gaming laptop.
there is that market for amd's apu offerings. a low end notebook can play starcraft 2. situation wont be too different in desktop - people will readily shell out cpu+gpu in one shot instead of paying almost 40% more for cpu and dedicated graphics, and power users will buy the cpugpu, and then buy 2 more cards to run in 16x 4x 4x crossfire - which would be 30% more expensive to do in current cpu + 3 cards route.
these people are not ordinary citizens, and they intend to make this into a law.
as in the capability of a private corporation being able to lock down your computer remotely from somewhere on the internet. thats what intel plans. ah, i forgot the built-in drm to offer you 'better content delivery'.
anyone who vies for such 'features' translates into 'moron' in my dictionary.
really ? this is outright violation of first amendment of the constitution your country is based upon. these representatives can propose and attempt such a thing. when does the 'right to revolt against tyranny' in your constitution gets invoked ? never ?
if, the board you have is crossfire capable, and the generations match each other (it has to be in XXYY range and first XXes must match from what i know, but exceptions are possible), ati catalyst control center will see that you have crossfire possibility, and it may auto enable it. you may enable crossfire, or disable it. with windows 7 and vision control center more customizations may be possible, however if you consider that hardware acceleration is even used for web page rendering in firefox, you would probably leave it on all the time.
get a llano. get another 6xxx radeon. yet get ANOTHER 6xxx radeon. you got a 3 way crossfire.
you were speaking of performance ?
http://pente.hubpages.com/hub/AMD-Fusion-APU-Processor-Specifications
for its possible to play starcraft 2 with that shit, even on a low end portable if it has the llano.
in a desktop, you can even crossfire it with its equivalent 6xxx card, therefore reaching major performance for ridiculous price.
if you went with a traditional route, you would need to get the cpu, and then get a separate 6xxx equivalent card, and then one more to do the crossfire.
llano pieces give you 1 good cpu and 1 good graphics card in one shot, and in future they will be upgradeable. you will be able to upgrade both the cpu and 'graphics card' of your rig by upgrading just 1 piece of hardware.
then all apple fanbois would converge in known places we can avoid.
, government software regulations force developers to pay off entities that evaluate your code and verify it conforms to published standards
that worked very well with the rating agencies in finance ....
There are software patents in us of a. Inevitably any regulation you put forth for ensuring quality of code in software will be hampered by privately owned patents taken related to whatever practice/format you were requiring. You cant talk about any kind of regulation for quality of anything or good practices in such an environment.
thats a bigger belief and wishful thinking than anything else.
And is it really the fault of everyone else that a planned economy in the Soviet Union didn't take off like a jet plane and so enjoy the grand successes of all the other planned economies of the world?
actually it is. our ancestors, with their support of what their governments were doing, had provided the grounds for the huge invasion of the budding revolution, and subsequent militarization of the world - to zero benefit for you and me.
there is nothing wrong with collective decision making. in capitalist system, actually, the collective is let with the decision making - the 'market'. so nothing is too different. however, with capitalism, there is the opportunity for a minority to control majority with majority being able to claim no legal right on what is happening - due to the concept of ownership. in a planned economy, at least citizens would have the inalienable legal right.
Customers are being bitches to the agreements and schemes made in between corporations, totally without their participation or will.
when it came out that they paid pc manufacturers to not use its competitor's cpus. or, when it came out that flat-panel lcd manufacturers fixed prices in usa.
all they got was a small 'fine' compared to the profits they made from the deal. aaaaand - voila - other companies did similar things too. why not just pay $21 million fine, making hundreds of millions or even billions in the process ?
if intel got a major hit, other companies would not dare doing the same. but see, they made PROFIT out of their bastardry, and voila - there are others doing that too !
WE are, sir ... we are.
Or just put tax on socially irresponsible things.
cant. the socially irresponsible ones will gain more wealth which they will use in undoing any kind of limitation you attempt on them.
Otherwise we will just reinvent the centrally planned economy that was practiced in the Soviet Union..
there was nothing wrong with that centrally planned economy apart from entirety of it being arranged and planned not for well being of its citizens, but for militarization. and its hard to blame them for that - the moment revolution happened, 'leader of the free world', 'democratic' great britain landed in russia, leading 18 nations in an attempt to reinstitute the monarchy. they failed, and this time resorted to funding civil war. they failed, but succeeded in effecting paranoid-schizophrenic militarist factions taking power in soviet union. a natural result of continual attacks.
it didnt get any better during 1930s-40s, with psychopath nazis attempting to destroy what they see as a threat again. and it didnt get any better after thw war either - this time there was an alliance of 'free nations' which blockaded the entire soviet bloc with increasingly destructive weapons. not surprisingly, in socialist enternational of 1960, soviet union declared that they were going to dedicate themselves to surpassing entire west militarily and in space race, in order to not be left behind.
so you see, that planned economy didnt have even a decade of chance to be geared for, and work for the benefit and enjoyment of ordinary citizens. it always had to work for military purposes, and its sole purpose was what the 'free' 'democratic' nations of the west had done to budding revolution circa 1917 and on.
to see what happens when bloodthirsty countries do not land on your shores or meddle in your affairs, you can look at social democracies of scandinavian countries.
The reason our society works is a combination of a socialist democracy and an ultimately wealthy state, combined with a very low population
this.
this means, you are not just materialistic or self centered as much as the ones in america. if you were, your society would just like be america.
I often invite professional, middle-class westerners to come work in Norway
beats immigrants from middle east, but still, professional middle class westerners will carry over their societal mindset to norway - including self centricism of america. which would be ultimately far worse in the end.
you should stop accepting immigrants from middle east.
"We need to balance our capitalistic nature with some form of societal responsibility."
with the above .... in a system in which only the most ruthless ones can survive and undo others, you cannot talk about social responsibility. at the point you become socially responsible, the shareholders, who have no obligation to morality, will pull their money from your company and invest it in socially irresponsible ones to make money.
this is the fault of capitalism. it cannot be fixed without totally changing capitalism to something that is not capitalism anymore.
I very much doubt that any contributor to slashdot is a biblethumping, gun-toting redneck
this shows that your view of threat to any kind of egalitarian, prosperous, social society is just too shallow and short sighted. precisely fitting of a norwegian who has lived in a relatively harmonious and socially conscious society.
'biblethumping, gun toting rednecks' are just the bottom layer of what the philosophy and self-centricism in america produces. and, they are not the ones doing the production either - the very 'educated' people with their philosophy of furthering of self-interest at the cost of social conscience, and as a result, other people, are the ones producing the environment to breed those people.
the culture of 'me me me, my my my, mine mine mine', supported by the belief that 'everything will SOMEhow work out' even if you are totally socially irresponsible, is what produced today's america.
inviting the people who produced this environment with their mindset, would just be the invitation for the same environment in your own country.
you tell me to fuck off, yet you have invited hordes of americans who would totally screw your country in the way america is screwed. contradiction.
Having seen a similar process happening at a political party, I strongly advise against it. Certain people will demand to know every last dollar you spend and everybody will be a critic of your expenses. As long as you're asking for money some people see it as justification to grope deeply into your personal life.
it is already foreseen when you engage in such an endeavor.
and there are no problems about anything you mentioned. i dont see any issues in justifying my spending, for example. and it is definite that a lot of discussions regarding the disparage in between income and spending of people everywhere would come up. and it actually should, too.
i mean covering all kinds of life expenses of someone who is working on a community project. not just project costs.