I'm running Windows XP Professional w/ SP2. I was running a Connect3D Radeon 9600 for the past 3 years on this computer... half a month ago, I bought myself a Sapphire Radeon X800 GTO (for about $125, I might add). I pulled out my old one, stuck in the new one, and the damn thing wouldn't boot into windows. I was like, "huh?" I had to uninstall the old catalyst driver, THEN take out the old video card, then plug the new video card in before it would work. It was a pain in the ass, tbh. But to call that a marginal upgrade? Hell no. In fact I can run Star Wars Knights of the Old Republic/2 and Elder Scrolls: Oblivion excellently on high settings.
Then a half a week ago I installed a new hard drive, I finally installed a floppy drive... need I say more?
...if it wasn't for the fact that WINDOWS MAKES IT IMPOSSIBLE TO INSTALL NEW HARDWARE IN ONE TRY.
The biggest benefit of a PC over buying something like a Mac was specifically upgrades. The ability to purchase a new video card for a relatively low price when games start requiring more than you can handle, etc. So effectively, this makes the PC lose its greatest benefit. That's absolutely ridiculous.
Fuck you, Microsoft. Some of the other stuff that was new in their license kinda bothered me a bit, but it didn't really affect me much. But I'm a casual gamer, and this makes it impossible.
It really doesn't matter. You're not competing against a world that has never seen a computer before. You're fighting against a world where Windows owns the market share, and Mac OSX is often shunned aside, where Linux is called the nerd OS.
So essentially, Mark Shuttleworth is right. It's not enough to be just barely the best in anything when the market leader has almost all of the market. You have to truly jump miles above the market leader before people will notice. It's unfortunate but true.
How do you think the Apple iPod worked so well? When it came out, nerds said "less space than a Nomad, it's shit." But what happened? If you really compare, the iPod blew the Nomad away in terms of ease of use and beauty. Not to mention marketing, but that's a different story altogether.
Please. We don't even know that the fuck life even is, every year they come out with a new god damn definition. And this definition as such is based fully on life we've seen on earth. Who's to say that there can't be sentient "ghost" beings that are made out of a carbon/oxygen combination? Just because I can't easy recognize the fact that they are living doesn't mean they aren't. It just means we don't know what we're really even looking for.
But the same chemicals also indicate that life was not widespread on the planet at the time the ocean was present.
Whoa whoa whoa... how is that bad news? We're not looking for widespread life, we're looking for life. In general. Any. At all. That sentence implies that there was life, just it wasn't widespread. I think that should have been reworded.
But disregarding that, just because there was a lot of phosphorus in the water doesn't mean that life couldn't exist there. It just means life identical to the structure of life on earth couldn't exist there. Who's to say that life has to be built just the way it is on earth?
We can go watch it in my parents' basement! And afterwards, lets play a nice long game of dungeons and dragons while doing calculus. Whose bringing the ten sided dice this time?
Normally I'd say you have a point, because I agree that the patent system is a load of BS, but at the time in which the patent was filed, I would very much doubt that e-commerce was as "fundamental" as you make it out to be.
Ask your grandfather if he could have forseen people ordering something from his home with the click of a button and have it arrive at his house in the morning.
Agreed. It's not like GPLv3 forces everyone to upgrade from v2. Hell, if there are problems with v2 that aren't being changed by Stallman, I'm sure someone else could come up with a better license anyway and the standard will change. But I don't even see that being a problem.
It's really not as crazy as it sounds, you know. Think of it this way; the cheapest Blu-Ray player you can find on the market is about $1,000. This does not require any real rendering hardware besides that which shows the video on a screen.
The PS3 on the other hand, has the Blu-Ray technology while at the same time uses the Cell multi-core microprocessor and an NVIDIA graphics GPU that is more powerful than a GeForce 7800GTX. One of those graphics cards goes retail at $500 or so.
$400 loss on every $600 PS3 still sound crazy to you?
I think Sony is starting to realize that their business plan of "we'll get the fanboys to buy it" isn't going to win the market for them.
I wonder if they'll do the same thing in the US... although I think that if they were going to, they'd have announced it already. Not like I was gonna buy a PS3 anyway, though. Even the cheaper model is too expensive for me. Nintendo Wii all the way, baby.
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Wrong on just about every account.
I'm running Windows XP Professional w/ SP2. I was running a Connect3D Radeon 9600 for the past 3 years on this computer... half a month ago, I bought myself a Sapphire Radeon X800 GTO (for about $125, I might add). I pulled out my old one, stuck in the new one, and the damn thing wouldn't boot into windows. I was like, "huh?" I had to uninstall the old catalyst driver, THEN take out the old video card, then plug the new video card in before it would work. It was a pain in the ass, tbh. But to call that a marginal upgrade? Hell no. In fact I can run Star Wars Knights of the Old Republic/2 and Elder Scrolls: Oblivion excellently on high settings.
Then a half a week ago I installed a new hard drive, I finally installed a floppy drive... need I say more?
...if it wasn't for the fact that WINDOWS MAKES IT IMPOSSIBLE TO INSTALL NEW HARDWARE IN ONE TRY.
The biggest benefit of a PC over buying something like a Mac was specifically upgrades. The ability to purchase a new video card for a relatively low price when games start requiring more than you can handle, etc. So effectively, this makes the PC lose its greatest benefit. That's absolutely ridiculous.
Fuck you, Microsoft. Some of the other stuff that was new in their license kinda bothered me a bit, but it didn't really affect me much. But I'm a casual gamer, and this makes it impossible.
It really doesn't matter. You're not competing against a world that has never seen a computer before. You're fighting against a world where Windows owns the market share, and Mac OSX is often shunned aside, where Linux is called the nerd OS.
So essentially, Mark Shuttleworth is right. It's not enough to be just barely the best in anything when the market leader has almost all of the market. You have to truly jump miles above the market leader before people will notice. It's unfortunate but true.
How do you think the Apple iPod worked so well? When it came out, nerds said "less space than a Nomad, it's shit." But what happened? If you really compare, the iPod blew the Nomad away in terms of ease of use and beauty. Not to mention marketing, but that's a different story altogether.
Please. We don't even know that the fuck life even is, every year they come out with a new god damn definition. And this definition as such is based fully on life we've seen on earth. Who's to say that there can't be sentient "ghost" beings that are made out of a carbon/oxygen combination? Just because I can't easy recognize the fact that they are living doesn't mean they aren't. It just means we don't know what we're really even looking for.
But disregarding that, just because there was a lot of phosphorus in the water doesn't mean that life couldn't exist there. It just means life identical to the structure of life on earth couldn't exist there. Who's to say that life has to be built just the way it is on earth?
We can go watch it in my parents' basement! And afterwards, lets play a nice long game of dungeons and dragons while doing calculus. Whose bringing the ten sided dice this time?
It's a little cold in hell for this time of year, don't you think?
If you RTFA, it says that in the US, it would be illegal, but the dude lives in Norway, which is why he was acquitted.
Normally I'd say you have a point, because I agree that the patent system is a load of BS, but at the time in which the patent was filed, I would very much doubt that e-commerce was as "fundamental" as you make it out to be.
Ask your grandfather if he could have forseen people ordering something from his home with the click of a button and have it arrive at his house in the morning.
Agreed. It's not like GPLv3 forces everyone to upgrade from v2. Hell, if there are problems with v2 that aren't being changed by Stallman, I'm sure someone else could come up with a better license anyway and the standard will change. But I don't even see that being a problem.
It sounds like a great idea, but think of awkwardness it could come up with once it's fully implimented...
"BEEP BEEP! Time to walk the... oh, I see you're a little busy... I'll remind you in a couple minutes or so... (that IS all you'll need, right?)"
Good luck. It requires Genuine Windows to even install.
I believe he's referring to a year and a half since IE7's development was announced. According to wikipedia, that's about accurate.
It says "good with math means bad with people", not "bad with math means good with people". ;)
If that's the case, a programmer with that much time on his hands probably posts here at slashdot.
It's really not as crazy as it sounds, you know. Think of it this way; the cheapest Blu-Ray player you can find on the market is about $1,000. This does not require any real rendering hardware besides that which shows the video on a screen.
The PS3 on the other hand, has the Blu-Ray technology while at the same time uses the Cell multi-core microprocessor and an NVIDIA graphics GPU that is more powerful than a GeForce 7800GTX. One of those graphics cards goes retail at $500 or so.
$400 loss on every $600 PS3 still sound crazy to you?
I think Sony is starting to realize that their business plan of "we'll get the fanboys to buy it" isn't going to win the market for them.
I wonder if they'll do the same thing in the US... although I think that if they were going to, they'd have announced it already. Not like I was gonna buy a PS3 anyway, though. Even the cheaper model is too expensive for me. Nintendo Wii all the way, baby.
That's what microsoft does :P
Where in the second link does it say that the Gamecube version is also going to be mirrored? I don't see any evidence of that.
Yes, but the point of the article is that because of the ending support for Windows 98, people will switch to Linux. To that, I agree with the parent.
...did we even need another one?
Sources claim the exploits would have been found sooner if any other hackers had the patience to wait for PDFs to load.
Easter eggs? Maybe. Clever or funny? Doubt it. If they took your advice, they would just give you more ads.