Terrible analogy, although it does involve automobiles so you get bonus points making it an "alright" analogy.
The thing is, you can download all the copyrighted material your HDs can possibly hold and no-one will really get hurt.
If all that happened from my driving 125mph on the interstate was that some execs at Sony BMG lost a couple of bucks... man I'd go buy a Z06 and drive 175mph across the country fifty times!
Are you serious? You do know that global warming is caused by trapping heat FROM THE SUN, right? This year has been far colder than usual, and indeed scientists say that it's due to reduced solar activity. You can pump all the CO2 into the atmophere you want, but you'll need to get some heat to retain in the first place.
Soon you'll have to demonstrate that your phone can't be molded into a knife or shuriken before you're allowed through. Nor a nunchaku or brass knuckles, knowing airport security...
Without some regulation, what happens is the gap between the haves and the have-nots increases even further. This isn't good for the economy of a country as a whole, by the way.
There's nothing insightful about your post; it's typical anarchist rhetoric, bound to no historical precedent or foresight.
Let's replace "when your[sic] 18" with "when you've established sufficient trust" (which can happen well before age 18 with good, smart parenting, or not happen at all with bad parenting).
... but in that case wouldn't it also in a way be a win-win for Amazon? They get a guy they want, and he also screws over a competitor a little on the way out?
Meh for real it was a horrid premise to begin with. Humans don't generate energy. The machines would have been less wasteful if they just huddled closely for the warmth of each other's engines. Or rubbed sticks together. Or, you know, made it past the clouds where there's still a freaking sun. Or gone down to the lava below (though since people danced right next to it, maybe it wasn't really hot but just luminescent).
(Maybe that's a reason it took as long as it did to ship as well.) Besides, like you imply, there indeed was pressure to "release it already" since it had been in development so long. Possibly enough pressure that even a killer offer from Amazon didn't really speed things along much more, if at all.
How did you even notice that?? Freaking detective.
Good find, though. US education needs a lot of work, but trying to salvate the disaster that is NCLB by punishing NASA past the duration of his term as president doesn't sound like a good way to do it.
Did it (rain far more radioactive products)? The article you link to says it was actually one of the "cleanest" (in terms of fallout) nuclear detonations ever because it was nearly all fusion.
I wish the "war" kept going because now it will take that much longer for a PROPER "next-gen" format (high-capacity flash cards) to take over. A big honkin DVD (even high capacity) is still way worse than a more durable, smaller medium. In not too long I think people will, instead of taking a DVD booklet to a friend's, will just grab a handful of 32-Gb SD cards, each with an HD movie or two. It would be so much more convenient (compare taking a bunch of Xbox games with you vs. a bunch of DS games).
Is this a study to see how energy *inefficient* a vehicle can be over its lifespan? From manufacturing these vehicles, to the fact that they still take in fossil fuels, to hydrogen giving you not "zero emissions" but water vapor (which functions as a greenhouse gas), to liquid CO2 being stored on-board and then... under an ocean hahah. Car manufacturers would have to be out of their freaking mind to ever go along with this ridiculous idea.
This is all such a BAD IDEA that I'd probably have been happier to read a "researchers develop 30hp 5mpg engine" headline. They may as well spend tax money developing a car that runs on farts, so you gotta eat them "popcorn jellybeans" from Jelly Belly while you're on the move. At least it'd be funny. Plus you'll be using that methane on something useful, like powering your car, instead of warming the planet!
Actually it's pretty freaking cold right now. Excuse me while I buy 100 Hummers.
Well, thing is, if you throw enough hardware at it, Vista becomes rather fast.
The DRM thing... yeah that's just bad and there's nothing else to say about it. It probably doesn't matter most of the time, though.
As for gaming better on XP, I'm not sure. Vista has DX10, which should hopefully give it an advantage down the road. Most games, if you have "current gaming hardware," are going to run just fine on both Vista and XP. I game on my Vista machine and it's great. Yes, I have 3GB of RAM and a 8800 GTS, but I don't imagine better gaming performance if I go to XP with this setup. It'll most likely be about the same.
I agree that Vista would be a better OS if it required a lower minimum amount of resources to run well. But these days I see that as a rather minor issue. I approach it with about the same attitude as "poor fuel economy" in sports cars. Yeah, 550 horsepower means you're spending more on gas, but if you can afford to drive around something like that you ought to have the sense to make sure you can afford the fuel. Something like Vista isn't any different to me right now, since it's not a "must-buy" and more of a "luxury OS" hahah.
As for the PC gaming industry... yeah I'm with you there. I'm a graphics whore and all, but sometimes there's just too much of a trend to say "meh we'll just throw a bigger CPU/GPU at it rather than optimize." And scaling to hardware really needs to be done better.
Well, then you shouldn't even be part of the discussion here, man. If Vista doesn't provide you with anything you need/want, then in saying Vista requires too much firepower you're actually speaking on behalf of other people who do want Vista but don't want to invest in the proper hardware. Well, I'm willing to be most (over 99%) of those folks don't live in a 3rd world country and if they have the means to purchase Vista they can get enough RAM for it as well.
And if you interpret my saying that if you want to run something that requires a hardware upgrade, you ought to make a hardware upgrade as saying "get with the times!" then yeah, get with the times. There's software out there for old machines and for new. If you want to hold on to the old, then don't complain about not being able to run everything.
It's not irrelevant. With enough RAM, Vista is pretty darned fast.
Also what you said after "Irrelevant" is simply incorrect. A program can use very little memory and be extremely slow. It can also use a TON of memory and be extremely fast. And the comment regarding memory cache is what's irrelevant here. Yes overflowing it would cause slowdown. Your point? If you can increase how much memory you have available for caching, which is the point of what I said to begin with, how does this remain an issue?
RAM IS CHEAP, my man! It costs a fraction of the OS, even. Let alone what other upgrades or software purchases you'd likely want to do if you're going so far as to change your OS.
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Terrible analogy, although it does involve automobiles so you get bonus points making it an "alright" analogy.
The thing is, you can download all the copyrighted material your HDs can possibly hold and no-one will really get hurt.
If all that happened from my driving 125mph on the interstate was that some execs at Sony BMG lost a couple of bucks... man I'd go buy a Z06 and drive 175mph across the country fifty times!
Actually, I have a feeling Porsche is going to start complaining about Nissan very soon.
Then why give such bad advice?
Are you serious? You do know that global warming is caused by trapping heat FROM THE SUN, right? This year has been far colder than usual, and indeed scientists say that it's due to reduced solar activity. You can pump all the CO2 into the atmophere you want, but you'll need to get some heat to retain in the first place.
No... but I guess wired and I both CAN'T STOP THINKING ABOUT NINJAS! (Now that line I *did* steal.)
Soon you'll have to demonstrate that your phone can't be molded into a knife or shuriken before you're allowed through. Nor a nunchaku or brass knuckles, knowing airport security...
From me!
Five ninjas do battle against a commando. The commando shoots 2 of them. How many ninjas are left?
Two, because the others ran away!
Har har har!
Without some regulation, what happens is the gap between the haves and the have-nots increases even further. This isn't good for the economy of a country as a whole, by the way.
There's nothing insightful about your post; it's typical anarchist rhetoric, bound to no historical precedent or foresight.
Let's replace "when your[sic] 18" with "when you've established sufficient trust" (which can happen well before age 18 with good, smart parenting, or not happen at all with bad parenting).
... but in that case wouldn't it also in a way be a win-win for Amazon? They get a guy they want, and he also screws over a competitor a little on the way out?
Meh for real it was a horrid premise to begin with. Humans don't generate energy. The machines would have been less wasteful if they just huddled closely for the warmth of each other's engines. Or rubbed sticks together. Or, you know, made it past the clouds where there's still a freaking sun. Or gone down to the lava below (though since people danced right next to it, maybe it wasn't really hot but just luminescent).
I hate those movies a lot.
What competition? XP?
(Maybe that's a reason it took as long as it did to ship as well.) Besides, like you imply, there indeed was pressure to "release it already" since it had been in development so long. Possibly enough pressure that even a killer offer from Amazon didn't really speed things along much more, if at all.
Is teh superior technology!!1! Now excuse me while I sit.
Sincerely,
Nutty McCrazy
If only the machines in The Matrix knew this...
I've already started looking into buying "gravity offsets" and trying to use as much rope, glue, velcro, and static cling as possible.
What? No way bro. The Xbox 360 is actually good. Way better than these figurine things, which are pretty much the antichrist.
How did you even notice that?? Freaking detective.
Good find, though. US education needs a lot of work, but trying to salvate the disaster that is NCLB by punishing NASA past the duration of his term as president doesn't sound like a good way to do it.
Did it (rain far more radioactive products)? The article you link to says it was actually one of the "cleanest" (in terms of fallout) nuclear detonations ever because it was nearly all fusion.
I wish the "war" kept going because now it will take that much longer for a PROPER "next-gen" format (high-capacity flash cards) to take over. A big honkin DVD (even high capacity) is still way worse than a more durable, smaller medium. In not too long I think people will, instead of taking a DVD booklet to a friend's, will just grab a handful of 32-Gb SD cards, each with an HD movie or two. It would be so much more convenient (compare taking a bunch of Xbox games with you vs. a bunch of DS games).
Is this a study to see how energy *inefficient* a vehicle can be over its lifespan? From manufacturing these vehicles, to the fact that they still take in fossil fuels, to hydrogen giving you not "zero emissions" but water vapor (which functions as a greenhouse gas), to liquid CO2 being stored on-board and then... under an ocean hahah. Car manufacturers would have to be out of their freaking mind to ever go along with this ridiculous idea.
This is all such a BAD IDEA that I'd probably have been happier to read a "researchers develop 30hp 5mpg engine" headline. They may as well spend tax money developing a car that runs on farts, so you gotta eat them "popcorn jellybeans" from Jelly Belly while you're on the move. At least it'd be funny. Plus you'll be using that methane on something useful, like powering your car, instead of warming the planet!
Actually it's pretty freaking cold right now. Excuse me while I buy 100 Hummers.
It's the same thing I keep telling Batman: dude I still don't get why a belt should do anything other than hold your pants... err... briefs?... up.
Well, thing is, if you throw enough hardware at it, Vista becomes rather fast.
The DRM thing... yeah that's just bad and there's nothing else to say about it. It probably doesn't matter most of the time, though.
As for gaming better on XP, I'm not sure. Vista has DX10, which should hopefully give it an advantage down the road. Most games, if you have "current gaming hardware," are going to run just fine on both Vista and XP. I game on my Vista machine and it's great. Yes, I have 3GB of RAM and a 8800 GTS, but I don't imagine better gaming performance if I go to XP with this setup. It'll most likely be about the same.
I agree that Vista would be a better OS if it required a lower minimum amount of resources to run well. But these days I see that as a rather minor issue. I approach it with about the same attitude as "poor fuel economy" in sports cars. Yeah, 550 horsepower means you're spending more on gas, but if you can afford to drive around something like that you ought to have the sense to make sure you can afford the fuel. Something like Vista isn't any different to me right now, since it's not a "must-buy" and more of a "luxury OS" hahah.
As for the PC gaming industry... yeah I'm with you there. I'm a graphics whore and all, but sometimes there's just too much of a trend to say "meh we'll just throw a bigger CPU/GPU at it rather than optimize." And scaling to hardware really needs to be done better.
Well, then you shouldn't even be part of the discussion here, man. If Vista doesn't provide you with anything you need/want, then in saying Vista requires too much firepower you're actually speaking on behalf of other people who do want Vista but don't want to invest in the proper hardware. Well, I'm willing to be most (over 99%) of those folks don't live in a 3rd world country and if they have the means to purchase Vista they can get enough RAM for it as well.
And if you interpret my saying that if you want to run something that requires a hardware upgrade, you ought to make a hardware upgrade as saying "get with the times!" then yeah, get with the times. There's software out there for old machines and for new. If you want to hold on to the old, then don't complain about not being able to run everything.
It's not irrelevant. With enough RAM, Vista is pretty darned fast.
Also what you said after "Irrelevant" is simply incorrect. A program can use very little memory and be extremely slow. It can also use a TON of memory and be extremely fast. And the comment regarding memory cache is what's irrelevant here. Yes overflowing it would cause slowdown. Your point? If you can increase how much memory you have available for caching, which is the point of what I said to begin with, how does this remain an issue?
Why? Seriously, why the heck?
RAM IS CHEAP, my man! It costs a fraction of the OS, even. Let alone what other upgrades or software purchases you'd likely want to do if you're going so far as to change your OS.
Don't make me toss a car analogy at you, bro!