And why would anyone choose this model over B, with twice the ram, Ethernet, and a second USB port for a measly 10$ savings?
Because they:
1. Don't care much about that difference
and
2. Buy lots of them in which case it's a saving of not 10$ but 30% - and that's a lot.
I wonder how many
in fact I'd prefer soldered (as long as it had a good fan), since besides heat, the enemy of electronics is corrosion and bad connections.
Problem is, only widespread connection problem I have encountered in the real world is BGA packages breaking off the mobo in laptops. Considering this, I prefer sockets to keep connections intact.
The only values or morality that an AI has is what its creator gives it, and its creator may well be a complete idiot.
You mean just the same way as it happened with humans?...
When my house is made of steel and concrete, it's not on fire
Well, it can be. Around here there are lots of high-rise buildings built of steel-reinforced concrete. Let me tell you: they can burn. Not the concrete, mind you, but all the stuff that's in there, their burning generates enough heat that the fire can spread in the building.
first to file supersedes first to invent
I am again and again surprised by the inability of the Slashdot crowd to grasp such a simple concept as "first to file" and keeping spouting idiotic comments about it.
If you think that "first to X" has anything to do with open source software, you failed to grasp it.
Let me elaborate a little: this firstness only applies when two people/groups try to patent the very same thing at (roughly) the same time. Since open source authors generally do not patent anything, it does not affect them. It also does not affect the prior art rule - if it's already public knowledge, you can't patent it (or at least you should not be able as per the rules).
Actually your comment is a very nice example of what
For what it's worth, he is recommending to handle the problem the same way as bastions of "userfriendliness" and "non-linuxness" (namely the gaming consoles: Xbox, Playstation, Wii) handle it.
Is it just me, or does this thing really looks like four fullHD 42" panels put together in a single frame? Granted, it needs some new electronics to control it, but it does not strike me as something revolutionary, just an application of existing technology.
For power, the thing idles at around 120W, so it's not even that much worse than a modern AMD based system on the power bill
Yes, it is. My A6-3500*-based PC idles under 30 W, full load is around 60 W.
*: 3x2.1 GHz CPU + HD 6530D GPU.
However, in Europe, Amazon is a Luxembourg company and the VAT rate there is 3% for these products.
However, since Amazon is a large retailer, it does not pay VAT in Luxembourg, but in the buyer's country. I would venture to say that most of Amazon's EU customers do not live in Luxembourg so the tax rates there do not mean much.
How did this garbage moderated to +5 insightful when it's a collection of lies and deceiving half-truths?
Just like ABS, traction control, stability control
... they're all just ways of allowing drivers to become stupid, lazy and less involved.
And they are also great ways of avoiding accidents. I prefer being "lazy and less involved" (I fail to see how "stupid" comes into the equation) to being dead or crippled, thankyouverymuch.
We need to stop trying to mitigate stupid drivers and just get rid of stupid drivers
Well, if history is any indication, getting rid of stupid drivers Just Does Not Work(TM) *, while all the stuff to mitigate the dangers does, just look at the steady decline of fatalities per mile travelled
*: furthermore, you personally might be offended by your not being allowed to drive any more, unless you meant to "get rid of all the stupid drivers, but me", of course
Well, if you read a little bit further down you will see that this exemption will expire 30 months after enacting the regulation - but it is mostly moot anyway, since a desktop computer has to satisfy all four of the requirements above to be exempted, so it effects only a very-very small number of computers.
The thing is, the actual, public regulations have very little similarity to the fear-mongering (and certainly click-generating) article on nordichardware. You can check it out yourself: here (pdf).
Also, note, that these regulations are about idle power - and that's an area where some real advancements were made - if AMD's claims are to be believed (3 W in idle with ZeroCore Power), their top-end 7970 GPU's idle power draw is about 10% of the maximum allowed.
The claim that GPUs over a certain bandwith will be banned seems to be absolutely fabricated - it's not something that the regulation's wording or intent or whatever would even hint about.
"Without epub support the thing is worthless to me."
Drama queen too much?
I have a K4 and I have absolutely no idea if it supports epub. I mean, it certainly does in the sense that I can send epubs to it and read that stuff on the Kindle without any problem. But the question that it supports it natively or by converting it during transfer is absolutely irrelevant for me and I guess mostly for everybody.
Genetics explains why you look like your father, and if you don't, why you should.
