Only time I see it these days, in 10.6 anyway, is when the hard drive s being thrashed for some reason.
I just had a beech ball while trying to install some drivers, however I had just altered a bunch of kext files and kextd was working hard away, with 500+ I/O's a second to my little 2.5inch hard drive.
Ok, but you have a physical copy that hasn't been compressed to 256kb/s or lower MP3/ACC files, the disc will last hundreds if not thousands of years, and best of all you can do whatever you want with it.
CD's are cheaper in the UK than downloads. £5-£7 for the CD album, whereas on iTunes it can be £6.99 to £8.99. I think it is great he USA have matched our prices.
Plans for the new HS2 line were unveiled this week for the UK. 9 years of planning so far, start build date hopefully 2018, finish date 2025. This is only for the first phase to link London to Birmingham. China does the whole thing in 10 years.
Ahh, we are so slow in the UK for infrastructure projects.
Similar packages, one game, one controller (except Wii has a MotionPlus added), Wii in the UK is £170, Xbox 360 £200. They are not massively different in price, yes, however they used to be. That is when Xbox lost market share, and it' going to be hard to play catchup. PS3 is now more reasonable, but still the most expensive out of the three.
Exactly. When the PS3 launched here in the UK, it was £425 ($827 at the time), and the Wii was ~£130. Okay, you can get a PS3 now for £250, but the original PS3 even out-priced many serious gamers, you could forget the PS3 being a Christmas gift for most kids too.
New release games are also expensive on the PS3, £39 to £49, compared to Wii's £25 to £35 price ranges.
Only if you have the latest generation of MacBook Pro's.
I have a 2007 MBP, there is no hardware acceleration for H.264 in Mac OS X. 720p Flash uses up almost all of my CPU power, H.264 when played in Quicktime or Mplayer for example, consumes around 10%.
My older iMac G5 cannot even play 320p flash video, but is almost fine with Mplayer playing 720p content.
Really? Last time I looked at something like a Blackberry Curve or Bold, half of the device is the keyboard, therefore the screen has to be made half the size. Nokia have some flip out keyboards, but they make the phone incredibly thick and they can break easily.
We Live in Public is a movie worth watching. The movie documentary follows Josh Harris, who became a dot com millionaire, he did some crazy art projects when he was rich, it then follows how he lost all his money and what he did afterwards. From IMDB:
On the 40th anniversary of the Internet, WE LIVE IN PUBLIC tells the story of the effect the web is having on our society as seen through the eyes of "the greatest Internet pioneer you've never heard of", visionary Josh Harris. Award-winning director, Ondi Timoner ("DIG!"), documented his tumultuous life for more than a decade, to create a riveting, cautionary tale of what to expect as the virtual world inevitably takes control of our lives. Josh Harris, often called the "Warhol of the Web" through the infamous dot.com boom of the 1990's, founded Pseudo.com, the first Internet television network and created his vision of the future, an underground bunker in NYC where 100 people lived together on camera for 30 days over the millennium. He proved how in the not-so-distant future of life online, we will willingly trade our privacy for the connection and recognition we all deeply desire. Through his experiments, including a six-month stint living under 24-hour live surveillance online which led him to mental collapse, he demonstrated the price we will all pay for living in public.
Another reason this sounds like BS: billions of dollars are being invested to meet the 35mpg CAFE standard by 2020 [autoblog.com]. When Congress was talking about requiring 32mpg by 2015 it was estimated it would cost $47 billion dollars [msn.com] to reach that goal: "For the auto industry, it will be costly; the Transportation Department last year estimated that requiring the industry to meet 31.6 mpg by 2015 would cost nearly $47 billion."
I think that isn't a technological problem, we [in Europe at least] have cars that can exceed this quite easily. It's a social problem, which the Americans need to sort.
You do not need a 3.5l, 2.5 ton pickup truck just to drive to your office job. A 1.4l or 1.6l hatchback will get you 35-40mpg easily.
Apple have MacPorts if you want a UNIX type SPM. I'd love a desktop SPM like the App Store, however it will need to be more open, perhaps allowing other repositories to hook in to it too.
I've been waiting five years for BT in the UK to fix my line. I can still sometimes hear other people making phone calls, and signal to noise ratio on my ADSL line varies by 10-12dB throughout the day. ADSL2+ is not an option as my line to the exchange is too noisy, I have to live with my 2.5Mb/s line for another ten plus years until they put fibre to the kerb.
I once bought a Lexar 4GB USB flash drive from a major online store. When it arrived and I plugged it in, it was a 16MB flash drive within a Lexar case.
Fake USB flash drives seem not to be uncommon. I have heard it happen to some of my friends too.
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You also need to make a choice to install the ballot system. It's an optional update, and the user has to manually find it.
I agree. It should be a day to celebrate in America.
Only time I see it these days, in 10.6 anyway, is when the hard drive s being thrashed for some reason.
I just had a beech ball while trying to install some drivers, however I had just altered a bunch of kext files and kextd was working hard away, with 500+ I/O's a second to my little 2.5inch hard drive.
Ok, but you have a physical copy that hasn't been compressed to 256kb/s or lower MP3/ACC files, the disc will last hundreds if not thousands of years, and best of all you can do whatever you want with it.
CD's are cheaper in the UK than downloads. £5-£7 for the CD album, whereas on iTunes it can be £6.99 to £8.99. I think it is great he USA have matched our prices.
What happens when they hit 11?
I have a passive RFID chip in my arm from a university project. It sets the alarms off in H&M when I walk in and out of the store. :D
Second link to Wired today. I smell something fishy...
kdawson, the google page link links to a blank google news page.
Plans for the new HS2 line were unveiled this week for the UK. 9 years of planning so far, start build date hopefully 2018, finish date 2025. This is only for the first phase to link London to Birmingham. China does the whole thing in 10 years.
Ahh, we are so slow in the UK for infrastructure projects.
I was watching Sky News today and the tech correspondent reported it was 25 years ago since Tim Burners-Lee invented the Internet. Ugh.
https://twitter.com/simonhowes/status/10514026928
"Welcome to the new United Kingdom"
There, corrected it for you.
Similar packages, one game, one controller (except Wii has a MotionPlus added), Wii in the UK is £170, Xbox 360 £200. They are not massively different in price, yes, however they used to be. That is when Xbox lost market share, and it' going to be hard to play catchup. PS3 is now more reasonable, but still the most expensive out of the three.
The Playstation Move starts at $100, I fail to see how the Wii is more expensive for the peripherals.
Exactly. When the PS3 launched here in the UK, it was £425 ($827 at the time), and the Wii was ~£130. Okay, you can get a PS3 now for £250, but the original PS3 even out-priced many serious gamers, you could forget the PS3 being a Christmas gift for most kids too.
New release games are also expensive on the PS3, £39 to £49, compared to Wii's £25 to £35 price ranges.
Only if you have the latest generation of MacBook Pro's.
I have a 2007 MBP, there is no hardware acceleration for H.264 in Mac OS X. 720p Flash uses up almost all of my CPU power, H.264 when played in Quicktime or Mplayer for example, consumes around 10%.
My older iMac G5 cannot even play 320p flash video, but is almost fine with Mplayer playing 720p content.
I think it's after twelfty.
Really? Last time I looked at something like a Blackberry Curve or Bold, half of the device is the keyboard, therefore the screen has to be made half the size. Nokia have some flip out keyboards, but they make the phone incredibly thick and they can break easily.
We Live in Public is a movie worth watching. The movie documentary follows Josh Harris, who became a dot com millionaire, he did some crazy art projects when he was rich, it then follows how he lost all his money and what he did afterwards. From IMDB:
On the 40th anniversary of the Internet, WE LIVE IN PUBLIC tells the story of the effect the web is having on our society as seen through the eyes of "the greatest Internet pioneer you've never heard of", visionary Josh Harris. Award-winning director, Ondi Timoner ("DIG!"), documented his tumultuous life for more than a decade, to create a riveting, cautionary tale of what to expect as the virtual world inevitably takes control of our lives. Josh Harris, often called the "Warhol of the Web" through the infamous dot.com boom of the 1990's, founded Pseudo.com, the first Internet television network and created his vision of the future, an underground bunker in NYC where 100 people lived together on camera for 30 days over the millennium. He proved how in the not-so-distant future of life online, we will willingly trade our privacy for the connection and recognition we all deeply desire. Through his experiments, including a six-month stint living under 24-hour live surveillance online which led him to mental collapse, he demonstrated the price we will all pay for living in public.
Another reason this sounds like BS: billions of dollars are being invested to meet the 35mpg CAFE standard by 2020 [autoblog.com]. When Congress was talking about requiring 32mpg by 2015 it was estimated it would cost $47 billion dollars [msn.com] to reach that goal: "For the auto industry, it will be costly; the Transportation Department last year estimated that requiring the industry to meet 31.6 mpg by 2015 would cost nearly $47 billion."
I think that isn't a technological problem, we [in Europe at least] have cars that can exceed this quite easily. It's a social problem, which the Americans need to sort.
You do not need a 3.5l, 2.5 ton pickup truck just to drive to your office job. A 1.4l or 1.6l hatchback will get you 35-40mpg easily.
My Peugeot car does 50mpg.
Apple have MacPorts if you want a UNIX type SPM. I'd love a desktop SPM like the App Store, however it will need to be more open, perhaps allowing other repositories to hook in to it too.
I pay £10 a month to O2 and have a unlimited 3G data plan, I get HSDPA+ (3.75G) too.
Desktop computer != workstation grade hardware.
It is a "tier 1" platform, so yes.
Forget Linux, market is too small, there are too many distros, video and audio isn't stable enough... just ready the previous 300 comments.
I've been waiting five years for BT in the UK to fix my line. I can still sometimes hear other people making phone calls, and signal to noise ratio on my ADSL line varies by 10-12dB throughout the day. ADSL2+ is not an option as my line to the exchange is too noisy, I have to live with my 2.5Mb/s line for another ten plus years until they put fibre to the kerb.
I once bought a Lexar 4GB USB flash drive from a major online store. When it arrived and I plugged it in, it was a 16MB flash drive within a Lexar case.
Fake USB flash drives seem not to be uncommon. I have heard it happen to some of my friends too.