Even if the energy to covert matter into anti-matter is more than we get out in the reverse process, it might be a very high-density way of storing energy for later use.
I've tried the 1.5TB Barracuda in an Xserve with a Raid-controller, putting three in a Raid5. Don't know if the fault lies in the drive or in the Xserve, but there's a definite incompatibility. Most of the time drive 2 will drop out of the Raid at boot, both cold-boot and warm-boot. Tried exchanging the drive, move the drives around, exchanging the Raid-controller, different versions of the OS, same problem no matter what. Works perfectly with 700GB or 80GB drives.
The same 1.5TB-drives work perfectly in the PC's and USB-cabinets I've tried.
If nobody buy, they'll have to lower their prices. Naturally, they keep as high prices as possible while still selling, just like they do at retail.
Today, games at retail are too expensive. If companies like Epic want my money, they'll have to lower their prices, or I'll look for their software at second-hand instead. If second-hand markets want my money, they'll have to keep reasonable prices, or I'll simply not buy the game at all.
Anyone who make stuff and make money by selling this, loose potential income when this is resold later, instead of scrapped. Why should entertainment software be set aside as a special case?
While popular music is acceptable at 128kbps with recent encoders, certain niche music genres like spectralist music clearly suffer at low bitrates.
This isn't about high versus low bitrate or how well different kinds of music is encoded at a certain bitrate. It's about how well different encoders do at identical bitrates on an identical piece of music.
An encoder that is lousy at encoding the latest hits at 128kbps will most probably also be lousy at encoding symphonic music at 128kbps. It will probably also be lousy at 320kbps, though it will not be as apparent, since you get diminished returns.
With pieces like Per Norgard's Symphony No. 3 or Grisey's Les espaces acoustiques you can easily hear the difference between 256kbps and the original CD-quality on even average headphones or speakers.
Have you tried tweaking the filter-settings? Many mp3-encoders do some fairly aggressive filtering at the high end of the spectrum in order to preserve bits. Makes for better quality on most music, but some suffer horribly.
They're not "white", so they're not accepted by "white" racist. They're not "black", so they're not accepted by "black" racist.
This goes for anyone who lack a pure ethnic belonging. Intolerant, retarded people of that group will not accept anyone who is of another or mixed ethnic belonging. In the eyes of these kind of people, mixed belongings can even be worse, since this often is regarded as a kind of betrayal to their "people".
Nobody ever suggested you could run anything on an iPhone, and that makes it no different that most of the other cellular phone devices out there.
No, but the fact that Apple has both the capability and the will to control what they let their customers put on their phones doesn't mean that this isn't a very, very user-hostile move by Apple.
On every phone I've ever owned, I could run any compatible software I wanted. Iphone is the only phone I've seen where the manufacturer say "Sorry. We will not allow you to run this software on your phone, even though it is compatible, useful and does no harm."
The biggest problem when combating virus and malware isn't eventual security hole in the OS. It's the user.
A anti-virus software can, to some extent, protect a user from his/her own actions when he/she circumvents the inbuilt OS protections and starts malware with administrator or root privileges. No OS nor anti-virus software can totally protect someone who can gain such access to a computer.
If you give a user very limited access to the system, even Windows is quite safe.
One of the reasons the average person does not know what K is, is because they're never expected to know it.
If everyone stopped using Celsius or Fahrenheit in situations where Kelvin would better suited, people would have to actually remember the Kelvin-scale from school-physics or take a minute out of their lives to find out what the Kelvin-scale is.
I've always disliked when someone states that "X is one hundred times less than Y".
It should be "X is 0.01 times Y", "X is one hundredth of Y" or "X is Y divided by one hundred". Much simpler, sounds better and avoids any possible confusion.
If the article had stated "A temperature about 0.01 times the temperature of intergalactic space", it would have avoided this misconception.
A one to one, off site disk-duplication is only a disaster-backup. You can still make an archive-backup to disk, but you'll use as much data-space as with a tape-backup. If you need fifty 800GB tapes to keep a good tape-backup, you'll need 40TB disk-space to be sure that you can keep the same backup-scheme to disk.
I have had "high end" sony Viao laptops and they are utter crap in build quality and design.
Dell and Sony has always felt low quality to me, even in their high end mobile workstations. Get a high end laptop from the HP or Lenovo professional series. They're sturdier, higher quality, higher performance, have both trackpoints and trackpads and have much cleaner and nicer design than the laptops from Apple. And they don't say "boing" when you start them up, even if you forgot to mute before turning the machine off. =P
The downsides are that they weigh and cost more than a high end Apple-laptop.
If you can't live with their terms of service, don't use their service.
If you can't live with giving such a company your money, don't buy their product.
Personally, I'm still using my old PS2 since there hasn't been any games released for the PS3, XB360 or Wii that motivate the price they're asking. I usually don't whine about it, I simply don't buy their products. The terms of service on their network doesn't really bother me, since I wouldn't use it even if I got a PS3, but I can see how it would deter some people, or at least lower how much they're willing to pay for such a service.
Unrestricted service = High value Restricted service = Low value
In order to mount a revolution in a country with a modern army, you'd either have to get the army on your side first or manage to get another country with a modern army to support your revolution.
There are lots of non-Apple computers with Firewire. Buying one of those also leaves a lot more left to be spent on the software needed.
That Apple's are better for music is a myth these days. Most of the important software's are available on both platforms, which means that the OS has become more or less irrelevant, as it should be. It's just something to put your tools, the applications, on. Whether it has a fluffy interface or not makes no difference.
then firewire versus USB could be the difference between a 2 minute transfer and a 15 minute transfer
That's only if you choose between USB2 and FW800. FW400 isn't really faster than USB2 for mass-storage devices anymore. That was mostly due to a combination of bad drivers and slow CPU's, especially apparent in pre-10.4 OS X.
Anyway, the thing you want to use for external drives today is neither FW nor USB. It's ESATA.
And yes, I know there are keyboard attachments of various kinds for the consoles, but have any of them ever really taken off? They defeat the purpose of the console.
How about them there keyboards and mice that attaches via usb? They're pretty popular amongst computer-users, why wouldn't they become popular amongst console-users if game-makers took the time to actually add sane support for such devices? The various keyboard attachments you mention have usually been proprietary, expensive, low quality and unsupported. With usb, you remove all weaknesses except for "unsupported".
The main strength of consoles is the "instant play" capability. Adding a keyboard as a possible game-controller doesn't alter this.
The funniest thing about that commercial is that today, Macs are "IBM-compatibles". =) Well, not 100%, at least not without a BIOS-emulating bootloader, but still.
The only real difference between an Apple PC and a non-Apple PC, is how legal and how well OS X runs on them.
In other words, they've patented the specific implementation of a dock that they have in OS X. Not a dock as a GUI element, which certainly predate OS X.
I wonder thought... How long after a certain implementation of something is released into the wild can you still patent it? If I make implementation X of an idea, then wait a decade and then patent it... Does this patent cover all other similar implementations of this idea that has come in the meanwhile.
There are docks out there that try to look as much alike the OS X dock as possible. They've been around many years. Will these now fall under this patent, even though they predate the patent?
Yes. But I prefer my decoders, and other software, to be small and unintrusive. No tray-icons, update agents, services running, or other things loading at startup/logon. And, of course, some of my dislike of quicktime is simply leftover loathe of the horrible quicktime-player. It has tainted that name. It simply goes against my grain to have anything called "quicktime" installed.
Regarding itunes itself, the main part I don't like is how the interface is designed. As I said earlier, it's simply a personal preference. Some people like X, some people like Y, some people like Z. When it comes to music-players, I'd like something that more or less simply let me navigate the file-hierarchy via the keyboard. Selecting a file should play that file. Selecting a directory should play everything recursively in that directory. Selecting a playlist should play everyting in that playlist. Simple. Fast. Easy to use.
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Even if the energy to covert matter into anti-matter is more than we get out in the reverse process, it might be a very high-density way of storing energy for later use.
And still, 90% of the game is killing some creature for someone or fetching something for someone while walking/riding/flying around at a snails pace.
I've tried the 1.5TB Barracuda in an Xserve with a Raid-controller, putting three in a Raid5.
Don't know if the fault lies in the drive or in the Xserve, but there's a definite incompatibility.
Most of the time drive 2 will drop out of the Raid at boot, both cold-boot and warm-boot.
Tried exchanging the drive, move the drives around, exchanging the Raid-controller, different versions of the OS, same problem no matter what.
Works perfectly with 700GB or 80GB drives.
The same 1.5TB-drives work perfectly in the PC's and USB-cabinets I've tried.
If nobody buy, they'll have to lower their prices.
Naturally, they keep as high prices as possible while still selling, just like they do at retail.
Today, games at retail are too expensive.
If companies like Epic want my money, they'll have to lower their prices, or I'll look for their software at second-hand instead.
If second-hand markets want my money, they'll have to keep reasonable prices, or I'll simply not buy the game at all.
Anyone who make stuff and make money by selling this, loose potential income when this is resold later, instead of scrapped. Why should entertainment software be set aside as a special case?
How is rolling up cows, humans, islands, etc, into big balls and then throwing them into space to make stars out of them, not violent? =)
While popular music is acceptable at 128kbps with recent encoders, certain niche music genres like spectralist music clearly suffer at low bitrates.
This isn't about high versus low bitrate or how well different kinds of music is encoded at a certain bitrate.
It's about how well different encoders do at identical bitrates on an identical piece of music.
An encoder that is lousy at encoding the latest hits at 128kbps will most probably also be lousy at encoding symphonic music at 128kbps.
It will probably also be lousy at 320kbps, though it will not be as apparent, since you get diminished returns.
With pieces like Per Norgard's Symphony No. 3 or Grisey's Les espaces acoustiques you can easily hear the difference between 256kbps and the original CD-quality on even average headphones or speakers.
Have you tried tweaking the filter-settings?
Many mp3-encoders do some fairly aggressive filtering at the high end of the spectrum in order to preserve bits.
Makes for better quality on most music, but some suffer horribly.
Obama is technically interracial.
They have even more to worry about.
They're not "white", so they're not accepted by "white" racist.
They're not "black", so they're not accepted by "black" racist.
This goes for anyone who lack a pure ethnic belonging. Intolerant, retarded people of that group will not accept anyone who is of another or mixed ethnic belonging.
In the eyes of these kind of people, mixed belongings can even be worse, since this often is regarded as a kind of betrayal to their "people".
Nobody ever suggested you could run anything on an iPhone, and that makes it no different that most of the other cellular phone devices out there.
No, but the fact that Apple has both the capability and the will to control what they let their customers put on their phones doesn't mean that this isn't a very, very user-hostile move by Apple.
On every phone I've ever owned, I could run any compatible software I wanted.
Iphone is the only phone I've seen where the manufacturer say "Sorry. We will not allow you to run this software on your phone, even though it is compatible, useful and does no harm."
The biggest problem when combating virus and malware isn't eventual security hole in the OS.
It's the user.
A anti-virus software can, to some extent, protect a user from his/her own actions when he/she circumvents the inbuilt OS protections and starts malware with administrator or root privileges.
No OS nor anti-virus software can totally protect someone who can gain such access to a computer.
If you give a user very limited access to the system, even Windows is quite safe.
One of the reasons the average person does not know what K is, is because they're never expected to know it.
If everyone stopped using Celsius or Fahrenheit in situations where Kelvin would better suited, people would have to actually remember the Kelvin-scale from school-physics or take a minute out of their lives to find out what the Kelvin-scale is.
I've always disliked when someone states that "X is one hundred times less than Y".
It should be "X is 0.01 times Y", "X is one hundredth of Y" or "X is Y divided by one hundred".
Much simpler, sounds better and avoids any possible confusion.
If the article had stated "A temperature about 0.01 times the temperature of intergalactic space", it would have avoided this misconception.
A one to one, off site disk-duplication is only a disaster-backup.
You can still make an archive-backup to disk, but you'll use as much data-space as with a tape-backup.
If you need fifty 800GB tapes to keep a good tape-backup, you'll need 40TB disk-space to be sure that you can keep the same backup-scheme to disk.
I have had "high end" sony Viao laptops and they are utter crap in build quality and design.
Dell and Sony has always felt low quality to me, even in their high end mobile workstations.
Get a high end laptop from the HP or Lenovo professional series.
They're sturdier, higher quality, higher performance, have both trackpoints and trackpads and have much cleaner and nicer design than the laptops from Apple. And they don't say "boing" when you start them up, even if you forgot to mute before turning the machine off. =P
The downsides are that they weigh and cost more than a high end Apple-laptop.
And it is actually that easy.
If you can't live with their terms of service, don't use their service.
If you can't live with giving such a company your money, don't buy their product.
Personally, I'm still using my old PS2 since there hasn't been any games released for the PS3, XB360 or Wii that motivate the price they're asking.
I usually don't whine about it, I simply don't buy their products.
The terms of service on their network doesn't really bother me, since I wouldn't use it even if I got a PS3, but I can see how it would deter some people, or at least lower how much they're willing to pay for such a service.
Unrestricted service = High value
Restricted service = Low value
In order to mount a revolution in a country with a modern army, you'd either have to get the army on your side first or manage to get another country with a modern army to support your revolution.
Also, even if you managed to start an armed movement against your government, you'd probably be labeled "Terrorists" and dealt with accordingly.
There are lots of non-Apple computers with Firewire.
Buying one of those also leaves a lot more left to be spent on the software needed.
That Apple's are better for music is a myth these days. Most of the important software's are available on both platforms, which means that the OS has become more or less irrelevant, as it should be. It's just something to put your tools, the applications, on.
Whether it has a fluffy interface or not makes no difference.
Firewire 3200
then firewire versus USB could be the difference between a 2 minute transfer and a 15 minute transfer
That's only if you choose between USB2 and FW800.
FW400 isn't really faster than USB2 for mass-storage devices anymore. That was mostly due to a combination of bad drivers and slow CPU's, especially apparent in pre-10.4 OS X.
Anyway, the thing you want to use for external drives today is neither FW nor USB. It's ESATA.
But Windows 7 is Windows version 6.1, not version 7.0
If W95/98/98SE and ME is version 4 and XP is 5, Vista and W7 is version 6.
And yes, I know there are keyboard attachments of various kinds for the consoles, but have any of them ever really taken off? They defeat the purpose of the console.
How about them there keyboards and mice that attaches via usb? They're pretty popular amongst computer-users, why wouldn't they become popular amongst console-users if game-makers took the time to actually add sane support for such devices?
The various keyboard attachments you mention have usually been proprietary, expensive, low quality and unsupported.
With usb, you remove all weaknesses except for "unsupported".
The main strength of consoles is the "instant play" capability. Adding a keyboard as a possible game-controller doesn't alter this.
The funniest thing about that commercial is that today, Macs are "IBM-compatibles". =)
Well, not 100%, at least not without a BIOS-emulating bootloader, but still.
The only real difference between an Apple PC and a non-Apple PC, is how legal and how well OS X runs on them.
They should have made it:
Hi, I'm OS X.
And I'm Windows.
In other words, they've patented the specific implementation of a dock that they have in OS X. Not a dock as a GUI element, which certainly predate OS X.
I wonder thought... How long after a certain implementation of something is released into the wild can you still patent it?
If I make implementation X of an idea, then wait a decade and then patent it... Does this patent cover all other similar implementations of this idea that has come in the meanwhile.
There are docks out there that try to look as much alike the OS X dock as possible. They've been around many years. Will these now fall under this patent, even though they predate the patent?
Yes. But I prefer my decoders, and other software, to be small and unintrusive.
No tray-icons, update agents, services running, or other things loading at startup/logon.
And, of course, some of my dislike of quicktime is simply leftover loathe of the horrible quicktime-player. It has tainted that name.
It simply goes against my grain to have anything called "quicktime" installed.
Regarding itunes itself, the main part I don't like is how the interface is designed.
As I said earlier, it's simply a personal preference. Some people like X, some people like Y, some people like Z.
When it comes to music-players, I'd like something that more or less simply let me navigate the file-hierarchy via the keyboard. Selecting a file should play that file. Selecting a directory should play everything recursively in that directory. Selecting a playlist should play everyting in that playlist.
Simple. Fast. Easy to use.