Joe sixpack will probably notice the stuttering movement of the exploding cars in his newly bought action flick and tell all his friends that "Player blahdiblah sucks!" even if he doesn't understand that his choice of player/tv/movie combination makes it inevitable that it will stutter.
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Exactly what made me stop playing both WoW and every other online RPG I've tried. They're not challenging. They're repetitive. The difficulty lies in standing the boredom of reaching a certain level, killing a certain amount of something, gaining certain object, reaching a certain reputation, etc, etc. If killing one wolf isn't particularly hard, killing two thousand isn't hard either, just boring.
This is true if comparing different architectures (like the AMD/Intel MHz race) or even the same architecture but wildly huge deltas of clockspeed. If you compare two identical cpus on two identical systems but one clocked at 2GHz and the other one at 3GHz, the clockspeed give a rough indication on their performance relative to each other when doing cpu-dependent stuff. When doing things that aren't cpu-dependent, it indicates that the two systems will perform more or less equal.
Taking the car-analogy, it's like comparing two identical performance cars where one is RPM-capped at 6000RPM and one is capped at 10000RPM. On a straight asphalt-road, the higher capped one will reach a higher top-speed. On a small country road, they will perform equally.
It will be 20% faster, 200% hotter, needs a 300% nosier fan, consumes 500% as much power. Doesn't the "500% as much power" kind of implicate "500% hotter", since it's simply a tweaked top of the line selection of a cpu rather than a completely separate cpu-design? =)
As you might have seen in the other posts, etc, it isn't a *nix bug. It's a firmware "feature" in most 2.5" drives that needs a OS workaround.
But I take your point. Most unix-derivates aren't really ready to be used by the general public unless they can accept the default low-level system settings.
But neither is Windows, really. Hacking around the registry or changing boot-loader-options, etc, isn't something most people should do either.
According to the summary (and TFA) you can combine these 64Gbit chips into a 128GB[yte] device. 1 one-layer DVD ~4.5GB That's still only bout 28 DVDs on one of these though. They probably actually mean "up to 80 high-quality DVD-ripps", since they're much smaller. =)
The MS Outlook license comes with MS Office too. That is, unless you're using the "Home/student" version of MS Office, in which Microsoft has removed it. (BTW, did you know that there are eight (8!) versions of MS Office?) MS Exchange also comes bundled with MS Outlook as a stand-alone application, but if you own MS Office licenses you'd still be able to use MS Office even if you migrated off MS Exchange.
If other OS's do it the Microsoft way, it it still the wrong way.
First you implement and fix basic OS functions, like file copy, etc, so that it works correctly. Then you implement and fix fancy stuff that most people want and use so that it works correctly. Then you implement and fix fancy a few people want and use so that it works correctly. Then you go about implementing and and fixing stuff that almost no one use.
Implementing all at once in a way that doesn't work, then fixing fancy stuff most people use, then fixing basic OS functions, then fixing what a few people use, is the wrong way to go about it.
And managed to land a contract where IBM payed MS per sold machine regardless if MSDOS/QDOS where shipped with it or not, making it more or less impossible for IBM to ship their machines with anything else, thus leading to the MS of today.
George Bush doesn't get a pass for guessing incorrectly on WMD, a CEO doesn't get a pass for bad financials. There is a difference in being wrong when in charge, like Bush or a CEO is, and when you're just someone proposing a hypothesis or theory. If a researcher say "Based on observations, I have a hypothesis that there might be lot's of hurricanes coming since global warming increases the energy stored in the atmosphere and I think that maybe we should be prepared if this happens.", it's totally different than Bush saying "Even though intelligence says otherwise, I think there might be WMD's in Iraq and I'm sending in our troops and everyone who doesn't help us is a terrorist and an enemy of the US!"
Also, since Apple use almost standard x86 hardware these days, with mostly OSX-bondage being the difference, one could compare the NT-class systems, Darwin-class systems, BSD-class systems and Linux-class systems on the same machine =)
I mean - Vista will use more power than Windows XP, OS X will use more power than Mac OS 9. And while on the subject, it would have been nice to have seen a comparison including Windows NT, 2k, XP and Vista at idle and full load on the same machine using the same measuring device.
It wouldn't really be a apples to apples comparison, but it would still be interesting.
The biggest problem with Wii-games, this far anyway, is their "Wow, we got to use the controller in a cool way!" mentality. I don't like the Wii-mote very much and would like to be able to play most games using the GC-controller instead. Is that an option? Mostly, no. Thus I don't play most Wii-games for more than maybe an hour or so before tiering of the damn mote. It's a nice idea as a secondary, voluntary type of controller in some games, but as a main, obligatory controller it sucks.
But the webcam on the back is great. I love it. It's like headgear for handhelds. Want to be the master of geekiness? Look no further my friend: the handheld that neither fits in your hand NOR your pocket! Useless you say? Yes, but it's cool!! My guess is that a market-version of this device would use a surface scanner on the back instead of a cam. =)
Video RAM is no longer using special-purpose VRAM-chips. They use exactly the same kinds of chips that sits on your DDR2- or DDR3-DIMMS and are exactly as reliable as them, unless you're actually using ECC-RAM. A graphics card with intermittent RAM-errors is very noticeable when running 3D-software, like games, Windows Vista, etc) While running a 2D desktop, you might not experience much problems and might not know that you have a defective chip on your graphics-card, but the same it true with a defective chip in your systems main RAM. You could be churning out millions of erroneous calculations every second and not have a clue if running a standard system without ECC-RAM and ECC cpu-caches.
If a reliable source can verify the landing-sites, it's obvious proof that the US government secretly has launched unmanned probes to set up faked landing-sites on the moon. =) Complete with fake moon-boot print makers and all.
What I don't really understand is the lowering of disk-size. The difference in cost between a 40GB drive and a 80GB drive is a few dollars. There is no cost-reducing reason at all for Sony to reduce from 80 to 60, 40 or 20. Maybe if they'd gone from 160 to 60... But this? It's ridiculous.
Does it only do multiplayer gaming, or does it make it possible to use other "live-like" services? Otherwise, it's not really a Live alternative, is it? Just an alternative to tp-cables.
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I'd say that things like the iPhone aren't inventions at all.
The mobile-phone is an invention. A mobile-phone isn't an invention.
Obligatory car-analogy:
The car is an invention.
A Nissan Micra isn't.
Joe sixpack will probably notice the stuttering movement of the exploding cars in his newly bought action flick and tell all his friends that "Player blahdiblah sucks!" even if he doesn't understand that his choice of player/tv/movie combination makes it inevitable that it will stutter.
Exactly what made me stop playing both WoW and every other online RPG I've tried.
They're not challenging. They're repetitive. The difficulty lies in standing the boredom of reaching a certain level, killing a certain amount of something, gaining certain object, reaching a certain reputation, etc, etc.
If killing one wolf isn't particularly hard, killing two thousand isn't hard either, just boring.
This is true if comparing different architectures (like the AMD/Intel MHz race) or even the same architecture but wildly huge deltas of clockspeed.
If you compare two identical cpus on two identical systems but one clocked at 2GHz and the other one at 3GHz, the clockspeed give a rough indication on their performance relative to each other when doing cpu-dependent stuff.
When doing things that aren't cpu-dependent, it indicates that the two systems will perform more or less equal.
Taking the car-analogy, it's like comparing two identical performance cars where one is RPM-capped at 6000RPM and one is capped at 10000RPM.
On a straight asphalt-road, the higher capped one will reach a higher top-speed. On a small country road, they will perform equally.
As you might have seen in the other posts, etc, it isn't a *nix bug.
It's a firmware "feature" in most 2.5" drives that needs a OS workaround.
But I take your point. Most unix-derivates aren't really ready to be used by the general public unless they can accept the default low-level system settings.
But neither is Windows, really. Hacking around the registry or changing boot-loader-options, etc, isn't something most people should do either.
According to the summary (and TFA) you can combine these 64Gbit chips into a 128GB[yte] device.
1 one-layer DVD ~4.5GB
That's still only bout 28 DVDs on one of these though.
They probably actually mean "up to 80 high-quality DVD-ripps", since they're much smaller. =)
No, they trying to find the old US lunar-landers so that they can bring them back and steal all their base!
Compared to lcd or plasma, oled is a cutting edge display-technology, so compared to any other tv in serial production out there it is cutting edge.
The MS Outlook license comes with MS Office too. That is, unless you're using the "Home/student" version of MS Office, in which Microsoft has removed it. (BTW, did you know that there are eight (8!) versions of MS Office?)
MS Exchange also comes bundled with MS Outlook as a stand-alone application, but if you own MS Office licenses you'd still be able to use MS Office even if you migrated off MS Exchange.
If other OS's do it the Microsoft way, it it still the wrong way.
First you implement and fix basic OS functions, like file copy, etc, so that it works correctly.
Then you implement and fix fancy stuff that most people want and use so that it works correctly.
Then you implement and fix fancy a few people want and use so that it works correctly.
Then you go about implementing and and fixing stuff that almost no one use.
Implementing all at once in a way that doesn't work, then fixing fancy stuff most people use, then fixing basic OS functions, then fixing what a few people use, is the wrong way to go about it.
And managed to land a contract where IBM payed MS per sold machine regardless if MSDOS/QDOS where shipped with it or not, making it more or less impossible for IBM to ship their machines with anything else, thus leading to the MS of today.
Vote with your cash; Choose a Laptop from a corporation that let you choose XP, or maybe a Linux-dist if you already own a XP-license.
If a researcher say "Based on observations, I have a hypothesis that there might be lot's of hurricanes coming since global warming increases the energy stored in the atmosphere and I think that maybe we should be prepared if this happens.", it's totally different than Bush saying "Even though intelligence says otherwise, I think there might be WMD's in Iraq and I'm sending in our troops and everyone who doesn't help us is a terrorist and an enemy of the US!"
More like: Remove the particle-filters on coal power-plants. ^_^
Also, since Apple use almost standard x86 hardware these days, with mostly OSX-bondage being the difference, one could compare the NT-class systems, Darwin-class systems, BSD-class systems and Linux-class systems on the same machine =)
Now that would be interesting.
It wouldn't really be a apples to apples comparison, but it would still be interesting.
The biggest problem with Wii-games, this far anyway, is their "Wow, we got to use the controller in a cool way!" mentality.
I don't like the Wii-mote very much and would like to be able to play most games using the GC-controller instead.
Is that an option? Mostly, no. Thus I don't play most Wii-games for more than maybe an hour or so before tiering of the damn mote.
It's a nice idea as a secondary, voluntary type of controller in some games, but as a main, obligatory controller it sucks.
Video RAM is no longer using special-purpose VRAM-chips. They use exactly the same kinds of chips that sits on your DDR2- or DDR3-DIMMS and are exactly as reliable as them, unless you're actually using ECC-RAM.
A graphics card with intermittent RAM-errors is very noticeable when running 3D-software, like games, Windows Vista, etc)
While running a 2D desktop, you might not experience much problems and might not know that you have a defective chip on your graphics-card, but the same it true with a defective chip in your systems main RAM.
You could be churning out millions of erroneous calculations every second and not have a clue if running a standard system without ECC-RAM and ECC cpu-caches.
Well... Two of those on one IDE will make it possible for the bus to be a bottleneck, but that's only under the wrong conditions.
The highly competitive sport of Space Race is always exiting.
If a reliable source can verify the landing-sites, it's obvious proof that the US government secretly has launched unmanned probes to set up faked landing-sites on the moon. =)
Complete with fake moon-boot print makers and all.
For real. No lie.
What I don't really understand is the lowering of disk-size.
The difference in cost between a 40GB drive and a 80GB drive is a few dollars.
There is no cost-reducing reason at all for Sony to reduce from 80 to 60, 40 or 20.
Maybe if they'd gone from 160 to 60... But this? It's ridiculous.
Does it only do multiplayer gaming, or does it make it possible to use other "live-like" services?
Otherwise, it's not really a Live alternative, is it? Just an alternative to tp-cables.