Hmm... I'm not so sure about the "if no one is going to go to Blu-ray, then who cares if the PS3 has it?" part for two reasons.
1. If XB360 has a regular DVD and PS3 has a blu-ray, the PS3 will require less discs for the same amount of data regardless if noone in the whole world has a blu-ray-player in any other device than their PS3.
2. If blu-ray becomes a sony-only standard, most people won't have blu-ray-burners. This means less home-piracy and may thus lead to more titles being released. (But probably also lead to less consoles being sold, though.)
The biggest downside for sony would be that the PS3 wouldn't be able to play the video-discs that will replace DVD. On the other hand, with a DVD, neither could XB360...
I may very possibly be wrong about this, and I don't know the correct terms for all the forces, etc, but here's my thoughts on the subject: If you put the counterweight further out than geostationary orbit it would seem to be moving "backwards" from a point on earth, since it's rotational speed is less than one rotation per day. If you'd tie a string to it and fasten it in this point, earths rotation would pull on the string and accellerate the counterweight. It would then tend to move away from earth, since it's moving too fast for earths gravitation to keep it in it's orbit, stretching the string, keeping it from being reeled in by earth. This would keep it from slowing down, just like in your example with the string and a small object.
Depends on how you define difficult. To be healty while being a vegan, you have to know a bit about what you eat. You also has to actually use that knowledge to get everything your body needs and have the dicipline to eat correct continously.
Most people who have problems with their weight would find this difficult and a vegan diet would probably be as unhealty for them as their current diet.
And no matter what your diet is, if you don't move, sooner or later you're going do get problems with your body.
SP2 is a *huge* patch, so if youve got lots of software already installed problems are bound to show up. I had to reinstall my computer after SP2 due to really strange bugs. But as for slipstreaming it onto an installation cd or installing it right after installing xp, that has never produced any problems for me. And regarding slower performance. What would you rather have? A more secure computer or a slightly faster computer?
If you find your job is to risky, go search for another profession. But remeber that nomatter what your job is, theres always a risk youll die from it.
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Correct me if Im wrong here, but doesnt Oracle charge a 2 cpu licence if you want to use hyperthreading on a single cpu already? So multicore-cpus would not be a cheap way to get SMP in that case...
Yes, my intelligence is measured in my ability to remember what kind of cpu a computer I owned more than two years ago had.
Jupp! I hate *all* pads, regardless of brand. Ive used laptop-pads from IBM, Compaq, Apple, HP, Dell, Acer and a few I dont remember the brand of, and Ive also used a few desktop keyboards with pads. They all where horrible. So, yes, I prefer the trackpoint and will never again buy a computer without one. I love not having to move my hands to steer the pointer. Since I love OSX, I really hate the fact that Apple has no option for trackpoints on *any* of their hardware. =(
I dont remember what resolution my PB-G4 had, it was the 450MHz version, but it *fealt* really low after switching from my 1600x1200 laptop at work or my 1400x1050 previous laptop.
The only *fact* I had wrong was the type of cpu in my old laptop. If I think my thinkpad has a better keyboard than my old powerbook, that is a point of view, not a fact.
Sorry. I meant the Powerbook G4, of course. =) My memory is coated with teflon.
But I still think a bit of competetion would be good for the Mac hardware. I *really* want to use OSX, but I simply can not use Apples current laptops, or any laptop they have ever produced for that matter. What I dont like about Apple-hardware is that they, in my point of view, sacrifice ergonomics and usability for design. My thinkpad may be a boring, rectangular box of black plastic loaded with a frustrating MS-OS, but its got a wonderful keyboard, a high enough resolution display (1400x1050) and its got both a glidepoint (pad) and a trackpoint (stick). Ive disabled the pad though, since I hate those...
The good things about x86 operating-systems is that you get a choice of what hardware you use. With OSX you can use Apple, period. Dont like it? Use another OS.
I get the feeling that if you tried to band together and be loud about, for an example, being against the patriot act, youd be branded as being against your goverment, thus being anti-american, thus being a possible terrorist by your current goverment. Next up: Political refugees from the US standing at european borders.
True, true. But some people should have that right revoked. The loud and obnoxius ones. ^_^ And, of course, those who chose to use violence while doing the persuading, like the goverments of most countries with large offensive power.
I hope they choose x86. Not because it's better, cause in my opinion it isn't, but because I love OSX but hate the ergonomics of Apple's laptops. Owned a Powerbook G5 for about half a year and switched back to thinkpad due to the horrible keyboard, lack of trackpoint-device and the low-resolution screen. If they choose x86, hopefully someone will make a patch for the x86-port of OSX to make it run on non-apple hardware, thus letting me run it on my thinkpad. =)
That depends on how you define the word "religion".
Since my parents choose to christen me and I haven't had the energy or motivation to officially leave the christian churth I'm, on paper, a christian In reality I don't belive in that religion, so I'm not a christian. I also do not belive in any other selfdescribed religion, so I count myself as one of those who have no religion. Some people, almost without exception folks who are religious, say that since I do think that some of the scientific theories about the universe might be true, without absolute proof thereof, I *do* have a religion. If I had been one of those who "religiously" belive in those theories, I might have agread to having som sort of nonsupernatural-religion, but as it stands, I disagree whith that point of view. If I say "I have no religion" and stand fast to that, that is a standpoint, not a religion.
Don't know why I bother to write this really... Since I won't change your standpoint and you won't change mine. =/ And that's, of course, how it should be. Noone has the right to demand that anyone else changes their point of view.
I *do* mind all the crap that goes with cheap PC hardware, so I buy rather expensive, but still cheaper than mac, quality hardware.
I did switch to a powerbook-g4, that widescreen, titanium thingie, a couple of years ago so that I could use OSX instead of windows.
Best OS I've ever used. Hard to use for PIC-development and electronic-circuit simulations though.
Eight months later, I sold it and bought a thinkpad for the money. I couldn't get used to the keyboard and trackpad/glidepad/whateveritscalled. I've owned five laptops over the years, three thinkpads, and I will never again buy one thats only equiped with such a device. When apple introduces a laptop with a trackpoint and a high quality keyboard, I will change back to mac.
It's a bit of egg/chicken problem regarding more hardware and software supporting the OpenRT api. But the api is there, there are at least *some* software supporting it, and now also one piece of hardware. Wonder how long it will take before raytracers like Lightwave get OpenRT-support. Hopefully not too long, but then again... They might never. =/
Honestly, how often do you get calls from outside your country? And, actually, I don't have to pay when someone calls me from another country. SMS isn't always cheaper, either. Weekends and between 12 to 13 and between 18 to 07 other days, I can call for free to others within my telco. ^_^
And there are actual advantages to SMS over voice-calls, besides cost. Here's some examples:
1. The other person doesn't have to be able to answer his/her phone to recieve and read the message.
2. You can send a message and even have an sms-conversation in situations where a voice-call isn't suitable, like during a lecture or during a movie. Of if you don't want to disturb your fellow passengers on a train or a bus.
3. You can use SMS instead of voice if you're in a place with lots of noise, like a concert or while standing beside a roadwork.
4. If you or some friend of yours is deaf, it beats voice avery time. ^_^
To be able to create your own ringtones and download it to your phone has the advantage that no other phone will sound like yours. If you hear a ringing phone, you can instantly tell if it's yours or not.
But you are right in that we pay extra for the features. It's actually gone to the point that it is hard to find phones with only the basic functions. I had to search for a long time to find a phone with a callendar and phonebook that I could sync with my Outlook without buying one with camera, colour-display, java-games, radio, mp3-player, etc, etc. In the end, I had to make a compromise and accept that it had a radio, colour-display, led-flashlight and a thermometer *sic* built in... *Who* needs a thermometer in their phone?!? The phone generates heat while operating, so it'll never show the correct temperature anyway!!! *argh!* Oops, got off topic there... Sorry.
But the latests phones with video-phone capabilities are really ridiculous... I thought people who talked loud with mobiles in public places where irritating before. Now I get to hear *both* sides of the conversation, and even louder! No wonder there is a market for GSM-jammers.
Strange... My Thinkpad R40 wouldn't even boot with an unapproved card in it. I bought one from IBM that was approved for Thinkpads up to R32 first, and neither it nor one of Dell's wifi-cards, accuired from a broken laptop at my old work would work. Just show me an error message at the POST. And when I finally got one of their approved ones, I had to revert to an older bios to boot it. Had to have a specific bios at the first boot and *then* I could upgrade the bios again.
I'm a bit curious though... What are all those mini-pci cards you've been testing? I've only ever seen modems and network-cards and most people are a bit shy about leting me open their laptop up so that I can test them.
Well... To me, this doesn't seem like neither e-paper nor vaporware.
A technology that incorporates discs of *glass*, like tft's, lcd's and this display, can't really be thought of as e-paper.
And though one should be sceptic when reading about "working prototypes", they seem to have actually demonstrated that modified iPod to people. Most "e-paper" vaporwares has never reached such a working state...
Ahh... That lessens my confusion on the subject. So you don't really vote on a national level as a citizen, but on a state level. If more than 50% of the total voters in the whole country voted for a certain party, it would still not be enough if they all lived too close to each other?
But you'd still have to install the kde-libraries if you want to run applications that require said libraries, even if you do not use kde as your desktop-system. So you'd be limiting your choice of applicationes a bit.
I'd wager that MS *could* remove all IE-libraries from windows, if they removed the HTML,ftp and scripting-support in their desktop-system. (Like html-backgrounds on the desktop/windows, ftp-browsing in windows, etc) Of course any application that did rely on windows for html-support and such, would no longer run.
But, as you said, you don't have this option since MS haven't got such a version of the desktop-system availible. At least not to the public.
Just like games on PC's, mac's, Xbox, etc... That has to do with poor imagination at the game-producers and nothing to do with the performance of the cell-cpu.
Hmm... Maybe I should read up a bit on the american political system. I'm always lost when the discussion turns political. What does Democrat and Republican stand for? Both seem rather rightwing... And why are only these two standpoints ever mentioned? Are there only two parties? What if I'm not satisfied with those two? Am I allowed to start my own party? If not: Why not? It's a free country, right? =/ *curious*
But in what way do your national passport or national driverslicence differ from a national id-card? All of them contain some sort of proof of your identity, right? And all of them are tied to one or more databases, that can contain any kind of information that could be used or missused by the goverment if they choose to. Why would having an identity-card be so much more privacy-intruding than, for example, a passport? If the goverment think that you are linked to an organisation that they do not like, you're probably allready in a database somewhere anyway.
It's really hard, but not impossible, to stop experts from stealing/destroying/modifying data. But in most cases, the people who's actually doing these things are *not* superhackers, or even mediocre hackers, or even doing it on purpouse. Thus, most people can be stopped by relatively simple stuff. Removing easy access to external storage is one of these. And sometimes one have to accept that your employer might find it unacceptable for you to take sensitive data home over the weekend, into your possibly unsecure, internet connected homecomputer, just because it's convenient for you.
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Hmm... I'm not so sure about the "if no one is going to go to Blu-ray, then who cares if the PS3 has it?" part for two reasons.
1. If XB360 has a regular DVD and PS3 has a blu-ray, the PS3 will require less discs for the same amount of data regardless if noone in the whole world has a blu-ray-player in any other device than their PS3.
2. If blu-ray becomes a sony-only standard, most people won't have blu-ray-burners. This means less home-piracy and may thus lead to more titles being released. (But probably also lead to less consoles being sold, though.)
The biggest downside for sony would be that the PS3 wouldn't be able to play the video-discs that will replace DVD.
On the other hand, with a DVD, neither could XB360...
I may very possibly be wrong about this, and I don't know the correct terms for all the forces, etc, but here's my thoughts on the subject:
If you put the counterweight further out than geostationary orbit it would seem to be moving "backwards" from a point on earth, since it's rotational speed is less than one rotation per day.
If you'd tie a string to it and fasten it in this point, earths rotation would pull on the string and accellerate the counterweight. It would then tend to move away from earth, since it's moving too fast for earths gravitation to keep it in it's orbit, stretching the string, keeping it from being reeled in by earth.
This would keep it from slowing down, just like in your example with the string and a small object.
But disrupting a foreign nation communications is an *act* of war.
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Depends on how you define difficult.
To be healty while being a vegan, you have to know a bit about what you eat.
You also has to actually use that knowledge to get everything your body needs and have the dicipline to eat correct continously.
Most people who have problems with their weight would find this difficult and a vegan diet would probably be as unhealty for them as their current diet.
And no matter what your diet is, if you don't move, sooner or later you're going do get problems with your body.
SP2 is a *huge* patch, so if youve got lots of software already installed problems are bound to show up. I had to reinstall my computer after SP2 due to really strange bugs.
But as for slipstreaming it onto an installation cd or installing it right after installing xp, that has never produced any problems for me.
And regarding slower performance. What would you rather have? A more secure computer or a slightly faster computer?
I agree totaly. Let the people taking the actual risk decide if its too dangerous.
Life isnt 100% safe.
Lets take a look at some risky business...
Astronaut - Rockets kill people.
Professional Diver. - Diving kills people.
Tandem Jumper - Parachuting kills people.
Race Drive - Sportscar accidents kill people.
Soldier - Bullets kill people.
Journalist - Bullets kill people.
Diplomat - Bullets kill people.
Lumberjack - Chainsaws kill people.
Miner - High-explosives kill people.
Teacher - Students kill people.
Etc, etc, etc...
If you find your job is to risky, go search for another profession.
But remeber that nomatter what your job is, theres always a risk youll die from it.
Correct me if Im wrong here, but doesnt Oracle charge a 2 cpu licence if you want to use hyperthreading on a single cpu already?
So multicore-cpus would not be a cheap way to get SMP in that case...
Yes, my intelligence is measured in my ability to remember what kind of cpu a computer I owned more than two years ago had.
Jupp! I hate *all* pads, regardless of brand.
Ive used laptop-pads from IBM, Compaq, Apple, HP, Dell, Acer and a few I dont remember the brand of, and Ive also used a few desktop keyboards with pads. They all where horrible.
So, yes, I prefer the trackpoint and will never again buy a computer without one. I love not having to move my hands to steer the pointer.
Since I love OSX, I really hate the fact that Apple has no option for trackpoints on *any* of their hardware. =(
I dont remember what resolution my PB-G4 had, it was the 450MHz version, but it *fealt* really low after switching from my 1600x1200 laptop at work or my 1400x1050 previous laptop.
The only *fact* I had wrong was the type of cpu in my old laptop.
If I think my thinkpad has a better keyboard than my old powerbook, that is a point of view, not a fact.
Sorry. I meant the Powerbook G4, of course. =)
My memory is coated with teflon.
But I still think a bit of competetion would be good for the Mac hardware.
I *really* want to use OSX, but I simply can not use Apples current laptops, or any laptop they have ever produced for that matter.
What I dont like about Apple-hardware is that they, in my point of view, sacrifice ergonomics and usability for design.
My thinkpad may be a boring, rectangular box of black plastic loaded with a frustrating MS-OS, but its got a wonderful keyboard, a high enough resolution display (1400x1050) and its got both a glidepoint (pad) and a trackpoint (stick).
Ive disabled the pad though, since I hate those...
The good things about x86 operating-systems is that you get a choice of what hardware you use.
With OSX you can use Apple, period.
Dont like it? Use another OS.
I get the feeling that if you tried to band together and be loud about, for an example, being against the patriot act, youd be branded as being against your goverment, thus being anti-american, thus being a possible terrorist by your current goverment.
Next up: Political refugees from the US standing at european borders.
True, true.
But some people should have that right revoked. The loud and obnoxius ones. ^_^
And, of course, those who chose to use violence while doing the persuading, like the goverments of most countries with large offensive power.
I hope they choose x86. Not because it's better, cause in my opinion it isn't, but because I love OSX but hate the ergonomics of Apple's laptops.
Owned a Powerbook G5 for about half a year and switched back to thinkpad due to the horrible keyboard, lack of trackpoint-device and the low-resolution screen.
If they choose x86, hopefully someone will make a patch for the x86-port of OSX to make it run on non-apple hardware, thus letting me run it on my thinkpad. =)
That depends on how you define the word "religion".
Since my parents choose to christen me and I haven't had the energy or motivation to officially leave the christian churth I'm, on paper, a christian
In reality I don't belive in that religion, so I'm not a christian.
I also do not belive in any other selfdescribed religion, so I count myself as one of those who have no religion.
Some people, almost without exception folks who are religious, say that since I do think that some of the scientific theories about the universe might be true, without absolute proof thereof, I *do* have a religion.
If I had been one of those who "religiously" belive in those theories, I might have agread to having som sort of nonsupernatural-religion, but as it stands, I disagree whith that point of view.
If I say "I have no religion" and stand fast to that, that is a standpoint, not a religion.
Don't know why I bother to write this really... Since I won't change your standpoint and you won't change mine. =/
And that's, of course, how it should be. Noone has the right to demand that anyone else changes their point of view.
I *do* mind all the crap that goes with cheap PC hardware, so I buy rather expensive, but still cheaper than mac, quality hardware.
I did switch to a powerbook-g4, that widescreen, titanium thingie, a couple of years ago so that I could use OSX instead of windows.
Best OS I've ever used.
Hard to use for PIC-development and electronic-circuit simulations though.
Eight months later, I sold it and bought a thinkpad for the money.
I couldn't get used to the keyboard and trackpad/glidepad/whateveritscalled.
I've owned five laptops over the years, three thinkpads, and I will never again buy one thats only equiped with such a device.
When apple introduces a laptop with a trackpoint and a high quality keyboard, I will change back to mac.
It's a bit of egg/chicken problem regarding more hardware and software supporting the OpenRT api.
But the api is there, there are at least *some* software supporting it, and now also one piece of hardware.
Wonder how long it will take before raytracers like Lightwave get OpenRT-support.
Hopefully not too long, but then again... They might never. =/
Honestly, how often do you get calls from outside your country? And, actually, I don't have to pay when someone calls me from another country.
SMS isn't always cheaper, either.
Weekends and between 12 to 13 and between 18 to 07 other days, I can call for free to others within my telco. ^_^
And there are actual advantages to SMS over voice-calls, besides cost.
Here's some examples:
1. The other person doesn't have to be able to answer his/her phone to recieve and read the message.
2. You can send a message and even have an sms-conversation in situations where a voice-call isn't suitable, like during a lecture or during a movie. Of if you don't want to disturb your fellow passengers on a train or a bus.
3. You can use SMS instead of voice if you're in a place with lots of noise, like a concert or while standing beside a roadwork.
4. If you or some friend of yours is deaf, it beats voice avery time. ^_^
To be able to create your own ringtones and download it to your phone has the advantage that no other phone will sound like yours. If you hear a ringing phone, you can instantly tell if it's yours or not.
But you are right in that we pay extra for the features.
It's actually gone to the point that it is hard to find phones with only the basic functions.
I had to search for a long time to find a phone with a callendar and phonebook that I could sync with my Outlook without buying one with camera, colour-display, java-games, radio, mp3-player, etc, etc.
In the end, I had to make a compromise and accept that it had a radio, colour-display, led-flashlight and a thermometer *sic* built in...
*Who* needs a thermometer in their phone?!?
The phone generates heat while operating, so it'll never show the correct temperature anyway!!!
*argh!*
Oops, got off topic there...
Sorry.
But the latests phones with video-phone capabilities are really ridiculous...
I thought people who talked loud with mobiles in public places where irritating before. Now I get to hear *both* sides of the conversation, and even louder!
No wonder there is a market for GSM-jammers.
I'll be quiet now.
Strange... My Thinkpad R40 wouldn't even boot with an unapproved card in it.
I bought one from IBM that was approved for Thinkpads up to R32 first, and neither it nor one of Dell's wifi-cards, accuired from a broken laptop at my old work would work.
Just show me an error message at the POST.
And when I finally got one of their approved ones, I had to revert to an older bios to boot it. Had to have a specific bios at the first boot and *then* I could upgrade the bios again.
I'm a bit curious though... What are all those mini-pci cards you've been testing?
I've only ever seen modems and network-cards and most people are a bit shy about leting me open their laptop up so that I can test them.
Well... To me, this doesn't seem like neither e-paper nor vaporware.
A technology that incorporates discs of *glass*, like tft's, lcd's and this display, can't really be thought of as e-paper.
And though one should be sceptic when reading about "working prototypes", they seem to have actually demonstrated that modified iPod to people.
Most "e-paper" vaporwares has never reached such a working state...
Ahh... That lessens my confusion on the subject.
So you don't really vote on a national level as a citizen, but on a state level.
If more than 50% of the total voters in the whole country voted for a certain party, it would still not be enough if they all lived too close to each other?
But you'd still have to install the kde-libraries if you want to run applications that require said libraries, even if you do not use kde as your desktop-system.
So you'd be limiting your choice of applicationes a bit.
I'd wager that MS *could* remove all IE-libraries from windows, if they removed the HTML,ftp and scripting-support in their desktop-system. (Like html-backgrounds on the desktop/windows, ftp-browsing in windows, etc)
Of course any application that did rely on windows for html-support and such, would no longer run.
But, as you said, you don't have this option since MS haven't got such a version of the desktop-system availible. At least not to the public.
Just like games on PC's, mac's, Xbox, etc...
That has to do with poor imagination at the game-producers and nothing to do with the performance of the cell-cpu.
Hmm... Maybe I should read up a bit on the american political system. I'm always lost when the discussion turns political.
What does Democrat and Republican stand for? Both seem rather rightwing...
And why are only these two standpoints ever mentioned?
Are there only two parties? What if I'm not satisfied with those two? Am I allowed to start my own party?
If not: Why not? It's a free country, right? =/
*curious*
But in what way do your national passport or national driverslicence differ from a national id-card?
All of them contain some sort of proof of your identity, right? And all of them are tied to one or more databases, that can contain any kind of information that could be used or missused by the goverment if they choose to.
Why would having an identity-card be so much more privacy-intruding than, for example, a passport?
If the goverment think that you are linked to an organisation that they do not like, you're probably allready in a database somewhere anyway.
It's really hard, but not impossible, to stop experts from stealing/destroying/modifying data.
But in most cases, the people who's actually doing these things are *not* superhackers, or even mediocre hackers, or even doing it on purpouse.
Thus, most people can be stopped by relatively simple stuff.
Removing easy access to external storage is one of these.
And sometimes one have to accept that your employer might find it unacceptable for you to take sensitive data home over the weekend, into your possibly unsecure, internet connected homecomputer, just because it's convenient for you.