The problem is you pretty much have to "interfere".
The crooks in wallstreet need to be sent off to prison, the US gvt needs to step in and re-regulate the markets, and ultimately stick its hands in to push the waters forwards. I'm just hoping that by Year 4 you have a good economy, no enemies, and the ability to chop your gvt's hands off if they get too close. (I'm a fan of small gvt too)
I think he meant, look at us, we elected a man (or at least cheered him on) based on the colour of his skin.
Is that not as disgusting as hating them for that trait?
Should we not be seen for what we stand on, who we are?
Should he not be seen for the typical politcal crook, who he is? (and they all are. the only non-crooked politician I've ever met might be McGuinty (your pick), and even then Dalton seemed to have had a blunder at one point, and David is just too quiet to be crooked.)
This is one of those rarer shots, and I'd like to know if anybody has/can/will record this so we can all enjoy it a few years down the line. I know right now not only do I not have the power to run a 1080p video stream, I don't have the connection bw, or a monitor capable of streaming it. But it would be nice to come back on this one day.
Unless it's almost a given it's going to be on the pirate bay?
I love it when people compare X to MS's windowing system and Apple's.
Well guys, X hasn't change in philosophy. (it took a turn for the worse with XFree86 though) And look at what happened with Mac and Windows...
Both are headed to unix-like designs, in OSX's case already there (but it's not like they'll admit defeat) and Windows 2k8 is getting close. I wonder how long until both have a Xorg deriative? 2 generations?
And we can't drop those X extensions without nVidia's cooperation.
IMHO, network transparency is nice. I like x.org, I just want to see it crawl out of the hole XFree86 dumped it in. But then again, this is very nice too; but you start dropping features, and it just makes me wonder if it's all really worth it. But a lot of this is already there, already compiled with xorg and the kernel and the drivers, it's just putting them together. It should be nice when it's stable.
Considering the capabilities of HyperTransport, and that AMD's adoption of it, although it creamed FSB incredibly, is not enough to drastically change the outcomes of typical performance.
I'd also bet most programs (especially the more intensive ones) were being written to manage memory as well as possible, because of FSB.
Look for the VB8001. Thankfully information has even surfaced on VIA's page. If you're curious it's a CN896 chipset, so you get PCIEx16, obligatory fan because it's 1.6GHz, and a whole bunch of nice connectors... but sadly missing Parallel/serial. oh well. It's got XvMC acceleration, though! Sweet!
I'm hoping the rumours are true and that this board "is going to sell for 99$ this holiday season from a certain retailer (that can't be specified at this moment)". Retail price looks like 180$ so just about half price would be pretty sweet.
Interesting. I have a 450MHz P2 & 500MHz Celeron, but one is 384MB and the other 192MB (respectively) and the P2 can run KDE 3.5 smoothly under Kubuntu 6.06...
I'm wondering though, is CPU never the limiter? What about things like javascript?
I want to replace the P2 with either an Atom 330 or a Nano 1.6GHz (still not too sure which would be faster, both are 100$ for me) and of course with 2GB of RAM (unless seamless virtualisation of XP would be better with 4, in which case it's a not brainer). Of course if I'm virtualising the Nano is better, but then again it's 2 vs 1, and people will often blast it... though PCIEx16 is so sweet.
Xubuntu is a joke of a lightweight distro. It's Ubuntu with Xfce and Gnome. (yes, effectively both)
What you needed is something like a Debian install designed for it (think LXDE) or something like Ubuntu-lite. I think PCLinuxOS has an LXDE-based edition.
HP's Atom laptop, although crap compared to a possible VN-based 2133 upgrade, will come with Linux in january, with 2GB of RAM (compared to 512MB) for 379$ (20$ less than the 0.5GB XP model).
Linux won't be completely eliminated from netbooks. But imho Asus was never in it for the 7", 9", and 10" laptops; they were just in it to make a quick buck and they can explain high prices like that. Or maybe the price of a 10" netbook isn't too high anymore; an eee PC 1000H is 449$ USD...
I think that's another reason why linux is less popular, they come with gimped/for some reason only on the more expensive hardware/shit interfaces and are rejected for XP because of sheep and people who want the better deal.
But even then, it's crap quality (compared to the original 54mbps), and you're at your ISPs' mercy.
Not all of us are so lucky, either. I think the fastest I can get is 18mbps; but I'd be capped so hard it would not be worth it. (I think it's only about 120GB-200GB per month. I'd expect 300GB+ for the crazy prices they're asking)
I'd expect bluray sales to start skyrocketting soon. At least for blank media and burners/drives, and a lot of people ready for bluray as long as the players are not overly restricted (ie think a bluray player in your car limited to today's grade restrictions).
Right now I'm willing to buy a bluray burner when the prices approach 50$-60$ for a drive. I'm sure I'm not alone, and plenty others might go for 100$ drives.
Now, the question is, do we play the nice card, and buy up bluray drives to drive down the price and make them more popular compared to players... Or do we play the evil card, and refuse to buy into bluray and simply start organising "darknets" based on a bunch of people with eSATA hard drives, killing off whatever chance they had of us buying bluray like we did DVD? I could easily imagine a whole bunch of people getting together, sharing their rips of movies in get-togethers, passing them along. Internet speeds may not be fast enough but cars are.
Personally I'd go #2. This time they can go fucking die. But I don't know. And should they decide to be dipshits and break compatibility for more restraints, #2 is definately the way to go.
It would be nice, for once, to fuck them over. But if they don't harden encryption, if they leave it as is, I think it's fair to buy burners; if only for data.
We wouldn't be able to study Slysoft's implementation. As much as I love 'em for showing us it can be done and spitting in the face of DRM, they provide a closed platform (that relies on a driver IIRC) so it is news that Doom9 cracked BD+ and splayed its guts over the internet.
However I'm in the same boat as you; I find it is a bit sad we don't have 100% working blu-ray playback yet. Ripping is good enough, though. Are they still recorded in MPEG2 or did they step up to h.264 yet for commercial films?
That seems like a job for nVidia's Tegra, if they'll just allow Linux developpement already.
I'd love to see it sold as a cell phone. I'd buy it up on the spot. If it was like the demo kit, but with a slide-out keyboard (or a slide-down keypad like the LG Shine). Bluetooth and Wifi, and maybe DisplayPort out (I would prefer DVI-I or analog, without silly restrictions, but whatever) so you could hook it up to your monitor/TV and have a bluetooth keyboard/mouse so that you could use it as a full computer when necessary (maybe just for diagnostics). (oh, and SDHC is a must nvidia!)
It would also make a good ebook reader, and of course PMP. I wonder if those demo kits were equipped with touchscreens, though?
Speaking of which, why the seriously crap resolutions?
It's because of people who want XP on these machines. Microsoft does not want XP on machines with resolutions bigger than 1024x768, with more than a single core 1.6GHz CPU, and 1GB of RAM.
So unless the OEMs are going to grow some balls and sell machines with dual-core atoms and 1280x768 equipped with Linux, you're going to have a technically inferior machine with XP or the better one with choice of Linux or Vista. (see: HP Mininote. 1280x768, runs Vista and SUSE.)
These are also LED-backlit; I don't know if that makes it instantly more pricey than traditional methods (I know the 2133 uses CCFL).
No need for Intel parts; it could be a UVD2-based AMD chipset. I was thinking VIA miniITX board, but none of them seem to support h.264 decoding which would have been nice, but a few support PCIE x16 so you could always add in a HD4450 or whatever.
There's not a chance in hell my parents could have paid to remove it, nor paid for the two other surgeries that followed, or all the follow-up appointements. Even the second and third surgeries ran something like 500,000$ from my surgeon's guestimates (but I'm tired now and don't know if he was kidding. the canadian dollar was still weak then, and it was two procedures to add in a plaster substance, two different ones)
It's going to come bite you in the ass. Sadly there's nothing you can do about slackers except make the gvt make sure unemployed people are at least trying, and would build infrastructure-building programs to get them started. But that might not be your cup of tea.
I remember hearing someone waning off on how to "win Iraq".
It involved staying for 20-30 years under a full-out american occupation, exposed to americanism at its fullest, and treated like a colony, and one day in that year20-30 somebody raised as an american will take power, elected by the majority, and think/see/feel/be an american. And then they could ship off.
That's not going to happen if you want to leave soon. An Iraq that is self-centred military-wise is good. But good luck.
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The problem is you pretty much have to "interfere".
The crooks in wallstreet need to be sent off to prison, the US gvt needs to step in and re-regulate the markets, and ultimately stick its hands in to push the waters forwards. I'm just hoping that by Year 4 you have a good economy, no enemies, and the ability to chop your gvt's hands off if they get too close. (I'm a fan of small gvt too)
I think he meant, look at us, we elected a man (or at least cheered him on) based on the colour of his skin.
Is that not as disgusting as hating them for that trait?
Should we not be seen for what we stand on, who we are?
Should he not be seen for the typical politcal crook, who he is? (and they all are. the only non-crooked politician I've ever met might be McGuinty (your pick), and even then Dalton seemed to have had a blunder at one point, and David is just too quiet to be crooked.)
This is one of those rarer shots, and I'd like to know if anybody has/can/will record this so we can all enjoy it a few years down the line. I know right now not only do I not have the power to run a 1080p video stream, I don't have the connection bw, or a monitor capable of streaming it. But it would be nice to come back on this one day.
Unless it's almost a given it's going to be on the pirate bay?
I love it when people compare X to MS's windowing system and Apple's.
Well guys, X hasn't change in philosophy. (it took a turn for the worse with XFree86 though) And look at what happened with Mac and Windows...
Both are headed to unix-like designs, in OSX's case already there (but it's not like they'll admit defeat) and Windows 2k8 is getting close. I wonder how long until both have a Xorg deriative? 2 generations?
And we can't drop those X extensions without nVidia's cooperation.
IMHO, network transparency is nice. I like x.org, I just want to see it crawl out of the hole XFree86 dumped it in. But then again, this is very nice too; but you start dropping features, and it just makes me wonder if it's all really worth it. But a lot of this is already there, already compiled with xorg and the kernel and the drivers, it's just putting them together. It should be nice when it's stable.
This isn't to replace the X server, though.
This is like how X.Org is to Xfree86.
Considering the capabilities of HyperTransport, and that AMD's adoption of it, although it creamed FSB incredibly, is not enough to drastically change the outcomes of typical performance.
I'd also bet most programs (especially the more intensive ones) were being written to manage memory as well as possible, because of FSB.
Good news though, it should be out very soon.
Look for the VB8001. Thankfully information has even surfaced on VIA's page. If you're curious it's a CN896 chipset, so you get PCIEx16, obligatory fan because it's 1.6GHz, and a whole bunch of nice connectors... but sadly missing Parallel/serial. oh well. It's got XvMC acceleration, though! Sweet!
I'm hoping the rumours are true and that this board "is going to sell for 99$ this holiday season from a certain retailer (that can't be specified at this moment)". Retail price looks like 180$ so just about half price would be pretty sweet.
Interesting. I have a 450MHz P2 & 500MHz Celeron, but one is 384MB and the other 192MB (respectively) and the P2 can run KDE 3.5 smoothly under Kubuntu 6.06...
I'm wondering though, is CPU never the limiter? What about things like javascript?
I want to replace the P2 with either an Atom 330 or a Nano 1.6GHz (still not too sure which would be faster, both are 100$ for me) and of course with 2GB of RAM (unless seamless virtualisation of XP would be better with 4, in which case it's a not brainer). Of course if I'm virtualising the Nano is better, but then again it's 2 vs 1, and people will often blast it... though PCIEx16 is so sweet.
Have you ever managed to get support from MS?
Without paying 100$ a pop?
Xubuntu is a joke of a lightweight distro. It's Ubuntu with Xfce and Gnome. (yes, effectively both)
What you needed is something like a Debian install designed for it (think LXDE) or something like Ubuntu-lite. I think PCLinuxOS has an LXDE-based edition.
HP's Atom laptop, although crap compared to a possible VN-based 2133 upgrade, will come with Linux in january, with 2GB of RAM (compared to 512MB) for 379$ (20$ less than the 0.5GB XP model).
Linux won't be completely eliminated from netbooks. But imho Asus was never in it for the 7", 9", and 10" laptops; they were just in it to make a quick buck and they can explain high prices like that. Or maybe the price of a 10" netbook isn't too high anymore; an eee PC 1000H is 449$ USD...
I think that's another reason why linux is less popular, they come with gimped/for some reason only on the more expensive hardware/shit interfaces and are rejected for XP because of sheep and people who want the better deal.
But even then, it's crap quality (compared to the original 54mbps), and you're at your ISPs' mercy.
Not all of us are so lucky, either. I think the fastest I can get is 18mbps; but I'd be capped so hard it would not be worth it. (I think it's only about 120GB-200GB per month. I'd expect 300GB+ for the crazy prices they're asking)
Um, wat.
I'd expect bluray sales to start skyrocketting soon. At least for blank media and burners/drives, and a lot of people ready for bluray as long as the players are not overly restricted (ie think a bluray player in your car limited to today's grade restrictions).
Right now I'm willing to buy a bluray burner when the prices approach 50$-60$ for a drive. I'm sure I'm not alone, and plenty others might go for 100$ drives.
Now, the question is, do we play the nice card, and buy up bluray drives to drive down the price and make them more popular compared to players... Or do we play the evil card, and refuse to buy into bluray and simply start organising "darknets" based on a bunch of people with eSATA hard drives, killing off whatever chance they had of us buying bluray like we did DVD? I could easily imagine a whole bunch of people getting together, sharing their rips of movies in get-togethers, passing them along. Internet speeds may not be fast enough but cars are.
Personally I'd go #2. This time they can go fucking die. But I don't know. And should they decide to be dipshits and break compatibility for more restraints, #2 is definately the way to go.
It would be nice, for once, to fuck them over. But if they don't harden encryption, if they leave it as is, I think it's fair to buy burners; if only for data.
Now they need to crack HDCP.
If BD+ and AACS were cracked, is there a need to break HDCP?
Of course the more you crack is better. And it'll help bring us closer to playback on linux it seems... But isn't it unecessary to the process?
Not necessarily.
We wouldn't be able to study Slysoft's implementation. As much as I love 'em for showing us it can be done and spitting in the face of DRM, they provide a closed platform (that relies on a driver IIRC) so it is news that Doom9 cracked BD+ and splayed its guts over the internet.
Consider it a backup at the same time.
However I'm in the same boat as you; I find it is a bit sad we don't have 100% working blu-ray playback yet. Ripping is good enough, though. Are they still recorded in MPEG2 or did they step up to h.264 yet for commercial films?
That seems like a job for nVidia's Tegra, if they'll just allow Linux developpement already.
I'd love to see it sold as a cell phone. I'd buy it up on the spot. If it was like the demo kit, but with a slide-out keyboard (or a slide-down keypad like the LG Shine). Bluetooth and Wifi, and maybe DisplayPort out (I would prefer DVI-I or analog, without silly restrictions, but whatever) so you could hook it up to your monitor/TV and have a bluetooth keyboard/mouse so that you could use it as a full computer when necessary (maybe just for diagnostics). (oh, and SDHC is a must nvidia!)
It would also make a good ebook reader, and of course PMP. I wonder if those demo kits were equipped with touchscreens, though?
Speaking of which, why the seriously crap resolutions?
It's because of people who want XP on these machines. Microsoft does not want XP on machines with resolutions bigger than 1024x768, with more than a single core 1.6GHz CPU, and 1GB of RAM.
So unless the OEMs are going to grow some balls and sell machines with dual-core atoms and 1280x768 equipped with Linux, you're going to have a technically inferior machine with XP or the better one with choice of Linux or Vista. (see: HP Mininote. 1280x768, runs Vista and SUSE.)
These are also LED-backlit; I don't know if that makes it instantly more pricey than traditional methods (I know the 2133 uses CCFL).
Except, you know, what happens to all those free software developpers at Yahoo! and Zimbra and such?
You want to tell me that doesn't draw any income at all?
Being bought up by Microsoft would lead to a tear-down of the company, effectively. Just steal the search engine and keep rolling.
(and there was a lawsuit, IIRC, but it may have been thrown out for excess idioticy)
No need for Intel parts; it could be a UVD2-based AMD chipset. I was thinking VIA miniITX board, but none of them seem to support h.264 decoding which would have been nice, but a few support PCIE x16 so you could always add in a HD4450 or whatever.
Oh, and it has to be low price. 400$-500$ tops.
Now I am just waiting for Apple to buy AMD and Foxconn :)
I think they have the cash on had for AMD for sure.
Let 'em buy Foxconn, not like anybody likes that OEM shit.
But keep yer dirty hands off of AMD.
(Power on SFF devices by Apple would be nice. Even if it's just Apple TV and handhelds at first.)
I had a skull tumor as a kid.
There's not a chance in hell my parents could have paid to remove it, nor paid for the two other surgeries that followed, or all the follow-up appointements. Even the second and third surgeries ran something like 500,000$ from my surgeon's guestimates (but I'm tired now and don't know if he was kidding. the canadian dollar was still weak then, and it was two procedures to add in a plaster substance, two different ones)
It's going to come bite you in the ass. Sadly there's nothing you can do about slackers except make the gvt make sure unemployed people are at least trying, and would build infrastructure-building programs to get them started. But that might not be your cup of tea.
You didn't quite land uninvited and unannounced to piss in their cheerios one morning, did you?
I remember hearing someone waning off on how to "win Iraq".
It involved staying for 20-30 years under a full-out american occupation, exposed to americanism at its fullest, and treated like a colony, and one day in that year20-30 somebody raised as an american will take power, elected by the majority, and think/see/feel/be an american. And then they could ship off.
That's not going to happen if you want to leave soon. An Iraq that is self-centred military-wise is good. But good luck.