I once dropped my T40p thinkpad on a sidewalk when I was in Africa. Yeah, that rift is from MY thinkpad. And you know what? I didn't even get a scratch on it!
DisplayPort is certainly not a typical shitty connector.
I hope to see one day nothing but DisplayPort; royalty-free, IIRC it's a fairly open design, and I'm not too sure if it has optional DRM (as it might be the deciding factor over HDMI). The fact that it's very capable is also good, as is the fact that it can go out to all formats (VGA/HDMI/DVI); although DVI can do that it's not royalty-free and this is closer to HDMI because I think it can even carry audio.
HDMI is found on the "780G" and other "G" motherboard chipsets by AMD. However, I don't think the nVidia 8200 does... (anyone know if these boards are any good? quite cheap and unified sb/nb...) Neither do the "V" chipsets, that are the "G" chipsets sans HDMI, and maybe a bit slower (but I doubt it; it's just that before it was Xpress 1250 and Xpress 1200)...
DisplayPort looks very nice. Now if only all monitor vendors started supporting it.
YES! I especially love the video and mp3 part! Maybe for security cams, too? Or door bells? Or something like checking if your mail box is full, if the cat/dog/fish needs to be fed!
Being wall-mounted would be great. And the fact that this is likely only going to be ~500$ (UK/Europe often gets screwed, and I'm hoping that 700$+ figure was guestimated) it's going to be great.
Not only that, but I know of plenty of places this would go... If I could get it without HDD, or with an SSD, I would so buy it and run something like a dual-opteron server or even just Core 2/ Athlon X2/Phenom X4 (or X3 would be nice for cheap) and up the strenght of all the computers in one shot.
(But if I connected to that one server directly, any chance I could play games? That would be the deciding factor...)
How many critical servers run UNIX-like operating systems?
Aren't these more valuable than messing up some looser's porn collection, some random kid's gaming PC, or whatever?
Short of running up and stealing the hard drive, are you able to successfully plant malware in one of these? The only "malware" is rootkits, and that's negated with proper repositories.
Now, Apple may be a different story because of vulnerabilities in different parts of the stack... But when it's been 17 years and no real linux "virus" save proof-of-concept ones that you have to install yourself, and rootkits that only come with tainted packages (and again, this doesn't matter because unlike with windows you have trusted repos), that we have yet to see a linux virus surface, and yet likely millions or billions of windows ones, it does not bode well for you.
Windows is inheritely insecure on a network. It was designed by people who thought the internet would never catch on (oh how delicious those words were!). It was designed as single-user. It was designed with a browser/file manager that could be used to destroy the entire system, hijacking it with a small applet tool developped by MS and encouraged by them.
The faster javascript makes it so worth it. Especially now that I can't do tab switching by pressing 1 & 2 anymore in Opera (what the fuck guys, that was the best feature ever!). Mouse gestures would be pretty sweet too if you're listening Google.
A stable Chrome + flashblock + linux + noscript = it's over, Chrome is my browser of choice.
I'm just asking if OSX would be really worth the price of a new computer.
I have system-wide spell checking under Linux; the programs just need to support it (I don't think it would be too tough to add in aspell support). Time Machine could be done; I thought about that one, but can't rsync have versioning? (assuming TM can do that...) Konqueror has been doing "quick look" for a while now thanks to KParts.
And as for better development platform, although I'm a Python + Perl person, I hear GnuStep (if you like Objective-C) and C# (if you're stuck on windows) are good to program with. (but then again I hear horror stories about MSDN, so I don't know.)
Sure, Apple's engineering, for cooling and fitting stuff in, is one of the best, and I love the work they do.
But do you really think you're going to get that 499$ expandable Mac? Do you really think that's going to be what you were expecting? Apple is notorious now for laptop parts in desktops. They want to make high margins. That's how Steve rolls. I really doubt you're going to get an open platform.
And, who wants to be tied down to Apple? Really? Assuming it would come with a Core 2 Duo E4500 or Pentium-DC5200, with the exception of a PCIE slot I could do better for the same price with a Shuttle. Need PCIE? Well, I know there's one with the CN896 boards by VIA, so you might get lucky and get a dual-core Nano sooner than your hoped for.
Or you get yourself a miniDTX board and get your PCIE slot like that. For less and more open.
Apple is not going to move down in pricing. To do that is death for a company like that. They can't move units like Dell or HP can, because their customer service sucks. (I'm not going to remove 40 screws to pull out a hard drive, I'm not going to mail you my stuff, I want you here tomorrow or you're taking all this shit back) The only people who Dell and HP make a profit on for low-margin units are enterprise/business users. A few million desktops a day making a couple bucks each in true profit is the way they roll, and Apple just can't compete.
So yeah, I'd love it. But don't kid yourself. Apple knows that if people are willing to buy a 600$ mac mini because it runs OSX, they have no reason to make OSX more open or give them a mini-tower mac; what exactly is the point of a tower mac? I could buy a Dell Vostro for 300$ and get better parts. Better quality? On a tower?!? How much better can you get? OSX? What real advantage does it have?
If they want to do it, good for them. But I hope they realise they'll never make a profit with it.
I don't know, the way Harper is rolling lately is looking very dangerous.
A US sockpuppet, won't tax the tarsands, helped bring in C-61 (effectively why I keep supporting my liberal MP, he acted against it, and proposed legislation for net neutrality), is a general jerk all around, has terrible ministers (stockwell day?... the cast from air farce is rolling in their graves. and the foreign affairs minister who left his docs at his ex girlfriend's? the industry minister who said Ontario is not the right place for industrial companies?) etc.
Sorry but Harper's a dick. I don't mind him in a minority still leading the way; you can have him however you like him. But seeing him in the majority, we might as well elect Bush.
I think we all realise at this point that the Bloc Quebecois is more likely to win the federal election than the NDP. As for the Liberals, yeah, Dion can be a bit weak; but looking at Harper who's a complete vulture, who would you rather have?
(and again, I'd rather see Dion win, with a minority; at least this way Harper will keep him in check... I'm afraid of Dion being a wimp when it comes to facing Harper.)
US is still the number one manufacturer by far; twice and a half of its next-in-line, Germany IIRC. You have nothing to worry about...
Oh, and I really doubt countries like Canada could ever survive without American funds. Even back in the Bad Old Days we wouldn't consider cutting ourselves off entirely...
China collecting US debt?... Um, wouldn't that rape them twice over?...
The US is in a bad situation right now. But if you can get out of Iraq things will be much better, I'm highly confident things will be back to "normal". Iraq was horrible because it showed people like Hezbollah that Bush (by extension the US) has no teeth. And a world with these fearless terrorrisers is not one I think anyone would want to live in, except the extremists in the PRC's government.
Um, yeah, about that. Do you mind coming now and voting against our idiots in charge? Or at least helping us mince them to minority? (I like the way that turns out; government oversteps, smacked into elections)... because if Harper wins a majority I'm moving to the US...
Hate to reply twice for nothing, but disregard my other reply; all I can find is fanboy material. I'd have to say though it's a non-starter and that the HD4870X2 is clearly the way to go.
Well, it seems the GTX280 is faster; but the margin at that point seems to be so small, for a card so pricey (isn't it still 500$-600$? I thought I saw a X2 for 300$-400$...).
I too am a long-time liberal (but just because we have a liberal MP and MPPs) and love Jack Layton.
I don't like the NDP (sorry, too socialist for me) but he is an honest, hard-working man. I never liked him before because during the debates in the last elections he was constantly going on "Oh vote NDP we're different we're better!" etc. While watching the french debates (I was planning on watching Joe Biden beat up Palin) though he changed for the better; although he's no Duceppe in terms of slamming everyone in the debates he's getting there.
Now, if only Jack Layton ran for Liberal, then I'd vote for him.;P
(or NDP in my riding... you can easily tell everyone except for the liberal and possibly green candidates were shoe-horned by their friends and are really terrible.)
The man is brilliant in business execution, sure. But to put him on the same level of Einstein/Mozart/Newton?... But I guess we were long due for a business idol. And except for the dictator-aspect, he's a pretty cool guy.
(and her? him is generic/male... women; if you take offense at him, look at this way: you always brace for the worst.:) )
ATI is definitely leading per-watt, but are you sure on performance?
Yes. The HD4870X2 beats the GTX260 and challenges the GTX280 from what I've seen. The HD4870 for its price is simply unbeatable, same for the HD4850, it just has GDDR3 RAM and a one-slot cooler, lower clocks too maybe. The HD4670 is the HD3870 in a smaller package. And it's supposed to sell for less than 120$. The HD4550 and HD4350, although not necessarily powerful, are likely as good as the HD3650, and one is passively cooled, the other is half-height.
With a powerful microscope, you can read the data of an SD card.
Assuming we've got people lurking here for more serious advice, an SD card is never the way to go.
I'd say mix movie DVD with data DVD, and post it. Or SSH back home. Truecrypt volumes, not total encryption; I would seriously suspect you if you had total encryption, to be honest. But volume encryption? Good luck figuring it out.
Oh, thanks. Because that's what I was saying, that it's a chore. And suddenly being unable to reply to you in english is such a great offense? What about people with fat fingers and small keyboards? Automatically shitty typists?
I'm not a shitty typist; the entire post took me a minute or two to type out with the occasional pause to think about what to write.
No spellchecking either, so I'm constantly backspacing any errors. It's just a fact, for me at least, typing is uncomfortable, and I feel very irritated when I have to. It's just not fun. Be it with a more clickity keyboard, or worse a "soft touch" hybrid (ie not the gel kind, but the hard-keys-just-a-tiny-feel, where after a point I feel like I have CTS). Maybe it's just because of how I'm sitting or where my desk is... But I doubt that.
Slashdot Mirror
I once dropped my T40p thinkpad on a sidewalk when I was in Africa. Yeah, that rift is from MY thinkpad. And you know what? I didn't even get a scratch on it!
DisplayPort is certainly not a typical shitty connector.
I hope to see one day nothing but DisplayPort; royalty-free, IIRC it's a fairly open design, and I'm not too sure if it has optional DRM (as it might be the deciding factor over HDMI). The fact that it's very capable is also good, as is the fact that it can go out to all formats (VGA/HDMI/DVI); although DVI can do that it's not royalty-free and this is closer to HDMI because I think it can even carry audio.
HDMI is found on the "780G" and other "G" motherboard chipsets by AMD. However, I don't think the nVidia 8200 does... (anyone know if these boards are any good? quite cheap and unified sb/nb...) Neither do the "V" chipsets, that are the "G" chipsets sans HDMI, and maybe a bit slower (but I doubt it; it's just that before it was Xpress 1250 and Xpress 1200)...
DisplayPort looks very nice. Now if only all monitor vendors started supporting it.
YES! I especially love the video and mp3 part! Maybe for security cams, too? Or door bells? Or something like checking if your mail box is full, if the cat/dog/fish needs to be fed!
Being wall-mounted would be great. And the fact that this is likely only going to be ~500$ (UK/Europe often gets screwed, and I'm hoping that 700$+ figure was guestimated) it's going to be great.
Not only that, but I know of plenty of places this would go... If I could get it without HDD, or with an SSD, I would so buy it and run something like a dual-opteron server or even just Core 2/ Athlon X2/Phenom X4 (or X3 would be nice for cheap) and up the strenght of all the computers in one shot.
(But if I connected to that one server directly, any chance I could play games? That would be the deciding factor...)
Um, the POCs require you to compile it yourself. Or run it as a DEB/RPM/urmpi/whatever with root priveledges.
Not exactly easy compared to watching a video that has all sorts of nasties embedded in it.
Oh please.
How many servers run UNIX-like operating systems?
How many critical servers run UNIX-like operating systems?
Aren't these more valuable than messing up some looser's porn collection, some random kid's gaming PC, or whatever?
Short of running up and stealing the hard drive, are you able to successfully plant malware in one of these? The only "malware" is rootkits, and that's negated with proper repositories.
Now, Apple may be a different story because of vulnerabilities in different parts of the stack... But when it's been 17 years and no real linux "virus" save proof-of-concept ones that you have to install yourself, and rootkits that only come with tainted packages (and again, this doesn't matter because unlike with windows you have trusted repos), that we have yet to see a linux virus surface, and yet likely millions or billions of windows ones, it does not bode well for you.
Windows is inheritely insecure on a network. It was designed by people who thought the internet would never catch on (oh how delicious those words were!). It was designed as single-user. It was designed with a browser/file manager that could be used to destroy the entire system, hijacking it with a small applet tool developped by MS and encouraged by them.
Take your FUD elsewhere.
The faster javascript makes it so worth it. Especially now that I can't do tab switching by pressing 1 & 2 anymore in Opera (what the fuck guys, that was the best feature ever!). Mouse gestures would be pretty sweet too if you're listening Google.
A stable Chrome + flashblock + linux + noscript = it's over, Chrome is my browser of choice.
I'm just asking if OSX would be really worth the price of a new computer.
I have system-wide spell checking under Linux; the programs just need to support it (I don't think it would be too tough to add in aspell support). Time Machine could be done; I thought about that one, but can't rsync have versioning? (assuming TM can do that...) Konqueror has been doing "quick look" for a while now thanks to KParts.
And as for better development platform, although I'm a Python + Perl person, I hear GnuStep (if you like Objective-C) and C# (if you're stuck on windows) are good to program with. (but then again I hear horror stories about MSDN, so I don't know.)
nvidia graphics card
Why no love for ATI? :(
That HD4670 looks pretty sweet. I wonder if you could make a mobile version easily enough? Or would it be overkill?
Sure, Apple's engineering, for cooling and fitting stuff in, is one of the best, and I love the work they do.
But do you really think you're going to get that 499$ expandable Mac? Do you really think that's going to be what you were expecting? Apple is notorious now for laptop parts in desktops. They want to make high margins. That's how Steve rolls. I really doubt you're going to get an open platform.
And, who wants to be tied down to Apple? Really? Assuming it would come with a Core 2 Duo E4500 or Pentium-DC5200, with the exception of a PCIE slot I could do better for the same price with a Shuttle. Need PCIE? Well, I know there's one with the CN896 boards by VIA, so you might get lucky and get a dual-core Nano sooner than your hoped for.
Or you get yourself a miniDTX board and get your PCIE slot like that. For less and more open.
Apple is not going to move down in pricing. To do that is death for a company like that. They can't move units like Dell or HP can, because their customer service sucks. (I'm not going to remove 40 screws to pull out a hard drive, I'm not going to mail you my stuff, I want you here tomorrow or you're taking all this shit back) The only people who Dell and HP make a profit on for low-margin units are enterprise/business users. A few million desktops a day making a couple bucks each in true profit is the way they roll, and Apple just can't compete.
So yeah, I'd love it. But don't kid yourself. Apple knows that if people are willing to buy a 600$ mac mini because it runs OSX, they have no reason to make OSX more open or give them a mini-tower mac; what exactly is the point of a tower mac? I could buy a Dell Vostro for 300$ and get better parts. Better quality? On a tower?!? How much better can you get? OSX? What real advantage does it have?
If they want to do it, good for them. But I hope they realise they'll never make a profit with it.
Except that euro focus looks dangerously close to the Honda element... Not nice looking at all. It looks like a brick.
I don't know, the way Harper is rolling lately is looking very dangerous.
A US sockpuppet, won't tax the tarsands, helped bring in C-61 (effectively why I keep supporting my liberal MP, he acted against it, and proposed legislation for net neutrality), is a general jerk all around, has terrible ministers (stockwell day?... the cast from air farce is rolling in their graves. and the foreign affairs minister who left his docs at his ex girlfriend's? the industry minister who said Ontario is not the right place for industrial companies?) etc.
Sorry but Harper's a dick. I don't mind him in a minority still leading the way; you can have him however you like him. But seeing him in the majority, we might as well elect Bush.
I think we all realise at this point that the Bloc Quebecois is more likely to win the federal election than the NDP. As for the Liberals, yeah, Dion can be a bit weak; but looking at Harper who's a complete vulture, who would you rather have?
(and again, I'd rather see Dion win, with a minority; at least this way Harper will keep him in check... I'm afraid of Dion being a wimp when it comes to facing Harper.)
US is still the number one manufacturer by far; twice and a half of its next-in-line, Germany IIRC. You have nothing to worry about...
Oh, and I really doubt countries like Canada could ever survive without American funds. Even back in the Bad Old Days we wouldn't consider cutting ourselves off entirely...
China collecting US debt?... Um, wouldn't that rape them twice over?...
The US is in a bad situation right now. But if you can get out of Iraq things will be much better, I'm highly confident things will be back to "normal". Iraq was horrible because it showed people like Hezbollah that Bush (by extension the US) has no teeth. And a world with these fearless terrorrisers is not one I think anyone would want to live in, except the extremists in the PRC's government.
Um, yeah, about that. Do you mind coming now and voting against our idiots in charge? Or at least helping us mince them to minority? (I like the way that turns out; government oversteps, smacked into elections) ... because if Harper wins a majority I'm moving to the US...
Hate to reply twice for nothing, but disregard my other reply; all I can find is fanboy material. I'd have to say though it's a non-starter and that the HD4870X2 is clearly the way to go.
Well, it seems the GTX280 is faster; but the margin at that point seems to be so small, for a card so pricey (isn't it still 500$-600$? I thought I saw a X2 for 300$-400$...).
I too am a long-time liberal (but just because we have a liberal MP and MPPs) and love Jack Layton.
I don't like the NDP (sorry, too socialist for me) but he is an honest, hard-working man. I never liked him before because during the debates in the last elections he was constantly going on "Oh vote NDP we're different we're better!" etc. While watching the french debates (I was planning on watching Joe Biden beat up Palin) though he changed for the better; although he's no Duceppe in terms of slamming everyone in the debates he's getting there.
Now, if only Jack Layton ran for Liberal, then I'd vote for him. ;P
(or NDP in my riding... you can easily tell everyone except for the liberal and possibly green candidates were shoe-horned by their friends and are really terrible.)
Um, Jobs? As in Steve Jobs?
The man is brilliant in business execution, sure. But to put him on the same level of Einstein/Mozart/Newton?... But I guess we were long due for a business idol. And except for the dictator-aspect, he's a pretty cool guy.
(and her? him is generic/male... women; if you take offense at him, look at this way: you always brace for the worst. :) )
ATI is definitely leading per-watt, but are you sure on performance?
Yes. The HD4870X2 beats the GTX260 and challenges the GTX280 from what I've seen. The HD4870 for its price is simply unbeatable, same for the HD4850, it just has GDDR3 RAM and a one-slot cooler, lower clocks too maybe. The HD4670 is the HD3870 in a smaller package. And it's supposed to sell for less than 120$. The HD4550 and HD4350, although not necessarily powerful, are likely as good as the HD3650, and one is passively cooled, the other is half-height.
So yes, ATI has the market cornered.
With a powerful microscope, you can read the data of an SD card.
Assuming we've got people lurking here for more serious advice, an SD card is never the way to go.
I'd say mix movie DVD with data DVD, and post it. Or SSH back home. Truecrypt volumes, not total encryption; I would seriously suspect you if you had total encryption, to be honest. But volume encryption? Good luck figuring it out.
I think, and my thoughts cross the barrier into the synapses of the machine, just as the good doctor intended.
Oh, thanks. Because that's what I was saying, that it's a chore. And suddenly being unable to reply to you in english is such a great offense? What about people with fat fingers and small keyboards? Automatically shitty typists?
I'm not a shitty typist; the entire post took me a minute or two to type out with the occasional pause to think about what to write.
No spellchecking either, so I'm constantly backspacing any errors. It's just a fact, for me at least, typing is uncomfortable, and I feel very irritated when I have to. It's just not fun. Be it with a more clickity keyboard, or worse a "soft touch" hybrid (ie not the gel kind, but the hard-keys-just-a-tiny-feel, where after a point I feel like I have CTS). Maybe it's just because of how I'm sitting or where my desk is... But I doubt that.
The computer doesn't understand me. My hands do.
Wine. Is not. A fucking. Emulator.