Fine, maybe I shouldn't have said "nobody" but the number of Windows licenses issued to "those testing Websites on IE" is miniscule. Until M$ decided to drop all non-Windows IE development, you didn't even need a Windows PC for this purpose... And with VirtualPC, VMWare, etc., you don't even need PC hardware.
I did that on my iPod--I put on Rockbox... Apple's latest 1.2.1 firmware screwed up playing some MP3 files (which worked fine before) and iTunes stopped supporting Windows 2000.
Now that I have Rockbox, I wonder why I didn't do it sooner...
What impact? Microsoft's shareholders don't care what the company does as long as the dough keeps rolling in... And it's rolling in--but for XP and not Vista. Case in point, how much money has M$ made on Internet Explorer? NONE. IE has been a total loss! Nobody ever bought a Windows PC "just to have IE". (Remember that as recently as 2000, IE5 was available for Macs, UNIX, and even Windows 3.1x!) To add, IE has cost M$ hundreds of millions in legal fees and EU sanctions... By definition, the shareholders should be revolting--but they're not.
M$ has many other products like SQL Server, Exchange, Windows Server, and Office that bring in the dough, even if Vista totally fails...
If M$ wants to write a check (another check?) to Wal-Mart so I can get a $98 HD-DVD player--completely subsidized by 5 free movies--then I'm all for that. Some free M$$$$$$$$$ coming my way for once...
Because PAE is a modern reincarnation of LIM EMS--i.e. "expanded memory". Expanded memory, not extended memory, allowed even an IBM XT from 1983 (or even an original IBM PC from 1981) to address as much as 32MB of RAM, provided your DOS-based app could use it. It was a (necessary) hack then and PAE's a hack now...
Oh, and Vista does have the ~3.2GB problem... See this M$ KB article.
- can't access 4G ram, or higher. Maxes out around 3.25G
Looking at articles on Tom's Hardware or Anandtech, this appears to be a BIOS/hardware issue--and Vista doesn't resolve it. Remember the good ol' days of DOS when even though your 386SX/16 had 1MB RAM, you could practially use only 640KB of it??? That's because hardware devices mapped to the area between 640K and 1MB. (Yes, you could use the A20 gate by way of HIMEM.SYS/DOS=HIGH and EMM386/QEMM to load your drivers into the UMB, but as much as 10% of the address space of your 1MB was already taken). Guess what--hardware addressing is back when you deal with 4GB of RAM and a 32-bit OS!!!
Basically the reviews on Anandtech & Tom's Hardware have drawn some interesting conclusions... In terms of write performance, some are significantly worse than most notebook HDs, but all are better in terms of read performance. The idle of SATA SSD drives are significantly worse than UDMA ones (0.5w vs. 0.05w).
Basically, do your research... How much speed you'll get depends on how they bank the flash chips. More banks of lower density chips will yield a higher transfer rate--but uses more power. (Good luck finding how any one brand of SSD drive is banked...) Tom's Hardware found that the Samsung 64GB SSD offered double the transfer rate than their 32GB SSD. Anandtech found the Transcend & Super Talent SSD's to be extremely weak offerings. But then again Anandtech found the MTRON 32GB SSD far superior to most other drives they tested.
Basically SSD drives help with bootup times but in mixed tests, only the MTRON SSD drives are near Raptor speed, but I found only one retailer that even sells them--and a 32GB one for $2336.95!!!
The big fear that I have with HD-DVD is that Toshiba announced over 2 years ago a triple-layer HD-DVD disc to compete with Blu-Ray's higher capacity. Aren't most of today's players only capable of playing dual-layer HD-DVDs? Are all of today's HD-DVD players heading for the scrap heap?
But then again, with the $99 HD-DVD specials, this is more of an environmental concern, not a financial one...
If the 2:1 ratio is true, then why would Sony make such statements??? Simple--most Blu-Ray sales are from the PS3. Blu-Ray may have a big lead in outright sales of drive mechanisms, but I doubt many PS3 owners watch more than the occasional Blu-Ray movie... They view the whole ability to play Blu-Ray movies as a "plus" whereas someone who's buying an HD-DVD player is buying it to watch movies.
Frankly, I'd love to see actual sales numbers of HD-DVD vs. Blu-Ray discs.
Why would someone who's European complain about such statements? After all, the Europeans bitch and moan about how ass-backwards and right-leaning the U.S. and Americans are while trying to give the impression that they're all-accepting, liberal, and open...
Does this article imply things aren't as rosy in Europe as I've been led to believe?
While AAPL wouldn't allow it, it opens the possibility of running OSX in a VM on a PC.
There's a new marketing plan that Apple should consider... Offer OSX to PC owners with a stripped-down version of Linux and an emulator, and Apple could get away with not having to support a myriad of hardware & their associated drivers...
But, alas, Stevie J. is too full of himself to consider what the consumers want...
Are you serious? Even Microsoft knows better than to submit 3rd-world kids to "the wow is now..."
Check the specs from http://www.classmatepc.com/... 900Mhz, 0 L2 (prominently featured on the page for some reason), 256MB RAM, 1 or 2GB flash, 800x480 screen. Somehow the 2GB version incredibly manages to fit XP Pro (why Pro?) and MS-Office.
Vista would look at this configuration and show a screen of Bill Gates laughing at the user. Hell I doubt even M$ could trim Vista down enough to run in such a configuration, given the bloated piece of crap Vista is. (I wonder what Vista's "experience rating" would be--0.2?)
Given the fact that this thing contains 1GB of Flash memory, how will XP run? Given the existence of Linux and other apps, the only option I can see is if the user is forced to format & replace the OS. I can't see any way they could coexist unless MS includes a replacement 2GB+ drive...
...against the upcoming class-action P2P lawsuits. Comcast will claim they were trying to save the Internet by messing with BitTorrent, Gnutella, and Lotus Notes traffic.
Robert Metcalfe predicted this in 1995. He literally ate his words (a printed InfoWorld article mixed with liquid in a blender) in front of an audience in 1997.
...actions are not. It's so sad how badly the US Government is addicted to corporate contriubtions and Congress is too inept to actually do something about it. One member going on-record complaining about it won't amount to shit...
...but I don't have to deal with any of this M$ bullshit by sticking with Windows 2000. Frankly, they hobbled it enough as it is, now it appears that it's XP's turn...
For those who don't understand how Usenet works, files are broken up into messages (IIRC, in a 7-bit format) and then transmitted. A Usenet reader of any recent vintage takes these messages and combines them, so you can get the particular (usually) RAR file. Now, most people think that killing one message (one file could be comprised of hundreds) is enough to kill the file, but with the advent of PAR utilities, the file could be easily fixed...
So, for this to be effective against any one program/video/MP3/etc., you'd have to send takedown notices for hundreds of messages. That task, on either end of the spectrum, would have to be daunting!
This is beginning of the end of the US-based news carriers...
Or better yet... If I post something on Usenet (using an NNTP provider that's not usenet.com) and usenet.com takes that post down as a request of the RIAA/MPAA, could I sue usenet.com?
"After thousands of tries, Microsoft was unable to utilize their brain-pattern recognition system under Vista. Every time a test subject's brain came up with 'Vista sucks', network utilization would drop to less than 3%, the system would become unresponsive, and eventually a UAC window would pop up requesting whether or not the user really meant that? The user's brain would reply 'yes' and the process would start over again in an infinite loop... Turning off UAC prior to running the experiment would crash the application, causing the contents of the user's brain to be dumped in an error report sent to the RIAA."
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Light can't even escape!
Until a cat is born with a freakin' laser on its head, then what's the use?
AOL still has enough money to give out free CDs???
Fine, maybe I shouldn't have said "nobody" but the number of Windows licenses issued to "those testing Websites on IE" is miniscule. Until M$ decided to drop all non-Windows IE development, you didn't even need a Windows PC for this purpose... And with VirtualPC, VMWare, etc., you don't even need PC hardware.
I did that on my iPod--I put on Rockbox... Apple's latest 1.2.1 firmware screwed up playing some MP3 files (which worked fine before) and iTunes stopped supporting Windows 2000.
Now that I have Rockbox, I wonder why I didn't do it sooner...
What impact? Microsoft's shareholders don't care what the company does as long as the dough keeps rolling in... And it's rolling in--but for XP and not Vista. Case in point, how much money has M$ made on Internet Explorer? NONE. IE has been a total loss! Nobody ever bought a Windows PC "just to have IE". (Remember that as recently as 2000, IE5 was available for Macs, UNIX, and even Windows 3.1x!) To add, IE has cost M$ hundreds of millions in legal fees and EU sanctions... By definition, the shareholders should be revolting--but they're not.
M$ has many other products like SQL Server, Exchange, Windows Server, and Office that bring in the dough, even if Vista totally fails...
If M$ wants to write a check (another check?) to Wal-Mart so I can get a $98 HD-DVD player--completely subsidized by 5 free movies--then I'm all for that. Some free M$$$$$$$$$ coming my way for once...
Because PAE is a modern reincarnation of LIM EMS--i.e. "expanded memory". Expanded memory, not extended memory, allowed even an IBM XT from 1983 (or even an original IBM PC from 1981) to address as much as 32MB of RAM, provided your DOS-based app could use it. It was a (necessary) hack then and PAE's a hack now...
Oh, and Vista does have the ~3.2GB problem... See this M$ KB article.
Geez, DV Nation's price is almost as shocking--$1500 vs. $2337...
Basically the reviews on Anandtech & Tom's Hardware have drawn some interesting conclusions... In terms of write performance, some are significantly worse than most notebook HDs, but all are better in terms of read performance. The idle of SATA SSD drives are significantly worse than UDMA ones (0.5w vs. 0.05w).
Basically, do your research... How much speed you'll get depends on how they bank the flash chips. More banks of lower density chips will yield a higher transfer rate--but uses more power. (Good luck finding how any one brand of SSD drive is banked...) Tom's Hardware found that the Samsung 64GB SSD offered double the transfer rate than their 32GB SSD. Anandtech found the Transcend & Super Talent SSD's to be extremely weak offerings. But then again Anandtech found the MTRON 32GB SSD far superior to most other drives they tested.
Basically SSD drives help with bootup times but in mixed tests, only the MTRON SSD drives are near Raptor speed, but I found only one retailer that even sells them--and a 32GB one for $2336.95 !!!
The big fear that I have with HD-DVD is that Toshiba announced over 2 years ago a triple-layer HD-DVD disc to compete with Blu-Ray's higher capacity. Aren't most of today's players only capable of playing dual-layer HD-DVDs? Are all of today's HD-DVD players heading for the scrap heap?
But then again, with the $99 HD-DVD specials, this is more of an environmental concern, not a financial one...
If the 2:1 ratio is true, then why would Sony make such statements??? Simple--most Blu-Ray sales are from the PS3. Blu-Ray may have a big lead in outright sales of drive mechanisms, but I doubt many PS3 owners watch more than the occasional Blu-Ray movie... They view the whole ability to play Blu-Ray movies as a "plus" whereas someone who's buying an HD-DVD player is buying it to watch movies.
Frankly, I'd love to see actual sales numbers of HD-DVD vs. Blu-Ray discs.
Why would someone who's European complain about such statements? After all, the Europeans bitch and moan about how ass-backwards and right-leaning the U.S. and Americans are while trying to give the impression that they're all-accepting, liberal, and open...
Does this article imply things aren't as rosy in Europe as I've been led to believe?
While AAPL wouldn't allow it, it opens the possibility of running OSX in a VM on a PC.
There's a new marketing plan that Apple should consider... Offer OSX to PC owners with a stripped-down version of Linux and an emulator, and Apple could get away with not having to support a myriad of hardware & their associated drivers...
But, alas, Stevie J. is too full of himself to consider what the consumers want...
Are you serious? Even Microsoft knows better than to submit 3rd-world kids to "the wow is now..."
... 900Mhz, 0 L2 (prominently featured on the page for some reason), 256MB RAM, 1 or 2GB flash, 800x480 screen. Somehow the 2GB version incredibly manages to fit XP Pro (why Pro?) and MS-Office.
Check the specs from http://www.classmatepc.com/
Vista would look at this configuration and show a screen of Bill Gates laughing at the user. Hell I doubt even M$ could trim Vista down enough to run in such a configuration, given the bloated piece of crap Vista is. (I wonder what Vista's "experience rating" would be--0.2?)
Given the fact that this thing contains 1GB of Flash memory, how will XP run? Given the existence of Linux and other apps, the only option I can see is if the user is forced to format & replace the OS. I can't see any way they could coexist unless MS includes a replacement 2GB+ drive...
...against the upcoming class-action P2P lawsuits. Comcast will claim they were trying to save the Internet by messing with BitTorrent, Gnutella, and Lotus Notes traffic.
Robert Metcalfe predicted this in 1995. He literally ate his words (a printed InfoWorld article mixed with liquid in a blender) in front of an audience in 1997.
...actions are not. It's so sad how badly the US Government is addicted to corporate contriubtions and Congress is too inept to actually do something about it. One member going on-record complaining about it won't amount to shit...
...but I don't have to deal with any of this M$ bullshit by sticking with Windows 2000. Frankly, they hobbled it enough as it is, now it appears that it's XP's turn...
For those who don't understand how Usenet works, files are broken up into messages (IIRC, in a 7-bit format) and then transmitted. A Usenet reader of any recent vintage takes these messages and combines them, so you can get the particular (usually) RAR file. Now, most people think that killing one message (one file could be comprised of hundreds) is enough to kill the file, but with the advent of PAR utilities, the file could be easily fixed...
So, for this to be effective against any one program/video/MP3/etc., you'd have to send takedown notices for hundreds of messages. That task, on either end of the spectrum, would have to be daunting!
This is beginning of the end of the US-based news carriers...
Or better yet... If I post something on Usenet (using an NNTP provider that's not usenet.com) and usenet.com takes that post down as a request of the RIAA/MPAA, could I sue usenet.com?
"After thousands of tries, Microsoft was unable to utilize their brain-pattern recognition system under Vista. Every time a test subject's brain came up with 'Vista sucks', network utilization would drop to less than 3%, the system would become unresponsive, and eventually a UAC window would pop up requesting whether or not the user really meant that? The user's brain would reply 'yes' and the process would start over again in an infinite loop... Turning off UAC prior to running the experiment would crash the application, causing the contents of the user's brain to be dumped in an error report sent to the RIAA."