The article didn't discuss how the unit interacts
with Macrovision mangled input. That seems like a key issue for transfering many source media. It is
'not an issue' because it works, or a hidden gotcha?
Hmmm, I have two k7s5a machines, and I can't get the sound on Return to Wolfenstein to work for beans.
They only work with zero h/w acceleration, and then the sound effects are like a second delayed from the action on the screen.
Now, I got them because Fry's was essentially giving them away for about $5 more than the cost of the XP bundled with it, but neither is really satisfactory as is.
A friend of mine has operated a website called www.afm.com for quite some time. "AFM" stands for American Flea Market. A little while ago the American Film Marketing Assocation disputed the domain, saying that he was cybersquatting on their trademark. Their complaint filled a four-inch binder. He's operated the domain for several years before hearing from these jokers.
Real estate in California is cheap enough for this too, if you build it near Redding, or Eureka, or Nevada City. And if you live near one of those places, you have about as much time as the guy in Oklahoma.
When I started doing OS programming, there was a story going around about the then-new F-18's display computer. The symptom being reported was 'under such and such conditions, the display flickers'. It turned out it had gotten into some mode where it was rebooting nearly constantly. (AMD 2900 bit/slice processor, if I recall).
This was 1980.
It got fixed.
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easy-- following the logic, when you put them on shuffle play in your cd changer, the newer ones are louder. By the logic PolySutra A&R, this makes the new ones better.
No one, it seems, is really talking about the capabilities of the replacement "Webb" telescope. Shouldn't we be thinking of the Hubble as the 386 that through servicing has had P-II "overdrive" added, but is basically due for replacement with a
spiffy new Opteron? We could put a metaphorical new
drive in the old one, but that chassis is getting old, and the power supply needs to be upgraded too.
At some point, it's better to swap the whole box out.
The problem is whether the Webb is really going to happen on time. And unlike that old 386, we can't leave the Hubble in the space closet running
some appliance application under linux, because it will fall back sooner or later, and that needs to be controlled.
"What if a fraction of that number, say 500 people, died every year in an attempt to increase humanity's capability to get off this rock. Would that be such a tragedy?"
It would be a tragedy if it's a huge fraction of those who are qualified to work on such things, after you have invested in their education and training. Consider the disruption if 500 military pilots were killed in a year. It would not be a cost-effective way of moving forward. You have to keep the losses to 1% per sortie were not endurable in wartime)
In contrast, 42,000 of 280,000,000 is around.02%/yr, * 80 year lifetime = 1.6% chance of being killed in a car crash.
Whether it's unilateral or with world consensus, we need to be able to get planes over targets. With world wide basing for ground based air becoming more
difficult, carriers remain relevant. Much dancing and spinning was done to get enough carriers near Iraq, with extended deployments. We'll need to have some near Liberia soon. Having these things is a cost of being a superpower.
An interesting question is whether we can shrink the size of the supporting battlegroup around a carrier in these times of reduced naval competition.
Independant of pointless pissing contests about politics, Reagan was a notable president. I'd fully expect there to be a significant ship named
after Clinton some time in the future.
I was going to mod the parent "overrated", but it wasn't worth the points, so I'll argue it here.
The poster just didn't read the article.
First, he naively says that the file is there "instantly" if you transmit it. That's not
true for big files, which will take size/bandwidth
to arrive. It does you no good to get the first file if you need all of them anyway.
Second, the bandwidth is NOT cheaper than the postage. That's one of the main
points. A gigabit OC line costs significant money, and even it is goign to take a day to ship a terrabyte. For the $200 shipping, Gray can send
several terrabytes overnight. The shipping is cheaper than the bandwidth. Geez, he actually talks about the numbers, and works them through, and people still don't read/believe it.
Another poster talked about tapes - which you have to laboriously load at the receiving site. When Gray ships the whole computer, it arrives as an
instantly available NAS file server with the data.
This is way more useable.
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When you play sports with officiating, you learn that Powers That Be are usually close enough to right, but are also often arbitrary, wrong, and there's nothing you can do about it at the time
but live with it.
With what little market cap SCO has, and the number of affected shareholders, they are irrelevant. The smart ones already got out with this year's many time gain, so by that measure, the current management has done a good job.
SCO may be bogus, but not insanely, criminally fraudulent like Enron. So it's a bad analogy.
SCO is not the next Enron because (a) they don't have a market cap of many billions to lose on their collapse; (b) they won't take many people's life savings down when they go; (c) they don't have tens of thousands of employees to strand.
Careful, lest you start believing your own hyperbole.
I don't have one, or know who they are. It looks like
it has the insulation, uses the naked aluminum can,
and realistically give the likely temperature drop per hour - 8 or 10 degrees.
There's plenty of cartoons on Saturday morning. My kids watch 'em just like I did. They're just not on the big networks anymore, they're on all the cable/sat channels. Heck, there's more now than there ever used to be, and except for the Scooby Do reruns that are as stupid now as they were when I was insulted by them as first run, they are better. This all started about the time Ted Turner put up for Captain Planet.
Now, my kids like the DirecTivo a lot, and may be moving into anime rather than what's actually on Saturday morning, but I insist i'm right.
The SR71 itself is in that category-- except for the satellites that replaced it.
The SS United States as the transatlantic ribbon holder is probably a good example. No one has felt the need to build a large, very fast passenger ship since.
I guess a distinction being made by the original poster is that there really isn't a faster/better way to get a real person from here to there beyond the Concorde. The spy sats don't do everything the SR71 did, but a lot of it and others. Jets killed ocean liners as transportation devices. But if you absolutely need to get the body on the ground, without Concord it's Mach.85 for you.
OK, how about Apollo capsules? We haven't had anything that takes people as fast as that, and they've been retired for about 30 years. We didn't think we needed the capability at the price.
These are the "consumer" notebooks, not the "business grade" versions. Similar story holds for desktops from HP/Compaq -- you can get Athlons in "home" use models, but not the corporate ones.
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Now, I got them because Fry's was essentially giving them away for about $5 more than the cost of the XP bundled with it, but neither is really satisfactory as is.
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heh, that's funny, because when I read AFM, I first thought about the American Federation of Musicians" at afm.org.
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This was 1980.
It got fixed.
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The problem is whether the Webb is really going to happen on time. And unlike that old 386, we can't leave the Hubble in the space closet running some appliance application under linux, because it will fall back sooner or later, and that needs to be controlled.
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It would be a tragedy if it's a huge fraction of those who are qualified to work on such things, after you have invested in their education and training. Consider the disruption if 500 military pilots were killed in a year. It would not be a cost-effective way of moving forward. You have to keep the losses to 1% per sortie were not endurable in wartime)
In contrast, 42,000 of 280,000,000 is around .02%/yr, * 80 year lifetime = 1.6% chance of being killed in a car crash.
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An interesting question is whether we can shrink the size of the supporting battlegroup around a carrier in these times of reduced naval competition.
Independant of pointless pissing contests about politics, Reagan was a notable president. I'd fully expect there to be a significant ship named after Clinton some time in the future.
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The poster just didn't read the article.
First, he naively says that the file is there "instantly" if you transmit it. That's not true for big files, which will take size/bandwidth to arrive. It does you no good to get the first file if you need all of them anyway.
Second, the bandwidth is NOT cheaper than the postage. That's one of the main points. A gigabit OC line costs significant money, and even it is goign to take a day to ship a terrabyte. For the $200 shipping, Gray can send several terrabytes overnight. The shipping is cheaper than the bandwidth. Geez, he actually talks about the numbers, and works them through, and people still don't read/believe it.
Another poster talked about tapes - which you have to laboriously load at the receiving site. When Gray ships the whole computer, it arrives as an instantly available NAS file server with the data. This is way more useable.
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SCO may be bogus, but not insanely, criminally fraudulent like Enron. So it's a bad analogy.
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Careful, lest you start believing your own hyperbole.
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I don't have one, or know who they are. It looks like it has the insulation, uses the naked aluminum can, and realistically give the likely temperature drop per hour - 8 or 10 degrees.
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Now, my kids like the DirecTivo a lot, and may be moving into anime rather than what's actually on Saturday morning, but I insist i'm right.
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The SS United States as the transatlantic ribbon holder is probably a good example. No one has felt the need to build a large, very fast passenger ship since.
I guess a distinction being made by the original poster is that there really isn't a faster/better way to get a real person from here to there beyond the Concorde. The spy sats don't do everything the SR71 did, but a lot of it and others. Jets killed ocean liners as transportation devices. But if you absolutely need to get the body on the ground, without Concord it's Mach .85 for you.
OK, how about Apollo capsules? We haven't had anything that takes people as fast as that, and they've been retired for about 30 years. We didn't think we needed the capability at the price.
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It's a consipiracy, I'm sure of