Why not just make the browser more key interactive and put your hand back on the keyboard where it belongs?:)
Because, the keyboard is a text input device that's good for text input. The mouse is a 2D input device that's good for navigating 2D spaces. The web (these days) is a (layered) 2D space. Hence, the mouse is the best (common) tool for navigating it. Why not make the browser more key-friendly? Because you'd have to make the web more key-friendly first, and that'd be fucking tough.
...take a nice long look at Microsoft, a company that... is one of the richest and most successful companies in the history of mankind, based solely on OS sales...
You couldn't be more wrong, and the reason you're wrong is the same reason that Apple'll never port OS X to x86. MS is not, repeat,
NOT an OS company.
They do make an OS, sure, and it even makes a few bucks, but Microsoft, for all intents and purposes, sells only one thing, and it's not Windows. It's a little office suite called MICROSOFT OFFICE!!
If Apple switches to x86 and MS says no office, guess what? OS X is relegated to the hobbyist market, and as BeOS/OS/2/Name-your-failed-OS learned, you can't survive in the hobbyist market.
Develop and sell Mac0S for x86. You'll be glad you did.
Develop and sell MacOS X for x86 and get shut out of the business market forever.
Develop and sell Mac0S for x86. You'll be glad you did.
One thing you can say about MS, is that their mice (I know the didn't design them, but they were the first) are damned good. Even swiping is harder than just hitting the back button on my mouse. Really, any mouse with less than 5 buttons is a kids toy to me now. I have five fingers, for God's sake, why not use them?
I was going to do that as well... but pacbell/sbc *requires* that you maintain "basic monthly service" on a telephone in order to be "eligible" for DSL.... pricks.
hmm.... anyone want to join a class action law suit against pacbell / sbc with me?
No, this makes sense. You are using
their lines for the DSL, so they have to be connected even if you're not going to make a single phone call. If you get DSL with a company other than your local telco (PacBell for me, I live in Santa Cruz and have DSL through Cruzio), your ISP must see a telephone number for you in order to determine if your line can carry DSL. In other words, it's not too agregious for PacBell to charge a few bucks a month for the telephone line, even if you're not using it for telephone.
Don't get me wrong, it still sucks, you just couldn't sue them for it.
This means the memory subsystem can keep BOTH processors completely saturated.
I don't thik so... This is the case of the Athlon, but that's for a very strange and unusual reason. Ever wonder why dual Athlon mobos cost so much? It's because the processor bus on the Athlon is point-to-point. That means each processor has its own bus, its own set of traces on the mobo. With a dual Athlon, 333MHz memory makes sense because even though each CPU bus is only 266, there are two independent buses. Each processor can use a full 266MHz of bandwidth at the same time.
The G4 bus (to the best of my knowledge--please provide link proving me wrong) isn't point to poit, just like the P3/P4/Xeon bus isn't point to point. That means all the processors share the SAME 133MHz bus. So, no, two G4 processors can't each use 133MHz of bandwidth to the memory at the same time. G4s, like their shared processor bus cousins the P4 and Xeon, must share their processor bus across the board.
The DDR memory is a good thing to be sure, and the memory subsystem could keep both CPUs saturated, but it can't. In fact, in standard SMP mobos (i.e. non-Athlon/Alpha dual mobos) there is NO way to ever saturate both CPUs.
Hope that helped.
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as i said. who cares.
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It's an LCD. It's not like a monitor that flickers. The glow is fully solid, it's just to color of the pixels that refresh at 56Hz. That's plenty fast when the whole damn thing ain't flashing at you.
Sysadmin day, of course, assumes you've got one. I work at a Legal Aid office and we, like so many other small non-profits, haven't got any IT staff at all. So that leaves me, the lowly intern, as not only gopher, typist and receptionist, but de facto Sysadmin, even though I don't know shit about Netware, etc.
Yesterday was "meet with homeless schizophrenic man while battling with NT Forms and the LaserJet's new memory that, of course, I bought from Crucial.com with my own money because it was so damned slow I wanted to kill myself" day. Today is "write 22 angry letters to slum lords trying to evict single mothers for absolutely nothing, while teaching the attorney the joys of Mozilla" day.
You quote 4.8KW-hours per day for a headless box. Prob about right, but multiply by two (which, speaking as someone who has seen the elec bills of a server room, is about right) to account for things like lighting (a tiny bit) and air-con (a huge expense) and UPS systems. So we have 9.6KW-hours/day per box. Electricity in CA (where google is) is around $.22/KWH on the commercial scale, not a nickel (you must live in the east). So you're off by a factor of ten, but still, $25,000 is a lot less than the $1.2mil/day that the original poster blathered about.
None as far as I could tell. From the Samsung press release it looks as if the chipset IBM developed isn't a "chipset" as you're using the term. You're thinking Northbridge (or MCH in Intelspeak), i.e. a "chipset" that controls your CPU, memory, AGP, IDE, PCI, (and in combo with a Southbridge, or ICH in Intelspeak) USB, Parallel, Serial, ADB, ISA, IrDA, Audio, SmartCard, or whatever.
The IBM-developed DDR-II chipset in question here is simply a memory controller, i.e. a small (but important) part of the Northbridge in what you're calling a chipset.
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As far as I know, Theo doesn't do crack. Justin Frankel (of Winamp/Nullsoft fame) on the other hand...
As another poster said, the "sue" clause only applies to patent lawsuits. Stop spreading FUD.
Obligitory Zoolander quote.
I did a lot of looking myself in the hopes of building a silent computer.
Caseoutlet.com seems to be by far the best.
- You couldn't be more wrong, and the reason you're wrong is the same reason that Apple'll never port OS X to x86. MS is not, repeat,
- NOT an OS company.
Develop and sell Mac0S for x86. You'll be glad you did.They do make an OS, sure, and it even makes a few bucks, but Microsoft, for all intents and purposes, sells only one thing, and it's not Windows. It's a little office suite called MICROSOFT OFFICE!!
If Apple switches to x86 and MS says no office, guess what? OS X is relegated to the hobbyist market, and as BeOS/OS/2/Name-your-failed-OS learned, you can't survive in the hobbyist market.
- Develop and sell MacOS X for x86 and get shut out of the business market forever.
Develop and sell Mac0S for x86. You'll be glad you did.One thing you can say about MS, is that their mice (I know the didn't design them, but they were the first) are damned good. Even swiping is harder than just hitting the back button on my mouse. Really, any mouse with less than 5 buttons is a kids toy to me now. I have five fingers, for God's sake, why not use them?
hmm.... anyone want to join a class action law suit against pacbell / sbc with me?
Don't get me wrong, it still sucks, you just couldn't sue them for it.
Also, take a look at dome docs on the AGP controller for the G4...
There are two processors.
This means the memory subsystem can keep BOTH processors completely saturated.
I don't thik so... This is the case of the Athlon, but that's for a very strange and unusual reason. Ever wonder why dual Athlon mobos cost so much? It's because the processor bus on the Athlon is point-to-point. That means each processor has its own bus, its own set of traces on the mobo. With a dual Athlon, 333MHz memory makes sense because even though each CPU bus is only 266, there are two independent buses. Each processor can use a full 266MHz of bandwidth at the same time.
The G4 bus (to the best of my knowledge--please provide link proving me wrong) isn't point to poit, just like the P3/P4/Xeon bus isn't point to point. That means all the processors share the SAME 133MHz bus. So, no, two G4 processors can't each use 133MHz of bandwidth to the memory at the same time. G4s, like their shared processor bus cousins the P4 and Xeon, must share their processor bus across the board.
The DDR memory is a good thing to be sure, and the memory subsystem could keep both CPUs saturated, but it can't. In fact, in standard SMP mobos (i.e. non-Athlon/Alpha dual mobos) there is NO way to ever saturate both CPUs.
Hope that helped.
as i said. who cares.
It's an LCD. It's not like a monitor that flickers. The glow is fully solid, it's just to color of the pixels that refresh at 56Hz. That's plenty fast when the whole damn thing ain't flashing at you.
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Sysadmin day, of course, assumes you've got one. I work at a Legal Aid office and we, like so many other small non-profits, haven't got any IT staff at all. So that leaves me, the lowly intern, as not only gopher, typist and receptionist, but de facto Sysadmin, even though I don't know shit about Netware, etc.
Yesterday was "meet with homeless schizophrenic man while battling with NT Forms and the LaserJet's new memory that, of course, I bought from Crucial.com with my own money because it was so damned slow I wanted to kill myself" day. Today is "write 22 angry letters to slum lords trying to evict single mothers for absolutely nothing, while teaching the attorney the joys of Mozilla" day.
Damn. I wish I had a Sysadmin to appreciate.
Not to be cliche or anything, and I'm sure you could see this one coming a million miles away,
but what happens when it crashes?
Hahahahaha!!!
- "Sic 'em up, little buddy."
It's a quote from Sam and Max hit the road. Google, my dear man. Google.You quote 4.8KW-hours per day for a headless box. Prob about right, but multiply by two (which, speaking as someone who has seen the elec bills of a server room, is about right) to account for things like lighting (a tiny bit) and air-con (a huge expense) and UPS systems. So we have 9.6KW-hours/day per box. Electricity in CA (where google is) is around $.22/KWH on the commercial scale, not a nickel (you must live in the east). So you're off by a factor of ten, but still, $25,000 is a lot less than the $1.2mil/day that the original poster blathered about.
That's why monopolies are illegal.
- Nice troll. Your analogy, as best I can parse it, is: "Paper is to books as picture quality is to film." Your analogy doesn't really make sense.
Except that his analogy was Paper is to books as special effects are to films. Read the fucking post, or fix your parser. - ...what CPU does the chipset support...
None as far as I could tell. From the Samsung press release it looks as if the chipset IBM developed isn't a "chipset" as you're using the term. You're thinking Northbridge (or MCH in Intelspeak), i.e. a "chipset" that controls your CPU, memory, AGP, IDE, PCI, (and in combo with a Southbridge, or ICH in Intelspeak) USB, Parallel, Serial, ADB, ISA, IrDA, Audio, SmartCard, or whatever.The IBM-developed DDR-II chipset in question here is simply a memory controller, i.e. a small (but important) part of the Northbridge in what you're calling a chipset.
Most people don't like CDE, not because it comes from the Big Bad Companies, but because it's ugly and it sucks.
Buffering doesn't cut it the same way that dynamically changing bitrates to account for changing net conditions.
- i have read lotr hundreds of times
wow. that's sweet.