Aside from power requirements of most modern expandable computers introducing the need for cooling, interference is an important factor.
When you have an internal power supply, the case shields against outside and emitted interference. You can shield the external power supply, but it is harder to effectively shield the multiple DC conductors that must go from the power supply to the PC. Inside the case, it is a much more controlled environment. This helps with stability a lot, considering components in modern PC's have to have over 1GHz of timing accuracy. Also, you don't have to make a cosmetically pleasing case for an internal power supply (unless your chasis is translucent), but you have to make it less than an eye-sore if it sits on the floor or desk. That extra casing introduces more costs.
It is more like RFC821 is obsolete now that 2821 exists, but 821 will still be used by some. There is a transitional period, and backwards compatability is important.
It is quite impressive that the originial specifications were in use that long. It is good to see changes, especially modifications for current practices. But to think that the old RFCs held up this long is quite amazing. They may not seem ideal now, but it takes some very good planning to make something work that long across such a wide time frame and user base.
When I was in college (graduated in 2000) every family member, family friend, etc. who asked what my degree was responded "CS? That is where the money is! Good choice!" Sure, the money is better than education or geology, but this comment made me sick. I decided to pursue a CS career many years before the Internet gold rush, simply because I loved computers. What could be better than picking a degree and a career where I get to "play" with expensive toys all day? And throughout my education and in my short work experience, I have noticed a huge difference in the quality of work coming from people who chose an IT or other CS job for the money/availability over the people who actually love the work.
This kind of even is good for future generations of engineers and scientists. Even if they don't decide they would like to work for NASA, this is the type of event that will ignite a desire to learn about science in children, and hopefully it will encourage parents to help their children learn.
1.7GHz is probably not much different than 1GHz, or even 500MHz to the average user. The only real difference the average user will notice is when they get the bill. And of course there are bragging rights.
Juries may be dumb, but no jury is going to award $5,000,000,000.00. If a jury did, the judge would most likely over-rule and significantly reduce the damages. This isn't like the tobacco cases where millions of people were directly affected, thousands of dollars lost per person. This lawyer just thinks he can destroy the gaming business and get a sweet comission to retire with. Apparently those familiar with him know him as a little off-the-rocker.
I guess Sourceforge provides a better home for all of the projects. Combined with changes in the industry, it looks like there wasn't enought business for BeOpen to stay open.
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Exactly. And voicemail only works when we don't answer the phone. If you were expecting someone to call, and instead got several phone calls for issues that can wait, you lose a lot of time. You can read and respond to email when it best fits your schedule, and you can skim it or paste in a form response. You can do a similar thing on the phone, but then you sound insincere or might miss important details and waste more time having the caller repeat details.
I just return all junk mail from previous tenants. It seems to work too. If you return it with a note on it "No such resident" then the post office will start returning it for you, unless it says "Or Current Resident" in which case you have to hope that the company you return it to takes a hint and takes your address off their list.
Not if you consider the available APIs, DDKs and SDKs. Sure some are coming along, some have been around and just needed hardware support, etc. But as long as a huge portion of the PC gaming market is in Windows, it is going to be hard to get all of the pieces to fall in to place for Linux to be a successful gaming platform. Loki is certainly helping, and games like Quake 3 show the power of Linux. But the power behind the PC gaming industry is money. That is why DirectX is so common, and why we have trouble getting Linux drivers from certain 3D game manufacturers. The few games I play are great in Linux. But for most of my gamer friends, Windows (or a Mac for some of them) is the only way to get their fix.
Think that one through. It is a port, which runs 4-6 times faster than the PCI bus, which is the reason for its existence. The whole point of AGP is to have faster access to the CPU and main memory from the graphics card than a PCI bus can provide.
And if you can't get your apps to run in that memory footprint, run ethernet to it and use it as an X-Terminal. That has the added benefit of allowing a central computer access to all the applications, so you could perhaps turn the lights out in the living room from your bedroom, etc.
This could be a great thing for the mobile computing industry. But I remain skeptical of anyone releasing these types of performance metrics this advanced. It smells like they want an investing boost, so they released some very optimistic numbers based on optimistic trends. Don't get me wrong, I love optimism, but this just smells fishy. Think about it, it is unusually to hear this type of metric released before the factory has even been built. It isn't just for the protection of the consumer, but for the protection the companyy making the product. If they fail to meet targets, they will quickly loose value, which has a huge cost to the company.
That skepticism aside, I hope these batteries meet their promises!
We have already seen that there is great demand for broadband- so much that it outstrips the providers' ability to keep up with demand. Add to that the amazing hassles of getting DSL. This would allow us to take our personal connection (or work connection if you're lucky enough to have a boss subsidize it) to the office, even the park. I'm not saying I would surf the web everywhere I go, but it should be nice to not have to spend the whole day at a desk. And the deployment areas could be much wider than DSL. I can't wait.
We have to remember that a cool business plan is not always a good business plan. In fact, the only reason he was able to get any real funding was because of the excessive optimism when he first started. With the huge competitors selling their hardware at a loss, there was no way this was going to take off.
All the WinCE users I know have to use the paperclip reset button several times a day, and I just can't imagine it being useful. So power to kill one or two processes can't be too much of a bad sign, although it shouldn't be the claim to fame for sure.
Not true. A very large number of Telocity's customers are actually on BellSouth (including me) and BellAtlantic's networks, and even Covad is used in some areas. In Los Angeles and New York they used NorthPoint heavily, but are switching to PacBell/Verizon.
The difference is that SETI@Home results go straight to SETI. The results for Oxford are sent, along with other results for programs the user has no idea what they are doing (could be designing nuclear weapons for all we know hehe) go to UD, who splits them up and then sends them to Oxford. If Oxford made the complete distributed cancer research project, including distribution and collection (like SETI) then trust wouldn't be a problem for most people.
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Aside from power requirements of most modern expandable computers introducing the need for cooling, interference is an important factor.
When you have an internal power supply, the case shields against outside and emitted interference. You can shield the external power supply, but it is harder to effectively shield the multiple DC conductors that must go from the power supply to the PC. Inside the case, it is a much more controlled environment. This helps with stability a lot, considering components in modern PC's have to have over 1GHz of timing accuracy. Also, you don't have to make a cosmetically pleasing case for an internal power supply (unless your chasis is translucent), but you have to make it less than an eye-sore if it sits on the floor or desk. That extra casing introduces more costs.
It is more like RFC821 is obsolete now that 2821 exists, but 821 will still be used by some. There is a transitional period, and backwards compatability is important.
It is quite impressive that the originial specifications were in use that long. It is good to see changes, especially modifications for current practices. But to think that the old RFCs held up this long is quite amazing. They may not seem ideal now, but it takes some very good planning to make something work that long across such a wide time frame and user base.
When I was in college (graduated in 2000) every family member, family friend, etc. who asked what my degree was responded "CS? That is where the money is! Good choice!" Sure, the money is better than education or geology, but this comment made me sick. I decided to pursue a CS career many years before the Internet gold rush, simply because I loved computers. What could be better than picking a degree and a career where I get to "play" with expensive toys all day? And throughout my education and in my short work experience, I have noticed a huge difference in the quality of work coming from people who chose an IT or other CS job for the money/availability over the people who actually love the work.
This kind of even is good for future generations of engineers and scientists. Even if they don't decide they would like to work for NASA, this is the type of event that will ignite a desire to learn about science in children, and hopefully it will encourage parents to help their children learn.
1.7GHz is probably not much different than 1GHz, or even 500MHz to the average user. The only real difference the average user will notice is when they get the bill. And of course there are bragging rights.
Juries may be dumb, but no jury is going to award $5,000,000,000.00. If a jury did, the judge would most likely over-rule and significantly reduce the damages. This isn't like the tobacco cases where millions of people were directly affected, thousands of dollars lost per person. This lawyer just thinks he can destroy the gaming business and get a sweet comission to retire with. Apparently those familiar with him know him as a little off-the-rocker.
I hope this case turns out like the Iomega class action case. Instead of a cash settlement, they should offer rebates on purchases of new video games.
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I guess Sourceforge provides a better home for all of the projects. Combined with changes in the industry, it looks like there wasn't enought business for BeOpen to stay open.
Exactly. And voicemail only works when we don't answer the phone. If you were expecting someone to call, and instead got several phone calls for issues that can wait, you lose a lot of time. You can read and respond to email when it best fits your schedule, and you can skim it or paste in a form response. You can do a similar thing on the phone, but then you sound insincere or might miss important details and waste more time having the caller repeat details.
I just return all junk mail from previous tenants. It seems to work too. If you return it with a note on it "No such resident" then the post office will start returning it for you, unless it says "Or Current Resident" in which case you have to hope that the company you return it to takes a hint and takes your address off their list.
I'm still waiting on a War Craft II port, then I'll have all my bases covered.
Not if you consider the available APIs, DDKs and SDKs. Sure some are coming along, some have been around and just needed hardware support, etc. But as long as a huge portion of the PC gaming market is in Windows, it is going to be hard to get all of the pieces to fall in to place for Linux to be a successful gaming platform. Loki is certainly helping, and games like Quake 3 show the power of Linux. But the power behind the PC gaming industry is money. That is why DirectX is so common, and why we have trouble getting Linux drivers from certain 3D game manufacturers. The few games I play are great in Linux. But for most of my gamer friends, Windows (or a Mac for some of them) is the only way to get their fix.
Yeah. Doesn't AGP still run on the PCI bus, too?
Think that one through. It is a port, which runs 4-6 times faster than the PCI bus, which is the reason for its existence. The whole point of AGP is to have faster access to the CPU and main memory from the graphics card than a PCI bus can provide.
And if you can't get your apps to run in that memory footprint, run ethernet to it and use it as an X-Terminal. That has the added benefit of allowing a central computer access to all the applications, so you could perhaps turn the lights out in the living room from your bedroom, etc.
In terms of numbers, yes, but at least mine's still under warranty. :-) Not for long though at this rate.
My car's odomoeter will roll over to 12345 in 93 miles.
This could be a great thing for the mobile computing industry. But I remain skeptical of anyone releasing these types of performance metrics this advanced. It smells like they want an investing boost, so they released some very optimistic numbers based on optimistic trends. Don't get me wrong, I love optimism, but this just smells fishy. Think about it, it is unusually to hear this type of metric released before the factory has even been built. It isn't just for the protection of the consumer, but for the protection the companyy making the product. If they fail to meet targets, they will quickly loose value, which has a huge cost to the company.
That skepticism aside, I hope these batteries meet their promises!
I'm afraid to scan my food packaging's bar codes.
We have already seen that there is great demand for broadband- so much that it outstrips the providers' ability to keep up with demand. Add to that the amazing hassles of getting DSL. This would allow us to take our personal connection (or work connection if you're lucky enough to have a boss subsidize it) to the office, even the park. I'm not saying I would surf the web everywhere I go, but it should be nice to not have to spend the whole day at a desk. And the deployment areas could be much wider than DSL. I can't wait.
We have to remember that a cool business plan is not always a good business plan. In fact, the only reason he was able to get any real funding was because of the excessive optimism when he first started. With the huge competitors selling their hardware at a loss, there was no way this was going to take off.
Keep in mind that the screen is only 160240x4bit greyscale. So not nearly as much as it uses on your desktop.
All the WinCE users I know have to use the paperclip reset button several times a day, and I just can't imagine it being useful. So power to kill one or two processes can't be too much of a bad sign, although it shouldn't be the claim to fame for sure.
Not true. A very large number of Telocity's customers are actually on BellSouth (including me) and BellAtlantic's networks, and even Covad is used in some areas. In Los Angeles and New York they used NorthPoint heavily, but are switching to PacBell/Verizon.
The difference is that SETI@Home results go straight to SETI. The results for Oxford are sent, along with other results for programs the user has no idea what they are doing (could be designing nuclear weapons for all we know hehe) go to UD, who splits them up and then sends them to Oxford. If Oxford made the complete distributed cancer research project, including distribution and collection (like SETI) then trust wouldn't be a problem for most people.