Bear with me here, don't feel like sorting out all the quote markers to properly quote you.
You say you know plenty of people with more than one video card. Good, you probably are immersed in the tech world. Joe Sixpack has a generic beige box, usually with integrated graphics. This represents the majority of people's computers. Not to even mention the business world.
The GP references CrossfireX as ATI's version of SLI. True, and you can link two crossfireX capable cards like SLI. Unlike SLI, you can link an onboard GPU with a dedicated GPU in CrossfireX, which enables you to use that otherwise disabled card. Requires a capable motherboard and GPU of course, but it's not available (as far as I know) on Nvidia cards.
SLI/CrossfireX generally is useful on high resolutions and high detail I find. The two cards working together don't necessarily raise your framerate, but keep it from faceplanting when you get nuked and suddenly there is 10000% more debris than before.
One final note, Multi monitors is huge with Supreme Commander at least.
Because a very good browser needs a hail mary to stay in the game.
Seriously, Opera is good enough on it's own, this is actually a very useful tool. I personally don't use it, but my friends use the music sharing capabilities and file/photo sharing. The only reason I don't use it is because I already have an FTP server to do this for me.
So, nobody is worried about even worse light pollution from this? The night sky is already obfuscated in most cities, even in smaller cities and suburbs. I do agree something needs to be done, but the negatives seem to outweigh the benefits here (from the few comments I've read)
Low power consumption, quad core, 8 gigs of ram, a UPS and a few TB of storage?
1. Not gonna be cheap, though I'm not sure what your budget is, this will be somewhat pricey.
2. You might want to get a few UPS's, because I doubt, unless you get a very large solar array, that you will be able to run it on that. Expect power loss, disable write caching on the disks, etc. Also, a UPS isn't meant to be used as a constant power source, just as a way to keep you from losing work if power goes out, and if you're lucky, hold you over till it flickers back on.
3. This will NOT be portable, those UPS's will be a pain to move.
Good luck, I certainly don't mean to be so negative, but this is a somewhat unreasonable thing to look for.
A browser is copying an opera feature. What a shocker. And everyone will be like "ZOMG AWESOME!!!1" and nobody will give opera credit.
For those of you who don't know what I'm talking about, opera can make custom search shortcuts out of any search bar. From what I read that's basically all it is with google maps and whatnot.
The point is, it's a much higher cost of entry, considering you can build the same system for much cheaper and not have it in a shitty looking case.
There's a reason you're post is funny, not informative.
Why is it that every time a new version of Firefox comes out, we need to have a news story about it? Same with any other browser, but at this point it seems like the nightly builds are being posted about. It's getting ridiculous.
Take this post with a grain of salt, I'm fairly heavily skewed toward opera (and against safari, but that's irrelevant).
Opera has many of the features that are being highlighted in other browsers, such as FF's Awesomebar thing, and the Accelerators of IE8. I don't think this was very well done, they ought to have had all the browsers shown to them by someone who was very familiar with them, and given a better features list.
Also, they should be decisive, as many others have said.
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I'm somewhat disappointed such a prominent SciFi writer is so hostile to the internet and new technology.
Bear with me here, don't feel like sorting out all the quote markers to properly quote you.
You say you know plenty of people with more than one video card. Good, you probably are immersed in the tech world. Joe Sixpack has a generic beige box, usually with integrated graphics. This represents the majority of people's computers. Not to even mention the business world.
The GP references CrossfireX as ATI's version of SLI. True, and you can link two crossfireX capable cards like SLI. Unlike SLI, you can link an onboard GPU with a dedicated GPU in CrossfireX, which enables you to use that otherwise disabled card. Requires a capable motherboard and GPU of course, but it's not available (as far as I know) on Nvidia cards.
SLI/CrossfireX generally is useful on high resolutions and high detail I find. The two cards working together don't necessarily raise your framerate, but keep it from faceplanting when you get nuked and suddenly there is 10000% more debris than before.
One final note, Multi monitors is huge with Supreme Commander at least.
Except that you don't need to use opera in order to access the content, you just follow a link and any browser should take you there.
Because a very good browser needs a hail mary to stay in the game. Seriously, Opera is good enough on it's own, this is actually a very useful tool. I personally don't use it, but my friends use the music sharing capabilities and file/photo sharing. The only reason I don't use it is because I already have an FTP server to do this for me.
I don't think I'll be too worried about voice recognition software after I die.
Well, whatever you do, it's going to get out now, I'm sure at least one of these people read /.
This was my point, not that the moonlight would reflect off of it.
So, nobody is worried about even worse light pollution from this? The night sky is already obfuscated in most cities, even in smaller cities and suburbs. I do agree something needs to be done, but the negatives seem to outweigh the benefits here (from the few comments I've read)
Opera 10 got this done months ago. This isn't news until it gets 100 consistently.
Oh, well I was wrong then, thank you for pointing this out. It's one obstacle out of the way, this whole thing is still unfeasible though.
Oh god, why is the formatting so broken? Ah well, you can see what it should have been, hopefully.
Low power consumption, quad core, 8 gigs of ram, a UPS and a few TB of storage? 1. Not gonna be cheap, though I'm not sure what your budget is, this will be somewhat pricey. 2. You might want to get a few UPS's, because I doubt, unless you get a very large solar array, that you will be able to run it on that. Expect power loss, disable write caching on the disks, etc. Also, a UPS isn't meant to be used as a constant power source, just as a way to keep you from losing work if power goes out, and if you're lucky, hold you over till it flickers back on. 3. This will NOT be portable, those UPS's will be a pain to move. Good luck, I certainly don't mean to be so negative, but this is a somewhat unreasonable thing to look for.
I bet at least $10,000 is spent hosting rickroll videos and the associated comments.
Or it was a planned April fools joke and they realized it wasn't funny.
... Good news Everybody!
Possible, but legality has been questioned and it's tricky.
What about whitebox? For some reason I don't seem to be able to install Mac on my own hardware. that generally cuts the price by quite a bit.
A browser is copying an opera feature. What a shocker. And everyone will be like "ZOMG AWESOME!!!1" and nobody will give opera credit. For those of you who don't know what I'm talking about, opera can make custom search shortcuts out of any search bar. From what I read that's basically all it is with google maps and whatnot.
As long as the drives were properly mounted, I wouldn't think it should be a problem at all.
The point is, it's a much higher cost of entry, considering you can build the same system for much cheaper and not have it in a shitty looking case. There's a reason you're post is funny, not informative.
That sounds brilliant, the asker stated he doesn't want to shell out lots of cash, and you suggest paying the mac tax?
Really, who doesn't know that AMD is higher performance per dollar.
Why is it that every time a new version of Firefox comes out, we need to have a news story about it? Same with any other browser, but at this point it seems like the nightly builds are being posted about. It's getting ridiculous.
He's upgrading.
Take this post with a grain of salt, I'm fairly heavily skewed toward opera (and against safari, but that's irrelevant). Opera has many of the features that are being highlighted in other browsers, such as FF's Awesomebar thing, and the Accelerators of IE8. I don't think this was very well done, they ought to have had all the browsers shown to them by someone who was very familiar with them, and given a better features list. Also, they should be decisive, as many others have said.