That's not the point. The point is that Apple is telling retailers that they can't price their product lower than X value. As a result the price for Apple products is artificially high when compared with the competition. It seems the Apple zealots out there are happy to pay the artificial premium for Apple products. Apple could easily lower their prices across all their product line to come in line with real market value but would probably end up going out of business because PC compatible computers dominate the market. They can't afford to lower prices so they make people believe that there is value in the higher price.
Personally I'm happy with my Archos Jukebox Recorder/Rockbox combo. Great player, great software. No unreplaceable batteries to get used up after a year.
Actually, the second buyer was trying to buy a maintenance contract for the product. In other words, he wanted to pay them for support. They, in exchange, wanted more money for them to license the software which was already purchased and paid for by the original owner.
According to his statements of the legality of transfer of property this in an illegal use of the law. The software, for which they are trying to extort more money for, has already been legally purchased. Any license that prevents the legal transfer of this property is illegal. While the company is the copyright holder of the software they are not the owner of the object or material. The second purchaser is the owner or rightful possessor of that object or material.
All these liquid cooled systems look great. What happened to refrigerated liquid cooling though? The temperatures I've been seeing on some of these liquid cooled systems doesn't look that great to me. Although I know most CPU's are made to run stable pretty hot 54C is quite a hot temperature. My air cooled Athlon 1.4Ghz hits a high of about 107F in a space with no air conditioning.
I always thought you wanted to make your system cooler so you could overclock it to outragous speeds. That was the purpose for the refrigeration. To make your system really cold. More like sub arctic temperatures. I can only guess that these liquid cooled systems were created for the fad not really for overclockability. People just want the liquid cooling and didn't want to put in the work to properly insulate their system for refrigeration.
The whole liquid cooling thing seems pretty pointless to me unless you are actively cooling the coolant.
This doesn't necessarily apply here. We are not actually buying Rambus products when we buy RDRAM. We are merely buying technology based on licenses from Rambus. I don't own any RDRAM and never plan to. Rambus is going to get their money from those companies anyway through the licensing of their technology. By not buying any RDRAM it merely hurts the RAM companies themselves, such as Micron.
Then again RDRAM production isn't the only product of these companies. To boycott RDRAM would cause those companies to scale back their production of RDRAM and raise the prices of Rambus based products.
I believe ZIP won at the time because of it's technical merits. ARJ and RAR have better compression techniques than ZIP but it is now ubiquitous and is hard to remove from the top. We can't let this happen with Rambus.
Now that they are targeting companies that support DDR DRAM where will it stop? Since they are looking at AMD and Transmeta what is stopping them from looking at other companies such as VIA, nVidia, and SiS who use or support DDR DRAM on their own products.
This whole thing with Rambus and their patent claims is really getting out of control. This monster needs to be squashed once and for all.
Yes, but this article is comparing the two versions of the V5 5500. Which as anyone knows does not take advantage of the AGP bus like other cards do. 3dfx has not, for whatever reasons, used any of the extended features of the AGP bus. For this reason the AGP version of the V5 5500 is simply a PCI card that goes in an AGP slot.
A more fair comparison would be to take a GF2 (not MX) chip and put it on the standard PCI bus and compare it to a full 4X AGP version of the card. I'm sure you would get a clearer picture of the differences of the two buses. This is hypothetical of course because there is no PCI GF2 card in existance, but I'm sure the AGP version would blow the socks off the PCI version. If a PCI version existed.
Granted, it is a proprietary standard, but I like my MiniDisc recorder. I can store so many more songs in a small format than the MP3 players that use FlashRAM. MiniDiscs are also much smaller and less bulky than CD's. As a result the players are extremely small.
So you can't fit 640MB worth of MP3's on a MiniDisc, but when I want to pull up a song quickly without having to search through a couple hundred songs MiniDisc fits the bill.
Plus, ATRAC sounds much better than MP3. I'm not sure what you compress your MP3's at but I can't stand anything less than 160kb/s. At 128kb/s I can really start to hear the artifacting.
Like I said, it may be a proprietary standard but I find it a whole lot more flexible.
I use PC's and can tell you that IRQ sharing, although it is possible, does not always work between certain devices. Especially old PCI cards that were built before IRQ sharing was implemented. If IRQ sharing worked 100% of the time maybe the Mac people wouldn't have so much to complain about. This will never happen though because companies can't be expected to make sure their card works with every other card out there. Only that it complies with the standard.
The Sound Blaster Live's SB16 emulation has been terrible on my system. I had to move my ethernet card to a different slot so Win98 would start. Otherwise it would lock before it even started the interface. Of course, that is probably a special case because the SB16 emulation requires it's own IRQ.
It would be much better if we as users didn't have to deal with IRQ's if we didn't have to. The fact of the mater is, even with IRQ sharing, we still have to deal with IRQ's on occasion so that things will work as they should.
I'm having a hard time seeing your analogy. The person you were responding to was making the point that the earth itself puts out far more pollution than humans do. Your analogy makes no sense what so ever in reference to the post you responded to.
Nerve toxin in no way even relates to eating butter. I think what you are trying to say is the stuff that humans put out is worse than the stuff that the earth itself belches out. I would seriously have to disagree with that. Some of the toxins that the earth puts out will kill a person quite as effectively as a drop of nerve toxin.
With the radioactive dust you have to consider how much of it is going to settle out. It would probably be more of a local problem. Anything after that would fall into the background radiation that we receive ever day of our lives. In other words, one speck of plutonium isn't going to kill you. Getting bathed in it is a different matter. That is a real magnitude.
Taddeusz
Actually, you are incorrect. Electrons do not and cannot travel at the speed of light. They never have. Electrons, being particles, are restricted to sub-light speeds not only by their mass but by the friction encountered by passing atoms.
This is what my SB Live card is for. Anything that is played through the wave output can be recorded. So, if I had a player that could decode these new CD's I could then be able to record them. Granted it would be more annoying that just ripping a copy from the CD, but nothing is perfect I suppose. Now, the problem occurs if the CD player itself does the decoding and doesn't have a digital output on it to interface with the digital input on my Live card. That would truely suck and I suspect that might be the case if any company decided they actually want to make a CD-ROM drive that supports decoding these sorry CD's.
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That's not the point. The point is that Apple is telling retailers that they can't price their product lower than X value. As a result the price for Apple products is artificially high when compared with the competition. It seems the Apple zealots out there are happy to pay the artificial premium for Apple products. Apple could easily lower their prices across all their product line to come in line with real market value but would probably end up going out of business because PC compatible computers dominate the market. They can't afford to lower prices so they make people believe that there is value in the higher price.
Personally I'm happy with my Archos Jukebox Recorder/Rockbox combo. Great player, great software. No unreplaceable batteries to get used up after a year.
Actually, the second buyer was trying to buy a maintenance contract for the product. In other words, he wanted to pay them for support. They, in exchange, wanted more money for them to license the software which was already purchased and paid for by the original owner.
According to his statements of the legality of transfer of property this in an illegal use of the law. The software, for which they are trying to extort more money for, has already been legally purchased. Any license that prevents the legal transfer of this property is illegal. While the company is the copyright holder of the software they are not the owner of the object or material. The second purchaser is the owner or rightful possessor of that object or material.
All these liquid cooled systems look great. What happened to refrigerated liquid cooling though? The temperatures I've been seeing on some of these liquid cooled systems doesn't look that great to me. Although I know most CPU's are made to run stable pretty hot 54C is quite a hot temperature. My air cooled Athlon 1.4Ghz hits a high of about 107F in a space with no air conditioning.
I always thought you wanted to make your system cooler so you could overclock it to outragous speeds. That was the purpose for the refrigeration. To make your system really cold. More like sub arctic temperatures. I can only guess that these liquid cooled systems were created for the fad not really for overclockability. People just want the liquid cooling and didn't want to put in the work to properly insulate their system for refrigeration.
The whole liquid cooling thing seems pretty pointless to me unless you are actively cooling the coolant.
Feel free to flame me if you think I'm crazy.
This doesn't necessarily apply here. We are not actually buying Rambus products when we buy RDRAM. We are merely buying technology based on licenses from Rambus. I don't own any RDRAM and never plan to. Rambus is going to get their money from those companies anyway through the licensing of their technology. By not buying any RDRAM it merely hurts the RAM companies themselves, such as Micron.
Then again RDRAM production isn't the only product of these companies. To boycott RDRAM would cause those companies to scale back their production of RDRAM and raise the prices of Rambus based products.
I believe ZIP won at the time because of it's technical merits. ARJ and RAR have better compression techniques than ZIP but it is now ubiquitous and is hard to remove from the top. We can't let this happen with Rambus.
Now that they are targeting companies that support DDR DRAM where will it stop? Since they are looking at AMD and Transmeta what is stopping them from looking at other companies such as VIA, nVidia, and SiS who use or support DDR DRAM on their own products.
This whole thing with Rambus and their patent claims is really getting out of control. This monster needs to be squashed once and for all.
Taddeusz
Yes, but this article is comparing the two versions of the V5 5500. Which as anyone knows does not take advantage of the AGP bus like other cards do. 3dfx has not, for whatever reasons, used any of the extended features of the AGP bus. For this reason the AGP version of the V5 5500 is simply a PCI card that goes in an AGP slot.
A more fair comparison would be to take a GF2 (not MX) chip and put it on the standard PCI bus and compare it to a full 4X AGP version of the card. I'm sure you would get a clearer picture of the differences of the two buses. This is hypothetical of course because there is no PCI GF2 card in existance, but I'm sure the AGP version would blow the socks off the PCI version. If a PCI version existed.
Granted, it is a proprietary standard, but I like my MiniDisc recorder. I can store so many more songs in a small format than the MP3 players that use FlashRAM. MiniDiscs are also much smaller and less bulky than CD's. As a result the players are extremely small.
So you can't fit 640MB worth of MP3's on a MiniDisc, but when I want to pull up a song quickly without having to search through a couple hundred songs MiniDisc fits the bill.
Plus, ATRAC sounds much better than MP3. I'm not sure what you compress your MP3's at but I can't stand anything less than 160kb/s. At 128kb/s I can really start to hear the artifacting.
Like I said, it may be a proprietary standard but I find it a whole lot more flexible.
I use PC's and can tell you that IRQ sharing, although it is possible, does not always work between certain devices. Especially old PCI cards that were built before IRQ sharing was implemented. If IRQ sharing worked 100% of the time maybe the Mac people wouldn't have so much to complain about. This will never happen though because companies can't be expected to make sure their card works with every other card out there. Only that it complies with the standard.
The Sound Blaster Live's SB16 emulation has been terrible on my system. I had to move my ethernet card to a different slot so Win98 would start. Otherwise it would lock before it even started the interface. Of course, that is probably a special case because the SB16 emulation requires it's own IRQ.
It would be much better if we as users didn't have to deal with IRQ's if we didn't have to. The fact of the mater is, even with IRQ sharing, we still have to deal with IRQ's on occasion so that things will work as they should.
Taddeusz
I'm having a hard time seeing your analogy. The person you were responding to was making the point that the earth itself puts out far more pollution than humans do. Your analogy makes no sense what so ever in reference to the post you responded to. Nerve toxin in no way even relates to eating butter. I think what you are trying to say is the stuff that humans put out is worse than the stuff that the earth itself belches out. I would seriously have to disagree with that. Some of the toxins that the earth puts out will kill a person quite as effectively as a drop of nerve toxin. With the radioactive dust you have to consider how much of it is going to settle out. It would probably be more of a local problem. Anything after that would fall into the background radiation that we receive ever day of our lives. In other words, one speck of plutonium isn't going to kill you. Getting bathed in it is a different matter. That is a real magnitude. Taddeusz
Actually, you are incorrect. Electrons do not and cannot travel at the speed of light. They never have. Electrons, being particles, are restricted to sub-light speeds not only by their mass but by the friction encountered by passing atoms.
Think before you leap.
Taddeusz
This is what my SB Live card is for. Anything that is played through the wave output can be recorded. So, if I had a player that could decode these new CD's I could then be able to record them. Granted it would be more annoying that just ripping a copy from the CD, but nothing is perfect I suppose. Now, the problem occurs if the CD player itself does the decoding and doesn't have a digital output on it to interface with the digital input on my Live card. That would truely suck and I suspect that might be the case if any company decided they actually want to make a CD-ROM drive that supports decoding these sorry CD's.
Taddeusz