Their little device is sold as "around 10+ hours", which turns into 15-16 for music, 10-11 for web browsing, and about 8-9 for emulators.
But then again, their device is so small that they had to take preorders to pay for it. Lying about that stuff would seal their doom, while with a huge company more sales(even based on false specs) appease the investors.
Not only that but books are way easier to read than a computer screen, and they're portable. Without batteries.
That's debatable. I'm curious how old you are?
My parents swear that reading paper is better. My mother says she can't focus on the screen while absorbing the info, so she prints everything important and reads it on paper, to remember it.
I've been on computers since I was 2 years old, and have no such predisposition. I've read books, and I've read blogs and online articles. I remember equal amounts of info from both, but much prefer the speed of reading things electronically. Being able to search for specific words/paragraphs when reviewing stuff is great.:)
I totally agree with you that most everything on the internet is crap. I might even go so far as to say 99% of it is useless...;)...or just info repeated over and over.
Hard to beat that [flash] for a website trying to reel in customers.
Is Wikipedia trying to "reel in customers"? Since when?
The website with a flash interface is trying to reel in customers. Keep on topic.
I'll support either Theora or H.264 for Wikipedia. They'll probably go with Theora because of the openness, which is fine as long as they can handle the extra bandwidth usage.
Someone sure must hate me. Every post I made in the last day is modded troll.
According to Wikipedia [wikipedia.org] you are looking at a 400 million + install base for JUST XP, and then when you figure in that they are currently supporting Win2K Pro, WinXP 32/64, WinServer 2K3 32/64, and WinVista the idea that they could put out patches that wouldn't break something is just plain crazy. The fact that the "oops" patches only happen once or twice a year is frankly a miracle when you consider how many different possible combinations of software/hardware there can be on a Windows machine.
Usually a random person from MSFN submits fixes for whatever Microsoft breaks. I remember when they did a half-assed update pack for Win2k when ending support - but it broke more than it fixed. Someone on MSFN figured out how to fix it breaking hibernation and power management. Someone else repacked everything in service pack format.
Just think, rather than breaking 2 million Win2k computers, they could've broken only ~20,000 before detecting the problems, if they followed this train of thought.
Re:Hipocrisy or something near that.
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Don't go FOSS because it's FOSS. Go FOSS because it's superior.
Not all FOSS is superior. I trust they'll use the best video streaming for the job, with priority placed on being open source.
Flash has the best video streaming available at the moment, and the best compatibility. Hard to beat that for a website trying to reel in customers.
I absolutely agree with you. How many times has Microsoft released a patch, only to take it down because it causes severe stability problems or breaks something?
Hint: Lots. Probably at least twice per year, for the last few years.
I find most games ludicrously easy. I wish they had harder game modes available.
I like RTS games, and usually I play them through on the hardest difficulty the first time.
Recently I've been trying more FPS games, like TF2. Single player is nice, but for a challenge you need to face real people. At first I sucked, but now I'm doing better; I'm not so good at ControlPoint or Pipeline maps, but I'm really good in the Arena. I average about 3 kills before I die, in 5vs7 rounds. (low numbers of players)
Clearly someone has their head stuck up their ass, and doesn't realize what laws were passed.
Warrantless wiretapping? Huge camera networks watching your every move near anything important? Massive Internet filters at all the major backbone nodes?
"The Constitution is clear in assigning to Congress the power to write the laws and to the president a duty ''to take care that the laws be faithfully executed." Bush, however, has repeatedly declared that he does not need to ''execute" a law he believes is unconstitutional.
Former administration officials contend that just because Bush reserves the right to disobey a law does not mean he is not enforcing it: In many cases, he is simply asserting his belief that a certain requirement encroaches on presidential power.
But with the disclosure of Bush's domestic spying program, in which he ignored a law requiring warrants to tap the phones of Americans, many legal specialists say Bush is hardly reluctant to bypass laws he believes he has the constitutional authority to override.
Far more than any predecessor, Bush has been aggressive about declaring his right to ignore vast swaths of laws -- many of which he says infringe on power he believes the Constitution assigns to him alone as the head of the executive branch or the commander in chief of the military."
I may be a troll, but anyone modding me one is an idiot or fool. Go read up on all the crap he pulled to take away your rights. Then go read up on all the crap the Conservatives have done. Come back when you actually have a clue what's going on.
It wasn't so bad until the Conservatives got in. Harper is a Bush look-alike, except that he can't get away with quite as much because of slightly more sane laws restricting his power.
Not exactly. Putting Vista or Windows 7 on a quality SSD has big performance gains - but XP is light enough that a fast HDD will beat a fast SSD. An article I read a while back put the 640GB WD Caviars as the fastest boot drive for XP.
The minimum FPS almost doubles, from an unplayable < 15fps, to a playable > 25fps.
Keep in mind that SSDs are not without their performance quips. Many slow down over time, so while they're impressive when you first get them, soon they'll be just average. TRIM is supposed to solve this, by pre-erasing, but for extended read/write workloads it probably won't help much.
I wanted an SSD real bad, but the quality ones still all cost $250+; I settled on a 640GB Caviar, and am relatively happy. My computer is underpowered by today's standards(2.6ghz Athlon X2), and yet invariably I'm the first person to load any TF2 map.:D Even on 32 player servers, I'm almost always first. I even beat a friend with a 3.6ghz Q6600, which makes me even more inclined to believe my HDD is having a big impact.
Well, it's either that or the servers just like me and let me connect first. But I don't believe this, because we alternate between North American servers and Australian ones. (He's Aussie, I'm Canadian)
Throttling is very lame. My ISP has a no-throttling policy, and no-ports-blocked policy. I like them a lot.:)
The unfortunate thing with Teksavvy is they go through the lines of bigger backbones. Similar to BT in the UK, they have to deal with Bell (in Canada), which throttles and blocks ports. It's been a nightmare for them fighting it and getting around it.
The only thing that should cause you to be capped is passing your bandwidth limit - and yours is "unlimited", so that should never happen, especially since you were downloading legal content. I believe my ISP rolls the month over early if you use all your bandwidth up - or you can pre-purchase another 200GB for $10; both of which is better than throttling, IMO.
I'm on 3mbit, and I don't mind. I'd prefer more speed, but 3mbit is actually enough to watch HD stuff off gametrailers.com, and finish downloads reasonably fast. If I need to download something big, like a steam game, I can always leave my computer on overnight.
Much more important than raw speed - the amount of bandwidth. I get 200GB/mo, which is very difficult to use up entirely. Somehow I doubt the UK/BT will give its customers that much.
I doubt I'd be able to fool one of these sensors. My fevers usually hit 103-104F. Apparently I once hit 105F, and was totally tripping out, muttering stuff while I slept. Luckily someone cooled me down.;)
I was referring to security updates more than anything else. I realize that different vulnerabilities on different platforms equate to different version numbers - but no updates for a long time usually means there are exploits ITW.
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Well, there's clearly a problem. Why else would companies have IT people run extensive tests before upgrading the whole network? :P
If only 20k computers could be affected, worldwide, that'd be a huge improvement.
Why can't laptop vendors be more like these guys?
Their little device is sold as "around 10+ hours", which turns into 15-16 for music, 10-11 for web browsing, and about 8-9 for emulators.
But then again, their device is so small that they had to take preorders to pay for it. Lying about that stuff would seal their doom, while with a huge company more sales(even based on false specs) appease the investors.
When you said "Milla", I thought blonde young girl.
Ugly dragon boss, huh?
Not only that but books are way easier to read than a computer screen, and they're portable. Without batteries.
That's debatable. I'm curious how old you are?
My parents swear that reading paper is better. My mother says she can't focus on the screen while absorbing the info, so she prints everything important and reads it on paper, to remember it.
I've been on computers since I was 2 years old, and have no such predisposition. I've read books, and I've read blogs and online articles. I remember equal amounts of info from both, but much prefer the speed of reading things electronically. Being able to search for specific words/paragraphs when reviewing stuff is great. :)
I totally agree with you that most everything on the internet is crap. I might even go so far as to say 99% of it is useless... ;) ...or just info repeated over and over.
Is Wikipedia trying to "reel in customers"? Since when?
The website with a flash interface is trying to reel in customers. Keep on topic.
I'll support either Theora or H.264 for Wikipedia. They'll probably go with Theora because of the openness, which is fine as long as they can handle the extra bandwidth usage.
(Number inflation intentional; with something like an XP or Vista update, it'd hit many people than the Win2k update did.)
Someone sure must hate me. Every post I made in the last day is modded troll.
According to Wikipedia [wikipedia.org] you are looking at a 400 million + install base for JUST XP, and then when you figure in that they are currently supporting Win2K Pro, WinXP 32/64, WinServer 2K3 32/64, and WinVista the idea that they could put out patches that wouldn't break something is just plain crazy. The fact that the "oops" patches only happen once or twice a year is frankly a miracle when you consider how many different possible combinations of software/hardware there can be on a Windows machine.
Usually a random person from MSFN submits fixes for whatever Microsoft breaks. I remember when they did a half-assed update pack for Win2k when ending support - but it broke more than it fixed. Someone on MSFN figured out how to fix it breaking hibernation and power management. Someone else repacked everything in service pack format.
Just think, rather than breaking 2 million Win2k computers, they could've broken only ~20,000 before detecting the problems, if they followed this train of thought.
Don't go FOSS because it's FOSS. Go FOSS because it's superior.
Not all FOSS is superior. I trust they'll use the best video streaming for the job, with priority placed on being open source.
Flash has the best video streaming available at the moment, and the best compatibility. Hard to beat that for a website trying to reel in customers.
I absolutely agree with you. How many times has Microsoft released a patch, only to take it down because it causes severe stability problems or breaks something?
Hint: Lots. Probably at least twice per year, for the last few years.
I agree, that this is way better.
I find most games ludicrously easy. I wish they had harder game modes available.
I like RTS games, and usually I play them through on the hardest difficulty the first time.
Recently I've been trying more FPS games, like TF2. Single player is nice, but for a challenge you need to face real people. At first I sucked, but now I'm doing better; I'm not so good at ControlPoint or Pipeline maps, but I'm really good in the Arena. I average about 3 kills before I die, in 5vs7 rounds. (low numbers of players)
Clearly someone has their head stuck up their ass, and doesn't realize what laws were passed.
Warrantless wiretapping? Huge camera networks watching your every move near anything important? Massive Internet filters at all the major backbone nodes?
http://www.boston.com/news/nation/articles/2006/04/30/bush_challenges_hundreds_of_laws/
"The Constitution is clear in assigning to Congress the power to write the laws and to the president a duty ''to take care that the laws be faithfully executed." Bush, however, has repeatedly declared that he does not need to ''execute" a law he believes is unconstitutional.
Former administration officials contend that just because Bush reserves the right to disobey a law does not mean he is not enforcing it: In many cases, he is simply asserting his belief that a certain requirement encroaches on presidential power.
But with the disclosure of Bush's domestic spying program, in which he ignored a law requiring warrants to tap the phones of Americans, many legal specialists say Bush is hardly reluctant to bypass laws he believes he has the constitutional authority to override.
Far more than any predecessor, Bush has been aggressive about declaring his right to ignore vast swaths of laws -- many of which he says infringe on power he believes the Constitution assigns to him alone as the head of the executive branch or the commander in chief of the military."
I may be a troll, but anyone modding me one is an idiot or fool. Go read up on all the crap he pulled to take away your rights. Then go read up on all the crap the Conservatives have done. Come back when you actually have a clue what's going on.
This is an Alpha or Beta. Opera 9.64 (final) is only 5.3MB large.
On my computer Firefox consumes way more memory than Opera - but it has so many extensions and plugins installed, that I'd be surprised if it didn't.
Does that mean an American modded me troll?
Conservatives are going down the same path as Bush - where privacy is a luxury rather than a right.
It wasn't so bad until the Conservatives got in. Harper is a Bush look-alike, except that he can't get away with quite as much because of slightly more sane laws restricting his power.
I usually get 70-90ms latencies to east-coast-US servers from my west-coast-Canada home.
http://dkc1.digikey.com/us/mkt/pico.html
Another one. :) And this one is available now.
But not very many lumens! I wonder how the quality is.
Not exactly. Putting Vista or Windows 7 on a quality SSD has big performance gains - but XP is light enough that a fast HDD will beat a fast SSD. An article I read a while back put the 640GB WD Caviars as the fastest boot drive for XP.
That said, SSDs have very real effects on games that can't cache all their textures. See: http://www.anandtech.com/cpuchipsets/intel/showdoc.aspx?i=3403&p=14
The minimum FPS almost doubles, from an unplayable < 15fps, to a playable > 25fps.
Keep in mind that SSDs are not without their performance quips. Many slow down over time, so while they're impressive when you first get them, soon they'll be just average. TRIM is supposed to solve this, by pre-erasing, but for extended read/write workloads it probably won't help much.
I wanted an SSD real bad, but the quality ones still all cost $250+; I settled on a 640GB Caviar, and am relatively happy. My computer is underpowered by today's standards(2.6ghz Athlon X2), and yet invariably I'm the first person to load any TF2 map. :D Even on 32 player servers, I'm almost always first. I even beat a friend with a 3.6ghz Q6600, which makes me even more inclined to believe my HDD is having a big impact.
Well, it's either that or the servers just like me and let me connect first. But I don't believe this, because we alternate between North American servers and Australian ones. (He's Aussie, I'm Canadian)
Good point. :) I'm still more worried about the amount of GB/month they give you, though.
Throttling is very lame. My ISP has a no-throttling policy, and no-ports-blocked policy. I like them a lot. :)
The unfortunate thing with Teksavvy is they go through the lines of bigger backbones. Similar to BT in the UK, they have to deal with Bell (in Canada), which throttles and blocks ports. It's been a nightmare for them fighting it and getting around it.
The only thing that should cause you to be capped is passing your bandwidth limit - and yours is "unlimited", so that should never happen, especially since you were downloading legal content. I believe my ISP rolls the month over early if you use all your bandwidth up - or you can pre-purchase another 200GB for $10; both of which is better than throttling, IMO.
I'm on 3mbit, and I don't mind. I'd prefer more speed, but 3mbit is actually enough to watch HD stuff off gametrailers.com, and finish downloads reasonably fast. If I need to download something big, like a steam game, I can always leave my computer on overnight.
Much more important than raw speed - the amount of bandwidth. I get 200GB/mo, which is very difficult to use up entirely. Somehow I doubt the UK/BT will give its customers that much.
I think I'll just bide my time and wait for a 2 watt ARM quad-core. ;)
My mother is cold. Literally cold.
When she has a fever she peaks at 98F
I doubt I'd be able to fool one of these sensors. My fevers usually hit 103-104F. Apparently I once hit 105F, and was totally tripping out, muttering stuff while I slept. Luckily someone cooled me down. ;)
I was referring to security updates more than anything else. I realize that different vulnerabilities on different platforms equate to different version numbers - but no updates for a long time usually means there are exploits ITW.
Just wondering. PPC Java for OSX is even more out of date than x86 Java.
The latest java on PPC is 1.5, and I'm sure it's out of date too...
Go figure!
Now... to click or not to click? The last time I clicked a link like that it was Goatse.