This isn't a p3. It's a via. TOTALLY different animal. Via sucks. Everything about this mobo is going to suck because they use the cheapest parts they can get their hands on. It's not going to have a high-end 3d gaming video card chipset in there. Probably shared memory too.
As for "only software walmart sells", I'm obviously referring to what you buy on the shelf - not what comes with the machine. Don't be obtuse.
Just make sure any digital cable you buy is made with digital copper - preferable coated with digital gold. Please. I've also got some great swamp land in Florida for ya...
There is no such thing as a "digital cable". Cable is cable. Digital signals in a well designed system use + and - wires, which cancels out much of the external interference. If a signal gets through at all it works pefectly. If they don't use +/- wires, they modulate on a carrier (hence the coax.)
the inter-edge arrival time will be distorted, and this, in turn, maps directly into harmonic distortion
Someone has been smoking too many audiophile magazines. It's a one or a zero in a certain time slot. That's it. The time slots are lock step at a precise frequency.
The gauge of a wire makes more of a difference for longer runs than anything else as there is less loss with larger cables. With short runs it makes no difference at all what type of cable you use. You can use a crappy 30 year old 3' RCA plug audio cable to hook your CD player up to your receiver (via SP/DIF) and the result is no different than a $100 "digital" monster cable.
Home Depot caries some nice 12G in-wall speaker cable. It's the finely stranded type. Unless you are doing a 3000W system, it works just fine. When you are pulling cable for a 7.1 system, reasonably priced is nice.
I would challenge anyone in a double blind test to tell the difference on standard consumer gear between this cable and anything from Monster. Standard consumer gear (the under $2000 amp stuff) has so much noise in it already, that cable won't make any difference at all.
Office Pro, non-upgrade, runs around $460. Since you can't get an OEM copy for this machine, you will pay through the nose. Ain't monopoly business tactics fun? Ditto for the windows license you would also need to run MS Office.
Neither of these can yet (YET) hold a candle to Office.
I beg to differ.
So you would buy MS Office at $460 for a $200 PC? And of course that also needs a windows license for another $210 so you are up to $670 worth of software for a $200 PC. Then of course you would need the commercial equivalents for all the other software that comes with that machine which would probably run around a total of $2500+ for a $200 PC. Yeah - that makes a lot of sense for home users (the target market.)
Say what you will about Open (Star) Office but it handles 95% of the business documents I deal with perfectly on a daily basis. It should handle 99.999% of the home needs just fine. The only reason it can't handle the remaining 5% is due to Microsoft's refusal to fully document and release specifications to the MS Office file formats. It's not OK to support a company that illegally abuses it's monopoly status to damage competition.
Yeah, but don't try and run Open Office on that machine. Gonna suck. Not that MS Office 2007 would run great either, but for a modern machine, it's still pretty pathetic. It's about at the year 2001 level.
For simple Web browsing / email, such a machine works fine. If they sold it as an email / web appliance, that would be better, but to sell it as a general purpose home PC is a little disingenuous especially as it won't run any other software that Walmart sells.
First, spam isn't a drug. M'kay? Your analogy fails at many, many levels. Drugs, unlike spam, doesn't have a direct victim - the users are willing. They do have indirect victims in terms of children, etc. however. Drugs are also addictive (either physically or psychologically.) Much spam is currently legal due to the "I CAN SPAM" act, and you have no proof to back up your hypothesis. The fact is, outside of a VERY few isolated cases, we haven't even tried to deal with spam criminally. I could go on and on here.
In the case of spam, we can go after the people that hire the spammers, the spammers themselves, and the ISP's that protect them (or enable them by failing to take action or secure their networks,) and finally the owners of compromised machines (at a slap on the wrist level) for failing to secure their machines (that includes all those damn hosting companies too.)
There are many technological and legal tools we could use (or create) - but haven't - that would all-but eliminate spam and spambot networks. It can't be done unless ISPs work together (including the major webmail companies,) and congress and other governments around the world to create a total framework to solve it. Any one solution alone won't work.
As a technological / social solution, imagine what would happen if Google, Microsoft, and Yahoo got together and started issuing an "internet death penalty" to ISP's that refuse to cleanup / deal with spambots on their networks... Spam would drop to 5% of today's volume in a month from that one act alone...
If you want to make a bomb, just get some diesel fuel and fertilizer. You need quantity anyway - the 1 oz mini bottles of stuff you get with a child's chemistry set isn't enough to make anything seriously destructive.
I don't allow cookies. Your method won't work. How about a "X-I-want-to-be-tracked" cookie and a "X-my-SSN#-is" for the 3 idiots on the planet that WANT to be tracked?
This "do not track" group is a bunch of die-hard IE users. Since MS refuses to add reasonable privacy tools, they are looking for legislation. Idiots. This is a browser problem, not an advertiser problem. Considering that the wonderful US Congress can't even get a reasonable anti-spam law in place and instead created one that makes the problem WORSE, I don't know what the hell they are thinking Congress will do. Most likely we will end up with a law that outlaws privacy tools like Firefox / Adblock and instead mandates a stupid list that only US based companies are obliged to obey.
It's all-but dead. There are a few stragglers still around but it's painfully slow (think 2400baud modem with 1 minute latency,) has near zero content, and still has a horrible UI.
We want to be able to watch content whenever, wherever, however (&*^%& DVD menu restrictions) on whatever device we choose.
Hackers will always find a way. If it takes a hardware hack to grab the decrypted (pre / post HDCP) stream out a player / TV or other device, it will be done. Real-time capture of uncompressed HD is feasible for under $1K (plus PC costs.) Yeah, re-compression is still slow, but modern multi-core processors are making it faster all the time.
All it takes is a handful of people to have such a hacked devices / systems and content is freed / available via torrent.
Such as an un-patched laptop that is totally infested with malware... Work in any corporate environment and these things eventually find there way in... So what you do is only allow "trusted" machines on your "trusted" VLAN. A machine has to pass certain tests to maintain trust every time it is connected to the network. Untrusted "outsider" machines can still get to the internet and a "guest printer" though. This is what Network Access Control is all about. Furthermore, IDS systems can detect and shut down net access from anything that is behaving in an untrusted manor.
Um, if you are a large ISP, you don't have ONE big-assed net connection with "hundreds of gigabits of traffic". Do your shaping at the DSLAM / head-end / POP level. Works dandy - you are only dealing with ~1G level at the most.
One option is openvpn with the default UDP port for those situations. I use it to connect to work's 1G/1G net connection. Also works great for a-hole hotels (I'm looking at YOU Hotel Valencia in San Jose...) that have their system configured to reset all connections every 3 minutes which makes it impossible to even download email. Morons.
It wouldn't be 30% overnight, but maybe in 10 years. A growing market share excites third party software / hardware manufacturers and support for OS X would snowball making it a viable alternative to Windows in cases where it isn't now. So yeah, it could be possible to see 30% at some point.
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This isn't a p3. It's a via. TOTALLY different animal. Via sucks. Everything about this mobo is going to suck because they use the cheapest parts they can get their hands on. It's not going to have a high-end 3d gaming video card chipset in there. Probably shared memory too.
As for "only software walmart sells", I'm obviously referring to what you buy on the shelf - not what comes with the machine. Don't be obtuse.
Um, not everyone is still a student or lives in the fantasy world of educational institutions.
I'm sure you are ALSO aware that you can't USE an OEM license on this $200 linux machine without violating the OEM license. So your argument is moot.
Sounds like you have never heard of a PLL which is SOP on everything that receives a clocked signal.
Just make sure any digital cable you buy is made with digital copper - preferable coated with digital gold. Please. I've also got some great swamp land in Florida for ya...
There is no such thing as a "digital cable". Cable is cable. Digital signals in a well designed system use + and - wires, which cancels out much of the external interference. If a signal gets through at all it works pefectly. If they don't use +/- wires, they modulate on a carrier (hence the coax.)
the inter-edge arrival time will be distorted, and this, in turn, maps directly into harmonic distortion
Someone has been smoking too many audiophile magazines. It's a one or a zero in a certain time slot. That's it. The time slots are lock step at a precise frequency.
The gauge of a wire makes more of a difference for longer runs than anything else as there is less loss with larger cables. With short runs it makes no difference at all what type of cable you use. You can use a crappy 30 year old 3' RCA plug audio cable to hook your CD player up to your receiver (via SP/DIF) and the result is no different than a $100 "digital" monster cable.
Home Depot caries some nice 12G in-wall speaker cable. It's the finely stranded type. Unless you are doing a 3000W system, it works just fine. When you are pulling cable for a 7.1 system, reasonably priced is nice.
I would challenge anyone in a double blind test to tell the difference on standard consumer gear between this cable and anything from Monster. Standard consumer gear (the under $2000 amp stuff) has so much noise in it already, that cable won't make any difference at all.
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I guess it's an apt name for the web site though.
Office Pro, non-upgrade, runs around $460. Since you can't get an OEM copy for this machine, you will pay through the nose. Ain't monopoly business tactics fun? Ditto for the windows license you would also need to run MS Office.
Neither of these can yet (YET) hold a candle to Office.
I beg to differ.
So you would buy MS Office at $460 for a $200 PC? And of course that also needs a windows license for another $210 so you are up to $670 worth of software for a $200 PC. Then of course you would need the commercial equivalents for all the other software that comes with that machine which would probably run around a total of $2500+ for a $200 PC. Yeah - that makes a lot of sense for home users (the target market.)
Say what you will about Open (Star) Office but it handles 95% of the business documents I deal with perfectly on a daily basis. It should handle 99.999% of the home needs just fine. The only reason it can't handle the remaining 5% is due to Microsoft's refusal to fully document and release specifications to the MS Office file formats. It's not OK to support a company that illegally abuses it's monopoly status to damage competition.
Yeah, but don't try and run Open Office on that machine. Gonna suck. Not that MS Office 2007 would run great either, but for a modern machine, it's still pretty pathetic. It's about at the year 2001 level.
For simple Web browsing / email, such a machine works fine. If they sold it as an email / web appliance, that would be better, but to sell it as a general purpose home PC is a little disingenuous especially as it won't run any other software that Walmart sells.
First, spam isn't a drug. M'kay? Your analogy fails at many, many levels.
Drugs, unlike spam, doesn't have a direct victim - the users are willing. They do have indirect victims in terms of children, etc. however. Drugs are also addictive (either physically or psychologically.) Much spam is currently legal due to the "I CAN SPAM" act, and you have no proof to back up your hypothesis. The fact is, outside of a VERY few isolated cases, we haven't even tried to deal with spam criminally. I could go on and on here.
In the case of spam, we can go after the people that hire the spammers, the spammers themselves, and the ISP's that protect them (or enable them by failing to take action or secure their networks,) and finally the owners of compromised machines (at a slap on the wrist level) for failing to secure their machines (that includes all those damn hosting companies too.)
There are many technological and legal tools we could use (or create) - but haven't - that would all-but eliminate spam and spambot networks. It can't be done unless ISPs work together (including the major webmail companies,) and congress and other governments around the world to create a total framework to solve it. Any one solution alone won't work.
As a technological / social solution, imagine what would happen if Google, Microsoft, and Yahoo got together and started issuing an "internet death penalty" to ISP's that refuse to cleanup / deal with spambots on their networks... Spam would drop to 5% of today's volume in a month from that one act alone...
If you want to make a bomb, just get some diesel fuel and fertilizer. You need quantity anyway - the 1 oz mini bottles of stuff you get with a child's chemistry set isn't enough to make anything seriously destructive.
I don't allow cookies. Your method won't work. How about a "X-I-want-to-be-tracked" cookie and a "X-my-SSN#-is" for the 3 idiots on the planet that WANT to be tracked?
This "do not track" group is a bunch of die-hard IE users. Since MS refuses to add reasonable privacy tools, they are looking for legislation. Idiots. This is a browser problem, not an advertiser problem. Considering that the wonderful US Congress can't even get a reasonable anti-spam law in place and instead created one that makes the problem WORSE, I don't know what the hell they are thinking Congress will do. Most likely we will end up with a law that outlaws privacy tools like Firefox / Adblock and instead mandates a stupid list that only US based companies are obliged to obey.
It's all-but dead. There are a few stragglers still around but it's painfully slow (think 2400baud modem with 1 minute latency,) has near zero content, and still has a horrible UI.
Maybe you get a discount on your content if your "share rating" is good.
Switch to a UDP protocol with an encrypted session key. Kinda like how OpenVPN works.
Also expect comcast to move to QOS technology as their existing hack gets killed.
All this protection does is piss off consumers.
We want to be able to watch content whenever, wherever, however (&*^%& DVD menu restrictions) on whatever device we choose.
Hackers will always find a way. If it takes a hardware hack to grab the decrypted (pre / post HDCP) stream out a player / TV or other device, it will be done. Real-time capture of uncompressed HD is feasible for under $1K (plus PC costs.) Yeah, re-compression is still slow, but modern multi-core processors are making it faster all the time.
All it takes is a handful of people to have such a hacked devices / systems and content is freed / available via torrent.
If something is unleashed internally
Such as an un-patched laptop that is totally infested with malware... Work in any corporate environment and these things eventually find there way in... So what you do is only allow "trusted" machines on your "trusted" VLAN. A machine has to pass certain tests to maintain trust every time it is connected to the network. Untrusted "outsider" machines can still get to the internet and a "guest printer" though. This is what Network Access Control is all about. Furthermore, IDS systems can detect and shut down net access from anything that is behaving in an untrusted manor.
They only get a tiny, wimpy processor with little-to-no storage
This depends on what you use as a dedicated firewall. Some of the dedicated commercial firewalls are actually fairly powerful systems.
The numbers were pulled out of my ass for the sake of argument - yours too I see.
Um, if you are a large ISP, you don't have ONE big-assed net connection with "hundreds of gigabits of traffic". Do your shaping at the DSLAM / head-end / POP level. Works dandy - you are only dealing with ~1G level at the most.
One option is openvpn with the default UDP port for those situations. I use it to connect to work's 1G/1G net connection. Also works great for a-hole hotels (I'm looking at YOU Hotel Valencia in San Jose...) that have their system configured to reset all connections every 3 minutes which makes it impossible to even download email. Morons.
It wouldn't be 30% overnight, but maybe in 10 years. A growing market share excites third party software / hardware manufacturers and support for OS X would snowball making it a viable alternative to Windows in cases where it isn't now. So yeah, it could be possible to see 30% at some point.