I think with the grave you are screwed either way, but with the cradle you should keep in mind that atom processors are TINY. In fact, they are one tenth the size of a nehalem processor, meaning they require about a tenth of the resources to produce. Assuming that they will be replacing a dual socket system, you break even. A quad socket system gives the atoms the win.
The real problem is going to be in manufacturing all those motherboard chipsets.
I see it the other way around.
My broadband subscription for the past 8 years has subsidized the 19.99 plan that Grandma is getting now. If it wasn't for the uptake of broadband by heavy users then Grandma would still be paying $25 a month for AOL.
If you aren't a member, you can't return defective products. This is equivalent to ending your subscriptions. I think amazon should refund what he payed for his subscription, but on the other hand I support their right to ban the accounts of abusers. I would much rather have that than a bad return policy.
Having a single large solar installation is more efficient. You can use mirrors to focus light or heat onto a small surface area, either to heat it up significantly and run a turbine or to convert it directly to electricity with PV.
Intel had the right idea with hyperthreading and the pentium 4. In theory, it was the way of the future. One core, ridiculous clock speeds, multithreading for multitasking.
The problem with the P4 is that it was an slow, expensive, inefficient piece of crap
Multicore is not the answer though. Sure, two is better than one, maybe you can make use of three, really heavy users might need 4, but multithreaded octalcore CPUs are just ridiculous. For the vast majority of people they are just a waste of money and electricity.
Yes and no. $70 headphones don't sound 10 times better than $7 earbuds, but they do sound at least two or three times as good. $700 headphones aren't 10 times as good as the 70s, but they are going to be at least 50% better.
It is not about cost/sound quality. It is about how much you enjoy music and you much reproducing your music accurately is worth to you. I personally bought $140 headphones (Senn HD 580, if anyone cares) and I can definitely hear a major improvement in sq over the sony clip ons I used to have. Also, unlike the sonys or the iBuds, these will last at least another 10 years, if not longer. I think spending about a dollar a month for them over their lifetime is well worth it.
the problem isn't the no-down-payment loans, it is the adjustable rates mortgages that came with them. There are people that are making 2 or 3 grand a month but somehow ended up with a $5k mortgage after the rates skyrocketed. The banks didn't care if these people defaulted on their loans since they could just go and foreclose their houses and sell them at a profit. That all worked fine up until the housing market crashed, then the banks went crying to the government.
Why should we have all that redundant infrastructure? Why should we have all those incompatible technologies?
How about we get municipal internet, the same way we have water and gas. I don't know about you, but I've been living here for 10 years and I've had a hell of a lot more problems with my DSL than I have with my water and gas.
I was just looking at Buick Enclave SUV. The grill is made of plastic and flexes enough that it can probably be broken by a reasonably strong person. The door handles are all made of plastic, they feel extremely cheap. The interior is also covered in this cheap plastic "chrome". The rear windshield wiper looks like it came off of a Kia. The car is just ugly and cheap inside and out.
And what do you pay for the privilege of buying this pile of crap? $45k, more expensive than a loaded BMW X3(which starts at around 30k and passes 40k when you add every single accessory known to man). You can probably even get an X5 for this price too. Who in their right mind would buy a GM vehicle when they can get a foreign car that won't fall apart on the way home for less money?
Improving the start menu loading time is a pretty important performance improvement. Moreover, the various other changes were mostly about usability.
As for security, I bet they made those changes there too, but fixing security holes isn't a feature.
Also, keep in mind that it hasn't even been two months since the beta.
Also, build 7022 was leaked earlier(this one is 7033) and users of that build said it was faster and more stable than the beta(7000).
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I think with the grave you are screwed either way, but with the cradle you should keep in mind that atom processors are TINY. In fact, they are one tenth the size of a nehalem processor, meaning they require about a tenth of the resources to produce. Assuming that they will be replacing a dual socket system, you break even. A quad socket system gives the atoms the win. The real problem is going to be in manufacturing all those motherboard chipsets.
I see it the other way around. My broadband subscription for the past 8 years has subsidized the 19.99 plan that Grandma is getting now. If it wasn't for the uptake of broadband by heavy users then Grandma would still be paying $25 a month for AOL.
If you aren't a member, you can't return defective products. This is equivalent to ending your subscriptions. I think amazon should refund what he payed for his subscription, but on the other hand I support their right to ban the accounts of abusers. I would much rather have that than a bad return policy.
Having a single large solar installation is more efficient. You can use mirrors to focus light or heat onto a small surface area, either to heat it up significantly and run a turbine or to convert it directly to electricity with PV.
has a cool little motion detecting LCD setup next to the elevators. (I still haven't figured out if this Allosphere thing is in UCSB or USC)
Do you need to dedicate an entire 3ghz CPU core to run your bittorrent, and another to refresh slashdot?
Intel had the right idea with hyperthreading and the pentium 4. In theory, it was the way of the future. One core, ridiculous clock speeds, multithreading for multitasking. The problem with the P4 is that it was an slow, expensive, inefficient piece of crap Multicore is not the answer though. Sure, two is better than one, maybe you can make use of three, really heavy users might need 4, but multithreaded octalcore CPUs are just ridiculous. For the vast majority of people they are just a waste of money and electricity.
Yes and no. $70 headphones don't sound 10 times better than $7 earbuds, but they do sound at least two or three times as good. $700 headphones aren't 10 times as good as the 70s, but they are going to be at least 50% better. It is not about cost/sound quality. It is about how much you enjoy music and you much reproducing your music accurately is worth to you. I personally bought $140 headphones (Senn HD 580, if anyone cares) and I can definitely hear a major improvement in sq over the sony clip ons I used to have. Also, unlike the sonys or the iBuds, these will last at least another 10 years, if not longer. I think spending about a dollar a month for them over their lifetime is well worth it.
Thats why you put rockbox on your ipod and listen to your music in FLAC. Why else would you have a 160GB DAP?
the problem isn't the no-down-payment loans, it is the adjustable rates mortgages that came with them. There are people that are making 2 or 3 grand a month but somehow ended up with a $5k mortgage after the rates skyrocketed. The banks didn't care if these people defaulted on their loans since they could just go and foreclose their houses and sell them at a profit. That all worked fine up until the housing market crashed, then the banks went crying to the government.
Why should we have all that redundant infrastructure? Why should we have all those incompatible technologies? How about we get municipal internet, the same way we have water and gas. I don't know about you, but I've been living here for 10 years and I've had a hell of a lot more problems with my DSL than I have with my water and gas.
We don't let ferriners work in America as a favor to them. We do it because we need them. They don't need or want us.
I was just looking at Buick Enclave SUV. The grill is made of plastic and flexes enough that it can probably be broken by a reasonably strong person. The door handles are all made of plastic, they feel extremely cheap. The interior is also covered in this cheap plastic "chrome". The rear windshield wiper looks like it came off of a Kia. The car is just ugly and cheap inside and out. And what do you pay for the privilege of buying this pile of crap? $45k, more expensive than a loaded BMW X3(which starts at around 30k and passes 40k when you add every single accessory known to man). You can probably even get an X5 for this price too. Who in their right mind would buy a GM vehicle when they can get a foreign car that won't fall apart on the way home for less money?
Improving the start menu loading time is a pretty important performance improvement. Moreover, the various other changes were mostly about usability. As for security, I bet they made those changes there too, but fixing security holes isn't a feature. Also, keep in mind that it hasn't even been two months since the beta. Also, build 7022 was leaked earlier(this one is 7033) and users of that build said it was faster and more stable than the beta(7000).