I seem to recall at least one proposal for the 'arsenal ships' aka ships with lots of missiles towed off the coast, to have been made from converting container ships, after someone looked at the costs and decided purpose built ships were too expensive, before the idea was killed. The idea became to be able to use commercial ships for relatively little cost.
A few reasons it was killed (at least as any kind of surface ship): Put a WHOLE bunch of really expensive munitions on a slow target. With minimal defenses. Defending them requires purpose built navy ships. Meaning that the savings of proposing that, just evaporated. Even the inefficiencies of Aircraft carriers, are a lot less than using a cruise missile for each target. Modern naval ships don't have much in the way of armor, compounding the problem of defense. By the time you fit it with defense to protect the cargo, you might as well go ahead and build a more conventional warship (with extra VLS)
There is one example where the concept more or less did happen though, in the refitted SSBNs to SSGNs, with lots of Tomahawk missiles. They don't suffer from having to have lots of defense of a surface target, and have advantages in stealth.
If one wants to go this route, it can be done, but ONLY with some of the newer CPUs/Chipsets. I think they are now named Intel VT-d and AMD-Vi respectively. So far, you have to hunt for which cpu/chipsets support this. The only place it's clear that have support is via AMD's NEW Opterons, and chipsets. Consumer stuff is (especially for some reason with the Intel CPU/boards) subject to vendor whim.
If going Linux host-Linux guest via X11 you'll take a hit, but you'll still have hardware acceleration. There are a few Linux-Linux 3D solutions that don't use X, but I have not tried to mess with them.
Actually, it might sound/look better to some. The reason being that particular formats have particular errors/noise which are introduced, and sometimes mitigated by another format. If you have enough experience (I did at one point), you can tell which audio standard is being used simply by listening. Now, due to not listening to as much in as many formats and caring about it, the only one I can tell apart is wma and sometimes low-bitrate mp3. As I recall, the reason for that may be due to where wma chops off frequencies.
There's also the whole vinyl sounds better, which is something similar (noise introduced by the vinyl is something that some people like.)
Hrm, aren't they in the business of selling things that use storage devices like hard drives used to be where people will still look at the size, like portable devices.
There's no money reason for them to do it at all. None at all. Nope.
Intel did not include this capability into it's desktop chips for a while, other than a temperature sensor triggered slowdown. (So, You could slow it down by removing that fan...) AMD introduced their cool'n'quiet for desktops, which clocked down, in the Socket 939 Athlon 64s (All Socket AM2 and AM3 procesors from AMD should have it), Intel put a similar thing into very late pentium 4s and core 2, and iX chips. Chances are your P4 was earlier than that, as the last few P4s revisions, only got to 2.8GHz if I recall correctly.
Cartridges are more expensive. My guess for that is that they won't.
No kidding. Total Annihilation did this, where one person would host the lobby, and I think that machine became the host for everyone in the lobby.
If you want a more modern example: Supreme Commander. Fully p2p (and all clients run the sim, which theoretically eliminates cheats, though I think there are some things people do with the network to mess it up. Which would be more than )
The article strikes me as in the same vein as taking something fairly well known and adding 'on the internet!' or in this case 'on networked phones!' and claiming it's a brand new idea.
Amazingly, ASUS laptops purchased in the past two years by my family has included a 1-year accidental damage warranty, (in addition to a standard 2-year (total) warranty) Their prices haven't gone up much if at all since they introduced that, and they've had quality products. (Not to mention, HP seems to contract some of their motherboard production to them. I don't think you can even buy American at all anymore in terms of computers, except maybe high end IBM, and maybe HP.)
From their site: Covered: Surge, fire, drop, and spill. NOT covered (not limited to): scratches and dents, incorrect or inadequate customer installation, lost or stolen, intentional damage, recovery or transfer of data stored on the notebook, damages caused by acts of God or nature.
It does exclude a number of them bought at retail places like best buy, and you have to register within 60 days. However, having that as a standard warranty is much better than any other I've seen. I haven't had to use it fortunately, and won't get to as it's been more than a year. Additionally, the few times I've had to talk to ASUS' support people, they seemed to have some clue. Contrast that to Leadtek, Seagate, HP (Ironically, the motherboards in the last 8 HPs I ordered at my last job were ASUS made, and no it wasn't the motherboard that was the issue), Dell, Cisco/Linksys or Maxtor that I've talked to, and it's a world of difference. (Among other companies with clue: Gyration, though that was several years ago.)
(No, I don't have a stake in ASUS, aside from them providing what I feel are for the price probably the best notebook value. Plus, a rapid growth hasn't seemed to have hurt their quality that much. They sold more laptops than Apple last year. It is a pity that the EEE netbooks went up in price, as they went up in size. A 8-9" netbook using Ion would be about the perfect netbook, especially with at trackpoint instead of the trackpads, which take up IMO too much room.)
Welcome to jumping on a new technology, you got burned, as everyone with the exception of Samsung and Intel drives of the time used the same Jmicron controller. OCZ actually went and designed some cache and paired controllers into their middle offering (I forget the name), and I believe switched to Samsung controllers and single layer flash for a time on the high end. (I don't know what their current offerings are)
Everyone else for the most part kept selling parts that used the same chip as the OCZ Value Series. Most makers, including OCZ released firmware updates. You likely got pretty much what you paid for at that time in the SSD race.
Any other product from that time, even including Intel and Samsung didn't deal with what you've got which is random writes to fragmented memory. The problem comes from it having to erase a block, then rewrite the block. That's likely several times your data's size. It would cause especially windows machines to freeze for a few seconds. Most Linux testers I saw, didn't have quite the same problem of complete lockup, due to differences in how Linux caches to memory and when it writes to disk, but still had issues with very limited IO on fragmented devices.
Because of the fact that they were the only ones that seemed to be trying to seriously solve or work around problems, if I were to get a new SSD, I'd probably get an OCZ. Of course, jumping on new or old technologies, tends to cause problems.
As it is, you can view youtube on the iphone. If you couldn't, I suspect that the iphone would have gotten a lot of rage. (Don't know about other video sites)
I suspect that the vast majority of what people do with flash (intentionally, I'm not counting ads) is view video. Oh sure, there are stupid little flash games, but things like that existed before, they were Java though. True, some websites are flash only, but frankly those sites should probably die. (At least that's everyone's hope.) Indeed, trading the lack of flash games, for basically not having to deal with any of the flash ads, is essentially an ad-blocker.
That's not true in the situations I've used XPS Viewer on systems with Firefox installed.
Care to clarify what you mean by breaking?
(If it actually broke, it would be a valid response, as the post was basically asking for any situation which having Firefox installed breaks something. Even if it's due to assuming default behavior or something more stupid on the part of that other application.)
Indeed, that's the case now for the most part. The last two upgrades I've had (laptop & desktop) have been because the prior one broke. While it's nicer to be able to render something in 15 seconds vs 60, it's still long enough that there's a definite gap. (Also, 15 seconds is in some ways more annoying, because at a minute, you are free to do something else, 15 seconds isn't enough time to finish much of anything.)
Compare that to the reality we got: cheap ubiquitous internet, cheap ubiquitous hardware to access it, the net is *by default* free and open, and all attempts to any large-scale censoring has failed miserably.
Sadly, I think your statement is incorrect. I'd agree that we've got cheap internet and hardware. China's firewall, as well as Iran's filtering seem to both be large-scale censoring, which has not failed miserably. In most of the rest of the world, while not censored, it may well be monitored. Also consider the recent articles about people providing fake DMCA notices, which may or may not be widespread, and the attempt to get those extended to every country.
None ship them enabled because nvidia doesn't let them by default.* I think at least one distro has distributed them (Mandrake) possibly in one of their pay products. Most have an option to download them after install. (Kubuntu, Gentoo being the last two I checked, though you could argue that's still in the install for gentoo.)
Frankly, I think you'll be disappointed in the support ATI on Linux has.
*I just looked, and they now allow it, provided nothing is modified. They didn't last time I looked.
It means that there will be an open source Nvidia driver that isn't (frankly) crap.
As it is, you can run a number of games on Linux, there are some native ones (sadly not that many). However, many games will run on Wine. Wine has gotten pretty good.
I was recently comparing 32-bit vs 64-bit, and using blender as an example on both Kubuntu 9.10 and Windows 7. So I decided to try the Windows version on Wine/Kubuntu. The win64 version would not run, but the win32 version did, and was faster under wine than running on Windows 7. (Not by a lot, about 2%, but it is still impressive that Wine does some win32 faster than Windows 7. Also, amusingly some of the runs of Wine/Blender are faster than Native Linux/Blender ~1%)
(2.49b->2.50-alpha-1 is about 60% of the render time, 32->64 bit is about 60-70% on Kubuntu 9.10 and 78-85% on Windows 7, total from 2.49b 32->64bit is about 37% on Linux and about 49% for Windows, comparing 2.50-alpha-1 64-bit (native) Kubuntu takes about 75% of the time Windows 7 does.)
Sadly compared to the majority of cards (Integrated stuff) if I'm reading your statement correctly you have a super duper card.
Certainly better than most of them. (Non-integrated RAM, that is almost certainly faster than main memory, AND won't eat the CPU's memory bandwidth) There is a possibility you have no extra RAM, in which case, your card is still better than most (Intel Integrated Graphics).
In either case, you are still above the normal card.
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Just like Apple designs
I seem to recall at least one proposal for the 'arsenal ships' aka ships with lots of missiles towed off the coast, to have been made from converting container ships, after someone looked at the costs and decided purpose built ships were too expensive, before the idea was killed. The idea became to be able to use commercial ships for relatively little cost.
A few reasons it was killed (at least as any kind of surface ship):
Put a WHOLE bunch of really expensive munitions on a slow target. With minimal defenses. Defending them requires purpose built navy ships. Meaning that the savings of proposing that, just evaporated.
Even the inefficiencies of Aircraft carriers, are a lot less than using a cruise missile for each target.
Modern naval ships don't have much in the way of armor, compounding the problem of defense.
By the time you fit it with defense to protect the cargo, you might as well go ahead and build a more conventional warship (with extra VLS)
There is one example where the concept more or less did happen though, in the refitted SSBNs to SSGNs, with lots of Tomahawk missiles. They don't suffer from having to have lots of defense of a surface target, and have advantages in stealth.
And if it doesn't, why it doesn't (plaintext passwords?) is probably more of a potential problem.
So Apple is doing what Opera did in 2003 for Qtopia on Zaurus.
If one wants to go this route, it can be done, but ONLY with some of the newer CPUs/Chipsets. I think they are now named Intel VT-d and AMD-Vi respectively. So far, you have to hunt for which cpu/chipsets support this. The only place it's clear that have support is via AMD's NEW Opterons, and chipsets. Consumer stuff is (especially for some reason with the Intel CPU/boards) subject to vendor whim.
If going Linux host-Linux guest via X11 you'll take a hit, but you'll still have hardware acceleration. There are a few Linux-Linux 3D solutions that don't use X, but I have not tried to mess with them.
Actually, it might sound/look better to some. The reason being that particular formats have particular errors/noise which are introduced, and sometimes mitigated by another format. If you have enough experience (I did at one point), you can tell which audio standard is being used simply by listening. Now, due to not listening to as much in as many formats and caring about it, the only one I can tell apart is wma and sometimes low-bitrate mp3. As I recall, the reason for that may be due to where wma chops off frequencies.
There's also the whole vinyl sounds better, which is something similar (noise introduced by the vinyl is something that some people like.)
Hrm, aren't they in the business of selling things that use storage devices like hard drives used to be where people will still look at the size, like portable devices.
There's no money reason for them to do it at all. None at all. Nope.
What you are describing sounds like Python to Fortran, Why is it f2py then? Not py2f?
Intel did not include this capability into it's desktop chips for a while, other than a temperature sensor triggered slowdown. (So, You could slow it down by removing that fan...) AMD introduced their cool'n'quiet for desktops, which clocked down, in the Socket 939 Athlon 64s (All Socket AM2 and AM3 procesors from AMD should have it), Intel put a similar thing into very late pentium 4s and core 2, and iX chips. Chances are your P4 was earlier than that, as the last few P4s revisions, only got to 2.8GHz if I recall correctly.
Cartridges are more expensive. My guess for that is that they won't.
Not really, we can specify it as an output.
Where's fortran in that?
So World of Warcraft is Kafkaesque?
Well, given your lodgings, I'm sure it'll work well with your current landlord!
No kidding. Total Annihilation did this, where one person would host the lobby, and I think that machine became the host for everyone in the lobby.
If you want a more modern example: Supreme Commander. Fully p2p (and all clients run the sim, which theoretically eliminates cheats, though I think there are some things people do with the network to mess it up. Which would be more than )
The article strikes me as in the same vein as taking something fairly well known and adding 'on the internet!' or in this case 'on networked phones!' and claiming it's a brand new idea.
Amazingly, ASUS laptops purchased in the past two years by my family has included a 1-year accidental damage warranty, (in addition to a standard 2-year (total) warranty) Their prices haven't gone up much if at all since they introduced that, and they've had quality products. (Not to mention, HP seems to contract some of their motherboard production to them. I don't think you can even buy American at all anymore in terms of computers, except maybe high end IBM, and maybe HP.)
From their site: Covered: Surge, fire, drop, and spill.
NOT covered (not limited to): scratches and dents, incorrect or inadequate customer installation, lost or stolen, intentional damage, recovery or transfer of data stored on the notebook, damages caused by acts of God or nature.
It does exclude a number of them bought at retail places like best buy, and you have to register within 60 days. However, having that as a standard warranty is much better than any other I've seen. I haven't had to use it fortunately, and won't get to as it's been more than a year. Additionally, the few times I've had to talk to ASUS' support people, they seemed to have some clue. Contrast that to Leadtek, Seagate, HP (Ironically, the motherboards in the last 8 HPs I ordered at my last job were ASUS made, and no it wasn't the motherboard that was the issue), Dell, Cisco/Linksys or Maxtor that I've talked to, and it's a world of difference. (Among other companies with clue: Gyration, though that was several years ago.)
(No, I don't have a stake in ASUS, aside from them providing what I feel are for the price probably the best notebook value. Plus, a rapid growth hasn't seemed to have hurt their quality that much. They sold more laptops than Apple last year. It is a pity that the EEE netbooks went up in price, as they went up in size. A 8-9" netbook using Ion would be about the perfect netbook, especially with at trackpoint instead of the trackpads, which take up IMO too much room.)
Welcome to jumping on a new technology, you got burned, as everyone with the exception of Samsung and Intel drives of the time used the same Jmicron controller. OCZ actually went and designed some cache and paired controllers into their middle offering (I forget the name), and I believe switched to Samsung controllers and single layer flash for a time on the high end. (I don't know what their current offerings are)
Everyone else for the most part kept selling parts that used the same chip as the OCZ Value Series. Most makers, including OCZ released firmware updates. You likely got pretty much what you paid for at that time in the SSD race.
Any other product from that time, even including Intel and Samsung didn't deal with what you've got which is random writes to fragmented memory. The problem comes from it having to erase a block, then rewrite the block. That's likely several times your data's size. It would cause especially windows machines to freeze for a few seconds. Most Linux testers I saw, didn't have quite the same problem of complete lockup, due to differences in how Linux caches to memory and when it writes to disk, but still had issues with very limited IO on fragmented devices.
In fact: http://www.tomshardware.com/forum/247280-32-slow-freeze-stuttering-vista-outlook-solved
So while it may suck for you, take a look at where the links point to.
Because of the fact that they were the only ones that seemed to be trying to seriously solve or work around problems, if I were to get a new SSD, I'd probably get an OCZ. Of course, jumping on new or old technologies, tends to cause problems.
As it is, you can view youtube on the iphone. If you couldn't, I suspect that the iphone would have gotten a lot of rage. (Don't know about other video sites)
I suspect that the vast majority of what people do with flash (intentionally, I'm not counting ads) is view video. Oh sure, there are stupid little flash games, but things like that existed before, they were Java though. True, some websites are flash only, but frankly those sites should probably die. (At least that's everyone's hope.) Indeed, trading the lack of flash games, for basically not having to deal with any of the flash ads, is essentially an ad-blocker.
That's not true in the situations I've used XPS Viewer on systems with Firefox installed.
Care to clarify what you mean by breaking?
(If it actually broke, it would be a valid response, as the post was basically asking for any situation which having Firefox installed breaks something. Even if it's due to assuming default behavior or something more stupid on the part of that other application.)
Indeed, that's the case now for the most part. The last two upgrades I've had (laptop & desktop) have been because the prior one broke. While it's nicer to be able to render something in 15 seconds vs 60, it's still long enough that there's a definite gap. (Also, 15 seconds is in some ways more annoying, because at a minute, you are free to do something else, 15 seconds isn't enough time to finish much of anything.)
Compare that to the reality we got: cheap ubiquitous internet, cheap ubiquitous hardware to access it, the net is *by default* free and open, and all attempts to any large-scale censoring has failed miserably.
Sadly, I think your statement is incorrect. I'd agree that we've got cheap internet and hardware. China's firewall, as well as Iran's filtering seem to both be large-scale censoring, which has not failed miserably. In most of the rest of the world, while not censored, it may well be monitored. Also consider the recent articles about people providing fake DMCA notices, which may or may not be widespread, and the attempt to get those extended to every country.
Oregon State University predates both of them. (1868)
Actually, use it all you want. Just don't distribute it.
None ship them enabled because nvidia doesn't let them by default.* I think at least one distro has distributed them (Mandrake) possibly in one of their pay products. Most have an option to download them after install. (Kubuntu, Gentoo being the last two I checked, though you could argue that's still in the install for gentoo.)
Frankly, I think you'll be disappointed in the support ATI on Linux has.
*I just looked, and they now allow it, provided nothing is modified. They didn't last time I looked.
It means that there will be an open source Nvidia driver that isn't (frankly) crap.
As it is, you can run a number of games on Linux, there are some native ones (sadly not that many). However, many games will run on Wine. Wine has gotten pretty good.
I was recently comparing 32-bit vs 64-bit, and using blender as an example on both Kubuntu 9.10 and Windows 7. So I decided to try the Windows version on Wine/Kubuntu. The win64 version would not run, but the win32 version did, and was faster under wine than running on Windows 7. (Not by a lot, about 2%, but it is still impressive that Wine does some win32 faster than Windows 7. Also, amusingly some of the runs of Wine/Blender are faster than Native Linux/Blender ~1%)
(2.49b->2.50-alpha-1 is about 60% of the render time, 32->64 bit is about 60-70% on Kubuntu 9.10 and 78-85% on Windows 7, total from 2.49b 32->64bit is about 37% on Linux and about 49% for Windows, comparing 2.50-alpha-1 64-bit (native) Kubuntu takes about 75% of the time Windows 7 does.)
Sadly compared to the majority of cards (Integrated stuff) if I'm reading your statement correctly you have a super duper card.
Certainly better than most of them. (Non-integrated RAM, that is almost certainly faster than main memory, AND won't eat the CPU's memory bandwidth) There is a possibility you have no extra RAM, in which case, your card is still better than most (Intel Integrated Graphics).
In either case, you are still above the normal card.