Another solution that I would prefer is a computer that incorporates both fast and slow memory. The 'fast' memory would be the active memory. The slow memory would be cheap, slow, high capacity memory, that would act as a half way point between actually offloading things to disk and keeping them in the main memory.
I have no idea whether anyone has actually implemented this or whether there would be drawbacks.
Fastest WinXP notebook for the Photoshop test. It doesn't look like it fared so well in the Windows Media encode test.
I would be curious to know what aspects caused the slow down. Maybe the lack of a properly supported (by the OS, as opposed to Microsoft) graphics card.
Now all I want to know is which is faster: Photoshop on XP or OSX?
That will have to wait until next year, sine Adobe has stated that the Intel version of Photoshop for MacOS X won't be available until next year.
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Furthermore, most current graphics hardware is capible of displaying in either PAL or NTSC or SECAM, etc...
You'd be surprised just how much is capable of doing PAL/NTSC (most SECAM devices support PAL), but just don't provide the user with access to that feature. If I can buy a $30 VCD discman which supports PAL/NTSC, in Asia, then I am sure that most of $100+ devices should be able to support it. In most cases I imagine that the feature disabled out of some business choice.
Actually I think its something else. First the question to be asked is whether when we are talking about IE we talking the engine (think equivalent of KHTML, WebCore or Gecko) or the browser. If we are talking about the engine, then it would cause a lot of issues for the system, since a lot of the system actually seems to make use of that engine. Components using it include 'Windows Explorer' and the 'Add or Remove Programs' control panel. If we are simply talking about the browser then that would be easy to include optional. I can't imagine trying to replace the engine used by Windows with anything else, but the one provided by Microsoft. The system has enough issues without being dragged down by pluggable rendering engines. Where they did go wrong though, is not seperating the execution rights provided by IE and the engine used by the system.
Enter a stock and see the page that comes up. Despite the fact it uses Flash it is actually nicely implemented. Drag the viewing range of the stock around and you will see the associated news entries change to show what happened in those periods - nice!
When you consider more tax software companies are making their software available as web packages, which OS you are using becomes moot. As soon as this happened I abandonned the Mac tax software, since it was a good $15-$20 than the PC version.
A person sells a product for $100 and finds that lots of people are buying it. The guy figures that he could notch up the price up a bit and increases it by $10. People still buy it, since they still feel that the product is worth the money being made. The guy is now making a good profit on top of what he was already making. He now figures that since people are happy with that price he could make even more money by notching up the price again, so the price is now $120. Suddenly he is starting to sell 1/10th the amount he was selling, all because the price suddenly became too much for most people.
The lesson here is that making some extra money is ok, but being greedy is not.
Apple's Fair Play has been cracked, but to my knowledge Microsoft's Janus scheme is still protecting music downloaded from sites like Napster and Rhapsody.
Is this because more people want FairPlay cracked, or because the Janus scheme is that tough? Truth is, given a choice between Apple's DRM or Microsoft's I would choose Apple's simply because it is more relaxed. For myself, I would generally prefer to avoid WMA and WMV content to the best that I can, DRM or not.
As long as the DRM is inconvenient rather than 'unbreakable by the terms of the DMCA', then I am kind of ok. What I mean by this is that if I can play it on my computer with an open source player then I am happy.
What matters most for is whether it will have a region flag on it. The region flag is fine if you speak English, but becomes a huge pain if you buy non-English language films, unless you have something that ignores the region encoding.
This delay may afford Nintendo some ground to get a head start, but if the PS3 will be the killer machine Sony is "making" it out to be, it won't matter.
If their DRM is as contrived at their Windows version then don't even think of being able to run your own games. Overheating power-supplies will be nothing in comparison to this.
They need a PS2 MultiShock(tm) controller. 2 rotating weights and electrodes. So when U are playing games and you get "hit" by an opponent, you get an electric shock!. kinda like these
That would be cool for the new Revolution controllers.
I suppose it depends whether you have more time or money. Time is not necessarily money, but if I wasn't going to do anything with that money, then I would rather spend it so I can spend more time working on the real problems.
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Another solution that I would prefer is a computer that incorporates both fast and slow memory. The 'fast' memory would be the active memory. The slow memory would be cheap, slow, high capacity memory, that would act as a half way point between actually offloading things to disk and keeping them in the main memory.
I have no idea whether anyone has actually implemented this or whether there would be drawbacks.
See UserFriendly's take: http://ars.userfriendly.org/cartoons/?id=20060326 :)
If its three years later its a refresher, not a dupe :)
I never saw this article first time round, so I don't mind it getting posted again.
Apple says that Cocoa apps might need a few tweaks and a recompile. Carbon apps might need a few more tweaks, endian issues handled, and a recompile.
This where it would have been nice of the Intel chips allowed you to chooses Endianess, like the PowerPC chips do.
I bet Apple is PISSED right now. They're handing all their technology over to Microsoft.
But Apple is get paid $$ for the hardware, so they can't be that annoyed.
Fastest WinXP notebook for the Photoshop test. It doesn't look like it fared so well in the Windows Media encode test.
I would be curious to know what aspects caused the slow down. Maybe the lack of a properly supported (by the OS, as opposed to Microsoft) graphics card.
Now all I want to know is which is faster: Photoshop on XP or OSX?
That will have to wait until next year, sine Adobe has stated that the Intel version of Photoshop for MacOS X won't be available until next year.
Furthermore, most current graphics hardware is capible of displaying in either PAL or NTSC or SECAM, etc...
You'd be surprised just how much is capable of doing PAL/NTSC (most SECAM devices support PAL), but just don't provide the user with access to that feature. If I can buy a $30 VCD discman which supports PAL/NTSC, in Asia, then I am sure that most of $100+ devices should be able to support it. In most cases I imagine that the feature disabled out of some business choice.
Actually I think its something else. First the question to be asked is whether when we are talking about IE we talking the engine (think equivalent of KHTML, WebCore or Gecko) or the browser. If we are talking about the engine, then it would cause a lot of issues for the system, since a lot of the system actually seems to make use of that engine. Components using it include 'Windows Explorer' and the 'Add or Remove Programs' control panel. If we are simply talking about the browser then that would be easy to include optional. I can't imagine trying to replace the engine used by Windows with anything else, but the one provided by Microsoft. The system has enough issues without being dragged down by pluggable rendering engines. Where they did go wrong though, is not seperating the execution rights provided by IE and the engine used by the system.
Hey, the storied search engine has a plain starting screen too.
But is it ugly?
Enter a stock and see the page that comes up. Despite the fact it uses Flash it is actually nicely implemented. Drag the viewing range of the stock around and you will see the associated news entries change to show what happened in those periods - nice!
When you consider more tax software companies are making their software available as web packages, which OS you are using becomes moot. As soon as this happened I abandonned the Mac tax software, since it was a good $15-$20 than the PC version.
They won't be able to screw up power supply issues by using standard batteries.
Would that matter if they screw up usage with copious about of DRM and the 'we will only play DRMed' audio approach that Sony tried using,.
The lesson of Business Greed:
A person sells a product for $100 and finds that lots of people are buying it. The guy figures that he could notch up the price up a bit and increases it by $10. People still buy it, since they still feel that the product is worth the money being made. The guy is now making a good profit on top of what he was already making. He now figures that since people are happy with that price he could make even more money by notching up the price again, so the price is now $120. Suddenly he is starting to sell 1/10th the amount he was selling, all because the price suddenly became too much for most people.
The lesson here is that making some extra money is ok, but being greedy is not.
Apple's Fair Play has been cracked, but to my knowledge Microsoft's Janus scheme is still protecting music downloaded from sites like Napster and Rhapsody.
Is this because more people want FairPlay cracked, or because the Janus scheme is that tough? Truth is, given a choice between Apple's DRM or Microsoft's I would choose Apple's simply because it is more relaxed. For myself, I would generally prefer to avoid WMA and WMV content to the best that I can, DRM or not.
...if it has anything to do with the fact that everyone and their dog I see these days owns an ipod. Hmm.
True. But, also have you ever tried getting the free version of the RealPlayer? How many wrong turns do you have to make before you can download it?
As long as the DRM is inconvenient rather than 'unbreakable by the terms of the DMCA', then I am kind of ok. What I mean by this is that if I can play it on my computer with an open source player then I am happy.
What matters most for is whether it will have a region flag on it. The region flag is fine if you speak English, but becomes a huge pain if you buy non-English language films, unless you have something that ignores the region encoding.
This delay may afford Nintendo some ground to get a head start, but if the PS3 will be the killer machine Sony is "making" it out to be, it won't matter.
If their DRM is as contrived at their Windows version then don't even think of being able to run your own games. Overheating power-supplies will be nothing in comparison to this.
You have to wonder if it is realy worth it..
;)
Of course its worth it, since you get a rootkit bundled with your game console
They need a PS2 MultiShock(tm) controller. 2 rotating weights and electrodes. So when U are playing games and you get "hit" by an opponent, you get an electric shock!. kinda like these
That would be cool for the new Revolution controllers.
...the ZWeb for everyone's busy ZLife, they can download ZTunes from the ZStore.
I am just thing of having a few Zs thinking about it.
If you have the $$$, then yes.
I suppose it depends whether you have more time or money. Time is not necessarily money, but if I wasn't going to do anything with that money, then I would rather spend it so I can spend more time working on the real problems.
There are a number of solutions out there that provide an external hard drive with the same styling as the min. Take this one from Lacie: http://www.lacie.com/products/product.htm?pid=1072 7
o mpatibility.html
BTW I should note that there are competitors to Front Row that are appearing one the scene. For me MythTV still feels a bit clunky to install, but this one looks like a possible candidat: http://www.equinux.com/us/products/mediacentral/c
There is still support for floppy disks... no surprise here.
I once thought I could get away without 3.5 floppies anymore. I was wrong. Something always drags you back in the end. Flashing BIOS for instance.
Depends on the system I suppose. If your system supports being booted from a USB device, then you can use a USB Flash drive to do the same.
BTW if you really want an extra small flash drive, check out the iDisk Tiny from Pretec.
Will everything be straight under .eu, or will there be some notion of categorisation, such as .com.eu, .edu.eu, .gov.eu, etc?