Does anyone remember this article posted some time back on Slashdot? This disc based has 10 layers and can hold up to 140Gb of data. This should be enough for your HD-TV needs. The company invovled is Constellation 3D and has more information on the technology on their web site. The only question is why no-one is trying to get this technology into our homes, instead of D-VHS?
This is where systems need to make use of SSL on top of whatever low-level transport is being used. The airport should be using SSL for any wireless check-ins its doing and business travellers should be encouraged to use solutions where encrypted passwords and connections are used - of course it would be nice if more companies started equipping their external e-mail gateways with SSL support to prevent not only password snooping, but also snooping of the contents of the e-mails.
You make a good point, but at seme time you missed the point. What the author intended is that if you are whining about the lack of success of Linux games then you have only yourself to blame for going and buying the Windows version instead. Of course if you really want the Windows version here and now you obvisually have no reason to complain about the lack of Windows games. Put simply: if you want Linux games take a stand, otherwise do as you wish.
If you are making this remark then you obvisually aren't one of the people who wished there were more games for Linux. The whole point is if you want Linux games then don't get the Windows version instead, otherwise the end effect will be that games companies rightly asking 'Linux users buy Windows games, so why bother developping for Linux?'
Or maybe it is the difference between a documentary and a pop tv series? Most international distributors would get fussy with a pop tv series being region 0, whereas they probably couldn't care much about your 'marginal' DVDs such as documentaries and pr0n.
Maybe one solutuion would to be have processors with a co-processor that has access to the same cache who's only role is to deal with garbage collection?
And add to that north of the Border the Microcell's ( aka Fido ) GSM network will be joined by Roger AT&T's GSM network. Also, if you want to be able to travel with your phone around the world you are better off buying a GSM phone as you are free to roam most of the globe. Try doing that with the phone of any other US provider and the answers tends to be 'you need to rent a phone when you get to your destination' - yeah right, and this means that I have to let everyone know the number I going to have for one week!?
Not knowing too much about GC, could someone tell me whether it would be possible to implement a solution , using a dual processor computer, where one CPU does the work, while the other handles the garbage collection. Would it work and would this be one way of dealing with the performance issues?
I haven't been following the stock values, but between 98 and today there was a stock split, so each person who bought before the split now has twice as many shares as before.
Don't forget Microsoft Office is available for the Mac, so although the experience is different the tools are available. On the analogy: I should also say that while BMW and Mercedes are driven like any other car, the experience is very much different and the spare parts are usually specific to those makes.
And to add to that: Steve Jobs indicated that the neck of the new iMac is designed as a carrying point, simply because that's where most people would try too lift it. That probably explains why the neck is so much fatter than it needs be.
Since the iMac comes with a VGA connector there is nothing stopping you from connecting an external monitor and removing the current LCD screen - just make sure to have the required tools and some of that paste available.
There is also the iPod at 5Gig and costs 399 USD. The catch is that you need firewire on your computer, but still you get a music player as a bonus. On the other hand the iPod, and even the Terapin Mine Handheld are a tad larger than a key ring.
Since CD-ROM players won't be able to play the CDs directly, you will have to rip them (with smart software) to make them playable. This is ironic as the whole point of the system was to make them uncopyable, here instead we find that people will be encouraged to make a copy in otder to use them!?
How come every other industry has to give money to compensate for the wrong doing ( tabaco companies for example ), but the biggest player in the computer industry is allowed to give away software. Money has a fixed value, whereas software's value is ambiguos and can be decided by the developer. The only real settlement would be to force MS to either give money to charities and let them spend it in a way they ( the charities ) see fit. Another would be for the anti-competive contracts that MS is producing to be declared null and void in addition to the money.
The scarery thing is that this sort of thing is more common in the computer industry that you might realise. With OSs constantly evolving, in order to attract more sales, their APIs change once in a while, the third parties are left trying to support their hardware and updating their software to support the new OS and this is no easy task especially when the necessary documentation is not always ready. MacOS X and Win2K both suffer from this issue and there are still a good number of hardware devices that are left out in the cold, waiting for drivers for the new systems. Developing new drivers is certainly not cheap and most companies will concentrate on the products that are making them the most money.
At the same time, if Apple decided to go with NVidia it was because they felt that ATI wasn't making a good enough effort when it came to developing the drivers for the MacOS - sure there were other reasons, but this is the one that is best known.
That's exactly what I thought until I stopped and really took another look. While the iBook includes much of what a flat screen iMac would have, its form factor makes a big difference in how it is used and built. As pointed out, a flat screen iMac is likely to have a larger screen, but not only that, because it is designed for the desk they can use cheaper componenents, such as a larger HD, full-size DIMMs and a faster processor (it wouldn't have the same heat dispation issues). The iMac would also have a separate keyboard and mouse. All this goes to make for a different design and a lower cost. One thing they could do with adding is a TV tuner, as this would certainly help students who are suffering from too little space in their dorm rooms for both TV and computer.
Since this will be a new generation of iMac, Apple may be looking for something else in terms of design for looks of the case. What exactly that will be is hard to tell. The current portable products use the metalic look, while the desktop range use a coloured plastic look, even of the plastic is not completley transparent.
Flat screens have come down in price a fair bit. I can buy an average quality 15" flat screen here in Canada for around $500. Given that Apple partly owns a flat-screen manufacturer in Asia, it means that they have the ability to get hold screens more cheapley than othe companies.
If they created subdomains, such as.com.es,.edu.es, etc. then they would be able to have different rules on the sort of domain name you were wishing to register. For example a company name would have to use the.com.es domain and then have to follow those rules. Eductional insituations would have to use the.edu.es domain and follow the specific rules for that domain. An individual would have to use the.person.es domain and follow a first come first served basis. Of course the sub-domains,.com.es,.person.es would use the proper spanish terminology, but not speaking spanish I can't suggest the appropriate tranaslation. Whether it would work out to be any better in the long run ramains to be seen, but this is an approach which would cater to different types of entities wishing to have a domain name.
Looking at the URL provided ( the link ), it looks like there is a very strong Microsoft focus in many of their projects. Maybe Microsoft is providing funding for some of their research?
At the end of the day the results are probably more important than the platform on which the calculations were done.
I thought that it was China who was meant to be improving its human rights record based on examples from the USA, not the other way around. Or am I missing something here?
What about the people that can't (or don't know how to) change their nameserver?
Then they won't have the benefit of being part of the underground;). At the end of the day anyone really wanting to access to that information will do their best to learn of the alternative solutions or compaign the government for their civil liberties - if they are not doing that then the information obvisually didn't mean much to them in the first place.
If someone had the need to access the information, then they could easily connect to another ISP in another country via phone lines if all routes via the local section of the internet are blocked - of course it would cost more, but it all depends on much that information means to them.
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Does anyone remember this article posted some time back on Slashdot? This disc based has 10 layers and can hold up to 140Gb of data. This should be enough for your HD-TV needs. The company invovled is Constellation 3D and has more information on the technology on their web site. The only question is why no-one is trying to get this technology into our homes, instead of D-VHS?
This is where systems need to make use of SSL on top of whatever low-level transport is being used. The airport should be using SSL for any wireless check-ins its doing and business travellers should be encouraged to use solutions where encrypted passwords and connections are used - of course it would be nice if more companies started equipping their external e-mail gateways with SSL support to prevent not only password snooping, but also snooping of the contents of the e-mails.
You make a good point, but at seme time you missed the point. What the author intended is that if you are whining about the lack of success of Linux games then you have only yourself to blame for going and buying the Windows version instead. Of course if you really want the Windows version here and now you obvisually have no reason to complain about the lack of Windows games. Put simply: if you want Linux games take a stand, otherwise do as you wish.
If you are making this remark then you obvisually aren't one of the people who wished there were more games for Linux. The whole point is if you want Linux games then don't get the Windows version instead, otherwise the end effect will be that games companies rightly asking 'Linux users buy Windows games, so why bother developping for Linux?'
What I'm really waiting for is the release of MSN Goverment, but until then I suppose I'll have to put up with MSN Postal Service.
The added advantage with the radio series is that it is made available on region free media, ie CD and audio-tape.
Or maybe it is the difference between a documentary and a pop tv series? Most international distributors would get fussy with a pop tv series being region 0, whereas they probably couldn't care much about your 'marginal' DVDs such as documentaries and pr0n.
Before she goes round rebuilding her kernel, first she needs to understand that this has nothing to do with maize.
Maybe one solutuion would to be have processors with a co-processor that has access to the same cache who's only role is to deal with garbage collection?
And add to that north of the Border the Microcell's ( aka Fido ) GSM network will be joined by Roger AT&T's GSM network. Also, if you want to be able to travel with your phone around the world you are better off buying a GSM phone as you are free to roam most of the globe. Try doing that with the phone of any other US provider and the answers tends to be 'you need to rent a phone when you get to your destination' - yeah right, and this means that I have to let everyone know the number I going to have for one week!?
Not knowing too much about GC, could someone tell me whether it would be possible to implement a solution , using a dual processor computer, where one CPU does the work, while the other handles the garbage collection. Would it work and would this be one way of dealing with the performance issues?
I haven't been following the stock values, but between 98 and today there was a stock split, so each person who bought before the split now has twice as many shares as before.
Don't forget Microsoft Office is available for the Mac, so although the experience is different the tools are available. On the analogy: I should also say that while BMW and Mercedes are driven like any other car, the experience is very much different and the spare parts are usually specific to those makes.
And to add to that: Steve Jobs indicated that the neck of the new iMac is designed as a carrying point, simply because that's where most people would try too lift it. That probably explains why the neck is so much fatter than it needs be.
Since the iMac comes with a VGA connector there is nothing stopping you from connecting an external monitor and removing the current LCD screen - just make sure to have the required tools and some of that paste available.
There is also the iPod at 5Gig and costs 399 USD. The catch is that you need firewire on your computer, but still you get a music player as a bonus. On the other hand the iPod, and even the Terapin Mine Handheld are a tad larger than a key ring.
Since CD-ROM players won't be able to play the CDs directly, you will have to rip them (with smart software) to make them playable. This is ironic as the whole point of the system was to make them uncopyable, here instead we find that people will be encouraged to make a copy in otder to use them!?
How come every other industry has to give money to compensate for the wrong doing ( tabaco companies for example ), but the biggest player in the computer industry is allowed to give away software. Money has a fixed value, whereas software's value is ambiguos and can be decided by the developer. The only real settlement would be to force MS to either give money to charities and let them spend it in a way they ( the charities ) see fit. Another would be for the anti-competive contracts that MS is producing to be declared null and void in addition to the money.
The scarery thing is that this sort of thing is more common in the computer industry that you might realise. With OSs constantly evolving, in order to attract more sales, their APIs change once in a while, the third parties are left trying to support their hardware and updating their software to support the new OS and this is no easy task especially when the necessary documentation is not always ready. MacOS X and Win2K both suffer from this issue and there are still a good number of hardware devices that are left out in the cold, waiting for drivers for the new systems. Developing new drivers is certainly not cheap and most companies will concentrate on the products that are making them the most money.
At the same time, if Apple decided to go with NVidia it was because they felt that ATI wasn't making a good enough effort when it came to developing the drivers for the MacOS - sure there were other reasons, but this is the one that is best known.
That's exactly what I thought until I stopped and really took another look. While the iBook includes much of what a flat screen iMac would have, its form factor makes a big difference in how it is used and built. As pointed out, a flat screen iMac is likely to have a larger screen, but not only that, because it is designed for the desk they can use cheaper componenents, such as a larger HD, full-size DIMMs and a faster processor (it wouldn't have the same heat dispation issues). The iMac would also have a separate keyboard and mouse. All this goes to make for a different design and a lower cost. One thing they could do with adding is a TV tuner, as this would certainly help students who are suffering from too little space in their dorm rooms for both TV and computer.
Since this will be a new generation of iMac, Apple may be looking for something else in terms of design for looks of the case. What exactly that will be is hard to tell. The current portable products use the metalic look, while the desktop range use a coloured plastic look, even of the plastic is not completley transparent.
Flat screens have come down in price a fair bit. I can buy an average quality 15" flat screen here in Canada for around $500. Given that Apple partly owns a flat-screen manufacturer in Asia, it means that they have the ability to get hold screens more cheapley than othe companies.
If they created subdomains, such as .com.es, .edu.es, etc. then they would be able to have different rules on the sort of domain name you were wishing to register. For example a company name would have to use the .com.es domain and then have to follow those rules. Eductional insituations would have to use the .edu.es domain and follow the specific rules for that domain. An individual would have to use the .person.es domain and follow a first come first served basis. Of course the sub-domains, .com.es, .person.es would use the proper spanish terminology, but not speaking spanish I can't suggest the appropriate tranaslation. Whether it would work out to be any better in the long run ramains to be seen, but this is an approach which would cater to different types of entities wishing to have a domain name.
At the end of the day the results are probably more important than the platform on which the calculations were done.
I thought that it was China who was meant to be improving its human rights record based on examples from the USA, not the other way around. Or am I missing something here?
Then they won't have the benefit of being part of the underground ;). At the end of the day anyone really wanting to access to that information will do their best to learn of the alternative solutions or compaign the government for their civil liberties - if they are not doing that then the information obvisually didn't mean much to them in the first place.
If someone had the need to access the information, then they could easily connect to another ISP in another country via phone lines if all routes via the local section of the internet are blocked - of course it would cost more, but it all depends on much that information means to them.
If this is based on DNS entries, tnen what is stopping people using the IP addresses instead?