Woz was at IDF in San Francisco last summer. He spoke insightfully and lucidly for around an hour, then hung around for another hour or more signing copies of his book, iWoz, and chatting to delegates. Maybe his concentration was affected by the plane crash, but these days he's more switched on than most of the people in my office...
A fact cannot, by definition, be false. The jury's role is to rule on points in contention, deciding which should be considered fact and which should be discarded as untrue.
Even their 9850 Phenom, 2.5Ghz, gets an average of less than half the performance in many benchmarks and many reviews, compared to the classic 2.4Ghz Q6600. The revision stepping that fixed the 'TLB errata' in hardware, rather than the 'slow software workaround' saw...no performance improvement clock for clock?
Can you provide references? I found the TLB fixed Phenoms more than 10% faster than their predecessors, making the X4 9850 convincingly faster than the Q6600.
this should really be set up as a blind test, you get to listen to two clips, and have to choose which is better.
I agree entirely. They should also include different bitrates - do many people still use 128kbps? - and versions which aren't compressed at all. Hopefully the results might shut up the audiobores who keep insisting that MP3 isn't good enough for their precious ears.
I honestly have no idea whether these allegations are true or not, but even if there are non-existent people registering to vote, presumably they're not going to actually show up and cast a ballot. So is it really a problem?
I wrote an article on this very topic for PC Pro magazine a few months back, and after extensive tests I'm afraid I found that in every desktop application I tested (including Office, Photoshop and 3ds Max) a Vista system with 3GB of RAM was distinctly slower than a 512MB XP machine.
It might feel faster though - it could well be that they've focused on giving more and quicker feedback to enhance the perception of responsiveness. That's why the OS goes through so many different screens as it boots - to give a sense that lots of things are happening so it doesn't seem like the machine's keeping you waiting around for 45 seconds (which, of course, in reality it is).
It is a resource hog of cpu, memory and hard drive.
I fear you're not up to speed with Norton's current line-up. Yes, some older versions were very resource-hungry, but the new 2009 edition adds only a few seconds to boot time and has a RAM footprint of just a few tens of megabytes when idle. Here's a brief review of it with a few facts and figures.
wall street hasn't yet factored in the possibility of 20% of nvidia's high to mid end chips being totally reject chips yet.
They're not "totally reject chips". They just have a tendency to overheat. Possible fixes include a BIOS update to speed up the fan, a BIOS update to underclock the chip (not ideal, but very cost effective) or a better heatsink.
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The linked story doesn't mention it, but he says he was told by US government officials that if he didn't plead guilty and agree to be extradited, he could be facing sixty years in prison.
I take your point, but these days you can get a 1GB DIMM for £15... (also, just to be pedantic, the the system requirements do call for a minimum of 512MB).
Powell makes no sense as a veep for either candidate. He is not likely to bring in any group of supporters.
The article suggests otherwise, and it makes sense to me. I can easily imagine how having Powell on Obama's team would reassure disappointed Republicans and make them more willing to vote against their traditional side.
Hello there - I wrote the article, so let me try to explain myself a little more clearly. I did say that multi-GPU gaming is fundamentally inefficient, but I meant that in the context of "current games and drivers". My point was that we can now run three and even four GPUs in parallel on a desktop PC, but, as you say, current games simply don't take advantage of all those cores.
I do recognise that, done properly, multi-GPU rendering can be very effective. But when it comes to PC games and consumer graphics cards, nobody's yet come close to "doing it properly"...!
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1. To give a name or title to. 2. To furnish with a right or claim to something: The coupon entitles the bearer to a 25 percent savings. Every citizen is entitled to equal protection under the law.
1. To give a title to; to dignify by an honorary designation. 2. To bestow the right to do (to own, to demand, or to receive) something, to someone. 3. To give a title to a book, film, play, etc.
Dude, I don't mean to be a dick, but... are you sure about this?
Even if (and it's unlikely) the Heathrow systems were secure, it wouldn't be long before the police gain access to that data. Then HMRC. Then every other public sector agency, criminal and person receiving misdirected random post containing CDs.
Well... so? What could they possibly do with a copy of my fingerprints that they can't already do with all the data they have on file about me from sources like my registration of birth, the electoral roll, the Passport Agency, the DVLA...? Even if we presume the worst (in terms of data security) I don't see what the big deal is here.
I'm willing to accept that you'd rather risk dying in a terror attack than live in fear of one, but the point of airport security is that you don't have to do either.
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Woz was at IDF in San Francisco last summer. He spoke insightfully and lucidly for around an hour, then hung around for another hour or more signing copies of his book, iWoz, and chatting to delegates. Maybe his concentration was affected by the plane crash, but these days he's more switched on than most of the people in my office...
mais tous et a changé
Hein? Un "et" de plus, n'est-ce pas?
Dude, I know geography is hard, but surely you know which country you're in!?
There is one problem, though: try downloading a song at work and putting it on your iPod to listen to on the way home...
A fact is a fact, regardless of whether or not it is true.
Well, duh. And dogs are dogs, regardless of whether or not they're mammals. Doesn't mean you can teach a carrot to fetch a stick.
A fact cannot, by definition, be false. The jury's role is to rule on points in contention, deciding which should be considered fact and which should be discarded as untrue.
Even their 9850 Phenom, 2.5Ghz, gets an average of less than half the performance in many benchmarks and many reviews, compared to the classic 2.4Ghz Q6600. The revision stepping that fixed the 'TLB errata' in hardware, rather than the 'slow software workaround' saw...no performance improvement clock for clock?
Can you provide references? I found the TLB fixed Phenoms more than 10% faster than their predecessors, making the X4 9850 convincingly faster than the Q6600.
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this should really be set up as a blind test, you get to listen to two clips, and have to choose which is better.
I agree entirely. They should also include different bitrates - do many people still use 128kbps? - and versions which aren't compressed at all. Hopefully the results might shut up the audiobores who keep insisting that MP3 isn't good enough for their precious ears.
I honestly have no idea whether these allegations are true or not, but even if there are non-existent people registering to vote, presumably they're not going to actually show up and cast a ballot. So is it really a problem?
I wrote an article on this very topic for PC Pro magazine a few months back, and after extensive tests I'm afraid I found that in every desktop application I tested (including Office, Photoshop and 3ds Max) a Vista system with 3GB of RAM was distinctly slower than a 512MB XP machine.
It might feel faster though - it could well be that they've focused on giving more and quicker feedback to enhance the perception of responsiveness. That's why the OS goes through so many different screens as it boots - to give a sense that lots of things are happening so it doesn't seem like the machine's keeping you waiting around for 45 seconds (which, of course, in reality it is).
until I come across something that infects me with avast running
Don't assume you'll know about it...
It is a resource hog of cpu, memory and hard drive.
I fear you're not up to speed with Norton's current line-up. Yes, some older versions were very resource-hungry, but the new 2009 edition adds only a few seconds to boot time and has a RAM footprint of just a few tens of megabytes when idle. Here's a brief review of it with a few facts and figures.
There's no evidence he ever took anything else (apart from the odd social drink and ordinary Victorian painkillers).
wall street hasn't yet factored in the possibility of 20% of nvidia's high to mid end chips being totally reject chips yet.
They're not "totally reject chips". They just have a tendency to overheat. Possible fixes include a BIOS update to speed up the fan, a BIOS update to underclock the chip (not ideal, but very cost effective) or a better heatsink.
Laughable and sad, really.
Annual firearm homicides per 100,000 population:
England and Wales: 0.12
United States: 2.97
I know where I feel safer.
Nvidia won't be competing with the initial X58 chipset, but they do plan to start supporting Nehalem at some point after launch.
My reception's fine, but I really wish Apple would hurry up and fix the slow typing bug...
It sounds like a trivial thing, but coupled with the inherent inaccuracy of the iPhone keyboard it makes the phone barely usable for text messaging...
The linked story doesn't mention it, but he says he was told by US government officials that if he didn't plead guilty and agree to be extradited, he could be facing sixty years in prison.
I take your point, but these days you can get a 1GB DIMM for £15... (also, just to be pedantic, the the system requirements do call for a minimum of 512MB).
Please provide a link to where the Scrabulous creators are infringing the Hasbro trademark. And note that they live in India.
Powell makes no sense as a veep for either candidate. He is not likely to bring in any group of supporters.
The article suggests otherwise, and it makes sense to me. I can easily imagine how having Powell on Obama's team would reassure disappointed Republicans and make them more willing to vote against their traditional side.
Hello there - I wrote the article, so let me try to explain myself a little more clearly. I did say that multi-GPU gaming is fundamentally inefficient, but I meant that in the context of "current games and drivers". My point was that we can now run three and even four GPUs in parallel on a desktop PC, but, as you say, current games simply don't take advantage of all those cores.
I do recognise that, done properly, multi-GPU rendering can be very effective. But when it comes to PC games and consumer graphics cards, nobody's yet come close to "doing it properly"...!
Second hit on Google gives me:
Third hit on Google gives me:
Dude, I don't mean to be a dick, but... are you sure about this?
Even if (and it's unlikely) the Heathrow systems were secure, it wouldn't be long before the police gain access to that data. Then HMRC. Then every other public sector agency, criminal and person receiving misdirected random post containing CDs.
Well... so? What could they possibly do with a copy of my fingerprints that they can't already do with all the data they have on file about me from sources like my registration of birth, the electoral roll, the Passport Agency, the DVLA...? Even if we presume the worst (in terms of data security) I don't see what the big deal is here.
I'm willing to accept that you'd rather risk dying in a terror attack than live in fear of one, but the point of airport security is that you don't have to do either.