True, the Rambus is not exactly the first thing on my wishlist. But i dont think this change will change that much. All benchmarks has already told us what a crappy CPU the P4 is.. why would i like it just because we got better ram ?
Sure its better then earlier, but the T-bird and DDR still kicks butt:)
A spokesman of the record business in Sweden said a few weeks ago something like this :
We have seen a 5 % drop in sales, it must be Napsters fault, so we must raise the price to compensate for the loss.
This is absurd.. why do they think people care to search and download music from the net ? Because its expensive! Here (.se), a full cd costs something like 170 SEK, (17 USD). If the raise the price more, its even more profitable to download the music, and they have to raise prices even more.
If a CD cost like 5 USD, i doubt piracy would be an issue anylonger. Napster didnt create the need, the need created napster !
>> RIAA = Recording Industry and Artists of America, right?
So, what power would they have over, for example, over a P2P development effort hosted in Europe?
Interresting theory.. if I'm not misstaken, USA stands for "United States of America"... you mean the USA dont have any incluence in Europe either ?;-)
When the mp3 filetype appeared, several years ago, noone really cared. It was either a 28.8 or a 56k modem connected to the pc, and downloading more then a song or two costed lots of money on the phone bill.
The appearance of broadband has made a 4 MB mp3file very easy to download, so what does take time and resources to download now ?
Some Swedish computer magazines have identified the DivX media compression as a successor to the "king-of-piracy-file-format". They showed how to download, and even provided several programs on the bundled CD, such as gnutella.
I wonder if we will have a company providing.mpg and.avi exchange in the same way. Why dont they just write a more binding licence agreement and start over with a new mediatype ?
> And of course, the tendancy towards smart cards (which aren't) will only make this problem worse. A bit of biometrics might help: a thumbpad on the side of the card, maybe.
Well, exactly are you going to send a thumbprint when you're logging on remotely ? As a binary stream... ? (then it too can of course be exploited in the same way as the password).
Bioinformatics may work fine when you're at the fysical location, but remotely.. hardly.
Mozilla doesnt just provide the code for one browser, but it is also used as codebase for other browsers. One, called Galileo, is a very fast, slimmed plain brower based on the rendering code in Mozilla.
It should be available on freshmet.net (is down at the moment though, so i cant give the URL).
Computers are great, kids have to learn using them at an early stage to get a feeling for them. That will help since they are growing up in an age where computers are everywhere.
Although, concider the human brain. It's got two parts. One logic side and one creative side. Computers mostly aid/develop the logic side. The creativitiy must be supported by fysical activity, working with hands, running, climbing etc.
Computers are great, but we need to make sure kids doenst ONLY use them. As always, something in the middle is the best way to go.
Yep, it's not really useful for setting up a test environment if it's removed after X days. (Unless X is big:)
What i dont really get though, is what all the fuzz is about. All they are providing is a common Linux installation. (Sure, its great when it's free). But downloading the ISO and install on that P-200 in your closet, and you have the same box but without time limitation.
Of course its cool running it on a mainframe, but if the OS works well, you'll never notice where you are anyway:)
Its a shame people write that much in a disclaimer. If you want someone to read it, thus respecting it, KISS:)
Although, i guess many licence agreements are not ment to be read, just used as backup when something goes wrong, something to fall back to if problems occur. Take napster as an example, they dont care if people copy music illegaly, because when they are used, they are not responsible.
> In Denmark and I guess in rest of Europe it is getting harder and harder to get a static IPv4
In Sweden (part of Europe:) there are serveral DSL solutions available for customers. All of those provides a real ip-address. Two of the major ones also provides static ip's. Some cable-model-companies uses DCHP, but you still get a real ip-address.
It's mostly the universities who provides internet access through nat, since that reduces the amount of servers with illegal content on it.
This mouse obviousy solves some problems. You dont have to reach for the mouse when you want to use it. Its alread available. But is this all good ?
More and more people are getting fysical injuries when sitting in front of a computer. Is that because they stretch for the mouse, and then back to the keyboard ? (ie _moves_)... no its all the static movement... yes!
Furthermore, what kind of mouse do you perfer to use ? What kind of keyboard ? I personly fancy those "broken" keyboards form MS and Logitech, since they relax both hands, neck and shoulders. The same goes for the mouse. I use a logitech mouseman wheel simply because it supports the hand and gives a very relaxing working position. Any ordinary plain simple mouse gives me the creeps in less then 10 minutes.
Perhaps if you read the entire first row of the post next time you reply to it ? Where did advertisement revenues go into your calculation ?
Assume your example... Selling one book costs us $5, we sell it for $4.50.
For every book sold, US Mail sponsors you with 50 cents, since they make money on people buying stuff via mail. Then, for every book sold you have 100 hits on your webpage. You get 1 cent for every hit.
Now the calculation looks like this (for one book sold)
Purchasing the book : - $5
Profit from sale : + $4.50
US Mail sponsor : + $0.50
Ad's on WWW-page : + $1.00
------
This sums up to : + $1.00
Of course all figures are higly fictive, but you should be able to get the "point" of it.
In this way you will "loose" money for every book sold, but make enough money to cover that loss from fringe-business, such as advertising.
This sure seems really cool, especially for all those 3Dgames. I wonder though, if this product is intended for use with games or more business orientated use. They mention in the review things as autocad. It must be a great improvement when constructing 3D models and you can actually see them in 3D:)
Although.. they are quite small, and i wonder if they can have any serious uses with 15" screens... but it's always a good start.
>> The gaming market is one of the strongest for commercially dold upgrades
> Expansion packs for games are notoriously poor sellers
In fact, what he said was just that the sold better then other upgrade packs (even though they dont sells that well:), and im willing to agree. I think patches (bug-fixes) must be free of charge, while updates (new features, maps, levels etc) may be charged for.
Further, since many of those expansion packs are pretty large (full cd) its not worth downloading unless you have a cheap broadband.
Personly i dont like this business model though, i like buying things, knowing what the final cost will be. Otherwise you dont know where the bill ends...
It will sure require a lot of manpower to keep track of this. But what if they dont ? One could argue that it's not worth having a police force, since it cost money as well.
There has to be a balance between cost and effect. The basic reason is to prevent crime from being profitable. As long as most criminals dont make money on robbing a bank, they will think twise about doing it. People dont cheat when telling the goverment about their earnings the year before, since the consequences (and chance of) being caught is to large.
The same must go for software piracy and other illegal activities online. When the risk of being caught is increased, crime will decline.
Well, if you define "Proper" as making big bucks on the internet, fine. Otherwise i'd guess more then 1% is using it for something "proper".
Email is a great thing, as is the "www". Easy access to information in a fast and simple way. Thats proper to me:) Communication, with friends and others, booking tickets, buying stuff online, searching, newsgroups... Thats pretty proper i'd say... And more then 1 % online are using those services:)
In some way you're right. People will always cheat, at least some of us. To that I agree.
I would not agree though that the result of a cheat being easily publicly available will reduce the amount of cheaters. I'd say the opposite.
Assume some people really want to cheat. They will find some way (wallhack, aimbots etc) and have their fun. Then there are other people who feel "that could be cool to test", and tries it. Not for the purpose of winning the game, just for the fun of testing it out. Those people whould most likely not cheat if it was not easy to access those files.
Then there are those who realize that gaming is more fun when played fair. Those people will not cheat anyhow..
Making it easy to cheat wont reduce cheating frequency, in the same way as making it easy to steal copywrighted material wont reduce piracy.
The linux system costs 347 US $, and gives 2733 QphH
Compaq box gives 1699 QphH for 161 US $
Some simple math gives
2733 / 347 = 7.8 QphH / US $
1699 / 161 = 10.5 QphH / US $
I.E, the linux machine doesnt use its dollars as well as the compaq system. Alhough.. high performance is always more expensive. Price vs Money is not a linear relation.
Lets hope that reduction brings cooler Athlons in the future. I'd love a cool and fast CPU without having to use loads of loud fans in the PC case.
Todays T-birds are already really hot.. as is the P4. Its bad they generate this much heat, and use loads of electricity. It feels like its time to design better CPU's, not just raise voltage:)
Don't get me wrong, I think space flight is just as cool as the next person, but the return just doesn't justify the expense
Well sure, Armstrong didnt find huge amounts of gold on the moon, so of course that trip itself was expensive.
What you seem to forget is that there are huge spinoff effects, both in science and other areas. Money spent is money earned, which is money made... the economical spiral.
The travel to the moon has had great impact on humanity, where would the world be today otherwise ? No satelites ?.. that would suck
You're argument is like saying : It would have been better if Christofer Columbus sailed to America in 2000, it was to expensive at the time."
Time is of absolute relevance to research, the earlier, the better!
Im not really sure liquid cooling will be that widely adapted. Sure it reduces the temperature better then air-cooling, but how do you cool the water.. fans anyhow. There are of course alternatives to this, like huge metal wings in the air and stuff. So, it gives better (and more quiet) CPU cooling, but not more quiet
My experience with watercooling is though, that even if its more effective, it doesnt reduce the "total" sound of the box. The power supply and the disks makes quite a lot of noice as well... There's no real need to cool CPU in a quiet way, if disks still makes noice.
> Of course, HP's printers are still shipping with Windows-only drivers... and Windows-only configuration tools... and described as "Linux-compatible" in their advertisements
Isn't that the way is usually is ? Things are not Linux compatible.. linux is -compatible instead:)
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Sure its better then earlier, but the T-bird and DDR still kicks butt :)
A few days ago there was a thread telling us a Single Athlon 1.2 Ghz was faster then intel's new XEON 1.7 Ghz...
Whats wrong with this picure... the P3 1Ghz is faster then the Xeon 1.7 Ghz ? :)
Guess there are some finetuning to make on this dual configuration. Awesome Mobo though, just wonder about the price tag...
We have seen a 5 % drop in sales, it must be Napsters fault, so we must raise the price to compensate for the loss.
This is absurd.. why do they think people care to search and download music from the net ? Because its expensive! Here (.se), a full cd costs something like 170 SEK, (17 USD). If the raise the price more, its even more profitable to download the music, and they have to raise prices even more.
If a CD cost like 5 USD, i doubt piracy would be an issue anylonger. Napster didnt create the need, the need created napster !
So, what power would they have over, for example, over a P2P development effort hosted in Europe?
Interresting theory.. if I'm not misstaken, USA stands for "United States of America"... you mean the USA dont have any incluence in Europe either ? ;-)
The appearance of broadband has made a 4 MB mp3file very easy to download, so what does take time and resources to download now ?
Some Swedish computer magazines have identified the DivX media compression as a successor to the "king-of-piracy-file-format". They showed how to download, and even provided several programs on the bundled CD, such as gnutella.
I wonder if we will have a company providing .mpg and .avi exchange in the same way. Why dont they just write a more binding licence agreement and start over with a new mediatype ?
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Well, exactly are you going to send a thumbprint when you're logging on remotely ? As a binary stream... ? (then it too can of course be exploited in the same way as the password).
Bioinformatics may work fine when you're at the fysical location, but remotely.. hardly.
It should be available on freshmet.net (is down at the moment though, so i cant give the URL).
Although, concider the human brain. It's got two parts. One logic side and one creative side. Computers mostly aid/develop the logic side. The creativitiy must be supported by fysical activity, working with hands, running, climbing etc.
Computers are great, but we need to make sure kids doenst ONLY use them. As always, something in the middle is the best way to go.
What i dont really get though, is what all the fuzz is about. All they are providing is a common Linux installation. (Sure, its great when it's free). But downloading the ISO and install on that P-200 in your closet, and you have the same box but without time limitation.
Of course its cool running it on a mainframe, but if the OS works well, you'll never notice where you are anyway :)
Although, i guess many licence agreements are not ment to be read, just used as backup when something goes wrong, something to fall back to if problems occur. Take napster as an example, they dont care if people copy music illegaly, because when they are used, they are not responsible.
(KISS = Keep It Simple Stupid)
In Sweden (part of Europe :) there are serveral DSL solutions available for customers. All of those provides a real ip-address. Two of the major ones also provides static ip's. Some cable-model-companies uses DCHP, but you still get a real ip-address.
It's mostly the universities who provides internet access through nat, since that reduces the amount of servers with illegal content on it.
More and more people are getting fysical injuries when sitting in front of a computer. Is that because they stretch for the mouse, and then back to the keyboard ? (ie _moves_)... no its all the static movement... yes!
Furthermore, what kind of mouse do you perfer to use ? What kind of keyboard ? I personly fancy those "broken" keyboards form MS and Logitech, since they relax both hands, neck and shoulders. The same goes for the mouse. I use a logitech mouseman wheel simply because it supports the hand and gives a very relaxing working position. Any ordinary plain simple mouse gives me the creeps in less then 10 minutes.
We need to move more, not less...
Assume your example...
Selling one book costs us $5, we sell it for $4.50.
For every book sold, US Mail sponsors you with 50 cents, since they make money on people buying stuff via mail. Then, for every book sold you have 100 hits on your webpage. You get 1 cent for every hit.
Now the calculation looks like this (for one book sold)
Purchasing the book : - $5
Profit from sale : + $4.50
US Mail sponsor : + $0.50
Ad's on WWW-page : + $1.00
------
This sums up to : + $1.00
Of course all figures are higly fictive, but you should be able to get the "point" of it.
In this way you will "loose" money for every book sold, but make enough money to cover that loss from fringe-business, such as advertising.
If you sell things below cost, you will probably sell quite a lot. Thus, you get many hits, thus you can make money anyhow.
Obviously this has not happened yet, since they are trying to make a profit...
Although.. they are quite small, and i wonder if they can have any serious uses with 15" screens... but it's always a good start.
And what about maintaining.. they gonna send electritions up to the moon when things break... sounds rather costly :)
> Expansion packs for games are notoriously poor sellers
In fact, what he said was just that the sold better then other upgrade packs (even though they dont sells that well :), and im willing to agree. I think patches (bug-fixes) must be free of charge, while updates (new features, maps, levels etc) may be charged for.
Further, since many of those expansion packs are pretty large (full cd) its not worth downloading unless you have a cheap broadband.
Personly i dont like this business model though, i like buying things, knowing what the final cost will be. Otherwise you dont know where the bill ends...
There has to be a balance between cost and effect. The basic reason is to prevent crime from being profitable. As long as most criminals dont make money on robbing a bank, they will think twise about doing it. People dont cheat when telling the goverment about their earnings the year before, since the consequences (and chance of) being caught is to large.
The same must go for software piracy and other illegal activities online. When the risk of being caught is increased, crime will decline.
Email is a great thing, as is the "www". Easy access to information in a fast and simple way. Thats proper to me :) Communication, with friends and others, booking tickets, buying stuff online, searching, newsgroups... Thats pretty proper i'd say... And more then 1 % online are using those services :)
I would not agree though that the result of a cheat being easily publicly available will reduce the amount of cheaters. I'd say the opposite.
Assume some people really want to cheat. They will find some way (wallhack, aimbots etc) and have their fun. Then there are other people who feel "that could be cool to test", and tries it. Not for the purpose of winning the game, just for the fun of testing it out. Those people whould most likely not cheat if it was not easy to access those files.
Then there are those who realize that gaming is more fun when played fair. Those people will not cheat anyhow..
Making it easy to cheat wont reduce cheating frequency, in the same way as making it easy to steal copywrighted material wont reduce piracy.
Compaq box gives 1699 QphH for 161 US $
Some simple math gives
2733 / 347 = 7.8 QphH / US $
1699 / 161 = 10.5 QphH / US $
I.E, the linux machine doesnt use its dollars as well as the compaq system. Alhough.. high performance is always more expensive. Price vs Money is not a linear relation.
Todays T-birds are already really hot.. as is the P4. Its bad they generate this much heat, and use loads of electricity. It feels like its time to design better CPU's, not just raise voltage :)
Don't get me wrong, I think space flight is just as cool as the next person, but the return just doesn't justify the expense
Well sure, Armstrong didnt find huge amounts of gold on the moon, so of course that trip itself was expensive.
What you seem to forget is that there are huge spinoff effects, both in science and other areas. Money spent is money earned, which is money made... the economical spiral.
The travel to the moon has had great impact on humanity, where would the world be today otherwise ? No satelites ?.. that would suck
You're argument is like saying : It would have been better if Christofer Columbus sailed to America in 2000, it was to expensive at the time."
Time is of absolute relevance to research, the earlier, the better!
My experience with watercooling is though, that even if its more effective, it doesnt reduce the "total" sound of the box. The power supply and the disks makes quite a lot of noice as well... There's no real need to cool CPU in a quiet way, if disks still makes noice.
Isn't that the way is usually is ? Things are not Linux compatible.. linux is -compatible instead :)