some application or device that everyone wants and are willing to buy a now pc for. we had multimedia, cd's, 3dcards and the internet (dvd's will be big if the technology is less controvercial). there are many with 486's that have access to all these technologies. to them, buying a new pc is not necessary.
initially, we were told that pc's should be treated as an expense and as disposable. however things have changed: we took to upgrading. sellers were pushing the "upgradability" of their systems for a few years now. It is more economical to upgrade than to buy new. This is begining to haunt the PC sellers.
then again, with all the news of what's about to be released... and the knowledge that prices will keep dropping, people like myself are just plain waiting...
my buddy was going on about the footage on the moon having no stars... didn't read up on it myself... but his passion on it allowed me to doubt the whole thing.
well... many are going to want to campare the P4 that's released with the fastest P!!!s and Athlons available.
I do have a feeling that setting up a dual Athlon box will be more affordable that the P4 rig. P4 has the massive heat sink, special power supply and *intel pricing*. The dual Athlon may also need a special power supply... hope the need for that deminishes as AMD get their beasts to work on lower voltages.
It would be interesting to see which is the badbay of the block. I do beleive that the dual Athlon well be the badboy when it comes to bang for the buck.
then again... we'll just have to wait and see how this plays out. I like the AMD pricing now... but believe that it won't stay this way forever... they are slowly getting the acceptance they deserve and if demand exceeds supply, there will be no downward pressure on their prices (especially as they tread into clockspeed areas where the P!!! are getting burnt).
but if you have a cdr, you can put your 17 favorite songs (which you didn't necessarily pay for) on cdr for less than a dollar. i think it's dumb to fill a cdr with 17 songs when it can hold 150. but it does counter this arguement about the cost of mp3 players ?
here where i live, the 17 song cdr's that may be a bigger problem than the mp3s. not everyone has a cool sound system hooked up to their pc. but the cost of the cd's seem mind boggling. i mean why pay R100 ($14) for a 45 minute cd with about three songs that you really like when your buddy can cut a 70 minute cd for R10 (just over a $) ???
oh... the blank cdr's have a tax, like the blank tapes here that contribute to the musical community so i don't have to feel guilty.
can't be win95.... that was released in 96 or 97 right:)
on the other hand... maybe it was the beta testers of win95... they may have got their copy by summer 95... my guess is it was probably something in the media that got a whole lotta people there.
i KNOW that it's less that 640X480 so the screenshot pic quality is more than sufficient. Besides... when it's working, the pic's gonna be moving... and that'll be really impressive.
i was a fan of the N64 even before it was released... never got one tho' as the availability and price here in south africa is restricting.
i do believe that it's a shame that no (or few) games took full advantage of it's impressive vector ability.
i guess that the guys at nintendo should release a kit that'll allow hobbyist programmers to explore the ability of that beast. i know that sony released a programable playstation (I).
you heard me... now that all those cards and scraps of paper have moved form the wallet to the palm, its about time the money went the same way.
this is going to take a bit of thinking with regards to sequrity but an obvious security choice would be voice recognition. another is fingerprint recognition. and the old pin number.
i think motorola and palm should get visa or mastercard into this joining of hands, develop a port or a standard that allows users to transfer cash to other phones or devices in stores. the security will be stronger than that of the current credit cards. this will allow for great savings as fraud should drop.
internet transactions could be finalised over the phone. order something on the net with your visapalmfone and have the item paid for automatically. (internet credit card fraud is a major problem.) this would make life very easy. of course there should be a feature that will allow the user to browse / call ananymously.
then just to spice up the device, throw in gps (and a swiss army knife). all this is possible with gurrent technology... just needs to be merged to one device. hope such a gizmo is affordible.
just press the sos button and the emergency services people will find you. they'll credit your bank accout if it's a false call.
in time, a device with these features will be implanted in everyones head.
Instead of aking hacking illegal, maybe laws should be set such that being hacked is illegal. Administrators and software vendors should be made accountable for what they are paid to do.
such a situation would force industry to take care of themselves instead of being crybabies everytime someone enters their system.
but i guess it's easier to leave things the way they are... easier to blame teenagers for problems than the people that set it up.
me too. i was gonna move from k6-2-400 to k7tb-900 but then i heard about smp arriving early 2001. i cant wait... until then, i'll play my games at a low res. and the cost wont be a big thing, cos even the durons will work fine (alone). more will just be better. the sad thing is i gotta move to a new os:(
now that you mention this, i remember a cs pal of mine telling me that while it's great to write elegant, smart algorithms, the real world (the employers) don't care about such things as these take too long to perfect. the manpower is expensive and an employer gets better bang for the buck if the employee moves onto other projects. If the program is less than optimal, it can be made up for with more powerful computers.
makes sense now with the shortage of it professionals.
oh... i'm not in IT.... i really liked campus... and i'm thinking of going back to persue CS.
with these wireless ability about, we could look at software to get shared processing working with mobile computers.
security may be an issue... but an be worked arround.
imagine having a laptop that works at 600MHz when you're in the middle of nowhere with no pc's in the vacinity, whose performance jumps to several GHz when it's near a few pc's/ other laptops/ servers.... you get the picture.
a few problems may need to be ironed out.... like what if the laptop moves out of ange just as the solution is found by the supporting processor...
this is a scheme that will work... now we need software that supports both anking for assistance... but providing assistange to authorized "borrowers" of processing.
who needs faster laptops when we can make more intelligent machines that can request and recieve help in processing....
the same ideas may be applied to older/ slower machines in a workplace... instead of upgrading the processor, getn the machine to mutiprocess.
I gotta idea. its called the cellfone torch combo.
With all these torchs the size of a coin about, it is a good idea to combine such a device with a cellular phone.
this is a cool and very useful feature to add to a phone.
nokia, erricson, motorolla et al:/. has my number:)
when i got it just over a year ago, i wanted to give my little amd k6 2 400 machine some oomph.
It cost some but i just got a job and was used to a meager existance, so i had some extra cash.
Initially i was dissapointed. the games i had worked better on my buddies celeron voodoo2 machine. Thanks then to widispread glide support.
but now, as support for opengl and directx has grown, i am really taken by that combo. i ran mdk2 at 1280 x 1024 x 16 and got about 25 fps on the test. i know you gforce2 owners think that that kinda performance is for kids... by it's plenty pretty and playable.
i really want to move up to a thunderbird geforce2 combo but think that as long as the developers keep writing good code, my ole chugger can stay a bit longer. (in the mean time, that speed deamon will get more attainable as the price slides.)
can't wait to get the new drivers... maybe the 32bit colour wil be playable:). are yaal slill waiting for the point ? check the suject man, with love there don't need to be a point. thanx nvidia for the cool hardware... and continued driver support.
i read at anandtech that the chip runs pretty cool.
the fan's there for the image, 'cos the man an the street will not perceive the card to be as powerful as a geforce2 if it's equipped with just a heat sink.
so looks like the raedon may fit into the Next cube.
yup... i had a 20mb on my xt... when my campus was upgrading, they were giving away 286 mb's... i bought 16mbs or ram and hooked them up. at that time, i could fit the entire contents of my hdd on my ram. turbo pascal sure did load fast then.
There are many US basied tech firms with offices here and English is an official language. Seems like an IT revolution is on in India. (That and the fact that there were a few recent Miss Universes from India)
mars has a thin atmosphere and hence the air pressure there is gonna be quite low. that means that the freezin and boilin points of the water there is also low. so maybe its not so surprising that the water is in a liquid form
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initially, we were told that pc's should be treated as an expense and as disposable. however things have changed: we took to upgrading. sellers were pushing the "upgradability" of their systems for a few years now. It is more economical to upgrade than to buy new. This is begining to haunt the PC sellers.
then again, with all the news of what's about to be released ... and the knowledge that prices will keep dropping, people like myself are just plain waiting ...
my buddy was going on about the footage on the moon having no stars... didn't read up on it myself ... but his passion on it allowed me to doubt the whole thing.
I do have a feeling that setting up a dual Athlon box will be more affordable that the P4 rig. P4 has the massive heat sink, special power supply and *intel pricing*. The dual Athlon may also need a special power supply ... hope the need for that deminishes as AMD get their beasts to work on lower voltages.
It would be interesting to see which is the badbay of the block. I do beleive that the dual Athlon well be the badboy when it comes to bang for the buck.
then again ... we'll just have to wait and see how this plays out. I like the AMD pricing now ... but believe that it won't stay this way forever ... they are slowly getting the acceptance they deserve and if demand exceeds supply, there will be no downward pressure on their prices (especially as they tread into clockspeed areas where the P!!! are getting burnt).
here where i live, the 17 song cdr's that may be a bigger problem than the mp3s. not everyone has a cool sound system hooked up to their pc. but the cost of the cd's seem mind boggling. i mean why pay R100 ($14) for a 45 minute cd with about three songs that you really like when your buddy can cut a 70 minute cd for R10 (just over a $) ???
oh ... the blank cdr's have a tax, like the blank tapes here that contribute to the musical community so i don't have to feel guilty.
seems like it hasn't been updated for about 3 days now. (kinda long if you're used to seeing it change week-daily)
can't be win95 .... that was released in 96 or 97 right :)
on the other hand ... maybe it was the beta testers of win95 ... they may have got their copy by summer 95 ... my guess is it was probably something in the media that got a whole lotta people there.
any idea what the res of a standard tv is ?
i KNOW that it's less that 640X480 so the screenshot pic quality is more than sufficient. Besides ... when it's working, the pic's gonna be moving ... and that'll be really impressive.
i was a fan of the N64 even before it was released ... never got one tho' as the availability and price here in south africa is restricting.
i do believe that it's a shame that no (or few) games took full advantage of it's impressive vector ability.
i guess that the guys at nintendo should release a kit that'll allow hobbyist programmers to explore the ability of that beast. i know that sony released a programable playstation (I).
this is going to take a bit of thinking with regards to sequrity but an obvious security choice would be voice recognition. another is fingerprint recognition. and the old pin number.
i think motorola and palm should get visa or mastercard into this joining of hands, develop a port or a standard that allows users to transfer cash to other phones or devices in stores. the security will be stronger than that of the current credit cards. this will allow for great savings as fraud should drop.
internet transactions could be finalised over the phone. order something on the net with your visapalmfone and have the item paid for automatically. (internet credit card fraud is a major problem.) this would make life very easy. of course there should be a feature that will allow the user to browse / call ananymously.
then just to spice up the device, throw in gps (and a swiss army knife). all this is possible with gurrent technology ... just needs to be merged to one device. hope such a gizmo is affordible.
just press the sos button and the emergency services people will find you. they'll credit your bank accout if it's a false call.
in time, a device with these features will be implanted in everyones head.
Instead of aking hacking illegal, maybe laws should be set such that being hacked is illegal. Administrators and software vendors should be made accountable for what they are paid to do.
such a situation would force industry to take care of themselves instead of being crybabies everytime someone enters their system.
but i guess it's easier to leave things the way they are ... easier to blame teenagers for problems than the people that set it up.
that's Thunderbird ... not Thunderbolt
me too. i was gonna move from k6-2-400 to k7tb-900 but then i heard about smp arriving early 2001. i cant wait ... until then, i'll play my games at a low res. and the cost wont be a big thing, cos even the durons will work fine (alone). more will just be better. the sad thing is i gotta move to a new os :(
makes sense now with the shortage of it professionals.
oh ... i'm not in IT .... i really liked campus ... and i'm thinking of going back to persue CS.
with these wireless ability about, we could look at software to get shared processing working with mobile computers. security may be an issue ... but an be worked arround.
imagine having a laptop that works at 600MHz when you're in the middle of nowhere with no pc's in the vacinity, whose performance jumps to several GHz when it's near a few pc's/ other laptops/ servers .... you get the picture.
a few problems may need to be ironed out .... like what if the laptop moves out of ange just as the solution is found by the supporting processor ...
this is a scheme that will work ... now we need software that supports both anking for assistance ... but providing assistange to authorized "borrowers" of processing.
who needs faster laptops when we can make more intelligent machines that can request and recieve help in processing. ...
the same ideas may be applied to older/ slower machines in a workplace ... instead of upgrading the processor, getn the machine to mutiprocess.
I gotta idea. its called the cellfone torch combo. With all these torchs the size of a coin about, it is a good idea to combine such a device with a cellular phone. this is a cool and very useful feature to add to a phone. nokia, erricson, motorolla et al: /. has my number :)
when i got it just over a year ago, i wanted to give my little amd k6 2 400 machine some oomph. It cost some but i just got a job and was used to a meager existance, so i had some extra cash. Initially i was dissapointed. the games i had worked better on my buddies celeron voodoo2 machine. Thanks then to widispread glide support. but now, as support for opengl and directx has grown, i am really taken by that combo. i ran mdk2 at 1280 x 1024 x 16 and got about 25 fps on the test. i know you gforce2 owners think that that kinda performance is for kids ... by it's plenty pretty and playable.
i really want to move up to a thunderbird geforce2 combo but think that as long as the developers keep writing good code, my ole chugger can stay a bit longer. (in the mean time, that speed deamon will get more attainable as the price slides.)
can't wait to get the new drivers ... maybe the 32bit colour wil be playable :). are yaal slill waiting for the point ? check the suject man, with love there don't need to be a point. thanx nvidia for the cool hardware ... and continued driver support.
Free speech allows anyone to learn how to conduct biological warfare.
where to find anthrax.
how to collect it.
how to cultivate it.
how to "distribute" it: suggestions on what quantities to use, how to adjust given the weather conditions.
need to make a pipe bomb?
Freedom of speech will put humanity on the line but is waived protect the CSS code.
this isn't even the decss code, but the code that allowed decss to become.
well ... too bad humanity doesn't have the lawyers that the dvd coorporations hired.
now where do i insert this bacteria?
i read at anandtech that the chip runs pretty cool.
the fan's there for the image, 'cos the man an the street will not perceive the card to be as powerful as a geforce2 if it's equipped with just a heat sink.
so looks like the raedon may fit into the Next cube.yup ... i had a 20mb on my xt ... when my campus was upgrading, they were giving away 286 mb's ... i bought 16mbs or ram and hooked them up. at that time, i could fit the entire contents of my hdd on my ram. turbo pascal sure did load fast then.
this reminds me of the fine volkswagen was slapped with for forcing certain dealerships in europe not to sell their cars to foriegners.
....
that was illegal but dvd zoning is
makes one think.
Beevis
There are many US basied tech firms with offices here and English is an official language. Seems like an IT revolution is on in India. (That and the fact that there were a few recent Miss Universes from India)
mars has a thin atmosphere and hence the air pressure there is gonna be quite low. that means that the freezin and boilin points of the water there is also low. so maybe its not so surprising that the water is in a liquid form