Gate distances are compatible as well, however to make the bird turn around reasonably quick there's a need for double level terminals and jet bridges.
Actually, if you look at the interior design of the A380-800 in regards to connecting jet bridges, on the standard dual-bridge setup found at most airports the front jet bridge leads you into the front of the plane, where you are at the bottom of a wide stairway to access the upper deck of the plane; the rear jet bridge is used to access the main deck. That means passenger loading/unloading won't be much slower than the use of separate jet bridges to access the upper deck and main deck.
San Francisco International Airport is one of the few airports around the world that is more or less ready to accept the A380-800.
I cite these reasons:
1. The two longest runways at SFO (Runways 28R/10L and 1R/19L) were widened recently to accommodate the wider stance of the plane. They've also checked these two runways to make sure it can handle the sheer weight of the plane.
2. They've widened a number of taxiways to accommodate the A380-800.
3. Most importantly, SFO's vastly-expanded International Terminal that opened at the end of 2000 was designed and built just when Airbus was finishing its design work on the A380. As such, the International Terminal has gates with 80 x 80 meter gate spacing and high-capacity Federal Inspection Service (Customs and Immigration) processing areas to handle the deboarding of multiple A380's easily.
There is still an issue of taxiway spacing, but SFO officials are working out taxiing procedures for getting the A380-800 on and off the runway quickly to avoid congestion problems, especially during the middle of the day.
The reason why the Japanese love manga is the fact they had the equivalent of modern manga back in the 18th Century!
From Frederik L. Schodt's book Dreamland Japan, he said the Japanese back then produced extremely popular toba-e and kibyoushi books (that look very much like modern comic books in style) using woodblock printing in that the same way that manga artists produce their works in Japan today: a overall creator helped by a small group of assistants to complete each work. Indeed, today's Japanese manga is essentially like toba-e and kibyoushi production, only using modern drawing techniques and vastly larger reading audiences thanks to modern printing methods.
I think while you can get older machines to run Windows XP if you upgrade RAM, most of the newer applications do like to run on faster machines, especially if you decide to start editing photos from digital still cameras and videos downloaded from miniDV/microDV digital camcorders, both of which demand far more computing power than in the past. You really want something like an Intel Celeron or AMD Duron running at 800 MHz with 768 to 1024 MB of RAM (depending on RAM capacity of your motherboard) if you want to try multimedia editing work at bare minimum.
Besides, you can get pretty powerful desktop machines with 1 GB of RAM and a decently fast CPU for well under US$1,000 nowadays, machines that are more than enough to handle multimedia editing at reasonably fast speeds.
I think the big problem with the Hindenberg was the fact the canvas covering doping compound was a combination of nitrocellose and aluminum powder. These are the EXACT ingredients used in modern solid rocket fuel engines, so when the canvas covering ignited (remember, Hindenberg had flown near a thunderstorm before landing and had built up a pretty substantial charge of static electricity, so it was in danger of igniting from any static discharge) the explosion was very violent and it ignited the hydrogen gas pretty quickly, too.
We now know that the Zeppelin company did an accident report on the Hindenberg crash in 1938 that cited the flammable nature of the doping compound, but that report was surpressed by the Nazi government for various reasons. We also knew that in the short-lived Graf Zeppelin II (LZ130) that they changed the mounting bolts for the outer airship cover to bronze in order to avoid the static discharge that doomed the Hindenberg.
I think there are a number of issues that need to be addressed in regards to climate change:
1. The biggest determinant of Earth's climate is this fireball 93 million miles away called the Sun. Anyone who's done studies on the sunspot cycles (we have records dating back to the beginning of the use of telescopes for astonomical observations) note that during much of the 17th and 18th Centuries, there was NO noted sunspot activity, the so-called Maunder minimum. It also perfectly conincided with a period of very cold winters in Europe, as noted by the frequent freezing of the Thames River through London in winter.
2. Volcanic activity can have very dramatic effects on worldwide climate even with a fraction of a degree Celsius cooling from the shielding effects of airborne volcanic ash. When Mt. Tambora on Sumbawa Island in what is now Indonesia erupted in 1815 with perhaps the greatest volcanic ash output since the time of Christ (some 15 cubic miles), the result was massive crop failures in the USA and Europe due to unusually cool summers with the severe cooling effects of all that ash in the atmosphere.
3. Humans need to stop the activity of slash and burn agriculture, which can seriously denude the land of CO2-absorbing plantlife and make the topsoil suspectible to being either blown away by "dust bowl" conditions and/or washed away by severe rains. This is particular problem in parts of South America, Africa and Asia (I think much of the problem of the rapid growth of the Sahara Desert is caused by too much of this type of agriculture in Africa).
4. We should agressively address the danger of low-altitude air pollution, primarily the nitrous oxides, sulfur dixoide, and unburned hydrocarbons which can cause serious respiratory problems and also can damage older buildings from the chemical effects. Fortunately, today's very strict air pollution laws are starting to cure this problem, as noted by the dramatic reduction of smog alert days in the Los Angeles, CA area since the middle 1980's.
5. Because of plate tectonics and various ice ages, we know that most of the world can undergo pretty substantial climate changes in geological time. For example, many thousands of years ago the Bering Strait did not exist, and as such we had considerable migration of many animal types between Asia and North America (it's possible that the first Homo sapiens sapiens (modern man) arrived in North America before the Bering Strait was created).
In short, I feel many of the people pushing the idea of global warming are doing it for political reasons rather than valid scientific reasons.
What I find interesting about this story is that the current storyline in the online Kevin & Kell comic strip is talking about almost the same subject.
If I remember correctly, it was only later MacOS 9.x versions that had the support for scroll wheel/multibutton mice through the USB port.
That makes me wonder: why didn't Apple produce such a mouse pointer on their own? Was Apple too interested in keeping thing simple even with mouse pointers? (shrug)
And yes, Mac mini will take advantage of your two-button USB mouse with scroll-wheel and your favorite USB keyboard. Just plug them in.
Except for one thing: I don't know of any keyboard intended for PC compatible machines I've seen at electronics stores that uses a USB connection to the computer. Maybe if Apple offered a USB to PS/2 keyboard adapter dongle, that would be another thing.
Anyway, hasn't Apple actually supported the scroll wheel and at least two-button mouse natively in MacOS X for quite a while?
Re:Not hard to figure out why LoTR is #1.
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But more importantly, the docus aren't all technical wankery and cast and crew jerking each other off; people actually slag off on each other, and the crew of Alien^3 essentially apologize for the movie.
But doesn't this prove that the third and fourth Alien movies were truly subpar and kind of detracts from the experience of the "extras"?
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Alas, Fight Club was a movie that was definitely not to my taste--the gratuitous violence kind of turned me off after a while. (thumbs down)
Not hard to figure out why LoTR is #1.
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The Extended Edition DVD sets of all three Lord of the Rings movies pretty much has completely redefined the new standard of excellence and completeness for DVD's.
Look at what you get in the Extended Edition LoTR releases:
1. Longer versions of the film, which often help with improving the continuity of the movie.
2. Dolby Digital 5.1 EX AND DTS-ES 6.1 soundtracks.
3. Four audio commentary tracks, something that has never been done before (to my knowledge).
4. Supplementary discs with so much useful information it would take days to view them all.
In short, the LoTR EE releases probably are the best examples of fully taking advantage of the DVD format.
There is no reason for them embrace this new technology until it becomes mainstream and cheap.
Exactly. I think people forget that the adult film industry (at least for home videos) aren't exactly at the cutting edge of technology for making these films. People forget that before the switch to videotape, porno movies were mostly shot on 16 mm film, NOT on 35 mm film (that's why when some adult filmmakers tried using 35 mm film in the late 1970's it surprised a number of people in the industry).
Thanks to relatively inexpensive "prosumer" MiniDV digital camcorders and cheap mastering of DVD's using a standard desktop computer, the adult film industry can now produce adult films in DVD format pretty cheaply. But because Blu-Ray and HD-DVD production will still cost a lot of money at least the next 3-4 years, don't expect to see adult movies in any of the high-definition DVD formats until at least 2008-2009 time frame.
Given that almost all hardware manufacturers target Windows, I doubt this will be a problem for long for currently-supported hardware.
I think Microsoft has delayed releasing the x86-64 compatible version of Windows XP for two reasons:
1) Driver compatibility issues. Microsoft wants to make sure that the vast majority of hardware manufacturers will have 64-bit Windows device drivers available when this new version of Windows XP finally ships.
2) Making sure it works on both AMD and Intel CPU's. I believe that Microsoft--in a political move--waited for Intel to finally "catch up" with x86-64 support on Intel's own CPU's before this new version of Windows XP becomes commercially available.
I expect Windows XP 64-bit editions to ship around the March-April 2005 time frame.
Daniel (haven't I seen you on GEnie way, way in the past?),
But the issue here is that with Windows 3.1x versions you still have to download, install and configure Trumpet Winsock to get PPP connectivity to the Internet, something that the majority of end users will not try to do! But with Windows 95 offering SLIP/PPP connectivity as part of its network configuration, that made it possible for very easy setup to connect to the Internet.
...The Internet did not become a commercial entity until 1992, the year that the US military moved their servers off the Internet (more or less).
But you have to admit one thing though: the real explosion of Internet use started in the fall of 1995, when Windows 95 with its built-in SLIP/PPP networking stack gave PC compatible users easy access to the Internet for the first time (Windows 3.1 could access the Internet using third-party addons, but given the nature of computer users that was still relatively rare).
I think what has started to happen is that because CPU's are running pretty fast nowadays, they are now starting to upgrade the rest of the computer to keep up with the CPU.
As I said in another post here, I wrote these things are now happening to desktop computers:
1. The development of faster motherboard interconnects with improved chipsets and things like HyperTransport and its competitors.
2. The wide availability of PC3200 (DDR-400) DDR-SDRAM system RAM, with even faster RAM coming over the next 18-24 months.
3. The development of AGP 8x and new PCI Express connections for graphics cards with 3-D processing ability that would be the domain of ultra-expensive workstations only a few years ago.
4. The development of ATA-100/133 IDE, Serial ATA and soon Serial ATA-II IDE, and UltraSCSI 160/320 interfaces and 10,000+ RPM drives with 8 to 16 MB on-drive memory caches for very fast hard disk access. Even optical disk drives are benefiting from these faster interfaces.
5. The very wide availability of 100Base-T Ethernet connections on most motherboards, plus some motherboards now sport 1000Base-T Gigabit Ethernet connections.
6. The near-universal availability of USB 2.0 connections and increasing use of IEEE-1394 connections to external devices, which makes the use of external disk drives to back up data and connect to digital camcorders possible.
These improvements in the rest of the computer means you don't need the fastest CPU to get much-improved performance over desktop machines of a few years ago.
I think the biggest problem here is the fact that the member music companies of the RIAA has pretty much set more or less a pretty specific price range for new album-length audio CD's.
There's one problem here, though: the RIAA set this price range so high that it has created an economic incentive the circumvent these prices. Why do you think the original Napster became such a big hit--customers were tired to paying up to US$18 per album-length CD and also found that online stores only subtracted a few dollars from the brick and mortar store price. A few stores priced their new-release CD's at around US$10-US$11, but these were more or less loss leaders intended to drive customers to the store hoping they'll buy the more expensive non-discounted CD's.
That's why the iTunes Music Store became such a huge success. You can buy essentially a full album for under US$10 (without waiting for a sale!) using downloaded AAC music files that could be easily burned on CD-R discs.
The RIAA needs to stop the vast overpricing of their product and reduce the price of a new album-length CD to under US$12, which will cut substantially the economic incentive to pirate music.
Remember, with today's small digital still cameras with 5-8 megapixel sensors that create quite big files per picture (especially in RAW format), you'll be surprised at the large amount of disk space you'll use up editing your pictures with image editing programs when you store both the original and edited versions of the same image.
And if you edit video files downloaded from your MiniDV/MicroDV digital camcorder, the data your hard disk with the original video data and the subsequet edited version can use up disk space at an alarming rate.
In short, if you home-edit still pictures or home movies from your digital camcorder, you better have at least at 120 GB hard drive--a 200 GB (or even 250 GB) hard drive may be a more preferable solution. That new Hitachi 500 GB hard drive is likely aimed at serious users of multimedia editing programs.
That would be true for now, but who knows when will someone with malicious intent start to figure out how to use Firefox to load nasty adware.:-( I'll almost bet it happens before the end June 2006.
I think the biggest reason why Transmeta can't compete in the x86 CPU market is the marketing success of Intel's Centrino mobile processing technology, with lower-power motherboard chipsets and the low-power Pentium-M CPU's.
Why bother with a company with a relatively short track record compared with Intel's long track record?
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Gate distances are compatible as well, however to make the bird turn around reasonably quick there's a need for double level terminals and jet bridges.
Actually, if you look at the interior design of the A380-800 in regards to connecting jet bridges, on the standard dual-bridge setup found at most airports the front jet bridge leads you into the front of the plane, where you are at the bottom of a wide stairway to access the upper deck of the plane; the rear jet bridge is used to access the main deck. That means passenger loading/unloading won't be much slower than the use of separate jet bridges to access the upper deck and main deck.
San Francisco International Airport is one of the few airports around the world that is more or less ready to accept the A380-800.
I cite these reasons:
1. The two longest runways at SFO (Runways 28R/10L and 1R/19L) were widened recently to accommodate the wider stance of the plane. They've also checked these two runways to make sure it can handle the sheer weight of the plane.
2. They've widened a number of taxiways to accommodate the A380-800.
3. Most importantly, SFO's vastly-expanded International Terminal that opened at the end of 2000 was designed and built just when Airbus was finishing its design work on the A380. As such, the International Terminal has gates with 80 x 80 meter gate spacing and high-capacity Federal Inspection Service (Customs and Immigration) processing areas to handle the deboarding of multiple A380's easily.
There is still an issue of taxiway spacing, but SFO officials are working out taxiing procedures for getting the A380-800 on and off the runway quickly to avoid congestion problems, especially during the middle of the day.
The reason why the Japanese love manga is the fact they had the equivalent of modern manga back in the 18th Century!
From Frederik L. Schodt's book Dreamland Japan, he said the Japanese back then produced extremely popular toba-e and kibyoushi books (that look very much like modern comic books in style) using woodblock printing in that the same way that manga artists produce their works in Japan today: a overall creator helped by a small group of assistants to complete each work. Indeed, today's Japanese manga is essentially like toba-e and kibyoushi production, only using modern drawing techniques and vastly larger reading audiences thanks to modern printing methods.
I think while you can get older machines to run Windows XP if you upgrade RAM, most of the newer applications do like to run on faster machines, especially if you decide to start editing photos from digital still cameras and videos downloaded from miniDV/microDV digital camcorders, both of which demand far more computing power than in the past. You really want something like an Intel Celeron or AMD Duron running at 800 MHz with 768 to 1024 MB of RAM (depending on RAM capacity of your motherboard) if you want to try multimedia editing work at bare minimum.
Besides, you can get pretty powerful desktop machines with 1 GB of RAM and a decently fast CPU for well under US$1,000 nowadays, machines that are more than enough to handle multimedia editing at reasonably fast speeds.
I think the big problem with the Hindenberg was the fact the canvas covering doping compound was a combination of nitrocellose and aluminum powder. These are the EXACT ingredients used in modern solid rocket fuel engines, so when the canvas covering ignited (remember, Hindenberg had flown near a thunderstorm before landing and had built up a pretty substantial charge of static electricity, so it was in danger of igniting from any static discharge) the explosion was very violent and it ignited the hydrogen gas pretty quickly, too.
We now know that the Zeppelin company did an accident report on the Hindenberg crash in 1938 that cited the flammable nature of the doping compound, but that report was surpressed by the Nazi government for various reasons. We also knew that in the short-lived Graf Zeppelin II (LZ130) that they changed the mounting bolts for the outer airship cover to bronze in order to avoid the static discharge that doomed the Hindenberg.
I think there are a number of issues that need to be addressed in regards to climate change:
1. The biggest determinant of Earth's climate is this fireball 93 million miles away called the Sun. Anyone who's done studies on the sunspot cycles (we have records dating back to the beginning of the use of telescopes for astonomical observations) note that during much of the 17th and 18th Centuries, there was NO noted sunspot activity, the so-called Maunder minimum. It also perfectly conincided with a period of very cold winters in Europe, as noted by the frequent freezing of the Thames River through London in winter.
2. Volcanic activity can have very dramatic effects on worldwide climate even with a fraction of a degree Celsius cooling from the shielding effects of airborne volcanic ash. When Mt. Tambora on Sumbawa Island in what is now Indonesia erupted in 1815 with perhaps the greatest volcanic ash output since the time of Christ (some 15 cubic miles), the result was massive crop failures in the USA and Europe due to unusually cool summers with the severe cooling effects of all that ash in the atmosphere.
3. Humans need to stop the activity of slash and burn agriculture, which can seriously denude the land of CO2-absorbing plantlife and make the topsoil suspectible to being either blown away by "dust bowl" conditions and/or washed away by severe rains. This is particular problem in parts of South America, Africa and Asia (I think much of the problem of the rapid growth of the Sahara Desert is caused by too much of this type of agriculture in Africa).
4. We should agressively address the danger of low-altitude air pollution, primarily the nitrous oxides, sulfur dixoide, and unburned hydrocarbons which can cause serious respiratory problems and also can damage older buildings from the chemical effects. Fortunately, today's very strict air pollution laws are starting to cure this problem, as noted by the dramatic reduction of smog alert days in the Los Angeles, CA area since the middle 1980's.
5. Because of plate tectonics and various ice ages, we know that most of the world can undergo pretty substantial climate changes in geological time. For example, many thousands of years ago the Bering Strait did not exist, and as such we had considerable migration of many animal types between Asia and North America (it's possible that the first Homo sapiens sapiens (modern man) arrived in North America before the Bering Strait was created).
In short, I feel many of the people pushing the idea of global warming are doing it for political reasons rather than valid scientific reasons.
What I find interesting about this story is that the current storyline in the online Kevin & Kell comic strip is talking about almost the same subject.
However, is the USB ports(s) on the USB keyboard considered a "powered" hub? Or was it not designed for that purpose?
If I remember correctly, it was only later MacOS 9.x versions that had the support for scroll wheel/multibutton mice through the USB port.
That makes me wonder: why didn't Apple produce such a mouse pointer on their own? Was Apple too interested in keeping thing simple even with mouse pointers? (shrug)
You're right. Methinks I need to check the boxes for the Logitech wireless keyboard/mouse combo products. :-/
Apple's ad said:
And yes, Mac mini will take advantage of your two-button USB mouse with scroll-wheel and your favorite USB keyboard. Just plug them in.
Except for one thing: I don't know of any keyboard intended for PC compatible machines I've seen at electronics stores that uses a USB connection to the computer. Maybe if Apple offered a USB to PS/2 keyboard adapter dongle, that would be another thing.
Anyway, hasn't Apple actually supported the scroll wheel and at least two-button mouse natively in MacOS X for quite a while?
But more importantly, the docus aren't all technical wankery and cast and crew jerking each other off; people actually slag off on each other, and the crew of Alien^3 essentially apologize for the movie.
But doesn't this prove that the third and fourth Alien movies were truly subpar and kind of detracts from the experience of the "extras"?
Alas, Fight Club was a movie that was definitely not to my taste--the gratuitous violence kind of turned me off after a while. (thumbs down)
The Extended Edition DVD sets of all three Lord of the Rings movies pretty much has completely redefined the new standard of excellence and completeness for DVD's.
Look at what you get in the Extended Edition LoTR releases:
1. Longer versions of the film, which often help with improving the continuity of the movie.
2. Dolby Digital 5.1 EX AND DTS-ES 6.1 soundtracks.
3. Four audio commentary tracks, something that has never been done before (to my knowledge).
4. Supplementary discs with so much useful information it would take days to view them all.
In short, the LoTR EE releases probably are the best examples of fully taking advantage of the DVD format.
There is no reason for them embrace this new technology until it becomes mainstream and cheap.
Exactly. I think people forget that the adult film industry (at least for home videos) aren't exactly at the cutting edge of technology for making these films. People forget that before the switch to videotape, porno movies were mostly shot on 16 mm film, NOT on 35 mm film (that's why when some adult filmmakers tried using 35 mm film in the late 1970's it surprised a number of people in the industry).
Thanks to relatively inexpensive "prosumer" MiniDV digital camcorders and cheap mastering of DVD's using a standard desktop computer, the adult film industry can now produce adult films in DVD format pretty cheaply. But because Blu-Ray and HD-DVD production will still cost a lot of money at least the next 3-4 years, don't expect to see adult movies in any of the high-definition DVD formats until at least 2008-2009 time frame.
Intel has already sold 10x the number of x86-64 parts. AMD needs to "catch up".
Care to enlighten me which Intel CPU's run x86-64 instructions outside of a few Xeon models?
Given that almost all hardware manufacturers target Windows, I doubt this will be a problem for long for currently-supported hardware.
I think Microsoft has delayed releasing the x86-64 compatible version of Windows XP for two reasons:
1) Driver compatibility issues. Microsoft wants to make sure that the vast majority of hardware manufacturers will have 64-bit Windows device drivers available when this new version of Windows XP finally ships.
2) Making sure it works on both AMD and Intel CPU's. I believe that Microsoft--in a political move--waited for Intel to finally "catch up" with x86-64 support on Intel's own CPU's before this new version of Windows XP becomes commercially available.
I expect Windows XP 64-bit editions to ship around the March-April 2005 time frame.
Daniel (haven't I seen you on GEnie way, way in the past?),
But the issue here is that with Windows 3.1x versions you still have to download, install and configure Trumpet Winsock to get PPP connectivity to the Internet, something that the majority of end users will not try to do! But with Windows 95 offering SLIP/PPP connectivity as part of its network configuration, that made it possible for very easy setup to connect to the Internet.
...The Internet did not become a commercial entity until 1992, the year that the US military moved their servers off the Internet (more or less).
But you have to admit one thing though: the real explosion of Internet use started in the fall of 1995, when Windows 95 with its built-in SLIP/PPP networking stack gave PC compatible users easy access to the Internet for the first time (Windows 3.1 could access the Internet using third-party addons, but given the nature of computer users that was still relatively rare).
I think what has started to happen is that because CPU's are running pretty fast nowadays, they are now starting to upgrade the rest of the computer to keep up with the CPU.
As I said in another post here, I wrote these things are now happening to desktop computers:
1. The development of faster motherboard interconnects with improved chipsets and things like HyperTransport and its competitors.
2. The wide availability of PC3200 (DDR-400) DDR-SDRAM system RAM, with even faster RAM coming over the next 18-24 months.
3. The development of AGP 8x and new PCI Express connections for graphics cards with 3-D processing ability that would be the domain of ultra-expensive workstations only a few years ago.
4. The development of ATA-100/133 IDE, Serial ATA and soon Serial ATA-II IDE, and UltraSCSI 160/320 interfaces and 10,000+ RPM drives with 8 to 16 MB on-drive memory caches for very fast hard disk access. Even optical disk drives are benefiting from these faster interfaces.
5. The very wide availability of 100Base-T Ethernet connections on most motherboards, plus some motherboards now sport 1000Base-T Gigabit Ethernet connections.
6. The near-universal availability of USB 2.0 connections and increasing use of IEEE-1394 connections to external devices, which makes the use of external disk drives to back up data and connect to digital camcorders possible.
These improvements in the rest of the computer means you don't need the fastest CPU to get much-improved performance over desktop machines of a few years ago.
I think the biggest problem here is the fact that the member music companies of the RIAA has pretty much set more or less a pretty specific price range for new album-length audio CD's.
There's one problem here, though: the RIAA set this price range so high that it has created an economic incentive the circumvent these prices. Why do you think the original Napster became such a big hit--customers were tired to paying up to US$18 per album-length CD and also found that online stores only subtracted a few dollars from the brick and mortar store price. A few stores priced their new-release CD's at around US$10-US$11, but these were more or less loss leaders intended to drive customers to the store hoping they'll buy the more expensive non-discounted CD's.
That's why the iTunes Music Store became such a huge success. You can buy essentially a full album for under US$10 (without waiting for a sale!) using downloaded AAC music files that could be easily burned on CD-R discs.
The RIAA needs to stop the vast overpricing of their product and reduce the price of a new album-length CD to under US$12, which will cut substantially the economic incentive to pirate music.
...You'll need all the disk capacity you can get.
Remember, with today's small digital still cameras with 5-8 megapixel sensors that create quite big files per picture (especially in RAW format), you'll be surprised at the large amount of disk space you'll use up editing your pictures with image editing programs when you store both the original and edited versions of the same image.
And if you edit video files downloaded from your MiniDV/MicroDV digital camcorder, the data your hard disk with the original video data and the subsequet edited version can use up disk space at an alarming rate.
In short, if you home-edit still pictures or home movies from your digital camcorder, you better have at least at 120 GB hard drive--a 200 GB (or even 250 GB) hard drive may be a more preferable solution. That new Hitachi 500 GB hard drive is likely aimed at serious users of multimedia editing programs.
Try June 2005.
That would be true for now, but who knows when will someone with malicious intent start to figure out how to use Firefox to load nasty adware. :-( I'll almost bet it happens before the end June 2006.
I think the biggest reason why Transmeta can't compete in the x86 CPU market is the marketing success of Intel's Centrino mobile processing technology, with lower-power motherboard chipsets and the low-power Pentium-M CPU's.
Why bother with a company with a relatively short track record compared with Intel's long track record?