As it is, the current systems effectively have direct link interconnects to the system chipset. The Bensley workstation and server platform gives each CPU package its own bus so it's not causing contention with bus sharing. Kentsfield and Clovertown throw a bit of a wrench to that but that will be rectified in 2007 when Intel releases a single die four core chip.
Is Intel really selling any of the chips at a loss?
What Apple should do is buy Sun and put those hardware engineers to work on making the worlds best game console.
Sun's engineering expertise centered around providing software and hardware for large organizations. I don't think they can take that expertise and apply it well to consumer electronics. Save for Java, nothing they have done has come anywhere near consumer conciousness or use, and even then, Java is pretty well hidden.
I didn't need that image. But there are a lot of sad Mac fans. I've even had the displeasure of talking to one that said that Microsoft is a failed corporation. We aren't talking about just any biased person, but a full-on kool-aid-aholic. I think it's really sad to see the fans to be so rabid at times.
Partial disclosure: I happen to have a couple Macs that I regularly use. I like the OS though I wish there were some better choices made with respect to the hardware, especially the desktops.
This is an excellent point. As much as I don't like my computers beeping, chiming or clanging, it's short and happens only once. And it only takes one click in the sound preference to disable the standard user interface sounds, so that's easy to kill.
I usually have my sound system turned off, and I rarely reboot, so I'm usually never aware of the chime. The only time I bother with sound is when I want to play a video.
One chip baking is definitely not anything near the danger of a battery baking. Lithium rechargables are pretty dangerous if misused. One EE battery specialist told me that you only need to overcharge a lithium battery by about one percent to risk explosion or damage, which is why the charge limiting circuitry is so important.
You already have a post above yours from someone that has owned several and generally had problems.
I would expect it to be a lot more durable than a DVD or CD - these things cost a lot more! A DVD blank is under $1. There are 16GB thumb drives but they cost $750. I think the 4GB drives are around $100, which is about 100x the cost per GB. I expect the more expensive device to be a lot more durable.
The usage is a lot different too, not too many people tried carrying optical discs in their pockets, but that fits the thumb drive.
Those benchmarks probably should be updated. At the time, the OS X version of MySQL does a full flush a lot more than the Linux version did. The current Linux version does a full flush. I forget what the Linux version did before, but as I recall, the full flush was implemented to prevent the risk of database corruption.
Oil doesn't have much to do with electricity, but stopping the use of incandescents can mean less sulfur, CO2 and radioactive emissions from coal fired power plants and lower health care bills.
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I think Quicksilver does a pretty good job of learning. It doesn't rule anything out but allows you to get to programs, address book entries and some data files with fewer keystrokes. I like how I can type in a few characters of someone's name, it can figure out who that is and open address book to that person's address book profile once I press enter to confirm that's the right person. And if you don't like that idea, it's completely optional, you don't install it.
Everyone knows the DRM is nothing but an inconvenience to normal users suckered into repurchasing music they have owned for decades in format after format.
If they already own it on a CD, what is to stop them from inserting the disc into the computer and click "encode" or "import"? I thought a lot of media management programs offer easy CD importing, both Windows Media Player and iTunes offer this, I think WMP even does this automatically, I'm not sure.
I agree. That's why the marketing says "notebook". They are careful not to call them laptops because they know they are too hot for on-lap use.
The TDP of the T series Core Duo and Core 2 Duo are something like 31 and 34W, respectively.
If battery time, weight and heat are your concern, you will want the L series or U series Core Duo, which are rated for about 15W and 9W, respectively. They tend to be used in the ultralight notebooks. Going with the T series Core Solo won't help much because that's rated at 27W.
I agree. I think that HP will outlive Sun unless Sun shapes up, I think HP is the biggest in the enterprise hardware market right now. I think Sun has a niche somewhere, and they seem to be rapidly shrinking to fit that niche. Sun had pretty cool stuff in its time and my understanding is that they had the best long term hardware support but they simply aren't adapting well to the world of commodity parts.
I think I should expect higher standards of SUN to be professional because their hardware is targeted to the professional & enterprise markets. Sadly, SUN really doesn't live up to what their image should be.
I don't have as high standard for Slashdot because it's more targeted towards the computer and technology enthusiasts.
I program out the channels I don't watch. Works kinda like adblock.
You're still paying for them, though.
I very highly doubt that. I have C-Band satellite (the huge dish type) without a paid subscription except for Comedy Central, SciFi and Cartoon Network.
Despite not having a subscription to the religious or shopping networks, I can get them, even if all my subscriptions lapes, they still come through. That type of channels are unencrypted, meaning that I don't have to buy a subscription to watch them. I doubt that the cable systems are giving those networks any money.
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Isn't there a rating system? The good ones seem to have a higher than four star rating. Anything less probably isn't worthwhile.
Fraudulent copyright infringement claims? Sweden's worse about upholding the Berne Convention Copyright treaty than China is, so if it's not illegal to participate in the unauthorized redistribution of copyrighted works, then Sweden is in violation of Berne.
I'm thinking that the cost of certifying OSS code might be pretty close to that of just writing new code in the first place. And then there are concerns over whether the software is considered to be redistributed such that the code changes would need to be returned to the public, especially if it is full GPL and whether any commercial code that links to the GPL code would technically need to be released if the software is considered to be redistributed.
Frankly, if the developer has any desires to not produce an open source app/OS/service then I'm not really seeing how using open source is going to be helpful unless they use code licensed by something like the BSD license code.
Until Isreal goes back to the 1967 borders, they will not come close to having, nor deserve, security.
If Israel wasn't attacked in 1967, they probably wouldn't have taken the opportunity to take that land in the first place. For that and most if not all the major wars they had, they were responding to major, unprovoked attacks.
I fully doubt that Israel would have full security until they are driven to the pre-1947/1948 borders, i.e. nothing. There are too many militants in fringe groups that say that Israel has no legitimate claim to existence to believe that giving up any land would do anything.
The US government's own numbers show that eco-terrorism is currently a greater domestic threat than religious terrorism. I have to go dig up those numbers, I've seen them a few different places, I think once in Newsweek and Time as well. It's interesting that the threat gets ignored.
Actually, the definition of planet kept changing to suit the needs of the observers. With the original definition of planet, any object they observed in the solar system would have been considered a planet. Changing the definition doesn't change what's actually there.
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As it is, the current systems effectively have direct link interconnects to the system chipset. The Bensley workstation and server platform gives each CPU package its own bus so it's not causing contention with bus sharing. Kentsfield and Clovertown throw a bit of a wrench to that but that will be rectified in 2007 when Intel releases a single die four core chip.
Is Intel really selling any of the chips at a loss?
What Apple should do is buy Sun and put those hardware engineers to work on making the worlds best game console.
Sun's engineering expertise centered around providing software and hardware for large organizations. I don't think they can take that expertise and apply it well to consumer electronics. Save for Java, nothing they have done has come anywhere near consumer conciousness or use, and even then, Java is pretty well hidden.
I didn't need that image. But there are a lot of sad Mac fans. I've even had the displeasure of talking to one that said that Microsoft is a failed corporation. We aren't talking about just any biased person, but a full-on kool-aid-aholic. I think it's really sad to see the fans to be so rabid at times.
Partial disclosure: I happen to have a couple Macs that I regularly use. I like the OS though I wish there were some better choices made with respect to the hardware, especially the desktops.
This is an excellent point. As much as I don't like my computers beeping, chiming or clanging, it's short and happens only once. And it only takes one click in the sound preference to disable the standard user interface sounds, so that's easy to kill.
I usually have my sound system turned off, and I rarely reboot, so I'm usually never aware of the chime. The only time I bother with sound is when I want to play a video.
One chip baking is definitely not anything near the danger of a battery baking. Lithium rechargables are pretty dangerous if misused. One EE battery specialist told me that you only need to overcharge a lithium battery by about one percent to risk explosion or damage, which is why the charge limiting circuitry is so important.
There are cameras that have WiFi capability now. My Dad bought one, but I have not tried it yet. I think they would suit you better.
You already have a post above yours from someone that has owned several and generally had problems.
I would expect it to be a lot more durable than a DVD or CD - these things cost a lot more! A DVD blank is under $1. There are 16GB thumb drives but they cost $750. I think the 4GB drives are around $100, which is about 100x the cost per GB. I expect the more expensive device to be a lot more durable.
The usage is a lot different too, not too many people tried carrying optical discs in their pockets, but that fits the thumb drive.
Those benchmarks probably should be updated. At the time, the OS X version of MySQL does a full flush a lot more than the Linux version did. The current Linux version does a full flush. I forget what the Linux version did before, but as I recall, the full flush was implemented to prevent the risk of database corruption.
Professional recording devices generally don't have that sort of copy protection. They are generally more reliable than consumer decks anyway.
That said, I've never seen anything like that. Have you contacted the manufacturer?
Oil doesn't have much to do with electricity, but stopping the use of incandescents can mean less sulfur, CO2 and radioactive emissions from coal fired power plants and lower health care bills.
I think Quicksilver does a pretty good job of learning. It doesn't rule anything out but allows you to get to programs, address book entries and some data files with fewer keystrokes. I like how I can type in a few characters of someone's name, it can figure out who that is and open address book to that person's address book profile once I press enter to confirm that's the right person. And if you don't like that idea, it's completely optional, you don't install it.
Everyone knows the DRM is nothing but an inconvenience to normal users suckered into repurchasing music they have owned for decades in format after format.
If they already own it on a CD, what is to stop them from inserting the disc into the computer and click "encode" or "import"? I thought a lot of media management programs offer easy CD importing, both Windows Media Player and iTunes offer this, I think WMP even does this automatically, I'm not sure.
Are they finally admitting what many other people knew all along?
I agree. That's why the marketing says "notebook". They are careful not to call them laptops because they know they are too hot for on-lap use.
The TDP of the T series Core Duo and Core 2 Duo are something like 31 and 34W, respectively.
If battery time, weight and heat are your concern, you will want the L series or U series Core Duo, which are rated for about 15W and 9W, respectively. They tend to be used in the ultralight notebooks. Going with the T series Core Solo won't help much because that's rated at 27W.
I agree. I think that HP will outlive Sun unless Sun shapes up, I think HP is the biggest in the enterprise hardware market right now. I think Sun has a niche somewhere, and they seem to be rapidly shrinking to fit that niche. Sun had pretty cool stuff in its time and my understanding is that they had the best long term hardware support but they simply aren't adapting well to the world of commodity parts.
I think I should expect higher standards of SUN to be professional because their hardware is targeted to the professional & enterprise markets. Sadly, SUN really doesn't live up to what their image should be.
I don't have as high standard for Slashdot because it's more targeted towards the computer and technology enthusiasts.
I program out the channels I don't watch. Works kinda like adblock.
You're still paying for them, though.
I very highly doubt that. I have C-Band satellite (the huge dish type) without a paid subscription except for Comedy Central, SciFi and Cartoon Network.
Despite not having a subscription to the religious or shopping networks, I can get them, even if all my subscriptions lapes, they still come through. That type of channels are unencrypted, meaning that I don't have to buy a subscription to watch them. I doubt that the cable systems are giving those networks any money.
Isn't there a rating system? The good ones seem to have a higher than four star rating. Anything less probably isn't worthwhile.
Fraudulent copyright infringement claims? Sweden's worse about upholding the Berne Convention Copyright treaty than China is, so if it's not illegal to participate in the unauthorized redistribution of copyrighted works, then Sweden is in violation of Berne.
I'm thinking that the cost of certifying OSS code might be pretty close to that of just writing new code in the first place. And then there are concerns over whether the software is considered to be redistributed such that the code changes would need to be returned to the public, especially if it is full GPL and whether any commercial code that links to the GPL code would technically need to be released if the software is considered to be redistributed.
Frankly, if the developer has any desires to not produce an open source app/OS/service then I'm not really seeing how using open source is going to be helpful unless they use code licensed by something like the BSD license code.
That didn't stop Syria and Iran from sending several thousand rockets to that group in Southern Lebonon to fire towards Israeli civilian populations.
Until Isreal goes back to the 1967 borders, they will not come close to having, nor deserve, security.
If Israel wasn't attacked in 1967, they probably wouldn't have taken the opportunity to take that land in the first place. For that and most if not all the major wars they had, they were responding to major, unprovoked attacks.
I fully doubt that Israel would have full security until they are driven to the pre-1947/1948 borders, i.e. nothing. There are too many militants in fringe groups that say that Israel has no legitimate claim to existence to believe that giving up any land would do anything.
Is Iran even offering the ability to do inspections?
Frankly, I think Iran would be better off with some other form of energy.
The US government's own numbers show that eco-terrorism is currently a greater domestic threat than religious terrorism. I have to go dig up those numbers, I've seen them a few different places, I think once in Newsweek and Time as well. It's interesting that the threat gets ignored.
Actually, the definition of planet kept changing to suit the needs of the observers. With the original definition of planet, any object they observed in the solar system would have been considered a planet. Changing the definition doesn't change what's actually there.