Ignorance. This type of person might not know a knowledgable person, they might distrust the average geek and of course, upgrade services are pretty expensive. If you don't know how to do something and don't have that sort of talent, then it is an easy way to go. External drives can also be more easily moved between computers too, I use an external firewire cage as a backup such that I can manually disconnect and power off the drives when not in use.
Surprisingly, the eSATA connector doesn't need to be on the "motherboard". There are brackets that adapt the internal connectors to the card slot openings in the back. There are plenty of SATA and SATA RAID adapters with back port connectors for this very purpose so when you max out the internal bays, you can go external.
A desktop chip probably shouldn't have been compared against a laptop chip. Still, the X2 is a desktop chip, not a server chip, so I don't understand why you say "multi-socket" because there are no multi-socket X2 servers, they are Opteron servers, so you seem to be making it a comparison between a mobile chip and a server ship. There aren't many (or any) laptops that I am aware of that are available in 4+ GB of memory, so it's not important for that market yet.
I do suspect that the number of people that need the larger address space is probably quite small compared to the number of laptop chips, but still, it's nice to know that the laptop chip is so powerful.
Actually, x86-64 does have some speed benefits over standard ia32 for smaller programs and data sets in that it doubles the number of exposed registers. Most other archs were not register starved on the 32 bit version, so going 64 bit generally slowed the system down a bit because the pointer size doubled, taking more memory bandwidth to store pointers.
It needs a centralized something to work, be it the cell provider's system, Visa/MC/etc, Paypal or the banking system, which all have centralized controls in one form or another.
You said the problem has been solved before, I'd like to know what that solution is. I am skeptical as it would seem that the cell network providers would want a hefty piece of the action, these are the bastards that charge $3 for a 3 month expiring 100x100 wallpaper.
Sounds a little defensive to me. I think the point of the grandparent is that there's little point in rebooting to get to Linux if you already have an OS X capable computer. A good load of free software works on OSX as UNIX and X11 programs. Last I heard (last year) Linux on a laptop isn't likely to sleep or hybernate well, and doesn't necessarily have good hardware support for features typically found in a laptop. I know a few people that have Linux desktops and servers, but have a Mac laptop because of this.
Linux does have plenty of value for the reasons you state.
And I haven't run across an ad for web hosting that offered an OS X server.
They exist, but there's probably not much point in it as OS X server offers admin tools that might not be available in a sub-server instance. An OS X web server would be just like any other UNIX server.
Well, yeah. 10000 light sources works out to 100x100 pixels.
Enough for some web videos. It is hardly a "killer app" for IPv6 though. 10k lights can fit in the 10.2.x.x private network. For this, I think it makes more sense to expose a single server to the Internet that would orchestrate all of them with scripts and other routines than have to manually log into so many lights.
It referred to the perpetual group of people that will copy software/movies/mp3s/etc without permission. This group of people is less than 5% of the population. The goal of companies that produce content that they would like to control the rights to, is to keep this group as small as possible.
I think it is understandable to want to restrict non-paying people from getting the media. If a person doesn't think it is worth money, then it shouldn't be worth the bandwidth either, IMO. Because I understand there is a lot of creative (and arguably non creative) work simply being ripped off, I'm not the type to completely shun the restrictions, but some of these attempts clearly do go too far.
Anyway, while any copy protection is easily defeated by someone with the necessary skills, the entire point is to keep the wanton duplication ability out of the hands of as many people as possible because individuals copying their friend's discs is still the majority of where copyright infringement happens.
the government really cared, they would pay people to smoke. Smokers don't live as long in old age when they are collecting government money and odds
But the shorter lives caused by smoking also tend to incur extreme health care costs for lung cancer. There are plenty of other, less obvious factors at play too so it's hard to predict.
I listened to that same program. You don't supply all of the context. The effect of current emissions might not be felt for a few decades, so if we stopped now, there is still some warming that could still increase the temperature before it stabilizes.
I agree with the point that the memory should work as specified, if 333MHz is specified (where getting one that runs 425MHz is hardly defective), that's what they got, but for reviews which nerds depend on someone else to tell them what's good, the review sample should actually be an average representation of stock, not an outlier that makes them look best.
Personally, I generally don't do overclocking, so maybe I'm a bit biased, but it does seem a bit much to complain that you can "only" get 25% faster than what the label says. That puts the overclocking crowd in not so good of a light, in my opinion.
"why not make cars more fuel efficient?" Well, you end up making them less safe in collisions, too.
That's not necessarily true. Japan and Europe both have an entire class of cars that are lighter and more fuel efficient that would never be US legal. Japan has something like 33% fewer fatalities per 100k cars than the US. I forget what the European stats were.
The very large trucks and SUVs that people buy for safety are actually less safe than a mid-sized family car. This is in part because of the redicuous high center of gravity, in part because of lower grade suspensions and older technology in the braking systems too.
Unfortunately, there are too many people that assume that because the megapixel count is high, they'll be getting a good picture. There was one person on another forum that I was trying to talk sense to because they thought that a 5MP phone would be worthwhile because the assumption is that it would get great pictures without a second device. The tiny optics hits a barrier well below 2MP, and even on a good camera, true 5MP quality won't generally be possible without a tripod, so it's all just a waste of file space.
I would like a camera phone, but am under no delusion that the quality would be anywhere near as good as even a dedicated pocket camera with good lenses, a larger sensor, better zoom range and so on.
How dare they decide what they will be selling in their own stores!
I think that's pretty true statement. Exactly what fraction of game sales are through Wal*Mart? Wal*Mart is huge, but last I checked, as a whole, they only constitute 10% of the retail market in dollar sales. I think it would be pretty tough to make a valid anti-trust claim when they don't have anything near majority of sales in the market.
That is the best point to be made, I think, though Apple's hardware isn't necessarily as stable as it should be. At least it is far more stable than anything running on a VIA chipset or anything made by ECS / PC Chips. OSX on PC Chips board will run about as crappy as any other OS running on those boards.
Can you be reasonably expected to use OO.o on that type of a computer, or Negroponte's laptop for that matter? On yours, I think not, the download itself is about 130MB.
This is also why we in the US will be paying $5/gallon for gas soon... not because of our demand but because of Asia's demand.
Speak for yourself. True, Asia has a high demand, but very low demand per person, Asia has a lot more people.
China has the most stringent automobile fuel economy standard in the world. For large countries, the US is the #1 energy consumer in the world per capita. Next highest is Japan at one third the energy consumed per person as the US. The fewy countries that consume more energy per capita are usually the tiny ones whose main export is oil.
I've found that PII/PIII based computers can be pretty efficient. I have a PIII 500MHz computer that measured to consume 40W total at the wall jack, so that's counting PSU inefficiency too. You are right that some of the latest computers can produce far more FLOPS per watt, but electricity is pretty cheap compared to the cost of a new computer. That 40W computer might consume $40 worth of electricity per year, it's hard to argue that spending money on new computers would be better from an electricity cost perspective such that it outweighs the computer cost. Administration costs might be different matter though, but if you are working from volunteers or students, that can be cheap too, and quite an educational experience.
There a few different paths you might take. You don't say anything about the model or brand of speakers, that seems to make a difference. The cheaper ones might have insubstantial cable shielding at best.
My home computer is connected to a reciever that powers separate speakers, I don't really get any problems.
If you were really obsessed, you might get a higher end sound card with balanced audio out, with powered speakers with balanced inputs. If you have cheaper speakers with cheap built-in amps, then the long, unbalanced cable can act as an antenna. I've found that switching to balanced audio connections is the best way to minimize picking up stray noise on the analog, much better than getting "high end" RCA cables. Switching to XLR (balanced) cables drops the amount of noise significantly in just about any analog audio path.
Or you could switch to speakers that have a digital inputs. That's probably a lot cheaper to get into.
If you are going to use ebay to get the parts, you might as well go there for complete systems. I have bought several computers on eBay, and I have not been burned yet, in part due to luck, though in greater part with careful research.
I have a few 450 MHz PIII systems with better specs than yours that I am willing to give away, but they are desktops. At least they are pretty power efficient, I measured them to be about 40W.
I thought this education laptop was designed to operate in places where there stable power doesn't exist. That isn't to say that equipment shouldn't be reused, there are plenty of places for that too.
my last generation iPod has more than 30GB... and I need more
I'm finding it isn't necessary to have that storage, unless you maybe store the audio as uncompressed audio. I have a 4GB nano and I sync it to a smart playlist that automatically rotates songs as I listen to them. That makes sure that everything gets a listen, though I allow more plays for 4 and 5 star tracks. With random or shuffle, there's a chance that many tracks don't get listened to for a long, long time.
I don't see the point in a phone with a 30GB drive, that would be bulky. Heck, Palm's Life Drive is bulky and it only uses the 4GB 1" drive.
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Ignorance. This type of person might not know a knowledgable person, they might distrust the average geek and of course, upgrade services are pretty expensive. If you don't know how to do something and don't have that sort of talent, then it is an easy way to go. External drives can also be more easily moved between computers too, I use an external firewire cage as a backup such that I can manually disconnect and power off the drives when not in use.
Surprisingly, the eSATA connector doesn't need to be on the "motherboard". There are brackets that adapt the internal connectors to the card slot openings in the back. There are plenty of SATA and SATA RAID adapters with back port connectors for this very purpose so when you max out the internal bays, you can go external.
A desktop chip probably shouldn't have been compared against a laptop chip. Still, the X2 is a desktop chip, not a server chip, so I don't understand why you say "multi-socket" because there are no multi-socket X2 servers, they are Opteron servers, so you seem to be making it a comparison between a mobile chip and a server ship. There aren't many (or any) laptops that I am aware of that are available in 4+ GB of memory, so it's not important for that market yet.
I do suspect that the number of people that need the larger address space is probably quite small compared to the number of laptop chips, but still, it's nice to know that the laptop chip is so powerful.
Actually, x86-64 does have some speed benefits over standard ia32 for smaller programs and data sets in that it doubles the number of exposed registers. Most other archs were not register starved on the 32 bit version, so going 64 bit generally slowed the system down a bit because the pointer size doubled, taking more memory bandwidth to store pointers.
It needs a centralized something to work, be it the cell provider's system, Visa/MC/etc, Paypal or the banking system, which all have centralized controls in one form or another.
You said the problem has been solved before, I'd like to know what that solution is. I am skeptical as it would seem that the cell network providers would want a hefty piece of the action, these are the bastards that charge $3 for a 3 month expiring 100x100 wallpaper.
Sounds a little defensive to me. I think the point of the grandparent is that there's little point in rebooting to get to Linux if you already have an OS X capable computer. A good load of free software works on OSX as UNIX and X11 programs. Last I heard (last year) Linux on a laptop isn't likely to sleep or hybernate well, and doesn't necessarily have good hardware support for features typically found in a laptop. I know a few people that have Linux desktops and servers, but have a Mac laptop because of this.
Linux does have plenty of value for the reasons you state.
And I haven't run across an ad for web hosting that offered an OS X server.
They exist, but there's probably not much point in it as OS X server offers admin tools that might not be available in a sub-server instance. An OS X web server would be just like any other UNIX server.
Thats like saying a porsche is nothing more than a glorified VW bug with a better engine.
Porche president: Eep! Who leaked?!
Well, yeah. 10000 light sources works out to 100x100 pixels.
Enough for some web videos. It is hardly a "killer app" for IPv6 though. 10k lights can fit in the 10.2.x.x private network. For this, I think it makes more sense to expose a single server to the Internet that would orchestrate all of them with scripts and other routines than have to manually log into so many lights.
It referred to the perpetual group of people that will copy software/movies/mp3s/etc without permission. This group of people is less than 5% of the population. The goal of companies that produce content that they would like to control the rights to, is to keep this group as small as possible.
I think it is understandable to want to restrict non-paying people from getting the media. If a person doesn't think it is worth money, then it shouldn't be worth the bandwidth either, IMO. Because I understand there is a lot of creative (and arguably non creative) work simply being ripped off, I'm not the type to completely shun the restrictions, but some of these attempts clearly do go too far.
Anyway, while any copy protection is easily defeated by someone with the necessary skills, the entire point is to keep the wanton duplication ability out of the hands of as many people as possible because individuals copying their friend's discs is still the majority of where copyright infringement happens.
the government really cared, they would pay people to smoke. Smokers don't live as long in old age when they are collecting government money and odds
But the shorter lives caused by smoking also tend to incur extreme health care costs for lung cancer. There are plenty of other, less obvious factors at play too so it's hard to predict.
I listened to that same program. You don't supply all of the context. The effect of current emissions might not be felt for a few decades, so if we stopped now, there is still some warming that could still increase the temperature before it stabilizes.
I agree with the point that the memory should work as specified, if 333MHz is specified (where getting one that runs 425MHz is hardly defective), that's what they got, but for reviews which nerds depend on someone else to tell them what's good, the review sample should actually be an average representation of stock, not an outlier that makes them look best.
Personally, I generally don't do overclocking, so maybe I'm a bit biased, but it does seem a bit much to complain that you can "only" get 25% faster than what the label says. That puts the overclocking crowd in not so good of a light, in my opinion.
"why not make cars more fuel efficient?" Well, you end up making them less safe in collisions, too.
That's not necessarily true. Japan and Europe both have an entire class of cars that are lighter and more fuel efficient that would never be US legal. Japan has something like 33% fewer fatalities per 100k cars than the US. I forget what the European stats were.
The very large trucks and SUVs that people buy for safety are actually less safe than a mid-sized family car. This is in part because of the redicuous high center of gravity, in part because of lower grade suspensions and older technology in the braking systems too.
It is definitely about convenience.
Unfortunately, there are too many people that assume that because the megapixel count is high, they'll be getting a good picture. There was one person on another forum that I was trying to talk sense to because they thought that a 5MP phone would be worthwhile because the assumption is that it would get great pictures without a second device. The tiny optics hits a barrier well below 2MP, and even on a good camera, true 5MP quality won't generally be possible without a tripod, so it's all just a waste of file space.
I would like a camera phone, but am under no delusion that the quality would be anywhere near as good as even a dedicated pocket camera with good lenses, a larger sensor, better zoom range and so on.
How dare they decide what they will be selling in their own stores!
I think that's pretty true statement. Exactly what fraction of game sales are through Wal*Mart? Wal*Mart is huge, but last I checked, as a whole, they only constitute 10% of the retail market in dollar sales. I think it would be pretty tough to make a valid anti-trust claim when they don't have anything near majority of sales in the market.
That is the best point to be made, I think, though Apple's hardware isn't necessarily as stable as it should be. At least it is far more stable than anything running on a VIA chipset or anything made by ECS / PC Chips. OSX on PC Chips board will run about as crappy as any other OS running on those boards.
After all, you have a triumverate of "evil" going on here. After all, it is an Apple machine with Intel chips running Microsoft software.
Can you be reasonably expected to use OO.o on that type of a computer, or Negroponte's laptop for that matter? On yours, I think not, the download itself is about 130MB.
This is also why we in the US will be paying $5/gallon for gas soon... not because of our demand but because of Asia's demand.
Speak for yourself. True, Asia has a high demand, but very low demand per person, Asia has a lot more people.
China has the most stringent automobile fuel economy standard in the world. For large countries, the US is the #1 energy consumer in the world per capita. Next highest is Japan at one third the energy consumed per person as the US. The fewy countries that consume more energy per capita are usually the tiny ones whose main export is oil.
I've found that PII/PIII based computers can be pretty efficient. I have a PIII 500MHz computer that measured to consume 40W total at the wall jack, so that's counting PSU inefficiency too. You are right that some of the latest computers can produce far more FLOPS per watt, but electricity is pretty cheap compared to the cost of a new computer. That 40W computer might consume $40 worth of electricity per year, it's hard to argue that spending money on new computers would be better from an electricity cost perspective such that it outweighs the computer cost. Administration costs might be different matter though, but if you are working from volunteers or students, that can be cheap too, and quite an educational experience.
There a few different paths you might take. You don't say anything about the model or brand of speakers, that seems to make a difference. The cheaper ones might have insubstantial cable shielding at best.
My home computer is connected to a reciever that powers separate speakers, I don't really get any problems.
If you were really obsessed, you might get a higher end sound card with balanced audio out, with powered speakers with balanced inputs. If you have cheaper speakers with cheap built-in amps, then the long, unbalanced cable can act as an antenna. I've found that switching to balanced audio connections is the best way to minimize picking up stray noise on the analog, much better than getting "high end" RCA cables. Switching to XLR (balanced) cables drops the amount of noise significantly in just about any analog audio path.
Or you could switch to speakers that have a digital inputs. That's probably a lot cheaper to get into.
If you are going to use ebay to get the parts, you might as well go there for complete systems. I have bought several computers on eBay, and I have not been burned yet, in part due to luck, though in greater part with careful research.
I have a few 450 MHz PIII systems with better specs than yours that I am willing to give away, but they are desktops. At least they are pretty power efficient, I measured them to be about 40W.
I thought this education laptop was designed to operate in places where there stable power doesn't exist. That isn't to say that equipment shouldn't be reused, there are plenty of places for that too.
my last generation iPod has more than 30GB... and I need more
I'm finding it isn't necessary to have that storage, unless you maybe store the audio as uncompressed audio. I have a 4GB nano and I sync it to a smart playlist that automatically rotates songs as I listen to them. That makes sure that everything gets a listen, though I allow more plays for 4 and 5 star tracks. With random or shuffle, there's a chance that many tracks don't get listened to for a long, long time.
I don't see the point in a phone with a 30GB drive, that would be bulky. Heck, Palm's Life Drive is bulky and it only uses the 4GB 1" drive.
What's with the "gay" tag? I thought this place was intolerant of homophobes.