If you can sit back a little bit, a 1080p TV might do the trick. Both Sceptre and Westinghouse Digital offer 37" 1080p TVs. They work fine with Windows and Mac, probably Linux with at most a mode line change, and they are pixel-for-pixel capable on DVI input, something that isn't so common with LCD TVs. That gets you a sizable HD-ready TV that also works as a high resolution monitor. You'd want to sit farther back though for desktop work.
I too find pushing out the old to be needlessly wasteful. Resale value is something I sometimes consider. I buy used equipment at least as much as new equipment, especially if I think the value for the money is still good.
I would think that a crossbar switch would be completely transparent to the OS or app programmer. The bus for the original Athlon (IIRC, Alpha's EV6 bus) was a crossbar switch system and I don't remember any changes to the OS, apps, drivers or anything difficult to support it.
I've never heard of these companies or projects, so until they demonstrate something or show some credible people in the project, I'll file it in the same category as Infinium Labs and Duke Nukem. I know the current well-known chip makers are planning to scale beyond that, but they are better situated to do that than the typical dark horse company.
The computer industry seems to have this idea that we want to combine all our gadgetry into a single box. There's always bee this assumption. The fact is, people prefer separate dedicated equipment.
Some people seem to have this idea that it is an "exclusive or" proposition. Some people want convergence, others want dedicated equipment. To paint "people" as wanting a certain direction would be a poor claim because not everyone has the same goals and priorities, such as maximal quality vs. maximal convenience or something between the two, as very often both can't be achieved in the same unit at an affordable cost. The market for both types of equipment is pretty large and it is a mistake to cast it in one direction or the other.
Keep in mind that a stack of dedicated devices may be simpler per device, the whole system generally gets more unruly as well, in terms of space, wiring, number of remotes and so on.
That's kind of pedantic argument, though I do understand the frustration.
The U2 collection was almost all the songs publicly released at the time of the set release, though it is disappointing that the set is called "Complete". I did find that some of the "B-Sides" were missing, as well as one song version from the "Seven" Target Exclusive was missing. That was an accoustic version of a song otherwise available in the collection.
Though I generally don't buy protected music, I didn't have half the major albums in the set, and most of the minor albums (usu. the "singles") pretty hard to find, so I bought the U2 set and got it over with, at a price that was a lot less than tracking down the limited or obscure releases.
Some of them are pretty nice. I think the logo is pretty lame though, and the green is just ugly, IMO, but the black cases are pretty nice.
If someone told me a few years ago that there's big money (in per-unit profits) to be made in throwing together off the shelf boards, I wouldn't have believed them. It's not that hard to do.
Depending on requirements, broadband link is all that is needed.
That would not be a very high requirement. A broadband link is quite a reduction from the 12MB/s that I see on tape libraries. With good outbound DSL, you might be lucky to get 512kbps, but less than half that is more likely.
More bandwidth can be had with point to point microwave links (300km limit).
How much does that cost? That doesn't sound cheap.
Very insightful post, though there is plenty of egotism in science. Sometimes it takes a generation for a new hypothesis to be accepted in science, even if a hypothesis fits the available evidence a bit better than the current prevailing theory. Evidence that contradicts the prevailing idea needs to be found.
The main type of argument for creationism (or ID or what have you) seems to be to plant doubt about the various pieces of evidence about evolution rather than present an equally or more cohesive explaination of all the evidence found so far. They say that it makes more sense that an intelligent designer made all life than for life to evolve, but that leaves out a massive hole in forgetting to ask where that intelligent designer came from, which is more unlikely that an intelligent designer would come to exist out of the chaos than biological life.
Given that he's never even proven his original experiment was authentic or repeatable, I'm leaning toward never. D2Fusion is robbing themselves blind, or getting bilked.
I turn off Dashboard. I don't think a single widget is worth 20-30 MB when it only does one tiny task and isn't as quickly killable when I'm done with that task, unlike a regular program. Take that 20-30MB per widget and multiply it by ten or twenty and you have a massive resource hog.
I am mostly running Windows 2000. It's been almost perfectly stable for me. I have an XP laptop but I don't use it much . The new control panel layout is a bit aggravating because it adds another layer before allowing me to change what I want, so I did disable that.
I generally turn off every effect and service that I can. Even if I do have a lot more powerful of a computer than I really need, it doesn't matter with time-based effects because a 3 second effect is a three second delay no matter how fast the computer.
CAD, video encoding, video compositing, 3D rendering also can efficiently use multiple CPUs. A person using a computer for any one of those tasks is more likely than a typical photoshop user to stress their computer.
If you buy on the corporate accounts, maybe Dells are in line with Apple. The bargain hunters seem to be able to find and promote special coupon codes such that one can get a Core Duo Dell laptop for about the same price as the Core Duo Mac Mini, for largely equivalent specs.
That said, I really don't like Dell laptops, they don't feel very well made, in my opinion.
I've had a few classes where I had to spend so much time writing the notes that I couldn't spend any energy remembering or understanding the information that I am recording. And when I tried to just sit there and listen to fully understand the material, one prof was insulted that I wasn't writing anything down! I guess I am not supposed to understand the material, but rather, hurt my hands just writing about it as quickly as I can.
I am certain there is some cataloging software available for free, online and off. Some use SQL, some just use some other internal storage system. If you maintain a software catalog, then you also have to be sure that the locations you mark in the program are always updated when a book is moved.
IIRC, compared to other aviation & avionics software, that's a bargain. The support there is probably a significant portion of that cost too. Still, peanuts compared to the cost of a coder's time in the aviation industry. I'm not IN the avionics industry, but I know several people that work for a couple such companies.
The problem is communicating such a complex case to potential buyers. Also, replacing a chip in a board doesn't help the board maker stay in business. Then there's the issue of whether the board wiring can handle faster signalling, there is a point where faster chips don't help if the interconnect remains the same speed.
I don't see restraunts in the listings of markets they are claiming, so it may just be another vapor C&D. IIRC, in order for a trademark to be valid for a particular market, it has to be filed for that market and used within a certain period of time.
The retard company Monster Cable might file a trademark in shoes, but unless they actually make a Monster shoe, the filing was for naught.
A lot of money is spent on probes. I think it would have been unreasonable to expect a 3-5 year life, these things seem to be the longest operating extra terrestrial land rover to have been made. Pathfinder was apparently noted for having an extremely low mission cost for a planetary probe.
I thought it was pretty plausible that they expected them to only last 90 days simply because of the dust problem, that it would cover the solar cells. For a while, it didn't even look like they would last a month due to the software and hardware issues.
Frankly, the availability and compatibility with most off the shelf hardware and software is squarely in the Windows camp and is a compelling reason to go that way. That is, unless all the user will do is email, office work and web browsing, they will need help with add-ons. Even simple scanner and printer compatibility might be an issue, finding Linux compatibility information is quite often a pain because it's rarely something that is put on the box. It is going to be a lot tougher to find tech support for Linux as well.
While there clearly are issues with Windows, I don't think Windows is anywhere nearly as bad as the Linux or Mac crowds claim. I haven't seen it crash for reasons other than faulty hardware in a long, long time. I don't reboot Windows for other than update reasons, though I generally do shut computers off every night because to leave something on while not being used is a waste of electricity.
I'm pretty sure that the associated politicians understand this, but like to ignore it for political posturing, hoping that the people listening don't know this.
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If you can sit back a little bit, a 1080p TV might do the trick. Both Sceptre and Westinghouse Digital offer 37" 1080p TVs. They work fine with Windows and Mac, probably Linux with at most a mode line change, and they are pixel-for-pixel capable on DVI input, something that isn't so common with LCD TVs. That gets you a sizable HD-ready TV that also works as a high resolution monitor. You'd want to sit farther back though for desktop work.
Surveys within Great Britain have shown that more than a half of 9-19 years olds have seen pornography online.
And the other half lied.
Interestingly, in some math classes, "all" is more than half.
I too find pushing out the old to be needlessly wasteful. Resale value is something I sometimes consider. I buy used equipment at least as much as new equipment, especially if I think the value for the money is still good.
I would think that a crossbar switch would be completely transparent to the OS or app programmer. The bus for the original Athlon (IIRC, Alpha's EV6 bus) was a crossbar switch system and I don't remember any changes to the OS, apps, drivers or anything difficult to support it.
I've never heard of these companies or projects, so until they demonstrate something or show some credible people in the project, I'll file it in the same category as Infinium Labs and Duke Nukem. I know the current well-known chip makers are planning to scale beyond that, but they are better situated to do that than the typical dark horse company.
The computer industry seems to have this idea that we want to combine all our gadgetry into a single box. There's always bee this assumption. The fact is, people prefer separate dedicated equipment.
Some people seem to have this idea that it is an "exclusive or" proposition. Some people want convergence, others want dedicated equipment. To paint "people" as wanting a certain direction would be a poor claim because not everyone has the same goals and priorities, such as maximal quality vs. maximal convenience or something between the two, as very often both can't be achieved in the same unit at an affordable cost. The market for both types of equipment is pretty large and it is a mistake to cast it in one direction or the other.
Keep in mind that a stack of dedicated devices may be simpler per device, the whole system generally gets more unruly as well, in terms of space, wiring, number of remotes and so on.
That's kind of pedantic argument, though I do understand the frustration.
The U2 collection was almost all the songs publicly released at the time of the set release, though it is disappointing that the set is called "Complete". I did find that some of the "B-Sides" were missing, as well as one song version from the "Seven" Target Exclusive was missing. That was an accoustic version of a song otherwise available in the collection.
Though I generally don't buy protected music, I didn't have half the major albums in the set, and most of the minor albums (usu. the "singles") pretty hard to find, so I bought the U2 set and got it over with, at a price that was a lot less than tracking down the limited or obscure releases.
Some of them are pretty nice. I think the logo is pretty lame though, and the green is just ugly, IMO, but the black cases are pretty nice.
If someone told me a few years ago that there's big money (in per-unit profits) to be made in throwing together off the shelf boards, I wouldn't have believed them. It's not that hard to do.
Depending on requirements, broadband link is all that is needed.
That would not be a very high requirement. A broadband link is quite a reduction from the 12MB/s that I see on tape libraries. With good outbound DSL, you might be lucky to get 512kbps, but less than half that is more likely.
More bandwidth can be had with point to point microwave links (300km limit).
How much does that cost? That doesn't sound cheap.
An kernel API emulator layer for graphics drivers? Yeah, that's going to be efficient and easy to code.
It is probably not necessarily stable either.
Very insightful post, though there is plenty of egotism in science. Sometimes it takes a generation for a new hypothesis to be accepted in science, even if a hypothesis fits the available evidence a bit better than the current prevailing theory. Evidence that contradicts the prevailing idea needs to be found.
The main type of argument for creationism (or ID or what have you) seems to be to plant doubt about the various pieces of evidence about evolution rather than present an equally or more cohesive explaination of all the evidence found so far. They say that it makes more sense that an intelligent designer made all life than for life to evolve, but that leaves out a massive hole in forgetting to ask where that intelligent designer came from, which is more unlikely that an intelligent designer would come to exist out of the chaos than biological life.
Given that he's never even proven his original experiment was authentic or repeatable, I'm leaning toward never. D2Fusion is robbing themselves blind, or getting bilked.
I turn off Dashboard. I don't think a single widget is worth 20-30 MB when it only does one tiny task and isn't as quickly killable when I'm done with that task, unlike a regular program. Take that 20-30MB per widget and multiply it by ten or twenty and you have a massive resource hog.
I am mostly running Windows 2000. It's been almost perfectly stable for me. I have an XP laptop but I don't use it much . The new control panel layout is a bit aggravating because it adds another layer before allowing me to change what I want, so I did disable that.
I generally turn off every effect and service that I can. Even if I do have a lot more powerful of a computer than I really need, it doesn't matter with time-based effects because a 3 second effect is a three second delay no matter how fast the computer.
CAD, video encoding, video compositing, 3D rendering also can efficiently use multiple CPUs. A person using a computer for any one of those tasks is more likely than a typical photoshop user to stress their computer.
If you buy on the corporate accounts, maybe Dells are in line with Apple. The bargain hunters seem to be able to find and promote special coupon codes such that one can get a Core Duo Dell laptop for about the same price as the Core Duo Mac Mini, for largely equivalent specs.
That said, I really don't like Dell laptops, they don't feel very well made, in my opinion.
I've had a few classes where I had to spend so much time writing the notes that I couldn't spend any energy remembering or understanding the information that I am recording. And when I tried to just sit there and listen to fully understand the material, one prof was insulted that I wasn't writing anything down! I guess I am not supposed to understand the material, but rather, hurt my hands just writing about it as quickly as I can.
I am certain there is some cataloging software available for free, online and off. Some use SQL, some just use some other internal storage system. If you maintain a software catalog, then you also have to be sure that the locations you mark in the program are always updated when a book is moved.
IIRC, compared to other aviation & avionics software, that's a bargain. The support there is probably a significant portion of that cost too. Still, peanuts compared to the cost of a coder's time in the aviation industry. I'm not IN the avionics industry, but I know several people that work for a couple such companies.
Is Theo the G.W. Bush of the world of BSD?
The problem is communicating such a complex case to potential buyers. Also, replacing a chip in a board doesn't help the board maker stay in business. Then there's the issue of whether the board wiring can handle faster signalling, there is a point where faster chips don't help if the interconnect remains the same speed.
I don't see restraunts in the listings of markets they are claiming, so it may just be another vapor C&D. IIRC, in order for a trademark to be valid for a particular market, it has to be filed for that market and used within a certain period of time.
The retard company Monster Cable might file a trademark in shoes, but unless they actually make a Monster shoe, the filing was for naught.
A lot of money is spent on probes. I think it would have been unreasonable to expect a 3-5 year life, these things seem to be the longest operating extra terrestrial land rover to have been made. Pathfinder was apparently noted for having an extremely low mission cost for a planetary probe.
I thought it was pretty plausible that they expected them to only last 90 days simply because of the dust problem, that it would cover the solar cells. For a while, it didn't even look like they would last a month due to the software and hardware issues.
If any donated Pentium 3 machines come in with Win 98 and at least 6 gigabytes of RAM
I would love to see a PIII with 6GB of RAM. Such an extreme amount of RAM would make me wonder how large of a hard drive was sold with it.
Frankly, the availability and compatibility with most off the shelf hardware and software is squarely in the Windows camp and is a compelling reason to go that way. That is, unless all the user will do is email, office work and web browsing, they will need help with add-ons. Even simple scanner and printer compatibility might be an issue, finding Linux compatibility information is quite often a pain because it's rarely something that is put on the box. It is going to be a lot tougher to find tech support for Linux as well.
While there clearly are issues with Windows, I don't think Windows is anywhere nearly as bad as the Linux or Mac crowds claim. I haven't seen it crash for reasons other than faulty hardware in a long, long time. I don't reboot Windows for other than update reasons, though I generally do shut computers off every night because to leave something on while not being used is a waste of electricity.
I'm pretty sure that the associated politicians understand this, but like to ignore it for political posturing, hoping that the people listening don't know this.