My Sanyo SCP-4900 is rated for 384 hours on standby with a 1350mAh battery and it actually gets it on a two year old battery. It has a web browser, photo viewer, PDA functionality, color screen and such.
Your statement about Linux is irrelevant, about as irrelevant as saying Tivo has Linux whereas competitors might not. For most people, if it works well, it doesn't matter what is inside or how simple or complex, how well-fit or ill-fit those internals are.
In some ways, I agree, but every bit of redundancy costs a lot, esp. if it involves laying more underwater cabling to Australia and Asia. Two lines are fine most of the time because the likelyhood of the second one going down before the first can be repaired is extremely small such that it is practically a fluke, like this.
It happens occasionally, and there are excesses to try to fight against it, quad redundancy is quite a lot and probably overpaying by twice for something that almost never happens. Is it worth paying twice as much to add another "nine" to the uptime? I had some line problems myself, while frustrating, I just did other things instead.
I would rather have the people that enlist be people that want to serve rather than be people that feel they have no other choice. The people that I knew that wanted to be there seemed to fare better in the service and be better off than those that saw no other opportunity.
Either are still far better than compulsory service.
One way to strip out in-line ads is to turn off Javascript. I hate those keyword things that some sites use, only rarely do they have relevant links anyway.
I do expect more astroturfing, and we probably see a lot without expecting it. I suspect that 100% of most computer "hardware" sites are ads, even the alleged content, despite the content being only 5% to 10% of any given page, the rest being ads and menu clutter.
I don't like any animations on sites whose primary content is text and a few still images.
I don't visit "hardware" sites anymore, one, because they really don't seem to know as much as they should, and another that the actual content is about 5% of a page, the rest split between an overly busy menu system and ads of spinning objects.
Locking down the Xbox is in part to reduce the number of boxes sold to those that won't buy the games. It should be a "duh" moment because the business model MS chose for the console was to lose money on every unit in the hopes of getting it back in royalties per game. People buying these just as a Linux box runs counter to this strategy. If people had to pay the actual manufacture cost for XBox, they might not sell anywhere nearly as many of them.
GPS with selective availability might be a few hundred meters at worst.
Now, with SA scrambling off,I know a guy that says he can use a GPS to tell wich side of the road he is on, which renders this WiFi location thingamajigger moot, not to mention that you have to be near a known AP. The only thing that saves WiPS is that most laptops have WiFi, which is cheaper than GPS devices.
According to my numbers, a 60 minute miniDV tape is about 15 gigabytes. And is removable for multiple tapes, which is a far cry from 4 gigabytes.
Four gigabytes can only hold about 16 minutes worth of DV quality video. I imagine you could lengthen it by using MPEG-4 but there probably are compromises involved if you plan to do a lot of editing with it.
For businesses, it is far easier to just go for one vendor than deal with half a dozen or more.
I have been buying name brand systems, used ones even, and really haven't had problems. Often, more reliable and quieter than I see/hear elsewhere. It is just a matter of being careful what you buy.
I really haven't found DIY systems that have better build quality than my Xeon workstations, finding one that is as good is rare, usually they are considerably worse. These I buy used because their value plummets after a year, but they are incredibly reliable and haven't given me any problems in the last eight years that I've been running them. I hope to get an Opteron workstation once those hit the used/off lease market.
Just because it isn't sold anymore doesn't mean it isn't supported anymore. Apple and third party companies tend to support the previous machines for many years. I bought a dual G5 a few months ago and I don't regret it even after the announcement. New software for the PowerPC systems will probably still be developed for five years given that it is so simple to develop a cross-platform binary, and that Mac users tend to keep their systems for longer than most people, even the G3 PowerMacs are still suppored by Tiger.
If I were to do something like this, I would want a way to monitor whether someone is in the room, or else sleep, or at least sleep during the hours that most housemembers are sleeping.
It doesn't need to be on all the time, which might be considered a waste of power, and it reduces the life of the backlight.
Bummer. I knew ECS was bad, but didn't know about PCChips being bad in terms of reliability.
I had bought a PCChips video capture card last year. The shipping drivers crashed my computer. I had somehow managed to find updated drivers for it, despite no information on their web sites suggesting that they EVER sold a video capture card. I was glad I saved a copy of the update because I never found that driver or newer drivers on their site ever again.
What you don't understand is Linux/OSS is a superset of OS-X (apart from the Kernel and OS-X GUI, and Apple propreitry crap).
Linux is a kernel, not an operating system. There is no "Linux" on OS X. If anything, it is BSD. BSD is not a superset of Linux, and Linux is not a superset of BSD. I would say, more like different branches of the UNIX tree. There is a lot of GNU stuff though, but keep in mind GNU is not Linux, and a lot of GNU existed before Linux. OS X does have a lot of other third party stuff in common with many Linux distributions, namely a lot if services.
Go thru your answers and re-write some of your answers now.
I would say that is a pushy demand. At any rate, there is no reason to demand a rewrite of a post to use wrong information.
I've used MP3 players for this. Wherever I go, it remembers where I last paused it, I hook it up to whatever sound system and go. Transferring CD to MP3 is easier than tape to MP3.
I suppose that remembering a simple time code is difficult. There are CD players that allow you to jump to any time code.
They were a lot more durable, too. CDs scratch a lot more easily, and you can't repair them with scotch tape.
I suppose if all you have is a hammer, all problems start looking like nails. Scotch tape is the wrong fix for optical media. For the extremely rare instances that I've had to repair a scratched CD, a minute or two with plastic polish works wonders.
I've never had a problem with CDs running off the spool and winding themselves around every little rotating object, one of the reasons tape splices are needed. CDs also don't stretch over time.
CDs and DVDs decay rapidly in UV light, which means they are worse than useless for long-term storage.
I would think that if you exposed tape to a similar level of light, it too would be damaged. The lesson here: long term storage is generally a cool, dry and dark place, regardless of media. There is no need to derive superiority of one media over another based on media mishandling. The magnetic properties of rust on cellophane decays over time, so neither format is necessarily ideal for long term storage.
The restoration of M*A*S*H movie illustrates that restoration can be problematic. That movie had magnetic audio and it was flaking off the film. The optical part of the film fared better and somehow required a lot less work.
Slower than a Mac mini 1Ghz G4 and 800Mhz G3 options, at nearly twice the price. I am curious what markets need this sort of thing. For better or worse, x86 is dominating or heavily intruding on most markets. For most embedded use, x86 systems seem to generally have the least expensive total system cost. How the next game consoles beat this, I'm not sure, other than sheer volume.
I'm tired of seeing sex offenders (so called "perverts") being stuck in prison and then released back into society. These people do not need prison time, they arent criminals (except by law), they are persons with _mental disabilities_! And as such they need counseling to assist them in seeing why they're wrong instead of just sending them to prison.
It depends. If they violated another person, they need both prison and counseling. Looking at a web page is another matter though.
I would throw the blame in the direction of the person/group that called it javascript rather than come up with a better name for it.
Likewise, I think that Intel should have done better to name their new card format other than PCIe because PCI-X was available for a few years already. At least PCI-X is electrically, physically and software compatible with the PCI standards, PCIe isn't on any of these accounts.
I don't see anything about what they did as reasonable cause to prematurely depricate an operating system. They want to change markets, fine, but they still had a responsibility to support a product. Buyers had a reasonable expectation to last them a few years and they failed it. I am not going to simply stay silent just because someone calls it FUD.
If they were willing to screw buyers in the past, then that means they may just do it again. As far as I'm concerned, with this, they burned any bridge for reentering into the retail market.
The thing that bugs me is that it isn't Bluetooth. Bluetooth is 2.4GHz too, but it seems to coexist fine with WiFi, and will work with many more recievers than just the one in the package. I keep a Bluetooth mouse with my laptop, in part because my laptop has an integrated bluetooth reciever.
A proprietary USB dongle just means something more to break off, more potential wear on the USB ports and such.
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My Sanyo SCP-4900 is rated for 384 hours on standby with a 1350mAh battery and it actually gets it on a two year old battery. It has a web browser, photo viewer, PDA functionality, color screen and such.
Your statement about Linux is irrelevant, about as irrelevant as saying Tivo has Linux whereas competitors might not. For most people, if it works well, it doesn't matter what is inside or how simple or complex, how well-fit or ill-fit those internals are.
In some ways, I agree, but every bit of redundancy costs a lot, esp. if it involves laying more underwater cabling to Australia and Asia. Two lines are fine most of the time because the likelyhood of the second one going down before the first can be repaired is extremely small such that it is practically a fluke, like this.
It happens occasionally, and there are excesses to try to fight against it, quad redundancy is quite a lot and probably overpaying by twice for something that almost never happens. Is it worth paying twice as much to add another "nine" to the uptime? I had some line problems myself, while frustrating, I just did other things instead.
I would rather have the people that enlist be people that want to serve rather than be people that feel they have no other choice. The people that I knew that wanted to be there seemed to fare better in the service and be better off than those that saw no other opportunity.
Either are still far better than compulsory service.
One way to strip out in-line ads is to turn off Javascript. I hate those keyword things that some sites use, only rarely do they have relevant links anyway.
I do expect more astroturfing, and we probably see a lot without expecting it. I suspect that 100% of most computer "hardware" sites are ads, even the alleged content, despite the content being only 5% to 10% of any given page, the rest being ads and menu clutter.
I don't like any animations on sites whose primary content is text and a few still images.
I don't visit "hardware" sites anymore, one, because they really don't seem to know as much as they should, and another that the actual content is about 5% of a page, the rest split between an overly busy menu system and ads of spinning objects.
I never really considered the idea that germs could eat food and use it to shit wires.
Your XBox comment doesn't fit.
Locking down the Xbox is in part to reduce the number of boxes sold to those that won't buy the games. It should be a "duh" moment because the business model MS chose for the console was to lose money on every unit in the hopes of getting it back in royalties per game. People buying these just as a Linux box runs counter to this strategy. If people had to pay the actual manufacture cost for XBox, they might not sell anywhere nearly as many of them.
I can see it happening but it's pretty dumb to do.
I have never seen this phenomenon in my server logs, ever, I can see if someone asked for the same file twice within a second.
Not everything on a computer requires a double click. I wish less things did because it is a stupid thing to require.
This may be part of what you are mocking, but a lot of Intel's development tools are included with the developer's transition kit.
GPS with selective availability might be a few hundred meters at worst.
Now, with SA scrambling off,I know a guy that says he can use a GPS to tell wich side of the road he is on, which renders this WiFi location thingamajigger moot, not to mention that you have to be near a known AP. The only thing that saves WiPS is that most laptops have WiFi, which is cheaper than GPS devices.
According to my numbers, a 60 minute miniDV tape is about 15 gigabytes. And is removable for multiple tapes, which is a far cry from 4 gigabytes.
Four gigabytes can only hold about 16 minutes worth of DV quality video. I imagine you could lengthen it by using MPEG-4 but there probably are compromises involved if you plan to do a lot of editing with it.
For businesses, it is far easier to just go for one vendor than deal with half a dozen or more.
I have been buying name brand systems, used ones even, and really haven't had problems. Often, more reliable and quieter than I see/hear elsewhere. It is just a matter of being careful what you buy.
I really haven't found DIY systems that have better build quality than my Xeon workstations, finding one that is as good is rare, usually they are considerably worse. These I buy used because their value plummets after a year, but they are incredibly reliable and haven't given me any problems in the last eight years that I've been running them. I hope to get an Opteron workstation once those hit the used/off lease market.
Just because it isn't sold anymore doesn't mean it isn't supported anymore. Apple and third party companies tend to support the previous machines for many years. I bought a dual G5 a few months ago and I don't regret it even after the announcement. New software for the PowerPC systems will probably still be developed for five years given that it is so simple to develop a cross-platform binary, and that Mac users tend to keep their systems for longer than most people, even the G3 PowerMacs are still suppored by Tiger.
If I were to do something like this, I would want a way to monitor whether someone is in the room, or else sleep, or at least sleep during the hours that most housemembers are sleeping.
It doesn't need to be on all the time, which might be considered a waste of power, and it reduces the life of the backlight.
Bummer. I knew ECS was bad, but didn't know about PCChips being bad in terms of reliability.
I had bought a PCChips video capture card last year. The shipping drivers crashed my computer. I had somehow managed to find updated drivers for it, despite no information on their web sites suggesting that they EVER sold a video capture card. I was glad I saved a copy of the update because I never found that driver or newer drivers on their site ever again.
What you don't understand is Linux/OSS is a superset of OS-X (apart from the Kernel and OS-X GUI, and Apple propreitry crap).
Linux is a kernel, not an operating system. There is no "Linux" on OS X. If anything, it is BSD. BSD is not a superset of Linux, and Linux is not a superset of BSD. I would say, more like different branches of the UNIX tree. There is a lot of GNU stuff though, but keep in mind GNU is not Linux, and a lot of GNU existed before Linux. OS X does have a lot of other third party stuff in common with many Linux distributions, namely a lot if services.
Go thru your answers and re-write some of your answers now.
I would say that is a pushy demand. At any rate, there is no reason to demand a rewrite of a post to use wrong information.
I've used MP3 players for this. Wherever I go, it remembers where I last paused it, I hook it up to whatever sound system and go. Transferring CD to MP3 is easier than tape to MP3.
I suppose that remembering a simple time code is difficult. There are CD players that allow you to jump to any time code.
They were a lot more durable, too. CDs scratch a lot more easily, and you can't repair them with scotch tape.
I suppose if all you have is a hammer, all problems start looking like nails. Scotch tape is the wrong fix for optical media. For the extremely rare instances that I've had to repair a scratched CD, a minute or two with plastic polish works wonders.
I've never had a problem with CDs running off the spool and winding themselves around every little rotating object, one of the reasons tape splices are needed. CDs also don't stretch over time.
CDs and DVDs decay rapidly in UV light, which means they are worse than useless for long-term storage.
I would think that if you exposed tape to a similar level of light, it too would be damaged. The lesson here: long term storage is generally a cool, dry and dark place, regardless of media. There is no need to derive superiority of one media over another based on media mishandling. The magnetic properties of rust on cellophane decays over time, so neither format is necessarily ideal for long term storage.
The restoration of M*A*S*H movie illustrates that restoration can be problematic. That movie had magnetic audio and it was flaking off the film. The optical part of the film fared better and somehow required a lot less work.
Slower than a Mac mini 1Ghz G4 and 800Mhz G3 options, at nearly twice the price. I am curious what markets need this sort of thing. For better or worse, x86 is dominating or heavily intruding on most markets. For most embedded use, x86 systems seem to generally have the least expensive total system cost. How the next game consoles beat this, I'm not sure, other than sheer volume.
Given the issues over the naming, I am surprised that they aren't more thoughrough with their checks.
I'm tired of seeing sex offenders (so called "perverts") being stuck in prison and then released back into society. These people do not need prison time, they arent criminals (except by law), they are persons with _mental disabilities_! And as such they need counseling to assist them in seeing why they're wrong instead of just sending them to prison.
It depends. If they violated another person, they need both prison and counseling. Looking at a web page is another matter though.
I would throw the blame in the direction of the person/group that called it javascript rather than come up with a better name for it.
Likewise, I think that Intel should have done better to name their new card format other than PCIe because PCI-X was available for a few years already. At least PCI-X is electrically, physically and software compatible with the PCI standards, PCIe isn't on any of these accounts.
I don't see anything about what they did as reasonable cause to prematurely depricate an operating system. They want to change markets, fine, but they still had a responsibility to support a product. Buyers had a reasonable expectation to last them a few years and they failed it. I am not going to simply stay silent just because someone calls it FUD.
If they were willing to screw buyers in the past, then that means they may just do it again. As far as I'm concerned, with this, they burned any bridge for reentering into the retail market.
The thing that bugs me is that it isn't Bluetooth. Bluetooth is 2.4GHz too, but it seems to coexist fine with WiFi, and will work with many more recievers than just the one in the package. I keep a Bluetooth mouse with my laptop, in part because my laptop has an integrated bluetooth reciever.
A proprietary USB dongle just means something more to break off, more potential wear on the USB ports and such.
Microsoft supported W2k for five years, which is a very long time considering a lot of businesses replace all their computers every three years.
This is unlike Redhat, which EOL'ed Red Hat 9 after less than a year it was out.
Microsoft will still release security fixes, and they have done this with 98 and NT.