Looks like you already got whipped pretty big on the WiFi snafu.
For a device where space is a premium, SD or MMC would be a better choice. CF cards are nice but are larger in volume than even the large Memory Stick size, Memory Stick Duo is closer to SD in size.
Normally, I prefer CF, but the more functions you cram into a portable device, the more space becomes a premium. Sure SD is often a bit more expensive than CF, but not much more, and still cheaper than equivalent Memory Stick or Duo capacity.
Besides, people pay that just for portable DVD players...
For good DVD players or low end DVD set-top recorders. $100 gets a pretty decent DVD player. Up to $250 is a good price for a top-notch player with a Faroudja deinterlacer chip though.
As for warranty- mod it in a year when you want something to console you for owning a machine with close to the worst warranty in the business (1 year lots-of-questions-asked...and 90 days telephone support.)
For Dell's $499 home system: 90 Day Warranty3, 90 Day At-Home Service4, and 1Yr Technical Support, an extra $90 for two year service.
Gateway charges $60 to get the full year, their base warranty is buried in a PDF.
There are times when binning is done for a reason. Because of variances in fabbing, feature sizes might vary a bit. A chip might not be able to handle the higher speed reliably, so they mark it down for a slower clock. Of course, there are marketing reasons for doing do, but I simply don't believe marketing reasons are the entire story.
This feature size variance also affects how much heat is generated too, because gate capacitance is a function of gate area. A lot of times the server version of a chip is a slightly lower power version of the desktop chip, check out the thermal ratings of an Opteron vs. an Athlon 64 FX of the same clock speed. Opterons are rated to handle a little higher temperature but consume a little less power than the same clock Athlon 64 FX for this reason.
I don't think a radio-only tuner would ever be several factors cheaper. The parts count wouldn't go down a whole lot on a PCI card, the board wouldn't be a whole lot smaller, the parts won't be a whole lot cheaper, if at all. The difference here is that it is a USB device, a fair comparison would be vs. an external video capture device.
But a PCI TV & FM tuner isn't that bad of an idea if you have a PCI slot. Laptops don't. This would be unweildy for a mobile, but plug it in at home and it's not a problem.
I don't think the arrival time of the packets is going to be enough. I figure each room should have its own sound anyway. Or maybe use Airport Extreme units.
Increasingly, digital "fansubs" have crossed the line. Titles that are certainly licenced are being released anyway, even if the US company in the credits, which is a de-facto announcement. There are some groups that have continued releasing new episodes even after an official announcement, and they still distribute the older episodes too. This is despite the old fansub "ethic" where an announcement means they halt their work.
I think it *may* have merit if it uses the really hard to press buttons that my mobile phone has. But if thumb use was claimed to be damaging in general, it would have come up long ago with varying gaming controllers. Again, those buttons are noticibly lighter on the touch than a lot of mobile phones that I've tried.
PCI express is NOT PCI-x. It is usually abbreviated PCIe. PCI-X is an entirely different standard, that is actually mostly backward compatible with standard PCI, physically and electrically. PCIe boards will not work in PCI slots, nor PCI boards work in PCIe slots, but PCI-X and PCI will generally work both ways.
I probably would not consider buy VIA anyway. For one, their bus mastering in the past has been substandard or non-existent. A lot of people got burned with VIA and other bits of hardware that worked on other brand chipsets.
Their displays are only 100dpi anyway. My 14" laptop with a 125dpi screen has about as many pixels as a 17" Powerbook. If you don't like smaller text (I don't), then scale up the size a bit. Having a higher dpi makes for smoother looking fonts. Some laptops are available with 150dpi screens for a modest extra fee, and they look very nice.
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And I wonder how LCD compares with CRT to power. Favourably, I'd guess.
Pretty favorably, a desktop LCD consumes maybe half to two thirds the power of CRT for the same size screen? Mind you, my primary displays are still CRT.
I'm finding BitTorrent to be annoying as there is no server to serve up the file, just programs on desktop computers. So if enough seeders shut down for the night, the file isn't going to complete.
I'm at a loss as to why I get transfer rates in the single digits of KBps when I have a full T1.
BT is an interesting idea, but I think it needs to be tweaked to be reasonably useful.
Logitech generally does make pretty reliable devices, at least the ones I own, short of one wireless set. The other Logitech set, a Bluetooth KB+M, still works great.
Apple doesn't make anyone use their own mice, just hook up your $5 mouse and go.
$1 an episode? If you count $1 per half-hour episode, there are numerous TV shows on DVD that are nearly that cheap already. Why bother with download & burning at $1 an episode when you can get a pressed copy for about as much, and it doesn't tie up the internet connection? Under your method, downloading would be cheaper probably only if you don't use packaging (keepcases), print covers and such.
The problem with that listing is that you are listing all sub-variants even if they are compatible. Memory Stick is Memory Stick to me. I don't see the point in listing the "Pro" as that is mostly a speed rating than anything else, it doesn't change the interface or physical spec that I know about.
Compact Flash II and Microdrive are basically the same form factor and interface, only the storage means is different, and IIRC, isn't relevant from the device point of view.
I would call Smart Media a dead-end, it just didn't scale in capacity. The only reason to keep it around in readers is for legacy devices.
I always thought that steam power was the worst type of combustion....
I didn't know steam was combustible.
Seriously, while going offtopic, steam itself is used for power generation, be it coal or nuclear. Nuclear subs and carriers? They use steam as an intermediary. Carriers used steam to drive the catapults for aircraft take off. I hear that they are being replaced with some sort of electrical system, that electrical system is powered using steam heated by the nuclear power plant. I hope it works better as it seems to be more round-about way to do it.
Rolland is one middleman I can do without. I wonder how much OSDN is making for Rollan's submissions, or failing that, I wonder how much Rolland is slipping micheal.
I think it was a reference to how digital files will die or be inaccessible in the future. Not necessarily due to media aging, but not having the encryption key. How it pertains is that it is a way that digital files are worse off than analog recordings.
Again, someone misses the fact that this cluster was done in 2003, when theren't any faster chips
Even now, there aren't any chips that are twice as fast as a 1.8GHz Opteron. At the time, I think 2.0 was the max, and those get expensive, to the point where you are better off spending the money adding nodes than spending more per chip.
Outright bad ICs are pretty rare, regardless of brand. I know a guy that designs and builds custom circuit boards and he says he's never had a faulty circuit component, ever.
I've never really had a stability problem with Windows NT, 2000 or XP. Good hardware with good drivers reduces or nearly eliminate these problems.
I believe more programs are going to be SMP-capable. I am certain games can improve in using SMP, just that there weren't enough SMP systems to take advantage of this to make it worth developing for them.
Not a whole lot of programs really need a fast CPU, but it helps to have a fast CPU and more than one of them if you run a lot of little programs.
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Looks like you already got whipped pretty big on the WiFi snafu.
For a device where space is a premium, SD or MMC would be a better choice. CF cards are nice but are larger in volume than even the large Memory Stick size, Memory Stick Duo is closer to SD in size.
Normally, I prefer CF, but the more functions you cram into a portable device, the more space becomes a premium. Sure SD is often a bit more expensive than CF, but not much more, and still cheaper than equivalent Memory Stick or Duo capacity.
Besides, people pay that just for portable DVD players...
For good DVD players or low end DVD set-top recorders. $100 gets a pretty decent DVD player. Up to $250 is a good price for a top-notch player with a Faroudja deinterlacer chip though.
As for warranty- mod it in a year when you want something to console you for owning a machine with close to the worst warranty in the business (1 year lots-of-questions-asked...and 90 days telephone support.)
For Dell's $499 home system:
90 Day Warranty3, 90 Day At-Home Service4, and 1Yr Technical Support, an extra $90 for two year service.
Gateway charges $60 to get the full year, their base warranty is buried in a PDF.
HPaq does provide a full year though.
There are times when binning is done for a reason. Because of variances in fabbing, feature sizes might vary a bit. A chip might not be able to handle the higher speed reliably, so they mark it down for a slower clock. Of course, there are marketing reasons for doing do, but I simply don't believe marketing reasons are the entire story.
This feature size variance also affects how much heat is generated too, because gate capacitance is a function of gate area. A lot of times the server version of a chip is a slightly lower power version of the desktop chip, check out the thermal ratings of an Opteron vs. an Athlon 64 FX of the same clock speed. Opterons are rated to handle a little higher temperature but consume a little less power than the same clock Athlon 64 FX for this reason.
I don't think a radio-only tuner would ever be several factors cheaper. The parts count wouldn't go down a whole lot on a PCI card, the board wouldn't be a whole lot smaller, the parts won't be a whole lot cheaper, if at all. The difference here is that it is a USB device, a fair comparison would be vs. an external video capture device.
But a PCI TV & FM tuner isn't that bad of an idea if you have a PCI slot. Laptops don't. This would be unweildy for a mobile, but plug it in at home and it's not a problem.
I don't think the arrival time of the packets is going to be enough. I figure each room should have its own sound anyway. Or maybe use Airport Extreme units.
It is legal to make personal copies, but the distribution and making derivative works without permission is generally illegal.
Increasingly, digital "fansubs" have crossed the line. Titles that are certainly licenced are being released anyway, even if the US company in the credits, which is a de-facto announcement. There are some groups that have continued releasing new episodes even after an official announcement, and they still distribute the older episodes too. This is despite the old fansub "ethic" where an announcement means they halt their work.
I think it *may* have merit if it uses the really hard to press buttons that my mobile phone has. But if thumb use was claimed to be damaging in general, it would have come up long ago with varying gaming controllers. Again, those buttons are noticibly lighter on the touch than a lot of mobile phones that I've tried.
PCI express is NOT PCI-x. It is usually abbreviated PCIe. PCI-X is an entirely different standard, that is actually mostly backward compatible with standard PCI, physically and electrically. PCIe boards will not work in PCI slots, nor PCI boards work in PCIe slots, but PCI-X and PCI will generally work both ways.
I probably would not consider buy VIA anyway. For one, their bus mastering in the past has been substandard or non-existent. A lot of people got burned with VIA and other bits of hardware that worked on other brand chipsets.
Intel was "over" RAMBUS for a couple years now, or at least, they haven't been trying to be RAMBUS exclusive for at least that long.
Their displays are only 100dpi anyway. My 14" laptop with a 125dpi screen has about as many pixels as a 17" Powerbook. If you don't like smaller text (I don't), then scale up the size a bit. Having a higher dpi makes for smoother looking fonts. Some laptops are available with 150dpi screens for a modest extra fee, and they look very nice.
And I wonder how LCD compares with CRT to power. Favourably, I'd guess.
Pretty favorably, a desktop LCD consumes maybe half to two thirds the power of CRT for the same size screen? Mind you, my primary displays are still CRT.
I'm finding BitTorrent to be annoying as there is no server to serve up the file, just programs on desktop computers. So if enough seeders shut down for the night, the file isn't going to complete.
I'm at a loss as to why I get transfer rates in the single digits of KBps when I have a full T1.
BT is an interesting idea, but I think it needs to be tweaked to be reasonably useful.
Logitech generally does make pretty reliable devices, at least the ones I own, short of one wireless set. The other Logitech set, a Bluetooth KB+M, still works great.
Apple doesn't make anyone use their own mice, just hook up your $5 mouse and go.
$1 an episode? If you count $1 per half-hour episode, there are numerous TV shows on DVD that are nearly that cheap already. Why bother with download & burning at $1 an episode when you can get a pressed copy for about as much, and it doesn't tie up the internet connection? Under your method, downloading would be cheaper probably only if you don't use packaging (keepcases), print covers and such.
The problem with that listing is that you are listing all sub-variants even if they are compatible. Memory Stick is Memory Stick to me. I don't see the point in listing the "Pro" as that is mostly a speed rating than anything else, it doesn't change the interface or physical spec that I know about.
Compact Flash II and Microdrive are basically the same form factor and interface, only the storage means is different, and IIRC, isn't relevant from the device point of view.
I would call Smart Media a dead-end, it just didn't scale in capacity. The only reason to keep it around in readers is for legacy devices.
I always thought that steam power was the worst type of combustion....
I didn't know steam was combustible.
Seriously, while going offtopic, steam itself is used for power generation, be it coal or nuclear. Nuclear subs and carriers? They use steam as an intermediary. Carriers used steam to drive the catapults for aircraft take off. I hear that they are being replaced with some sort of electrical system, that electrical system is powered using steam heated by the nuclear power plant. I hope it works better as it seems to be more round-about way to do it.
The other big problem is that while the Steam network is down even the offline games are unplayable.
I hope this shows more people why they need to resist DRM schemes.
Rolland is one middleman I can do without. I wonder how much OSDN is making for Rollan's submissions, or failing that, I wonder how much Rolland is slipping micheal.
I think it was a reference to how digital files will die or be inaccessible in the future. Not necessarily due to media aging, but not having the encryption key. How it pertains is that it is a way that digital files are worse off than analog recordings.
Again, someone misses the fact that this cluster was done in 2003, when theren't any faster chips
Even now, there aren't any chips that are twice as fast as a 1.8GHz Opteron. At the time, I think 2.0 was the max, and those get expensive, to the point where you are better off spending the money adding nodes than spending more per chip.
Outright bad ICs are pretty rare, regardless of brand. I know a guy that designs and builds custom circuit boards and he says he's never had a faulty circuit component, ever.
I've never really had a stability problem with Windows NT, 2000 or XP. Good hardware with good drivers reduces or nearly eliminate these problems.
The dates on the pages are from two years ago. They might very well be running something newer now.
I believe more programs are going to be SMP-capable. I am certain games can improve in using SMP, just that there weren't enough SMP systems to take advantage of this to make it worth developing for them.
Not a whole lot of programs really need a fast CPU, but it helps to have a fast CPU and more than one of them if you run a lot of little programs.