Invent on the HP iPod was pretty stupid. I think the point of the invent term was suggesting that HP products could be used in creative endevours, but with iPod being a pure entertainment product, it doesn't fit except for branding.
I thought Compaq had some pretty good hardware and designs, and HP did too. I've had a Compaq SP700 dual Xeon 500, a Compaq W6000 workstation, I own a couple W8000s and a light Compaq business laptop. I've been buying the ATX-based DeskPros, which have been indispensible as light servers.
I've been pretty happy with all of these products, and the fact that HP / Compaq still even has downloads available for my DEC Alpha Personal Workstation is very helpful, they seem to keep their diagnostic & downloads up for products that are older than my oldest computer.
Yeah, I think rows of cookie cutter houses planted around wandering-style roads is weird.
The variations of the houses allowed are usually from a small pallete of light colors, and the houses have almost "plug-in" modularity, where the most variance you see is like a mirror image, with or without a garage.
I think slash "editors" deserve a good ripping. They should be college educted, such that they should be less likely to make a mistake and more likely to set up a system where another "editor" proofreads the work before it gets posted.
And of course, the slash maintaners need a good ripping too because they refuse to make a comment page that doesn't have 100+ code errors (according to the W3C validator) that gives Firefox fits.
Regarding recordable UMD's. Sony has stated that they will never sell UMD burners, ever. Kind of a bummer, in my opinion.
Heck yes. I've been anticipating the PSP, but if users can't write their own UMDs, I'll forget about it. I would have liked something like a multifunction MD player, but without being able to record UMDs, that's dashed. I'm guessing that third parties making UMD writers is probably out of the question.
I'm kind of doubtful of the publicly speculated pricing but Sony has been known to pull consecutive bonehead maneuvers. What wasn't a bonehead maneuver was the PSX and PS2, I was hoping PSP would follow the trend.
I'm not sure if anyone takes any responsibility for the code they write. Maybe if people demanded it, but that requires a turnaround in consumer expectations of software and possibly either legislation or judicial action that nullifies EULAs as we know them. I suppose if there was a sufficient constituent demand, legislation would be enacted, although grudingly, I imagine.
Frankly, I figure the responsibility for a product I make is limited to the amount paid for said product.
Free software probably would get nowhere if the writers thought that they'd have to pay damages if it causes problems.
Moore's law concerns the number of transistors on a die, although drive capacity does follow an exponent law, but at a different rate.
It seems that it takes about ten years for hard drive capacity to multiply by ten. That means a doubling of drive capacity approximately every three years. By 2010, there might be 1.6TB drives. By 2015, people might be buying 5TB hard drives. A 1TB optical disc might not be too bad during that time frame.
The problem is that many of these projects die in their infancy. The last big one I remember was Constellation 3D's FMD, but I really wasn't sure the claimed material science of flourescents / phosphorescence was real on that one, it was hard to distinguish it from a fully vapor project.
The problem with that, in wanting a WAP in the chipset is that the chipset in question is for a Prescott-based system. They won't be cheap for a long time, and the leakage draw alone of most 90nm chips is more than 30W.
It wasn't until Pentium that the FPU was put onto an x86 chip standard.
I think Quake was helped because of the 486DX, before 486, the x87 chip was a separate chip and rarely sold to consumers in a consumer computer, it was often an extra $100 or something like that. I remember back in the 286 & 386 days when I insisted on the x87 (or math coprocessor) because I played with CAD and even programmed a few 3D wireframe vector programs that I wrote.
You do know that Centrino is implementation specific, right?
I'm not sure from your post how many different models you tried. Some (many?) of them put diversity antennas in the screen, so they should have good reception and transmission.
Not a whole lot of people are turning computers into access points, it is kind of inefficient when a 12W device can route, firewall, run QoS, act as a switch AND be an access point.
I really haven't had any problems with existing WAPs.
Grantsdale is a chipset, not a CPU. And I think it still needs an external radio module to work. I'm not sure why a desktop needs wireless though, usually I figure if it is a desktop, it will stay where it is for a while and it is worth wiring it so I'd get good bandwidth. "a" and "g" can only get about 20Mbps, and that is half duplex, a 100mbps wired card is usually full duplex.
I agree. The drive makers don't seem to want to do SATA optical drives, and SIIG even said they don't care to support SATA optical drives on their shitty SATA controllers. Well, I don't really know if their controllers are crap, but if they don't support optical drives with them, I don't want it.
They say the speed isn't necessary, but I want to cut down on the fricking amount of cable in my system! The thick PATA cables get annoying, SATA cables can probably zip-tied into clean bundles.
I have two optical drives, both on their own chains because I've found I get faster optical-to-optical copy rates vs. puting them on the same ATA chain, so that means two PATA cables which gets to be a nuisance to route.
Buy a 2xx Opteron, when the need or money arises, put a second 2xx in the 2 socket board.
This is little different from Intel, although I think you could get a 1xx Opteron (possibly an FX-5x chip) and make it work in a 2P board, you WILL have to replace that chip with a 2xx, along with a second 2xx when going dual processor.
The part that is like Intel is that you can leave the second socket empty. The part that isn't like Intel is that you might be able to just get a cheap-o chip to make the board work.
Keep in mind that dual processor boards are a bit expensive, same with the 2xx chips. If you don't anticipate buying the second processof for a couple years, you might be better off cost-wise with the standard 1P boards and a standard Athlon 64 chip now and go full 2P later, just make sure you have a WTX / extended ATX capable case if you'll reuse the case.
I thought most of the cheaper Opteron boards only attached memory to CPU0. This reduces the number of board traces. The boards I've seen that exploit all memory channels for a 2P Opteron system cost $500 for the board only, and that's not counting the cost of a WTX/extended ATX case to house that board.
These people probably only care about Windows software.
The one thing keeping me from considering the dual G5 system a true workstation is the lack of ECC memory. I've found no indication it is supported by any current or recent Apple machine other than Xserve. If you looked at SGI, Sun, HP, Intel and AMD workstations, they all generally come standard with ECC memory.
and the "Internet capacity demand doubling every 15 minutes" phenomenon
Isn't this derived from the then-bogus claim that internet demand doubles every 15 months? I think it might have been MCI or some other telecomm that ended up bankrupt and execs indicted for fraudulent and misleading statements.
The efforts of just one person to make this seems to be one of the interesting things.
You do mention the uncanny valley, but there are people trying to beat it or prove that the theory is missing something. That's right, it is a theory to explain observations, yet some people have taken it as if it is a natural, unyeilding law.
Oddly enough, if quotes from a Popular Science article is true, some pretty intelligent people seem to cite this uncanny valley as a reason to not try to beat it, test it or explore it. It's as if research on it was at a standstill since the mid 70's as a result.
To me, the motion looked more natural than the humans in the Final Fantasy movie. That one person can do in spare time to beat what a division of Sony couldn't do with $50M is impressive.
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Personal anecdotes may suffice for a lot of people, but for it to be a reasoned argument, personal anecdotes alone don't cut it as it falls under the fallacy of insufficient sample. This is because it could be explained as horrible luck for a small group of people, you need national stats to make such a case, and of course, an alternative canidate with a clear plan.
Being jobless is rough though, and very unfortunate if it hits both wage earners in a household.
Personally, I think Kerry needs to give out specifics on how he expects to fix things. It just seems to me that he's hedging, he still hasn't offered real solutions during his campaign. I do seriously want to vote Kerry, but it seems that the best argument for doing so is that he's "not Bush".
If someone does have a clear statement on Kerry's proposed economic policy, I'd like to read it. Seriously.
Booting from a CD takes longer than booting from a hard drive.
In addition, having an OS optimized for a single game lets you get the most out of your hardware (though it's not so relevant here) by cutting out all the unnessary crap running in the background. If you could get 40 FPS out of a game instead of 30, with the same hardware, why not spend 60 seconds rebooting?
That would be nice, but Linux doesn't support support video cards as well as Windows. It is currently a hypothetical situation. Someone worried about an extra 10fps on Go probably needs an examination.:) Yes, the hardware issue is because video card makers are being stupid, but I see no way to convince them otherwise, because it's hard to stupid them into releasing the specs or making good drivers that are redistributable.
I think it still doesn't consider that not many people want to reboot play a game. Rebooting to play games is for consoles, if you want that, code for the original Playstation or something.
If you want to promote Go to a Windows user, I suggest finding an available Go game for Windows.
It isn't that I don't think the idea of a bootable, self-contained program is uninteresting, it is just too inefficient to reboot so often. The Knoppix and such projects are great for kiosk type programs though, so maybe setting up an arcade machine might be a good way to promote this game.
Goresat was the mock name for a satellite that Al Gore pushed through NASA, despite the dubious science behind it and that Gore voted to reduce NASA budget more often than not. Its intention was to provide a live image of earth, I think from a Lagrange point.
Itanium was meant for workstation and servers, don't compare it with the total of all desktop, workstation and server AMD64s. Compare Itanium sales with Opteron sales, which is the sub-variant targeted to servers and workstations. Even though 1.5M to 2M chips sold in a quarter sounds like a lot, I'd be interested to know how it compares with Xeon and Pentium 4 processor shipments for the same quarter.
I think the problem is that Intel had decided not to share the instruction set with AMD or others, or at least allow others to make competing yet compatible designs. This is what made AMD resort to x86-64. Itanium is pretty powerful, a 1.5GHz Itanium appears to easily outmuscle a 2GHz K8, but the problem here is the cost. The cost for the chips is down to close to parity, but the systems are considerably more expensive.
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Invent on the HP iPod was pretty stupid. I think the point of the invent term was suggesting that HP products could be used in creative endevours, but with iPod being a pure entertainment product, it doesn't fit except for branding.
I thought Compaq had some pretty good hardware and designs, and HP did too. I've had a Compaq SP700 dual Xeon 500, a Compaq W6000 workstation, I own a couple W8000s and a light Compaq business laptop. I've been buying the ATX-based DeskPros, which have been indispensible as light servers.
I've been pretty happy with all of these products, and the fact that HP / Compaq still even has downloads available for my DEC Alpha Personal Workstation is very helpful, they seem to keep their diagnostic & downloads up for products that are older than my oldest computer.
Yeah, I think rows of cookie cutter houses planted around wandering-style roads is weird.
The variations of the houses allowed are usually from a small pallete of light colors, and the houses have almost "plug-in" modularity, where the most variance you see is like a mirror image, with or without a garage.
I think slash "editors" deserve a good ripping. They should be college educted, such that they should be less likely to make a mistake and more likely to set up a system where another "editor" proofreads the work before it gets posted.
And of course, the slash maintaners need a good ripping too because they refuse to make a comment page that doesn't have 100+ code errors (according to the W3C validator) that gives Firefox fits.
Regarding recordable UMD's. Sony has stated that they will never sell UMD burners, ever. Kind of a bummer, in my opinion.
Heck yes. I've been anticipating the PSP, but if users can't write their own UMDs, I'll forget about it. I would have liked something like a multifunction MD player, but without being able to record UMDs, that's dashed. I'm guessing that third parties making UMD writers is probably out of the question.
I'm kind of doubtful of the publicly speculated pricing but Sony has been known to pull consecutive bonehead maneuvers. What wasn't a bonehead maneuver was the PSX and PS2, I was hoping PSP would follow the trend.
I'm not sure if anyone takes any responsibility for the code they write. Maybe if people demanded it, but that requires a turnaround in consumer expectations of software and possibly either legislation or judicial action that nullifies EULAs as we know them. I suppose if there was a sufficient constituent demand, legislation would be enacted, although grudingly, I imagine.
Frankly, I figure the responsibility for a product I make is limited to the amount paid for said product.
Free software probably would get nowhere if the writers thought that they'd have to pay damages if it causes problems.
Moore's law concerns the number of transistors on a die, although drive capacity does follow an exponent law, but at a different rate.
It seems that it takes about ten years for hard drive capacity to multiply by ten. That means a doubling of drive capacity approximately every three years. By 2010, there might be 1.6TB drives. By 2015, people might be buying 5TB hard drives. A 1TB optical disc might not be too bad during that time frame.
The problem is that many of these projects die in their infancy. The last big one I remember was Constellation 3D's FMD, but I really wasn't sure the claimed material science of flourescents / phosphorescence was real on that one, it was hard to distinguish it from a fully vapor project.
The problem with that, in wanting a WAP in the chipset is that the chipset in question is for a Prescott-based system. They won't be cheap for a long time, and the leakage draw alone of most 90nm chips is more than 30W.
It wasn't until Pentium that the FPU was put onto an x86 chip standard.
I think Quake was helped because of the 486DX, before 486, the x87 chip was a separate chip and rarely sold to consumers in a consumer computer, it was often an extra $100 or something like that. I remember back in the 286 & 386 days when I insisted on the x87 (or math coprocessor) because I played with CAD and even programmed a few 3D wireframe vector programs that I wrote.
You do know that Centrino is implementation specific, right?
I'm not sure from your post how many different models you tried. Some (many?) of them put diversity antennas in the screen, so they should have good reception and transmission.
Not a whole lot of people are turning computers into access points, it is kind of inefficient when a 12W device can route, firewall, run QoS, act as a switch AND be an access point.
I really haven't had any problems with existing WAPs.
Grantsdale is a chipset, not a CPU. And I think it still needs an external radio module to work. I'm not sure why a desktop needs wireless though, usually I figure if it is a desktop, it will stay where it is for a while and it is worth wiring it so I'd get good bandwidth. "a" and "g" can only get about 20Mbps, and that is half duplex, a 100mbps wired card is usually full duplex.
I agree. The drive makers don't seem to want to do SATA optical drives, and SIIG even said they don't care to support SATA optical drives on their shitty SATA controllers. Well, I don't really know if their controllers are crap, but if they don't support optical drives with them, I don't want it.
They say the speed isn't necessary, but I want to cut down on the fricking amount of cable in my system! The thick PATA cables get annoying, SATA cables can probably zip-tied into clean bundles.
I have two optical drives, both on their own chains because I've found I get faster optical-to-optical copy rates vs. puting them on the same ATA chain, so that means two PATA cables which gets to be a nuisance to route.
3 hours run time is not too bad, compared to the nitwit magnets called Pentium 4 laptops, where 1 hour is considered good.
The specs are very good for a PC that is about the size of a pack of 3"x5" cards, just under 1" thick.
Buy a 2xx Opteron, when the need or money arises, put a second 2xx in the 2 socket board.
This is little different from Intel, although I think you could get a 1xx Opteron (possibly an FX-5x chip) and make it work in a 2P board, you WILL have to replace that chip with a 2xx, along with a second 2xx when going dual processor.
The part that is like Intel is that you can leave the second socket empty. The part that isn't like Intel is that you might be able to just get a cheap-o chip to make the board work.
Keep in mind that dual processor boards are a bit expensive, same with the 2xx chips. If you don't anticipate buying the second processof for a couple years, you might be better off cost-wise with the standard 1P boards and a standard Athlon 64 chip now and go full 2P later, just make sure you have a WTX / extended ATX capable case if you'll reuse the case.
I thought most of the cheaper Opteron boards only attached memory to CPU0. This reduces the number of board traces. The boards I've seen that exploit all memory channels for a 2P Opteron system cost $500 for the board only, and that's not counting the cost of a WTX/extended ATX case to house that board.
I see nothing on that Microsoft link that prohibits this SFF computer from working with the XP-x64 beta.
These people probably only care about Windows software.
The one thing keeping me from considering the dual G5 system a true workstation is the lack of ECC memory. I've found no indication it is supported by any current or recent Apple machine other than Xserve. If you looked at SGI, Sun, HP, Intel and AMD workstations, they all generally come standard with ECC memory.
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and the "Internet capacity demand doubling every 15 minutes" phenomenon
Isn't this derived from the then-bogus claim that internet demand doubles every 15 months? I think it might have been MCI or some other telecomm that ended up bankrupt and execs indicted for fraudulent and misleading statements.
The efforts of just one person to make this seems to be one of the interesting things.
You do mention the uncanny valley, but there are people trying to beat it or prove that the theory is missing something. That's right, it is a theory to explain observations, yet some people have taken it as if it is a natural, unyeilding law.
Oddly enough, if quotes from a Popular Science article is true, some pretty intelligent people seem to cite this uncanny valley as a reason to not try to beat it, test it or explore it. It's as if research on it was at a standstill since the mid 70's as a result.
To me, the motion looked more natural than the humans in the Final Fantasy movie. That one person can do in spare time to beat what a division of Sony couldn't do with $50M is impressive.
Personal anecdotes may suffice for a lot of people, but for it to be a reasoned argument, personal anecdotes alone don't cut it as it falls under the fallacy of insufficient sample. This is because it could be explained as horrible luck for a small group of people, you need national stats to make such a case, and of course, an alternative canidate with a clear plan.
Being jobless is rough though, and very unfortunate if it hits both wage earners in a household.
Personally, I think Kerry needs to give out specifics on how he expects to fix things. It just seems to me that he's hedging, he still hasn't offered real solutions during his campaign. I do seriously want to vote Kerry, but it seems that the best argument for doing so is that he's "not Bush".
If someone does have a clear statement on Kerry's proposed economic policy, I'd like to read it. Seriously.
Booting from a CD takes longer than booting from a hard drive.
:) Yes, the hardware issue is because video card makers are being stupid, but I see no way to convince them otherwise, because it's hard to stupid them into releasing the specs or making good drivers that are redistributable.
In addition, having an OS optimized for a single game lets you get the most out of your hardware (though it's not so relevant here) by cutting out all the unnessary crap running in the background. If you could get 40 FPS out of a game instead of 30, with the same hardware, why not spend 60 seconds rebooting?
That would be nice, but Linux doesn't support support video cards as well as Windows. It is currently a hypothetical situation. Someone worried about an extra 10fps on Go probably needs an examination.
I think it still doesn't consider that not many people want to reboot play a game. Rebooting to play games is for consoles, if you want that, code for the original Playstation or something.
If you want to promote Go to a Windows user, I suggest finding an available Go game for Windows.
It isn't that I don't think the idea of a bootable, self-contained program is uninteresting, it is just too inefficient to reboot so often. The Knoppix and such projects are great for kiosk type programs though, so maybe setting up an arcade machine might be a good way to promote this game.
Goresat was the mock name for a satellite that Al Gore pushed through NASA, despite the dubious science behind it and that Gore voted to reduce NASA budget more often than not. Its intention was to provide a live image of earth, I think from a Lagrange point.
Itanium was meant for workstation and servers, don't compare it with the total of all desktop, workstation and server AMD64s. Compare Itanium sales with Opteron sales, which is the sub-variant targeted to servers and workstations. Even though 1.5M to 2M chips sold in a quarter sounds like a lot, I'd be interested to know how it compares with Xeon and Pentium 4 processor shipments for the same quarter.
I think the problem is that Intel had decided not to share the instruction set with AMD or others, or at least allow others to make competing yet compatible designs. This is what made AMD resort to x86-64. Itanium is pretty powerful, a 1.5GHz Itanium appears to easily outmuscle a 2GHz K8, but the problem here is the cost. The cost for the chips is down to close to parity, but the systems are considerably more expensive.