You might want to look into Pentium M, AMD XP-M, Via's C7, a Transmeta Efficeon or an iMac G5. I am not kidding on the last, it is supposed to be quiet. I don't think any of these are necessarily cheap though, but they are fabbed for low power.
I don't understand why he distinguishes Nocona from Xeon. Nocona is the latest iteration of the Xeon line, it doesn't get a new logo or changed logo as far as I can see on the Intel site.
To me it shows that he really doesn't care or he's confused, and thus worth doubling the number of grains of salt required to read his web log.
If it really only takes the same amount of power as a panel with a quarter the resolution, battery life should be unaffected.
Don't expect 2MP on a cell phone. OK, you can expect it, but I'd expect it to be poor quality.
A good way to browse the web and check email is to have a good high resolution screen. Even if the text is just scaled up, I'd like to see smoother text before smaller text.
Ideally, I think you want it to be at least a bit beyond a human's ability to distinguish points.
I'd be happy to get a 20" 300dpi screen, although none exist yet, and good software support might not exist yet, although maybe KDE or Gnome might benefit a lot.
Computer operating systems need to be able to support vector objects or have better scaling to cope with multiple DPIs. Windows seems to do OK, except for certain design elements that assume a fixed dpi, so larger fonts just run under the edge of a window or mucks other things up.
I suppose it could be good to make it easier. The explaination makes sense for people that don't care about the particulars of a computer, they just want to play a game, and knowing one number is easier than tracking your CPU speed, type, RAM, video card type, video memory. It would not account much for hard drive space though, which could become an issue. MS could be pretty specific in level specification, one wouldn't know until they sending it out.
The thing is, wasn't there a PC-year spec? PC99 specified a certain set of characteristics in a computer, ones that were better PC98?
This only seems to work well with consumer desktops, as servers and workstations need to be configured to the particular task at hand whether it be storage, IO or compute intensive, not Office 2010 and Duke Nukem Forever.
Software protection is a waste of money. It is cheaper to just buy a licence outright, then when Longhorn SP1 is released, you'll need to replace all your computers anyway, which pays for its licence outright.
2000 has another year of full support anyway, making it about five years, like any other Microsoft OS.
It looks like a NX support thing, not patches to fix the JPG execute problem, which have been rolled back to 2000.
Yeah, after HOW many complaints? Was there a non-Sony paid review that didn't complain about the transcode / ATRAC requirement?
Sony hardware's eviler siblings, Sony Music, etc. was probably just holding it back. I don't think it made sense for the companies to be joined at the hips, as it did effectively cripple any chance that the digital file players could have. I hope this signals a change in how the companies are managed.
Now only for them to fix and reprice their hard drive player. The 20GB player is still $400, despite Apple's reprice of its direct competitor, the 20GB iPod to $300.
They still need to be stabilized. I'm not sure if the colors are acceptably accurate. Polymer OLED has the better colors, but the different colors decay at different rates. IIRC, Monomer OLED lasts much longer, but the colors suck.
Like something that has been posted to the internet, legislating the internet is alot like cleaning pee from the swimming pool. And spammers are like five dozen kids in the swimming pool, half of them trying to see if they can get away with peeing in it.
People seem to keep forgetting that flash memory is SLOW, even on just read, writes are often slower yet. I just bought a "4x" CF card, which apparently they want to rate it in terms of CD-R speed. 4x is 600 KB/s. Unless something changes, you will not like the results. To test it out, get Knoppix, put it on a CD and run it on a computer with a 4x read CD rom drive, assuming you can get one that old that can read CD-Rs.
Also, flash is lucky to survive a million writes, hard drives can survive orders of magnitude more writes.
Memory chips are most often rated in bits, it has been that way for decades, I think. Even the RAM sticks you buy have chips that are often rated in bits. Only when it is assembled into a memory module or card does the byte term get used to describe its capacity. Few end users use the bare chips so confusing the consumer isn't a concern..
256megabit doesn't mean a rate, but the fact that it has 256 million bit cells.
Sprint sells a CompactFlash card / PCMCIA card for US use. The costs are pretty high, I don't think nearly $10/MB high but still high enough that even when I was stuck on a modem, I wouldn't consider it.
Ironically, on the cost front, I bought a T1 line and am splitting its cost and bandwidth with three businesses.:)
The thing is that supposedly Nintendo Power says that GBA-DS WILL be backward compatible to all GB, GB-C games.
If N does remove backward compatibility, I think it would be a political decision, not a technical one because the GBA's ARM7 has added circuits to be GB compatibile, and the DS will have ARM7, no full word on whether this compatibility circuit will remain. I think it would be silly to remove it.
100ft max seems kind of weak although it might be a power saving measure. I can easily get a practical 900ft range with a standard wireless 802.11 b or g card and access point. The claimed range for the hardware is 1800ft.
PSOne didn't change the game API, did it? Why should PSTwo and PS2 be different from each other?
Also, PSOne wasn't released until after PS2 was released, but PS3 won't be for a while, same with the competitor's new consoles. This may be an attempt to fuel more sales, although I thought PS2 installed base is more than Gamecube and XBox combined.
Yet, benchmarks, until recently, always seemed to compare same clock speeds/ratings despite Intel's offerings always costing more
The prices always fluctuate over time, from store to store, etc., so it is hard to compare $200 AMD with $200 Intel. And then there's the motherboards and chipsets. I think comparing based on price might need to be an exercise left to the reader.
There is no evidence that Iraq supported the 9/11 terrorist acts in a material way. In the past, there were domestic atrocities, but the world ignored them, much like it ignored Rwanda and other atrocities. And this doesn't cover Halliburton, Abu Gharab and other major mistakes. And there aren't any WMDs that the occupying armies have found, and WMDs are the very reason GWB said we were invading. The very pretense of invasion was a lie.
The PATRIOT act violates our civil rights for the sake of protecting us. It also hides trials from public view and criticism.
There are probably some limitations, but every telescope has limitations. I'm not sure what sweep angle range this would have and still be good, I don't expect 180 degrees, the farther from normal (straight up from horizontal ground), I bet the more atmospherics might cause problems.
Creating a demo before the final product just pushes back the final product's release date.
Why? Isn't a demo just a stripped down version? Why would releasing a stripped-down version affect the product timeline? id had four years working on the project too, so even if making a demo wasted a man-month I doubt it would affect the final timeline.
I think it gives a good "springboard" to your own customizations. Kind of like "that's neat, but with this part like that, it can also perform another function twice as well".
Kind of like software programming, you shouldn't need to write your own kernel now, but it is easy to modify someone else's Linux or BSD kernel work rather than redoing the entire job.
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You might want to look into Pentium M, AMD XP-M, Via's C7, a Transmeta Efficeon or an iMac G5. I am not kidding on the last, it is supposed to be quiet. I don't think any of these are necessarily cheap though, but they are fabbed for low power.
(Xeon or Nocona)
I don't understand why he distinguishes Nocona from Xeon. Nocona is the latest iteration of the Xeon line, it doesn't get a new logo or changed logo as far as I can see on the Intel site.
To me it shows that he really doesn't care or he's confused, and thus worth doubling the number of grains of salt required to read his web log.
If it really only takes the same amount of power as a panel with a quarter the resolution, battery life should be unaffected.
Don't expect 2MP on a cell phone. OK, you can expect it, but I'd expect it to be poor quality.
A good way to browse the web and check email is to have a good high resolution screen. Even if the text is just scaled up, I'd like to see smoother text before smaller text.
I had forgotten, but LCD projectors actually use smaller panels.
XGA panels can be had in the 0.7" to 1.3" range. I'd direct you to projectorcentral.com, but it seems to be down now.
The problem here is that with a projector, each color has its own monochrome panel and is marged using a prism.
Ideally, I think you want it to be at least a bit beyond a human's ability to distinguish points.
I'd be happy to get a 20" 300dpi screen, although none exist yet, and good software support might not exist yet, although maybe KDE or Gnome might benefit a lot.
Computer operating systems need to be able to support vector objects or have better scaling to cope with multiple DPIs. Windows seems to do OK, except for certain design elements that assume a fixed dpi, so larger fonts just run under the edge of a window or mucks other things up.
No.
The device IS VGA if their size and dpi is correct.
368dpi on a 2.2" screen yields 640 pixels across, 480 pixels vertical.
I suppose it could be good to make it easier. The explaination makes sense for people that don't care about the particulars of a computer, they just want to play a game, and knowing one number is easier than tracking your CPU speed, type, RAM, video card type, video memory. It would not account much for hard drive space though, which could become an issue. MS could be pretty specific in level specification, one wouldn't know until they sending it out.
The thing is, wasn't there a PC-year spec? PC99 specified a certain set of characteristics in a computer, ones that were better PC98?
This only seems to work well with consumer desktops, as servers and workstations need to be configured to the particular task at hand whether it be storage, IO or compute intensive, not Office 2010 and Duke Nukem Forever.
Software protection is a waste of money. It is cheaper to just buy a licence outright, then when Longhorn SP1 is released, you'll need to replace all your computers anyway, which pays for its licence outright.
2000 has another year of full support anyway, making it about five years, like any other Microsoft OS.
It looks like a NX support thing, not patches to fix the JPG execute problem, which have been rolled back to 2000.
Don't forget the twice-revised public releases (SE & DVD), and the increasing contradictions with the allegedly canon novels.
Yeah, after HOW many complaints? Was there a non-Sony paid review that didn't complain about the transcode / ATRAC requirement?
Sony hardware's eviler siblings, Sony Music, etc. was probably just holding it back. I don't think it made sense for the companies to be joined at the hips, as it did effectively cripple any chance that the digital file players could have. I hope this signals a change in how the companies are managed.
Now only for them to fix and reprice their hard drive player. The 20GB player is still $400, despite Apple's reprice of its direct competitor, the 20GB iPod to $300.
They still need to be stabilized. I'm not sure if the colors are acceptably accurate. Polymer OLED has the better colors, but the different colors decay at different rates. IIRC, Monomer OLED lasts much longer, but the colors suck.
Legislate social problems is ineffective.
Like something that has been posted to the internet, legislating the internet is alot like cleaning pee from the swimming pool. And spammers are like five dozen kids in the swimming pool, half of them trying to see if they can get away with peeing in it.
Mmmm... instant on computers maybe?
People seem to keep forgetting that flash memory is SLOW, even on just read, writes are often slower yet. I just bought a "4x" CF card, which apparently they want to rate it in terms of CD-R speed. 4x is 600 KB/s. Unless something changes, you will not like the results. To test it out, get Knoppix, put it on a CD and run it on a computer with a 4x read CD rom drive, assuming you can get one that old that can read CD-Rs.
Also, flash is lucky to survive a million writes, hard drives can survive orders of magnitude more writes.
Memory chips are most often rated in bits, it has been that way for decades, I think. Even the RAM sticks you buy have chips that are often rated in bits. Only when it is assembled into a memory module or card does the byte term get used to describe its capacity. Few end users use the bare chips so confusing the consumer isn't a concern..
256megabit doesn't mean a rate, but the fact that it has 256 million bit cells.
Sprint sells a CompactFlash card / PCMCIA card for US use. The costs are pretty high, I don't think nearly $10/MB high but still high enough that even when I was stuck on a modem, I wouldn't consider it.
:)
Ironically, on the cost front, I bought a T1 line and am splitting its cost and bandwidth with three businesses.
The thing is that supposedly Nintendo Power says that GBA-DS WILL be backward compatible to all GB, GB-C games.
If N does remove backward compatibility, I think it would be a political decision, not a technical one because the GBA's ARM7 has added circuits to be GB compatibile, and the DS will have ARM7, no full word on whether this compatibility circuit will remain. I think it would be silly to remove it.
100ft max seems kind of weak although it might be a power saving measure. I can easily get a practical 900ft range with a standard wireless 802.11 b or g card and access point. The claimed range for the hardware is 1800ft.
PSOne didn't change the game API, did it? Why should PSTwo and PS2 be different from each other?
Also, PSOne wasn't released until after PS2 was released, but PS3 won't be for a while, same with the competitor's new consoles. This may be an attempt to fuel more sales, although I thought PS2 installed base is more than Gamecube and XBox combined.
This post kind of makes me think that "rich" should be on the cards in buzzword bingo.
Yet, benchmarks, until recently, always seemed to compare same clock speeds/ratings despite Intel's offerings always costing more
The prices always fluctuate over time, from store to store, etc., so it is hard to compare $200 AMD with $200 Intel. And then there's the motherboards and chipsets. I think comparing based on price might need to be an exercise left to the reader.
Wait a minute.
There is no evidence that Iraq supported the 9/11 terrorist acts in a material way. In the past, there were domestic atrocities, but the world ignored them, much like it ignored Rwanda and other atrocities. And this doesn't cover Halliburton, Abu Gharab and other major mistakes. And there aren't any WMDs that the occupying armies have found, and WMDs are the very reason GWB said we were invading. The very pretense of invasion was a lie.
The PATRIOT act violates our civil rights for the sake of protecting us. It also hides trials from public view and criticism.
Check their address:
Palmyra Atoll (Uninhabited Sovereign Territory)
Must be a bitch to get mail.
I'm with many others in that thread, I'm sure the company is fictional.
There are probably some limitations, but every telescope has limitations. I'm not sure what sweep angle range this would have and still be good, I don't expect 180 degrees, the farther from normal (straight up from horizontal ground), I bet the more atmospherics might cause problems.
Creating a demo before the final product just pushes back the final product's release date.
Why? Isn't a demo just a stripped down version? Why would releasing a stripped-down version affect the product timeline? id had four years working on the project too, so even if making a demo wasted a man-month I doubt it would affect the final timeline.
I think it gives a good "springboard" to your own customizations. Kind of like "that's neat, but with this part like that, it can also perform another function twice as well".
Kind of like software programming, you shouldn't need to write your own kernel now, but it is easy to modify someone else's Linux or BSD kernel work rather than redoing the entire job.