Even a basic electronic word processor likely qualifies as a computer. As does a PDA. I would be so bold as to say a modern cell phone is a computer, I don't think one can be bought these days without PDA and game functionality.
I have to think, if you want a notepad, don't complain that it's not electronic, then complain that laptops and PDAs are electronic. It's like saying you want a vehicle, but it must not have wheels, legs, hover or float on water. Or that it must be really effecient, really fast, run for a long time and must not run on fossil fuels or anything dangerous.
The worst part is when people confuse PCI-X, which is an existing standard with commercially available (although expensive) motherboards and parts, with PCI-Express, which there are no commercially available motherboards or parts. People shorthanding PCI-Express to PCI-X only serves to confuse the issue.
(before dvd players were all over, you had to get one that could play this divx )
This is not true. Practically the only stores that sold the players compatible with the original Divx was the Circuit City chain. Nearly every other electronics store sold normal DVD players without Divx.
The stupid thing about all this is that the Divx video format people could have chosen a a unique name to avoid a heck of a lot of confusion.
Eh, Canopy is expensive, $600 for each client end, $2000 for the base station. I'd investigate wireless "b" first. IMO, wired is probably better anyway.
At first, I wondered what it would do with the gene pool if it allowed people with poorer and poorer gene structures to stay alive longer and reproduce more.
As it is, it isn't about survival of the genetically fittest anymore.
But then, if we find damaged gene lines, I suppose that they could be fixed with some forms of gene replacement therapy, replaced with known good genes. That's still scary though if stuff like this runs amok.
I'm surprised that the group that rips on Infinium Labs for being the vapor that they are doesn't rip on Moller for being vapor far longer than Phantom Console.
Skycar, IMO, is a scam. Yes, they have two "test flight" pictures, might be rigged or faked.
Don't count on 326 MPG on 30MPG. Remember, these are vapor numbers on a flying vehicle with barely any wings at all. If it's too good to be believed...
Why are the settlements generally paid in Microsoft software then? It doesn't cost them any more. It isn't as if Microsoft is losing money either, they have a gross profit margin of 80%. Many businesses would love to have 5%.
Corporations try to avoind payiung much in terms of taxes because profits are supposed to be taxed when shareholders get paid. If the company AND the shareholders that own the company are taxed at both points, then it is double taxation of the same income. Whiners complain of "corporate welfare" but I bet if those whiners were taxed twice by the same agency for the same tax, they'll have other things to complain about.
I'm not sure Slashdot editors ever RTFA, if they do, those that do never apply critical thinking about the subject at hand. Slashdot editors don't really even edit much either, it seems. The best most of them do is pick of which stories to post a dupe.
I think this is much more than doubling the lanes. With ATSC, each _channel_ represents about 20Mbps, which is better than the 5 or 11 Mbps that we get out of wireless "b" that possibly hundreds of neighborhoods have set up up.
Multiply that by the 40+ unused TV channels at any given location, dividing by the fact that 2.4GHz wireless ethernet now has three effective channels (1,6,11 under 802.11 in US) and you have an expansion factor of maybe over 30 times the aggregate bandwidth of current industy standards.
Of course, I'm not counting the various fairly proprietery networks and bands, such as Canopy and Tropos, but client stations for those fetch over $500 each, and base stations going for over $2000 I think.
The people that accept the broadcaster's position blindly would IMO have been either bought or are plain naive.
I don't see how a sub-watt transmitter can hope to be competing with a transmitter running on tens of kilowatts in any meaningful fashion. Add that with the channel separation that should be involved if you aren't even using the same bands.
Wired seemed to be kind of a trash magazine. I certainly haven't done ad counts and such, but it seems to have more ad pages per article page than any other magazine I've seen. The designers of the ads and the magazine as a whole seem to be of the school of thought that tacky == high tech & cool.
I still remember an article that suggested that computer users should be willing to give up their right for computer DVD drives under the illusion that George Lucas would suddenly feel comfortable in releasing his movies on DVD. I think I spotted nine or ten logical flaws in that article. I figured if the editors let that pass, then the magazine probably wasn't worth reading.
I think the chart I found using Google is handy, I'm not sure if I really need the paper.
The area doubling is a good idea, but that's not a problem with paper standards used in the US. "A" is standard 8.5" x 11", and each letter increment means that the smallest dimension of the previous size was doubled. B is 11x17, C is 17x22, D is 22x34 and so on.
I hadn't thought of the SQRT(2) thing, that's kind of nifty.
I love G5s, but Virginia Tech's cluster IMO can't say much until they get the G5 Xserves, because the PowerMac G5s don't have ECC memory. ECC is very important for such a large scale project that runs simulations where data is stored in RAM for any meaningful duration.
I think that is the fault of the gamer-freaks that want a 3+ GHz Pentium 4 or 3000+ AMD rather than P4m or better, IMO, the Pentium M. The standard P4, K7 or K8 doesn't have a "battery mode" or any other realistic way to conserve battery power.
I don't understand why that Hypersonic Aviator has a full-blown P4 with 800MHz FSB while also using an ATI Mobility Radeon, that seems to be an odd combination. If they aren't worried about weight, power consumption or size, the extra few chips to put in a standard Radeon wouldn't seem to matter much.
If you aren't willing to compromise something to get decent portability, then you will be saddled with 10lb beasts that are essentially luggables.
Even Dell's Mobile Workstation is a Pentium M device with a mobile version of a Quadro chip.
These tests are designed to shut up the audiophiles who you're complaining about.
If that is the objective, then I don't see how they will ever succeed in shutting up the kind of audiophiles that stick to pseudoscience rather than repeatable, peer-reviewed tests. Much in the same vein, there is no way to shut up the people that believe in psychic powers. "True believers" never let the facts get in the way of a good argument.
What it might help is prevent more people from getting sucked into believing in such arguments.
Isn't multi-channel wireless pretty socially irresponsible? That locks out others from using the band. There are only three non-overlapping bands for "g", using more than one might prevent others from legitimately setting up a network nearby.
I don't buy it. Last I checked, there are more PS2s in existence than Game Cubes and XBoxes COMBINED.
I'm not making a judgement or a purchace of either Sony's PSP or N's DS until after a year.
BTW:
Nintendo did make a "mature" or realistic looking Link / Zelda game demo before and then swapped it for something that looked like something out of South Park. I'm surprised only a few people in this thread remembered that.
BTW: By purchase history, I am something of an N whore, I have GB, GBA + afterburner hack, NES, SNES, N64 and then Sony's PS1. I had a GBA SP but returned it to get the original GBA and hack it, I hated the feel of the buttons, button arrangement and the cheaper feeling case.
Well, "Wi-Fi", as people seem to like to call it, only has three useful non-overlapping shipping lanes, so maybe it's like some canal system sonewhere.
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Even a basic electronic word processor likely qualifies as a computer. As does a PDA. I would be so bold as to say a modern cell phone is a computer, I don't think one can be bought these days without PDA and game functionality.
I have to think, if you want a notepad, don't complain that it's not electronic, then complain that laptops and PDAs are electronic. It's like saying you want a vehicle, but it must not have wheels, legs, hover or float on water. Or that it must be really effecient, really fast, run for a long time and must not run on fossil fuels or anything dangerous.
The worst part is when people confuse PCI-X, which is an existing standard with commercially available (although expensive) motherboards and parts, with PCI-Express, which there are no commercially available motherboards or parts. People shorthanding PCI-Express to PCI-X only serves to confuse the issue.
It might depend on the type of SRAM but IIRC, SRAM is much faster, much more expensive and takes more power.
(before dvd players were all over, you had to get one that could play this divx )
This is not true. Practically the only stores that sold the players compatible with the original Divx was the Circuit City chain. Nearly every other electronics store sold normal DVD players without Divx.
The stupid thing about all this is that the Divx video format people could have chosen a a unique name to avoid a heck of a lot of confusion.
Eh, Canopy is expensive, $600 for each client end, $2000 for the base station. I'd investigate wireless "b" first. IMO, wired is probably better anyway.
At first, I wondered what it would do with the gene pool if it allowed people with poorer and poorer gene structures to stay alive longer and reproduce more.
As it is, it isn't about survival of the genetically fittest anymore.
But then, if we find damaged gene lines, I suppose that they could be fixed with some forms of gene replacement therapy, replaced with known good genes. That's still scary though if stuff like this runs amok.
I'm surprised that the group that rips on Infinium Labs for being the vapor that they are doesn't rip on Moller for being vapor far longer than Phantom Console.
Skycar, IMO, is a scam. Yes, they have two "test flight" pictures, might be rigged or faked.
Don't count on 326 MPG on 30MPG. Remember, these are vapor numbers on a flying vehicle with barely any wings at all. If it's too good to be believed...
Why are the settlements generally paid in Microsoft software then? It doesn't cost them any more. It isn't as if Microsoft is losing money either, they have a gross profit margin of 80%. Many businesses would love to have 5%.
Corporations try to avoind payiung much in terms of taxes because profits are supposed to be taxed when shareholders get paid. If the company AND the shareholders that own the company are taxed at both points, then it is double taxation of the same income. Whiners complain of "corporate welfare" but I bet if those whiners were taxed twice by the same agency for the same tax, they'll have other things to complain about.
Heh, this is Slashdot.
I'm not sure Slashdot editors ever RTFA, if they do, those that do never apply critical thinking about the subject at hand. Slashdot editors don't really even edit much either, it seems. The best most of them do is pick of which stories to post a dupe.
I think this is much more than doubling the lanes. With ATSC, each _channel_ represents about 20Mbps, which is better than the 5 or 11 Mbps that we get out of wireless "b" that possibly hundreds of neighborhoods have set up up.
Multiply that by the 40+ unused TV channels at any given location, dividing by the fact that 2.4GHz wireless ethernet now has three effective channels (1,6,11 under 802.11 in US) and you have an expansion factor of maybe over 30 times the aggregate bandwidth of current industy standards.
Of course, I'm not counting the various fairly proprietery networks and bands, such as Canopy and Tropos, but client stations for those fetch over $500 each, and base stations going for over $2000 I think.
The people that accept the broadcaster's position blindly would IMO have been either bought or are plain naive.
I don't see how a sub-watt transmitter can hope to be competing with a transmitter running on tens of kilowatts in any meaningful fashion. Add that with the channel separation that should be involved if you aren't even using the same bands.
Wired seemed to be kind of a trash magazine. I certainly haven't done ad counts and such, but it seems to have more ad pages per article page than any other magazine I've seen. The designers of the ads and the magazine as a whole seem to be of the school of thought that tacky == high tech & cool.
I still remember an article that suggested that computer users should be willing to give up their right for computer DVD drives under the illusion that George Lucas would suddenly feel comfortable in releasing his movies on DVD. I think I spotted nine or ten logical flaws in that article. I figured if the editors let that pass, then the magazine probably wasn't worth reading.
I think the chart I found using Google is handy, I'm not sure if I really need the paper.
The area doubling is a good idea, but that's not a problem with paper standards used in the US. "A" is standard 8.5" x 11", and each letter increment means that the smallest dimension of the previous size was doubled. B is 11x17, C is 17x22, D is 22x34 and so on.
I hadn't thought of the SQRT(2) thing, that's kind of nifty.
I love G5s, but Virginia Tech's cluster IMO can't say much until they get the G5 Xserves, because the PowerMac G5s don't have ECC memory. ECC is very important for such a large scale project that runs simulations where data is stored in RAM for any meaningful duration.
I think that is the fault of the gamer-freaks that want a 3+ GHz Pentium 4 or 3000+ AMD rather than P4m or better, IMO, the Pentium M.
The standard P4, K7 or K8 doesn't have a "battery mode" or any other realistic way to conserve battery power.
I don't understand why that Hypersonic Aviator has a full-blown P4 with 800MHz FSB while also using an ATI Mobility Radeon, that seems to be an odd combination. If they aren't worried about weight, power consumption or size, the extra few chips to put in a standard Radeon wouldn't seem to matter much.
If you aren't willing to compromise something to get decent portability, then you will be saddled with 10lb beasts that are essentially luggables.
Even Dell's Mobile Workstation is a Pentium M device with a mobile version of a Quadro chip.
These tests are designed to shut up the audiophiles who you're complaining about.
If that is the objective, then I don't see how they will ever succeed in shutting up the kind of audiophiles that stick to pseudoscience rather than repeatable, peer-reviewed tests. Much in the same vein, there is no way to shut up the people that believe in psychic powers. "True believers" never let the facts get in the way of a good argument.
What it might help is prevent more people from getting sucked into believing in such arguments.
Two 4:3 displays can be bought at a lower cost than one widescreen display.
Isn't multi-channel wireless pretty socially irresponsible? That locks out others from using the band. There are only three non-overlapping bands for "g", using more than one might prevent others from legitimately setting up a network nearby.
I thought Apple was four months late with G5 XServe shipments, why give them away so soon?
Really, it is great for clothing-optional events. Most bars tend to discourage this though.
I don't buy it. Last I checked, there are more PS2s in existence than Game Cubes and XBoxes COMBINED.
I'm not making a judgement or a purchace of either Sony's PSP or N's DS until after a year.
BTW:
Nintendo did make a "mature" or realistic looking Link / Zelda game demo before and then swapped it for something that looked like something out of South Park. I'm surprised only a few people in this thread remembered that.
BTW: By purchase history, I am something of an N whore, I have GB, GBA + afterburner hack, NES, SNES, N64 and then Sony's PS1. I had a GBA SP but returned it to get the original GBA and hack it, I hated the feel of the buttons, button arrangement and the cheaper feeling case.
Actually, I think PSP as an object looks a heck of a lot more elegant than DS. Along with a bigger & higher resolution screen than DS, I'd prefer PSP.
I know DS has slightly larger screens than GBA, I don't think it is enough because the screens are small.
The first paragraph was a six line sentence.
I guess Slashdot editors would probably post any written review.
Well, "Wi-Fi", as people seem to like to call it, only has three useful non-overlapping shipping lanes, so maybe it's like some canal system sonewhere.
Are those specs are ripped from the "leaked" DS specs?
They haven't been confirmed, and could have been invented by someone else as a PR stunt.