You can get a MiniITX board with the Pentium M processor. Look for a "Lippert's Thunderbird". A 1.3GHz Pentium M can be run 100% passively cooled, and I think it is sufficient for a great many low to no noise needs.
I think these people had boring elementary education. One rule of the playground is that you don't bully other people then run to mommie when you get outbullied or the victims fight back. It makes you look stupid.
Someone said that RAMBUS is taking a cue from SCO, when it would be more likely that SCO took their legal strategy from RAMBUS. RAMBUS was extorting and racketeering memory manufacturers several years ago. The shit hit their fan in the form of a big judgement against them. Now they are complaining? I suspect that SCO will be doing some more complaining to this effect in the coming year.
In a non-dual-channel system, you can have non-pairs, you just can't have open slots, the open slot has to be filled with a CRIMM. These are something like serial pairs.
Well, if it is a dual channel system, upgrades are best done in pairs, sometimes pairs are required. This is true for either RAMBUS and DDR. These pairs are in parallel, and each half of a parallel pair needs to be part of a serial pair too, making up a "super bank" of four slots. My dual channel RAMBUS-based workstation has eight slots, and slots must be loaded in sets of four, starting with the outer most quad. You can add just two memory sticks and two terminating CRIMMs to make a quad. I do kind of wish that this system was DDR based but I bought them at cheap enough prices, and the fact remains that I have yet to use half the RAM in it in the first place.
Exactly. The computer is way more than fast enough to burn a DVD while doing many other tasks. Even a 1x burn (~2 hours on 9GB) is fine as long as the drive and software is stable.
I don't _need_ DVD-9 capability for backups, but it is nice to know is available in a "pro-sumer" device. In that sense, two DVD-5s at 2x or better would be quicker but that also takes more user time.
I'm willing to take a bargain on 1x media because I don't burn discs very often. If I was into DVD authoring, then it might be more important if you have to beat the FedEx drop-off deadline, so it would be a few more dimes for faster media.
I'll note I didn't RTFA yet, I just wanted to get my two cents in on the speed issue before I read it.
Yikes. One in five American workers and $3.8 trillion in Sales can't be wrong!
Or can they?
No.
They could be wrong. The size of the claimant does not indicate the validity of the claim.
In my opinion, at least it seems that the NRF has done some homework. Even if SCO was right, I'd think that they would still fight it unless it was a totally lost cause. They give up if thought that the cost of paying up would be lower than the legal costs, but I doubt that because SCO has diminishing funds to file lawsuits, in the several tens of millions at best, whereas that's a drop in the bucket compared to the retail industry.
I am suspicious too. For Q4 2003 they had 80% of the overall CPU market, AMD had most of the remainder, and that was a slight (1%) growth on Intel's part from previous periods and previous years.
As much as I like AMD, I doubt they'd more than double market share in a single quarter because Athlon 64 barely made a dent in Q4 2003 (I thought it was released late Q3 2003), so its introduction wouldn't quite seem to account for this.
Also, it says "desktop" but there's still "mobile" and "server" markets.
You still have software development for the client and server, server purchases and maintainance, power, taxes, insurance, credit card fees, bandwidth costs, legal fees and licence costs.
As one is simply shifting from one distribution system to another, one cannot assume that the cost should be just the subtraction of the the costs of one distribution method and no other costs take its place. I highly doubt that ten cents a song would remotely cover these costs of running business.
Five years is acceptable, assuming they stick to it. I personally consider three to be a minimum because a lot of businesses seem to have three year purchasing cycles.
It is easier to install a batch of computers and deploy it than have to bring them all back back to install another OS because the software company suddenly decided it didn't want to support it anymore.
Actual DVD movies. MASH TV DVD in particular, definitely around the credit titles. On sets calibrated as well as I possibly can.
Often they are added Gibbs effects. Sometimes I think they are color upsampling errors too.
And no, I wasn't really looking for flaws.
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And that would differ from Microsoft how?
Red Hat did FAR worse than Microsoft ever did in regards to EOLs.
Microsoft did the EOL on Windows 98 SE a few months ago. I think MS gave it about a five year run. Windows ME is still supported NOW. Windows 2000 will still be supported for at least another year.
Red Hat's one year run they gave to RH9 is unacceptable from a business perspective. You don't do surprise EOLs. Even Microsoft knows that.
I would say that people would be right to reject Redhat anyways. If they are willing to pull the support rug out of a one year old software release, there's no telling what they will do if they decide this doesn't work for them.
The problem is that it is an expensive calculator and one that is useless to anyone that has never seen such a system. While I can loan out my TI and Casio to anyone, the HPs would be useless.
I don't see a point in paying over a hundred dollars to replace my graphing calculators that *work* and I only use a few times a day. I like the graphing calulators not because it can be used to plot curves, but because I can see lots of numbers at the same time at a glance, so I'm not going down to the one or two line units. Saving me only a couple seconds a day doesn't merit such a thing.
Correct, both Harbor Frieght and Homier sell a lot of crappy shit that IMO isn't worth the dirt price they try to sell them, although Homier seems to be worse. We bought some parts pick racks / bins from Harbor Frieght and the sheet metal is pretty thin, some of the bolts didn't work. I'm surprised the pick racks haven't collapsed.
The moving Homier show that went through was pretty disappointing too. On some tools, some of the chrome was already flaking off. The levels were visibly inaccurate.
And, um, the people complaining about outsourcing shouldn't be buying from these two companies. Unlike Craftsman Tools et. al., most of Homier's and Harbor Freight's products are manufactured overseas. Don't try to be this cheap AND complain when jobs are going overseas.
LD players were still made until 2002: http://home.q03.itscom.net/nsa/PioneerLD-S9 .htm
According to a test of several hundred models at DVDrhelp.com, DVD-R has a 90+% compatibility rate.
Good DVD blanks can be purchased for under $1 a piece in quanities of 25 or so.
One CAN get an HD-ready TV now, 27" for a little over $500 - from Samsung and a couple other players, some widescreen 30" HD-ready sets go for under $1000. The difference in even such a "small" set is that it is a progressive scan TV - very much reduced flickering. I find it highly amusing that geeks clutch to an interlaced TV set when I'm sure they probably wouldn't tolerate using interlaced modes on their computer monitors.
Some of the DVD players with best high-end value are in the $200 to $500 range, particularly those with a Faroudja DCDi deinterlacer and a Matsushita MPEG decoder. There are simply no equivalents that use these parts made by the Chinese names. All it takes is a side-by-side comparison to see the difference. All it takes is comparing any chinese player with any one of the higher rated models in the Secrets DVD shoot-out, many of which street or have streeted in the $200 to $400 range. These sites also have neat pictures of the kind of flaws that DVD players generate, often the cheaper the player, the more of these flaws it has.
Frankly to say that a $30 player is as good as a $5000 Denon is silly, I can see MPEG decoding flaws in my sister's $50 player on a 15 year old 19" TV with an RF input that don't show up on my Pioneer or Panasonic DVD players on a 27" screen or XGA projector fed with a component video source. That DVD player uses the same ESS decoding MPEG chip as most of the cheap Chinese players.
While one can put 4 SD channels in the same bandwidth as one full HD channel, I would put the money in one channel. My hope would be that it would result in one better channel than four more cheap worse channels.
Nobody, even with a good education, ever had guarantees of jobs, even in the "good times".
Carly Fiorina of HP said that US engineers ARE competent, but they won't work for $2 an hour like those from other countries.
So it isn't about skill, it is about price. Also, many engineers that would have been here are now in their homelands because of reductions in H1-B visas due to "security reasons", and some are starting their own companies. Talk about an excellent case of blowback in my opinion.
One thing I'd like to see is Silicon Valley relocated. The cost of living there is so rediculously high, I don't understand why any shareholders of companies in that area haven't insisted that they relocate elsewhere in the US to cut costs. I wonder if those companies are jumping offshore with some of their jobs while still maintaining SV presense. I bet if they begin to relocate to some other part of the US, the savings would probably be similar.
I think laptops are excellent for lan parties. At least one can play a lot of good games on an average laptop being sold now. No, you won't get the huge framerates, but at least you can play everywhere where your desktop isn't, and without having to tear down the desktop to do it.
I don't know about your machine, but my base system (case + internals) weighs 50 pounds, and carrying that again with a 21" CRT, plus the keyboard, mouse and sound system is too much.
I think the "Desknotes" are ludicrous anyways, it's like the proverbial sledgehammer-for-flyswatter. I know a guy that has a laptop that is a frigging two and a half inches thick and ten pounds, when most machines are a lot closer toward half that thickess and half that weight.
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You know, you could probably ask to see the info through a Freedom of Information Act request...
Great, invoke something that is legitimately within your rights and risk being investigated by the FBI as a "possible pirate"?
You can get a MiniITX board with the Pentium M processor. Look for a "Lippert's Thunderbird". A 1.3GHz Pentium M can be run 100% passively cooled, and I think it is sufficient for a great many low to no noise needs.
Sheesh.
I think these people had boring elementary education. One rule of the playground is that you don't bully other people then run to mommie when you get outbullied or the victims fight back. It makes you look stupid.
Someone said that RAMBUS is taking a cue from SCO, when it would be more likely that SCO took their legal strategy from RAMBUS. RAMBUS was extorting and racketeering memory manufacturers several years ago. The shit hit their fan in the form of a big judgement against them. Now they are complaining? I suspect that SCO will be doing some more complaining to this effect in the coming year.
In a non-dual-channel system, you can have non-pairs, you just can't have open slots, the open slot has to be filled with a CRIMM. These are something like serial pairs.
Well, if it is a dual channel system, upgrades are best done in pairs, sometimes pairs are required. This is true for either RAMBUS and DDR. These pairs are in parallel, and each half of a parallel pair needs to be part of a serial pair too, making up a "super bank" of four slots. My dual channel RAMBUS-based workstation has eight slots, and slots must be loaded in sets of four, starting with the outer most quad. You can add just two memory sticks and two terminating CRIMMs to make a quad. I do kind of wish that this system was DDR based but I bought them at cheap enough prices, and the fact remains that I have yet to use half the RAM in it in the first place.
Exactly. The computer is way more than fast enough to burn a DVD while doing many other tasks. Even a 1x burn (~2 hours on 9GB) is fine as long as the drive and software is stable.
I don't _need_ DVD-9 capability for backups, but it is nice to know is available in a "pro-sumer" device. In that sense, two DVD-5s at 2x or better would be quicker but that also takes more user time.
I'm willing to take a bargain on 1x media because I don't burn discs very often. If I was into DVD authoring, then it might be more important if you have to beat the FedEx drop-off deadline, so it would be a few more dimes for faster media.
I'll note I didn't RTFA yet, I just wanted to get my two cents in on the speed issue before I read it.
There are double standards regerding this, and it is not the first time, although possibly a first in a front page write-up.
Why is nigger is considered unnacceptable in most uses, but redskin is acceptable even as a major sports team name?
Yikes. One in five American workers and $3.8 trillion in Sales can't be wrong!
Or can they?
No.
They could be wrong. The size of the claimant does not indicate the validity of the claim.
In my opinion, at least it seems that the NRF has done some homework. Even if SCO was right, I'd think that they would still fight it unless it was a totally lost cause. They give up if thought that the cost of paying up would be lower than the legal costs, but I doubt that because SCO has diminishing funds to file lawsuits, in the several tens of millions at best, whereas that's a drop in the bucket compared to the retail industry.
OEMs get a very sweet break on pricing as the price of one Apple iPod vs. the single piece cost of the hard drive that is in it.
I wish I had a source, but I could have sworn that someone said that the Tier 1s get Windows for around $40.
I am suspicious too. For Q4 2003 they had 80% of the overall CPU market, AMD had most of the remainder, and that was a slight (1%) growth on Intel's part from previous periods and previous years.
As much as I like AMD, I doubt they'd more than double market share in a single quarter because Athlon 64 barely made a dent in Q4 2003 (I thought it was released late Q3 2003), so its introduction wouldn't quite seem to account for this.
Also, it says "desktop" but there's still "mobile" and "server" markets.
You still have software development for the client and server, server purchases and maintainance, power, taxes, insurance, credit card fees, bandwidth costs, legal fees and licence costs.
As one is simply shifting from one distribution system to another, one cannot assume that the cost should be just the subtraction of the the costs of one distribution method and no other costs take its place. I highly doubt that ten cents a song would remotely cover these costs of running business.
Five years is acceptable, assuming they stick to it. I personally consider three to be a minimum because a lot of businesses seem to have three year purchasing cycles.
It is easier to install a batch of computers and deploy it than have to bring them all back back to install another OS because the software company suddenly decided it didn't want to support it anymore.
Actual DVD movies. MASH TV DVD in particular, definitely around the credit titles. On sets calibrated as well as I possibly can.
Often they are added Gibbs effects. Sometimes I think they are color upsampling errors too.
And no, I wasn't really looking for flaws.
And that would differ from Microsoft how?
Red Hat did FAR worse than Microsoft ever did in regards to EOLs.
Microsoft did the EOL on Windows 98 SE a few months ago. I think MS gave it about a five year run. Windows ME is still supported NOW. Windows 2000 will still be supported for at least another year.
Red Hat's one year run they gave to RH9 is unacceptable from a business perspective. You don't do surprise EOLs. Even Microsoft knows that.
I would say that people would be right to reject Redhat anyways. If they are willing to pull the support rug out of a one year old software release, there's no telling what they will do if they decide this doesn't work for them.
If she's so poor at what she does, ask why her personal tech site is one of the few sites outside of Slashdot that can cause the Slashdot effect
Fallacy.
Appeal to Popularity
Well, I think it is a bit worse in the "real world".
Don't copyright infringements net bigger fines and prison sentences than deliberate murder?
The problem is that it is an expensive calculator and one that is useless to anyone that has never seen such a system. While I can loan out my TI and Casio to anyone, the HPs would be useless.
I don't see a point in paying over a hundred dollars to replace my graphing calculators that *work* and I only use a few times a day. I like the graphing calulators not because it can be used to plot curves, but because I can see lots of numbers at the same time at a glance, so I'm not going down to the one or two line units. Saving me only a couple seconds a day doesn't merit such a thing.
Correct, both Harbor Frieght and Homier sell a lot of crappy shit that IMO isn't worth the dirt price they try to sell them, although Homier seems to be worse. We bought some parts pick racks / bins from Harbor Frieght and the sheet metal is pretty thin, some of the bolts didn't work. I'm surprised the pick racks haven't collapsed.
The moving Homier show that went through was pretty disappointing too. On some tools, some of the chrome was already flaking off. The levels were visibly inaccurate.
And, um, the people complaining about outsourcing shouldn't be buying from these two companies. Unlike Craftsman Tools et. al., most of Homier's and Harbor Freight's products are manufactured overseas. Don't try to be this cheap AND complain when jobs are going overseas.
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LD players were still made until 2002:
http://home.q03.itscom.net/nsa/PioneerLD-S
According to a test of several hundred models at DVDrhelp.com, DVD-R has a 90+% compatibility rate.
Good DVD blanks can be purchased for under $1 a piece in quanities of 25 or so.
One CAN get an HD-ready TV now, 27" for a little over $500 - from Samsung and a couple other players, some widescreen 30" HD-ready sets go for under $1000. The difference in even such a "small" set is that it is a progressive scan TV - very much reduced flickering. I find it highly amusing that geeks clutch to an interlaced TV set when I'm sure they probably wouldn't tolerate using interlaced modes on their computer monitors.
Some of the DVD players with best high-end value are in the $200 to $500 range, particularly those with a Faroudja DCDi deinterlacer and a Matsushita MPEG decoder. There are simply no equivalents that use these parts made by the Chinese names. All it takes is a side-by-side comparison to see the difference. All it takes is comparing any chinese player with any one of the higher rated models in the Secrets DVD shoot-out, many of which street or have streeted in the $200 to $400 range. These sites also have neat pictures of the kind of flaws that DVD players generate, often the cheaper the player, the more of these flaws it has.
Frankly to say that a $30 player is as good as a $5000 Denon is silly, I can see MPEG decoding flaws in my sister's $50 player on a 15 year old 19" TV with an RF input that don't show up on my Pioneer or Panasonic DVD players on a 27" screen or XGA projector fed with a component video source. That DVD player uses the same ESS decoding MPEG chip as most of the cheap Chinese players.
Secrets DVD player shoot-out 2004
Secrets DVD player shoot-out 2002-2003
Test materials for the benchmarks
While one can put 4 SD channels in the same bandwidth as one full HD channel, I would put the money in one channel. My hope would be that it would result in one better channel than four more cheap worse channels.
I think someone confused CPU for computer.
I also thought Google just used white-box type computers.
Were all of these relative coincidences? Did FOX push for (m)any of the rule changes you mention?
Compared to what the Seinfeld actors made, $125k is a paltry sum. It is the same with nearly any other top twenty TV show.
Nobody, even with a good education, ever had guarantees of jobs, even in the "good times".
Carly Fiorina of HP said that US engineers ARE competent, but they won't work for $2 an hour like those from other countries.
So it isn't about skill, it is about price. Also, many engineers that would have been here are now in their homelands because of reductions in H1-B visas due to "security reasons", and some are starting their own companies. Talk about an excellent case of blowback in my opinion.
One thing I'd like to see is Silicon Valley relocated. The cost of living there is so rediculously high, I don't understand why any shareholders of companies in that area haven't insisted that they relocate elsewhere in the US to cut costs. I wonder if those companies are jumping offshore with some of their jobs while still maintaining SV presense. I bet if they begin to relocate to some other part of the US, the savings would probably be similar.
I think laptops are excellent for lan parties. At least one can play a lot of good games on an average laptop being sold now. No, you won't get the huge framerates, but at least you can play everywhere where your desktop isn't, and without having to tear down the desktop to do it.
I don't know about your machine, but my base system (case + internals) weighs 50 pounds, and carrying that again with a 21" CRT, plus the keyboard, mouse and sound system is too much.
I think the "Desknotes" are ludicrous anyways, it's like the proverbial sledgehammer-for-flyswatter. I know a guy that has a laptop that is a frigging two and a half inches thick and ten pounds, when most machines are a lot closer toward half that thickess and half that weight.