LCDs are nice but I'm not paying those prices yet.
Some CRTs had DVI but it simply isn't worth it IMO because it still means needing ADC in the monitor too.
I've seen many dual DVI cards, I really don't see what the problem is in finding them. If you want video capture, I'd suggest the LifeView FlyVideo 2000.
Unless there is a space or lack of slots reason to have video capture and computer display on one card, keeping them separate allows more affordable upgrade paths.
Dubs and subs are interpretations, but with dubs they have to fiddle with it so it fits the mouth flap timing.
Some dub writers even change parts of the story to suit their whims or to regear it to a different (usu. younger) audience. By many accounts that seem to have a decent understanding of Japanese, this happens to the subtitles far less often.
The 90 day warranty is doubleplusungood. Sadly, that is the state of most consumer electronics. I'll pay more for a product good enough to merit a 1 year or more of standard warranty.
I'm not going to spend money on a service plan, I want the original company backing up this thing. I realize that is somewhat difficult in the age of rebadges but the principle still holds, IMO.
In the terminology of IDE/ATA chains, chain #1 is primary and #2 is secondary. I think primary master makes more sense and looks less idiotic tham primary primary.
I like to think that pieces of hardware won't get offended if I call it a "slave". Unless you think that harddrives now have AI? It would certainly be different if I started referring to humans in that way.
I think people that get offended over how frigging hardware is referred to need a smoking break, preferably pot.
A lot of them are like that. You can do this or get some P4 3.05GHz notebook but they really aren't all that mobile compared to notebooks that have chips intended for mobile use. I really don't consider putting desktop chips in a laptop much of a good laptop computer, for heat and power consumption reasons.
I think putting desktop chips in a laptop is often known as a "desknote" and often aren't meant to be used unplugged for very long, not that they could. The assumption is that it is an easy to move machine and where ever you use it, you'll likely be near an outlet. I really would ignore the stated battery run time claims made, even more so than standard portable devices.
I thought MWC lasted 12 years. Either way, it is an eon in TV years. Few shows last more than one season, far fewer last five years, and fewer still last twelve years, it is a a statistical outlier at that point. By many accounts MWC simply got old.
I think the problem is existing buildings, many of which were put up before Ethernet existed. I think companies buying and renting space will probably figure that as part of their move-in cost. Different companies have different needs, so there is no one-size-fits-all kind of solution. If a company were to decide that they want fiber between certain points of the building then that is another matter that can't be accounted for by a building seller or landlord.
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There may be a market, but an inability to serve it now.
You said UK subsidized Concorde - you have that right. I think I read that _half_ of them were sold for a dollar because the airlines didn't want any more.
If this thing actually does suborbital speeds and altitudes then there may be something, but one reason Boeing stopped working on its competition to Concorde way back when was environmental effects, something I don't think was really solved. At least with suborbit there is less issue with sonic booms.
I would take any buffer I can get, 8x would be fantastic. However, 8x DVD works out to about 10 MB a second: 10mbps * (1B/8b) * 8 = 80MBps. I would think that all currently sold hard drives and those less than two years old should be fast enough to take it. Those running out to buy a Plextor of all brands probably have a pretty recent hard drive.
I have to read the article but I would love to see if there is some sort of granularity, whether 5x,6x and 7x are allowed. It really sucks to have to cut your write speed in HALF if the system can still take 80% to 90% of the speed. 1x and 2x (and 2.4x) were a pretty big jump, same as 2x to 4x, but to my knowledge they don't allow 3x should certain storage sources not be able to take it due to lack of speed or heavy multitasking of the storage.
I too think iMac should have gotten strong consideration. There were practically NO USB devices until it came out. Sure, every computer sold had USB ports but few used them. Once Jobs announced a simple machine with few ports and almost no other expandability, companies started pumping USB products out almost at the same time.
And no, I don't own an Apple product of any kind, but I think credit should go where it is due.
Maybe "roadmap" needs to be changed to "flight plan". Most physical roadmaps show you all the existing roads and maybe a few that are under construction, but a flight plan means that you are declaring where you are going and when you plan to be there.
I should point out that Microsoft for one has huge resources at its disposal, so it can work around bad code.
Microsoft decided that Windows needed a rewrite and after five years, out came NT. In many cases it rewrote again for five years and out came 2000. They rewrote a lot again for Win64.
Netscape Navigator still needed a rewrite, and adding new features to bad code would still mean them going down, because the software was bad, IMO.
I used Netscape as long as I could and stay away from the Evil Empire, but after a while it was just too exhausting to put up with the crap, which might have been about year 2000. It was only this year that I started using it again in the form of Mozilla Firebird because it really was better in nearly every way, IMO.
Packaging does not mean fabbing. Fabbing is building up and etching the silicon with several layers of different chemicals and processes. Packaging is mounting the die and connecting the pins to a PGA or some other type of package that you see when you buy a chip. A lot of Intel's chips are fabbed in the US but packaged in the countries you named. There was a guest article at anandtech that makes this clearer.
My question is whether this is more efficient per TFLOP than IBM's PPC unit, which is IIRC smaller than a rack and houses 1024 PPC chips.
I really can't tell now that the site is slashdotted. The CPU in this case can't be that much of a burden if they run around five watts. I am curious if 80% of the heat generated here is simply networking.
I thought Intel was still making a lot of those old processors for the embedded market. I suppose that since other companies have clear rights to sell those chips so it might be those competitors that I'm thinking of, but Intel still sells to that market to some extent.
I agree. I think the problem is that HP didn't want to be maintaining three different architectures. It has a major stake in Itanium, and it still needs to support PA-RISC as well as Alpha. I think the reason Alpha systems are still available is to fulfill certain major contracts.
I really can't say whether Intel owns any of Alpha, but it can be arranged from HP if need be.
Compute-wise Itanium2 is reasonably competitive (compare the TFLOPS per CPU in the top 10 supercomputer list) but it has a stigma and I think a price premium. They will be making a lower voltage and smaller cache version (to 1.5MB) to make them more cost-effective.
The Hubble WAS built with component replacability in mind. Granted, it is the only one like it (that we know of) but there is an amount of modularity that allows replacements and upgrades, and every service mission means replacing and upgrading components. I suggest checking NASA's site about this.
Sometimes landlords ARE penalized for having drug-using tenants with "padlock laws".
This witch-hunt MUST end. It is bad enough that such tactics have been used MANY times in history and people still love to apply the idea again. In Salem and in Europe with the witch trials, in the US against the "communists and terrorists" and the people that make infringing copies? What is worse is that they are yet again trying to throw due process out the window to persecute people that MIGHT have something to do with something wrong, like having lived in the same block or gone to the same religious or educational institution as a real perpetrator.
I think that the looser SHOULD pay fines but under that concept, it might easy to intimidate the "small guy" out of a legitimate suit just by threatening to spend the biggest money. As with everything, there should be reasonable limits.
One thing I forgot to mention is that the big brand names value their contracts with the DVD forum, the many chinese-made brands might be made without any concern or even without licencing.
I really can't say that any of the Chinese players are following any of the contracts, I doubt that a set-top player is allowed to have a network port or expandability that allows one. I think the **AA organizations are more concerned about online trading than set-top players to persue the issue, they just might be "slipping under the radar".
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So that narrow "target market" is the reason why everyone else must be penalized?
LCDs are nice but I'm not paying those prices yet.
Some CRTs had DVI but it simply isn't worth it IMO because it still means needing ADC in the monitor too.
I've seen many dual DVI cards, I really don't see what the problem is in finding them. If you want video capture, I'd suggest the LifeView FlyVideo 2000.
Unless there is a space or lack of slots reason to have video capture and computer display on one card, keeping them separate allows more affordable upgrade paths.
Dubs and subs are interpretations, but with dubs they have to fiddle with it so it fits the mouth flap timing.
Some dub writers even change parts of the story to suit their whims or to regear it to a different (usu. younger) audience. By many accounts that seem to have a decent understanding of Japanese, this happens to the subtitles far less often.
The 90 day warranty is doubleplusungood. Sadly, that is the state of most consumer electronics. I'll pay more for a product good enough to merit a 1 year or more of standard warranty.
I'm not going to spend money on a service plan, I want the original company backing up this thing. I realize that is somewhat difficult in the age of rebadges but the principle still holds, IMO.
In the terminology of IDE/ATA chains, chain #1 is primary and #2 is secondary. I think primary master makes more sense and looks less idiotic tham primary primary.
I like to think that pieces of hardware won't get offended if I call it a "slave". Unless you think that harddrives now have AI? It would certainly be different if I started referring to humans in that way.
I think people that get offended over how frigging hardware is referred to need a smoking break, preferably pot.
A lot of them are like that. You can do this or get some P4 3.05GHz notebook but they really aren't all that mobile compared to notebooks that have chips intended for mobile use. I really don't consider putting desktop chips in a laptop much of a good laptop computer, for heat and power consumption reasons.
I think putting desktop chips in a laptop is often known as a "desknote" and often aren't meant to be used unplugged for very long, not that they could. The assumption is that it is an easy to move machine and where ever you use it, you'll likely be near an outlet. I really would ignore the stated battery run time claims made, even more so than standard portable devices.
I thought MWC lasted 12 years. Either way, it is an eon in TV years. Few shows last more than one season, far fewer last five years, and fewer still last twelve years, it is a a statistical outlier at that point. By many accounts MWC simply got old.
I think the problem is existing buildings, many of which were put up before Ethernet existed. I think companies buying and renting space will probably figure that as part of their move-in cost. Different companies have different needs, so there is no one-size-fits-all kind of solution. If a company were to decide that they want fiber between certain points of the building then that is another matter that can't be accounted for by a building seller or landlord.
There may be a market, but an inability to serve it now.
You said UK subsidized Concorde - you have that right. I think I read that _half_ of them were sold for a dollar because the airlines didn't want any more.
If this thing actually does suborbital speeds and altitudes then there may be something, but one reason Boeing stopped working on its competition to Concorde way back when was environmental effects, something I don't think was really solved. At least with suborbit there is less issue with sonic booms.
I would take any buffer I can get, 8x would be fantastic. However, 8x DVD works out to about 10 MB a second: 10mbps * (1B/8b) * 8 = 80MBps. I would think that all currently sold hard drives and those less than two years old should be fast enough to take it. Those running out to buy a Plextor of all brands probably have a pretty recent hard drive.
I have to read the article but I would love to see if there is some sort of granularity, whether 5x,6x and 7x are allowed. It really sucks to have to cut your write speed in HALF if the system can still take 80% to 90% of the speed. 1x and 2x (and 2.4x) were a pretty big jump, same as 2x to 4x, but to my knowledge they don't allow 3x should certain storage sources not be able to take it due to lack of speed or heavy multitasking of the storage.
I too think iMac should have gotten strong consideration. There were practically NO USB devices until it came out. Sure, every computer sold had USB ports but few used them. Once Jobs announced a simple machine with few ports and almost no other expandability, companies started pumping USB products out almost at the same time.
And no, I don't own an Apple product of any kind, but I think credit should go where it is due.
Maybe "roadmap" needs to be changed to "flight plan". Most physical roadmaps show you all the existing roads and maybe a few that are under construction, but a flight plan means that you are declaring where you are going and when you plan to be there.
I should point out that Microsoft for one has huge resources at its disposal, so it can work around bad code.
Microsoft decided that Windows needed a rewrite and after five years, out came NT. In many cases it rewrote again for five years and out came 2000. They rewrote a lot again for Win64.
Netscape Navigator still needed a rewrite, and adding new features to bad code would still mean them going down, because the software was bad, IMO.
I used Netscape as long as I could and stay away from the Evil Empire, but after a while it was just too exhausting to put up with the crap, which might have been about year 2000. It was only this year that I started using it again in the form of Mozilla Firebird because it really was better in nearly every way, IMO.
Packaging does not mean fabbing. Fabbing is building up and etching the silicon with several layers of different chemicals and processes. Packaging is mounting the die and connecting the pins to a PGA or some other type of package that you see when you buy a chip. A lot of Intel's chips are fabbed in the US but packaged in the countries you named. There was a guest article at anandtech that makes this clearer.
My question is whether this is more efficient per TFLOP than IBM's PPC unit, which is IIRC smaller than a rack and houses 1024 PPC chips.
I really can't tell now that the site is slashdotted. The CPU in this case can't be that much of a burden if they run around five watts. I am curious if 80% of the heat generated here is simply networking.
You are not paranoid if everybody REALLY is against you!
I thought Intel was still making a lot of those old processors for the embedded market. I suppose that since other companies have clear rights to sell those chips so it might be those competitors that I'm thinking of, but Intel still sells to that market to some extent.
Well, there are people that thought that one couldn't make a PC for less than $2000 for many of the said reasons.
I agree. I think the problem is that HP didn't want to be maintaining three different architectures. It has a major stake in Itanium, and it still needs to support PA-RISC as well as Alpha. I think the reason Alpha systems are still available is to fulfill certain major contracts.
I really can't say whether Intel owns any of Alpha, but it can be arranged from HP if need be.
Compute-wise Itanium2 is reasonably competitive (compare the TFLOPS per CPU in the top 10 supercomputer list) but it has a stigma and I think a price premium. They will be making a lower voltage and smaller cache version (to 1.5MB) to make them more cost-effective.
The Hubble WAS built with component replacability in mind. Granted, it is the only one like it (that we know of) but there is an amount of modularity that allows replacements and upgrades, and every service mission means replacing and upgrading components. I suggest checking NASA's site about this.
Sometimes landlords ARE penalized for having drug-using tenants with "padlock laws".
This witch-hunt MUST end. It is bad enough that such tactics have been used MANY times in history and people still love to apply the idea again. In Salem and in Europe with the witch trials, in the US against the "communists and terrorists" and the people that make infringing copies? What is worse is that they are yet again trying to throw due process out the window to persecute people that MIGHT have something to do with something wrong, like having lived in the same block or gone to the same religious or educational institution as a real perpetrator.
I thought Lexmark lost that suit, so the DMCA doesn't apply there either.
I think that the looser SHOULD pay fines but under that concept, it might easy to intimidate the "small guy" out of a legitimate suit just by threatening to spend the biggest money. As with everything, there should be reasonable limits.
One thing I forgot to mention is that the big brand names value their contracts with the DVD forum, the many chinese-made brands might be made without any concern or even without licencing.
I really can't say that any of the Chinese players are following any of the contracts, I doubt that a set-top player is allowed to have a network port or expandability that allows one. I think the **AA organizations are more concerned about online trading than set-top players to persue the issue, they just might be "slipping under the radar".