Why scrap everything just because it is old? Legacy does not necessarily mean bad.
By such an argument, maybe we should scrap the 60Hz AC mains and put in 400Hz, besides, AC power is over a century old! Don't worry about the costs of replacing damn near every electrical device in the country.
Another problem you have is that power equals voltage times current. At 12V and 5V, you have to have substantial cable size to carry current enough to power anything of value, so might as well use the AC mains. AC can't be put in parallel with data wires because of the induction problem. If you go too much higher than 12V you run into regulatory issues, which is hard to unify internationally.
Nope. Sorry. I don't care whether or not the government is trying to track me specifically, but frankly, given a chance, I would rather risk a train station exploding than live under a tyranical goverment that does what it pleases, such a government could easily off people at a faster rate than terrorists can and I want those checks and balances IN PLACE.
With what you suggest, I think it the equivalent of federal agents being able to search anyone's house, for any reason at all, without oversight. If they wanted to, I'm sure they can find a lot of stuff to nail you with if your opinions are out of favor with the current administration, say you're a Democrat or Libertarian when there is a Republican in office.
Quite frankly, there was a warrant system for this sort of thing.
I don't care if you think that most everyone leads a boring life. That doesn't matter, what does matter is a goverment that thinking they can barge in everywhere without cause, without due process and quite frankly, possibly humiliate or blackmail anyone they please.
I too would question such an asessment, given the lengths that the Chinese govmt tried to cover it up, and the lengths that the US and Canadian goverments are suspected of underestimating or trying to curtail knowledge of how widely spread it was.
For Windows, Spybot Search and Destroy has a tool that can add the domains of all the known adware and spyware sites. The problem is that it results in a 320k+ file size and I've had a system go 100% CPU when trying to resolve the list.
Part of it is a regulatory and standards compliance thing. As motherboards changed much quicker than peripheral components, it was cheaper to qualify some parts that could be added on, some of those designs have twice as long of a production life cycle.
Another thing is the stigma of onboard not being as good, often cheaper parts were used and other compromises made in board layout that might reduce sound quality. Such was the nature of the market.
As PCs have often had plenty of slots, it's not something to worry about too much. On the mac side, it was a detriment as for a very long time. The only audio components available for consumers were on-board, so Mac users had to put up with what they had in their legacy machines, the only upgrade was replacing the system.
In my opinion, the one key thing missing for a G5 to be considered a workstation is ECC RAM. Products marketed as workstations have long had ECC memory standard. Many such systems couldn't even run non-ECC memory even if you tried.
Another possible issue in these benchmarks is that if it isn't a requirement to be a true workstation, then I would like to see an Athlon in the mix.
This is the way to go. There have been cases available for a while now where they use two 10cm fans in the place of three 8cm fans.
One problem is that the case fans are only one source of noise. The optical drives and hard drives are another that need work. Heck, graphics cards are nasty and often those fans aren't easily swapped. Some people go to the length of using a Zalman heat pipe / sink made specifically for video cards. It eliminates the fan but also large enough that the next PCI slot is unusable.
It was the previous owners fault for not turning up at the publicly announced public auction.
I have a problem with this assumption. An item can be stolen in one town and delivered to another distant town to be auctioned. It would be silly to expect owners to comb every auction looking for their goods.
As for the main thread, I have to ask if eBay is setting themselves up for some headaches. For one, I would think demanding a warrant be presented would cut down on frivolous requests.
I agree. The "tech boom" of the 1990's was a pretty sad piece of history, but thankfully it didn't create another Great Depression.
It didn't help that Wall Street took these con jobs "hook, line and sinker". Everyone got too greedy, and there was too much pressure that what little resemblence of ethics that people had collapsed.
I really don't see a huge problem in Microsoft not "supporting" a product. NT is a very mature product and in my opinion really doesn't need more updates.
I was quite happy with NT for a very long time and see no reason to upgrade that particular machine. I keep a local backup of all the newest drivers and service packs in case I need to rebuild anything. Of course, I do that for all my machines in case hardware manufacturers suddenly pull the plug and wipe the download directory when they don't want to admit they ever sold a certain product or supported a certain OS. In that respect, Microsoft has been better than a lot of companies, they have a seven year product life cycle and some companies seem to faint if you ask them to be able to support anything for more than three.
All software needs "futzing around" to get to work their best. My concern is that will these systems be well maintained? Will they get the security updates *installed* on all machines before we get another incident like the SQL worm? I know all server systems have their problems, and all need their updates, but Microsoft systems are the easiest target because of how comon they are.
It's not just the 1GHz, but if Apple is right, it's point to point, and I think they imply it's a crossbar switch system, which is one of the things that allowed AMD to keep up with Intel for a good while. A higher bus does really help a lot, as some of the the 800MHz vs. 533MHz bus performance comparisons have shown.
I think AMD tried to say the same too. AMD's site also claimed they were the fastest 64 bit processor even though Alpha is _still_ ahead and Itanium was still marginally ahead of Opteron. Nevermind the fact that you couldn't have bought the Opteron at the time they claimed that.
In fairness, I think they might claim that the Alpha and other processors were put in "workstations" not necessarily desktop class.
I would buy current systems but have the slowest reasonable CPU installed in it.
I bet the systems that can handle the 3 GHz chips can still take 1.5GHz chips. Unless the user needs more power, order a system as a 1.5GHz system and when the price is affordable and need for power is actually there, order an upgrade chip. I think the long term cost would be much more affordable, and you will have the power when you need it and not pay the "just released chip" premium.
I'd also make sure that there's an open set of memory slots so RAM can be upgraded in a jiffy without having to remove any parts.
Aka, the guys who took years(and years...) to prove how easily they could crack RC5 given all that distributedcomputing power?:-)
Not to be too offtopic, I think the point was more to prove how rediculously flimsy DES was in protecting information compared to RC5. That is what the company behind RC5 wanted to prove, not necessarily d.net's objective.
You do have a point though. I don't know the details of the encryption scheme for XBox, so I don't know how quickly a solution is likely to be found.
Even if the IDE doesn't need a slot, unless they are on a separate bus, they are using part of that bandwidth on the same bus. Most computers only have one PCI bus, and of course, a second which is AGP masquerading as PCI. If the on-board components were on separate busses then you could assume that they aren't part of the picture.
It also isn't about "we" the typical computer buyer but the high end computing. I am sure that something will use the bandwidth.
I don't see an issue if the system uses more recent IRQ standards, I think ACPI extends them by at least double.
Under Windows 2000, I see IRQs ranging from 1 to 31 on my three year old PIII Xeon. My P4 has available IRQ slots going up to at least 22. I'd say there is plenty of room.
It might be considered chicken-and-egg. Or maybe not.
Without the music, you wouldn't have bought any of that stuff. I suppose one might have been recording indie concerts and sharing them, but that always seemed like a niche. It's a lot like the next version of Doom or Quake where people are planning their next upgrade around those games. Without those games, then they wouldn't have had a need to upgrade.
You definitely do have a point, I read that the electronics industries are significantly larger than music + movie industries combined. The clout is in the lobbyists and in donations, and IIRC, per capita clout spending by electronics and such is much lower.
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Why scrap everything just because it is old? Legacy does not necessarily mean bad.
By such an argument, maybe we should scrap the 60Hz AC mains and put in 400Hz, besides, AC power is over a century old! Don't worry about the costs of replacing damn near every electrical device in the country.
Another problem you have is that power equals voltage times current. At 12V and 5V, you have to have substantial cable size to carry current enough to power anything of value, so might as well use the AC mains. AC can't be put in parallel with data wires because of the induction problem. If you go too much higher than 12V you run into regulatory issues, which is hard to unify internationally.
Nope. Sorry. I don't care whether or not the government is trying to track me specifically, but frankly, given a chance, I would rather risk a train station exploding than live under a tyranical goverment that does what it pleases, such a government could easily off people at a faster rate than terrorists can and I want those checks and balances IN PLACE.
With what you suggest, I think it the equivalent of federal agents being able to search anyone's house, for any reason at all, without oversight. If they wanted to, I'm sure they can find a lot of stuff to nail you with if your opinions are out of favor with the current administration, say you're a Democrat or Libertarian when there is a Republican in office.
Quite frankly, there was a warrant system for this sort of thing.
I don't care if you think that most everyone leads a boring life. That doesn't matter, what does matter is a goverment that thinking they can barge in everywhere without cause, without due process and quite frankly, possibly humiliate or blackmail anyone they please.
I too would question such an asessment, given the lengths that the Chinese govmt tried to cover it up, and the lengths that the US and Canadian goverments are suspected of underestimating or trying to curtail knowledge of how widely spread it was.
For Windows, Spybot Search and Destroy has a tool that can add the domains of all the known adware and spyware sites. The problem is that it results in a 320k+ file size and I've had a system go 100% CPU when trying to resolve the list.
I've always wondered why people rarely read the article. Now I know that it's because TFA is usually slashdoted before most people can read them.
For one thing "good" is a relative term.
Part of it is a regulatory and standards compliance thing. As motherboards changed much quicker than peripheral components, it was cheaper to qualify some parts that could be added on, some of those designs have twice as long of a production life cycle.
Another thing is the stigma of onboard not being as good, often cheaper parts were used and other compromises made in board layout that might reduce sound quality. Such was the nature of the market.
As PCs have often had plenty of slots, it's not something to worry about too much. On the mac side, it was a detriment as for a very long time. The only audio components available for consumers were on-board, so Mac users had to put up with what they had in their legacy machines, the only upgrade was replacing the system.
In my opinion, the one key thing missing for a G5 to be considered a workstation is ECC RAM. Products marketed as workstations have long had ECC memory standard. Many such systems couldn't even run non-ECC memory even if you tried.
Another possible issue in these benchmarks is that if it isn't a requirement to be a true workstation, then I would like to see an Athlon in the mix.
This is the way to go. There have been cases available for a while now where they use two 10cm fans in the place of three 8cm fans.
One problem is that the case fans are only one source of noise. The optical drives and hard drives are another that need work. Heck, graphics cards are nasty and often those fans aren't easily swapped. Some people go to the length of using a Zalman heat pipe / sink made specifically for video cards. It eliminates the fan but also large enough that the next PCI slot is unusable.
What? /. editors not reading the articles? That's unpossible!
I do like Hormel's position, I think it is a very friendly stance.
Can we apply that standard to Linux? What major technologies are being explored in Linux that wasn't already done in other OSs?
Linux made things cheap but nothing really new seems to come from it.
It was the previous owners fault for not turning up at the publicly announced public auction.
I have a problem with this assumption. An item can be stolen in one town and delivered to another distant town to be auctioned. It would be silly to expect owners to comb every auction looking for their goods.
As for the main thread, I have to ask if eBay is setting themselves up for some headaches. For one, I would think demanding a warrant be presented would cut down on frivolous requests.
I agree. The "tech boom" of the 1990's was a pretty sad piece of history, but thankfully it didn't create another Great Depression.
It didn't help that Wall Street took these con jobs "hook, line and sinker". Everyone got too greedy, and there was too much pressure that what little resemblence of ethics that people had collapsed.
I really don't see a huge problem in Microsoft not "supporting" a product. NT is a very mature product and in my opinion really doesn't need more updates.
I was quite happy with NT for a very long time and see no reason to upgrade that particular machine. I keep a local backup of all the newest drivers and service packs in case I need to rebuild anything. Of course, I do that for all my machines in case hardware manufacturers suddenly pull the plug and wipe the download directory when they don't want to admit they ever sold a certain product or supported a certain OS. In that respect, Microsoft has been better than a lot of companies, they have a seven year product life cycle and some companies seem to faint if you ask them to be able to support anything for more than three.
All software needs "futzing around" to get to work their best. My concern is that will these systems be well maintained? Will they get the security updates *installed* on all machines before we get another incident like the SQL worm? I know all server systems have their problems, and all need their updates, but Microsoft systems are the easiest target because of how comon they are.
It's not just the 1GHz, but if Apple is right, it's point to point, and I think they imply it's a crossbar switch system, which is one of the things that allowed AMD to keep up with Intel for a good while. A higher bus does really help a lot, as some of the the 800MHz vs. 533MHz bus performance comparisons have shown.
I think AMD tried to say the same too. AMD's site also claimed they were the fastest 64 bit processor even though Alpha is _still_ ahead and Itanium was still marginally ahead of Opteron. Nevermind the fact that you couldn't have bought the Opteron at the time they claimed that.
In fairness, I think they might claim that the Alpha and other processors were put in "workstations" not necessarily desktop class.
I would buy current systems but have the slowest reasonable CPU installed in it.
I bet the systems that can handle the 3 GHz chips can still take 1.5GHz chips. Unless the user needs more power, order a system as a 1.5GHz system and when the price is affordable and need for power is actually there, order an upgrade chip. I think the long term cost would be much more affordable, and you will have the power when you need it and not pay the "just released chip" premium.
I'd also make sure that there's an open set of memory slots so RAM can be upgraded in a jiffy without having to remove any parts.
All of those dates seem to be just before the dot-bomb crash, or at least before the economy started the bulk of its corections.
Aka, the guys who took years(and years...) to prove how easily they could crack RC5 given all that distributedcomputing power? :-)
Not to be too offtopic, I think the point was more to prove how rediculously flimsy DES was in protecting information compared to RC5. That is what the company behind RC5 wanted to prove, not necessarily d.net's objective.
You do have a point though. I don't know the details of the encryption scheme for XBox, so I don't know how quickly a solution is likely to be found.
Currently, digital films are loaded off of multiple DVD's onto big, fast disk arrays.
Really? I thought digital films were mostly downlinked via satellite, and that equipment was one of the big expenses of digital cinema.
Even if the IDE doesn't need a slot, unless they are on a separate bus, they are using part of that bandwidth on the same bus. Most computers only have one PCI bus, and of course, a second which is AGP masquerading as PCI. If the on-board components were on separate busses then you could assume that they aren't part of the picture.
It also isn't about "we" the typical computer buyer but the high end computing. I am sure that something will use the bandwidth.
I don't see an issue if the system uses more recent IRQ standards, I think ACPI extends them by at least double.
Under Windows 2000, I see IRQs ranging from 1 to 31 on my three year old PIII Xeon. My P4 has available IRQ slots going up to at least 22. I'd say there is plenty of room.
Just because a 100% cure-all fix is impossible doesn't mean it's not worth trying.
It might be considered chicken-and-egg. Or maybe not.
Without the music, you wouldn't have bought any of that stuff. I suppose one might have been recording indie concerts and sharing them, but that always seemed like a niche. It's a lot like the next version of Doom or Quake where people are planning their next upgrade around those games. Without those games, then they wouldn't have had a need to upgrade.
You definitely do have a point, I read that the electronics industries are significantly larger than music + movie industries combined. The clout is in the lobbyists and in donations, and IIRC, per capita clout spending by electronics and such is much lower.
It looks like a list of mostly IP owners (of varying kinds) and telecom. The number of health organizations is troubling too.