More RAM generally doesn't help the initial boot and app start-up times. Your suggestion would help speed up app switching or starting up more apps than you can fit in your RAM.
BTW: I have a 1GB system and it's only using 380MB.
I have simple Samsung and Sanyo phones that allow you to request an update in the phone. It is delivered over the cellular networks, and only on request. I've never seen them tell me that there was an update.
is inferior in every way compared to Apple's iPod,
Not in every way, it has a larger screen, and is available for a little cheaper at many places. I hear that it has better contextual menuing. That's not very much to go on though.
I think I've seen stuff like that done. Going from memory, the "E" variant of a camcorder often could not do something common, like record video from the computer, I think because digital video recording decks were taxed higher or something like that, and camcorders would be playback only decks. I'm trying to remember the particulars so I can look it up, but on some forums like dvinfo.com, I've seen complaints of stuff like that happening.
Same issue when boarding an airplane. My video camera is subject to inspection, but my camera is not, even though it can record every bit as well as the "video" camera, which incidentally can record stills too.
If this is true, then why are you bringing the video camera with you?
For me, this isn't the case, but that's because my camcorders are HD. My camcorders and camera are have about 3MP sensors. All devices do very well with their primary marketed function. The stills from the camcorders aren't as good as that in the camera, and the video from the camera basically just sucks, despite being the same brand.
Last I heard, AMD is still a process generation behind. Intel can stuff two dual core dies in a package and still not exceed the TDP of AMD's FX series. I think it may be that AMD just couldn't stuff two dual cores in a package because of the power consumption.
Motorola is no longer a player in the desktop CPU market, have not been for several years now, I'm curious why you bring them up. Their products were not put into a new notebook computer for over a year and a half now.
I just retured a nine year old 500MHz computer, it was a dual PIII Xeon. Not much new software really works that well on it, though Firefox 1.5 does pretty decently. The new software is the problem. You can use the versions of Office or any other program bought at the time and it would work fine. The problem is that a web browser that old isn't going to cut it anymore, which is the big limitation. FF1.5 will probably work decently for a bit yet
People recommend Opera, but I really don't like it that much. I can understand why they arranged their UI like they do, but that doesn't mean I like it, and rearranging it to look like what I like to use in Firefox takes about half an hour of futzing around.
Wow, way to make yourself look like an idiotic fanboy.
Wow, way to "discredit" a person with an ad hominem attack.
Want a Wii? Walk into any store in any major city and buy one. There were five or six sitting at the BestBuy I stopped by last night gathering dust.
I'm sorry, but that person's experience mimicks mine as well. While I'm not actually looking for them, I do notice that the actual console is almost conspicuously missing. I've been to a few stores each of Best Buy, Wal*Mart, Target, Game Stop (or whatever they are called now, I don't pay attention to the name anymore), etc, and I've never seen it for sale. This is in a metropolitan area with about a million people.
The problem is that your post does not acknowledge any difficulties with the idea. I don't think there has been a successful large scale system like that, and it's been tried. It's not a new idea.
It would be easy to think one can trust a computer to better guide the economic system, but who makes it? Who maintains it? Do we trust those people to not jury-rig it? In the end, it still comes down to "do you trust the system"?
Even to answer the question that the grandparent post asked, should a physician be expected to spend his or her effort to repair the damage of chronic self-inflicted damage? If a society is free, would a person be free to do that damage to themselves?
Uh, no. What was chased out was the vestiges of a state-sponsored God. People may still pray and worship or not pray and worship as they please, and this is as it should be. Before, children had to participate in state-sponsored prayer and were subject to state-sponsored religious education. I don't understand why Christians thought that it was good idea. Indoctrination in the name of God is still indoctrination. State sponsored prostelyzation for any belief doesn't really make sense in view of the religious freedoms that we are supposed to be able to enjoy.
Exactly. People see news of huge plane crashes, and it's more spectacular, so they remember that as well. Also, seemingly every jumbo crash is news worldwide, but most fatal car crashes might be lucky to get a footnote in the local newspaper.
It depends on what you do, but CAD really doesn't need that powerful of hardware, with other forms of graphics, that still depends on what you do. I can do the CAD work that I need to do on a ten year old machine, though I'm usually on a system that's only four or five years old.
Maybe you missed the "die hard" part of the summary? They didn't say that there weren't going to be "desktop" machines, just that the ownership ranks will thin out considerably. I wouldn't be surprised if the ranks were down to 10% of the personal computer market, there really aren't that many gamers relative to the rest of the market.
That's why the terrestrial stations don't pay this "performance royalty." They're the "good guys."
You may not have noticed, but the performance royalty groups are trying to go after terrestrial radio stations now too. It's possible that they never liked radio's "free ride".
I wouldn't worry about it. The original post has some misguided view of reality, with a misguided enough perspective to not realize what is wrong with it when put to practical use.
Another naming failure was with the Chevy Nova. Nova, in espaniol, means "it doesn't go". I'm sure this was just an over site by GM. But the cars didn't sell well in Latin America and other Latin countries.
This is also another case of an urban legend posing as a lesson in... something. Check Snopes, please:
Standard GPS gives "wrong" coordinates too, it's really a question of accuracy. Selective Availability basically added to the errors, it's a question of 20 meter error or 100 meters.
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More RAM generally doesn't help the initial boot and app start-up times. Your suggestion would help speed up app switching or starting up more apps than you can fit in your RAM.
BTW: I have a 1GB system and it's only using 380MB.
Current SSD drives are a little faster than the 1.8" drives. 2.5" drives are still faster than SSD drives.
Maxing out the RAM helps too.
I have simple Samsung and Sanyo phones that allow you to request an update in the phone. It is delivered over the cellular networks, and only on request. I've never seen them tell me that there was an update.
I think they later made an ATA MD Data drive that was considerably cheaper.
is inferior in every way compared to Apple's iPod,
Not in every way, it has a larger screen, and is available for a little cheaper at many places. I hear that it has better contextual menuing. That's not very much to go on though.
I think I've seen stuff like that done. Going from memory, the "E" variant of a camcorder often could not do something common, like record video from the computer, I think because digital video recording decks were taxed higher or something like that, and camcorders would be playback only decks. I'm trying to remember the particulars so I can look it up, but on some forums like dvinfo.com, I've seen complaints of stuff like that happening.
Same issue when boarding an airplane.
My video camera is subject to inspection, but my camera is not, even though it can record every bit as well as the "video" camera, which incidentally can record stills too.
If this is true, then why are you bringing the video camera with you?
For me, this isn't the case, but that's because my camcorders are HD. My camcorders and camera are have about 3MP sensors. All devices do very well with their primary marketed function. The stills from the camcorders aren't as good as that in the camera, and the video from the camera basically just sucks, despite being the same brand.
Last I heard, AMD is still a process generation behind. Intel can stuff two dual core dies in a package and still not exceed the TDP of AMD's FX series. I think it may be that AMD just couldn't stuff two dual cores in a package because of the power consumption.
Motorola is no longer a player in the desktop CPU market, have not been for several years now, I'm curious why you bring them up. Their products were not put into a new notebook computer for over a year and a half now.
I just retured a nine year old 500MHz computer, it was a dual PIII Xeon. Not much new software really works that well on it, though Firefox 1.5 does pretty decently. The new software is the problem. You can use the versions of Office or any other program bought at the time and it would work fine. The problem is that a web browser that old isn't going to cut it anymore, which is the big limitation. FF1.5 will probably work decently for a bit yet
People recommend Opera, but I really don't like it that much. I can understand why they arranged their UI like they do, but that doesn't mean I like it, and rearranging it to look like what I like to use in Firefox takes about half an hour of futzing around.
Wow, way to make yourself look like an idiotic fanboy.
Wow, way to "discredit" a person with an ad hominem attack.
Want a Wii? Walk into any store in any major city and buy one. There were five or six sitting at the BestBuy I stopped by last night gathering dust.
I'm sorry, but that person's experience mimicks mine as well. While I'm not actually looking for them, I do notice that the actual console is almost conspicuously missing. I've been to a few stores each of Best Buy, Wal*Mart, Target, Game Stop (or whatever they are called now, I don't pay attention to the name anymore), etc, and I've never seen it for sale. This is in a metropolitan area with about a million people.
The problem is that your post does not acknowledge any difficulties with the idea. I don't think there has been a successful large scale system like that, and it's been tried. It's not a new idea.
It would be easy to think one can trust a computer to better guide the economic system, but who makes it? Who maintains it? Do we trust those people to not jury-rig it? In the end, it still comes down to "do you trust the system"?
Even to answer the question that the grandparent post asked, should a physician be expected to spend his or her effort to repair the damage of chronic self-inflicted damage? If a society is free, would a person be free to do that damage to themselves?
Uh, no. What was chased out was the vestiges of a state-sponsored God. People may still pray and worship or not pray and worship as they please, and this is as it should be. Before, children had to participate in state-sponsored prayer and were subject to state-sponsored religious education. I don't understand why Christians thought that it was good idea. Indoctrination in the name of God is still indoctrination. State sponsored prostelyzation for any belief doesn't really make sense in view of the religious freedoms that we are supposed to be able to enjoy.
With the A/C systems I've seen, I could have sworn that they run at 33% the power vs the heat they pump.
Exactly. People see news of huge plane crashes, and it's more spectacular, so they remember that as well. Also, seemingly every jumbo crash is news worldwide, but most fatal car crashes might be lucky to get a footnote in the local newspaper.
It depends on what you do, but CAD really doesn't need that powerful of hardware, with other forms of graphics, that still depends on what you do. I can do the CAD work that I need to do on a ten year old machine, though I'm usually on a system that's only four or five years old.
Maybe you missed the "die hard" part of the summary? They didn't say that there weren't going to be "desktop" machines, just that the ownership ranks will thin out considerably. I wouldn't be surprised if the ranks were down to 10% of the personal computer market, there really aren't that many gamers relative to the rest of the market.
I understand.
The problem is that DRM is a technological "solution" to a sociological "problem". Usually, that sort of fix doesn't work out so well.
That's why the terrestrial stations don't pay this "performance royalty." They're the "good guys."
You may not have noticed, but the performance royalty groups are trying to go after terrestrial radio stations now too. It's possible that they never liked radio's "free ride".
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I suppose I should have added some point about this object also not featuring encrypted digital data.
You can't use photographs of their products. Etc.
It's stupid and it should be shot down. But we'll see how it eventually works out. Right now it's easy for them to win under the DMCA.
How does the Digtital Millennium Copyright Act affect a tangible good that doesn't have a single circuit in it?
I wouldn't worry about it. The original post has some misguided view of reality, with a misguided enough perspective to not realize what is wrong with it when put to practical use.
This is the third name too. I think the previous name was something like DTV.
Another naming failure was with the Chevy Nova. Nova, in espaniol, means "it doesn't go". I'm sure this was just an over site by GM. But the cars didn't sell well in Latin America and other Latin countries.
This is also another case of an urban legend posing as a lesson in... something. Check Snopes, please:
http://www.snopes.com/business/misxlate/nova.asp
There is a pound mass and a pound force.
Standard GPS gives "wrong" coordinates too, it's really a question of accuracy. Selective Availability basically added to the errors, it's a question of 20 meter error or 100 meters.