It is pretty pointless to read those sites every day. You might as well sit out on your lawn and watch grass grow. But if you are about to buy or build a new PC then they are quite handy.
Maybe you prefer to just throw your money at Dell and hope for the best, or you prefer the unbiased reviews of CNET (where expensive is always better). I like having more information at my disposal than that.
I like reading a few reviews from around the net. They each have different sponsors and biases, so you can balance them against each other to get a better idea of the truth.
If Intel doesn't bless a chipset from Via and a large MB manufacturer like Asus declines to make a MB based on this chipset to avoid retaliation from Intel then I would say there is a downside for the consumer.
Via has not explicitly licensed the P4 bus. Via insists it has rights to the necessary patents through the purchase of Cyrix. If Intel officially approves this arrangement then they may lose some licensing sales in the future by setting a precedent.
The whole thing is kind of silly unless Intel is making money hand over foot in the chipset market. I wonder if their motivation to discourage 3rd party chipset development is to lock down control over various platform technologies? Sis currently makes P4 chipsets but they have a poor reputation for compatibility. Via has improved their rep by dominating the Athlon market. They might have the necessary market share to take the P4 platform in directions that Intel doesn't want to go.
I just read that telecoms have an excess of long haul bandwidth, which means that the issues are the cost of the last mile and consumer uptake.
I wouldn't be surprised if the main issue is the latter. I have spent some time trying to convince one of my coworkers at a major computer hardware company to get broadband, but he doesn't think he needs it. The uses of broadband are not necessarily obvious if you don't have it.
I also read that several telecoms will try to address this issues by selling capped broadband at a lower price.
Would you care to share whatever you're smoking? It must be quite good if you're thinking the WC series held a candle to Tie Fighter. Now Privateer at least rivalled TF.
I was under the impression that telemarketers were doing it for the money:) But that is a natural AC mistake, I can't expect too much from someone who doesn't have the moxy to put a name on their opinion.
Cry me a puddle. If I was nice to telemarketers I'd get dozens of calls a day. If everyone was a complete bastard to all telemarketers then the entire industry would disappear, leaving the world a better place.
And the only reason you get paid more telemarketing than working at McDonalds is because of the crap one you have to take from the people whose time you are stealing. If you can deal with it then keep the job, but don't whine about it.
You must be a telemarketer because you seem to be apologizing for this completely amoral industry. My suggestion is to grin and bear it, because this won't be the last time you take crap from someone about it.
Telemarketers are people who need to take responsibility for their actions. In fact the only reason that telemarketing works is that many people are too timid to hang up.
I am not endorsing verbal abuse, but if I receive an unsolicited phone call then my time is being stolen from me. I don't see why I need to be civil; even my declaration of my intent to hang up is just more of my time.
If someone else feels the need to verbally abuse the telemarketer I am not going to complain. If the telemarketer doesn't like it then they can find a job where they aren't stealing time from hundreds of people a day. If no one was willing to telemarket then this abhorent industry would wither and die.
Each minute of airtime costs money, but most plans now offer domestic long distance and roaming for free. This can actually save you money if you make a lot of long distance calls.
You are correct that it is better to minimize the data IO needs of an application. And stored procedures will definitely resolve this issue. The problem is that you have to use a stored-procedure language to take advantage of SPs:)
I have mostly suffered with PL/SQL (courtesy of Oracle) and I dread having to work with it. The syntax is awkward. The error messages aren't very good. And since PL/SQL is proprietary I cannot port my code without significant work.
If your app is multitier then you can always stick the business logic server on the same machine as the DB to save network IO. And you get to write your business logic in any language you want.
So you don't bother to hook up your stereo to your TV to watch movies and you haven't noticed a difference in PC sound since 1995? Is this because the technology of sound hasn't progressed in the last 7 years or because you Don't Really Care about good sound?
When people first started living in cities there were many health problems. Isolated disease related deaths became epidemics. Huge amounts of sewage and other waste products caused disease. And inadequate food and water also caused problems. That is why the Black Plague was so awful.
Increased cleanliness has drastically improved our health and our quality of life. It has gotten to the point that we don't worry as much about more serious diseases and instead worry about allergies. I bet lots of people had allergies hundreds of years ago but with all the smallpox, malaria, dysentery, cholera and other horrible diseases they didn't bitch about it.
Sucks for you then. The only thing that HP really excels at is making printers. All of their computing products are second rate or worse. Is it any surprise that they are migrating to Compaq products?
The one thing that kills me is their desire to continue several Compaq brands in the consumer market. They are quite famous... for being crappy computers.
I have broadband and I don't have that many more downloaded tracks than you for the same reason: quality. It looks like most people have no idea how to make quality rips. And even when I do find a decent track half the time my download would be interrupted and I would end up with part of a track, which is basically useless.
Napster was good for finding one track off of an album I wouldn't buy anyway.
Most of your points are correct, but the bandwidth argument is bogus. While your facts are correct the reality is that you can't put more than two hard drives on one IDE channel, and no two IDE hard drives in existence today need 133MB/s of bandwidth.
And if we're going to talk about bandwidth then it should be mentioned that a 32 bit 33Mhz PCI bus can't handle more than 133MB/s anyway, so to take advantage of Ultra320 SCSI you would need a 64bit 66Mhz PCI bus and SCSI card. That will cost some serious clams. In fact the performance advantage compared to the extra cost of SCSI is not good, which is why this technology is not growing like IDE is.
This is a good idea, and it might explain the addiction factor of EverCrack. Players feel like they have to get their money's worth, so they play as much as they can.
If Sony charged for time used then they might irritate the hardcore gamers, but they would draw in folks like me that are interested in the game but don't want to pay a game tax or have the game consume all of their free time.
Last time I checked the Mac has a bunch of built-in software that the PC doesn't. And if you're going to buy from the cheapest vendor on Pricewatch don't forget to add a hefty surplus for shipping and waiting a long time for stuff on backorder. And you will probably have to return a part or two as well.
And most people charge money to assemble computers. If you're going to build it yourself don't forget to account for that time spent. I built my own PC and I don't regret it but I spent a lot of time physically assembling the machine and installing software. I spent hundreds of dollars worth of my own time.
I'm not saying that Macs are cheaper than PCs, but I hate it when someone quotes Pricewatch prices for PC parts assuming that those components will somehow magically become a computer.
Most companies announce an impending new product to spread FUD about current competing products. But when you are already #1 in your market then the FUD will mostly impact your own product. So the only way this move makes any sense is if Sony cuts the price on their current console and guarantees that the PS3 will be backward compatible with PS2 games.
Then people will buy the PS2 because it's cheaper than it was before and rest assured that their investment in games will carry through to the next generation platform.
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It is pretty pointless to read those sites every day. You might as well sit out on your lawn and watch grass grow. But if you are about to buy or build a new PC then they are quite handy.
Maybe you prefer to just throw your money at Dell and hope for the best, or you prefer the unbiased reviews of CNET (where expensive is always better). I like having more information at my disposal than that.
I like reading a few reviews from around the net. They each have different sponsors and biases, so you can balance them against each other to get a better idea of the truth.
If Intel doesn't bless a chipset from Via and a large MB manufacturer like Asus declines to make a MB based on this chipset to avoid retaliation from Intel then I would say there is a downside for the consumer.
How could you forget inverting the polarity? That seems to be the cure-all of the 25th century.
I guess it wouldn't do to see Jordi running around with a roll of duct tape and giving malfunctioning gadgets a thump to get them working again.
Via has not explicitly licensed the P4 bus. Via insists it has rights to the necessary patents through the purchase of Cyrix. If Intel officially approves this arrangement then they may lose some licensing sales in the future by setting a precedent.
The whole thing is kind of silly unless Intel is making money hand over foot in the chipset market. I wonder if their motivation to discourage 3rd party chipset development is to lock down control over various platform technologies? Sis currently makes P4 chipsets but they have a poor reputation for compatibility. Via has improved their rep by dominating the Athlon market. They might have the necessary market share to take the P4 platform in directions that Intel doesn't want to go.
Yes! Yet another feature that shows how Mozilla ownz IE.
I just read that telecoms have an excess of long haul bandwidth, which means that the issues are the cost of the last mile and consumer uptake.
I wouldn't be surprised if the main issue is the latter. I have spent some time trying to convince one of my coworkers at a major computer hardware company to get broadband, but he doesn't think he needs it. The uses of broadband are not necessarily obvious if you don't have it.
I also read that several telecoms will try to address this issues by selling capped broadband at a lower price.
Would you care to share whatever you're smoking? It must be quite good if you're thinking the WC series held a candle to Tie Fighter. Now Privateer at least rivalled TF.
This guy already has a computer, he doesn't need another one. Even if a Mac is comparably priced to a PC it is still superfluous.
I was under the impression that telemarketers were doing it for the money :) But that is a natural AC mistake, I can't expect too much from someone who doesn't have the moxy to put a name on their opinion.
Cry me a puddle. If I was nice to telemarketers I'd get dozens of calls a day. If everyone was a complete bastard to all telemarketers then the entire industry would disappear, leaving the world a better place.
And the only reason you get paid more telemarketing than working at McDonalds is because of the crap one you have to take from the people whose time you are stealing. If you can deal with it then keep the job, but don't whine about it.
You must be a telemarketer because you seem to be apologizing for this completely amoral industry. My suggestion is to grin and bear it, because this won't be the last time you take crap from someone about it.
Telemarketers are people who need to take responsibility for their actions. In fact the only reason that telemarketing works is that many people are too timid to hang up.
I am not endorsing verbal abuse, but if I receive an unsolicited phone call then my time is being stolen from me. I don't see why I need to be civil; even my declaration of my intent to hang up is just more of my time.
If someone else feels the need to verbally abuse the telemarketer I am not going to complain. If the telemarketer doesn't like it then they can find a job where they aren't stealing time from hundreds of people a day. If no one was willing to telemarket then this abhorent industry would wither and die.
Each minute of airtime costs money, but most plans now offer domestic long distance and roaming for free. This can actually save you money if you make a lot of long distance calls.
You are correct that it is better to minimize the data IO needs of an application. And stored procedures will definitely resolve this issue. The problem is that you have to use a stored-procedure language to take advantage of SPs :)
I have mostly suffered with PL/SQL (courtesy of Oracle) and I dread having to work with it. The syntax is awkward. The error messages aren't very good. And since PL/SQL is proprietary I cannot port my code without significant work.
If your app is multitier then you can always stick the business logic server on the same machine as the DB to save network IO. And you get to write your business logic in any language you want.
This is a serious problem. If word ever got out about my enormous shlong then the amount of envy caused could wreak havoc.
So you don't bother to hook up your stereo to your TV to watch movies and you haven't noticed a difference in PC sound since 1995? Is this because the technology of sound hasn't progressed in the last 7 years or because you Don't Really Care about good sound?
In my experience I have seen people put up with stuff that is much worse if it is cheaper in any way.
Dying of disease at the age of 30 was also considered normal at one time.
When people first started living in cities there were many health problems. Isolated disease related deaths became epidemics. Huge amounts of sewage and other waste products caused disease. And inadequate food and water also caused problems. That is why the Black Plague was so awful.
Increased cleanliness has drastically improved our health and our quality of life. It has gotten to the point that we don't worry as much about more serious diseases and instead worry about allergies. I bet lots of people had allergies hundreds of years ago but with all the smallpox, malaria, dysentery, cholera and other horrible diseases they didn't bitch about it.
Didn't the godfather say "one lawyer with a briefcase can steal more than a hundred men with guns"?
Sucks for you then. The only thing that HP really excels at is making printers. All of their computing products are second rate or worse. Is it any surprise that they are migrating to Compaq products?
The one thing that kills me is their desire to continue several Compaq brands in the consumer market. They are quite famous... for being crappy computers.
I have broadband and I don't have that many more downloaded tracks than you for the same reason: quality. It looks like most people have no idea how to make quality rips. And even when I do find a decent track half the time my download would be interrupted and I would end up with part of a track, which is basically useless.
Napster was good for finding one track off of an album I wouldn't buy anyway.
Most of your points are correct, but the bandwidth argument is bogus. While your facts are correct the reality is that you can't put more than two hard drives on one IDE channel, and no two IDE hard drives in existence today need 133MB/s of bandwidth.
And if we're going to talk about bandwidth then it should be mentioned that a 32 bit 33Mhz PCI bus can't handle more than 133MB/s anyway, so to take advantage of Ultra320 SCSI you would need a 64bit 66Mhz PCI bus and SCSI card. That will cost some serious clams. In fact the performance advantage compared to the extra cost of SCSI is not good, which is why this technology is not growing like IDE is.
This is a good idea, and it might explain the addiction factor of EverCrack. Players feel like they have to get their money's worth, so they play as much as they can.
If Sony charged for time used then they might irritate the hardcore gamers, but they would draw in folks like me that are interested in the game but don't want to pay a game tax or have the game consume all of their free time.
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Last time I checked the Mac has a bunch of built-in software that the PC doesn't. And if you're going to buy from the cheapest vendor on Pricewatch don't forget to add a hefty surplus for shipping and waiting a long time for stuff on backorder. And you will probably have to return a part or two as well.
And most people charge money to assemble computers. If you're going to build it yourself don't forget to account for that time spent. I built my own PC and I don't regret it but I spent a lot of time physically assembling the machine and installing software. I spent hundreds of dollars worth of my own time.
I'm not saying that Macs are cheaper than PCs, but I hate it when someone quotes Pricewatch prices for PC parts assuming that those components will somehow magically become a computer.
Most companies announce an impending new product to spread FUD about current competing products. But when you are already #1 in your market then the FUD will mostly impact your own product. So the only way this move makes any sense is if Sony cuts the price on their current console and guarantees that the PS3 will be backward compatible with PS2 games.
Then people will buy the PS2 because it's cheaper than it was before and rest assured that their investment in games will carry through to the next generation platform.