NTFS is one of the few worthwhile things that's ever come out of Redmond.
Except that what became NTFS was originally developed at DEC. It only became NTFS after MS hired away DEC's file system guys, if I'm not mistaken.
Wasn't Betamax incapable of containing an entire two-hour movie on one cassette or something? I recall it having often very inconvenient capacity limitations. Furthermore, wasn't it and its players more expensive? What's your definition of better technology? Mine includes things like cost and convenience. Right now Blu-Ray disks cost much more to make, the players cost twice as much as HD-DVD players do, they require completely new production processes whereas HD-DVD was designed to minimize such requirements. Oh and Blu-Ray disks scratch easier.
The article said that commanders receive money for just this sort of thing -- they are encouraged to do these kinds of things. Who says if lots of troops start wanting the stuff then the military won't be providing it as standard issue? Sounds like it is a newish kind of idea -- the kind money is precisely given to them in order to be able to take advantage of. I'm sure there are a million little tricks the troops use like this. Certainly the way to promote this kind of ingenuity is through basically doing what the military is doing right now -- giving them flexible money for just these kinds of things.
Article gives impression civilians aren't sending the string over there out of strict need, just out of wanting to do anything they can to help out, generally not being able to do anything, but here feeling like this is instance where they could at least make some difference.
I didn't know this -- that the 3D hardware doesn't get utilized well in Parallels. Are you certain this is the case and is there any potential for future versions of Parellel not being handicapped in this way (ie is it intrinsically unavoidable)?
What I want to know is whether or not this thing is slick enough to permit, for example, an entire engineering shop to switch to a PC only CAD software without ditching all their Macs. I know an engineering company that is all Mac right now but the development of Mac CAD software lags and the emerged industry standards (Autocad, Pro/E, etc) are all PC only. It would be incredibly useful for many small companies, I imagine, to be able to stick with the safe, secure, Apple OS and other Apple applications that they have standardized upon,despite also needing to run PC-only industry software in order to be compatible with the outside world. This would be a matter of how much performance is available to the PC software while working in Parallels.
The unstated greater significance is that it is far and away the most lusted after laptop available period. The titanium and aluminum Apple notebooks have, for years, been the standard by which all other notebooks are compared in just about every category except performance. However, apparently, now that they have the fastest processor available on any laptop (Intel Merom C2D) and a bunch of other nice power items inside, in combination with the fact that they also run Windows these days, makes this possibly the most widely appealing Mac laptop yet.
I figured there would at least be massive quantities of non-biodegradable junk like everything made out of plastic for example left behind in landfills and stuff but all it says is
And if the visitors chanced across one of today's landfills, they might still find fragments of glass and plastic - and maybe even paper - to bear witness to our presence. "I would virtually guarantee that there would be some," says William Rathje, an archaeologist at Stanford University in California who has excavated many landfills.
He says "might", as if it would actually be surprising that one might be able to find a few tiny little traces of our existence in places like landfills!!
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For one thing this probably isnt as perfect a solution as it seems because the disks will obviously be significantly more expensive than even the more expensive of either bluray or hddvd. For example, it will have to have that super expensive surface coating that bluray disks require since the wavelength of laser is so short (to prevent scratching).
But the more interesting thing is that if these were to go mainstream among the media providers, then success of each format in terms of players sold will be determined much more simply by price relative to the other rather than by a combination of many more factors such as movie catalog/availability, disk cost, what kinds of disks friends have, etc.
So, which of the two types of player is intrinsically cheaper and by how much? Does HDDVD have a huge advantage in the area of cost to manufacture players?
I dont see the problem. The more people are caught, the fewer people will think they can get away with it in the future. Seems like the one and only best deterrent if you ask me
The Conroe is apparently definately ahead in single-processor (dual-core included) systems with the new COnroe. However, there seems to be consensus that the Intel FSB becomes bottleneck with larger number of processors. This bottleneck will only become more of an issue as the platform ramped up in speed. AMD will continue to benefit from this for disadvantage for intel platform with servers as even blades these days have like four processors.
dude it's not that bad. You make is sound like there being anything other than what you call "high quality publications" online is dreadful affliction, devastation, pestilence. Open mind a little no harm in people finding value in internet socially or any of million other ways people enjoy using it. Just b/c it not what you into doesnt mean it's garbage
What makes you think it's so hard to tell the difference between blogs, "social chit chat", and "publications with actual content" as you call, anyway?
that was before even MS DOS 1.1 was out tho so it not as if the first virus being on apple had any meaning as far as which of the two had better security or anything like that, just to clarify
I use Pro/E as my job right now but have only ever used it on this 4 year old Dell "workstation" with some kind of 4 y/o Fire card in it. But though this equipment is old, I have never for a second felt like anything was slow at all while using Pro/E. So what are these insane cards for? Im sure they are for something I just would genuinely like to know what it is. I would have thought they were for CAD but now I see other people running Pro/E just fine on like laptops with integrated Intel graphics.
Dont digital cameras still suck really bad at taking night pictures? Is that improving? And dont they also have poor color accuracy or has that improved?
What an amazingly lousy and 2nd rate bunch of equipment that is. I dont own an iPod or any other Apple product but just looking at these things you're amazed at how poor job after all these years now the competition has been doing at catching up with the iPod. Is it really that hard?
Carbons of course are harmless too. People might find the massive visible carbon particulate emmissions of 30y/o design, low-technology diesels aesthetically objectionable but it's basically inert dust and settles out of air just like any other dust. Modern diesels do not produce the visbile particulates unless owner has modified them for more power or something (those Dodge rams with like 500hp and black exhaust you may have seen one it's popular thing to do)
On emmissions that really count though like the "poisonous" gases and carbon-dioxide, diesels are actually cleaner than gasoline engines of even smaller output.
Honda is one of the companies furthest behind in fuel cell technology among the majors. For example, DaimlerChrysler (really just Mercedes back then), has had fuel-cell buses for sale to European customers since late in 2000. These days, GM seems to be the furthest ahead.
The article said that it was misconception that millions of documents would be converted. Apparently only documents from 2007 on would be OpenDoc. So that was FUD when concerico or wtvr his name was complained about ton of work of converting millions of old documents.
Having all the money in the world keeps their options from being restricted by startup cost, but in over 20 years they have only been able to establish Office as a profitable product outside of the OS itself. This is with the desktop monopoly. Track record this is company that has become entirely oriented toward just protecting the desktop monopoly. For about fifteen years now Microsoft's task has simply been to clone any apps that look like they might have legs and then offer them for free as part of the OS thereby choking off income of would-be competition. Google stands as example of case where MS wasn't even able to successfully clone someone else's idea/tech.
It would be completely out of Microsoft's nature, tradition, and arguably capabilities to come up with compelling new ideas for products that can thrive independent of the desktop monopoly. That's over 20 years that they haven't been able to do this even with the desktop monopoly.
Yeah so it seems obvious there's a "We Made It So We Should Keep It! Where In The World Did You Get Idea We'd Give It To You!" argument for the US keeping it. What's wrong with it?
I think it's that people dont like using pcs. They don't like using windows, they dont like opening and closings apps, they get headaches when doing stuff other than internet on computers. So why would they want to carry one around with them everywhere?
iPods and phones on the otherhand, do not give them headaches, but rather they delight them by simply letting them talk to their friends more easily and listen to good music easily. I think the other features are primarily seen as icing on the cake.
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NTFS is one of the few worthwhile things that's ever come out of Redmond. Except that what became NTFS was originally developed at DEC. It only became NTFS after MS hired away DEC's file system guys, if I'm not mistaken.
Wasn't Betamax incapable of containing an entire two-hour movie on one cassette or something? I recall it having often very inconvenient capacity limitations. Furthermore, wasn't it and its players more expensive? What's your definition of better technology? Mine includes things like cost and convenience. Right now Blu-Ray disks cost much more to make, the players cost twice as much as HD-DVD players do, they require completely new production processes whereas HD-DVD was designed to minimize such requirements. Oh and Blu-Ray disks scratch easier.
The article said that commanders receive money for just this sort of thing -- they are encouraged to do these kinds of things. Who says if lots of troops start wanting the stuff then the military won't be providing it as standard issue? Sounds like it is a newish kind of idea -- the kind money is precisely given to them in order to be able to take advantage of. I'm sure there are a million little tricks the troops use like this. Certainly the way to promote this kind of ingenuity is through basically doing what the military is doing right now -- giving them flexible money for just these kinds of things.
Article gives impression civilians aren't sending the string over there out of strict need, just out of wanting to do anything they can to help out, generally not being able to do anything, but here feeling like this is instance where they could at least make some difference.
I didn't know this -- that the 3D hardware doesn't get utilized well in Parallels. Are you certain this is the case and is there any potential for future versions of Parellel not being handicapped in this way (ie is it intrinsically unavoidable)?
What I want to know is whether or not this thing is slick enough to permit, for example, an entire engineering shop to switch to a PC only CAD software without ditching all their Macs. I know an engineering company that is all Mac right now but the development of Mac CAD software lags and the emerged industry standards (Autocad, Pro/E, etc) are all PC only. It would be incredibly useful for many small companies, I imagine, to be able to stick with the safe, secure, Apple OS and other Apple applications that they have standardized upon,despite also needing to run PC-only industry software in order to be compatible with the outside world. This would be a matter of how much performance is available to the PC software while working in Parallels.
The unstated greater significance is that it is far and away the most lusted after laptop available period. The titanium and aluminum Apple notebooks have, for years, been the standard by which all other notebooks are compared in just about every category except performance. However, apparently, now that they have the fastest processor available on any laptop (Intel Merom C2D) and a bunch of other nice power items inside, in combination with the fact that they also run Windows these days, makes this possibly the most widely appealing Mac laptop yet.
He says "might", as if it would actually be surprising that one might be able to find a few tiny little traces of our existence in places like landfills!!
For one thing this probably isnt as perfect a solution as it seems because the disks will obviously be significantly more expensive than even the more expensive of either bluray or hddvd. For example, it will have to have that super expensive surface coating that bluray disks require since the wavelength of laser is so short (to prevent scratching).
But the more interesting thing is that if these were to go mainstream among the media providers, then success of each format in terms of players sold will be determined much more simply by price relative to the other rather than by a combination of many more factors such as movie catalog/availability, disk cost, what kinds of disks friends have, etc.
So, which of the two types of player is intrinsically cheaper and by how much? Does HDDVD have a huge advantage in the area of cost to manufacture players?
I dont see the problem. The more people are caught, the fewer people will think they can get away with it in the future. Seems like the one and only best deterrent if you ask me
please provide links or something. I am genuinely interested in knowing how Lenova ThinkPad quality compares to IBM ThinkPad quality
The Conroe is apparently definately ahead in single-processor (dual-core included) systems with the new COnroe. However, there seems to be consensus that the Intel FSB becomes bottleneck with larger number of processors. This bottleneck will only become more of an issue as the platform ramped up in speed. AMD will continue to benefit from this for disadvantage for intel platform with servers as even blades these days have like four processors.
dude it's not that bad. You make is sound like there being anything other than what you call "high quality publications" online is dreadful affliction, devastation, pestilence. Open mind a little no harm in people finding value in internet socially or any of million other ways people enjoy using it. Just b/c it not what you into doesnt mean it's garbage
What makes you think it's so hard to tell the difference between blogs, "social chit chat", and "publications with actual content" as you call, anyway?
that was before even MS DOS 1.1 was out tho so it not as if the first virus being on apple had any meaning as far as which of the two had better security or anything like that, just to clarify
I use Pro/E as my job right now but have only ever used it on this 4 year old Dell "workstation" with some kind of 4 y/o Fire card in it. But though this equipment is old, I have never for a second felt like anything was slow at all while using Pro/E. So what are these insane cards for? Im sure they are for something I just would genuinely like to know what it is. I would have thought they were for CAD but now I see other people running Pro/E just fine on like laptops with integrated Intel graphics.
Ok, now let's see the Intel vs. G5 benchmarks -- that's what I really curious about
Dont digital cameras still suck really bad at taking night pictures? Is that improving? And dont they also have poor color accuracy or has that improved?
What an amazingly lousy and 2nd rate bunch of equipment that is. I dont own an iPod or any other Apple product but just looking at these things you're amazed at how poor job after all these years now the competition has been doing at catching up with the iPod. Is it really that hard?
Carbons of course are harmless too. People might find the massive visible carbon particulate emmissions of 30y/o design, low-technology diesels aesthetically objectionable but it's basically inert dust and settles out of air just like any other dust. Modern diesels do not produce the visbile particulates unless owner has modified them for more power or something (those Dodge rams with like 500hp and black exhaust you may have seen one it's popular thing to do)
On emmissions that really count though like the "poisonous" gases and carbon-dioxide, diesels are actually cleaner than gasoline engines of even smaller output.
Honda is one of the companies furthest behind in fuel cell technology among the majors. For example, DaimlerChrysler (really just Mercedes back then), has had fuel-cell buses for sale to European customers since late in 2000. These days, GM seems to be the furthest ahead.
The article said that it was misconception that millions of documents would be converted. Apparently only documents from 2007 on would be OpenDoc. So that was FUD when concerico or wtvr his name was complained about ton of work of converting millions of old documents.
Having all the money in the world keeps their options from being restricted by startup cost, but in over 20 years they have only been able to establish Office as a profitable product outside of the OS itself. This is with the desktop monopoly. Track record this is company that has become entirely oriented toward just protecting the desktop monopoly. For about fifteen years now Microsoft's task has simply been to clone any apps that look like they might have legs and then offer them for free as part of the OS thereby choking off income of would-be competition. Google stands as example of case where MS wasn't even able to successfully clone someone else's idea/tech.
It would be completely out of Microsoft's nature, tradition, and arguably capabilities to come up with compelling new ideas for products that can thrive independent of the desktop monopoly. That's over 20 years that they haven't been able to do this even with the desktop monopoly.
sure, there are countless examples of efforts to adjust for it. Phones and iPods can be controlled by one hand. PDAs cant
Yeah so it seems obvious there's a "We Made It So We Should Keep It! Where In The World Did You Get Idea We'd Give It To You!" argument for the US keeping it. What's wrong with it?
What was the boiling glass? How have we been burned by nuclear fission. I hope you dont mean Chernobyl.
I think it's that people dont like using pcs. They don't like using windows, they dont like opening and closings apps, they get headaches when doing stuff other than internet on computers. So why would they want to carry one around with them everywhere?
iPods and phones on the otherhand, do not give them headaches, but rather they delight them by simply letting them talk to their friends more easily and listen to good music easily. I think the other features are primarily seen as icing on the cake.