Let's not forget the fact that when it is pointless to fire a torpedo at a ship because it doesn't do anything except waste very expensive torpedos, then there is no damage to ecology whatsoever.
Or maybe just maybe it's that teeny weeny thing about how AMD has always had the better performance/$ not to mention less heat, smaller size, just plain better designed cpu ever since the Athlon came out over 6 years ago.
Just a basic question but I was curious why there are so many more cosmic rays in space. Is it simply that our atmosphere shields us as in like the ozone layer or gases in general or what? Also are there more cosmic rays in any particular part of the solar system or is the risk simply linearly related to amount of time traveling in space and that the problem is simply that it takes so long to get to mars?
I really dont see the thesis work they do for their masters or phd as contributing much to tech in the US. When a thesis gets published it makes some contribution to world public tech knowledge but it doesnt help US tech industry relative to Chinese, Indian, or any other tech industry.
However, when someone leaves China with nothing but a basic undergraduate degree, comes here and gets trained through US govt funding (+ stipend for food, rent, etc.), and then goes back to China with a PHD to teach at a Chinese university or conduct research for a company competing with US tech companies -- that definately helps Chinese tech industry.
To me the most salient benefit of owning an Apple to the vast majority of users (like my parents), is that they just work better than commodity hardware pcs. If you look at Consumer Reports' data for pc reliability you see that Apple kills the pc manufacturers with less than half the reliability problems of even the 2nd best (Dell) out there.
This of course is the result of the fact that as a software maker they know the exact hardware that product will be running on and also seem to be much better than MS at making the applications that people use all the time (iphoto, itunes, imovie, iwork, etc.) which reduces conflicts and problems with/among 3rd party apps.
All this would be out the window if they went to offering OSX on commodity hardware. I consider the cost savings of commodity hardware to be at least offset for the average user by the above benefits.
It's because technology is created by engineers and in China, India, Germany, etc. engineering is the most prestigious field of all.
In the US people only value giant houses, rims, expensive watches, luxury cars w/ wine glasses in tv ads for them. Noone even knows what engineers do, they just admire doctors and lawyers for having lots of dolla bills and bling. Meanwhile, legal and medical cost are far and away the highest in the world.
Visit the engineering building at any university in this country and you wont even find anyone who speaks english -- it's all exactly Chinese and Indian people receiving stipends in addition to free tuition courtesy of US govt grants and then head back to their own countries, contributing nothing to tech in the very country that paid for their education.
Hi there, I'm the Chancellor of the Nashville Community College and the following is my objective assessment of how MIT lost their crown to us:
MIT offers all kinds of impressive courses in engineering, physics, and math. This is great for people who are interested in engineering, physics, and math, however in practice it is less valuable to know that stuff than it is to be able to repair cars.
Harvard has made the big mistake of neglecting the fact that nearly everyone in this country drives a car every day. So the fact that they dont offer any courses in car repair is mind boggling. It is nice to know engineering, physics, and math, but knowing these subjects does not change the fact that thousands of cars break down every day with everyone, even engineers, physicists, and mathematicians driving them.
How is pda popularity these days? I' ve been out of the loop. A few years ago seemed like everyone had or wanted a Palm. Then PowerPc was trying to sell idea of doing all kinds of pc stuff on a pda. I never felt any desire to have either kind. Are they a declining gadget or do they have the future Palm and MS hoped afterall? Like I said I'm out of the loop these days.
The ad-blockers rose up because of demand by consumers for relief from incredibly crude and annoying to the point of severely impeding usefulness of internet form of advertising. The market was ripe for system of dealing with a terrible system of advertising.
Now market is ripe for someone to come up with better system of advertising. Someone will make a ton of money meeting this need. Who said anything about individual operators of sites needing to come up with new business models or advertising system?
Dont try to say that popups were necessary for internet to be what it is - if anything you'll hear the quality of sites was better before the days of popups. Popups are crude abuse of a browser feature that certainly would have been designed differently had the architects anticipated what would happen with them.
Obviously anyone would agree that internet advertising serves important purpose but it's absurd to imagine "popups" are The Way to advertise and that blocking them is somehow blocking advertising.
As I understand it, games these days need CPUs that are good at everything. Especially now that vector computations are overwhelmingly performed in GPU, there really isn't any single particular area where gaming CPUs should be optimized at the expense of strength in other areas. In other words, if a gaming cpu isn't good at everything, then it isn't good.
Don't forget MS still hates IBM and considers them their biggest corporate enemy especially post IBM's huge commitment to Linux. I doubt IBM is making much at the most severely discounted rates they are letting these chips go for.
Remember Intel didn't make a damn thing on the Xbox1 they only decided to be part of it at the last minute when they didn't want to take chances of AMD benefiting from MS endorsement and trust in eye of consumer. That was back when overwhelming majority of consumers still thought of AMD as 2nd rate clones and yet Athlon was kicking Pentium3's ass techwise but average joe still had tremendous fear and doubt regarding AMD and Intel wanted to keep it that way even if it meant agreeing to an otherwise loser deal. The XBox was originally designed with Athlon in mind in fact I think this was how NVidia got started on making AMD chipsets aka NForce. XBox1 still used AMD internal bus design aka HyperTransport
The large radiator inside the outermost shell could cool just the same as an external one as long as the same amount of air is blowing past it.
For all we know there could be a radiator 10x the size of typical cpu heatsink lying flat in there with every Jule of energy the CPUs could possibly waste being instantly wisked away by jetstream of air rushing by it.
Wouldn't even have to have a large exhaust outlet as long as the mass flow rate was the same (ie inlet fan same diameter and rpm) -- the velocity of air at outlet would just go up to match flow rate of inlet fan
Dude he may not of literally said he invented it but he definately tried to take credit for it. Like countless times too.
Everyone's never going to get that it was a bunch of crap because he continued to boast about it for years even after people had started giving him shit about it and millions of us saw it on tv. Gore was a horse's ass it's ok to accept this even as a democrat. how do you think bush won? Kerry was a fraudulent ass. And he really did flip flop. Like ridiculously. He said he would have invaded irag too, and then he said he wouldn't have, and then the votes were in and the public never once heard an alternative to the war out of him. These guys were both asses and that's how bush won the taking credit more the internet was typical of this.
It's good these guys were asses because they almost won and look how big asses they were next time will be a sure thing as long as not an ass.
Does the term "desktop computer market" include laptops? Just curious because Apple's laptops seem a lot more common than their desktops so maybe the 3 and 5% figures would be very different if laptops were included.
The new iMac is pretty popular but for years when people bought macs they seemed to usually get ibooks or powerbooks.
What are the reasons MS would want a search engine? Is it just the money from advertising or what? I'm just curious. It doesn't seem like owning a search engine would directly increase sales of any of their other products. Normally when they want to take over a segment where the product is free to the consumer it at least encourages sales of some other product of theirs.
You got me i'm busted i was being an evasive spin doctor trying to trick u into believing a nontruth.
Actually the article specifically said that the phone worked extremely well except for that it looks enough like talking into a croissant to possibly be uncool to teens in particular. I'd like to think tho that we're making comments here to do things like offer varied viewpoints etc. rather than polarize into positive and negative camps each reiterating every single aspect of the article that represents their camp in each and every comment they make in order to prove that the thing is either good or bad.
your point about the screen being too small may be legitimate none of us have played it so i have no opinion on that but of course it's likely to be a certain drawback
who said the games were horrible? In fact, the review specifically said that although the games they played weren't even completed development-wise, they were still, for example in the case of tony hawk, essentially indestinguishable from the ps1 originals. Tony Hawk if i recall was pretty much as popular/loved as any ps1 game (ie it was not horrible but rather quite awesome).
Just a reminder to everyone who's saying buy a phone and a GBA instead...This thing has PS1 level graphics. The GBA was literally designed to have Sega Genesis / Super Nintendo level graphics -- a huge difference.
If you guys think old games with less sophisticated graphics are more fun then fine. However just as I'd not go buy an N64 when I could get a PS2, think I'd take an Ngage over a GBA.
The way I see it is that this is a gaming device that also does everything your phone does so you don't have to carry both -- a major convenience. Who wants to carry both a GBA and a phone?
You don't have to have disposable income to play games. All you need are a couple christmas presents and some friends to share with. People will spend hundreds to thousands of hours playing one $30 game. Certainly amount of time spent gaming reflects interest level far more than income level.
I think Linus has displayed an irreverant humor on countless occasions. Quite the opposite of showing a stressed out or "(nerves) frayed" Linus as you say, I think the interview showed the typical rigorously logical, well-spoken, slightly aloof, and occasionally flippant Linus.
Anyone know what's going on with affordable cameras using the Foveon chip? I heard (from seriously reliable sources) about a year and a half ago that it was stupid to buy any traditional one-color-per-pixel camera because the coming Foveon was going to be a million times better and would render everything else obsolete. The technology does seriously look awesome and legitimate.
I know there's a $3000 camera which is supposed to be awesome that uses the Foveon X3, but anyone know when something more like $1000 will be available?
So what's the latest on the relationship between ATI and linux? For a while there I recall the word being that ATI cards finally had feature complete support under linux, but then I think I heard that that was gonna end. Things were looking good there when they got a bunch of veteran, elite Unix driver writers with the purchase of the Fire GL company, but what's the latest?
I have no use for only partial support because then ATI card will be slower than Nvidia card in linux so just buy Nvidia card in first place.
I'm truly shocked at how brilliantly designed every aspect of this thing is. So, what games are available for mac? If the ID games, Command and Conquers, and just a few other top games are available, then I'm switching. Anyone have a list of top games available for Mac?
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Let's not forget the fact that when it is pointless to fire a torpedo at a ship because it doesn't do anything except waste very expensive torpedos, then there is no damage to ecology whatsoever.
Or maybe just maybe it's that teeny weeny thing about how AMD has always had the better performance/$ not to mention less heat, smaller size, just plain better designed cpu ever since the Athlon came out over 6 years ago.
Just a basic question but I was curious why there are so many more cosmic rays in space. Is it simply that our atmosphere shields us as in like the ozone layer or gases in general or what? Also are there more cosmic rays in any particular part of the solar system or is the risk simply linearly related to amount of time traveling in space and that the problem is simply that it takes so long to get to mars?
I really dont see the thesis work they do for their masters or phd as contributing much to tech in the US. When a thesis gets published it makes some contribution to world public tech knowledge but it doesnt help US tech industry relative to Chinese, Indian, or any other tech industry.
However, when someone leaves China with nothing but a basic undergraduate degree, comes here and gets trained through US govt funding (+ stipend for food, rent, etc.), and then goes back to China with a PHD to teach at a Chinese university or conduct research for a company competing with US tech companies -- that definately helps Chinese tech industry.
To me the most salient benefit of owning an Apple to the vast majority of users (like my parents), is that they just work better than commodity hardware pcs. If you look at Consumer Reports' data for pc reliability you see that Apple kills the pc manufacturers with less than half the reliability problems of even the 2nd best (Dell) out there.
This of course is the result of the fact that as a software maker they know the exact hardware that product will be running on and also seem to be much better than MS at making the applications that people use all the time (iphoto, itunes, imovie, iwork, etc.) which reduces conflicts and problems with/among 3rd party apps.
All this would be out the window if they went to offering OSX on commodity hardware. I consider the cost savings of commodity hardware to be at least offset for the average user by the above benefits.
It's because technology is created by engineers and in China, India, Germany, etc. engineering is the most prestigious field of all.
In the US people only value giant houses, rims, expensive watches, luxury cars w/ wine glasses in tv ads for them. Noone even knows what engineers do, they just admire doctors and lawyers for having lots of dolla bills and bling. Meanwhile, legal and medical cost are far and away the highest in the world.
Visit the engineering building at any university in this country and you wont even find anyone who speaks english -- it's all exactly Chinese and Indian people receiving stipends in addition to free tuition courtesy of US govt grants and then head back to their own countries, contributing nothing to tech in the very country that paid for their education.
Hi there, I'm the Chancellor of the Nashville Community College and the following is my objective assessment of how MIT lost their crown to us:
MIT offers all kinds of impressive courses in engineering, physics, and math. This is great for people who are interested in engineering, physics, and math, however in practice it is less valuable to know that stuff than it is to be able to repair cars.
Harvard has made the big mistake of neglecting the fact that nearly everyone in this country drives a car every day. So the fact that they dont offer any courses in car repair is mind boggling. It is nice to know engineering, physics, and math, but knowing these subjects does not change the fact that thousands of cars break down every day with everyone, even engineers, physicists, and mathematicians driving them.
How is pda popularity these days? I'
ve been out of the loop. A few years ago seemed like everyone had or wanted a Palm. Then PowerPc was trying to sell idea of doing all kinds of pc stuff on a pda. I never felt any desire to have either kind. Are they a declining gadget or do they have the future Palm and MS hoped afterall? Like I said I'm out of the loop these days.
The ad-blockers rose up because of demand by consumers for relief from incredibly crude and annoying to the point of severely impeding usefulness of internet form of advertising. The market was ripe for system of dealing with a terrible system of advertising.
Now market is ripe for someone to come up with better system of advertising. Someone will make a ton of money meeting this need. Who said anything about individual operators of sites needing to come up with new business models or advertising system?
Dont try to say that popups were necessary for internet to be what it is - if anything you'll hear the quality of sites was better before the days of popups. Popups are crude abuse of a browser feature that certainly would have been designed differently had the architects anticipated what would happen with them.
Obviously anyone would agree that internet advertising serves important purpose but it's absurd to imagine "popups" are The Way to advertise and that blocking them is somehow blocking advertising.
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As I understand it, games these days need CPUs that are good at everything. Especially now that vector computations are overwhelmingly performed in GPU, there really isn't any single particular area where gaming CPUs should be optimized at the expense of strength in other areas. In other words, if a gaming cpu isn't good at everything, then it isn't good.
Don't forget MS still hates IBM and considers them their biggest corporate enemy especially post IBM's huge commitment to Linux. I doubt IBM is making much at the most severely discounted rates they are letting these chips go for.
Remember Intel didn't make a damn thing on the Xbox1 they only decided to be part of it at the last minute when they didn't want to take chances of AMD benefiting from MS endorsement and trust in eye of consumer. That was back when overwhelming majority of consumers still thought of AMD as 2nd rate clones and yet Athlon was kicking Pentium3's ass techwise but average joe still had tremendous fear and doubt regarding AMD and Intel wanted to keep it that way even if it meant agreeing to an otherwise loser deal. The XBox was originally designed with Athlon in mind in fact I think this was how NVidia got started on making AMD chipsets aka NForce. XBox1 still used AMD internal bus design aka HyperTransport
The large radiator inside the outermost shell could cool just the same as an external one as long as the same amount of air is blowing past it.
For all we know there could be a radiator 10x the size of typical cpu heatsink lying flat in there with every Jule of energy the CPUs could possibly waste being instantly wisked away by jetstream of air rushing by it.
Wouldn't even have to have a large exhaust outlet as long as the mass flow rate was the same (ie inlet fan same diameter and rpm) -- the velocity of air at outlet would just go up to match flow rate of inlet fan
I thought Id has always made a particular effort to multi-thread. I remember for a brief time dual G4 Macs were the fastest platform for Quake 3.
Dude he may not of literally said he invented it but he definately tried to take credit for it. Like countless times too.
Everyone's never going to get that it was a bunch of crap because he continued to boast about it for years even after people had started giving him shit about it and millions of us saw it on tv. Gore was a horse's ass it's ok to accept this even as a democrat. how do you think bush won? Kerry was a fraudulent ass. And he really did flip flop. Like ridiculously. He said he would have invaded irag too, and then he said he wouldn't have, and then the votes were in and the public never once heard an alternative to the war out of him. These guys were both asses and that's how bush won the taking credit more the internet was typical of this.
It's good these guys were asses because they almost won and look how big asses they were next time will be a sure thing as long as not an ass.
Does the term "desktop computer market" include laptops? Just curious because Apple's laptops seem a lot more common than their desktops so maybe the 3 and 5% figures would be very different if laptops were included.
The new iMac is pretty popular but for years when people bought macs they seemed to usually get ibooks or powerbooks.
What are the reasons MS would want a search engine? Is it just the money from advertising or what? I'm just curious. It doesn't seem like owning a search engine would directly increase sales of any of their other products. Normally when they want to take over a segment where the product is free to the consumer it at least encourages sales of some other product of theirs.
You got me i'm busted i was being an evasive spin doctor trying to trick u into believing a nontruth.
Actually the article specifically said that the phone worked extremely well except for that it looks enough like talking into a croissant to possibly be uncool to teens in particular. I'd like to think tho that we're making comments here to do things like offer varied viewpoints etc. rather than polarize into positive and negative camps each reiterating every single aspect of the article that represents their camp in each and every comment they make in order to prove that the thing is either good or bad.
your point about the screen being too small may be legitimate none of us have played it so i have no opinion on that but of course it's likely to be a certain drawback
who said the games were horrible? In fact, the review specifically said that although the games they played weren't even completed development-wise, they were still, for example in the case of tony hawk, essentially indestinguishable from the ps1 originals. Tony Hawk if i recall was pretty much as popular/loved as any ps1 game (ie it was not horrible but rather quite awesome).
Just a reminder to everyone who's saying buy a phone and a GBA instead...This thing has PS1 level graphics. The GBA was literally designed to have Sega Genesis / Super Nintendo level graphics -- a huge difference.
If you guys think old games with less sophisticated graphics are more fun then fine. However just as I'd not go buy an N64 when I could get a PS2, think I'd take an Ngage over a GBA.
The way I see it is that this is a gaming device that also does everything your phone does so you don't have to carry both -- a major convenience. Who wants to carry both a GBA and a phone?
You don't have to have disposable income to play games. All you need are a couple christmas presents and some friends to share with. People will spend hundreds to thousands of hours playing one $30 game. Certainly amount of time spent gaming reflects interest level far more than income level.
I think Linus has displayed an irreverant humor on countless occasions. Quite the opposite of showing a stressed out or "(nerves) frayed" Linus as you say, I think the interview showed the typical rigorously logical, well-spoken, slightly aloof, and occasionally flippant Linus.
Anyone know what's going on with affordable cameras using the Foveon chip? I heard (from seriously reliable sources) about a year and a half ago that it was stupid to buy any traditional one-color-per-pixel camera because the coming Foveon was going to be a million times better and would render everything else obsolete. The technology does seriously look awesome and legitimate. I know there's a $3000 camera which is supposed to be awesome that uses the Foveon X3, but anyone know when something more like $1000 will be available?
So what's the latest on the relationship between ATI and linux? For a while there I recall the word being that ATI cards finally had feature complete support under linux, but then I think I heard that that was gonna end. Things were looking good there when they got a bunch of veteran, elite Unix driver writers with the purchase of the Fire GL company, but what's the latest?
I have no use for only partial support because then ATI card will be slower than Nvidia card in linux so just buy Nvidia card in first place.
I'm truly shocked at how brilliantly designed every aspect of this thing is. So, what games are available for mac? If the ID games, Command and Conquers, and just a few other top games are available, then I'm switching. Anyone have a list of top games available for Mac?