So is eMachines a separate-enough entity that Gateway no longer has a 'physical presence'?
Actually, eMachines won't have the physical presence. At all. The eMachines name is going to be swallowed up, and now retailers (Best Buy, CompUSA) are going to now sell 'Gateway' instead of 'eMachines'.
That takes care of the store, what about the tech side of the issue? These retailers already have them in house. Done deal.
I did some informal testing between VC++ native and C# to.Net bytecode. I had a little loop calculating primes. The native C++ kept everything in registers, while the CLR made everything relative memory accesses to BP. I figured that would devastate performance, but on the Pentium 4, it was only 5% slower! It seems to have an L1 cache that's as fast as the registers. That will certainly make it easier on the compiler writers.
oops you just violated the VS.NET EULA by posting a performance benchmark. shame on you!
even a cheap ink jet printer nowadays as a high ppm. 30-45 seconds/page text. And laser isn't worth it for a single person in a dorm. Your paper will be done printing by time you get ready to go to bed.
What you should buy instead First, you should buy a notebook. Second, you should buy an inexpensive, lightweight flatbed scanner.
Secondly I would buy a cheap ink jet printer ($70?) to sit in your dorm instead of a scanner. You will print assignments more than you need to photocopy material. If you're in the dorm, chances are they have laser printing at the front desk or in the computer lab (if it exists) but you'll get sick of going up and down stairs to get draft x of your paper. Plus, the cost will probably be the same.
depends on the SUV. A lot of the american SUVs are built off their truck counter parts, and as such have rear wheel drive just like a truck.
But if the SUV to tow anything, RWD is what you want anyway. This is another reason why it is used in the bigger vehicles. The FWD SUVS usually can only tow as much as a car (1000-2000 lbs). Not that you would want to tow any more with a FWD vehicle.
I like being able to vcsup all the kernel and system sources to stay current with the latest bug fixes. The ability cries for a cron job, which I do once per week. Versions are able to be upgraded to a new release (with the exception of 4.x->5.x jump) which is great. Typically Linux "upgrades" are so-so with some features left out. (Red Hat likes to do that)
I've also seen setups where one powerful machine will build all the custom kernels and system binaries nightly for various computers on a network, such that if a security hole is discovered all systems can be updated within (literally) a few minutes.
This ability along with ports collection is the reason to run FreeBSD as a server. Not to mention rival performance and security.
I will agree though, hardware support and installation of it are ugly and I wouldn't use FreeBSD as a desktop, or suggest it for a unix newbie. Also, the ports collection is often a few versions behind. (I haven't tried portupgrade, I will have to).
Luckily there are often "don't install this, stupid" messages for ports that have security compromises. (such as the current port for the Firebird database)
I wish the linux distros would get on a simular cvsup system sources bandwagon. The updates are getting easier to automate (like red hat's up2date) but it's still not quite there.
You can bring the CD with you and run it on any PC. A hard drive is not required. Then, store your personal documents on the USB key and you have a personal mobile desktop. I think that is what they are getting at anyway.
Isn't the crash detection free? It automatically notifies OnStar if your air bags go off. Even if it isn't, they should have you to be able to sign up for a $200 (or whatever) if that did happen, but not have to subscribe to OnStar.
I believe CLR is supposed to be portable like Java, but functions are compiled to machine level code upon their first call. Of course there are no performance comparisons out there vs Java, because part of the EULA is that you will not publish any.:P
Same here, my apartment was way too distracting and the only way I could pass my numerical analysis tests was if I got the hell out of there. Also the harder chairs (although not uncomfortable) would help me keep awake and motivated. I know there would be no way I could have done 3 hours of studying at home without either falling asleep, or saying fsck it and going out to party.
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So is eMachines a separate-enough entity that Gateway no longer has a 'physical presence'?
Actually, eMachines won't have the physical presence. At all. The eMachines name is going to be swallowed up, and now retailers (Best Buy, CompUSA) are going to now sell 'Gateway' instead of 'eMachines'.
That takes care of the store, what about the tech side of the issue? These retailers already have them in house. Done deal.
This would be great news for the space program, as Bush would make the invasion and conquest of Mars a national priority.
Only if the NSA persuaded him that Iraqi weapons of mass destruction were hidden there.
I did some informal testing between VC++ native and C# to .Net bytecode. I had a little loop calculating primes. The native C++ kept everything in registers, while the CLR made everything relative memory accesses to BP. I figured that would devastate performance, but on the Pentium 4, it was only 5% slower! It seems to have an L1 cache that's as fast as the registers. That will certainly make it easier on the compiler writers.
oops you just violated the VS.NET EULA by posting a performance benchmark. shame on you!
even a cheap ink jet printer nowadays as a high ppm. 30-45 seconds/page text. And laser isn't worth it for a single person in a dorm. Your paper will be done printing by time you get ready to go to bed.
What you should buy instead
First, you should buy a notebook. Second, you should buy an inexpensive, lightweight flatbed scanner.
Secondly I would buy a cheap ink jet printer ($70?) to sit in your dorm instead of a scanner. You will print assignments more than you need to photocopy material. If you're in the dorm, chances are they have laser printing at the front desk or in the computer lab (if it exists) but you'll get sick of going up and down stairs to get draft x of your paper. Plus, the cost will probably be the same.
Also, most SUVs are front wheel drive, not 4wd.
depends on the SUV. A lot of the american SUVs are built off their truck counter parts, and as such have rear wheel drive just like a truck.
But if the SUV to tow anything, RWD is what you want anyway. This is another reason why it is used in the bigger vehicles. The FWD SUVS usually can only tow as much as a car (1000-2000 lbs). Not that you would want to tow any more with a FWD vehicle.
don't start looking in the slashdot forums.
and around where I live american cars are bought more than imports. By your logic, that means they are superior. Right?
I like being able to vcsup all the kernel and system sources to stay current with the latest bug fixes. The ability cries for a cron job, which I do once per week. Versions are able to be upgraded to a new release (with the exception of 4.x->5.x jump) which is great. Typically Linux "upgrades" are so-so with some features left out. (Red Hat likes to do that)
I've also seen setups where one powerful machine will build all the custom kernels and system binaries nightly for various computers on a network, such that if a security hole is discovered all systems can be updated within (literally) a few minutes.
This ability along with ports collection is the reason to run FreeBSD as a server. Not to mention rival performance and security.
I will agree though, hardware support and installation of it are ugly and I wouldn't use FreeBSD as a desktop, or suggest it for a unix newbie. Also, the ports collection is often a few versions behind. (I haven't tried portupgrade, I will have to).
Luckily there are often "don't install this, stupid" messages for ports that have security compromises. (such as the current port for the Firebird database)
I wish the linux distros would get on a simular cvsup system sources bandwagon. The updates are getting easier to automate (like red hat's up2date) but it's still not quite there.
You can bring the CD with you and run it on any PC. A hard drive is not required. Then, store your personal documents on the USB key and you have a personal mobile desktop. I think that is what they are getting at anyway.
Isn't the crash detection free? It automatically notifies OnStar if your air bags go off. Even if it isn't, they should have you to be able to sign up for a $200 (or whatever) if that did happen, but not have to subscribe to OnStar.
actually it's less than that for the older GM cars with a chipped key. I think there's less than 10. (I used to sell them)
I believe CLR is supposed to be portable like Java, but functions are compiled to machine level code upon their first call. Of course there are no performance comparisons out there vs Java, because part of the EULA is that you will not publish any. :P
A machine is only as good as the program which it runs.
I want it. Have you ever seen an HDTV sportscast? the detail is unbelievable compared to a regular tv.
Yep. Welcome to slashdot, where anything that shows linux as not perfect OS gets torn apart.
Look at the past 10, 5, 2, (...) years and you'll see that Microsoft is not dominating in a static market.
Same here, my apartment was way too distracting and the only way I could pass my numerical analysis tests was if I got the hell out of there. Also the harder chairs (although not uncomfortable) would help me keep awake and motivated. I know there would be no way I could have done 3 hours of studying at home without either falling asleep, or saying fsck it and going out to party.
...but it still kicked ass globally in reliability?
But in this case it is:
Old:
12oz Small
20oz Medium
32oz Large
New:
12oz Small
20oz Large
32oz Large
Maybe you'll get the 20oz, maybe the 32.
Does this happen with LCD monitors as well?
Just like Steve Ballmer said, there are 3 things that make it successful.
Developers, developers, developers.
www.clear-viewtech.com They have blue and red tinted ones as well.