Just go back to Prop driven aircraft. The props will take care of the. Actually I fear that sort of just killing every bird that refuses to leave the area around the airport that there isn't a total solution.
Oh yes. Just off the top of my head. Fleetstreet Writer. pfs:Write. QnA. WordStar. Write. WordPro. ProWrite. BankStreet Writer. PCWrite. XYWrite. Sprint. I could go on. There was also a time when we had many more spreadsheets as well.
Inovation doesn't have to mean bloat or even added features. You can simplify current features, increase performance, or even decrease memory footprint. I think the idea of a one size fits all program is just kind of silly. You have fourth graders using Word to write book reports about Harry Potter. I just have a problem when anything is held up as, it is as good as it gets.
I just can not say that Aliens was better than Alien. Alien scared the living daylights out me. Aliens just wasn't that scary. It was more action than horror IMHO. Both where good movies.
With the go you pay more for less. You loose the UMD so you loose access to all the cheap used games and the old PSP will get a software update to allow you to get games online just like the go. The features of the Go are good. The actual device I think will be a bust.
iTunes is moving to or already has moved to all DRM free music and they still do sell a good amount of it. I did say they might block it in software but I see no chance they will block it in court. They could loose, it will cost money, and really could be some nasty PR for them. It could even push interest in anti-trust.
When have we seen any real innovation? It is like we got to Word and everything stopped. Than and most WP programs have become these huge monster applications that do more than 99% of their users need.
Well then try and get rid of the people. People are soft and squishy and they have parents and families that get upset when they don't come back. Then you could make it even smaller, lighter, and cheaper.
Kind of sad how few Word processors there are these days. Even on your list at least four of them are based on the same code and two of them are Office.
I vote for the ads. Frankly Verizon is the least geek friendly carrier out there. I don't like AT&T because of their politics involving things like community Fiber and Wifi. Anyone remember what they did in New Orleans? After the hurricane they offered the police the use of one of their buildings until New Orleans started to work on a community WiFi system then kicked them out. Or their statements on net neutrality?
Well the idea that NTFS got it right is funny to start with. Defrag??? I still have to freaking Defrag? Take a look at the feature set of ZFS and NTFS and tell me that NTFS got it right. Also Windows does have few more file systems like Fat32 and VFat. You can also install EXT support in XP as well. The real answer is that one file system doesn't work for everything. You only think that Windows has a single filesystem because that is the the default option. If you install Ubuntu you will get EXT3 I think by default or maybe EXT4. I have not checked lately. You may never even know what file system you are using with some Linux distros. But.. Linux give you options that Windows just doesn't to use different file system that may fit your needs better. If you are just going to use Linux as a desktop then just use the default and don't worry about it.
Funny but has Windows had many Viruses lately. I know that Virus has become a common term for all sorts of programs but this is Slashdot. I thought that a Virus was a program that would self propagate usually using a boot block method. Not many people boot from floppies any more. You do have some email viruses but the vast majority of those I would call Trojans and depend on somebody to actually run them. Then of course your have all sorts of exploits that then try to infect other systems but wouldn't those be worms? And then you have BonzoBuddy.....
Well anandtech's tests say differn't http://www.anandtech.com/weblog/showpost.aspx?i=602 From their posting. "720p HD Completely unwatchable, CPU utilization > 90% And that is for an Atom 330 using Nvidia's ION platfrom. Even over clocking makes it just watchable. Flash even if they use H.264 seems to be slower than just a straight H.264 playback.
And my original post specified Flash 780p. I meant 720P but I was having a bad typo day.
I really doubt that they will launch any legal assault. Palm probably has a patent on syncing a PDA device with a PC or some such thing. Apple will at best just change the software so it doesn't work or will leave it. Other devices already sync with iTunes and Apple makes money when you buy music so why bother with a law suit?
Wrong... Verizon and Sprint are CDMA. All you have to do to put a Sprint phone on the Verizon network is for Verizon to activate it. What I don't get is why is everyone so hot for it to move to Verizon. Sprint is several hundred dollars a year cheaper for the same plan. I have had no problems with converage on Sprint and there network is actually pretty fast. As far as customer support I have not had any issues with them. I wonder how much of the Sprint hate is left over and how much of it is current. And don't the people on slashdot know that Verizon is infamous for taking functionality out of phones and putting their own crappy slow interface on them? Sprint is actually pretty open about what you can install even on their feature phones. When I asked Verizon about installing Opera mini on one of their Razors I was told that you couldn't. Of course the sales guy might have been an idiot.
Toy Story 2 and GoodFather 2 where good examples. I have to admit that I liked cars more than Toy Story 2 but I loved Monsters Inc so I am actually looking forward to these.
That is kind of the point. If you want to step it up then go for one that supports 1080p and that will be good enough for most people. And actually I think the Atom doesn't handle 720p all that well yet.
That is the interesting thing about CPUs today. The best price to performance ratio isn't always important. If you have no need for the extra performance don't get it. As it is very few applications will use an I7 well. Most people just don't need 8 threads.
What is the cheapest CPU that can playback 780P flash well? That is probably a good CPU for 99% of the population. Flash is a resource hog and is likely to be most intensive thing that most people use. The next step up would be to list several games and see what is the cheapest CPU that can play them at say 60FPS at good settings with a $99 video card.
If your a video editor, hardcore PC gamer, transcode a lot of video, or run CAD get the fastest CPU you can afford. So hard core types should buy I7s and pretty much everybody else should buy AMDs once you take into account ram and motherboard prices.
Also if you are planing on running virtual machines AMD are often a better choice. Intel doesn't support virtualization on a lot of their CPUs while I think AMD does on their AM2 and up CPUs.
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Actually Novell Netware had those features before NTFS.
No NTFS still requires defrag every now and then.
Just go back to Prop driven aircraft. The props will take care of the.
Actually I fear that sort of just killing every bird that refuses to leave the area around the airport that there isn't a total solution.
Oh yes.
Just off the top of my head.
Fleetstreet Writer.
pfs:Write.
QnA.
WordStar.
Write.
WordPro.
ProWrite.
BankStreet Writer.
PCWrite.
XYWrite.
Sprint.
I could go on. There was also a time when we had many more spreadsheets as well.
Guess you never have used a nail gun?
Inovation doesn't have to mean bloat or even added features.
You can simplify current features, increase performance, or even decrease memory footprint.
I think the idea of a one size fits all program is just kind of silly. You have fourth graders using Word to write book reports about Harry Potter.
I just have a problem when anything is held up as, it is as good as it gets.
But they are still selling the old PSP for less than the Go. There is no reason for anybody to buy a Go. Unless you want less for more.
AMD supports it on more CPUs than Intel does. Of the current generation I think only the Semperons don't support it.
I just can not say that Aliens was better than Alien. Alien scared the living daylights out me. Aliens just wasn't that scary. It was more action than horror IMHO.
Both where good movies.
With the go you pay more for less.
You loose the UMD so you loose access to all the cheap used games and the old PSP will get a software update to allow you to get games online just like the go.
The features of the Go are good. The actual device I think will be a bust.
iTunes is moving to or already has moved to all DRM free music and they still do sell a good amount of it. I did say they might block it in software but I see no chance they will block it in court. They could loose, it will cost money, and really could be some nasty PR for them. It could even push interest in anti-trust.
When have we seen any real innovation? It is like we got to Word and everything stopped. Than and most WP programs have become these huge monster applications that do more than 99% of their users need.
Well then try and get rid of the people. People are soft and squishy and they have parents and families that get upset when they don't come back.
Then you could make it even smaller, lighter, and cheaper.
Kind of sad how few Word processors there are these days.
Even on your list at least four of them are based on the same code and two of them are Office.
I vote for the ads. Frankly Verizon is the least geek friendly carrier out there. I don't like AT&T because of their politics involving things like community Fiber and Wifi. Anyone remember what they did in New Orleans? After the hurricane they offered the police the use of one of their buildings until New Orleans started to work on a community WiFi system then kicked them out. Or their statements on net neutrality?
Actually it was a miss aimed reply. I was replying to the grandparent message but I must of hit the wrong reply tag. My bad.
Well the idea that NTFS got it right is funny to start with. Defrag??? I still have to freaking Defrag?
Take a look at the feature set of ZFS and NTFS and tell me that NTFS got it right.
Also Windows does have few more file systems like Fat32 and VFat. You can also install EXT support in XP as well.
The real answer is that one file system doesn't work for everything. You only think that Windows has a single filesystem because that is the the default option. If you install Ubuntu you will get EXT3 I think by default or maybe EXT4. I have not checked lately. You may never even know what file system you are using with some Linux distros. But.. Linux give you options that Windows just doesn't to use different file system that may fit your needs better. If you are just going to use Linux as a desktop then just use the default and don't worry about it.
Funny but has Windows had many Viruses lately. I know that Virus has become a common term for all sorts of programs but this is Slashdot. I thought that a Virus was a program that would self propagate usually using a boot block method. Not many people boot from floppies any more.
You do have some email viruses but the vast majority of those I would call Trojans and depend on somebody to actually run them.
Then of course your have all sorts of exploits that then try to infect other systems but wouldn't those be worms?
And then you have BonzoBuddy.....
Well anandtech's tests say differn't
http://www.anandtech.com/weblog/showpost.aspx?i=602
From their posting.
"720p HD Completely unwatchable, CPU utilization > 90%
And that is for an Atom 330 using Nvidia's ION platfrom.
Even over clocking makes it just watchable. Flash even if they use H.264 seems to be slower than just a straight H.264 playback.
And my original post specified Flash 780p. I meant 720P but I was having a bad typo day.
I really doubt that they will launch any legal assault.
Palm probably has a patent on syncing a PDA device with a PC or some such thing. Apple will at best just change the software so it doesn't work or will leave it. Other devices already sync with iTunes and Apple makes money when you buy music so why bother with a law suit?
Wrong... Verizon and Sprint are CDMA. All you have to do to put a Sprint phone on the Verizon network is for Verizon to activate it.
What I don't get is why is everyone so hot for it to move to Verizon.
Sprint is several hundred dollars a year cheaper for the same plan. I have had no problems with converage on Sprint and there network is actually pretty fast.
As far as customer support I have not had any issues with them.
I wonder how much of the Sprint hate is left over and how much of it is current. And don't the people on slashdot know that Verizon is infamous for taking functionality out of phones and putting their own crappy slow interface on them? Sprint is actually pretty open about what you can install even on their feature phones.
When I asked Verizon about installing Opera mini on one of their Razors I was told that you couldn't. Of course the sales guy might have been an idiot.
Toy Story 2 and GoodFather 2 where good examples. I have to admit that I liked cars more than Toy Story 2 but I loved Monsters Inc so I am actually looking forward to these.
It That is blue ray and not Flash. That is why I specified Flash.
Sorry that was a typo. Yes I meant 720P
And yes I think one of those ARM notebooks would be very handy.
That is kind of the point. If you want to step it up then go for one that supports 1080p and that will be good enough for most people.
And actually I think the Atom doesn't handle 720p all that well yet.
That is the interesting thing about CPUs today. The best price to performance ratio isn't always important.
If you have no need for the extra performance don't get it. As it is very few applications will use an I7 well. Most people just don't need 8 threads.
What is the cheapest CPU that can playback 780P flash well?
That is probably a good CPU for 99% of the population. Flash is a resource hog and is likely to be most intensive thing that most people use.
The next step up would be to list several games and see what is the cheapest CPU that can play them at say 60FPS at good settings with a $99 video card.
If your a video editor, hardcore PC gamer, transcode a lot of video, or run CAD get the fastest CPU you can afford.
So hard core types should buy I7s and pretty much everybody else should buy AMDs once you take into account ram and motherboard prices.
Also if you are planing on running virtual machines AMD are often a better choice. Intel doesn't support virtualization on a lot of their CPUs while I think AMD does on their AM2 and up CPUs.