I think this technology is really cool, but one part of the article that really cracked me up was the statement:
Can you imagine hovering over your TV to watch Japan versus Brazil in the finals of the World Cup...
While not imposible, it is very unlikely to happen anytime in the near future. On the other hand, who knows, in 18 years, they might be actually be able to field a world cup winning team. There is usually a lag between hosting a world cup and a vitalization of a strong football program. While not strong yet, the United States football is much stronger that what it was only a decade ago.
$60 is expensive for games, but does no one remember the old snes days when games like final fantasy 3 (6 in reality) were ~$70. I personally think the right price for a game is between $20-$30. Therefore I usually buy my games used off ebay or something.
If it is anything like opera, it will be written in C/assembly. It would be nice to have an optmized version of bittorrent, however, too bad it is not open source.
1x cdrom is around 150k/s while 1x dvd rom is something like 1350k/s. Therefore once the math is done, the dvd drive is about twice as fast as the cdrom drive at their respective theoretical max speeds, which are rarely reached.
If this would have been anounced a few years ago like around season 2 or early season 3, I would not have minded or even cared, but season 4 so far has been really good. 3 mediocre/crappy seasons rightfully turned people away to this series, but it is a pity when they get something good going on, that there is no one left to watch it.
I have to agree. The new Kevin and Chi-lan are not very good. They are not geeks. Kevin Rose is the last of the geeks on the screen savers. It seems like no one on the show has any technical skills what-so-ever anymore. They all have pretty faces and can read some facts. Most of them lack the spark of geekiness that is required to host a show of this type. A pretty face (and body. Sarah lane on the infrared camera episode was very revealing. I never knew an infrared camera could show so much.) only goes so far. It can bring us in, but keep us there for long.
I know when I at school at Vanderbilt (I2 enabled school) we get IPv6 addresses all the way down to our dorm rooms. I've had an IPv6 address for well over a year if not more. Never noticed until I installed gentoo about 2 years ago.
I'm interested that this did not make the news aswell. Internet 2 is what exactly the new Chinese network is trying to do. It must be the fact that China, a technological underdog.
This is a very suprising statements especially Intel sponsers the International Science Fair, which is in reality, +90% represented by people in the United States. Granted we might be naive high schoolers along with out parents, but Craig Barrett speaks at these things almost every year emphasizing that we are the future of science and commends us.
Besides some limited pr and a few hundred extra processor sales over amd or ibm, I saw this a big way to recruit some major talent. I'm willing to bet there is atleast a few people there that have the potential to develop something that is capable of bringing in millions if not billions. What better way than to get a person like that to like your company and maybe be under your employment.
Though the x-box recently has gotten some good games. The major factor in that is the fact that the x-box is cheaper and hasn't received the same level of market saturation that the ps2 has. The ps2 is pretty much in every house that really wants a ps2.
Will someone please elaborate? I was channel surfing past CNN saw that there is a porn expo going next door. Is that really true. If so that is truely a place the be for a geek.
I don't know where you got your numbers for india, but they can not be right. You can build a rather large, even by our american standards, in India for 67 thousand. What kind of house can you get in the US for 67 thousand? Not much. A brand new car there probably cost about $10,000. If you spend more than a $1000 on food a year in india, then you are getting ripped off or eating at a 4-5 star restraunt every day.
A person who makes about $2500 is considered to be making a very good salary and has an above average living.
This is like bit torrent, but not any way close to the redundancy of users. Right now there are only a few servers that host a file. There isn't a need for much more because A. the network doesn't have that many people B. there is so much bandwidth. There is no organized p2p warez network setup. It is in the experimental phase and only used now for research applications.
As stated in previous posts, Internet2 is only accessible by academic institutions and corporations. I'm just a student at a university that is connected to the internet2 and I use LoRS for a smaller cooler application where I download recorded tv shows that I can select to be recorded at a central server.
I will agree with you on you list of unoriginal films except for X-Men 2. This was a great movie that had a wonderful plot filled with conflicts and respectable dialog. The other films don't even come close, epically MI:2.
There is a flaw in you part 2. You don't take into account that microsoft might not be happy about gateway and dell offering linux as an option. Microsoft might punish them by increasing the pricing of the oem licenses. Another option which is being in effect now, is that microsoft give reduced prices to oems that only offer microsoft products.
The change to linux is going to be gradual where there will come a point where microsoft can't grab the balls of major computer providers and force them to use microsoft products.
You guys seem to be forgetting Deep Space 1. Deep Space 1 was launched by NASA on October 24, 1998 and uses ion engines. I'm not sure if they are the same type, but are xenon ion engines none the less.
On a side note Deep Space 1 had a cooler mission in actually navigating really close to an commet and taking pictures and running test.
I don't know about the rest of you, but I have not noticed the bandwidth limits of my pcmcia card. Granted I don't run a gig-bit ethernet, video equipment (firewire takes care of it), or scsi cards, but I don't use my laptop to do that kind of stuff. What I have noticed is the slowness of my laptop hard drive, which will not be able to handle all this new bandwith anyways. Though it is always nice to have more bandwith and smaller cards, there are more important things that need to addressed.
Most of the 865 chips are basically rejected 875 chips. Intel didn't want to waste the chips so they came up with the idea of just renaming them 865 and sell them as lower performing chips.
Your right in that intel should have done something to permanently disable the chips.
You want to keep your memory timings and clock speed in synchronization (1:1 ratio) to attain max performance (I don't think PAT is enabled at any other setting than at 1:1). So unless you have ddr500, you are taking some preformance hit by changing to another ratio (ex. 5:4) to keep your system stable. So the recommended overclockers are 2.6 and 2.8 for their higher multipliers.
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I think this technology is really cool, but one part of the article that really cracked me up was the statement:
...
Can you imagine hovering over your TV to watch Japan versus Brazil in the finals of the World Cup
While not imposible, it is very unlikely to happen anytime in the near future. On the other hand, who knows, in 18 years, they might be actually be able to field a world cup winning team. There is usually a lag between hosting a world cup and a vitalization of a strong football program. While not strong yet, the United States football is much stronger that what it was only a decade ago.
$60 is expensive for games, but does no one remember the old snes days when games like final fantasy 3 (6 in reality) were ~$70. I personally think the right price for a game is between $20-$30. Therefore I usually buy my games used off ebay or something.
If it is anything like opera, it will be written in C/assembly. It would be nice to have an optmized version of bittorrent, however, too bad it is not open source.
1x cdrom is around 150k/s while 1x dvd rom is something like 1350k/s. Therefore once the math is done, the dvd drive is about twice as fast as the cdrom drive at their respective theoretical max speeds, which are rarely reached.
If this would have been anounced a few years ago like around season 2 or early season 3, I would not have minded or even cared, but season 4 so far has been really good. 3 mediocre/crappy seasons rightfully turned people away to this series, but it is a pity when they get something good going on, that there is no one left to watch it.
I have to agree. The new Kevin and Chi-lan are not very good. They are not geeks. Kevin Rose is the last of the geeks on the screen savers. It seems like no one on the show has any technical skills what-so-ever anymore. They all have pretty faces and can read some facts. Most of them lack the spark of geekiness that is required to host a show of this type. A pretty face (and body. Sarah lane on the infrared camera episode was very revealing. I never knew an infrared camera could show so much.) only goes so far. It can bring us in, but keep us there for long.
I know when I at school at Vanderbilt (I2 enabled school) we get IPv6 addresses all the way down to our dorm rooms. I've had an IPv6 address for well over a year if not more. Never noticed until I installed gentoo about 2 years ago.
I'm interested that this did not make the news aswell. Internet 2 is what exactly the new Chinese network is trying to do. It must be the fact that
China, a technological underdog.
This is a very suprising statements especially Intel sponsers the International Science Fair, which is in reality, +90% represented by people in the United States. Granted we might be naive high schoolers along with out parents, but Craig Barrett speaks at these things almost every year emphasizing that we are the future of science and commends us.
Besides some limited pr and a few hundred extra processor sales over amd or ibm, I saw this a big way to recruit some major talent. I'm willing to bet there is atleast a few people there that have the potential to develop something that is capable of bringing in millions if not billions. What better way than to get a person like that to like your company and maybe be under your employment.
Though the x-box recently has gotten some good games. The major factor in that is the fact that the x-box is cheaper and hasn't received the same level of market saturation that the ps2 has. The ps2 is pretty much in every house that really wants a ps2.
Does anyone know of a torrent that doesn't use a tracker which uses port 6969? My campus blocks that port for security reasons.
Will someone please elaborate? I was channel surfing past CNN saw that there is a porn expo going next door. Is that really true. If so that is truely a place the be for a geek.
The title says it all.
Blank left here for no reason.
I don't know where you got your numbers for india, but they can not be right. You can build a rather large, even by our american standards, in India for 67 thousand. What kind of house can you get in the US for 67 thousand? Not much. A brand new car there probably cost about $10,000. If you spend more than a $1000 on food a year in india, then you are getting ripped off or eating at a 4-5 star restraunt every day.
A person who makes about $2500 is considered to be making a very good salary and has an above average living.
This is like bit torrent, but not any way close to the redundancy of users. Right now there are only a few servers that host a file. There isn't a need for much more because A. the network doesn't have that many people B. there is so much bandwidth. There is no organized p2p warez network setup. It is in the experimental phase and only used now for research applications.
As stated in previous posts, Internet2 is only accessible by academic institutions and corporations. I'm just a student at a university that is connected to the internet2 and I use LoRS for a smaller cooler application where I download recorded tv shows that I can select to be recorded at a central server.
I will agree with you on you list of unoriginal films except for X-Men 2. This was a great movie that had a wonderful plot filled with conflicts and respectable dialog. The other films don't even come close, epically MI:2.
There is a flaw in you part 2. You don't take into account that microsoft might not be happy about gateway and dell offering linux as an option. Microsoft might punish them by increasing the pricing of the oem licenses. Another option which is being in effect now, is that microsoft give reduced prices to oems that only offer microsoft products.
The change to linux is going to be gradual where there will come a point where microsoft can't grab the balls of major computer providers and force them to use microsoft products.
You guys seem to be forgetting Deep Space 1. Deep Space 1 was launched by NASA on October 24, 1998 and uses ion engines. I'm not sure if they are the same type, but are xenon ion engines none the less.
On a side note Deep Space 1 had a cooler mission in actually navigating really close to an commet and taking pictures and running test.
Thanks, I downloaded the trailer in litterally 4 seconds. Is there a listing of files that one can download through this service?
Thank you for informing me. I will not make that mistake again.
I don't know about the rest of you, but I have not noticed the bandwidth limits of my pcmcia card. Granted I don't run a gig-bit ethernet, video equipment (firewire takes care of it), or scsi cards, but I don't use my laptop to do that kind of stuff. What I have noticed is the slowness of my laptop hard drive, which will not be able to handle all this new bandwith anyways. Though it is always nice to have more bandwith and smaller cards, there are more important things that need to addressed.
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I hope this NEWCARD uses less power.
I don't think expensive should be a factor since they are charging $1200 for it, which is already a little high.
Most of the 865 chips are basically rejected 875 chips. Intel didn't want to waste the chips so they came up with the idea of just renaming them 865 and sell them as lower performing chips.
Your right in that intel should have done something to permanently disable the chips.
How would one go about removing the gaps between the monitors?
The display is great, but The gaps between the monitors is not very attractive and could be destracting.
You want to keep your memory timings and clock speed in synchronization (1:1 ratio) to attain max performance (I don't think PAT is enabled at any other setting than at 1:1). So unless you have ddr500, you are taking some preformance hit by changing to another ratio (ex. 5:4) to keep your system stable. So the recommended overclockers are 2.6 and 2.8 for their higher multipliers.