Earlier this year I was in Toronto on holidays, from Australia, and tried to access my back account online.. since my bank uses Java rather pointlessly, it didn't work from the internet access terminals in my hostel.. I then went to these terminals, and they didn't work either. I then went to the "internet cafe" at the "world's biggest bookstore", which thankfully worked. Except they were the same P166's I used when I was there in 1999. Scary.
If it's the same one I read, it did consider the cost of licenses for Windows 2000, and then said that since it was a Microsoft company, it didn't have to pay for licenses.
If you get in right with them, you have to pay for very little from Microsoft. For student use, my department can install any microsoft development product or operating systems on an unlimited number of lab machines for $2000/year. That used to be close to the per machine cost of software...
I was joking. But given PayPal's view about it's own position, I was insinuating that he might try a similar thing to this to avoid government regulation, just as paypal has:)
He won't have to get approval for his space mission because it's not a space flight, it's an interstratum transport venture, which isn't regulated like space flights are
(cf: PayPal not being a bank and thus have responsibilities to the FED and FDIC:)
I'm a network admin for a university department.. I think the smartest thing my department ever did was have all our subnets routed. Almost every other department is switched, so the thing with the default gateway for client machines is a switch up to several kilometres away;)
This was of course after my current manager with a clue about networking came along and saw the hub serving as a network core that then had 10 bridges hanging off it for segmenting the network into each subnet... Of course, he then bought a Nortel Accelar to use as the network core.. but he's seen the folly of his ways now, and we have a Cisco 3550 doing that now;)
Yes, XP is 1000% on NT4 in regards to what you can lock down and deployment is easily automated, evem if you don't use Active Directory. A lot of the things I've locked down on our student labs are only available for control in Windows XP.
Then there's also the debate regarding if Unfinished Tales and The Simarillion are part of the greater work known as "Lord of the Rings" or if they're part of the more general body of works known as Tolkein's Ring:)
I especially like Windows XP in this regard.. the _professional_ edition, alledgedly for business use, comes complete with "MSN Gaming Zone".. and all the files in it are covered by Windows File Protection, so you can't delete them easily.
Dear Microsoft, this is not a way to win over your corporate customers.
For one thing, it's made of more than three books, but it's actually just one long big book in three popular parts. There's something in the forward of the books about this. A Tryptych would be a more accurate description.
If by "we" you mean that you are one of the authors of this article, or indeed if you're not...
This article is alledgedly comparing how good laptops are for gaming, versus desktop machines. Not "how good is an $X000 laptop versus an $X000 desktop, where X == X". Yes laptops cost more. That's obvious. By not comparing like systems, this article fails to answer its question. Cost comparisons are only useful if it's of similar types of systems. If say this was comparing systems that are $X000, having different cards/mobos/processors would be expected, but by not having the same video card in the desktop PC, it's little more than a "I played with these computers and found this" article.
Was good to see they were both based on i845 chipsets, but I have this feeling it was co-incidental.
Why compare a laptop with a Radeon 9000 to a Desktop with a Radeon 9000 when you can compare it to something totally different and draw your conlusion about laptop gaming from that!
If you're looking at the performance of laptops for gaming, you make your desktop as similar as possible.. same RAM, same CPU speed, SAME VIDEO CARD. Otherwise, it's not truely useful stats.
As a mac user, I must say I don't care all that much. I'm a bit peeved that Quicktime has the DRM that it does, like the ability to flag certain movies as being unable to save/copy from, like The Two Towers preview.. which means every time I open it up, I have to go and delete all the crap sprite tracks so I can just watch the promo.
Small price to pay for actually having control over the data on my hard drive and the easy ability to back it up:)
In an exceedingly lame move, the card is available in a number of configurations and will only work with that amount of RAM. IE, if you buy an empty 2GB card and then stick 4GB into it, it won't work, so you'll have to then buy the 4GB version..
Crappy business model. How difficult would it be to just get it to sense how much RAM was on there and act accordingly?
Yes, because 500mhz/256MB for Debian is quite nice:) But not for OSX. Different operating systems. OSX is slow unleess your system has the grunt to handle it:)
"Network throughput is top-notch. You will be able to saturate a 100BaseT easily if you wish."
Or, if like me, you can plug it into a Gigabit port, you can put a fairly large dent in a 1000BaseTX trunk;) Nothing like doing a ping -f for a couple of seconds and throwing a few hundred thousands packets at something;)
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Yes.. if you could port CP/M to it, it would probably run pretty damn fast. But it runs OSX, which has some slightly higher requirements:)
The 500mhz iBooks, while looking very flashy and stuff, are not very grunty beasts. They have a 66mhz bus, and 8MB ATI Rage Mobility. Compare this to the 800mhz iBooks, just released, which look the same which has a 100mhz bus and a 32MB ATI Radeon 7500. Throwing RAM at them helps. My 500mhz iBook sped up a lot when I upgraded from 256MB to 640MB RAM.
The ibooks are a bit of a pain to open the first time.. Apple puts the screws in REALLY tight, and they're tiny. I bought a special screwdriver just for ibook RAM cover removing. Of course, I've since used it on about 5 ibooks.
Tibooks are easy to change the RAM in, but due to the price, fewer people have them, so I've only done it to three of them;) First one I did was my own, in store when I got it.. heh, with two sales people watching me. I made very sure to earth myself on the case first;p
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Earlier this year I was in Toronto on holidays, from Australia, and tried to access my back account online.. since my bank uses Java rather pointlessly, it didn't work from the internet access terminals in my hostel.. I then went to these terminals, and they didn't work either. I then went to the "internet cafe" at the "world's biggest bookstore", which thankfully worked. Except they were the same P166's I used when I was there in 1999. Scary.
Yeah. Sort of twilight zone station with two names and layouts which magically reinvents itself depends on which entrance you go in ;)
HP live to regret this?
:)
Maybe. But then again... maybe not
The US of A officially uses the metric system... it's just that it's residents haven't caught on to it yet..
"The metric system is the tool of the devil! My car gets 40 rods to the hogshead, and that's the way I likes it!" -- Abe Simpson
If it's the same one I read, it did consider the cost of licenses for Windows 2000, and then said that since it was a Microsoft company, it didn't have to pay for licenses.
If you get in right with them, you have to pay for very little from Microsoft. For student use, my department can install any microsoft development product or operating systems on an unlimited number of lab machines for $2000/year. That used to be close to the per machine cost of software...
I was joking. But given PayPal's view about it's own position, I was insinuating that he might try a similar thing to this to avoid government regulation, just as paypal has :)
He won't have to get approval for his space mission because it's not a space flight, it's an interstratum transport venture, which isn't regulated like space flights are
:)
(cf: PayPal not being a bank and thus have responsibilities to the FED and FDIC
CCNA = Can Crap - Not Assist :)
I'm a network admin for a university department.. I think the smartest thing my department ever did was have all our subnets routed. Almost every other department is switched, so the thing with the default gateway for client machines is a switch up to several kilometres away ;)
;)
This was of course after my current manager with a clue about networking came along and saw the hub serving as a network core that then had 10 bridges hanging off it for segmenting the network into each subnet... Of course, he then bought a Nortel Accelar to use as the network core.. but he's seen the folly of his ways now, and we have a Cisco 3550 doing that now
If you say that, the terrorists win! ;)
Yes, XP is 1000% on NT4 in regards to what you can lock down and deployment is easily automated, evem if you don't use Active Directory. A lot of the things I've locked down on our student labs are only available for control in Windows XP.
The scary thing is that knowing Microsoft, it probably is ;)
Then there's also the debate regarding if Unfinished Tales and The Simarillion are part of the greater work known as "Lord of the Rings" or if they're part of the more general body of works known as Tolkein's Ring :)
I especially like Windows XP in this regard.. the _professional_ edition, alledgedly for business use, comes complete with "MSN Gaming Zone" .. and all the files in it are covered by Windows File Protection, so you can't delete them easily.
Dear Microsoft, this is not a way to win over your corporate customers.
For one thing, it's made of more than three books, but it's actually just one long big book in three popular parts. There's something in the forward of the books about this. A Tryptych would be a more accurate description.
If by "we" you mean that you are one of the authors of this article, or indeed if you're not...
This article is alledgedly comparing how good laptops are for gaming, versus desktop machines. Not "how good is an $X000 laptop versus an $X000 desktop, where X == X". Yes laptops cost more. That's obvious. By not comparing like systems, this article fails to answer its question. Cost comparisons are only useful if it's of similar types of systems. If say this was comparing systems that are $X000, having different cards/mobos/processors would be expected, but by not having the same video card in the desktop PC, it's little more than a "I played with these computers and found this" article.
Was good to see they were both based on i845 chipsets, but I have this feeling it was co-incidental.
Why compare a laptop with a Radeon 9000 to a Desktop with a Radeon 9000 when you can compare it to something totally different and draw your conlusion about laptop gaming from that!
If you're looking at the performance of laptops for gaming, you make your desktop as similar as possible.. same RAM, same CPU speed, SAME VIDEO CARD. Otherwise, it's not truely useful stats.
As a mac user, I must say I don't care all that much. I'm a bit peeved that Quicktime has the DRM that it does, like the ability to flag certain movies as being unable to save/copy from, like The Two Towers preview.. which means every time I open it up, I have to go and delete all the crap sprite tracks so I can just watch the promo.
:)
Small price to pay for actually having control over the data on my hard drive and the easy ability to back it up
In an exceedingly lame move, the card is available in a number of configurations and will only work with that amount of RAM. IE, if you buy an empty 2GB card and then stick 4GB into it, it won't work, so you'll have to then buy the 4GB version..
Crappy business model. How difficult would it be to just get it to sense how much RAM was on there and act accordingly?
Yes, because 500mhz/256MB for Debian is quite nice :) But not for OSX. Different operating systems. OSX is slow unleess your system has the grunt to handle it :)
"Network throughput is top-notch. You will be able to saturate a 100BaseT easily if you wish."
;) Nothing like doing a ping -f for a couple of seconds and throwing a few hundred thousands packets at something ;)
Or, if like me, you can plug it into a Gigabit port, you can put a fairly large dent in a 1000BaseTX trunk
Yes.. if you could port CP/M to it, it would probably run pretty damn fast. But it runs OSX, which has some slightly higher requirements :)
;)
The 500mhz iBooks, while looking very flashy and stuff, are not very grunty beasts. They have a 66mhz bus, and 8MB ATI Rage Mobility. Compare this to the 800mhz iBooks, just released, which look the same which has a 100mhz bus and a 32MB ATI Radeon 7500. Throwing RAM at them helps. My 500mhz iBook sped up a lot when I upgraded from 256MB to 640MB RAM.
And then I got a 800mhz TiBook
The ibooks are a bit of a pain to open the first time.. Apple puts the screws in REALLY tight, and they're tiny. I bought a special screwdriver just for ibook RAM cover removing. Of course, I've since used it on about 5 ibooks.
;) First one I did was my own, in store when I got it.. heh, with two sales people watching me. I made very sure to earth myself on the case first ;p
Tibooks are easy to change the RAM in, but due to the price, fewer people have them, so I've only done it to three of them
I've used Ghost to deploy images to 80 machines simultaneously and it's never had problems, except when the PCs are new and have loose network cards.
Of course, this is over switched 100M ethernet run with Cisco 2924/2950s. YMMV with coax/hubs/whatever.
I thought you were just making this up.. but this is actually on the FAQ.. how cool :D