Yeah, that was indeed very very cheap. I don't understand why Slashdot should post a link to a site like this anyway. Clearly the editor has no knowledge about this matter and thought he had a good story, or something. There's few hardware sites that actually give some real information, and among them are Tom's Hardware and AnandTech.
Perhaps I wasn't clear. What you are saying is not my point. I mean that when you're using Windows, all Windows are yours by definition, since it isn't really multi-user, so the 'vulnerability' point is moot.
In Holland we have a mixed system: three public channels which are paid for by both tax and advertising (in a number of blocks of about 5 minutes, no interruptions of programs), and for the rest purely commercial channels (more advertising, but still not as much as I saw once when I was in the US and every 10 minutes a commercial seemed to fly by).
Holland and Australia are both far from communistic.
I can tell you, it's really nice to watch TV without many commercial breaks.
They made a mistake on their website ..
on
Worst Buy
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· Score: 1, Flamebait
.. and within minutes the news about the mistake was propagated throughout Usenet.
Hundreds, if not thousands, of people were placing orders KNOWING that the price was a mistake. Look up the archives in Google to see for yourself.
People tried to abuse a mistake on the part of Best Buy. They gambled and lost, but apperantly have a problem with that. I suspect these are the same people that stick lower price tags on products in shops as well, before taking them to the checkout..
These chips double 802.11b speeds by functioning full duplex. The drawback however, is that this requires category 5 air.
Not all offices and homes fulfill this requirement. Location plays an important role: in the city you'll most likely not be able to communicate full duplex. In suburbs you'll have a fair chance if you're not too close to the city. In rural area's you'll most probably always have full duplex.
You can communicate at 22 Mbps over short distances using category 4 air, but when the peers are more than a few meters apart, category 5 air becomes a must.
Just something you might want to know before you buy these things..
Note: since this story seems a duplicate, I'll just duplicate my reply as well..;)
These chips double 802.11b speeds by functioning full duplex. The drawback however, is that this requires category 5 air.
Not all offices and homes fulfill this requirement. Location plays an important role: in the city you'll most likely not be able to communicate full duplex. In suburbs you'll have a fair chance if you're not too close to the city. In rural area's you'll most probably always have full duplex.
You can communicate at 22 Mbps over short distances using category 4 air, but when the peers are more than a few meters apart, category 5 air becomes a must.
Just something you might want to know before you buy these things..
On the other hand, AMD's pricing hardly justifies a value processor, since compared to Intel processors they are already pretty cheap.
If they widen the XP line just a little bit by extending the slower models lifetime a little, they can fill the gap the Duron leaves behind with the XP itself.
Also: when the Hammers arrive, the XP will fade away and presumably act as a value processor for a while. A Duron as an even cheaper CPU wouldn't make sense in such a scenario.
Another reason I can think of, is that it doesn't make so much sense to make a CPU with a 100 MHz FSB. With today's materials this will probably not be cheaper to procuce than 133 MHz parts. So you're actually producing less than you can for the same cost, just to create a difference between models. Essentially the smaller L2 cache is the probably the only difference in cost of production between the Duron and the XP.
Do you realize that this software has to track every move you make as a citizen? It has to track every step you make, everything you buy, your religion, sexual life actions, etc, etc, etc.
Governments need this kind of database power to be able to track every molecule of your body and every thought in your mind.
Do you want them to put it in a simple text file? Come on, let them do it professionally!
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The hole in the ozon layer is finally getting big enough to shoot through a rocket.
(So we'll finally are able to really get to the moon.)
"You're not allowed to use our planes to fly them into buildings."
I get 150 fps in 1600x1200x32 with detail high on my Commodore VIC 20. Glad they also support older machines.
That OS is the biggest trojan horse if I ever saw one.
post your requirements on /., as you've done in this case.. :)
Version control would get a little difficult though.
In an earlier life I was 2:282/601.4
So what's the point? :)
I found it, it goes like this:
"*VFP!"
* = Very First Post!
show tables:
\d
Call this a news site? I miss the Pentium 4 2.8 GHz annoucement!
Yeah, that was indeed very very cheap. I don't understand why Slashdot should post a link to a site like this anyway. Clearly the editor has no knowledge about this matter and thought he had a good story, or something. There's few hardware sites that actually give some real information, and among them are Tom's Hardware and AnandTech.
Perhaps I wasn't clear. What you are saying is not my point. I mean that when you're using Windows, all Windows are yours by definition, since it isn't really multi-user, so the 'vulnerability' point is moot.
That's really OLD. Like >15 years or so. It's not comparable at all to X-Windows where the clients run on a multi-user system.
Can I have the divx, please???
Outside the little 'world' called the US, a lot of people probably do.
Not really..
In Holland we have a mixed system: three public channels which are paid for by both tax and advertising (in a number of blocks of about 5 minutes, no interruptions of programs), and for the rest purely commercial channels (more advertising, but still not as much as I saw once when I was in the US and every 10 minutes a commercial seemed to fly by).
Holland and Australia are both far from communistic.
I can tell you, it's really nice to watch TV without many commercial breaks.
.. and within minutes the news about the mistake was propagated throughout Usenet.
Hundreds, if not thousands, of people were placing orders KNOWING that the price was a mistake. Look up the archives in Google to see for yourself.
People tried to abuse a mistake on the part of Best Buy. They gambled and lost, but apperantly have a problem with that. I suspect these are the same people that stick lower price tags on products in shops as well, before taking them to the checkout..
These chips double 802.11b speeds by functioning full duplex. The drawback however, is that this requires category 5 air.
;)
Not all offices and homes fulfill this requirement. Location plays an important role: in the city you'll most likely not be able to communicate full duplex. In suburbs you'll have a fair chance if you're not too close to the city. In rural area's you'll most probably always have full duplex.
You can communicate at 22 Mbps over short distances using category 4 air, but when the peers are more than a few meters apart, category 5 air becomes a must.
Just something you might want to know before you buy these things..
Note: since this story seems a duplicate, I'll just duplicate my reply as well..
And my dick is even bigger than yours!
It would emit through AIR. Category 5 air, that is..
These chips double 802.11b speeds by functioning full duplex. The drawback however, is that this requires category 5 air.
Not all offices and homes fulfill this requirement. Location plays an important role: in the city you'll most likely not be able to communicate full duplex. In suburbs you'll have a fair chance if you're not too close to the city. In rural area's you'll most probably always have full duplex.
You can communicate at 22 Mbps over short distances using category 4 air, but when the peers are more than a few meters apart, category 5 air becomes a must.
Just something you might want to know before you buy these things..
On the other hand, AMD's pricing hardly justifies a value processor, since compared to Intel processors they are already pretty cheap.
If they widen the XP line just a little bit by extending the slower models lifetime a little, they can fill the gap the Duron leaves behind with the XP itself.
Also: when the Hammers arrive, the XP will fade away and presumably act as a value processor for a while. A Duron as an even cheaper CPU wouldn't make sense in such a scenario.
Another reason I can think of, is that it doesn't make so much sense to make a CPU with a 100 MHz FSB. With today's materials this will probably not be cheaper to procuce than 133 MHz parts. So you're actually producing less than you can for the same cost, just to create a difference between models. Essentially the smaller L2 cache is the probably the only difference in cost of production between the Duron and the XP.
They are the key players. In America.
Do you realize that this software has to track every move you make as a citizen? It has to track every step you make, everything you buy, your religion, sexual life actions, etc, etc, etc.
Governments need this kind of database power to be able to track every molecule of your body and every thought in your mind.
Do you want them to put it in a simple text file? Come on, let them do it professionally!
Conrad Zuse (not SuSe :) had built a computer in Germany in the thirties already..
Interesting definition of when the dawn of time took place.. :)