only I've heard some very bad things about DVD durability.
only problems i've had with DVDs are crappy write method drives that wound up making many coasters... i've since gotten a more reliable drive, have burned over 150 DVDs and havn't lost a single one.
apparently though DVD (and CD) media are susceptable to fungal growth that 'eats' the dye. I've never stored my media in a 'cool dark place' (it's always been sitting out where i can find it off the spindles) so ambient light appears to be adequate to 'prevent' data loss via fungal blooms.
Well, you see those 'not so famous' billionaire's daughters etc, spend vast amounts of time and energy to Avoid becoming famous. Paris spent as much time in hollywood as she could. She WANTED to become famous. and for a billionaire heiress, that's a very easy thing to do, if you want it.
believe you me there are camera men tying to get pictures of every billionaire and their family that are alive, and only fear of imprisonment or worse keeps them at bay most of the time... Billionaires made their money somehow, and there are always people willing to make news out of it somehow.
b) who knows what type of external storage the box will ever support in practice.
The E-SATA kind. External sata is a simple pin thru for the data cable. that means any power brick that can hook up to a SATA drive, and Any Sata drive, and a SATA cable are all you need. E-SATA requires no bridge controller, it's a direct pin thru to the drive.
so in practice, I'd say the 200 GB SATA drive i have sitting on the shelf in the room is Tivo HD series 3 compatable, since I have an old firewire drive bay that i can use a SATA power converter on, and then plug any sheilded e-SATA cable straight into the e-sata connecter on the new tivo hd series 3 and it will likely ask me if i want to 'bless' the new drive, and if i say so, it's now a tivo drive.
I beleive the last time that the price of ram doubled (not trippled, okay so in the past it hasn't tripled, but it has doubled) was when taiwan was hit by a major earthquake, that destroyed an incredible amount of semiconducter manufacturing equipment.
normally the price fluctuates based on the commodity price of the materials used to make ram, and yeah i was considering oh, 6 years of back royalties plus legal fees, plus court awarded damages all coming due at once. maybe the price increase won't hit all at once, because they still get appeals, or they can try to get any rulings appealed...
BTW the reason why i mentioned ram with AMD is because Every single Opteron and AMD-64 microprocessor has a DDR memory controller built in. AMD has negotiated a deal with rambus because they can't afford to take the 'risky gamble' that's looking less and less likely to pan out.
well, it's true that's the main reason to run dual dual core cpus, but then they'd be buying the dual core opteron's since they have more cache than the amd 64 x2's dot to mention you can get a 'pair' of the lowest dual core opteron for less money than a single one of the fastest dual core opterons. price-perfomrance is incredibly askew... two $750 chips that have over 160% the operation capabilities of a $1,600-$2,000 chip? sure. if you pair two of those up to $2,000 chips you have a level of perfomance much greater than the $750 opteron 270 but the opteron 280 is really only for those with a load of cash to blow. and they might as well be getting the 880 pay $3,000 per cpu and be able to go 4-way or 8-way, with a suitable backplane.
no, you mis understand, AMD has licenced the technology that allows them to use DDR memory... which infringes on several of rambus's patents that they issued while sitting on the JDEC proposing the standard for DDR memory.
RDRAM is horribly slow, and can't compete with DDR2 and DDR3 memory technologies not to mention dual channel DDR memory is much of an improvment over RDRAM
Rambus is now just an extortion racket, because they did submarine patents on the 'competing' technology to ensure they made money either way. if RAMBUS wins the price of DDR RAM will overnight triple, because the companies making it will be required to pay royalties to rambus.
at that point rambus will 'have the money' to develop better memory technologies, if they so choose to, otherwise the industry will be finding itself in a world of hurt, with a rush to QDR RAM to 'avoid' costly 'licensing deals' with rambus.
anyways, i'm going to be buying all the ram i need for a few years shortly here, no way I'm going to wind up footing the cost of a possible win by rambus.
Instead of complaining on/. go find some relevant google e-mail address and complain to them.
Bzzt! complete with headers (i've tried to e-mail google) Since the e-mail 'form' has a captcha... well, the fact that the captcha doesn't work for the blind at all (much less the deaf blind) google has completely cut off about 11% of the world population...
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It's not the 'quantity' of security vulnerabilities that counts, it's the 'quality' i mean, some obscure buffer overflow that _might_ enable a short string of random code to be run as 'user apache' when you combine apache with 7 modules (6 of which are common) is not the same thing as a 'integrated file browser/web browser' that will auto execute any exe that has the right wmf 'play assist' headers on it. and will run that executable as 'administrator' level privaledges...
1.5b to help people get HDTV to SDTV 'airwave tuner boxes' is an investment. think how many BN (some estimate as much as $10 BN if they do it 'in slices' over many years) the FCC will get re-licencing the VHF frequencies.
they didn't want to have to pony up 1.5 bn to do this, but they were already anticipating watching the ink dry on those license fee checks.
but I'm out of my element here Literally, the atomic weight of nitrogen* is about 14 AMU the atomic weight oh helium is about 4 AMU the atomic weight of lead is about 207 AMU so 100 units of helium plus 1 unit of lead ~= 607 AMU compared to 1,400 AMU for nitrogen. thus, a blimp designed around that principal would rocket up through the air, all the way past the upper stratosphere about double the distance out of the moon, from 'momentum' gained from the 'release'
obviously in this example i didn't calculate the weight of the ship, etc. but i was point out the fact that it's more like 40:1 for 'lighter than air' ships, and this isn't a 'lighter than air ship' it's simply going for a design where the weight of the cargo is the primary mass that makes you 'heavier' than air. a plane that has 0 weight of it's own to carry uses a LOT less fuel. we're talking the difference between a 90 mpg hybrid compared to a 2mpg 'custom truck' type of fuel differences, of course the design has trade offs you loose much of the speed of normal aircraft (but are still 2-4 times faster than less fuel efficient trucks) and wind drag can kill the fuel efficiency... in a cross wind... of course if you're going to get absolutely sci fi on this, you may as well have a masted 'ligher than airship' that is propelled by prevailing winds, and needs an electro-magnetic anchor to unload/land which would be odd, since the 'sails' and 'mast' being on the top would require a heavier counter weight (the cargo hold perhaps?) at the bottom to keep the ship upright. masted ships can be rigged to sail into a wind, but at a much slower speed than sailing with the wind.
*= nitrogen is the primary gas about 78% of our atmosphere is nitrogen thus to simplify matters i used the atomic weight of nitrogen rather than trying to 'include' other variables the other main gass, oxygen (nearly 21%) is actually almost 2 AMU's heavier than nitrogen.
first off, the nature of this bug that when windows sees a wmf file (or even a jpg or gif that's 'really a wmf' it launches this 'inserted code' it's entirely possible that the code they're trying to execute cause wine and virtual pc to barf, or cause the 'fake' wmf to open in quicktime or totem... Wine and Virtual PC can actually be quite difficult to get windows applications to work 'nicely' with, because even if they require a full install of windows, they usually are intended to only lauch the specific application, withing the native screen environmet, not the entire os.. now vmware creates a complete sandbox, by creating a hardware abstraction layer. since every piece of the os is running it's just as vulnerable to exploits.
Nono, you clearly can't read! the subject is Google PC(player Character) to Hit Wal-Mart? clearly after google clears the 7th level of the deepest darkest dungeon they're going to hit the boss of that Dungeon Wal-mart! silly.. it's so obvious from the subject line...
basically i think they only thing he can do is follow the PBS (corporation for public broadcasting) model and either focus on fund raiser drives (sigh) or simple look into 'corporate sponsorship' not an ad, not a banner, just a "This site sponsored by google.com" (perhaps linking to google.com) PBS was forced to do it because of people not having the money to pledge all the time. they take up like less than a minute of airtime, and are always at the begining or the end of the program, and have reduced the dependancy on 'donations' a lot. someday jim might decide that he has to settle for something like that, because the hardware and bandwith bills Are massive. and it always seems like there is a big drive to get more donations.
Actually i think the business model is more like, you the supscriber pay an extra $20 a month for the ability to sit through a 2-minute (non skipable) ad segment to watch 15 minutes of 'broadcast' TV.
Since tivo has been killing the 'captive audience' ad models, the wireless carriers are counting on getting a rather hefty share of the 20-40 bn/year advertising budget of major corperations... the plus side, is that the cell carriers knowing a bunch of personal information about you (sex, age, ethnicity, income) allows those non-skippable ads to be Targeted to Specific demographics more easily than television and internet ads can be.
so really, if enough people use this service the cell phone companies could concievably break even on year 1. allowing them to drop the subscription price (perhaps even giving the service for free) some providers might decide to offer the service 'free' from the get go in the hopes of making enough ad revenue to cover the cost of buying the spectrum/rolling out the towers etc.
have you not seen all the television ads for this service already? (without the new bandwith) they're targeting football fans right now, hoping that they're willing to pay extra to 'not miss the game, when the wife sends them out shopping' with the added bandwith they'd be able to offer much more content, and much more ads to cover the cost of not charging for 'downloading' the content.
it could work out the way the cell companies hope it will, not to mention the fact that right now I'D KILL for Real broadband cellular internet where i live right now (using satelite paying $100 a month now) if it was $100 a month (or less) and had at least DSL speed(256kbit or better), with dsl style bandwith caps(5gbit/month or higher)...
you know if you actually looked at the wiki for where contributions were spent you'd realize that jim is only allocating about 40k/year for himself(since he had to quit ihis job to run wikimedia full-time). if he has a porche or a wide screen tv, someone must have dontated them... because he certaintly didn't pay for them with wikimedia money...
now good old jim could be affording a porche, and a wide screen, all he'd have to do is incorperate a single 'google adwords' box to every page displayed and with about 10 million page views a day, he'd be getting quite the $$$
but he's got some philosophical thing going on that adverts shouldn't be used to fund wikipedia.
but yeah, just so you know, good old jim could afford all that stuff you accuse him of owning without even fact checking it, if he just switched wikipedia over to an ad revenue based model.
nintendo is using ppc chips now though. gamecube is the cheapest console, and has a large library of games, nintendo shipped 10 million+ gamecubes since they were launched, that's not more g4's and g5-s than apple has ordered over the same time frame, but it's not far off from what apple did either. from one console maker. Who is at number 3. launch sales suck because the price is so high who wants to pay $450 for a console with 3 buggy games? people who absolutely have to have the newest latest or just have a wad of cash to blow.
Sony has shipped 100 million ps2's since they 'launched' 4-5 years ago, and i dunno how many xbox have shipped, but they're expecting to have shipped 3.6 million 360's by christmas 2006. yeah, with ALL three console makers using ppc based chips in their next gen consoles (and one using one in it's previous gen console) there are going to be a lot more volume than apple ever did for them.
apple was making the kind of (hardware QA) decisions that put them on a a par with other 'retail' branded vendors like dell.. so going to intel parts, while still using the main draw 'Mac OSX' made sense.
If apple has better quality solutions with intel i wouldn't be surprized to see competitors like dell considering if they can afford to buy OSes from 'microsoft' apple has a lot lower volume than dell and can still afford to write their own OS;) what's to stop dell from buying say, red hat, and putting red hat linux on certain product lines? microsoft? not with the courts still watching all their deal making...
fosters is only available in the pubs that took money to sell it. kinda the way budwiser etc are everywhere even thought they are the rancid horse piss 'king' of beers.
the 'pay to build the bar, then contract to be the exclusive beer supplier' model had been around since before prohibition. it's been proven to be one of the most profitable models, since you no longer to make sure you use quality ingredients in your beers. the cheapest ingredients will do when people have no choice.
Saying fosters is a good beer is equivalent to saying maxwell house makes good coffee. long ago in 1910 when maxwell house was a cafe owned brand and used genuine arabica beans it was an awesome blend... today it's cheap swill, only drinkable if you have no tounge.
better ingredients == better beer & shorter shelf life == fresher better tasting beer == higher production costs, more limited markets etc. you can't mass produce a quality beer for cheap, smaller batch sizes let you dump any that go bad in fermenting, can you imagine a company like fosters or budwiser Dumping a batch of beer because their product testers said it was swill? HAH they don't even test the samples for flavor i'd wager...
some brands of beer keep batch sizes low, and have trained testers who test the batches much like wine tasting, and anything that fails to pass is simply dumped. it's the way a quality beer production facility ought to be run.
the last time i saw the 'most basic' configuration at a minimum of $1,000 was 1988. there have always been more obsolete, or more obscure configurations available, for less than a grand... especially if an education in computers was the goal.
maybe that's not normal... i dunno my iq is 1-2 points below what they call a 'genius' ah well. it's a pretty simple betting field, with the payouts in proportion to the odds (with a house edge of course) not all that complex at all.. you just pick how you think the pips will show up next, and roll the dice..
But the benchmarks show that the PD 820 is equivalent to a Single core A64 3800+ the dual core, being almost twice at fast is at least 90% better than the P-D 820 at multi-threaded apps... and at least 35% better at single threaded applications... well there you go the PR numbering has become askew... a 3800+ is really running on a par with a pentium OCed and liquid cooled to 4.8 ghz. the latest FX processor is really running applications as fast as an overclocked and nitrogen cooled 6.0 ghz pentium. kinda sad. an air cooled AMD chip is out perfmorming the fastest overclocks using nitrogen for the pentium...
If you'd been following benchmarks you would have Known this. Until intel launches a 64-bit processor core they are screwed, they are a generation behind AMD, and AMDs chips will Keep Getting faster for another 2+ years before they need a new generation of core...
now, intel could have skunkworked up a 64-bit chip, with x86 backwards compatability, that runs 32-bit code as fast or faster as it runs 64-bit code... but barring that they're going for hype to fool the unsuspecting masses. by a year or two AMD will be rolling out FX chips that perform equivalent to a 8-10 GHz intel... their 'discount' chips will still be running faster than a 4ghz clocked pentium (reguardless of what their pr numbers are) AMD saw intel's road map, and engineered chips that would keep them in the game.
Intel's roadmap was dreamed up by their marketing department who fucked around with the engineers attempt to make something feasible happen.... i thought that maybe things had gotten turned around at intel, but clearly no. the only thing their engineers have managed to do is build lower and lower power chips with higher performance for the notebook and pda markets. AMD owns the performance and gaming and server markets thanks to intel's 'series of unfortunate events' but intel will retain the performance per watt crown in notebooks, blades, and hand held computing devices... and intel will of course retain the ability to produce high volumes of those chips... no matter how good AMD is, without 10-20 more fabs the size of their largest dresden fab, they simply can't produce the volume of chips needed to 'replace' intel. good news though is that they're going to build maybe 2-3 more fabs, which will put them at the capacity to output ~20% of the chips the market currently buys...
hey, even the inquirer printed that intel would have 6 ghz chips in 2005, and 10 ghz chips by 2010, and clearly amd took it as a serious piece of news, and planned to if not beat them to the punch, deliver products that could compete with what intel was supposed to be offering.
kinda like AMD was the first to deliver 1.0ghz chips in volume 9 months before intel's 1.0ghz pentiums were available in volume, even though intel had announced them as launched before the amd chips.
Intel is still flush with cash, they could always turn things around, but it would take someone like donald trump to say 'You're fired' to all the marketing and managment people who got intel into this mess in the first place. otherwise they're going to keep loosing markets to amd.. and amd will keep getting investors to help them build many many more fabs, so they can replace intel with vendors like dell.
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only I've heard some very bad things about DVD durability.
only problems i've had with DVDs are crappy write method drives that wound up making many coasters... i've since gotten a more reliable drive, have burned over 150 DVDs and havn't lost a single one.
apparently though DVD (and CD) media are susceptable to fungal growth that 'eats' the dye. I've never stored my media in a 'cool dark place' (it's always been sitting out where i can find it off the spindles) so ambient light appears to be adequate to 'prevent' data loss via fungal blooms.
Well, you see those 'not so famous' billionaire's daughters etc, spend vast amounts of time and energy to Avoid becoming famous. Paris spent as much time in hollywood as she could. She WANTED to become famous. and for a billionaire heiress, that's a very easy thing to do, if you want it.
believe you me there are camera men tying to get pictures of every billionaire and their family that are alive, and only fear of imprisonment or worse keeps them at bay most of the time... Billionaires made their money somehow, and there are always people willing to make news out of it somehow.
b) who knows what type of external storage the box will ever support in practice.
The E-SATA kind. External sata is a simple pin thru for the data cable.
that means any power brick that can hook up to a SATA drive, and Any Sata drive, and a SATA cable are all you need. E-SATA requires no bridge controller, it's a direct pin thru to the drive.
so in practice, I'd say the 200 GB SATA drive i have sitting on the shelf in the room is Tivo HD series 3 compatable, since I have an old firewire drive bay that i can use a SATA power converter on, and then plug any sheilded e-SATA cable straight into the e-sata connecter on the new tivo hd series 3 and it will likely ask me if i want to 'bless' the new drive, and if i say so, it's now a tivo drive.
http://www.sata-io.org/esata.asp
As far as I can tell Paris got famous because she was famous.
It might help if you knew her last name Hilton She's famous for being a billionaire heiress.
Where has that ever happened?
I beleive the last time that the price of ram doubled (not trippled, okay so in the past it hasn't tripled, but it has doubled) was when taiwan was hit by a major earthquake, that destroyed an incredible amount of semiconducter manufacturing equipment.
normally the price fluctuates based on the commodity price of the materials used to make ram, and yeah i was considering oh, 6 years of back royalties plus legal fees, plus court awarded damages all coming due at once. maybe the price increase won't hit all at once, because they still get appeals, or they can try to get any rulings appealed...
BTW the reason why i mentioned ram with AMD is because Every single Opteron and AMD-64 microprocessor has a DDR memory controller built in. AMD has negotiated a deal with rambus because they can't afford to take the 'risky gamble' that's looking less and less likely to pan out.
well, it's true that's the main reason to run dual dual core cpus, but then they'd be buying the dual core opteron's since they have more cache than the amd 64 x2's dot to mention you can get a 'pair' of the lowest dual core opteron for less money than a single one of the fastest dual core opterons. price-perfomrance is incredibly askew... two $750 chips that have over 160% the operation capabilities of a $1,600-$2,000 chip? sure. if you pair two of those up to $2,000 chips you have a level of perfomance much greater than the $750 opteron 270 but the opteron 280 is really only for those with a load of cash to blow. and they might as well be getting the 880 pay $3,000 per cpu and be able to go 4-way or 8-way, with a suitable backplane.
16x 2.4 ghz cores. up to 64GB ram. mmm
Scotty we need more power!
I'm givin' her all she's got, Captain, but we need more dilithium crystals!
I think that sums up the power requirements nicely.
no, you mis understand, AMD has licenced the technology that allows them to use DDR memory... which infringes on several of rambus's patents that they issued while sitting on the JDEC proposing the standard for DDR memory.
RDRAM is horribly slow, and can't compete with DDR2 and DDR3 memory technologies not to mention dual channel DDR memory is much of an improvment over RDRAM
Rambus is now just an extortion racket, because they did submarine patents on the 'competing' technology to ensure they made money either way. if RAMBUS wins the price of DDR RAM will overnight triple, because the companies making it will be required to pay royalties to rambus.
at that point rambus will 'have the money' to develop better memory technologies, if they so choose to, otherwise the industry will be finding itself in a world of hurt, with a rush to QDR RAM to 'avoid' costly 'licensing deals' with rambus.
anyways, i'm going to be buying all the ram i need for a few years shortly here, no way I'm going to wind up footing the cost of a possible win by rambus.
Instead of complaining on /. go find some relevant google e-mail address and complain to them.
3 0202 as some have suggested simply having a 1-800 TDD friendly number to call would be the cheapest/easiest solution to handle deaf & deaf/blind user signups for a large corporation for smaller sites simply having a spam filtered e-mail might work, clearly though google sized operations can't simply open up an 'e-mail' address since the shere volume of spam would be the full time job of several people to sift through, even with modern filtering techniques.
Bzzt! complete with headers (i've tried to e-mail google) Since the e-mail 'form' has a captcha... well, the fact that the captcha doesn't work for the blind at all (much less the deaf blind) google has completely cut off about 11% of the world population...
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It's not the 'quantity' of security vulnerabilities that counts, it's the 'quality' i mean, some obscure buffer overflow that _might_ enable a short string of random code to be run as 'user apache' when you combine apache with 7 modules (6 of which are common) is not the same thing as a 'integrated file browser/web browser' that will auto execute any exe that has the right wmf 'play assist' headers on it. and will run that executable as 'administrator' level privaledges...
1.5b to help people get HDTV to SDTV 'airwave tuner boxes' is an investment. think how many BN (some estimate as much as $10 BN if they do it 'in slices' over many years) the FCC will get re-licencing the VHF frequencies.
they didn't want to have to pony up 1.5 bn to do this, but they were already anticipating watching the ink dry on those license fee checks.
but I'm out of my element here
Literally, the atomic weight of nitrogen* is about 14 AMU the atomic weight oh helium is about 4 AMU the atomic weight of lead is about 207 AMU so 100 units of helium plus 1 unit of lead ~= 607 AMU compared to 1,400 AMU for nitrogen. thus, a blimp designed around that principal would rocket up through the air, all the way past the upper stratosphere about double the distance out of the moon, from 'momentum' gained from the 'release'
obviously in this example i didn't calculate the weight of the ship, etc. but i was point out the fact that it's more like 40:1 for 'lighter than air' ships, and this isn't a 'lighter than air ship' it's simply going for a design where the weight of the cargo is the primary mass that makes you 'heavier' than air. a plane that has 0 weight of it's own to carry uses a LOT less fuel. we're talking the difference between a 90 mpg hybrid compared to a 2mpg 'custom truck' type of fuel differences, of course the design has trade offs you loose much of the speed of normal aircraft (but are still 2-4 times faster than less fuel efficient trucks) and wind drag can kill the fuel efficiency... in a cross wind... of course if you're going to get absolutely sci fi on this, you may as well have a masted 'ligher than airship' that is propelled by prevailing winds, and needs an electro-magnetic anchor to unload/land which would be odd, since the 'sails' and 'mast' being on the top would require a heavier counter weight (the cargo hold perhaps?) at the bottom to keep the ship upright. masted ships can be rigged to sail into a wind, but at a much slower speed than sailing with the wind.
*= nitrogen is the primary gas about 78% of our atmosphere is nitrogen thus to simplify matters i used the atomic weight of nitrogen rather than trying to 'include' other variables the other main gass, oxygen (nearly 21%) is actually almost 2 AMU's heavier than nitrogen.
first off, the nature of this bug that when windows sees a wmf file (or even a jpg or gif that's 'really a wmf' it launches this 'inserted code' it's entirely possible that the code they're trying to execute cause wine and virtual pc to barf, or cause the 'fake' wmf to open in quicktime or totem... Wine and Virtual PC can actually be quite difficult to get windows applications to work 'nicely' with, because even if they require a full install of windows, they usually are intended to only lauch the specific application, withing the native screen environmet, not the entire os.. now vmware creates a complete sandbox, by creating a hardware abstraction layer. since every piece of the os is running it's just as vulnerable to exploits.
Nono, you clearly can't read! the subject is Google PC(player Character) to Hit Wal-Mart? clearly after google clears the 7th level of the deepest darkest dungeon they're going to hit the boss of that Dungeon Wal-mart! silly.. it's so obvious from the subject line...
basically i think they only thing he can do is follow the PBS (corporation for public broadcasting) model and either focus on fund raiser drives (sigh) or simple look into 'corporate sponsorship' not an ad, not a banner, just a "This site sponsored by google.com" (perhaps linking to google.com) PBS was forced to do it because of people not having the money to pledge all the time. they take up like less than a minute of airtime, and are always at the begining or the end of the program, and have reduced the dependancy on 'donations' a lot. someday jim might decide that he has to settle for something like that, because the hardware and bandwith bills Are massive. and it always seems like there is a big drive to get more donations.
Actually i think the business model is more like, you the supscriber pay an extra $20 a month for the ability to sit through a 2-minute (non skipable) ad segment to watch 15 minutes of 'broadcast' TV.
Since tivo has been killing the 'captive audience' ad models, the wireless carriers are counting on getting a rather hefty share of the 20-40 bn/year advertising budget of major corperations... the plus side, is that the cell carriers knowing a bunch of personal information about you (sex, age, ethnicity, income) allows those non-skippable ads to be Targeted to Specific demographics more easily than television and internet ads can be.
so really, if enough people use this service the cell phone companies could concievably break even on year 1. allowing them to drop the subscription price (perhaps even giving the service for free) some providers might decide to offer the service 'free' from the get go in the hopes of making enough ad revenue to cover the cost of buying the spectrum/rolling out the towers etc.
have you not seen all the television ads for this service already? (without the new bandwith) they're targeting football fans right now, hoping that they're willing to pay extra to 'not miss the game, when the wife sends them out shopping' with the added bandwith they'd be able to offer much more content, and much more ads to cover the cost of not charging for 'downloading' the content.
it could work out the way the cell companies hope it will, not to mention the fact that right now I'D KILL for Real broadband cellular internet where i live right now (using satelite paying $100 a month now) if it was $100 a month (or less) and had at least DSL speed(256kbit or better), with dsl style bandwith caps(5gbit/month or higher)...
you know if you actually looked at the wiki for where contributions were spent you'd realize that jim is only allocating about 40k/year for himself(since he had to quit ihis job to run wikimedia full-time). if he has a porche or a wide screen tv, someone must have dontated them... because he certaintly didn't pay for them with wikimedia money...
now good old jim could be affording a porche, and a wide screen, all he'd have to do is incorperate a single 'google adwords' box to every page displayed and with about 10 million page views a day, he'd be getting quite the $$$
but he's got some philosophical thing going on that adverts shouldn't be used to fund wikipedia.
but yeah, just so you know, good old jim could afford all that stuff you accuse him of owning without even fact checking it, if he just switched wikipedia over to an ad revenue based model.
150MB webkit
Good gravy but is that bloated... they could be using gecko's rendering engine @ 15 MB of footprint.
Ram is cheap ($239 for 2GB (paired 1GB modules) @ DDR 400mhz 2-2-2-5 timings), but Not That Cheap....
nintendo is using ppc chips now though. gamecube is the cheapest console, and has a large library of games, nintendo shipped 10 million+ gamecubes since they were launched, that's not more g4's and g5-s than apple has ordered over the same time frame, but it's not far off from what apple did either. from one console maker. Who is at number 3. launch sales suck because the price is so high who wants to pay $450 for a console with 3 buggy games? people who absolutely have to have the newest latest or just have a wad of cash to blow.
;) what's to stop dell from buying say, red hat, and putting red hat linux on certain product lines? microsoft? not with the courts still watching all their deal making...
Sony has shipped 100 million ps2's since they 'launched' 4-5 years ago, and i dunno how many xbox have shipped, but they're expecting to have shipped 3.6 million 360's by christmas 2006. yeah, with ALL three console makers using ppc based chips in their next gen consoles (and one using one in it's previous gen console) there are going to be a lot more volume than apple ever did for them.
apple was making the kind of (hardware QA) decisions that put them on a a par with other 'retail' branded vendors like dell.. so going to intel parts, while still using the main draw 'Mac OSX' made sense.
If apple has better quality solutions with intel i wouldn't be surprized to see competitors like dell considering if they can afford to buy OSes from 'microsoft' apple has a lot lower volume than dell and can still afford to write their own OS
fosters is only available in the pubs that took money to sell it. kinda the way budwiser etc are everywhere even thought they are the rancid horse piss 'king' of beers.
the 'pay to build the bar, then contract to be the exclusive beer supplier' model had been around since before prohibition. it's been proven to be one of the most profitable models, since you no longer to make sure you use quality ingredients in your beers. the cheapest ingredients will do when people have no choice.
Saying fosters is a good beer is equivalent to saying maxwell house makes good coffee. long ago in 1910 when maxwell house was a cafe owned brand and used genuine arabica beans it was an awesome blend... today it's cheap swill, only drinkable if you have no tounge.
better ingredients == better beer & shorter shelf life == fresher better tasting beer == higher production costs, more limited markets etc. you can't mass produce a quality beer for cheap, smaller batch sizes let you dump any that go bad in fermenting, can you imagine a company like fosters or budwiser Dumping a batch of beer because their product testers said it was swill? HAH they don't even test the samples for flavor i'd wager...
some brands of beer keep batch sizes low, and have trained testers who test the batches much like wine tasting, and anything that fails to pass is simply dumped. it's the way a quality beer production facility ought to be run.
the last time i saw the 'most basic' configuration at a minimum of $1,000 was 1988. there have always been more obsolete, or more obscure configurations available, for less than a grand... especially if an education in computers was the goal.
well i learned how to play craps in 5 minutes.
maybe that's not normal... i dunno my iq is 1-2 points below what they call a 'genius' ah well. it's a pretty simple betting field, with the payouts in proportion to the odds (with a house edge of course) not all that complex at all.. you just pick how you think the pips will show up next, and roll the dice..
just to be pedantic, it would be a Convection oven, not a microwave... as the xbox produces a lot of hot air, but not a whole lot of microwaves..
But the benchmarks show that the PD 820 is equivalent to a Single core A64 3800+ the dual core, being almost twice at fast is at least 90% better than the P-D 820 at multi-threaded apps... and at least 35% better at single threaded applications... well there you go the PR numbering has become askew... a 3800+ is really running on a par with a pentium OCed and liquid cooled to 4.8 ghz. the latest FX processor is really running applications as fast as an overclocked and nitrogen cooled 6.0 ghz pentium. kinda sad. an air cooled AMD chip is out perfmorming the fastest overclocks using nitrogen for the pentium...
If you'd been following benchmarks you would have Known this. Until intel launches a 64-bit processor core they are screwed, they are a generation behind AMD, and AMDs chips will Keep Getting faster for another 2+ years before they need a new generation of core...
now, intel could have skunkworked up a 64-bit chip, with x86 backwards compatability, that runs 32-bit code as fast or faster as it runs 64-bit code... but barring that they're going for hype to fool the unsuspecting masses. by a year or two AMD will be rolling out FX chips that perform equivalent to a 8-10 GHz intel... their 'discount' chips will still be running faster than a 4ghz clocked pentium (reguardless of what their pr numbers are) AMD saw intel's road map, and engineered chips that would keep them in the game.
Intel's roadmap was dreamed up by their marketing department who fucked around with the engineers attempt to make something feasible happen.... i thought that maybe things had gotten turned around at intel, but clearly no. the only thing their engineers have managed to do is build lower and lower power chips with higher performance for the notebook and pda markets. AMD owns the performance and gaming and server markets thanks to intel's 'series of unfortunate events' but intel will retain the performance per watt crown in notebooks, blades, and hand held computing devices... and intel will of course retain the ability to produce high volumes of those chips... no matter how good AMD is, without 10-20 more fabs the size of their largest dresden fab, they simply can't produce the volume of chips needed to 'replace' intel. good news though is that they're going to build maybe 2-3 more fabs, which will put them at the capacity to output ~20% of the chips the market currently buys...
hey, even the inquirer printed that intel would have 6 ghz chips in 2005, and 10 ghz chips by 2010, and clearly amd took it as a serious piece of news, and planned to if not beat them to the punch, deliver products that could compete with what intel was supposed to be offering.
kinda like AMD was the first to deliver 1.0ghz chips in volume 9 months before intel's 1.0ghz pentiums were available in volume, even though intel had announced them as launched before the amd chips.
Intel is still flush with cash, they could always turn things around, but it would take someone like donald trump to say 'You're fired' to all the marketing and managment people who got intel into this mess in the first place. otherwise they're going to keep loosing markets to amd.. and amd will keep getting investors to help them build many many more fabs, so they can replace intel with vendors like dell.
I bet she cost you more than £2,500. too...