Well it could be worse, you could be being chased by paranormal spectors while doing the above.
I'm sad to say that an even older game has cured me of my need to do something in real life. Yes, I will never need to play table tennis ever again, thanks to Pong. I guess, some of us are just able to 'get our fix' from the games. Since crime has not been reduced to zero not everyone can just be wired into bliss.
I hear you, but would just like to add, that Super Mario Bros. satiated my appetite for eating magic mushooms that make you double in size. I also have been complely satiated of my need to kill menacing turtles by juming on their shells. I haven't hit my head on a brick wall since playing Super Mario Bros, not even if i suspected it was hiding a power up or a secret warp zone.
Isn't it possible that those complaining developers just might not be good enough to deal with the extra complexity?
that's why I said maybe the problem was with the vendor, the possibility exists that people ar just lazy, and don't want to learn how to program applications that can fully utilize a 3-core processor.
But there has always been a nice work around for the lazy, asymetric multi-processing.. you take a low clock cpu, and assign os/filesystem related theads to it, and then have a nice fast cpu that everything else runs on... if a multi-core processor is designed asymetrically, you can have more die space for the 'primary' core which obviously would have more transistors... that or the multi core uses less silicon(eg:cheaper), because the secondary core would take so few transistors..
I haven't had a virus since 1992, and that one was only in a zipfile and never infected my system. I don't even run anti-virus software, i don't have a popup blocker running, and I don't need ad aware or spybot for my own machine.. (but I do have them installed) and yeah i use firefox:p
I understand the basic principals of 'security' so I am able to safely run behind just a single firewall. normal people actually fight learning how to be safe. they just want the computer to do what they tell it to, when they want it to.
I try my best to tell them to get the software they need, or tell them to get a mac, and the prices are very comperable, once you add in all the 'protection' software fees... I simply won't deal with people who aren't willing to either shell out the money for the software/hardware to keep themselves safe, or else learn the basics of security.
I'm also sick of people promoting super cheaply built hardware. the kind of crap that has a failure rate above 50% in the first year. It's one thing to not pay more than you have to, but it's quite another to start buying substandard parts to 'save a dime' here or there.
If you bought a $200,000 house and the doorbell fell off in the first week, and the siding started sagging the week after, and then the lights started shorting out mysteriously and the plumbing started to leak shortly after. wouldn't you be upset enough to demand recompensation? the exact same principal has been happening to computers for years and years now. only you're basically screwed with computers unless it's 'covered by warrenty' Faster Cheaper Broken.
I'm glad that apple in concerned about quality, that they're also trying to keep prices competitive with the products they see from competitors they feel are worth competing with.
They could do better, the super drive isn't as good at not costering media as my $40 16x NEC DVD+-rw, still they're actually trying, and the switch to intel was about 2 things 1. low poer chips 2. ibm ignoring apples needs for more, and faster chips (because of high demand for ppc chips in consoles)
The reason they went with intel, and not AMD, is because Intel could actually produce the volume of chips apple needs. AMD is increasing fab capacity, but most of that capacity is going to be eaten alive by the migration to dual core chips. They're probably going to build a third dresden fab.
I think you are not utiliizing the SB S&D properly.
It "iimmuniizes" against all known, plus warns you whenever a registry or other system setting is being updated by any app.
'warns you' is 'too late' once the spyware has installed, its already in half a dozen system executables, and the system restore database.
You don't have any 'real' experience with spyware. believe you me, there are spyware apps out today that neither ad-aware nor spybot have removal against even thought they've been 'known' about for years, simply because once they infect there is no removal method other than a clean format.
Spybot, at least the free version does not prevent software from installing! it warns the user to run a scan to remove it, but by then it's too late. I know what the fuck I'm talking about my sister's husband had a new spyware on his PC every week. That was with spybot, and ad aware... and a firewall... the only product that has protected their system sucessfully is webroot spysweeper, because it prevents any installer from installing and regestering it's files until a 'user' approves it.
I was referring to trojaned P2P apps, sorry if your small mind couldn't figure that out. they would get past the 'firewall' to allow updates by grabbing permission to connect and act as a server via the rules for the p2p app.
It is true I like Mac, but frankly I am more than capable of building my own PC from components, in fact i've built over 20 PCs from components for various family members and myself. But it's jsut not worth the hassle with some family members to try and teach them how to not get every known virus on the planet, I tell them to just get a mac.
BTW my first computer was a Z80, and frankly I've been building my own systems forever... those free programs you 'claim' are so great, can't get the 5% of the worst spyware, and never will be able to... sure your grandma and your computers are protected fine by them, but what about your nephew who's sneaking access to all the free porn sites? what about your niece who thinks anything cute and fluffy should be downloaded and installed? like gator:p
The 'free' software you suggest does NOT adequately protect windows, it only provides a half-assed partial protection that is 'good enough' for people who can barely load e-mail, and for people who never get viruses anyways...
As far as manual removal mode goes, that's a perfectly good way to trigger the 'self destruct mode' of many spyware, where they completely corrupt windows so a full restore is needed, and since the spyware is in the restore file... well needless to say the spyware takes over before you can even login..
IBM sells PPC chips to nintendo, sony and microsoft.. and yeah, they all do have Much higher volume needs.. higher volume than Dell..
and even so, some developers are 'upset' at the performance they're going to get from ibm's ppc chips for the next gen consoles.. so maybe just maybe the problem is with the vendor...
I feel your pain. They have yet to port linspire to my Z80. I mean cmon I have 128K of ram and the drive for it supports up to 144k of data! my Z-80 itself is clocked to 3 MHz. how dare they ignore us.
Bargain PCs use a lot of substandard parts, from the cheapest motherboards they make, to the cheapest ram, to the cheapest powersupply... now, the single biggest problem is the 'cheap' power supply. but cheap ram can cause a lot of issues too, it's basically a 'you feeling lucky' kinda risky gamble.. because out of those cheap PSUs a large volume of them are going to fail, especially if the system is used for anything watt intensive dvd-burning, digital video transcoding etc..
dell generally tries to avoid having a really bad reputation for those problems, but the low end models have quite a good chance of experiencing PSU failure.
ad aware and spybot are manually run, they do not offer 'spyware protection' against installation. and they cannot remove any spyware once it has updated to a spyware removal free version...
I'm sorry but i've tried to set up a system with just 'free' software to 'protect' an average joe user... they get the spyware back in under a day, even if the system has been completely formatted and wiped clean...
I did mention AVG because it is a fairly good av software, but if you stick with the 'basic' free version, the engine itself tends to become obsolete and many viruses become immune to it.
Haven't you ever run a box 'in the wild' to see how many viruses/trojans you can get infected with? to see if any of those 'freeware' programs can actually protect you? Adaware+spybot S&D have no protection shield against the installation of any 'unknown' spyware, even if zonealarm blocks said software from automatically updating, there are a number of things that an adware can Pemanently alter, that no spyware removal tool can remove from the 'infected' OS, and neither of the free tools you mentioned can properly 'remove' spyware from a 'boot cd' (like bart's PE, although they can try to remove them, the removal is limited to what the programmers of the adware removal apps understand needs to be changed/deleted)
webroot spysweeper is vastly superior to both the 'free' spyware removal tools you mentioned, because it sandboxes new application installs until a 'user' confirms them as 'safe'
So yeah, you can give inadequate protection to an average joe, protection that might keep them from being 'automatically' infected, and if you convince them to use firefox they might even be safe for years at a time.. but those programs you list do not allow the useage of any IE-engine based program, including MSN messanger, Yahoo Messanger, IE, various P2P apps.. etc etc..
So go ahead, install inadequate tools, your customers will just be frustrated and angry when they get a trojan/spyware when you said they would be safe...
our space program was originally going to be launched from idaho, until someone realized that launch would be easier the closer one got to the equator. and INEEL has the largest stockpile of radioactive waste too, because remember it's all in 'temporary' storage.
you call the $299 dell a 'bargain' well, frankly you haven't added in the Software to 'keep it safe' you or I may not need this 'software' but average joe Does.. they only offer 'subscription' model software eg: $80+30 a year you can always go with competittors who sell products with 'free' online updates like zone labs(prices vary, from $50-$200), and even with a 'suite' like this you still need a popup blocker(free), a backup spyware removal tool like webroot spysweeper ($99) and an antivirus (the suites dell ships for $80 include antivirus, etc but you still need backup anti-spyware and plus there is the recurring fee) (grisoft.com has a 'free' updating one, but it's only free for 'us' end users, and they tend to fall behind on the 'free' versions protections when they don't get enough 'paying' customers)
So all told, to get 3 years worth of use out of a 'dell' 'bargain' system you're shelling out almost as much for 'protection' software as youa re for the computer. And all this assumes that the power supply lasts 2-days and you don't need to return it to tell to have them 'fix' it. and it doesn't take into account the differences in speed/performance or the reduced stability from the corners dell has cut to GET the price that low..
It might also save up to $0.30 cents a day.. in electricity.. up to $9 a month (if you always run at load) the difference won't be so profound at idle speeds, but it will still be noticable.
screw the wall outlet I want a laptop where you have to replace the system before the battery dies;)
before someone say's 'but what about the radiation' if it's safe enough to put inside someone's pace maker, then it's can be designed safe enough to build into a laptop..
It is very interesting that it's the stupid and/or poor who buy extended warranties.
It is very interesting that the stupid/poor buy $400 trashputers that fry out in 3 months, because the powersupply can at peek produce 20 fewer watts than the system needs to properly intialize everything on board... and thus can actually use the extended warranty. except that they then get thier trashputer replaced with an equally trashy trashputer, that has been tried with various defective parts until it can boot up at least once without crashing by a minimum wage 'tech'
Maybe the really poor shouldn't be buying computers, but then that's an entrie econmic sector that they're missing out on, onw where potentially they could earn enough to pull themselves out of poverty.
Maybe the problem isn't with the poor/stupid, but with the digerati, who assume if you're buying a $400 computer you're a POS and you don't matter, and your hardware can fry in 3 days because they don't have to replace it if they can just blame the 'end user'.. of have such exorbinant labor fees, that even if the part is replaced 'free' it costs more than the computer to get it fixed without a warrenty...
the technical page preceeding the annoying flash animation only claims 2x density... because that is as close as they've gotten them to work in a lab. perhaps the flash animation is right, but i suppect it's 'overly optomistic' magnetic fields extend in all directions, also the write head needs to be strong enough to flip the magnetic field etc etc... claiming you can pack the densities that high in a Flash video, and making a n actual drive that runs for 30,000 hours re/writing those bits without too high a rate of data corruption is another thing entirely. "Remember the pentium 4" was going to run at 10ghz clock speed. Intel was unable to push it past 3.8ghz in the 'real' world.
Anothing thig this is hitachi, not maxtor if they make drives with 10x the density it would be up to 5 tb, not 4tb, as in hitachi drives they use up to 5 platters.
perpendicular recording only allows a one time doubling in densities. it's a vast change to existing technologies, that esentially caps out at 1 tb 3.5" drives. the only other way to 'grow' is to apply those densities to a physically larger platter, in a 5.25" drive bay. the only way we'll see 2 tb+ magnetic HDs is if someone makes a 'bigfoot' 5.25" drive. the drive for more data storage is for Smaller data storage, not larger. so there really isn't anyone clamoring for someone to make the vast retooling effort to ramp up for 5.25" hds again.
seems like writing an autorun.inf would be easier to me.. and telling them if it doesn't work to 'double click readme' because you know extentions are turned off by the desktop.ini you wrote for the pendrive..
you missed the point. a lot of what microsoft does is 'support contracts' you Pay Microsoft for those... not the other way around... and micrsoft isn't the only one doing 'support contracts' for microsoft products it's a multi billion dollar a year industry, just providing support for microsoft products.
They MAKE money supporting the software, duh. the point is microsoft gets you coming AND going, while linux only gets you going. the point is the business model isn't that different at all.
Games right now dont even use 1/2 of the banwidth on a AGP 8x slot.
Right because we all know a $400 GPU that has 3x the transistors of the main CPU can only be used -- For Games. PCIe was designed to take care of the 'limitations' of AGP, manyly that is was a one way street, ramp up the ability to push data to the card, and ignore the ability to send data back on the return trip.
PCIe Is required for card to card intercommunication, AGP simply doesn't have ability for the cards to send enough data back down the bus for 2 cards to work in parallel on the same graphical computation.
Considering how powerful and advanced modern GPUs are a bus system that allows them to return data to the main GPU is very important, because it allows 'other' programs to use them, programs that aren't 'primarily' concerned with outputting to the 'screen' but rather to a file, such as 3d-rendering software, image manipulation programs, mpeg-4 compressors, even audio effect software can utilize the GPU, because while it's designed for calculating graphics certain audio computations can be run on them faster than on a general purpouse cpu.
PCIe is better, it makes GPUs more valuable to non-gamers, and frankly gamers while a lucrative market segment are not the 'whole' picture. Not by a long shot. Many graphic professionals pay $1,000 or more for a 3-d card that can perform the rendering work in hours that a normal CPU would take weeks to compute.. So since PCIe works for gamers too, it would be more profitable for the graphic card makers if PCIe was the prevalent and dominate technology and they didn't have to build 'high end' agp cards anymore..
it's because i'm lazy i can type one ~ faster than three...'s and besides... i use to many periods in my writing already... i need to start conserving them before my supply of punctuation runs out and i have to type like this forever without any kind of punctuation at all itd suck totally because people wouldn't be able to follow what i said they have a hard enough time when i punctuate
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Well it could be worse, you could be being chased by paranormal spectors while doing the above.
I'm sad to say that an even older game has cured me of my need to do something in real life. Yes, I will never need to play table tennis ever again, thanks to Pong. I guess, some of us are just able to 'get our fix' from the games. Since crime has not been reduced to zero not everyone can just be wired into bliss.
2 insight and 1 funny mod... for a 'save the nazis' joke... not bad...
I hear you, but would just like to add, that Super Mario Bros. satiated my appetite for eating magic mushooms that make you double in size. I also have been complely satiated of my need to kill menacing turtles by juming on their shells. I haven't hit my head on a brick wall since playing Super Mario Bros, not even if i suspected it was hiding a power up or a secret warp zone.
Those maps are Cheesy (zoom in all the way)
Isn't it possible that those complaining developers just might not be good enough to deal with the extra complexity?
that's why I said maybe the problem was with the vendor, the possibility exists that people ar just lazy, and don't want to learn how to program applications that can fully utilize a 3-core processor.
But there has always been a nice work around for the lazy, asymetric multi-processing.. you take a low clock cpu, and assign os/filesystem related theads to it, and then have a nice fast cpu that everything else runs on... if a multi-core processor is designed asymetrically, you can have more die space for the 'primary' core which obviously would have more transistors... that or the multi core uses less silicon(eg:cheaper), because the secondary core would take so few transistors..
I haven't had a virus since 1992, and that one was only in a zipfile and never infected my system. I don't even run anti-virus software, i don't have a popup blocker running, and I don't need ad aware or spybot for my own machine.. (but I do have them installed) and yeah i use firefox :p
I understand the basic principals of 'security' so I am able to safely run behind just a single firewall. normal people actually fight learning how to be safe. they just want the computer to do what they tell it to, when they want it to.
I try my best to tell them to get the software they need, or tell them to get a mac, and the prices are very comperable, once you add in all the 'protection' software fees... I simply won't deal with people who aren't willing to either shell out the money for the software/hardware to keep themselves safe, or else learn the basics of security.
I'm also sick of people promoting super cheaply built hardware. the kind of crap that has a failure rate above 50% in the first year. It's one thing to not pay more than you have to, but it's quite another to start buying substandard parts to 'save a dime' here or there.
If you bought a $200,000 house and the doorbell fell off in the first week, and the siding started sagging the week after, and then the lights started shorting out mysteriously and the plumbing started to leak shortly after. wouldn't you be upset enough to demand recompensation? the exact same principal has been happening to computers for years and years now. only you're basically screwed with computers unless it's 'covered by warrenty' Faster Cheaper Broken.
I'm glad that apple in concerned about quality, that they're also trying to keep prices competitive with the products they see from competitors they feel are worth competing with.
They could do better, the super drive isn't as good at not costering media as my $40 16x NEC DVD+-rw, still they're actually trying, and the switch to intel was about 2 things 1. low poer chips 2. ibm ignoring apples needs for more, and faster chips (because of high demand for ppc chips in consoles)
The reason they went with intel, and not AMD, is because Intel could actually produce the volume of chips apple needs. AMD is increasing fab capacity, but most of that capacity is going to be eaten alive by the migration to dual core chips. They're probably going to build a third dresden fab.
I think you are not utiliizing the SB S&D properly.
:p
It "iimmuniizes" against all known, plus warns you whenever a registry or other system setting is being updated by any app.
'warns you' is 'too late' once the spyware has installed, its already in half a dozen system executables, and the system restore database.
You don't have any 'real' experience with spyware.
believe you me, there are spyware apps out today that neither ad-aware nor spybot have removal against even thought they've been 'known' about for years, simply because once they infect there is no removal method other than a clean format.
Spybot, at least the free version does not prevent software from installing! it warns the user to run a scan to remove it, but by then it's too late. I know what the fuck I'm talking about my sister's husband had a new spyware on his PC every week. That was with spybot, and ad aware... and a firewall... the only product that has protected their system sucessfully is webroot spysweeper, because it prevents any installer from installing and regestering it's files until a 'user' approves it.
I was referring to trojaned P2P apps, sorry if your small mind couldn't figure that out. they would get past the 'firewall' to allow updates by grabbing permission to connect and act as a server via the rules for the p2p app.
It is true I like Mac, but frankly I am more than capable of building my own PC from components, in fact i've built over 20 PCs from components for various family members and myself. But it's jsut not worth the hassle with some family members to try and teach them how to not get every known virus on the planet, I tell them to just get a mac.
BTW my first computer was a Z80, and frankly I've been building my own systems forever... those free programs you 'claim' are so great, can't get the 5% of the worst spyware, and never will be able to... sure your grandma and your computers are protected fine by them, but what about your nephew who's sneaking access to all the free porn sites? what about your niece who thinks anything cute and fluffy should be downloaded and installed? like gator
The 'free' software you suggest does NOT adequately protect windows, it only provides a half-assed partial protection that is 'good enough' for people who can barely load e-mail, and for people who never get viruses anyways...
As far as manual removal mode goes, that's a perfectly good way to trigger the 'self destruct mode' of many spyware, where they completely corrupt windows so a full restore is needed, and since the spyware is in the restore file... well needless to say the spyware takes over before you can even login..
IBM sells PPC chips to nintendo, sony and microsoft.. and yeah, they all do have Much higher volume needs.. higher volume than Dell..
and even so, some developers are 'upset' at the performance they're going to get from ibm's ppc chips for the next gen consoles.. so maybe just maybe the problem is with the vendor...
I feel your pain. They have yet to port linspire to my Z80. I mean cmon I have 128K of ram and the drive for it supports up to 144k of data! my Z-80 itself is clocked to 3 MHz. how dare they ignore us.
Bargain PCs use a lot of substandard parts, from the cheapest motherboards they make, to the cheapest ram, to the cheapest powersupply... now, the single biggest problem is the 'cheap' power supply. but cheap ram can cause a lot of issues too, it's basically a 'you feeling lucky' kinda risky gamble.. because out of those cheap PSUs a large volume of them are going to fail, especially if the system is used for anything watt intensive dvd-burning, digital video transcoding etc..
dell generally tries to avoid having a really bad reputation for those problems, but the low end models have quite a good chance of experiencing PSU failure.
ad aware and spybot are manually run, they do not offer 'spyware protection' against installation. and they cannot remove any spyware once it has updated to a spyware removal free version...
I'm sorry but i've tried to set up a system with just 'free' software to 'protect' an average joe user... they get the spyware back in under a day, even if the system has been completely formatted and wiped clean...
I did mention AVG because it is a fairly good av software, but if you stick with the 'basic' free version, the engine itself tends to become obsolete and many viruses become immune to it.
Haven't you ever run a box 'in the wild' to see how many viruses/trojans you can get infected with? to see if any of those 'freeware' programs can actually protect you? Adaware+spybot S&D have no protection shield against the installation of any 'unknown' spyware, even if zonealarm blocks said software from automatically updating, there are a number of things that an adware can Pemanently alter, that no spyware removal tool can remove from the 'infected' OS, and neither of the free tools you mentioned can properly 'remove' spyware from a 'boot cd' (like bart's PE, although they can try to remove them, the removal is limited to what the programmers of the adware removal apps understand needs to be changed/deleted)
webroot spysweeper is vastly superior to both the 'free' spyware removal tools you mentioned, because it sandboxes new application installs until a 'user' confirms them as 'safe'
So yeah, you can give inadequate protection to an average joe, protection that might keep them from being 'automatically' infected, and if you convince them to use firefox they might even be safe for years at a time.. but those programs you list do not allow the useage of any IE-engine based program, including MSN messanger, Yahoo Messanger, IE, various P2P apps.. etc etc..
So go ahead, install inadequate tools, your customers will just be frustrated and angry when they get a trojan/spyware when you said they would be safe...
Can't find anything related to nuclear jet turbines, perhaps they were building a rocket plane? or a space launch vehicle?
http://www.lascruces.com/~mrpbar/rocket.html
our space program was originally going to be launched from idaho, until someone realized that launch would be easier the closer one got to the equator. and INEEL has the largest stockpile of radioactive waste too, because remember it's all in 'temporary' storage.
you call the $299 dell a 'bargain' well, frankly you haven't added in the Software to 'keep it safe' you or I may not need this 'software' but average joe Does.. they only offer 'subscription' model software eg: $80+30 a year you can always go with competittors who sell products with 'free' online updates like zone labs(prices vary, from $50-$200), and even with a 'suite' like this you still need a popup blocker(free), a backup spyware removal tool like webroot spysweeper ($99) and an antivirus (the suites dell ships for $80 include antivirus, etc but you still need backup anti-spyware and plus there is the recurring fee) (grisoft.com has a 'free' updating one, but it's only free for 'us' end users, and they tend to fall behind on the 'free' versions protections when they don't get enough 'paying' customers)
So all told, to get 3 years worth of use out of a 'dell' 'bargain' system you're shelling out almost as much for 'protection' software as youa re for the computer. And all this assumes that the power supply lasts 2-days and you don't need to return it to tell to have them 'fix' it. and it doesn't take into account the differences in speed/performance or the reduced stability from the corners dell has cut to GET the price that low..
Bargain? not.
It might also save up to $0.30 cents a day.. in electricity.. up to $9 a month (if you always run at load) the difference won't be so profound at idle speeds, but it will still be noticable.
While I'd LIKE to have a huge battery life in my notebook
;)
;)
If you can get the power requirements low enough, I'll take 10 years please
http://www.physorg.com/news4081.html
screw the wall outlet I want a laptop where you have to replace the system before the battery dies
before someone say's 'but what about the radiation' if it's safe enough to put inside someone's pace maker, then it's can be designed safe enough to build into a laptop..
It is very interesting that it's the stupid and/or poor who buy extended warranties.
It is very interesting that the stupid/poor buy $400 trashputers that fry out in 3 months, because the powersupply can at peek produce 20 fewer watts than the system needs to properly intialize everything on board... and thus can actually use the extended warranty. except that they then get thier trashputer replaced with an equally trashy trashputer, that has been tried with various defective parts until it can boot up at least once without crashing by a minimum wage 'tech'
Maybe the really poor shouldn't be buying computers, but then that's an entrie econmic sector that they're missing out on, onw where potentially they could earn enough to pull themselves out of poverty.
Maybe the problem isn't with the poor/stupid, but with the digerati, who assume if you're buying a $400 computer you're a POS and you don't matter, and your hardware can fry in 3 days because they don't have to replace it if they can just blame the 'end user'.. of have such exorbinant labor fees, that even if the part is replaced 'free' it costs more than the computer to get it fixed without a warrenty...
the technical page preceeding the annoying flash animation only claims 2x density... because that is as close as they've gotten them to work in a lab. perhaps the flash animation is right, but i suppect it's 'overly optomistic' magnetic fields extend in all directions, also the write head needs to be strong enough to flip the magnetic field etc etc... claiming you can pack the densities that high in a Flash video, and making a n actual drive that runs for 30,000 hours re/writing those bits without too high a rate of data corruption is another thing entirely. "Remember the pentium 4" was going to run at 10ghz clock speed. Intel was unable to push it past 3.8ghz in the 'real' world.
Anothing thig this is hitachi, not maxtor if they make drives with 10x the density it would be up to 5 tb, not 4tb, as in hitachi drives they use up to 5 platters.
perpendicular recording only allows a one time doubling in densities. it's a vast change to existing technologies, that esentially caps out at 1 tb 3.5" drives. the only other way to 'grow' is to apply those densities to a physically larger platter, in a 5.25" drive bay. the only way we'll see 2 tb+ magnetic HDs is if someone makes a 'bigfoot' 5.25" drive. the drive for more data storage is for Smaller data storage, not larger. so there really isn't anyone clamoring for someone to make the vast retooling effort to ramp up for 5.25" hds again.
Can't believe you didn't get any funny mods. Hitach Desktstars :)
seems like writing an autorun.inf would be easier to me.. and telling them if it doesn't work to 'double click readme' because you know extentions are turned off by the desktop.ini you wrote for the pendrive..
you missed the point. a lot of what microsoft does is 'support contracts' you Pay Microsoft for those... not the other way around... and micrsoft isn't the only one doing 'support contracts' for microsoft products it's a multi billion dollar a year industry, just providing support for microsoft products.
They MAKE money supporting the software, duh.
the point is microsoft gets you coming AND going, while linux only gets you going. the point is the business model isn't that different at all.
A closed source commercial company wants to provide the product pretty much ready to go and doesn't want to provide extensive after sales support.
Someone hear hasn't heard of Microsoft
Games right now dont even use 1/2 of the banwidth on a AGP 8x slot.
Right because we all know a $400 GPU that has 3x the transistors of the main CPU can only be used -- For Games. PCIe was designed to take care of the 'limitations' of AGP, manyly that is was a one way street, ramp up the ability to push data to the card, and ignore the ability to send data back on the return trip.
PCIe Is required for card to card intercommunication, AGP simply doesn't have ability for the cards to send enough data back down the bus for 2 cards to work in parallel on the same graphical computation.
Considering how powerful and advanced modern GPUs are a bus system that allows them to return data to the main GPU is very important, because it allows 'other' programs to use them, programs that aren't 'primarily' concerned with outputting to the 'screen' but rather to a file, such as 3d-rendering software, image manipulation programs, mpeg-4 compressors, even audio effect software can utilize the GPU, because while it's designed for calculating graphics certain audio computations can be run on them faster than on a general purpouse cpu.
PCIe is better, it makes GPUs more valuable to non-gamers, and frankly gamers while a lucrative market segment are not the 'whole' picture. Not by a long shot. Many graphic professionals pay $1,000 or more for a 3-d card that can perform the rendering work in hours that a normal CPU would take weeks to compute.. So since PCIe works for gamers too, it would be more profitable for the graphic card makers if PCIe was the prevalent and dominate technology and they didn't have to build 'high end' agp cards anymore..
you were the closest CID i could find to the elusive post 13,131,313. or 13 13 13 13.. what an unlucky post to be unable to be found ;)
it's because i'm lazy i can type one ~ faster than three ...'s and besides... i use to many periods in my writing already... i need to start conserving them before my supply of punctuation runs out and i have to type like this forever without any kind of punctuation at all itd suck totally because people wouldn't be able to follow what i said they have a hard enough time when i punctuate