> Without M$ "in-your-face" marketing this would > not have happend. The benefits of this > proliferation are enormus (and I don't have > either the time or space here to count them > all). I'm going to sum it up in one word. > Internet. Without ready access to computers that > are "user friendly" (sorry for the buzz word!!!) > we don't get all this communications stuff that > makes up the "Information Age".
No internet without Microsoft, eh? I think not. Unix (and its precursors) built the internet starting in the late 1950s. Microsoft didn't even catch on until a few years ago, they were too busy working on "Bob" because computers still weren't stupid enough for them. Hundreds of thousands of morons using IE to download asian teen porn did not create "all this communications stuff that makes up the Information Age".
However, without Microsoft, the internet *would* probably still be a place of intelligent discourse and high signal/noise ratios.
Damn Steve Jobs for killing the Newton! Everytime I see an article about how great the NEXT Palm will be all I can do is think about how far they still have to go to catch up to the last Newton, which was produced almost 2 years ago.
It really kills me when people say that Newton HWR sucked and that Graffiti is so much better. Nobody seems to know that Graffiti was developed FOR the Newt and was no longer needed because their handwriting recognition was so good at the end?
*sigh*
Oh well...I can change none of this. I just wish someone would hurry up nad produce another small, powerful, flexible, usable handheld. One day...
P.S. I too am looking forward to the P1. Mmmm...G3 in a eMate case...
This article totally kicked my ass...I can't believe it's on ZDNet of all places! I printed out all the graphs because I'm afraid this article will disappear overnight:)
I liked the linux-to-linux-to-linux comparisons but really wished more infor had been given as to WHY some distros perform better at certain tasks. I assume it's build differences, but I'd like to know what tricks you can use to speed up a certain program at compile-time.
Still, this rocks! Print out the graphs and show them to your boss!
I have a midrange DVD player (Sony S500D) and a small but growing collection of DVDs (14). My television is a decidedly low-end 25" GE model (I'm not getting a new one until I can get a 16x9 flatscreen model).
Maybe I'm just not 3l337 enough, but I have noticed exactly one instance of MPEG artifacts in all those hours of viewing, and that instance lasted about 1/2 of a second.
DVDs kick ass. They're cheaper than VHS (I got all of Bubblegum Crisis on 3 DVDs for $50 as opposed to $160 on 8 VHS tapes), they include cool stuff (making of, production stills, cast interviews). Most importantly, VHS looks like total shit once you've watched a DVD. It's so *blurry*!
I can live with a half-second of artifacts per 30 hours of video in exchange for crystal clear images and wonderfully clear, obnoxiously loud and noise free sound.
Everybody: go buy a DVD player right now. DIVX must die.
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> Without M$ "in-your-face" marketing this would
> not have happend. The benefits of this
> proliferation are enormus (and I don't have
> either the time or space here to count them
> all). I'm going to sum it up in one word.
> Internet. Without ready access to computers that
> are "user friendly" (sorry for the buzz word!!!)
> we don't get all this communications stuff that
> makes up the "Information Age".
No internet without Microsoft, eh? I think not. Unix (and its precursors) built the internet starting in the late 1950s. Microsoft didn't even catch on until a few years ago, they were too busy working on "Bob" because computers still weren't stupid enough for them. Hundreds of thousands of morons using IE to download asian teen porn did not create "all this communications stuff that makes up the Information Age".
However, without Microsoft, the internet *would* probably still be a place of intelligent discourse and high signal/noise ratios.
*sigh*
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I hate to beat a dead horse severely...but...
Damn Steve Jobs for killing the Newton! Everytime I see an article about how great the NEXT Palm will be all I can do is think about how far they still have to go to catch up to the last Newton, which was produced almost 2 years ago.
It really kills me when people say that Newton HWR sucked and that Graffiti is so much better. Nobody seems to know that Graffiti was developed FOR the Newt and was no longer needed because their handwriting recognition was so good at the end?
*sigh*
Oh well...I can change none of this. I just wish someone would hurry up nad produce another small, powerful, flexible, usable handheld. One day...
P.S. I too am looking forward to the P1. Mmmm...G3 in a eMate case...
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This article totally kicked my ass...I can't believe it's on ZDNet of all places! I printed out all the graphs because I'm afraid this article will disappear overnight :)
I liked the linux-to-linux-to-linux comparisons but really wished more infor had been given as to WHY some distros perform better at certain tasks. I assume it's build differences, but I'd like to know what tricks you can use to speed up a certain program at compile-time.
Still, this rocks! Print out the graphs and show them to your boss!
--
I have a midrange DVD player (Sony S500D) and a small but growing collection of DVDs (14). My television is a decidedly low-end 25" GE model (I'm not getting a new one until I can get a 16x9 flatscreen model).
Maybe I'm just not 3l337 enough, but I have noticed exactly one instance of MPEG artifacts in all those hours of viewing, and that instance lasted about 1/2 of a second.
DVDs kick ass. They're cheaper than VHS (I got all of Bubblegum Crisis on 3 DVDs for $50 as opposed to $160 on 8 VHS tapes), they include cool stuff (making of, production stills, cast interviews). Most importantly, VHS looks like total shit once you've watched a DVD. It's so *blurry*!
I can live with a half-second of artifacts per 30 hours of video in exchange for crystal clear images and wonderfully clear, obnoxiously loud and noise free sound.
Everybody: go buy a DVD player right now. DIVX must die.
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