The XBox doesn't "suck" per se, but it's oversized and doesn't have a lot of great games. Yes, that's subjective, I'm sure you could respond with a huge list of "great games" for the XBox, but, IMHO, there are very few good XBox exclusives (even Halo isn't XBox-exclusive any more). The XBox game library is outdone by Sony on quantity and by Nintendo on quality. That's why I, personally, wouldn't purchase an XBox (although I certainly wouldn't refuse one if offered).
The author's point was that NAT brings a false sense of security - someone could easily sneak something in behind the NAT and you'd be completely unprotected. An out of the box Windows machine should never be open to an insecure network, NATted or not.
Those aren't the article's words. In the actual article, only one paragraph out of 3 pages mentions copyright, and it's fairly neutral.
These problems go away when every computer on the Internet really does have its own IP address--something that's impossible today with IPv4, but which is the raison d'etre for IPv6. In a world with IPv6 and without NAT, every computer in my house has its own unique IP address on the public Internet. That means my desktop can open up a peer-to-peer connection with my desktop at work, but it also means that my daughter can network her machine directly with some teenybopper P2P network in San Jose. Getting everybody's home machine out from being a NAT box should make possible a lot of interesting applications that are either very difficult or downright impossible today. And in all likelihood, some of those applications will not be popular with the Recording Industry Association of America or the Motion Picture Association of America, both of which have taken the lead against peer-to-peer networks. As soon as they understand what a threat IPv6 is to their police actions, they are likely to start fighting against.
My point is that they are delivering a different model with, practically speaking, the exact same features. Yes, it's slightly sleazy to inflate the model numbers. But much worse things happen everyday and you don't see a huge/. uproar about them.
<offtopic>Actually, the Thoroughbred is the die-shrink (not that it matters). But I'm talking about a computer you ordered, not a computer you're building. It's the manufacturer's responsibility to cool your machine. The user doesn't need to know the die size of the processor, any more than they need to know the firmware revision of their hard drive. Some users may like to know, and they can find out, but 99% of users don't care. Hell, I'm a very technical user, and I had to look up that my Athlon 2200 MPs are Palominos (and average around 50 C). </offtopic>
I can't view the upgrade instructions you posted without registering, but I assume they're probably complicated, void the warrenty, and are only valid for these particular laptops (so you'd have to find other instructions to upgrade the hypothetical two-years-from-now laptop). It's usually quite difficult and risky to mess with laptop internals, which is why almost no one does it.
If the Athlon 2000 performed the same as the Athlon XP 2200, it would be an Athlon 2200. There is no feature differential, just the speed (on a side note, AMD did actually make several 2200s, with Thoroughbred-A, Thoroughbred-B, and Palomino cores. I have yet to meet a person who knows or cares which one theirs is).
As I see it, HP is promising one model with a certain functionality, and delivering another with the exact same functionality. Unless your self-esteem depends on having the highest model number possible, I don't see the problem.
The Centrino is a complete platform, not a CPU. Part of that platform is a 4X AGP slot. The graphics card that fits in that slot was apparently certified by ATI to "ensure that performance consistency and parity of the MOBILITY RADEON 9200 brand are achieved". Make of that what you will.
If there was a functional difference, I'd be glad to concede that HP was being completely, undeniably, 100% evil. However, allthesearching I've done seems to indicate that the only difference between rv250 and rv280 is AGP8X support. Probably, ATI's product portfolio is assuming that the 9200 is faster when running under 8X (which it presumably is). That's irrelevent to the current issue.
If the Centrino were advertised as "AGP 8X graphics card", then I would have a problem with that. However, as HP says, "HP never advertised or made any claims the notebook or graphics controller supports AGP 8X... AGP 8X mode operation is not a requirement for the MOBILITY RADEON 9200 brand."
Yes, there is a difference. The difference is that one supports AGP 8X, and the other does not. If there are any other differences that I'm unaware of, feel free to be specific about them.
The FX5200 is marginal. I've seen it benchmark worse than the GF4MX in some cases, which is truly sad (although it does support all of Doom 3's features, which the GF4MX does not). Really, though, no one except a masochist should buy a made-for-Doom 3 box with a 5200 in it:-).
I would rather have PC100 RAM in that laptop than DDR RAM that doesn't work - DDR's not backwards compatible:-).
Seriously, though, if (in some hypothetical universe where DDR RAM was backwards compatible) someone offered me a Pentium 1 with DDR memory, I'd know that it would still only perform as PC100. As long as I wasn't planning on reusing that DDR in a better machine someday (a non-issue here, as laptop GFX cards are for all practical purposes non-removable), and I wasn't being overcharged for it, I wouldn't be too upset.
Take a 3rd grade English class. If it says that "Every slashdotter has yet to justify piracy", that means that piracy has not been justified by anyone. If you negate the sentence by slapping a "No" in front of it, it means that piracy has been justified by everyone. It's called a double negative.
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20 bytes overhead is not "mere" when it's part of every single packet, with trillions or quadrillions of packets sent every day
Did he say that we wouldn't need more addresses eventually? No. He just said that ipv6 is not the best way to get them.
Obviously, not all routers are created equal. I could replace mine for $50.
Holy shit. That was nice. +5 Interesting on a post that mentions a groundbreaking Linux console running dselect, nethack, and xbill. I salute you.
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The XBox doesn't "suck" per se, but it's oversized and doesn't have a lot of great games. Yes, that's subjective, I'm sure you could respond with a huge list of "great games" for the XBox, but, IMHO, there are very few good XBox exclusives (even Halo isn't XBox-exclusive any more). The XBox game library is outdone by Sony on quantity and by Nintendo on quality. That's why I, personally, wouldn't purchase an XBox (although I certainly wouldn't refuse one if offered).
OK, sorry, I skimmed the intro and missed that. Still, the author doesn't seem to care about it, he just mentions that the RIAA and MPAA will care.
The author's point was that NAT brings a false sense of security - someone could easily sneak something in behind the NAT and you'd be completely unprotected. An out of the box Windows machine should never be open to an insecure network, NATted or not.
As the article says, routers sometimes have optimized ipv4 routines in hardware. ipv6 is done completely in software and is therefore somewhat slower.
These problems go away when every computer on the Internet really does have its own IP address--something that's impossible today with IPv4, but which is the raison d'etre for IPv6. In a world with IPv6 and without NAT, every computer in my house has its own unique IP address on the public Internet. That means my desktop can open up a peer-to-peer connection with my desktop at work, but it also means that my daughter can network her machine directly with some teenybopper P2P network in San Jose. Getting everybody's home machine out from being a NAT box should make possible a lot of interesting applications that are either very difficult or downright impossible today. And in all likelihood, some of those applications will not be popular with the Recording Industry Association of America or the Motion Picture Association of America, both of which have taken the lead against peer-to-peer networks. As soon as they understand what a threat IPv6 is to their police actions, they are likely to start fighting against.
<offtopic>Actually, the Thoroughbred is the die-shrink (not that it matters). But I'm talking about a computer you ordered, not a computer you're building. It's the manufacturer's responsibility to cool your machine. The user doesn't need to know the die size of the processor, any more than they need to know the firmware revision of their hard drive. Some users may like to know, and they can find out, but 99% of users don't care. Hell, I'm a very technical user, and I had to look up that my Athlon 2200 MPs are Palominos (and average around 50 C). </offtopic>
I can't view the upgrade instructions you posted without registering, but I assume they're probably complicated, void the warrenty, and are only valid for these particular laptops (so you'd have to find other instructions to upgrade the hypothetical two-years-from-now laptop). It's usually quite difficult and risky to mess with laptop internals, which is why almost no one does it.
Maybe not for everyone, but WineX and Crossover Office can fix those problems for a lot of people.
If that watch uses a standard USB Mass Storage interface, it should be well supported by any recent OS, including Linux.
As I see it, HP is promising one model with a certain functionality, and delivering another with the exact same functionality. Unless your self-esteem depends on having the highest model number possible, I don't see the problem.
The Centrino is a complete platform, not a CPU. Part of that platform is a 4X AGP slot. The graphics card that fits in that slot was apparently certified by ATI to "ensure that performance consistency and parity of the MOBILITY RADEON 9200 brand are achieved". Make of that what you will.
Your point? Art, insofar as it can be defined, is "the conscious use of skill and creative imagination especially in the production of aesthetic objects". While it's certainly subjective, I don't consider a urinal, a soup can, or a page of blinking gibberish to be aesthetic, and therefore, they are not art.
If there was a functional difference, I'd be glad to concede that HP was being completely, undeniably, 100% evil. However, all the searching I've done seems to indicate that the only difference between rv250 and rv280 is AGP8X support. Probably, ATI's product portfolio is assuming that the 9200 is faster when running under 8X (which it presumably is). That's irrelevent to the current issue.
If websites can install spyware without your consent, your browser choice is seriously fucked up.
If the Centrino were advertised as "AGP 8X graphics card", then I would have a problem with that. However, as HP says, "HP never advertised or made any claims the notebook or graphics controller supports AGP 8X ... AGP 8X mode operation is not a requirement for the MOBILITY RADEON 9200 brand."
Yes, there is a difference. The difference is that one supports AGP 8X, and the other does not. If there are any other differences that I'm unaware of, feel free to be specific about them.
The FX5200 is marginal. I've seen it benchmark worse than the GF4MX in some cases, which is truly sad (although it does support all of Doom 3's features, which the GF4MX does not). Really, though, no one except a masochist should buy a made-for-Doom 3 box with a 5200 in it :-).
I would rather have PC100 RAM in that laptop than DDR RAM that doesn't work - DDR's not backwards compatible :-).
Seriously, though, if (in some hypothetical universe where DDR RAM was backwards compatible) someone offered me a Pentium 1 with DDR memory, I'd know that it would still only perform as PC100. As long as I wasn't planning on reusing that DDR in a better machine someday (a non-issue here, as laptop GFX cards are for all practical purposes non-removable), and I wasn't being overcharged for it, I wouldn't be too upset.
Take a 3rd grade English class. If it says that "Every slashdotter has yet to justify piracy", that means that piracy has not been justified by anyone. If you negate the sentence by slapping a "No" in front of it, it means that piracy has been justified by everyone. It's called a double negative.
Nitpick: an Athlon 2400+ runs at 2Ghz.