Frankly (no pun), I really do not receive that much unsolicited junk mail from politicians as it is, so why should I fear that they will even begin to compete with the real spammers that send 100+ emails to my public email address?
People have largely accepted their junk mailing privileges as it is. I am a bit more worried about irresponsible emails from so-called political organizations, with the possibility that like soft money, they will be playing by an entirely different set of rules and have little accountability.
There are enough internet rumors- just wait until the political spin doctors step into the game... but actual candidates pose little concern.
9 out of 10 the check engine light is an EMISSIONS PROBLEM.
They know the public is not THAT interested in dropping big bucks on non-vital repairs. Some cars show check engine if the gas cap is not entirely tightened.
Can you imagine a CHECK EMISSIONS light??
If you are the sort who thinks you left your oven on while you are away on a trip, you could assuage your OCD checking behaviors if this were implemented in a secure manner.
By season pass, it will let you record EVERY episode of a given show on a given channel, regardless of when it is scheduled- meaning for some cable channels, you might end up with three episodes per day. I wish it would compare program descriptions.
Pardon the redundancy, but I think this addresses the key issue here.
OK- I don`t have a `proper` Tivo (actually, that Hughes unit looks like the same type of system...), but I have a HD recorder embedded into my digital cable box (a PERFECT convergence of technology if you ask me- the integration of the cable `guide`with the absolute ease in programming and use), but there are obvious artifacts and compression going on- especially in low light scenes.
I`m just wondering what the video snobs will think of all this. I`m sure there is a compromise somewhere.
Just because the box is `compatible` with HDTV doesn`t make it HD.
It is called `marketing.`
for a 3 ghz processor...
It would have sounded so much better back in the day if he pulled 350 mhz out of a 200 mhz processor?
The photos weren't THAT pretty...
Yeah, and my office building handles much more sensitive data than a CC and it has much more, shall we say, more "mature" technology in the access cards used. I don't think it is that big of a deal. As it is, anyone with rudimentary "Radio Shack skills" can program a magnetic strip for an ordinary non-smart-card CC.
My ancient vanity site that received no traffic, nor deserved any, has been duly archived. I'm dying of embarrassment at my rudimentary HTML- back in the day.
You might as well play Starcraft... I'd prefer not to have those "tricky tricks" that fly in the face of the spirit of the game... sure I can surround everything by dogs, but that is just a cheap ploy to use a sneak attack- and it only works against a newbie.
As the "typical" (according to some article I can't believe) gamer, I'm a married male who doesn't have the rest of my life to learn all the crazy, arcane strengths and liabilities of all the odd units... kind of like playing a Mortal Combat type game where the six-fingered mutants are able to crush you with all the arcane button-move combinations that I can't even remember when I need them...
I'd STILL prefer the RTS genre to be more of an animated chess (or go) game than the brute-force ass-bangs I usually see in online play... and I could care less about playing the AI.
I'd prefer a "sense" of realism over anything, whether it be realism of unit strength, or "physical" size of units, or whatever- but I don't want real time waits (ie. three months to receive new units). Sure these games are set in the future, and sure, they are just games... and I don't want something so dull as MS' overly realistic forray into RTS games... whatever that thing was called (with each players' morale meters).
What I like about CC is that it is a campaign game... I'm not a fan of first-person shootups (face your enemy, no aiming required... you'll hit 'em). I'd rather see a game where I can choose my level of participation, toggle between different units, set up the attack, then participate first person in a chosen unit. I doubt with the thousands of units that end up in a large campaign that this is even possible, but it would certainly add a different dimension to the game.
And promo screen shots always look worlds beyond what I see in actual gameplay...
It could all just be a FREE PUBLICITY stunt... since *no one* owns an Apple anyway.
I thought Apple was rather Draconian with their policy of using the I-pod with just one computer- AND the fact that to my knowledge, it WON'T work with a windows box... it's not exactly an "open" system- but then again, Apple NEVER has been.
It must be frustrating being Intel- I see tons of "cheap" P4 systems using SDRAM...
It seems the public is very fickle- they want a "fast" processor without looking at overall system performance
Meanwhile, AMD is getting away with selling Athlon 1800+ chips, which many people actually think run at 1800+ mhz.
Regardless of price, I'm convinced most ordinary people want ONE NUMBER for which to compare PCs.... not 17 different variables... they want one single number to sum it all up- and that seems to be mhz.
Meanwhile, until the economy "straightens out"- businesses seem to still be buying P3 systems, or at least shying away from the bleeding edge. At least both job sites I work at have been very conservative in their purchasing...
Sure, this is vaporware... it is ironic. Look at actual purchasing habits of "real humans." For all the brouhaha surrounding the P4 and Rambus, you really have to go out of your way to actually BUY a P4 with Rambus. The system "as tested" will be a rarity. There are boatloads of P4s being sold TODAY with SDRAM. Go figure...
If anything, it just proves the public wants a crippled P4... but at least it is a P4. I don't get it. We'll have deja vu all over again in a year where people will buy a 2666 P4 with "slower", CHEAPER rambus.
...I don't get it: I don't know anyone who actually uses a "local" phone company... except businesses. This bill, as far as I can tell, doesn't affect someone like me who uses DSL through Qwest with Visi as my ISP. It could only potentially affect me if I used "Joe's Phone Co." for my "DSL line", and Qwest has already made such arrangements all but impossible anyway... our company formerly used an alternative phone co. until they wanted DSL- at which point we returned to Qwest. Or, from the article: "Competitors argue that the Bells haven't held up their end of the bargain, having stymied access to their the networks by delaying the provisioning of networks and failing to meet performance standards for delivering wholesale network services over to its competitors"
To a certain degree, the logic of the regional bells makes good sense to me: DSL was 'nothing' back in 1996. Since when was DSL considered a necessary part of "phone service?"
On the other hand, I think the regional bells have exaggerated the stakes involved. I doubt they are bleeding money to the degree that local bells have. Unless we socialize such utilities, we need to expect cut-throat business ethics of regional bells.
I don't know if I entirely agree with you... although I can't argue that code is ever-expanding...
Bus speeds (and bandwidth) don't seem to keep up with processor speeds, memory latency remains an issue, and hard drive speeds are actually almost slower (if you consider how much data they can cram onto a platter)... let's not forget the snail's pace the internet operates at (compared to the hardware accessing it)- or how slow an ink jet prints.
I actually believe code bloat has more to do with cheap ram and cheap mass storage than processor speed... but that is a separate issue.
There are so many bottlenecks due to marketing issues: people want large cheap hard drives/tons of RAM- AND they want to brag how fast their current CPU is. Look how many new PCs are still built with SDRAM- these may not be the high end of the product line, but I think it makes the point that people choose the CPU over any other component.
I really believe with CPUs and graphics cards, we have been following the BRUTE FORCE path for far too long. I appreciate the backwards compatibility of this approach, but there has never been a unified design strategy involved with PC components... they are still the sum of a bunch of parts.
That Matrix Revisited DVD is a trip... they licensed four tracks of my music and hearing Keanu doing a voice-over on one of them is downright freaky (in his wooden monotone).
Believe it or not, that movie has a real cult following.
Oh, and I had been using the name "Simulacra" long before Matrix came out...
Realistically, you would have to be quite a fan to appreciate "Revisited."
Like it isn't embedded in the price of the hardware? It's pretty much the same things with windoze (unless you buy a bare box)... an OEM version of the OS costs about the same as an upgrade...
The ASUS A7M266 uses an AMD 761 chipset (not a Via chipset)- which is WHY this mobo works well... there is a Via southbridge, but it is a non-issue in win xp.
Business model? What is the profit margin on an OS vs. hardware?
Also, Apple, to my knowlege" only sells the upgrade for $100... how much does the actual OS cost?
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Of COURSE this is a security issue... at work they've *finally* blocked all web mail (except a java-based site I found called perfectlyprivate mail, but I digress) because so many BOZOs where passing around those stoopid snowball fight games, etc... and of course some nasty worms made it into the network, viruses, etc... aside from the loss of productivity answering yahoo mail... think god all the monkeys can still track their beanie babie auctions on ebay.
Of course only people that "truly need" internet have it- which means EVERYONE has it... and nobody follows the use policy.
The thing is, I seriously doubt the type of person who would use this in the workplace (ie. has the saavy) would be in the same category as those causing virus/worm problems by opening shady attachments, etc..
BTW- I've never seen a "network nazi" be a fascist by choice- they usually have a very "firm" mandate from some upper management type who hasn't even figured out how to turn his PC on.
One might seriously question how many people actually NEED internet in the first place... the only legitimate use I've ever had for it is the reverse phone directory, and mapquest (which is a nightmare)... maybe the download of a few government forms- but to have it on every desktop? Let's get real... half the people posting HERE are doing it while at work.
"It's for a REASON: Wal Mart sells more things at lower prices than the mom and pop retailer. I'd certainly rather that. "
I live in Mpls... a Northwest Airline hub. You think NW offers us competitive prices here? Think again. The have practically taken over the airport. A few months ago I needed to take a personal trip to NYC- and Northwest MATCHED the price of Sun Country (an "almost" airline). A few years ago, Sun Country undersold NW by at least a $100. My first thoughts were that NW is driving Sun Country out of business... and they were, and they practically did. I'm sure we'll see prices jacked up by NW after the last shovelful of dirt is placed on Sun Country...
Now, in the US, companies can not just do whatever they feel like for fun and profit. There have been plenty of price-fixing schemes, anti-trust cases, etc... that provide examples that the lowest price isn't always the most "legal" price. I'm not so naive as to suggest Walmart is going to jack all the prices sky-high like your neighborhood "convenience" store, but I'm also here to tell you that with retail margins as tight as they are, we really don't pay that much of a premium to support a decent local business. I'd rather pay a penny more for a nail at the local hardware store where I can be helped by someone who knows the place inside and out, and where they have a wall with nails from floor to ceiling... and I can buy just two of the damn things if I want- rather than parking a half mile away from a megastore, walk another half mile through the store, and buy a hundred nails that are "almost" what I'm looking for.
WALMART reaps far greater benefits by being in a community than does the community. You think they are doing the community a public service by being present? While they may not be doing anything "illegal" it is also IRONIC that they are all "red-white&blue" about things when they are in fact destroying the local economy... but maybe that truly IS the "American way." What I would REALLY like to see is how Walmart would cope with a unionization attempt... I'm sure we'd all see their true colors... there is plenty of anecdotal evidence to suggest it isn't the most lucrative or pleasant place to work.
No the censorship is NOT a big deal, but it is amusing if you look at what they censor... I don't think I've ever purchased "music" from a discount store... but get out in the sticks and it is either that or mail order/online (with your dial-up provider)... and you might think if it is "good enough" for radio, it should be "good enough" for most retailers.
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Frankly (no pun), I really do not receive that much unsolicited junk mail from politicians as it is, so why should I fear that they will even begin to compete with the real spammers that send 100+ emails to my public email address?
People have largely accepted their junk mailing privileges as it is. I am a bit more worried about irresponsible emails from so-called political organizations, with the possibility that like soft money, they will be playing by an entirely different set of rules and have little accountability.
There are enough internet rumors- just wait until the political spin doctors step into the game... but actual candidates pose little concern.
9 out of 10 the check engine light is an EMISSIONS PROBLEM. They know the public is not THAT interested in dropping big bucks on non-vital repairs. Some cars show check engine if the gas cap is not entirely tightened. Can you imagine a CHECK EMISSIONS light??
If you are the sort who thinks you left your oven on while you are away on a trip, you could assuage your OCD checking behaviors if this were implemented in a secure manner.
It is. My Sony PDA does that right out of the box.
By season pass, it will let you record EVERY episode of a given show on a given channel, regardless of when it is scheduled- meaning for some cable channels, you might end up with three episodes per day. I wish it would compare program descriptions.
Pardon the redundancy, but I think this addresses the key issue here. OK- I don`t have a `proper` Tivo (actually, that Hughes unit looks like the same type of system...), but I have a HD recorder embedded into my digital cable box (a PERFECT convergence of technology if you ask me- the integration of the cable `guide`with the absolute ease in programming and use), but there are obvious artifacts and compression going on- especially in low light scenes. I`m just wondering what the video snobs will think of all this. I`m sure there is a compromise somewhere. Just because the box is `compatible` with HDTV doesn`t make it HD. It is called `marketing.`
for a 3 ghz processor... It would have sounded so much better back in the day if he pulled 350 mhz out of a 200 mhz processor? The photos weren't THAT pretty...
Yeah, and my office building handles much more sensitive data than a CC and it has much more, shall we say, more "mature" technology in the access cards used. I don't think it is that big of a deal. As it is, anyone with rudimentary "Radio Shack skills" can program a magnetic strip for an ordinary non-smart-card CC.
In the music industry it is done all the time- just buy the rails and bolt them to the enclosure of your choosing. It aint rocket science!
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Is it the hardware or the OS... or both?
My ancient vanity site that received no traffic, nor deserved any, has been duly archived. I'm dying of embarrassment at my rudimentary HTML- back in the day.
My question is why I was even on their radar?
You might as well play Starcraft... I'd prefer not to have those "tricky tricks" that fly in the face of the spirit of the game... sure I can surround everything by dogs, but that is just a cheap ploy to use a sneak attack- and it only works against a newbie.
As the "typical" (according to some article I can't believe) gamer, I'm a married male who doesn't have the rest of my life to learn all the crazy, arcane strengths and liabilities of all the odd units... kind of like playing a Mortal Combat type game where the six-fingered mutants are able to crush you with all the arcane button-move combinations that I can't even remember when I need them...
I'd STILL prefer the RTS genre to be more of an animated chess (or go) game than the brute-force ass-bangs I usually see in online play... and I could care less about playing the AI.
I'd prefer a "sense" of realism over anything, whether it be realism of unit strength, or "physical" size of units, or whatever- but I don't want real time waits (ie. three months to receive new units). Sure these games are set in the future, and sure, they are just games... and I don't want something so dull as MS' overly realistic forray into RTS games... whatever that thing was called (with each players' morale meters).
What I like about CC is that it is a campaign game... I'm not a fan of first-person shootups (face your enemy, no aiming required... you'll hit 'em). I'd rather see a game where I can choose my level of participation, toggle between different units, set up the attack, then participate first person in a chosen unit. I doubt with the thousands of units that end up in a large campaign that this is even possible, but it would certainly add a different dimension to the game.
And promo screen shots always look worlds beyond what I see in actual gameplay...
I'm sure some crafty devil will do a bios hack...
It could all just be a FREE PUBLICITY stunt... since *no one* owns an Apple anyway.
I thought Apple was rather Draconian with their policy of using the I-pod with just one computer- AND the fact that to my knowledge, it WON'T work with a windows box... it's not exactly an "open" system- but then again, Apple NEVER has been.
It must be frustrating being Intel- I see tons of "cheap" P4 systems using SDRAM...
It seems the public is very fickle- they want a "fast" processor without looking at overall system performance
Meanwhile, AMD is getting away with selling Athlon 1800+ chips, which many people actually think run at 1800+ mhz.
Regardless of price, I'm convinced most ordinary people want ONE NUMBER for which to compare PCs.... not 17 different variables... they want one single number to sum it all up- and that seems to be mhz.
Meanwhile, until the economy "straightens out"- businesses seem to still be buying P3 systems, or at least shying away from the bleeding edge. At least both job sites I work at have been very conservative in their purchasing...
I think historically Tom's has been fair to AMD.
Sure, this is vaporware... it is ironic. Look at actual purchasing habits of "real humans." For all the brouhaha surrounding the P4 and Rambus, you really have to go out of your way to actually BUY a P4 with Rambus. The system "as tested" will be a rarity. There are boatloads of P4s being sold TODAY with SDRAM. Go figure...
If anything, it just proves the public wants a crippled P4... but at least it is a P4. I don't get it. We'll have deja vu all over again in a year where people will buy a 2666 P4 with "slower", CHEAPER rambus.
...I don't get it: I don't know anyone who actually uses a "local" phone company... except businesses. This bill, as far as I can tell, doesn't affect someone like me who uses DSL through Qwest with Visi as my ISP. It could only potentially affect me if I used "Joe's Phone Co." for my "DSL line", and Qwest has already made such arrangements all but impossible anyway... our company formerly used an alternative phone co. until they wanted DSL- at which point we returned to Qwest. Or, from the article: "Competitors argue that the Bells haven't held up their end of the bargain, having stymied access to their the networks by delaying the provisioning of networks and failing to meet performance standards for delivering wholesale network services over to its competitors"
To a certain degree, the logic of the regional bells makes good sense to me: DSL was 'nothing' back in 1996. Since when was DSL considered a necessary part of "phone service?"
On the other hand, I think the regional bells have exaggerated the stakes involved. I doubt they are bleeding money to the degree that local bells have. Unless we socialize such utilities, we need to expect cut-throat business ethics of regional bells.
We are drifting off topic here, but oh well....
I don't know if I entirely agree with you... although I can't argue that code is ever-expanding...
Bus speeds (and bandwidth) don't seem to keep up with processor speeds, memory latency remains an issue, and hard drive speeds are actually almost slower (if you consider how much data they can cram onto a platter)... let's not forget the snail's pace the internet operates at (compared to the hardware accessing it)- or how slow an ink jet prints.
I actually believe code bloat has more to do with cheap ram and cheap mass storage than processor speed... but that is a separate issue.
There are so many bottlenecks due to marketing issues: people want large cheap hard drives/tons of RAM- AND they want to brag how fast their current CPU is. Look how many new PCs are still built with SDRAM- these may not be the high end of the product line, but I think it makes the point that people choose the CPU over any other component.
I really believe with CPUs and graphics cards, we have been following the BRUTE FORCE path for far too long. I appreciate the backwards compatibility of this approach, but there has never been a unified design strategy involved with PC components... they are still the sum of a bunch of parts.
That Matrix Revisited DVD is a trip... they licensed four tracks of my music and hearing Keanu doing a voice-over on one of them is downright freaky (in his wooden monotone).
Believe it or not, that movie has a real cult following.
Oh, and I had been using the name "Simulacra" long before Matrix came out...
Realistically, you would have to be quite a fan to appreciate "Revisited."
Like it isn't embedded in the price of the hardware? It's pretty much the same things with windoze (unless you buy a bare box)... an OEM version of the OS costs about the same as an upgrade...
The ASUS A7M266 uses an AMD 761 chipset (not a Via chipset)- which is WHY this mobo works well... there is a Via southbridge, but it is a non-issue in win xp.
Business model? What is the profit margin on an OS vs. hardware?
Also, Apple, to my knowlege" only sells the upgrade for $100... how much does the actual OS cost?
Of COURSE this is a security issue... at work they've *finally* blocked all web mail (except a java-based site I found called perfectlyprivate mail, but I digress) because so many BOZOs where passing around those stoopid snowball fight games, etc... and of course some nasty worms made it into the network, viruses, etc... aside from the loss of productivity answering yahoo mail... think god all the monkeys can still track their beanie babie auctions on ebay.
Of course only people that "truly need" internet have it- which means EVERYONE has it... and nobody follows the use policy.
The thing is, I seriously doubt the type of person who would use this in the workplace (ie. has the saavy) would be in the same category as those causing virus/worm problems by opening shady attachments, etc..
BTW- I've never seen a "network nazi" be a fascist by choice- they usually have a very "firm" mandate from some upper management type who hasn't even figured out how to turn his PC on.
One might seriously question how many people actually NEED internet in the first place... the only legitimate use I've ever had for it is the reverse phone directory, and mapquest (which is a nightmare)... maybe the download of a few government forms- but to have it on every desktop? Let's get real... half the people posting HERE are doing it while at work.
"It's for a REASON: Wal Mart sells more things at lower prices than the mom and pop retailer. I'd certainly rather that. "
I live in Mpls... a Northwest Airline hub. You think NW offers us competitive prices here? Think again. The have practically taken over the airport. A few months ago I needed to take a personal trip to NYC- and Northwest MATCHED the price of Sun Country (an "almost" airline). A few years ago, Sun Country undersold NW by at least a $100. My first thoughts were that NW is driving Sun Country out of business... and they were, and they practically did. I'm sure we'll see prices jacked up by NW after the last shovelful of dirt is placed on Sun Country...
Now, in the US, companies can not just do whatever they feel like for fun and profit. There have been plenty of price-fixing schemes, anti-trust cases, etc... that provide examples that the lowest price isn't always the most "legal" price. I'm not so naive as to suggest Walmart is going to jack all the prices sky-high like your neighborhood "convenience" store, but I'm also here to tell you that with retail margins as tight as they are, we really don't pay that much of a premium to support a decent local business. I'd rather pay a penny more for a nail at the local hardware store where I can be helped by someone who knows the place inside and out, and where they have a wall with nails from floor to ceiling... and I can buy just two of the damn things if I want- rather than parking a half mile away from a megastore, walk another half mile through the store, and buy a hundred nails that are "almost" what I'm looking for.
WALMART reaps far greater benefits by being in a community than does the community. You think they are doing the community a public service by being present? While they may not be doing anything "illegal" it is also IRONIC that they are all "red-white&blue" about things when they are in fact destroying the local economy... but maybe that truly IS the "American way." What I would REALLY like to see is how Walmart would cope with a unionization attempt... I'm sure we'd all see their true colors... there is plenty of anecdotal evidence to suggest it isn't the most lucrative or pleasant place to work.
No the censorship is NOT a big deal, but it is amusing if you look at what they censor... I don't think I've ever purchased "music" from a discount store... but get out in the sticks and it is either that or mail order/online (with your dial-up provider)... and you might think if it is "good enough" for radio, it should be "good enough" for most retailers.