Agreed... How could anyone think middle class can afford multiple houses just for renting? For sure if we could rent everyday at maximum price it would not take long to pay the load... but try convince the banker of that dream you are having would lend you money!
I'd like to see a study on how much can a game improve someones skill in real life? Does playing some mostly realistic racing game help you drive in everyday life (I'm talking about regular day to day driving, not racing or speeding). Pilots trains on simulators. Ok there is training involved and their "game" is pretty close to reality. I'd think a good game should help at least a little?
Yeah, blame Philips, Sony, LG, Samsung and Koreans ! It must be their fault if customers buy the cheapest crappy TN lcd they can find rather than a good IPS. My boss has a 30" lcd monitor with 2560x1600 native resolution configured at 1280x800 and do not see anything wrong with it. Most people do not know or care about their monitor or screen.
I wish we could have higher DPI but as many program and game ignore you screen DPI, it might cause quite a bit of problems. Some games are unplayable on my screen because the text is just too small. Hopefully that issue gets fixed before or at the same time we get better LCDs.
I'm pretty sure the majority of AT&T customers that are using iPhone do not use more data than the plan they subscribed to. I would say it's AT&T's fault for selling more than they can handle!
Sure, making more process make it possible to run on multi-core and/or multi-cpu. There is no doubt this is the future but there is a way better way of running things on multiple cpu/core. It is not a new invention, they are called threads ! I fully understand they are not protected from each other so if one crash it could bring the whole app down. However I would expect the 8th version of an application like IE not to crash and burn everyday... ? Ok, plug-ins can be crap, load each separate one in their own process (all instances of a same plug-in in the same process, it would also save memory as they could share the not written to pages in same process as would IE running all tabs in same process). Different processes cannot share the same shared pages like threads can, having every tab is a process use a lot more memory than it really should. Opening 8 empty tabs in IE8 is close to 300 meg or ram, I did not even dare loading any big website in them. I am a professional software developer and I'm getting more and more frustrated on how sloppy software development gets just because people can buy better hardware. No we cannot do all those nice feature with 640k of ram but it does not require 3 gig ! For everyones information I'm not a big microsoft nor linux fan and I'm currently using Opera on XP and I can't remember last time it crashed.
In the license world, when I see GPL, LGPL, etc most of the time I know what they are without having to read the full text. Can't they make some standard privacy policies so we can save the time reading them?
From the article: "then teenage super hacker". I'm sorry but downloading a script from the internet and being stupid enough to run it does not make you a super hacker.
From TFA: "even a powerful GPU can suffer from bottlenecks due to slow and insufficient video memory"... but they decided to use GDDR3 rather than GDDR5 and use HD4850 rather than HD4870. Way to go !
The first version of C# was called VB.NET (I was in Beta 1). Of course VB6 programmers didnt like it, so they renamed the thing C# and continued to improve it. They also started a new VB.NET that would have a similar syntax to VB6 just to please the VB6 fans. It still isn't anything like VB6 because VB6 only had among other things very basic object mechanism on which.NET framework rely. That broke the very basic nature of procedural VB6.
Look at what I found just this morning, what a coincidence: http://www.collegehumor.com/video:1707663. That is also why I try not put any personal information on the web.
Inside Microsoft's Xbox 360 Date: Nov 16, 2005 Type: System Manufacturer: Microsoft Author: Anand Lal Shimpi, Kristopher Kubicki & Tuan Nguyen Page 1 Microsoft's first try at a gaming console amounted to essentially a very affordable PC. It used standard PC components, including a mobile Intel processor (a hybrid Pentium 3/Celeron), a desktop NVIDIA chipset, a Western Digital hard drive and relatively standard PC DVD-ROM. The original Xbox was such a PC in fact that there were quite a few users that wanted to mod it simply to have a cheap PC, not even for gaming - including ourselves.
Before the Xbox was launched, Microsoft was very concerned with users thinking of the Xbox as nothing more than a PC branded as a gaming console, so it went to great lengths to reduce the association. For example, the strict ban on keyboard and mouse support, despite the fact that the console implemented the standard USB interface.
With the Xbox 360, Microsoft gained some benefits of the original Xbox success. Xbox didn't win the sales battle against Sony's PlayStation 2, but the first Xbox was strong enough to cement Microsoft's name in the world of console gaming manufacturers. For their second time around, there is less worry of the Xbox 360 being viewed as a just a PC, so Microsoft took a bolder approach.
Honestly, with the Xbox 360, Microsoft could have put forth another PC in a black box and it probably would have done fine. But with their second gaming console, the target was growth -- and Sony. With an established name and fanbase, it was time to take the market seriously and start to exert some dominance and thus the Xbox went from being a clunky black box of a PC, to a stylish consumer electronics device.
The Xbox 360 is smaller than the original Xbox, and its wireless nature makes it a natural fit in the living room - marking a thankful change from standard gaming consoles of the past. Despite looking like the offspring of an iPod and a DVD player, the Xbox 360 is still very much a PC on the inside. As such, it's got all of the components we're used to.
With less than a week to go before the retail availability of Xbox 360 consoles, we got our hands on one to give it the usual AnandTech once-over. And take it apart of course.
What's in the Box? Our Xbox 360 system was the $399 unit, which comes with the following:
- Xbox 360 console - 20GB Removable Hard Drive - Wireless Controller - Headset - DVD Remote - Ethernet Cable - Component AV Cables - External Power Supply
The $299 core system gives you the same console (with a white DVD tray cover), a wired controller, and standard composite AV cables; there's no hard drive, headset or remote.
By now you have undoubtedly heard about the massive external power supply that comes with the Xbox 360 and you can see it in the lower left hand corner of the picture above. Remember that in the original Xbox, the power supply was internal. But with the power requirements of the Xbox 360 being significantly higher than its predecessor, while featuring a noticeably smaller case, the only solution was to take the power supply out of the Xbox 360.
Page 2 What's in the Box, in the Box? (Taking it Apart) Microsoft has shown the world that it's very swift when it comes to recovering from errors that it has made. With the original Xbox design, Microsoft was definitely testing new ground and thus had little experience when it came to protecting its intellectual property and hardware. The original Xbox was largely easy to open by most people with the most common of tools and was quickly adopted by the modding community as the ultimate "utility" console.
In an attempt to circumvent those with modified Xboxes, Microsoft added security and authentication features to its Xbox Live service that would detect whether an Xbox was in its original form or not. But the mod community did not sit idle and not long after, mod chips were introduced that were able to switch on and of
Most people think that we have almost infinite processing power and memory everywhere. The truth is that most application do not need that much. Like the car door openner mentionned in post above, there are microchips on many small gizmos. As soon as it needs to be small, low power and low cost there is a pretty good chance it uses a 8051 microcontroller in it. That means 12mhz with 256 bytes internal ram. Actually the ram contain special registers, the stack, bit addressable section, so you don't really have all that 256 bytes for anything you would want. 8051 are ideal for those small applications and as strange as it might seems now, you can still do a lot with that amount of ram if you don't play stupid.
Actually there is no support for serial ports in.NET 1.1 so you have to rely on complicated interop and run into all kind of problems if you want to acheive sub 10ms latency. (Ok I know that is not required here)
About the wavelet compression, there is another image standard existing that does all that, including zooming and scrolling off partial data. It's called JPEG2000, though nobody got support for it =( When I first read about it I was like wow, that's going to be a nice thing to work with, unfortunaly it didn't caught up.
Other than it compress quite well, the best thing about rar was it allowed you to send file to someone even if they had bid firewall/e-mail security. All that because those files were not scanned or blocked ! I hope it won't change soon. It was already hard enough to explain to the person how to open the rar file, let alone using a ftp client!
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Agreed ... How could anyone think middle class can afford multiple houses just for renting? For sure if we could rent everyday at maximum price it would not take long to pay the load ... but try convince the banker of that dream you are having would lend you money!
Adobe Systems is not an American company !
Where are my mod points when I need them?
People love Batman and Cat Woman!
What he failed to notice is that the file where he keeps students grades have been slightly altered!
I'd like to see a study on how much can a game improve someones skill in real life? Does playing some mostly realistic racing game help you drive in everyday life (I'm talking about regular day to day driving, not racing or speeding). Pilots trains on simulators. Ok there is training involved and their "game" is pretty close to reality. I'd think a good game should help at least a little?
Yeah, blame Philips, Sony, LG, Samsung and Koreans ! It must be their fault if customers buy the cheapest crappy TN lcd they can find rather than a good IPS. My boss has a 30" lcd monitor with 2560x1600 native resolution configured at 1280x800 and do not see anything wrong with it. Most people do not know or care about their monitor or screen.
I wish we could have higher DPI but as many program and game ignore you screen DPI, it might cause quite a bit of problems. Some games are unplayable on my screen because the text is just too small. Hopefully that issue gets fixed before or at the same time we get better LCDs.
I'm a native French speaker and would be delighted to teach any hot looking girl in underwear on a video chat.
I'm surprised nobody commented about the obvious typo in the title !
I'm pretty sure the majority of AT&T customers that are using iPhone do not use more data than the plan they subscribed to. I would say it's AT&T's fault for selling more than they can handle!
Sure, making more process make it possible to run on multi-core and/or multi-cpu. There is no doubt this is the future but there is a way better way of running things on multiple cpu/core. It is not a new invention, they are called threads ! ... ? Ok, plug-ins can be crap, load each separate one in their own process (all instances of a same plug-in in the same process, it would also save memory as they could share the not written to pages in same process as would IE running all tabs in same process). Different processes cannot share the same shared pages like threads can, having every tab is a process use a lot more memory than it really should. Opening 8 empty tabs in IE8 is close to 300 meg or ram, I did not even dare loading any big website in them. I am a professional software developer and I'm getting more and more frustrated on how sloppy software development gets just because people can buy better hardware. No we cannot do all those nice feature with 640k of ram but it does not require 3 gig ! For everyones information I'm not a big microsoft nor linux fan and I'm currently using Opera on XP and I can't remember last time it crashed.
I fully understand they are not protected from each other so if one crash it could bring the whole app down. However I would expect the 8th version of an application like IE not to crash and burn everyday
In the license world, when I see GPL, LGPL, etc most of the time I know what they are without having to read the full text. Can't they make some standard privacy policies so we can save the time reading them?
From the article: "then teenage super hacker". I'm sorry but downloading a script from the internet and being stupid enough to run it does not make you a super hacker.
From TFA: "even a powerful GPU can suffer from bottlenecks due to slow and insufficient video memory" ... but they decided to use GDDR3 rather than GDDR5 and use HD4850 rather than HD4870. Way to go !
The first version of C# was called VB.NET (I was in Beta 1). Of course VB6 programmers didnt like it, so they renamed the thing C# and continued to improve it. They also started a new VB.NET that would have a similar syntax to VB6 just to please the VB6 fans. It still isn't anything like VB6 because VB6 only had among other things very basic object mechanism on which .NET framework rely. That broke the very basic nature of procedural VB6.
Look at what I found just this morning, what a coincidence: http://www.collegehumor.com/video:1707663. That is also why I try not put any personal information on the web.
I am from Quebec and finally proud to be Canadian ! Way to go guys !
Inside Microsoft's Xbox 360
Date: Nov 16, 2005
Type: System
Manufacturer: Microsoft
Author: Anand Lal Shimpi, Kristopher Kubicki & Tuan Nguyen
Page 1
Microsoft's first try at a gaming console amounted to essentially a very affordable PC. It used standard PC components, including a mobile Intel processor (a hybrid Pentium 3/Celeron), a desktop NVIDIA chipset, a Western Digital hard drive and relatively standard PC DVD-ROM. The original Xbox was such a PC in fact that there were quite a few users that wanted to mod it simply to have a cheap PC, not even for gaming - including ourselves.
Before the Xbox was launched, Microsoft was very concerned with users thinking of the Xbox as nothing more than a PC branded as a gaming console, so it went to great lengths to reduce the association. For example, the strict ban on keyboard and mouse support, despite the fact that the console implemented the standard USB interface.
With the Xbox 360, Microsoft gained some benefits of the original Xbox success. Xbox didn't win the sales battle against Sony's PlayStation 2, but the first Xbox was strong enough to cement Microsoft's name in the world of console gaming manufacturers. For their second time around, there is less worry of the Xbox 360 being viewed as a just a PC, so Microsoft took a bolder approach.
Honestly, with the Xbox 360, Microsoft could have put forth another PC in a black box and it probably would have done fine. But with their second gaming console, the target was growth -- and Sony. With an established name and fanbase, it was time to take the market seriously and start to exert some dominance and thus the Xbox went from being a clunky black box of a PC, to a stylish consumer electronics device.
The Xbox 360 is smaller than the original Xbox, and its wireless nature makes it a natural fit in the living room - marking a thankful change from standard gaming consoles of the past. Despite looking like the offspring of an iPod and a DVD player, the Xbox 360 is still very much a PC on the inside. As such, it's got all of the components we're used to.
With less than a week to go before the retail availability of Xbox 360 consoles, we got our hands on one to give it the usual AnandTech once-over. And take it apart of course.
What's in the Box?
Our Xbox 360 system was the $399 unit, which comes with the following:
- Xbox 360 console
- 20GB Removable Hard Drive
- Wireless Controller
- Headset
- DVD Remote
- Ethernet Cable
- Component AV Cables
- External Power Supply
The $299 core system gives you the same console (with a white DVD tray cover), a wired controller, and standard composite AV cables; there's no hard drive, headset or remote.
By now you have undoubtedly heard about the massive external power supply that comes with the Xbox 360 and you can see it in the lower left hand corner of the picture above. Remember that in the original Xbox, the power supply was internal. But with the power requirements of the Xbox 360 being significantly higher than its predecessor, while featuring a noticeably smaller case, the only solution was to take the power supply out of the Xbox 360.
Page 2
What's in the Box, in the Box? (Taking it Apart)
Microsoft has shown the world that it's very swift when it comes to recovering from errors that it has made. With the original Xbox design, Microsoft was definitely testing new ground and thus had little experience when it came to protecting its intellectual property and hardware. The original Xbox was largely easy to open by most people with the most common of tools and was quickly adopted by the modding community as the ultimate "utility" console.
In an attempt to circumvent those with modified Xboxes, Microsoft added security and authentication features to its Xbox Live service that would detect whether an Xbox was in its original form or not. But the mod community did not sit idle and not long after, mod chips were introduced that were able to switch on and of
Most people think that we have almost infinite processing power and memory everywhere. The truth is that most application do not need that much. Like the car door openner mentionned in post above, there are microchips on many small gizmos. As soon as it needs to be small, low power and low cost there is a pretty good chance it uses a 8051 microcontroller in it. That means 12mhz with 256 bytes internal ram. Actually the ram contain special registers, the stack, bit addressable section, so you don't really have all that 256 bytes for anything you would want. 8051 are ideal for those small applications and as strange as it might seems now, you can still do a lot with that amount of ram if you don't play stupid.
I was reading the review and in the cons section it says: "No DRM Support". I don't see that as a con, but more like a pro. Who need DRM
Actually there is no support for serial ports in .NET 1.1 so you have to rely on complicated interop and run into all kind of problems if you want to acheive sub 10ms latency. (Ok I know that is not required here)
About the wavelet compression, there is another image standard existing that does all that, including zooming and scrolling off partial data. It's called JPEG2000, though nobody got support for it =(
When I first read about it I was like wow, that's going to be a nice thing to work with, unfortunaly it didn't caught up.
What about clock that only display hours:minutes.
13:37
Other than it compress quite well, the best thing about rar was it allowed you to send file to someone even if they had bid firewall/e-mail security. All that because those files were not scanned or blocked ! I hope it won't change soon. It was already hard enough to explain to the person how to open the rar file, let alone using a ftp client!
I can't wait for release 1.3.37