Did you know that there are FireWire RAIDs, you can build them by daisychaining or better get an enclosure for an eight drive FW RAID. I bet you WILL max out FW 400.
AFAIK you can have more than one channel per enclosure...
Wrong. Here in Tokyo 100Mbps Fibreoptic connections to the internet are widely available (ca. 5000 yen/month). Although most of them will max out at about 30 to 40 Mbps, this is still about three to four times of 802.11b. So it will be faster for your browsing having AirPort Extreme.
How many web servers spit stuff out that fast on a regular basis?
Except for some phone which might be of immense value to some.
Not me. AFAIK there are only 2 or 3 phones on the market now that use BT. BT has been around for a couple years now. It was supposed to "save" the pda market (check for details), and failed. Every printer was going to have it. Every cell phone was going to have it.
None of this BT stuff has come to fruition. This will prolly be the same as USB 1 was. Used by Apple and nobody else for so long that there were numerous better things to use (firewire) by the time it became popular/accepted.
Oh yeah... no Athlon here. If/when there is one... no 167MHz bus... the Intel/AMD x86 system has evolved far past 167, well before 167 was available from Apple (Motorola really). My personal machine has a screaming (not) P3 500 with a PC100 bus:-( Not that it matters for anything (for me) besides games.
One can only hope Apple dumps Motorola like the festering fruit that it is; and goes with someone who actually does R&D in the computer industry (IBM) still... Sorry for the bad pun.
What I want to know is how does the government determine the value of a song?
Is it based on the fractional value of the current retail price (ie 13 songs on cd 'foo' with current sell price of $13.99 would be 13.99/13 per song)?
If so, what is the current retail price; Amazon at $9.99 or FYE at $16.99?
When is it evaluated; initial prosecution, during the trial?
They even have some patents that sound like a p2p app.
Interesting that it is the retailers of music, not the makers of music that are doing this... I guess they are tired of the industry's failure to adapt.
I'm not going to sit here and say that this card has more power than it needs. Someday, in about three years, there probably WILL be computer games that need that much power.
Carmack and Doom3. He is programming this game with the intention of using all of this cards capabilities.
Hopefully there will be a new measure of performance other than Q3A or UT2003 fps scores.
Why would the previous posters want 802.11g and BlueTooth? Other than the obvious "because it's trendy and my new PowerBook has it" answers.
1. 802.11g uses way too much power for a handheld like this. And their is only 32MB of storage. Why is 54mbs required again?
2. Bluetooth is new and relatively unsupported. It is not a "standard" yet, as far as who uses it is concerned. BT will be like USB 1.1, unused for a long time, and then picked up more once there are better alternatives.
BT or 802.11b would be fine. BT is probably the obvious choice due to power consumption and ease of use (assign that device an IP address... ugh).
as far as Kazaa goes, i get little speed increase via broadband. i have used it on 2 different dial-ups (AOL and Juno) as well as DSL and Cablemodem. once in a while i can get a file quickly, but usually it is server limited. connection speeds:
AOL - "56K"
Juno - "56K"
DSL - not sure... prolly 256k
Cable - no cap (can get 700kbytes/sec sometimes)
the newest.iso for my fav distro is another matter...
The store near me (Palisades Mall, 45min outside of NYC) doesn't eeem to be doing so well.
That, plus the employees don't seem to "care" about the product much... as far as new releases etc (I was there the day the iBook 800 came out, and nobody knew what it was, or when they would be getting them).
The declining profits are due to one thing. Apple is spending more money to sell the same number of computers.
You have the "switch" ads on TV and the not very successful Apple Stores.
Sadly, Apple tried to do what Gateway did with their stores, and so far has failed.
Whenever I go to an Apple Store, there is always a lifelong Mac user in there as well as a few younger PC types checking out the hardware. Not very often I have I seen anyone buy anything.
Gateway stores... lots of PC people, a few looking to buy a new system.
Being a salesperson, I really see the difference between the people that are "just looking" versus the people that have an intent to purchase something.
The stores aren't cheap to run, and if they don't have the effect of increased company sales...
After 4 hours I had FreeBSD running kde with kdm, my mail/news/browsers, sound etc. all set up and working without any touble at all.
Sadly for you... it takes me about 45min to get to the same spot, but with a working scroll mouse and 802.11b running fine using Mandrake 9.0. This is on a P3 500MHz ThinkPad. If it had taken 4hrs... I would be using something else. And yes, the thing hasn't crashed yet (2 weeks or so of use, don't keep it on all the time being that it is a laptop). When the battery dies, it goes into sleep mode fine, and powers up again running again right where it left off. Overall, a nice experience so far.
Even RH 6.0 didn't take 4hrs on my old Cyrix 300MHz system. And that thing was a royal pain in the ass.
The encrypted "trusted" software can compare against an online database and see if the OS you booted is trusted or not for whatever operation is going to be attempted.
What if my computer is not online? This would most likely be because of security reasons... but it would be LESS safe to be offline...?
Sadly, Microsoft does not own the market on writing bad software. Every company out there does it, it's just that the big guns get noticed for it more than the little pee shooters do.
I am sorry, did I say that GPL was taking something from me?
No.
My point was that all closed source is not bad. To used a tired example:
Should the programs that run aircraft control towers be GPL?
If so, give me a specific reason why, that is not tired OSS socialist rhetoric, but is in fact to do with the function of this particular software itself.
1. You make too many assumptions when you are talking about bore versus rpm. My knowledge is in 2 different areas, old Chevy motors (350) and modern motorcycle engines.
With bikes, to get the high hp numbers there are 2 ways to do it: rpm or displacement.
Bike racing is based on displacement classes; ie 600cc 750cc 1000cc and then 2 cycle or 4 cycle (trying to mix those is a bitch and someone always complains of a disadvantage, ala Nascar). In the past 12 years that I have been a fan/enthusiast a lot of things have changed. EFI is here now. New "exotic" materials with specific properties for specific circumstances (iron block and aluminum heads... i wonder why they leak?). One side effect is coated cylinder liners that offer lower friction than regular uncoated liner.
Ever increasing bore sizes. To get down the straight faster means hp, seeming as how hp is a function of distance/mass/time. One thing a bigger bore gets you that is often ignored is better breathing. More valve edge distance; via bigger valves, or more of them (Yamaha/Honda uses 5 per cylinder in some motors instead of 4).
Oh yes, as I re-read your comment, piston goes up and down twice per combustion cycle (rpm) in 4 cycle engines.
Also, different materials have different densities. That is why pistons have different weights. And of course there are different designs for the pistons; skirt length, thickness, dome shape (hemi or not) etc.
And another thing, the rings are not at the tip of the piston. They are below the top/face of the piston. All they are is a floating seal to keep combustion mixture out of the crankcase. Floating I mean not permanently attached to piston or cyclinder wall. Ring mass is of little concern when one realizes that they weigh 1/1,000 (or less) of the piston that they are attached too.
Shear strength of wrist pins is no biggie, as the are hollow metal tubes. Change the material or the thickness per the application.
2. I am not suggesting that VVT is bad, just not needed for most applications. For most racing applications, it is excess mass (hindering acceleration) and something else to fail (bad). When you look at race engines, they operate in a very narrow power band. Torque on the bottom is not usually needed, as they don't operate at such lowly rpm's except in the pits...;-)
Besides, it is far easier to have an adjustable valve exhaust that gets the same effect for you. And if it fails, it is still functional; which is nice for picking up points in a race vs retiring for the fact that you can't mix gas and air.
4. That is why cyclinders don't all fire at the same time.
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Did you know that there are FireWire RAIDs, you can build them by daisychaining or better get an enclosure for an eight drive FW RAID. I bet you WILL max out FW 400.
:-( Not that it matters for anything (for me) besides games.
AFAIK you can have more than one channel per enclosure...
Wrong. Here in Tokyo 100Mbps Fibreoptic connections to the internet are widely available (ca. 5000 yen/month). Although most of them will max out at about 30 to 40 Mbps, this is still about three to four times of 802.11b. So it will be faster for your browsing having AirPort Extreme.
How many web servers spit stuff out that fast on a regular basis?
Except for some phone which might be of immense value to some.
Not me. AFAIK there are only 2 or 3 phones on the market now that use BT. BT has been around for a couple years now. It was supposed to "save" the pda market (check for details), and failed. Every printer was going to have it. Every cell phone was going to have it.
None of this BT stuff has come to fruition. This will prolly be the same as USB 1 was. Used by Apple and nobody else for so long that there were numerous better things to use (firewire) by the time it became popular/accepted.
Oh yeah... no Athlon here. If/when there is one... no 167MHz bus... the Intel/AMD x86 system has evolved far past 167, well before 167 was available from Apple (Motorola really). My personal machine has a screaming (not) P3 500 with a PC100 bus
One can only hope Apple dumps Motorola like the festering fruit that it is; and goes with someone who actually does R&D in the computer industry (IBM) still... Sorry for the bad pun.
>>>If you want Apple to drop the combo drive, integrated Bluetooth, 802.11g and 800 Mbps Firewire and sell that for $899
Aside from the drive...
BT, FW800, 802.11g add little value, and little cost to this machine.
BT is not used by much of anything yet...
FW800 is a waste. Standard firewire doesn't use all the bandwidth available (sound familiar).
802.11g will not let you surf the net faster. Moving files from one machine to another on your subnet might go faster.
Again, little value and little cost (not accounting for development).
Speed bump is nothing special... especially when looking at the pathetic performance of the system bus.
What I want to know is how does the government determine the value of a song?
Is it based on the fractional value of the current retail price (ie 13 songs on cd 'foo' with current sell price of $13.99 would be 13.99/13 per song)?
If so, what is the current retail price; Amazon at $9.99 or FYE at $16.99?
When is it evaluated; initial prosecution, during the trial?
Who determines the price?
Who keeps track of all of this?
Echo
Press release
They even have some patents that sound like a p2p app.
Interesting that it is the retailers of music, not the makers of music that are doing this... I guess they are tired of the industry's failure to adapt.
Carmack and Doom3. He is programming this game with the intention of using all of this cards capabilities.
Hopefully there will be a new measure of performance other than Q3A or UT2003 fps scores.
Why else do you think the new Apple PowerBooks use nVidia cards now instead of the Radeon 9000?
OS X is not competition in the real server market. Look at the sales figures of the XServe (6,000 units last quarter, I believe).
Desktop market, you better believe it. 5,000,000 machines are believed to be using OS X right now.
Why would the previous posters want 802.11g and BlueTooth? Other than the obvious "because it's trendy and my new PowerBook has it" answers.
1. 802.11g uses way too much power for a handheld like this. And their is only 32MB of storage. Why is 54mbs required again?
2. Bluetooth is new and relatively unsupported. It is not a "standard" yet, as far as who uses it is concerned. BT will be like USB 1.1, unused for a long time, and then picked up more once there are better alternatives.
BT or 802.11b would be fine. BT is probably the obvious choice due to power consumption and ease of use (assign that device an IP address... ugh).
as far as Kazaa goes, i get little speed increase via broadband. i have used it on 2 different dial-ups (AOL and Juno) as well as DSL and Cablemodem. once in a while i can get a file quickly, but usually it is server limited. connection speeds:
.iso for my fav distro is another matter...
AOL - "56K"
Juno - "56K"
DSL - not sure... prolly 256k
Cable - no cap (can get 700kbytes/sec sometimes)
the newest
if we stopped filesharing, network traffic would be down 40-60%. the ISPs would have more profit.
.
wrt Kazaa and the like:
"It's clear to me these companies are profiting to the tune of millions and millions of dollars. They must be held accountable," Rosen said.
When did I give Kazaa money again...?
That is cool.
The store near me (Palisades Mall, 45min outside of NYC) doesn't eeem to be doing so well.
That, plus the employees don't seem to "care" about the product much... as far as new releases etc (I was there the day the iBook 800 came out, and nobody knew what it was, or when they would be getting them).
Weird indeed.
The declining profits are due to one thing. Apple is spending more money to sell the same number of computers.
You have the "switch" ads on TV and the not very successful Apple Stores.
Sadly, Apple tried to do what Gateway did with their stores, and so far has failed.
Whenever I go to an Apple Store, there is always a lifelong Mac user in there as well as a few younger PC types checking out the hardware. Not very often I have I seen anyone buy anything.
Gateway stores... lots of PC people, a few looking to buy a new system.
Being a salesperson, I really see the difference between the people that are "just looking" versus the people that have an intent to purchase something.
The stores aren't cheap to run, and if they don't have the effect of increased company sales...
And we all know how cheap TV ads have become...
I petition a change in the naming of this country:
United Corporations of America
After 4 hours I had FreeBSD running kde with kdm, my mail/news/browsers, sound etc. all set up and working without any touble at all.
Sadly for you... it takes me about 45min to get to the same spot, but with a working scroll mouse and 802.11b running fine using Mandrake 9.0. This is on a P3 500MHz ThinkPad. If it had taken 4hrs... I would be using something else. And yes, the thing hasn't crashed yet (2 weeks or so of use, don't keep it on all the time being that it is a laptop). When the battery dies, it goes into sleep mode fine, and powers up again running again right where it left off. Overall, a nice experience so far.
Even RH 6.0 didn't take 4hrs on my old Cyrix 300MHz system. And that thing was a royal pain in the ass.
...who don't know if they want to support the club, go to the mirror list:
here
Try out the beta, if you like it, join the club and help focus the direction of a decent distro.
Yes, I use mandrake. No I am not a club member, or employee.
there are very very few items with moving parts that have 10 year warranties. regardless of industry.
ahhh... ok.
thanks for the info.
What if my computer is not online? This would most likely be because of security reasons... but it would be LESS safe to be offline...?
Sadly, Microsoft does not own the market on writing bad software. Every company out there does it, it's just that the big guns get noticed for it more than the little pee shooters do.
Because Windows 98 is faster, and it runs MS Office natively. :-(
I am sorry, did I say that GPL was taking something from me?
No.
My point was that all closed source is not bad. To used a tired example:
Should the programs that run aircraft control towers be GPL?
If so, give me a specific reason why, that is not tired OSS socialist rhetoric, but is in fact to do with the function of this particular software itself.
For me freedom is the ability to do what I want with what I want.
I am not a programmer, and I couldn't care much less about source than I do now.
closed source != not free to redistribute
closed source != commercial
Please be specific when posting a difference in opinion.
1. You make too many assumptions when you are talking about bore versus rpm. My knowledge is in 2 different areas, old Chevy motors (350) and modern motorcycle engines.
;-)
With bikes, to get the high hp numbers there are 2 ways to do it: rpm or displacement.
Bike racing is based on displacement classes; ie 600cc 750cc 1000cc and then 2 cycle or 4 cycle (trying to mix those is a bitch and someone always complains of a disadvantage, ala Nascar). In the past 12 years that I have been a fan/enthusiast a lot of things have changed. EFI is here now. New "exotic" materials with specific properties for specific circumstances (iron block and aluminum heads... i wonder why they leak?). One side effect is coated cylinder liners that offer lower friction than regular uncoated liner.
Ever increasing bore sizes. To get down the straight faster means hp, seeming as how hp is a function of distance/mass/time. One thing a bigger bore gets you that is often ignored is better breathing. More valve edge distance; via bigger valves, or more of them (Yamaha/Honda uses 5 per cylinder in some motors instead of 4).
Oh yes, as I re-read your comment, piston goes up and down twice per combustion cycle (rpm) in 4 cycle engines.
Also, different materials have different densities. That is why pistons have different weights. And of course there are different designs for the pistons; skirt length, thickness, dome shape (hemi or not) etc.
And another thing, the rings are not at the tip of the piston. They are below the top/face of the piston. All they are is a floating seal to keep combustion mixture out of the crankcase. Floating I mean not permanently attached to piston or cyclinder wall. Ring mass is of little concern when one realizes that they weigh 1/1,000 (or less) of the piston that they are attached too.
Shear strength of wrist pins is no biggie, as the are hollow metal tubes. Change the material or the thickness per the application.
2. I am not suggesting that VVT is bad, just not needed for most applications. For most racing applications, it is excess mass (hindering acceleration) and something else to fail (bad). When you look at race engines, they operate in a very narrow power band. Torque on the bottom is not usually needed, as they don't operate at such lowly rpm's except in the pits...
Besides, it is far easier to have an adjustable valve exhaust that gets the same effect for you. And if it fails, it is still functional; which is nice for picking up points in a race vs retiring for the fact that you can't mix gas and air.
4. That is why cyclinders don't all fire at the same time.