do you seriously think that the woman would have ever bought that music if Kaaza wasn't there for her to use? People go and download free music because they can, it's fun to hear new stuff, and if they hear enough of it from someone, they may go get their CD at a store. Most people don't have CDRs to make their own music with.
There are some people that steal music, and end up not buying CDs because of it, but that is the miniority. It's also the people that come up to you, borrow your CDs, and make their own, before napster came along. If I ever catch anyone downloading a whole album off me, I cut them off.
Intels decision to drop rambus in favour of DDR, DDRII, and dual channel versions of it isn't because of the desktop market at all. Which is what is misleading here.
Intel has always known that RAMBUS is not the best thing for servers, since servers need large amounts of memory. The serial configuration RAMBUS must be put it, along with its higher latency, leads to poor performance when in large amounts. This isn't acceptable, and doesn't happen with DDR, its the primary reason they are switching.
I might not be up to the latest laptop news, but what laptops run at 15W?
The screen and cpu alone must be more. 600Mhz Athlons use more power than that. The P4s take more power then the athlons, even with the speedstep, there is no way a current notebook will run with it.
Being in university myself, I'd like to see a few things changed at our school.
The first would be to hire someone full time that runs the web servers. I almost failed exams because they were down 4 of 5 days, and I needed some information from them. Its nice that they want to let students run the point and click windows environment, but it just isn't stable enough for their use.
The 2nd thing I'd love to see is more materials for the profs to use. Many will occassionally bring in their 486 notebooks and try to show us something with a projector from it. Of course they crash, and are awfully slow. All the content is also on their harddrive, and they have no wireless access. Each prof should be able to have a wireless network computer with them, and the projector to go along with it. Overheads are way outdated for the kind of applications engineering students use.
Of course, the dream is for the school to have notebooks for students. Our tution price is huge compared to the cost, and when we factor in our textbooks it might even be more benefical and cheaper to have just laptops for everyone. Many of our profs just wish everyone in class could have one, as it would really allow us to do things right.
The term buys doesn't seem right, its more of a lease and management deal. Tuvalu still owns.tv, but verisign has been given the permission to use and manage it for several years.
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thats because microsoft pays them to say it sounds better.
ATX was made a long time ago, and it isn't relative to todays technology. Our current chipsets and motherboards should have no problem fitting in a smaller size, although they may have to move from 4 layer construction, to 8 or more layers.
But there are a few things
#1 the floppy drive must die, there is no room on motherboards for the larger connector, just use USB storage space.
#2 Normal ATA needs to be thrown out the window, serial ATA is taking over, while each connector only holds one drive, they are much smaller, and the cables don't require a huge amount of space in your case like IDE.
#3 5.25 bays are massive, these things need to be shrunk, and having 4 slots in a standard ATX design is useless, I'd say 2 is the most, a DVD and CDRW you could use. Since you can get them in one unit, its more than enough space.
#4 Hard drive mounting needs to be fixed too, why on earth are they placed in such a bad area? You can put them just about anywhere on the case to save space.
#5 Your extra devices are killing space too. There is little need for 6 PCI and 1 AGP. A user with half a brain would have gotten a decent video card, with DVD decoding and tv out. If you plan to do video editting, you get a video in version too. This can be done with one slot, not 2 or 3 like some people are doing today. Since onboard ethernet/modem could easily be a standard. I only see reason for maybe 3 PCI at the most, another NIC, sound (which could be onboard too), and some other card.
#6 My last point, as said is to double side the boards. There are a lot of components that can be put on either side, and both of them are easy to access for upgrading.
These things would reduce a case to less than half its size. Micro ATX is ok, but not good enough, and few good boards even come in that size. Motherboard manufacturers need to get behind, make dual ethernet, and sound standard.
Only NASA would try to invent something as incredible as a anti matter engine and still use it in the worst, inefficient way possible, as a rocket. The rocket concept is too simple, and must be abandoned if you really want to go fast, it just has too many limits on it to achieve what we want.
Haven't we learned enough by how horrible cars are? Why do we have to go copy them?
We spend years in court making decisions when all we could have done was redesign the keyboard to eliminate this. Its not that hard, and we are bound to make typing faster now that typewriter limits aren't in effect.
Because everyones unwilling to change, thousands will suffer wrist pains for years and years. The solutions that are being used to reduce it, aren't good enough, a patch is never as good as something done right in the first place.
Its completely off topic, and it gets modded up. A post on topic earlier was classified as off topic./. mods need to start reading the post, and article, or at least the title of the article.
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There is a damn good reason why Ad Critic never got sued. The company that made the comerical had to submit them, pretty much taking out any legal action there ever could have been.
I knew the site was dead long ago, it used to be my favourite site, then they cut bandwidth, to the point where anyone trying to download something to watch was just stupid. It took hours to download a 30 sec clip on a connection which can normally do it faster than real time.
The whole model was stupid, and the site should have forced the company the ad was for to host their own damn commerical, as they were getting free advertising anyways, and half a dozen commericals draws not much bandwidth compared to the hundreds on the site.
I haven't visited the site in months, and then only to see it was still the most useless site on the web, as you can basically preview the commerical name...and thats about it.
Giving kids a bunch of money to run a business isn't smart, as most kids are stupid (hell, I'm still one).
has had plans for this day for over a year now. They have their own OC12s minimum in each town. They have already switched email, and service to their own network the only inconvience was that my email address changed. Cogeco has been a great ISP, and I'll stick with them, OC12s for a town with 127,000 is pretty good, many ISPs in NY don't have close to that bandwidth.
This is a Canadian company, I doubt many American companies have made plans, from the expierence I've had with US companies, its customers last. I guess its just easier to blame it on @home and sit by and do nothing though.
you maybe able to afford a slightly faster cpu if you go with nforce, but what for? You are buying a board with lower performance, and awful graphics just so you can get a slightly faster cpu that will not be able to compensate for the rest of the system?
The GF2 MX sucks, its worse than the ones that are not integrated. It has known awful 2D quality, the money is better spent on a decent video card, even if you don't play games.
The KT266A is much more o/cable, if you really want a faster cpu, just overclock it, you don't have to overclock to the extreme.
The power of H2 is enormous. If you remember highschool and even 1st year univeristy chemistry you'll remember that maybe 1/4 of a liter of H2 at room temp (not much) can send a can shooting through ceiling tiles. Imagine what happens when you hold it next to your head.
yet another super powered graphics card will come out, it will have options to increase the speed, quality and everything else in games.
But when it comes down to it, we are still going to benchmark something stupid and out of date like Quake3. It has no relivance to the card performance, and doesn't use half the features, but we will benchmark it.
I think gamers really need to start acting like they aren't 5 years old by not getting excited by big numbers. Realisticly 30fps in a game is more than playable, anything more isn't needed, and if you do it... well, you suck, and you shouldn't rely on hardware to help you win.
This time around, I really hope reviews do the right thing, and not benchmark the card, put the #s up and say "well, obviously this card is better than that" Even though one looks awful, and the other can't run future games efficiently.
Too much weight is put on speed, not nearly enough on everything else.
The 8500 isn't as feature rich as the GF3? Whats are you talking about?
The GF3 has no features to speak of, the 8500 has a lot of things going for it. Truform, smoothvision, dual monitor support, tv out, and the list goes on, the GF3 doesn't have that, just speed... thats all Nvidia knows how to do.
The original radeons were right up competing with the gts cards for the same price, virtually same performance, now the 8500 is cheaper, and just under the Ti500 performance.
no, its the tiger which went extinct this in Australlia in the 20th century. Geez, don't you ever watch the Crocodile Hunter? They went looking for it (rather weak attempt).
this just sounds like a Microsoft commerical. You don't run out of something as trivial like making CDs and license numbers.
As for the huge money they are saving on not having to create another CD... its like they are trying to market a real product, something that didn't cost them $1 for the box and CD.
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do you seriously think that the woman would have ever bought that music if Kaaza wasn't there for her to use? People go and download free music because they can, it's fun to hear new stuff, and if they hear enough of it from someone, they may go get their CD at a store. Most people don't have CDRs to make their own music with.
There are some people that steal music, and end up not buying CDs because of it, but that is the miniority. It's also the people that come up to you, borrow your CDs, and make their own, before napster came along.
If I ever catch anyone downloading a whole album off me, I cut them off.
Intels decision to drop rambus in favour of DDR, DDRII, and dual channel versions of it isn't because of the desktop market at all. Which is what is misleading here.
Intel has always known that RAMBUS is not the best thing for servers, since servers need large amounts of memory. The serial configuration RAMBUS must be put it, along with its higher latency, leads to poor performance when in large amounts. This isn't acceptable, and doesn't happen with DDR, its the primary reason they are switching.
That and RAMBUS runs hotter then the P4 CPUs
I read books.... geez, games come with manuals you know.
there will still be BOSDs, but its self healing right? After you reboot...
I think they were going to do this, but then they realized that everyone with AOL would fill up that 512 megs soon as they connected.
Since when is methanol 50% oxygen?
CH2OH, if you are talking mass... then yes, but mass is irrelevant in a chemical reaction.
I might not be up to the latest laptop news, but what laptops run at 15W?
The screen and cpu alone must be more. 600Mhz Athlons use more power than that. The P4s take more power then the athlons, even with the speedstep, there is no way a current notebook will run with it.
Being in university myself, I'd like to see a few things changed at our school.
The first would be to hire someone full time that runs the web servers. I almost failed exams because they were down 4 of 5 days, and I needed some information from them. Its nice that they want to let students run the point and click windows environment, but it just isn't stable enough for their use.
The 2nd thing I'd love to see is more materials for the profs to use. Many will occassionally bring in their 486 notebooks and try to show us something with a projector from it. Of course they crash, and are awfully slow. All the content is also on their harddrive, and they have no wireless access. Each prof should be able to have a wireless network computer with them, and the projector to go along with it. Overheads are way outdated for the kind of applications engineering students use.
Of course, the dream is for the school to have notebooks for students. Our tution price is huge compared to the cost, and when we factor in our textbooks it might even be more benefical and cheaper to have just laptops for everyone. Many of our profs just wish everyone in class could have one, as it would really allow us to do things right.
this guys too hard a critic. I mean, he'd probably give Booty Call 2 a bad review.
I can stop watching it whenever I want to... I just like to watch it constantly and become a massive blob of unfit human waste.
The term buys doesn't seem right, its more of a lease and management deal. Tuvalu still owns .tv, but verisign has been given the permission to use and manage it for several years.
thats because microsoft pays them to say it sounds better.
ATX was made a long time ago, and it isn't relative to todays technology. Our current chipsets and motherboards should have no problem fitting in a smaller size, although they may have to move from 4 layer construction, to 8 or more layers.
But there are a few things
#1 the floppy drive must die, there is no room on motherboards for the larger connector, just use USB storage space.
#2 Normal ATA needs to be thrown out the window, serial ATA is taking over, while each connector only holds one drive, they are much smaller, and the cables don't require a huge amount of space in your case like IDE.
#3 5.25 bays are massive, these things need to be shrunk, and having 4 slots in a standard ATX design is useless, I'd say 2 is the most, a DVD and CDRW you could use. Since you can get them in one unit, its more than enough space.
#4 Hard drive mounting needs to be fixed too, why on earth are they placed in such a bad area? You can put them just about anywhere on the case to save space.
#5 Your extra devices are killing space too. There is little need for 6 PCI and 1 AGP. A user with half a brain would have gotten a decent video card, with DVD decoding and tv out. If you plan to do video editting, you get a video in version too. This can be done with one slot, not 2 or 3 like some people are doing today. Since onboard ethernet/modem could easily be a standard. I only see reason for maybe 3 PCI at the most, another NIC, sound (which could be onboard too), and some other card.
#6 My last point, as said is to double side the boards. There are a lot of components that can be put on either side, and both of them are easy to access for upgrading.
These things would reduce a case to less than half its size. Micro ATX is ok, but not good enough, and few good boards even come in that size. Motherboard manufacturers need to get behind, make dual ethernet, and sound standard.
Only NASA would try to invent something as incredible as a anti matter engine and still use it in the worst, inefficient way possible, as a rocket. The rocket concept is too simple, and must be abandoned if you really want to go fast, it just has too many limits on it to achieve what we want.
Haven't we learned enough by how horrible cars are? Why do we have to go copy them?
We spend years in court making decisions when all we could have done was redesign the keyboard to eliminate this. Its not that hard, and we are bound to make typing faster now that typewriter limits aren't in effect.
Because everyones unwilling to change, thousands will suffer wrist pains for years and years. The solutions that are being used to reduce it, aren't good enough, a patch is never as good as something done right in the first place.
Its completely off topic, and it gets modded up. A post on topic earlier was classified as off topic. /. mods need to start reading the post, and article, or at least the title of the article.
There is a damn good reason why Ad Critic never got sued. The company that made the comerical had to submit them, pretty much taking out any legal action there ever could have been.
I knew the site was dead long ago, it used to be my favourite site, then they cut bandwidth, to the point where anyone trying to download something to watch was just stupid. It took hours to download a 30 sec clip on a connection which can normally do it faster than real time.
The whole model was stupid, and the site should have forced the company the ad was for to host their own damn commerical, as they were getting free advertising anyways, and half a dozen commericals draws not much bandwidth compared to the hundreds on the site.
I haven't visited the site in months, and then only to see it was still the most useless site on the web, as you can basically preview the commerical name...and thats about it.
Giving kids a bunch of money to run a business isn't smart, as most kids are stupid (hell, I'm still one).
has had plans for this day for over a year now. They have their own OC12s minimum in each town. They have already switched email, and service to their own network the only inconvience was that my email address changed. Cogeco has been a great ISP, and I'll stick with them, OC12s for a town with 127,000 is pretty good, many ISPs in NY don't have close to that bandwidth.
This is a Canadian company, I doubt many American companies have made plans, from the expierence I've had with US companies, its customers last. I guess its just easier to blame it on @home and sit by and do nothing though.
you maybe able to afford a slightly faster cpu if you go with nforce, but what for? You are buying a board with lower performance, and awful graphics just so you can get a slightly faster cpu that will not be able to compensate for the rest of the system?
The GF2 MX sucks, its worse than the ones that are not integrated. It has known awful 2D quality, the money is better spent on a decent video card, even if you don't play games.
The KT266A is much more o/cable, if you really want a faster cpu, just overclock it, you don't have to overclock to the extreme.
The power of H2 is enormous. If you remember highschool and even 1st year univeristy chemistry you'll remember that maybe 1/4 of a liter of H2 at room temp (not much) can send a can shooting through ceiling tiles. Imagine what happens when you hold it next to your head.
I more than understand that. If you have 5 guys firing those weapons on the screen, the fps doesn't matter, you'll be dead anyway.
yet another super powered graphics card will come out, it will have options to increase the speed, quality and everything else in games.
But when it comes down to it, we are still going to benchmark something stupid and out of date like Quake3. It has no relivance to the card performance, and doesn't use half the features, but we will benchmark it.
I think gamers really need to start acting like they aren't 5 years old by not getting excited by big numbers. Realisticly 30fps in a game is more than playable, anything more isn't needed, and if you do it... well, you suck, and you shouldn't rely on hardware to help you win.
This time around, I really hope reviews do the right thing, and not benchmark the card, put the #s up and say "well, obviously this card is better than that" Even though one looks awful, and the other can't run future games efficiently.
Too much weight is put on speed, not nearly enough on everything else.
The 8500 isn't as feature rich as the GF3? Whats are you talking about?
The GF3 has no features to speak of, the 8500 has a lot of things going for it. Truform, smoothvision, dual monitor support, tv out, and the list goes on, the GF3 doesn't have that, just speed... thats all Nvidia knows how to do.
The original radeons were right up competing with the gts cards for the same price, virtually same performance, now the 8500 is cheaper, and just under the Ti500 performance.
no, its the tiger which went extinct this in Australlia in the 20th century. Geez, don't you ever watch the Crocodile Hunter? They went looking for it (rather weak attempt).
this just sounds like a Microsoft commerical. You don't run out of something as trivial like making CDs and license numbers.
As for the huge money they are saving on not having to create another CD... its like they are trying to market a real product, something that didn't cost them $1 for the box and CD.