Cost of living is not just housing and food. There's health of course, but if you happen to have kids education can be expensive too. 30k$/year for college, if you got 3 kids going to college for some time, is quite expensive. Especially since most European country give it for free. Add to this holidays (5 and soon 7 weeks in France, 2 in US !) and taxes and comparing salaries get almost impossible.
A NAT/Firewall distro, something with reasonably easy installation that would put and install all the neat packages to make a routeur/firewall for cable/adsl owners. OpenBSD seems ready to do it but the installation doesn't look pretty.
The really bad thing is not 2 processors, it is 2 memory bank. You pay for 64 MB of memory but the system only use 32, as the two 32 MB banks are duplicating the same content. With a shared memory architecture things would be much better (twice better to be exact)
Yes, private corporations are only concerned about the well being of the consumers. They know better than us what is good for us. Bill Gate is our holy leader.
Yes, private corporation are only concerned about the well being of the consumers. They know better than us what is good for us. Bill Gate is our holy leader.
Somme sci-fi movies ARE realistic. They show things that are not possible to do right now but that we can imagine being possible in the future. Alien 1 or 2 comes to mind. On the other hand, some things are completely wrong, like this Matrix human body electrical plant, because we ALREADY know there is no way it is a viable solution. It will NEVER be possible. Chances that we find a way to travel in time is infinitely more likely that we can get megawatts out of a human body.
Yes but the Falcon is real-sized compared to Lego people. If you want to keep the scale with a destroyer you'll need more bricks, and since it is supposed to be 1 km long (the super destroyer is 8 km long...)
Excuse me, but using living humans as electrical energy source IS unrealistic, and will always be. A nuclear (of fusion if possible) plant is way more efficient and easier to use, and no troubles with VR and other silly stuff. That part was really silly and is the basis of the scenario.
DON'T port X11 to this OS. They have a clean start with good foundation, so don't ruin it with the bloated buggy X11. This OS deserve a little better than mistakes from the past, and a good UI with fast and efficient graphics.
Hum, to most Americans there are two countries : the USA, and the rest of the world. Except for the ones in Kansas who don't even know there is somethins outside of America, "the world just end there" (why would anyone teach this silly theory that the world is round, heck any good Christian knows its flat as God made it;)
Stuff cost less... but don't forget insurances, retirement, kids college to pay, etc... US seems cheaper at first, because you don't see all the hidden cost. In most European countries lots of things you pay for are free.
Problem with using crypto is that to use it you need to have all of your friends and business contacts to use it too... which means that we need a standard, free and secure mail crypto format that is standard in Outlook Express, Netscape and Eudora (yes, 99% of the world doesn't use pine...). So far S/MIME is badly supported by all these packages and you need paid certificates to encrypt messages. PGP and other Unix packages are fine but my grand-mother is not very good in installing packages on Linux...
What is more likely (and more interesing) is being able to interconnect consoles, computers and A/V appliances together. Being able to control your TV from your PC and then start a DVD movie on the PSX 2, all from a script, is the way to go. Especially if you can move MPEG2 and digital audio streams from one device to another through Firewire, this can open a lot of new functions, and some savings on hardware (why buy a soundcard when your PC can send digital audio straight to your digital amp ?)
My opinion exactly... Amiga was cool (I had one) but it is completely dead technology today. Now that chips like the GeForce 256 are coming, stories about Paula, Denise and Agnus are deads. If they had to design an up-to-date Amiga it would only be an Amiga by name, and probably look kind of like a G4 Mac (PowerPC chip with PC hardware around it).
I can notice the differenc between 50hz and 72hz on my PC display.
I can too, but with TVs the picture is blury and always moving, so you don't get to notice the flicker that much.
It depends what you are looking for. The resolution is the same, there is just a lot less flicker!!
Problem is, I don't see much flicker in regular 50Hz TVs, so I'm not sure it is worth paying +60% for a 100 Hz TV that seems almost the same to me. Or maybe it is the showroom lighting that hides the flicker differences.
I'm in the market for a new big TV and I haven't seen much difference between 50 Hz and 100 Hz. Even side by side the 100 Hz seems hardly better, at least in the showrooms. Is it just my eyes or what ?
I think there is something wrong with having lots of channels : the more they are, the less audience each of them has, because the size of the market is still the same. And the less audience they get the more they show advertising to pay for the programs. And since they don't get as much money, they have to buy crappy programs and make endless reruns. So in the end you get 200 channels with 50% commercials and 50% crappy reruns, instead of 5 or 10 better quality channels.
Unless of course you pay extra for some channels, but most people don't want to do that.
Well considered lots of US appliances have almost no electronic programming or other advanced mechanics, they might be more reliable. Just like an old Chevy truck might be more reliable than the latest Mercedes Benz.
Yup, when I spent some time in US and Canada I was amazed to see home appliances and cooking tools that looked like they came from the 50s or 60s. The washing machine could have been the one my grandmother had after WWII ! I don't know if it is that people keep their stuff 30 years or if this is the local industry but they will NEVER export these in Europe (or Japan/Asia I guess)
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Cost of living is not just housing and food. There's health of course, but if you happen to have kids education can be expensive too. 30k$/year for college, if you got 3 kids going to college for some time, is quite expensive. Especially since most European country give it for free. Add to this holidays (5 and soon 7 weeks in France, 2 in US !) and taxes and comparing salaries get almost impossible.
A NAT/Firewall distro, something with reasonably easy installation that would put and install all the neat packages to make a routeur/firewall for cable/adsl owners. OpenBSD seems ready to do it but the installation doesn't look pretty.
Not really, because if you had a shared memory you could interleave the two memory banks and double the data path, which would double the bandwidth.
The really bad thing is not 2 processors, it is 2 memory bank. You pay for 64 MB of memory but the system only use 32, as the two 32 MB banks are duplicating the same content. With a shared memory architecture things would be much better (twice better to be exact)
Down with big brother government!
Yes, private corporations are only concerned about the well being of the consumers. They know better than us what is good for us. Bill Gate is our holy leader.
Down with big brother government!
Yes, private corporation are only concerned about the well being of the consumers. They know better than us what is good for us. Bill Gate is our holy leader.
Somme sci-fi movies ARE realistic. They show things that are not possible to do right now but that we can imagine being possible in the future. Alien 1 or 2 comes to mind. On the other hand, some things are completely wrong, like this Matrix human body electrical plant, because we ALREADY know there is no way it is a viable solution. It will NEVER be possible. Chances that we find a way to travel in time is infinitely more likely that we can get megawatts out of a human body.
Yes but the Falcon is real-sized compared to Lego people. If you want to keep the scale with a destroyer you'll need more bricks, and since it is supposed to be 1 km long (the super destroyer is 8 km long...)
Excuse me, but using living humans as electrical energy source IS unrealistic, and will always be. A nuclear (of fusion if possible) plant is way more efficient and easier to use, and no troubles with VR and other silly stuff. That part was really silly and is the basis of the scenario.
DON'T port X11 to this OS. They have a clean start with good foundation, so don't ruin it with the bloated buggy X11. This OS deserve a little better than mistakes from the past, and a good UI with fast and efficient graphics.
Hum, to most Americans there are two countries : the USA, and the rest of the world. Except for the ones in Kansas who don't even know there is somethins outside of America, "the world just end there" (why would anyone teach this silly theory that the world is round, heck any good Christian knows its flat as God made it ;)
Stuff cost less... but don't forget insurances, retirement, kids college to pay, etc... US seems cheaper at first, because you don't see all the hidden cost. In most European countries lots of things you pay for are free.
How much do you bet he will die of an "accident" or "heart-attack" before he can talk ???
Problem with using crypto is that to use it you need to have all of your friends and business contacts to use it too... which means that we need a standard, free and secure mail crypto format that is standard in Outlook Express, Netscape and Eudora (yes, 99% of the world doesn't use pine...). So far S/MIME is badly supported by all these packages and you need paid certificates to encrypt messages. PGP and other Unix packages are fine but my grand-mother is not very good in installing packages on Linux...
This is capitalism... in US everything has a financial value, including education.
What is more likely (and more interesing) is being able to interconnect consoles, computers and A/V appliances together. Being able to control your TV from your PC and then start a DVD movie on the PSX 2, all from a script, is the way to go. Especially if you can move MPEG2 and digital audio streams from one device to another through Firewire, this can open a lot of new functions, and some savings on hardware (why buy a soundcard when your PC can send digital audio straight to your digital amp ?)
My opinion exactly... Amiga was cool (I had one) but it is completely dead technology today. Now that chips like the GeForce 256 are coming, stories about Paula, Denise and Agnus are deads. If they had to design an up-to-date Amiga it would only be an Amiga by name, and probably look kind of like a G4 Mac (PowerPC chip with PC hardware around it).
And CompactFlash is just PCMCIA in a smaller form factor, so you can hoor them to a laptop with a very cheap adaptater...
I can notice the differenc between 50hz and 72hz on my PC display.
I can too, but with TVs the picture is blury and always moving, so you don't get to notice the flicker that much.
It depends what you are looking for. The resolution is the same, there is just a lot less flicker!!
Problem is, I don't see much flicker in regular 50Hz TVs, so I'm not sure it is worth paying +60% for a 100 Hz TV that seems almost the same to me. Or maybe it is the showroom lighting that hides the flicker differences.
Yup, European washing machines are designed for Europeans, not huge XXXXL American clothes (made to fit some huge XXXXL McDonald and KFC customers :)
I'm in the market for a new big TV and I haven't seen much difference between 50 Hz and 100 Hz. Even side by side the 100 Hz seems hardly better, at least in the showrooms. Is it just my eyes or what ?
I think there is something wrong with having lots of channels : the more they are, the less audience each of them has, because the size of the market is still the same. And the less audience they get the more they show advertising to pay for the programs. And since they don't get as much money, they have to buy crappy programs and make endless reruns. So in the end you get 200 channels with 50% commercials and 50% crappy reruns, instead of 5 or 10 better quality channels.
Unless of course you pay extra for some channels, but most people don't want to do that.
Well considered lots of US appliances have almost no electronic programming or other advanced mechanics, they might be more reliable. Just like an old Chevy truck might be more reliable than the latest Mercedes Benz.
Well if you say "Nike" the English way in France you will get shocked stares from people anyway (unless you happen to live in some bad suburbs...)
Yup, when I spent some time in US and Canada I was amazed to see home appliances and cooking tools that looked like they came from the 50s or 60s. The washing machine could have been the one my grandmother had after WWII ! I don't know if it is that people keep their stuff 30 years or if this is the local industry but they will NEVER export these in Europe (or Japan/Asia I guess)