I have a PII 300 running win2k, a powerbook g4 with OS X, and a G4 400 tower with OS 9.2. My wintel box is about the same speed as both the macs. The OS 9 machine has memory issues (even after assigning 256 RAM to it) with IE that crash it every so often and I have crashed my OS X machine twice in 11 months.
I really don't notice a speed difference in page loading.
Now my room mate has a 1.6 GHZ AMD with XP on it. That is faster but it crashes at least twice a day. I'll take the extra 10 seconds (more like 2-4) over a crash or a two a day.
Like everything else the consumer will dictate how the net looks in the future.
I could see wireless freenets in all city's and perhaps even connecting rural areas. These freenets will evolve the net even further and in Canada, at least, 2.4 Ghz is free for public use.
File sharing will reach new speeds in local nets and I bet p2p apps will evolve to take advantage of the change.
Sure people will still have their cable modems and such, but I think if the freenet catches on (most likely around Universities at first) things will most likely remain the same..Net be damned.
a slower, much-less user friendly Windows that would be a support nightmare
That about sums up windows now. For it to be faster, user friendly, and easy to support one must strip out all the crap.
Of course having a zillion different flavours of Windoze might be a bad idea but forcing them to think modular is a good idea (I suspect they do anyway). Will anything really change?
Isn't the power of open source in the fact that it always comes up with something better or just as good for free? and with great documentation (most of the time)?
The lumber companies in Canada have been using GIS to better map their harvesting. They also have reduced the impact by being able to better utilize the mesh of old bush roads. Plus they get a better idea of the size and age of trees by looking at IR images.
GIS has also been used on farming with large farms - a farmer couldn't possibly monitor 1000's of hectres.
Have you updated it? I have a G4 400 with 512 RAM and I have no problems.
But I have heard a few people say it was slow on the G3's. I have OS X running on a G3 500 iMac with 128 RAM... it's quick but the video card is lot better than an ibook's.
What is so original about the civ games? I don't believe there was any need to 'reverse engineer' civ. It actaully builds on Sid Meier's game by allowing for online gaming (why oh why doesn't civ3 have that option?) and has many other improvements over the gameplay of Sid's creations.
I don't beleive there are any original ideas (in regards to gaming) left, just original ways of presenting those ideas.
yup. I started out real close to the Zulu's and I got slaughtered in short order. The next game I was the French and on an island. Now I am doing alright (1930's already). The AI seems more agressive for some reason.
at least 50 000 people attacked, civilians... planes hijacked. The US is under attack, the likes of which have not been seen since Pearl Harbour. This is worse than Pearl Harbour and I dread the aftermath.
I do believe our government (Canada that is) is all over the broadband/ISP's. They can't charge more than $50 a month for home use. Mr Chretian declared high speed internet as an essential service. So that means they are bound by government regulations.
Remember when Rogers@home suddenly had better service? The goverment moniters their service now.
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I really don't notice a speed difference in page loading.
Now my room mate has a 1.6 GHZ AMD with XP on it. That is faster but it crashes at least twice a day. I'll take the extra 10 seconds (more like 2-4) over a crash or a two a day.
I could see wireless freenets in all city's and perhaps even connecting rural areas. These freenets will evolve the net even further and in Canada, at least, 2.4 Ghz is free for public use.
File sharing will reach new speeds in local nets and I bet p2p apps will evolve to take advantage of the change.
Sure people will still have their cable modems and such, but I think if the freenet catches on (most likely around Universities at first) things will most likely remain the same. .Net be damned.
Joking about nVidia might not be a good idea today...
That about sums up windows now. For it to be faster, user friendly, and easy to support one must strip out all the crap.
Of course having a zillion different flavours of Windoze might be a bad idea but forcing them to think modular is a good idea (I suspect they do anyway). Will anything really change?
The lumber companies in Canada have been using GIS to better map their harvesting. They also have reduced the impact by being able to better utilize the mesh of old bush roads. Plus they get a better idea of the size and age of trees by looking at IR images.
GIS has also been used on farming with large farms - a farmer couldn't possibly monitor 1000's of hectres.
Check the Faculty of Environmental Studies page at the University of Waterloo. They have all kinds of cool uses for GIS - sea ice studies are pretty interesting.
But I have heard a few people say it was slow on the G3's. I have OS X running on a G3 500 iMac with 128 RAM... it's quick but the video card is lot better than an ibook's.
I don't get it...
I don't beleive there are any original ideas (in regards to gaming) left, just original ways of presenting those ideas.
at least 50 000 people attacked, civilians... planes hijacked. The US is under attack, the likes of which have not been seen since Pearl Harbour. This is worse than Pearl Harbour and I dread the aftermath.
I bet some one in Rogers is thinking. Ok, some one is Rogers cable thinking is a long shot... but I am still curious.
Remember when Rogers@home suddenly had better service? The goverment moniters their service now.