Single Link vs dual link DVI is not a matter of the speed of information, or even cable quality for that matter. Dual link uses two transmitters and Single link uses only one. Dual doubles the theoretical throughput without raising the cabling quality requirement.
It's irrelevant, with a VGA cable and a dual link-vga adapter you need worry about only above 2048x1536 (QXGA) @ 85hz. I don't know about you, but 4 times the most common resolution is enough for me.
Since nobody else has posted this: there is an effort to take down the government "activist reporting" tool inside iran. Currently this is being organized largely by 888chan at http://888chan.org/iran/ - note this site does contain nsfw content on some pages.
I'm not sure that I'm really for Ahmadinejad's competition, but there's not a whole lot of chance to make the situation worse by replacing a corrupt leader. If anything we can use the practice for countering government terrorism at home. I don't think anyone is happy with the direction of most governments, here in the states or in Europe the norm is edging to a nanny state.
The problem with that argument is two-fold. First, once the media has already been made publicly available the status of legal protection for said media could be considered inactive. Copyrighted materials that are not actively protected are not subject to litigation. On the other hand, the original infringer may have removed any copyright notice or distribution limitations that would have flagged the work.
It is the responsibility of the copyright holding company to inform viewers of the limitations. Arguing that a redistributor is infringing seems to shirk the responsibility of the copyright holder.
Microsoft was guilty of the 4 counts that you listed, and more. In Europe they were only fined for a, which is the reason behind the "N" editions of windows.
The case in the United States did involve the 4 aspects that you mentioned, but it was bungled horribly.
Licensing isn't the only thing that raises Memory Stick prices. Scarcity (because of the licensing), and higher quality play a big part.
There are microSD to Memory Stick converters, just like the converters between micro, mini & full SD cards. They allow for more media portability, which is a good thing no matter the pricing.
It's a stretch of sorts. On the other hand there's a possibility that methane would stop other polluting effects.
FLAC doesn't have a marketing campaign, so most mobile media players don't play them. The other motivation to "squish" FLACs is size; a set of earbuds isn't capable of reproducing the complete quality of a lossless file, at the same time smaller files allow for more of your collection to be portable.
The best ESATA isn't really ESATA at all.
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ESATA is meant as a simple solution to replace the usb 2 interface on external drives. It solves the bottle-neck for a single drive, but doesn't scale well.
You're better off with an SAS external enclosure and a SAS card with external connections. These can be expensive, but will pay for themselves quickly with the lack of extra management.
Microsoft does have a history of breaking functionality from a release candidate to the real thing; bluetooth profiles in Vista for example. They tend to err on the side of disabling features that cause compatibility problems rather than adding features that could cause hardware compatibility problems.
Even if you have to wait for the real thing to be sure your computers will work, you'd still have from ~ October to April to do the necessary tests. If you can't get your test hardware configured and run the necessary tests in 6 months, your problems are bigger than an OS upgrade.
The release candidate will have been available for 11 months come april of next year, which is plenty of time to test hardware. Given that 7 is primarily an upgrade to Vista applications and drivers will not have issues, at least not unknown ones.
Vista can add security and stability to some environments when installed correctly. The same will be true with Windows 7 at final release, and will do so without as many slowdowns that Vista brings.
Just like it's suboptimal to run very old hardware with new operating systems, it's also suboptimal to run new hardware with an old system. Device vendors often fail to provide adequate drivers for outdated operating systems, and like it or not the base hardware in today's systems is completely different than it was back when XP was new.
I suppose by saying "The majority of gaming machines", he could have meant the PS2. On the other hand, UT2004 and Doom 3 weren't available on the PS2. Ironically publishers have been accused of simply porting PS2 games to the Wii instead of developing titles that are intended for it's hardware. Maybe if they ported games that were intended for the true gaming machines of 2004 we'd have less complaining; too bad there's no way a Wii could pull off UT2004.
Actually the Wii isn't better than the average gaming machine from 2004. The graphics processor is slightly slower than a Geforce3, and the CPU wouldn't hold a candle to the Athlon XPs you could get back then.
The lack of adequate quality games for the Wii is really more about all the big publishers dedicating their time to the 360 and PS3. They have to make a completely different game for the Wii because it has nowhere near the same power. Nintendo doesn't make titles for other platforms so they can show of the true ability of the Wii, but nobody bought a Wii for the graphics so I'm guessing "why bother" is the prevailing attitude of other publishers.
It's an economics principle. The price of Windows and Office is not set in order to compete with linux, or OS X, or anything else for that matter. Linux is free, and OS X is not sold to the general public; not to mention neither are fully compatible with all windows applications.
When someone else is selling a snap-in alternative to your product for $100 and you sell your product at $200, your sales will drop off quickly. Even if your product is better or more recognized, you'll usually find the optimal price no higher than around 20% more than the competition. Companies are limited in offering lower priced products with regard to their costs. Raise the costs on a competitive market and the optimal price will be driven up.
As you can imagine, the cost of a product with no competition will be higher than if it had competition. To determine that optimal price, economists calculate how much people are willing to pay for a product. You couldn't for example sell Windows XP for $500 / license because the cost of a windows based computer would be prohibitively high; those who have only $500-700 to pay for a PC would no longer be able to buy them and Microsoft would lose millions of sales.
Can you see how in a competitive market the price is set mostly based on how low a business will go? How in a non-competitive market how much consumers are willing to spend? That first number will be raised with increased cost, the second one will not.
Depends on the market. In the case of Microsoft software, the consumers don't pay the tax. Microsoft's main titles (Windows & Office) are both mostly market monopolies, which means that the price is set based on how much people are willing to pay for the software. The price is set based only on the contrast between number of sales and price per sale to optimize for maximum product.
In cases like this, the industry ends up paying the taxes. While the monopoly company has less funds to develop improvement in the software, users of the software receive less functionality. Software developers and domestic employees are hurt the most, having less employer competition due to work being outsourced.
It's about efficiency curves. Good power supplies like those from Corsair, Antec's NeoPower series, and some of PC Power and Cooling will actually show you the efficiency at different watt draws. Most power supplies are most efficient between 50-80% of their capacity. Systems with multiple gpus, intel chipsets and quad cores tend to use tons of power so high watt power supplies are necessary while also more efficient.
Take a system that uses 200-250 watts on load and the best power supply choice will be around 350 watts. The missing 50 is just Maingear being cheap.
Look around your office, you'll probably find lots of keyboards with concave keys. While that may have been necessary with mechanical IBM's, it's counterproductive today. Flat keys are excellent, and avoid lots of the accidental double key presses that normally happen when you touch the edge of a concave key. Without that sharp edge on the side, there's nothing pushing your finger into the adjacent key. I have somewhat large fingers, and find that slightly convex keys (like on the z-board for example) are more comfortable because the impact of each key is spread over a larger surface of the finger tip.
I don't expect a a pointed design to catch on, or even work well. If a poor design inspires real designs I don't see it hurting however.
Crysis and Stalker clear sky will both run quite well on an hd3870, a card that cost just over $200 when it was released years ago. The 4770 will play them well also.
On your sig: do you actually have a proposal to safely remove the drive without unmounting it? Unless you really don't care about the drive at all (in which case you should turn off write caching), the volume has to be unmounted.
No, the US government allows local monolopy telephone "loops", where even though the lines were all put in by taxpayers a single company is allowed exclusive access to that set of lines.
There are reasons why this method could be more efficient (like, how do you handle signal multicasting on an analog line?) The real reason why it isn't allowed is corruption between telcos and the US government, and a completely stupid FCC that doesn't do anything useful.
This has to do with supporting virtualization only when it makes sense. By not running XP-mode on systems without VT support Microsoft is ensuring that the experience is acceptable. Nobody wants the vista fiasco again where Microsoft fell to the pressure of OEMs allowing incapable hardware to be labeled as "Vista Capable."
If Microsoft can educate users to the stupidity that intel applies to their processors, all the better.
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Single Link vs dual link DVI is not a matter of the speed of information, or even cable quality for that matter. Dual link uses two transmitters and Single link uses only one. Dual doubles the theoretical throughput without raising the cabling quality requirement.
It's irrelevant, with a VGA cable and a dual link-vga adapter you need worry about only above 2048x1536 (QXGA) @ 85hz. I don't know about you, but 4 times the most common resolution is enough for me.
It's funny because neither bullfighting, mountain climbing or auto racing are sports.
Since nobody else has posted this: there is an effort to take down the government "activist reporting" tool inside iran. Currently this is being organized largely by 888chan at http://888chan.org/iran/ - note this site does contain nsfw content on some pages.
I'm not sure that I'm really for Ahmadinejad's competition, but there's not a whole lot of chance to make the situation worse by replacing a corrupt leader. If anything we can use the practice for countering government terrorism at home. I don't think anyone is happy with the direction of most governments, here in the states or in Europe the norm is edging to a nanny state.
The problem with that argument is two-fold. First, once the media has already been made publicly available the status of legal protection for said media could be considered inactive. Copyrighted materials that are not actively protected are not subject to litigation. On the other hand, the original infringer may have removed any copyright notice or distribution limitations that would have flagged the work.
It is the responsibility of the copyright holding company to inform viewers of the limitations.
Arguing that a redistributor is infringing seems to shirk the responsibility of the copyright holder.
Microsoft was guilty of the 4 counts that you listed, and more. In Europe they were only fined for a, which is the reason behind the "N" editions of windows.
The case in the United States did involve the 4 aspects that you mentioned, but it was bungled horribly.
Licensing isn't the only thing that raises Memory Stick prices. Scarcity (because of the licensing), and higher quality play a big part.
There are microSD to Memory Stick converters, just like the converters between micro, mini & full SD cards. They allow for more media portability, which is a good thing no matter the pricing.
It's a stretch of sorts. On the other hand there's a possibility that methane would stop other polluting effects.
FLAC doesn't have a marketing campaign, so most mobile media players don't play them. The other motivation to "squish" FLACs is size; a set of earbuds isn't capable of reproducing the complete quality of a lossless file, at the same time smaller files allow for more of your collection to be portable.
ESATA is meant as a simple solution to replace the usb 2 interface on external drives. It solves the bottle-neck for a single drive, but doesn't scale well.
You're better off with an SAS external enclosure and a SAS card with external connections. These can be expensive, but will pay for themselves quickly with the lack of extra management.
I hear you could get service like that, as recent as the 1980s. Too bad.
Microsoft does have a history of breaking functionality from a release candidate to the real thing; bluetooth profiles in Vista for example. They tend to err on the side of disabling features that cause compatibility problems rather than adding features that could cause hardware compatibility problems.
Even if you have to wait for the real thing to be sure your computers will work, you'd still have from ~ October to April to do the necessary tests. If you can't get your test hardware configured and run the necessary tests in 6 months, your problems are bigger than an OS upgrade.
The release candidate will have been available for 11 months come april of next year, which is plenty of time to test hardware. Given that 7 is primarily an upgrade to Vista applications and drivers will not have issues, at least not unknown ones.
Vista can add security and stability to some environments when installed correctly. The same will be true with Windows 7 at final release, and will do so without as many slowdowns that Vista brings.
Just like it's suboptimal to run very old hardware with new operating systems, it's also suboptimal to run new hardware with an old system. Device vendors often fail to provide adequate drivers for outdated operating systems, and like it or not the base hardware in today's systems is completely different than it was back when XP was new.
I suppose by saying "The majority of gaming machines", he could have meant the PS2. On the other hand, UT2004 and Doom 3 weren't available on the PS2. Ironically publishers have been accused of simply porting PS2 games to the Wii instead of developing titles that are intended for it's hardware. Maybe if they ported games that were intended for the true gaming machines of 2004 we'd have less complaining; too bad there's no way a Wii could pull off UT2004.
Actually the Wii isn't better than the average gaming machine from 2004. The graphics processor is slightly slower than a Geforce3, and the CPU wouldn't hold a candle to the Athlon XPs you could get back then.
The lack of adequate quality games for the Wii is really more about all the big publishers dedicating their time to the 360 and PS3. They have to make a completely different game for the Wii because it has nowhere near the same power. Nintendo doesn't make titles for other platforms so they can show of the true ability of the Wii, but nobody bought a Wii for the graphics so I'm guessing "why bother" is the prevailing attitude of other publishers.
You know there's 7" Eee's right?
It's an economics principle. The price of Windows and Office is not set in order to compete with linux, or OS X, or anything else for that matter. Linux is free, and OS X is not sold to the general public; not to mention neither are fully compatible with all windows applications.
When someone else is selling a snap-in alternative to your product for $100 and you sell your product at $200, your sales will drop off quickly. Even if your product is better or more recognized, you'll usually find the optimal price no higher than around 20% more than the competition. Companies are limited in offering lower priced products with regard to their costs. Raise the costs on a competitive market and the optimal price will be driven up.
As you can imagine, the cost of a product with no competition will be higher than if it had competition. To determine that optimal price, economists calculate how much people are willing to pay for a product. You couldn't for example sell Windows XP for $500 / license because the cost of a windows based computer would be prohibitively high; those who have only $500-700 to pay for a PC would no longer be able to buy them and Microsoft would lose millions of sales.
Can you see how in a competitive market the price is set mostly based on how low a business will go? How in a non-competitive market how much consumers are willing to spend? That first number will be raised with increased cost, the second one will not.
Depends on the market. In the case of Microsoft software, the consumers don't pay the tax. Microsoft's main titles (Windows & Office) are both mostly market monopolies, which means that the price is set based on how much people are willing to pay for the software. The price is set based only on the contrast between number of sales and price per sale to optimize for maximum product.
In cases like this, the industry ends up paying the taxes. While the monopoly company has less funds to develop improvement in the software, users of the software receive less functionality. Software developers and domestic employees are hurt the most, having less employer competition due to work being outsourced.
It's about efficiency curves. Good power supplies like those from Corsair, Antec's NeoPower series, and some of PC Power and Cooling will actually show you the efficiency at different watt draws. Most power supplies are most efficient between 50-80% of their capacity. Systems with multiple gpus, intel chipsets and quad cores tend to use tons of power so high watt power supplies are necessary while also more efficient.
Take a system that uses 200-250 watts on load and the best power supply choice will be around 350 watts. The missing 50 is just Maingear being cheap.
I guess it's a good thing that the Palm Pre is not an iTunes user.
Look around your office, you'll probably find lots of keyboards with concave keys. While that may have been necessary with mechanical IBM's, it's counterproductive today. Flat keys are excellent, and avoid lots of the accidental double key presses that normally happen when you touch the edge of a concave key. Without that sharp edge on the side, there's nothing pushing your finger into the adjacent key. I have somewhat large fingers, and find that slightly convex keys (like on the z-board for example) are more comfortable because the impact of each key is spread over a larger surface of the finger tip.
I don't expect a a pointed design to catch on, or even work well. If a poor design inspires real designs I don't see it hurting however.
Crysis and Stalker clear sky will both run quite well on an hd3870, a card that cost just over $200 when it was released years ago. The 4770 will play them well also.
On your sig: do you actually have a proposal to safely remove the drive without unmounting it? Unless you really don't care about the drive at all (in which case you should turn off write caching), the volume has to be unmounted.
No, the US government allows local monolopy telephone "loops", where even though the lines were all put in by taxpayers a single company is allowed exclusive access to that set of lines.
There are reasons why this method could be more efficient (like, how do you handle signal multicasting on an analog line?) The real reason why it isn't allowed is corruption between telcos and the US government, and a completely stupid FCC that doesn't do anything useful.
There's nothing stopping you from putting 6 of these in a single system. Even better, go with 4 4870x2s for around 12TFlops
I'm sure this wouldn't stop him, but I'm pretty sure that taking water out of sea water would leave it more salinated.
This has to do with supporting virtualization only when it makes sense. By not running XP-mode on systems without VT support Microsoft is ensuring that the experience is acceptable. Nobody wants the vista fiasco again where Microsoft fell to the pressure of OEMs allowing incapable hardware to be labeled as "Vista Capable." If Microsoft can educate users to the stupidity that intel applies to their processors, all the better.