just destroy the damn box before you get the supeona. As long as you haven't been served its not illegal.
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Umm, any codec study that only goes up to 128Kb/s is far from authoritative. In fact I can't listen to any codec at that low a bitrate, my ears really are too senesitive. But Ogg is fairly competitive with LAME mp3 at decent bitrates like 220Kb/s VBR.
Like any technology it will have a a certain % failure, what will the rental place do if you come back before 48 hours with a dead disk?
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The navy did a study on this and even after placing a hdd in the huge degaussing coil that they use to to defauss ships after their tours they were still able to recover nearly 90% of data using Electron Force Microscopy technology. Unless the platter is physically destroyed the data CAN be recovered. Multipass data errasers are likewise not effective as the magnetic domains can be checked back 8 or more generations, combined with the fact that the head never passes over exactly the same spot and short of physical destruction you can't be assured of data erasal, so minor tampering like using a magnet will have virtuall zero effect.
Sorry, won't work. The data can and WILL be retrieved if tampering is suspected. Anything short of physical destruction leaves the data fairly easily recoverable if you have the right equipment. I doubt any decent defense attourney would fail to have the disk sent out to a data recovery service if tampering is suspected.
Yes it can, it's called LAN deathmatch, we used to do it in the software testing labs all the time (hmm I wonder why these machines that are there to test for software problems have 3D accelerators....)
Cool, and for $120 or so (today) they can get a Geforce4 Ti4200 128MB that will certainly run the game at more than the 640*480 that the xbox will since Carmack has already stated that the Radeon 8500 will run it well. The card that will fill that ~$100 spot by the time the game ships will most likely be the first generation Geforce FX cards which will probably run it at full framerate 1024*768 or better.
I imagine they mean code that was added to SysV after the BSD split. Remember origionally BSD WAS the same code tree and that it was replaced bit by bit until there was almost no traces of the origional letf (and then after the lawsuit those few pieces were eliminated).
Actually every single application that is actually pushing the PC at this point benifits from vector units. Lets look at what is somewhat strenuous for a modern PC, 3D rendering:yep, media encoding and transcoding:yep, audio processing and creation:yep, 3D gaming:yep, etc. Basically all of the applications that will push a PC are things that process large chunks of data that can be worked on efficiently by a vector processing unit. This isn;t a server processor, it's a PC processor. If you want a server processor get a Power4 or Power5 with the huge cache and multicore chips that are designed for that market.
I think people look at the wrong area when they finger Motorolla about PowerPC, they always point out that Apple is a small customer and that the R&D is expensive etc. Well as you stated they had the G5 mostly completed when they shelved it. I think it has to do more with the freaking rediculous price of modern fabs. Fabs are a HUGE capital cost for a bleeding edge facility, and other than Apple Motorolla doesn't have a huge need for one. IBM on the other hand needs up to date fabs for their own product lines and so adding additional manufacturing capacity to build parts for Apple isn't such a huge expenditure. Even so the PPC970 will debut at 130nm even though IBM will probably have at least some 90nm capacity at that point, but it will be dedicated to their own needs, then after they have yields up and can spare some capacity for Apple they will transition the PPC970 to the 90nm process.
Actually the lower end of the ISM band overlaps an older liscensed band that does have valid HAM use. The FCC has tried to persuade people not to use that space but by their own regulations the oldest user of the spectrum has first rights to it, technically if a HAM operator is having problems on that band they can have your access point or cordless phone turned off or confiscated. This is a disclaimer that most intelligent high end wireless installers will inform you of before installing long shooting point to point links because conceivably the 8W EIRP that is allowed for point-to-point could interfere with such a liscensed operator.
Point to point limit is much higher than 1 Watt ERP, in fact it's 48dB EIRP, or 8 Watt. You can effectivly link places around 50 miles away max. As to the Rockies, that's why you go through the passes, it's not like traffic goes over the range (well not most of it anyways).
If you want to calculate the height you will need Cisco Aironet has a nice calculator that allows you to figure out all sorts of things like tower height and power settings. One of their vendors has a version online Here
Woohoo, high resolution textures (thats what all that storage is for right?) on a completely low resolution lcd screen! What a stupid concept. The GBA does it right, if you only have so many pixels to play with why bother using huge texture maps that just burn battery life? For the console market it makes sense but I don't think it does for the portable market, there's a reason the GB's have been the size they are, its what fits well into the average kids hands.
NIS and NIS+ are in production in some of the largest enterprises out there. In fact back before linux 2.4 was commonly available I actually used a tech preview from Caldera because it was the easiest way to get 32bit UID support, our user ID's had grown beyond 16bits and getting it to work on 2.2 was a pain (you not only needed a kernal recompile but basically the whole toolchain and glibc).
cool, I don't care what goes into the black box settop boxes, as long as they give me high capacity media that is computer readable and writable I will do as I wish. I can just dump the MPEG2 stream to the new blue laser DVD and watch it with my pc as a data file. I would love to have the complete extended edition lord of the rings trilogy on one disk, that's legit use since I will own all the DVD's.
only if your stupid and don't protect your stuff. I have a 2 1/2 year old and he has never damaged any of my cd's, dvd's or tapes because they are all either higher than he can reach in cd towers on top of things or locked in the entertainment center.
Well since Toshiba is one of the founders of the format and they say Here that it origionally stood for Digital Video Disk I would say its not a bad choice. The term technically does not have a proper definition. For those too lazy to read the link here in the pertinant quote:
DVD originally stood for digital video disk. This was the generic title of the type of disk Hollywood was looking for to distribute films on. In the development stage it soon became clear that such a disk would have many more uses than for just showing films. As the leading companie tried to gather more influence two variation appeared: the MMCD or multimedia CD from Sony and Philips and the SD or Super Density Disk from the Toshiba/Time Warner alliance.
When the two groups agreed the compromise format a common name became once more necessary. To avoid partisanship, the letters DVD became once more the official name. Whereas DVD earlier was only an acronym, all parties to the final agreement agreed not to spell out DVD. The letters DVD are now the name. Some say it is still basically a digital video disk, others point to the multiple uses now possible and say that it really stands for Digital Versatile Disk. Whatever meaning you want to attribute, DVD is the name that you will see in the shops and the advertising. DVD is the logo to watch out for.
It's an Ivory tower guy who's shooting for the moon mouthing off about how his lifes goal hasn't been accomplished because the people who followed him decided to do something practical. I'd personally much rather have things like broomba and the AI driver lawn mower then have to wait for the rest of my life on the hope that real AI might oneday develop. Task specific AI is usefull today and its just getting better all the time, a thinking machine doesn't seem like an atainable goal at the moment.
I'd get either an NForce 2 based mobo with non-integrated graphics or an Sis 746 based board like the L7S7A2 ($55 at newegg, a steal) and add a Geforce 4 Ti4200 128MB, total with 512MB DDR333 ram, an Athlon 2100+, cheap CDRW, a decent case and a mid sized hdd should come out around $550 shipped. One hell of a PC that can run just about every game out there at more than acceptable speed. Sure its not nearly as fast as the top of the line box but its really speedy for the price.
Yeah I was overjoyed by the Anandtech article on the new generation of cards from Ati and Nvidia because they had a page dedicated to minimum framerate, and what it showed was that even the not yet released $500 dollar Nvidia card could muster more than 23fps at the slowest part of the game, that's what you will notice, not the faster than your monitor can refresh 200+fps.
There are plenty of uses for fast cpu's that don't involve bloated software, hardware synthesis (ask Xylinx about it), media encoding and creation (software music synths are cpu hogs), high detail 3D visualization, genetic algorthims, etc. These are all apps I have used either professionally or recreationally (or both) and they all will have no problem scaling to any cpu based on moving electrons.
Longhorn preview 1 has already been leaked,.Net framework is here and already in production at many site including microsoft.com, not sure about corporate IM, XML is in Word XP..it just really sucks balls, Server 2003 can do XML as well as any OS, and finally Clippy is Bob II and is just as freaking annoying as the origional (thank god he's dead in XP)
You would get a refurb over a whitebox, sucker. Refurbs are horrible, they almost always have hidden flaws that were the cause of the origional return but which aren't caught by the diagnostic and verification programs. I for one can diagnose a dying HDD better than Dell's crappy HDD diag which was passed a HDD which took over a day to pass a test which normally takes about 30 minutes to finish.
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just destroy the damn box before you get the supeona. As long as you haven't been served its not illegal.
Umm, any codec study that only goes up to 128Kb/s is far from authoritative. In fact I can't listen to any codec at that low a bitrate, my ears really are too senesitive. But Ogg is fairly competitive with LAME mp3 at decent bitrates like 220Kb/s VBR.
Like any technology it will have a a certain % failure, what will the rental place do if you come back before 48 hours with a dead disk?
The navy did a study on this and even after placing a hdd in the huge degaussing coil that they use to to defauss ships after their tours they were still able to recover nearly 90% of data using Electron Force Microscopy technology. Unless the platter is physically destroyed the data CAN be recovered. Multipass data errasers are likewise not effective as the magnetic domains can be checked back 8 or more generations, combined with the fact that the head never passes over exactly the same spot and short of physical destruction you can't be assured of data erasal, so minor tampering like using a magnet will have virtuall zero effect.
Sorry, won't work. The data can and WILL be retrieved if tampering is suspected. Anything short of physical destruction leaves the data fairly easily recoverable if you have the right equipment. I doubt any decent defense attourney would fail to have the disk sent out to a data recovery service if tampering is suspected.
Yes it can, it's called LAN deathmatch, we used to do it in the software testing labs all the time (hmm I wonder why these machines that are there to test for software problems have 3D accelerators....)
Cool, and for $120 or so (today) they can get a Geforce4 Ti4200 128MB that will certainly run the game at more than the 640*480 that the xbox will since Carmack has already stated that the Radeon 8500 will run it well. The card that will fill that ~$100 spot by the time the game ships will most likely be the first generation Geforce FX cards which will probably run it at full framerate 1024*768 or better.
I imagine they mean code that was added to SysV after the BSD split. Remember origionally BSD WAS the same code tree and that it was replaced bit by bit until there was almost no traces of the origional letf (and then after the lawsuit those few pieces were eliminated).
Actually every single application that is actually pushing the PC at this point benifits from vector units. Lets look at what is somewhat strenuous for a modern PC, 3D rendering:yep, media encoding and transcoding:yep, audio processing and creation:yep, 3D gaming:yep, etc. Basically all of the applications that will push a PC are things that process large chunks of data that can be worked on efficiently by a vector processing unit. This isn;t a server processor, it's a PC processor. If you want a server processor get a Power4 or Power5 with the huge cache and multicore chips that are designed for that market.
I think people look at the wrong area when they finger Motorolla about PowerPC, they always point out that Apple is a small customer and that the R&D is expensive etc. Well as you stated they had the G5 mostly completed when they shelved it. I think it has to do more with the freaking rediculous price of modern fabs. Fabs are a HUGE capital cost for a bleeding edge facility, and other than Apple Motorolla doesn't have a huge need for one. IBM on the other hand needs up to date fabs for their own product lines and so adding additional manufacturing capacity to build parts for Apple isn't such a huge expenditure. Even so the PPC970 will debut at 130nm even though IBM will probably have at least some 90nm capacity at that point, but it will be dedicated to their own needs, then after they have yields up and can spare some capacity for Apple they will transition the PPC970 to the 90nm process.
Actually the lower end of the ISM band overlaps an older liscensed band that does have valid HAM use. The FCC has tried to persuade people not to use that space but by their own regulations the oldest user of the spectrum has first rights to it, technically if a HAM operator is having problems on that band they can have your access point or cordless phone turned off or confiscated. This is a disclaimer that most intelligent high end wireless installers will inform you of before installing long shooting point to point links because conceivably the 8W EIRP that is allowed for point-to-point could interfere with such a liscensed operator.
Point to point limit is much higher than 1 Watt ERP, in fact it's 48dB EIRP, or 8 Watt. You can effectivly link places around 50 miles away max. As to the Rockies, that's why you go through the passes, it's not like traffic goes over the range (well not most of it anyways).
If you want to calculate the height you will need Cisco Aironet has a nice calculator that allows you to figure out all sorts of things like tower height and power settings. One of their vendors has a version online Here
Woohoo, high resolution textures (thats what all that storage is for right?) on a completely low resolution lcd screen! What a stupid concept. The GBA does it right, if you only have so many pixels to play with why bother using huge texture maps that just burn battery life? For the console market it makes sense but I don't think it does for the portable market, there's a reason the GB's have been the size they are, its what fits well into the average kids hands.
NIS and NIS+ are in production in some of the largest enterprises out there. In fact back before linux 2.4 was commonly available I actually used a tech preview from Caldera because it was the easiest way to get 32bit UID support, our user ID's had grown beyond 16bits and getting it to work on 2.2 was a pain (you not only needed a kernal recompile but basically the whole toolchain and glibc).
cool, I don't care what goes into the black box settop boxes, as long as they give me high capacity media that is computer readable and writable I will do as I wish. I can just dump the MPEG2 stream to the new blue laser DVD and watch it with my pc as a data file. I would love to have the complete extended edition lord of the rings trilogy on one disk, that's legit use since I will own all the DVD's.
only if your stupid and don't protect your stuff. I have a 2 1/2 year old and he has never damaged any of my cd's, dvd's or tapes because they are all either higher than he can reach in cd towers on top of things or locked in the entertainment center.
Well since Toshiba is one of the founders of the format and they say Here that it origionally stood for Digital Video Disk I would say its not a bad choice. The term technically does not have a proper definition. For those too lazy to read the link here in the pertinant quote:
DVD originally stood for digital video disk. This was the generic title of the type of disk Hollywood was looking for to distribute films on. In the development stage it soon became clear that such a disk would have many more uses than for just showing films. As the leading companie tried to gather more influence two variation appeared: the MMCD or multimedia CD from Sony and Philips and the SD or Super Density Disk from the Toshiba/Time Warner alliance. When the two groups agreed the compromise format a common name became once more necessary. To avoid partisanship, the letters DVD became once more the official name. Whereas DVD earlier was only an acronym, all parties to the final agreement agreed not to spell out DVD. The letters DVD are now the name. Some say it is still basically a digital video disk, others point to the multiple uses now possible and say that it really stands for Digital Versatile Disk. Whatever meaning you want to attribute, DVD is the name that you will see in the shops and the advertising. DVD is the logo to watch out for.
It's an Ivory tower guy who's shooting for the moon mouthing off about how his lifes goal hasn't been accomplished because the people who followed him decided to do something practical. I'd personally much rather have things like broomba and the AI driver lawn mower then have to wait for the rest of my life on the hope that real AI might oneday develop. Task specific AI is usefull today and its just getting better all the time, a thinking machine doesn't seem like an atainable goal at the moment.
Yeah SolidWorks or any of the other CAD programs my engineers run.
I'd get either an NForce 2 based mobo with non-integrated graphics or an Sis 746 based board like the L7S7A2 ($55 at newegg, a steal) and add a Geforce 4 Ti4200 128MB, total with 512MB DDR333 ram, an Athlon 2100+, cheap CDRW, a decent case and a mid sized hdd should come out around $550 shipped. One hell of a PC that can run just about every game out there at more than acceptable speed. Sure its not nearly as fast as the top of the line box but its really speedy for the price.
Yeah I was overjoyed by the Anandtech article on the new generation of cards from Ati and Nvidia because they had a page dedicated to minimum framerate, and what it showed was that even the not yet released $500 dollar Nvidia card could muster more than 23fps at the slowest part of the game, that's what you will notice, not the faster than your monitor can refresh 200+fps.
There are plenty of uses for fast cpu's that don't involve bloated software, hardware synthesis (ask Xylinx about it), media encoding and creation (software music synths are cpu hogs), high detail 3D visualization, genetic algorthims, etc. These are all apps I have used either professionally or recreationally (or both) and they all will have no problem scaling to any cpu based on moving electrons.
Longhorn preview 1 has already been leaked, .Net framework is here and already in production at many site including microsoft.com, not sure about corporate IM, XML is in Word XP..it just really sucks balls, Server 2003 can do XML as well as any OS, and finally Clippy is Bob II and is just as freaking annoying as the origional (thank god he's dead in XP)
You would get a refurb over a whitebox, sucker. Refurbs are horrible, they almost always have hidden flaws that were the cause of the origional return but which aren't caught by the diagnostic and verification programs. I for one can diagnose a dying HDD better than Dell's crappy HDD diag which was passed a HDD which took over a day to pass a test which normally takes about 30 minutes to finish.