How does this system organize the data streams? What if two people miles apart transmit their message at the same time on the same frequency? How does it handle contention issues? They have an awful lot of bandwidth to transmit so the messages should be pretty "bursty" and fast unless they're downloading entire web pages and such.
It's certainly more powerful than anything on the desktop now, but by the
time it's released a year from now, it looks to be middle-of-the-pack (which
could still be a step up for Apple...)
What the hell is the point of designing a computer that you know will not
be able to compete performance-wise against the very market you are trying to
win over? Why would I want to switch
to a less powerful system? If it's the alleged ease-of-use vs.
Windows, forget it. People would have already bought Macs in droves.
Here's my first real opportunity to burn some karma:
Create a computer using a CPU that's less powerful for more money than the
competition.
???
Profit!!!
Any posts claiming Apple computers are slower than PCs shouldn't be labeled
as trolls or flamebait.
Actually, going from FAT32 to NTFS increases performance, not decrease. I don't know if that's a result of NTFS being so good or FAT32 being so bad. I'll take the latter.
If everyone had to vote, maybe you wouldn't see candidates that were so polarized. They'd have to win the hearts and minds of the majority, the the vocal minority. Hell, you still have a write in vote. Mickey Mouse still gets thousands of votes for president each election.
But to choose not to vote, is in a way a vote, too.
There could be a "no vote" option at the polls. However, I doubt that many people would choose that option if they actctually HAD to make a choice. Politicians aren't looking for political education, flat tax, term limits or anything else that might jepordize their careers.
All we have to do is simply get people to vote, period. Politicians only listen to people that vote for them and/or give them money. That basically means that they listen to only a small minority of the population. My philosphy used to be "if you're stupid enough not to vote, then your opinions don't count." I still don't disagree with that idea, it's just that politicians no longer look to comprimise. They just play to their particular base of supporters that gaurentee them a vote. The only solution is to make it a law that every citizen MUST vote.
One of the nice things about the iPod was the fact that it is essentially a firewire hard drive. You can put anything on it. It also has a very weak system to prevent music from being copied from the iPod back to the computer. How about this player? Will I be able to jockey files back and forth between my friend's computer and my own?
Now with all the amatures with handhelds out of business, we can now get professional rips of new movies by organized crime syndicates! No longer will we have to sit through grainy VHS camcorder copies of Hollywoods latest tripe. The mafia (asian and otherwise) will now have a viable buisiness model for peddling their illegal wares. Throw in P2P networks as a method of distribution for the geeks and we can't loose! Thank goodness for copy protection!
Microchannel was the bus you are thinking about. It actually was very good, but wan't backward compatible with ISA. EISA was the "rest of the industry's" response to provide a 32-bit bus that was backwards compatible. It wasn't a very good implementation since it was still locked at 8MHz.
The whole gist of the article has to do with the x86's lack of general purpose
registers. While this is true, you're not going to solve all of the x86
shortcomings simply by figuring out a way to add more of them. There are
MANY things wrong with the x86 design; GP registers are just one of them.
There's an entire section in the famous Patterson
book that goes into all of the issues in much more detail than I care to state
here.
Besides, there's already more efficient (albiet complex) solutions to extend
registers that make much more sense in the current world of pipelined
processors. Register
renaming is one such example.
80%?! I thought the majority of China is using Linux? What happened to all that
press about Linux
taking over Asia? I guess pirated Windows is still considered
"free software."
"The Federal Communications Commission voted 4-0 to adopt digital radio technology created by iBiquity Digital Corp.,
a company backed by large broadcasters including ABC and Viacom."
I don't have a lot of confidence that this new technology won't be tainted with
nasty things like DRM, forced commercials, etc.
"The digital broadcasts will be free, unlike the subscriber services offered by Sirius Satellite Radio and XM Satellite Radio Holdings, which beam music and talk to radios from satellites."
Yeah, until they want to start offering "Premium" channels.
"Supporters say the new technology will bring CD-quality sound to FM broadcasts, an end to static for AM and new data features."
The term CD-quality gets thrown around to loosely. I'm assuming the stream
uses a lossy compression scheme like streaming MP3, OGG, etc. It may be
good, but probably not truly CD quality.
I'll take Word 2.0 over WP 5.1 any day. Word was WYSIWYG, WP wasn't. Same goes with Excel and Lotus 1-2-3 (providing you didn't install the WYSIWYG add-on which was extra).
You mean there was NO difference between WP 4.2, 5.0, 5.1 documents? Guess again. Same goes for Lotus 2.2, 2.3, 2.4, 3.0, etc.
You have a source for these "obfuscation elements" you mention? I'd like to see what they are.
Let's put this into perspective... There are thousands of power sellers
yet only a few are mentioned in the article where the evidence strongly
suggests...not conclusively finds fraud occurring. EBay is no
different than the For Sale section in the newspaper. If I get ripped off
by some guy selling his car in the newspaper, who am I gonna sue? The guy
or the Daily News?
The only liability I see is the whole Power Seller rating
system. This kind of implies that EBay deems this person a good seller and
thus is promoting the seller above others.
Why isn't this looked upon the same way as an ISP and someone trafficking
illegal material over the Internet?
That's what they said about Word Perfect 5.1 and Lotus 1-2-3. Microsoft gave users a reason to switch: Word and Excel were cheaper, better, and offered a pretty darn good import filter.
Come up with a cheaper, better, yet backward compatible word processor and spreadsheet and maybe you can beat Microsoft, too.
Before anyone starts up with the Mickey Mouse issue, this only affects the copyright on the "Steamboat Willie" cartoon itself, not the MM character. Mickey Mouse is a protected TRADEMARK and will continue to be protected under trademark law FOREVER.
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You mean I've been collecting Jude Law's blood and urine samples all these years for nothing?!
...can it also play OGG files? Hey how about doubling it as a firewall? Come on! Where's your hacker spirit?!
How does this system organize the data streams? What if two people miles apart transmit their message at the same time on the same frequency? How does it handle contention issues? They have an awful lot of bandwidth to transmit so the messages should be pretty "bursty" and fast unless they're downloading entire web pages and such.
It's certainly more powerful than anything on the desktop now, but by the time it's released a year from now, it looks to be middle-of-the-pack (which could still be a step up for Apple...)
What the hell is the point of designing a computer that you know will not be able to compete performance-wise against the very market you are trying to win over? Why would I want to switch to a less powerful system? If it's the alleged ease-of-use vs. Windows, forget it. People would have already bought Macs in droves.
Here's my first real opportunity to burn some karma:
Any posts claiming Apple computers are slower than PCs shouldn't be labeled as trolls or flamebait.
If that's the case, then it would be legal to distribute the DeCSS code as long as you don't tell anyone what it does.
Yeah, in two three years when OLED is bleeding edge technology, I'm sure it will be cheaper than plasma sets.
Try again, coward.
"As for graphics workstations, office computers with thousands of documents and moreover file-servers, NTFS shows higher performance."
It's worth it just for the photograph. Maybe best to hold off on a plasma TV...
You want to hold off two to three years for a 15 OLED screen when you can get a 60" plasma display now? I don't think so, Timothy.
Actually, going from FAT32 to NTFS increases performance, not decrease. I don't know if that's a result of NTFS being so good or FAT32 being so bad. I'll take the latter.
If everyone had to vote, maybe you wouldn't see candidates that were so polarized. They'd have to win the hearts and minds of the majority, the the vocal minority. Hell, you still have a write in vote. Mickey Mouse still gets thousands of votes for president each election.
But to choose not to vote, is in a way a vote, too.
There could be a "no vote" option at the polls. However, I doubt that many people would choose that option if they actctually HAD to make a choice. Politicians aren't looking for political education, flat tax, term limits or anything else that might jepordize their careers.
All we have to do is simply get people to vote, period. Politicians only listen to people that vote for them and/or give them money. That basically means that they listen to only a small minority of the population. My philosphy used to be "if you're stupid enough not to vote, then your opinions don't count." I still don't disagree with that idea, it's just that politicians no longer look to comprimise. They just play to their particular base of supporters that gaurentee them a vote. The only solution is to make it a law that every citizen MUST vote.
One of the nice things about the iPod was the fact that it is essentially a firewire hard drive. You can put anything on it. It also has a very weak system to prevent music from being copied from the iPod back to the computer. How about this player? Will I be able to jockey files back and forth between my friend's computer and my own?
Let's see how close he was... Anyone got a link?
Now with all the amatures with handhelds out of business, we can now get professional rips of new movies by organized crime syndicates! No longer will we have to sit through grainy VHS camcorder copies of Hollywoods latest tripe. The mafia (asian and otherwise) will now have a viable buisiness model for peddling their illegal wares. Throw in P2P networks as a method of distribution for the geeks and we can't loose! Thank goodness for copy protection!
What's even worse is that there's going to be another!
Microchannel was the bus you are thinking about. It actually was very good, but wan't backward compatible with ISA. EISA was the "rest of the industry's" response to provide a 32-bit bus that was backwards compatible. It wasn't a very good implementation since it was still locked at 8MHz.
The whole gist of the article has to do with the x86's lack of general purpose registers. While this is true, you're not going to solve all of the x86 shortcomings simply by figuring out a way to add more of them. There are MANY things wrong with the x86 design; GP registers are just one of them. There's an entire section in the famous Patterson book that goes into all of the issues in much more detail than I care to state here.
Besides, there's already more efficient (albiet complex) solutions to extend registers that make much more sense in the current world of pipelined processors. Register renaming is one such example.
80%?! I thought the majority of China is using Linux? What happened to all that press about Linux taking over Asia? I guess pirated Windows is still considered "free software."
"The Federal Communications Commission voted 4-0 to adopt digital radio technology created by iBiquity Digital Corp., a company backed by large broadcasters including ABC and Viacom. "
I don't have a lot of confidence that this new technology won't be tainted with nasty things like DRM, forced commercials, etc.
"The digital broadcasts will be free, unlike the subscriber services offered by Sirius Satellite Radio and XM Satellite Radio Holdings, which beam music and talk to radios from satellites."
Yeah, until they want to start offering "Premium" channels.
"Supporters say the new technology will bring CD-quality sound to FM broadcasts, an end to static for AM and new data features."
The term CD-quality gets thrown around to loosely. I'm assuming the stream uses a lossy compression scheme like streaming MP3, OGG, etc. It may be good, but probably not truly CD quality.
I'll take Word 2.0 over WP 5.1 any day. Word was WYSIWYG, WP wasn't. Same goes with Excel and Lotus 1-2-3 (providing you didn't install the WYSIWYG add-on which was extra).
You mean there was NO difference between WP 4.2, 5.0, 5.1 documents? Guess again. Same goes for Lotus 2.2, 2.3, 2.4, 3.0, etc.
You have a source for these "obfuscation elements" you mention? I'd like to see what they are.
Let's put this into perspective... There are thousands of power sellers yet only a few are mentioned in the article where the evidence strongly suggests...not conclusively finds fraud occurring. EBay is no different than the For Sale section in the newspaper. If I get ripped off by some guy selling his car in the newspaper, who am I gonna sue? The guy or the Daily News?
The only liability I see is the whole Power Seller rating system. This kind of implies that EBay deems this person a good seller and thus is promoting the seller above others.
Why isn't this looked upon the same way as an ISP and someone trafficking illegal material over the Internet?
That's what they said about Word Perfect 5.1 and Lotus 1-2-3. Microsoft gave users a reason to switch: Word and Excel were cheaper, better, and offered a pretty darn good import filter.
Come up with a cheaper, better, yet backward compatible word processor and spreadsheet and maybe you can beat Microsoft, too.
Before anyone starts up with the Mickey Mouse issue, this only affects the copyright on the "Steamboat Willie" cartoon itself, not the MM character. Mickey Mouse is a protected TRADEMARK and will continue to be protected under trademark law FOREVER.
20 gigs on the Usenet is too much? Apparently you've never been to any newsgroup with the words "binaries" and "DVD" in them.