3 GB/s is at the low end of system RAM bandwidth, so you must be talking about bytes.
But 1280x1024x32x75=3145728000 bits/second, about 3.1x10^9 bits/second, or 393x10^6 bytes/second.
For most systems this would be about 4 to 10% of memory bandwidth. This article from Tom's Hardware seems to show that the effect on non-3D applications is minimal.
I haven't noticed any "harm" on any computer with integrated graphics (particularly Intel ones, which seem to work very well in Linux) - except for running 3D games. This is not a factor for all computers.
Most seem to be easy to save... just open up your cache directory, find and copy the file (usually the most recent large file) rename to.avi or whatever, and play. Works fine for me, except for a few of the largest files that don't seem to be cached in the normal way.
If they're reference books, the text may be proprietary but the knowledge in them is not, and can be retrieved from numerous free sources.
This is not the case for medical references. I would have to be insane to rely on Wikipedia at work. Fortunately, the beta of the Garnet VM for the Nokia internet tablets looks promising. If the release version can run all the Palm software I need, I can ditch my old PDA entirely. (Or Palm could release some decent hardware for the first time in years, you never know...)
With FBReader they make the best eBook readers available. ePaper would be nice, but the crisp and high rez LCD is still very easy on the eyes. They are just small enough to fit in a coat pocket comfortably, but large enough to have plenty of room on the screen. Document and other files can simply be copied onto the memory card or via USB cable, no ridiculous conversions necessary. (Though FBReader can't read.lit)
My N800 busts all I've seen for wireless range; I'm not sure how it's behavior compares to Nokia WiFi phones, since I haven't had one. You can set it to automatically scan periodically for hotspots, but it does draw the battery down. And if you try firing up the web browser with no active connection, it scans for access points then (while you wait, yes).
I'm real happy with my N800; can't wait to get OS2008 installed this weekend.
Yeah, it's great. Also, I have mine set up for my home connection, and it starts up being automatically connected when I'm at home. It did take a moment to figure out that I had to go to the control panel to create the connection, since my ID is hidden. I'm hoping the new browser will let me reassign keys - haven't tried the beta yet - because I'd like to have a page down key. (The page can be quickly dragged around with the stylus, though.)
Well, I'm not sure about Mac OS X. But I did install Windows XP SP0 on a PC five years ago, and it was amazing compared to 98SE (besides the fact that I had to turn off the ugly theme and install Zonealarm, which took all of 2 minutes).
But, as I said, most viruses are not affected by any of them, because they are so specific. Antivirals have only been developed for a few viruses, and the only one for which resistance has been a problem is HIV. This is in response to "Why don't we just fix that part where they're drug resistant?"... drug-resistant "superbugs" aren't a problem with viruses because very few are affected by drugs in the first place. No MRSA without methicillin...
True, but there hasn't been any equivalent to penicillin, and something that broad-spectrum is probably impossible with viruses. Few could be considered life-saving, or even useful. Valacyclovir and similar drugs for herpes viruses, I suppose. But vaccines and the body's own immune system have been far more effective against viruses than any drug. As you said, the nature of most viral infections make them much more difficult to treat, since they've probably been reproducing exponentially for days before symptoms even appear. (I don't know if anyone in town even carries Tamiflu or Relenza anymore - we sent ours back after it expired.)
HIV is the only virus in which drug resistance is a problem - because most aren't affected by any drugs in the first place. Maybe you're thinking of bacteria?
In any case, I'd prefer it if they'd experiment with mouse retroviruses instead...
Exactly. Heck, for most university courses, citing books was frowned upon - too general and likely to be years out of date. Wikipedia might be a good starting point, but using encyclopedias as a reference past elementary school is a joke.
In Florida, 13 counties reported more votes than voters, these accounting for 39.4% of the vote. In Ohio, at the Gahana 1 Precinct, Bush received 6,253 votes, Kerry 1,916 votes, and the others, 23. This totals 8,192 votes, which is strange, since only 4,346 people voted.
At another Precinct in Gahana, Ohio, 4,258 votes were cast for Bush and only 260 for Kerry, while only 638 people were registered as having voted.
Another source. These sorts of ridiculous "errors" could be seen when searching the online results at the time.
Most of such utilities are crap (autoruns usually takes care of them), but the one that I've found to actually increase functionality is Toshiba's power management utility, which is a lot more useful than the default XP one.
I don't care about any "console versus PC" teenage crap. I just prefer to play games on the whatever system they run best on. (Which is usually the one they were designed for.)
Just a random idea here... but have you considered that the time to open a document might depend a lot on the speed of the machine?
Sure, and with a 5Ghz Core2Octo processor and a RAID array of 10000RPM drives, you might be able to open that 114M file in 2 seconds with Adobe Reader. Personally, I'd rather use Xpdf (Foxit or SumatraPDF if using Windows) than spend $10000 upgrading my machine.
When even on older computers you can run it at 1600x1200, or up to 1920x1440 if your monitor goes that high, with a mouse, mods, and superior graphics? And it costs $10?
The Asus EEE has a pretty small keyboard too, as do other UMPCs, except the ones with thumbboards instead. It can take a while for an adult to get used to such small keyboard, but it's not all that big of a deal.
Keep in mind that you'd also want a rugged laptop, so make that a used Toughbook. And even the most energy-efficient laptop would probably use at least ten times as much electricity as this. You'd either have to charge it for ten times as long before use, or continually generate power while using it.
Others have pointed out that these competitors may be artificially underpricing their product to drive the OLPC out of the market and then raise them afterwards. Also:
"From my point of view, if the world were to have 30 million" laptops made by competitors "in the hands of children at the end of next year, that to me would be a great success," he said in a recent interview. "My goal is not selling laptops. OLPC is not in the laptop business. It's in the education business."
Add something in? A used computer would need a generator a hundred times as powerful than the XO requires. Continually pedalling on a bike might work, or maybe a small gasoline generator. Yay. The XO is also meant to be durable - unless the used PC was a Toughbook, it'd quickly be trash, as would the Asus EEE and the Classmate. Not the XO.
There are plenty of places where people are surviving and have basics like clean water, but are still poor. This is something intended to give them more opportunities, it isn't the only thing they need. (Sending food, by the way, usually just ruins the local farmers and/or fattens the pockets of warlords.)
The last article is the most important...the point that the Earth and Moon orbit around is beneath Earth's surface. Who are the idiots modding up the GP? Apotex is a Canadian pharmaceutical company, of all things.
For now, the iPod Touch is the best reader/browser combination.
Because this is ridiculous. The Nokia 770/n800/n810 has an amazing 800x480, 4.1" in diagonal, 225 pixels/in screen and still fits in your pocket. With FBReader installed through the package manager (yes, it runs Linux), it can read nearly anything and is great for web browsing.
Compare that to the iPod touch, with a 3.5" screen with 480×320 pixels at 163 ppi.
I don't really care about colour, and I'd like to try a device with an eInk screen, but not being able to read nearly any file format I throw at it (txt, html, rtf, pdf, etc) like my Nokia 770 killed any interest I had in the device. While the Nokia has an LCD, it's one of the most beautiful displays I've seen, and the battery life is still good. I'm planning to upgrade to the n810, too.
Carbohydrates are hydrophilic and retain water - both in foods and in the human body. (Unless they've been artificially processed into their pure forms such as sugar, etc.) This is why fats are used for energy storage, they are hydrophobic and can be stored as drops of pure oil in adipose cells. A lot of the initial weight loss from low carb diets is from glycogen stores being used up, and the water associated with them being removed.
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3 GB/s is at the low end of system RAM bandwidth, so you must be talking about bytes.
But 1280x1024x32x75=3145728000 bits/second, about 3.1x10^9 bits/second, or 393x10^6 bytes/second.
For most systems this would be about 4 to 10% of memory bandwidth. This article from Tom's Hardware seems to show that the effect on non-3D applications is minimal.
I haven't noticed any "harm" on any computer with integrated graphics (particularly Intel ones, which seem to work very well in Linux) - except for running 3D games. This is not a factor for all computers.
Most seem to be easy to save... just open up your cache directory, find and copy the file (usually the most recent large file) rename to .avi or whatever, and play. Works fine for me, except for a few of the largest files that don't seem to be cached in the normal way.
I've RTFA and even the comments, and I still don't understand.
If they're reference books, the text may be proprietary but the knowledge in them is not, and can be retrieved from numerous free sources.
This is not the case for medical references. I would have to be insane to rely on Wikipedia at work. Fortunately, the beta of the Garnet VM for the Nokia internet tablets looks promising. If the release version can run all the Palm software I need, I can ditch my old PDA entirely. (Or Palm could release some decent hardware for the first time in years, you never know...)
With FBReader they make the best eBook readers available. ePaper would be nice, but the crisp and high rez LCD is still very easy on the eyes. They are just small enough to fit in a coat pocket comfortably, but large enough to have plenty of room on the screen. Document and other files can simply be copied onto the memory card or via USB cable, no ridiculous conversions necessary. (Though FBReader can't read .lit)
My N800 busts all I've seen for wireless range; I'm not sure how it's behavior compares to Nokia WiFi phones, since I haven't had one. You can set it to automatically scan periodically for hotspots, but it does draw the battery down. And if you try firing up the web browser with no active connection, it scans for access points then (while you wait, yes). I'm real happy with my N800; can't wait to get OS2008 installed this weekend.
Yeah, it's great. Also, I have mine set up for my home connection, and it starts up being automatically connected when I'm at home. It did take a moment to figure out that I had to go to the control panel to create the connection, since my ID is hidden. I'm hoping the new browser will let me reassign keys - haven't tried the beta yet - because I'd like to have a page down key. (The page can be quickly dragged around with the stylus, though.)
Well, I'm not sure about Mac OS X. But I did install Windows XP SP0 on a PC five years ago, and it was amazing compared to 98SE (besides the fact that I had to turn off the ugly theme and install Zonealarm, which took all of 2 minutes).
But, as I said, most viruses are not affected by any of them, because they are so specific. Antivirals have only been developed for a few viruses, and the only one for which resistance has been a problem is HIV. This is in response to "Why don't we just fix that part where they're drug resistant?"... drug-resistant "superbugs" aren't a problem with viruses because very few are affected by drugs in the first place. No MRSA without methicillin...
True, but there hasn't been any equivalent to penicillin, and something that broad-spectrum is probably impossible with viruses. Few could be considered life-saving, or even useful. Valacyclovir and similar drugs for herpes viruses, I suppose. But vaccines and the body's own immune system have been far more effective against viruses than any drug. As you said, the nature of most viral infections make them much more difficult to treat, since they've probably been reproducing exponentially for days before symptoms even appear. (I don't know if anyone in town even carries Tamiflu or Relenza anymore - we sent ours back after it expired.)
HIV is the only virus in which drug resistance is a problem - because most aren't affected by any drugs in the first place. Maybe you're thinking of bacteria?
In any case, I'd prefer it if they'd experiment with mouse retroviruses instead...
Exactly. Heck, for most university courses, citing books was frowned upon - too general and likely to be years out of date. Wikipedia might be a good starting point, but using encyclopedias as a reference past elementary school is a joke.
In Florida, 13 counties reported more votes than voters, these accounting for 39.4% of the vote. In Ohio, at the Gahana 1 Precinct, Bush received 6,253 votes, Kerry 1,916 votes, and the others, 23. This totals 8,192 votes, which is strange, since only 4,346 people voted.
At another Precinct in Gahana, Ohio, 4,258 votes were cast for Bush and only 260 for Kerry, while only 638 people were registered as having voted.
Another source. These sorts of ridiculous "errors" could be seen when searching the online results at the time.
Most of such utilities are crap (autoruns usually takes care of them), but the one that I've found to actually increase functionality is Toshiba's power management utility, which is a lot more useful than the default XP one.
How was that a PC versus console argument? If anything, it's a "play an old game that can run amazingly well on nearly any PC" versus "emulate a game ported to the Xbox without taking advantage of the capabilities of the Xbox360" argument. By the way, is it really as slow as they say?
I don't care about any "console versus PC" teenage crap. I just prefer to play games on the whatever system they run best on. (Which is usually the one they were designed for.)
Just a random idea here ... but have you considered that the time to open a document might depend a lot on the speed of the machine?
Sure, and with a 5Ghz Core2Octo processor and a RAID array of 10000RPM drives, you might be able to open that 114M file in 2 seconds with Adobe Reader. Personally, I'd rather use Xpdf (Foxit or SumatraPDF if using Windows) than spend $10000 upgrading my machine.
When even on older computers you can run it at 1600x1200, or up to 1920x1440 if your monitor goes that high, with a mouse, mods, and superior graphics? And it costs $10?
The Asus EEE has a pretty small keyboard too, as do other UMPCs, except the ones with thumbboards instead. It can take a while for an adult to get used to such small keyboard, but it's not all that big of a deal.
Keep in mind that you'd also want a rugged laptop, so make that a used Toughbook. And even the most energy-efficient laptop would probably use at least ten times as much electricity as this. You'd either have to charge it for ten times as long before use, or continually generate power while using it.
Add something in? A used computer would need a generator a hundred times as powerful than the XO requires. Continually pedalling on a bike might work, or maybe a small gasoline generator. Yay. The XO is also meant to be durable - unless the used PC was a Toughbook, it'd quickly be trash, as would the Asus EEE and the Classmate. Not the XO.
There are plenty of places where people are surviving and have basics like clean water, but are still poor. This is something intended to give them more opportunities, it isn't the only thing they need. (Sending food, by the way, usually just ruins the local farmers and/or fattens the pockets of warlords.)
The last article is the most important...the point that the Earth and Moon orbit around is beneath Earth's surface. Who are the idiots modding up the GP? Apotex is a Canadian pharmaceutical company, of all things.
For now, the iPod Touch is the best reader/browser combination.
Because this is ridiculous. The Nokia 770/n800/n810 has an amazing 800x480, 4.1" in diagonal, 225 pixels/in screen and still fits in your pocket. With FBReader installed through the package manager (yes, it runs Linux), it can read nearly anything and is great for web browsing.
Compare that to the iPod touch, with a 3.5" screen with 480×320 pixels at 163 ppi.
I don't really care about colour, and I'd like to try a device with an eInk screen, but not being able to read nearly any file format I throw at it (txt, html, rtf, pdf, etc) like my Nokia 770 killed any interest I had in the device. While the Nokia has an LCD, it's one of the most beautiful displays I've seen, and the battery life is still good. I'm planning to upgrade to the n810, too.
Carbohydrates are hydrophilic and retain water - both in foods and in the human body. (Unless they've been artificially processed into their pure forms such as sugar, etc.) This is why fats are used for energy storage, they are hydrophobic and can be stored as drops of pure oil in adipose cells. A lot of the initial weight loss from low carb diets is from glycogen stores being used up, and the water associated with them being removed.