And you wonder why the EU has chronically high unemployment and stagnant growth rates.
We run extra risk for extra benefit. It sucks worse when things are bad, but when the boom comes, we are flying high.
Not to mention, average income is 33%-50% higher in North America than in Europe. And things like Air COnditioned hospitals are the norm here.
Europe's nice, but I wouldn't want to live there long-term. Socialized Medicine is not sufficient compensation for a stagnant economy and high unemployment.
And ICA is the basis for RDP (It's really RDPv4), RDP performs better over WAN links, and with higher colour depths, but the ICA client is more mature and portable.
VNC is only acceptable until you try RDP or Citrix, and experience what performance is possible over a remote link.
RDP is king for WAN links, X11 for LAN links and VNC sucks on both. ANd yes, I've tried TightVNC, it's better than standard VNC, but still sucks in comparison with the competition
I just wish Apple would license RDP for OS X, then my life would be complete.
The lowly P4 1.4 is notably slower than a 1.2GHz Celeron. The P4 doesn't get a performance advantage over a vanilla P3 until ~1.8GHz and it's around 2.4GHz to beat the Centrino (Which is merely a P3 on a P4 bus with a big cache and some power optimzations)
No, It's just that 2.4GHz is the break-even point for scaling. Below that the P4 is hurt by it's clock-for-clock performance hit, above that the P4's scaling becomes a bigger factor than its long pipeline and low efficiency.
He sort of has a point though, because the P4's weaknesses become strengths at that point. However this doesn't change the efficiency of the P4 core, which is poor.
Steve promise 3.0GHz 10 months ago. He's still got 2 months to deliver a product announcement. And they wouldn't have to ship until september.
Apple always has a big announcement in late July. The 3GHz could be it. It could also be the new iMacs though (As Apple has stopped producing the current model as of this week).
There's exactly 3 titles in my X-Box collection taht have appeared on the PC. Of those 3, only one is originally a PC Game (Ghost Recon), the other two being an X-BoX exclusive (Halo) and a multi-platform racing sim (Colin McRae 3).
The other dozen titles are all console games, with most being X-Box specific or X-Box/GC titles.
The PC still doesn't have a decent racing sim for non-F1/Nascar fans.
Except for the fact that the Japanese makers have been moving towards high-revving 4-bangers.
Seen the power curves and redline on an i-VTEC or Toyota VVT engine these days? 8-9000 rpm redline, peak power at over 7000rpm. Much higher revving than anything they put out in the 80's, where they were preferring higher-torque lower-revving blocks.
Of course, some Japanese makers are still using the same blocks they were in the 80's (Mitsubishi and their 4G63 block most notably).
There's a difference between big wings and HP and a F1 car.
First off, F1 engines are like honda engines. Lacking in torque, althouh the F1 engines are much less torqy than any B16. This means that their low-speed accelleration is poor. Also they won't oversteer at low speeds due to the amount of grip, so you can't use that to aid your way through a turn.
They'd rip at a track meet, but not in the tight stuff at a parking lot meet, where something along the lines of an Elise 190 is ideal (light, well balanced, easy to do a controlled oversteer). You don't see a lot of 500+HP Autocross rides because at those outputs the power tends to overpower the cars ahandling (unless you're driving a beast like a Supra or a Skyline, which needs te power due to excessive weight)
I'm quite well aware of how Switching Mode PSU's work.
But can you make one at home from nothing more than wire and a hunk of iron? Transformers are simpler. The fact you can get the DC solution cheap from a catalog is a nod to how much is available to us, not to how simple they are to build.
Not nearly as easy as AC is though. One transformer and you're golden. They equivalent DC devices are cheap, but not terribly simple compared to what's used for AC.
>>Troll. You can't be dissing it at the same >>time you are selling it. Hell, they are even >>using Intel. Are you still in grade school or >>just a dropout?
Tell that to SCO.
>>>>Its also no wonder that Bill Joy left the >>company. >> Bill Joy likes Sun's Unix a whole lot more >>than Linux because he "wrote" most of Sun's >>Unix. Perhaps he left 'because' of the Linux >>strategy?
Or perhaps he left because his interests are not in running a multibilliondollar company.
They're $60/ea. I can buy discrete 80GB drives and one USB external case. Drop one in, backup, pull the drive out of the case and drop it in the Safety deposit box, at half the cost per GB and way more reliability.
A combination of the inherent issues with a shared bandwidth topology (Collisions, intereference between nodes) and the excessive overhead inherent to 802.11b and 802.11g packets.
So, you actually are getting 5+ Megabytes per second transfer rates out of 802.11g? Unless you have only one AP and one client, I call Bullshit.
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And you wonder why the EU has chronically high unemployment and stagnant growth rates.
We run extra risk for extra benefit. It sucks worse when things are bad, but when the boom comes, we are flying high.
Not to mention, average income is 33%-50% higher in North America than in Europe. And things like Air COnditioned hospitals are the norm here.
Europe's nice, but I wouldn't want to live there long-term. Socialized Medicine is not sufficient compensation for a stagnant economy and high unemployment.
ISDN with an SLA? Gimme a break. The tech is somewhat more reliable, but you can get SLA'd DSL at least.
Well, as I said, X11 is better for LAN links.
And ICA is the basis for RDP (It's really RDPv4), RDP performs better over WAN links, and with higher colour depths, but the ICA client is more mature and portable.
VNC is only acceptable until you try RDP or Citrix, and experience what performance is possible over a remote link.
RDP is king for WAN links, X11 for LAN links and VNC sucks on both. ANd yes, I've tried TightVNC, it's better than standard VNC, but still sucks in comparison with the competition
I just wish Apple would license RDP for OS X, then my life would be complete.
Actually, the Word 5.1 the atricle is about is Word for Mac 5.1
While that's true for most versions of Word, 5.1 didn't think for you. It's one of the reasons it's so loved by Mac users.
MS would sell more copies of an OS X port of Word 5.1 than it ever will of Word 2004.
Bullshit.
The lowly P4 1.4 is notably slower than a 1.2GHz Celeron. The P4 doesn't get a performance advantage over a vanilla P3 until ~1.8GHz and it's around 2.4GHz to beat the Centrino (Which is merely a P3 on a P4 bus with a big cache and some power optimzations)
No, It's just that 2.4GHz is the break-even point for scaling. Below that the P4 is hurt by it's clock-for-clock performance hit, above that the P4's scaling becomes a bigger factor than its long pipeline and low efficiency.
He sort of has a point though, because the P4's weaknesses become strengths at that point. However this doesn't change the efficiency of the P4 core, which is poor.
Opterons require Registered DIMMs, as do Athlon64 FX51's.
Plain Athlon 64's do not.
Steve promise 3.0GHz 10 months ago. He's still got 2 months to deliver a product announcement. And they wouldn't have to ship until september.
Apple always has a big announcement in late July. The 3GHz could be it. It could also be the new iMacs though (As Apple has stopped producing the current model as of this week).
That's all 4 iso's. 1 torrent, 4 iso's
There's exactly 3 titles in my X-Box collection taht have appeared on the PC. Of those 3, only one is originally a PC Game (Ghost Recon), the other two being an X-BoX exclusive (Halo) and a multi-platform racing sim (Colin McRae 3).
The other dozen titles are all console games, with most being X-Box specific or X-Box/GC titles.
The PC still doesn't have a decent racing sim for non-F1/Nascar fans.
Except for the fact that the Japanese makers have been moving towards high-revving 4-bangers.
Seen the power curves and redline on an i-VTEC or Toyota VVT engine these days? 8-9000 rpm redline, peak power at over 7000rpm. Much higher revving than anything they put out in the 80's, where they were preferring higher-torque lower-revving blocks.
Of course, some Japanese makers are still using the same blocks they were in the 80's (Mitsubishi and their 4G63 block most notably).
There's a difference between big wings and HP and a F1 car.
First off, F1 engines are like honda engines. Lacking in torque, althouh the F1 engines are much less torqy than any B16. This means that their low-speed accelleration is poor. Also they won't oversteer at low speeds due to the amount of grip, so you can't use that to aid your way through a turn.
They'd rip at a track meet, but not in the tight stuff at a parking lot meet, where something along the lines of an Elise 190 is ideal (light, well balanced, easy to do a controlled oversteer). You don't see a lot of 500+HP Autocross rides because at those outputs the power tends to overpower the cars ahandling (unless you're driving a beast like a Supra or a Skyline, which needs te power due to excessive weight)
Well, a Mitsubishi Lancer Evo VIII RS will pull .95g stock and with carefully chosen upgrades will pull over 1G.
And that's with 4 adults and a baby seat in a compact sedan (Albeit a 271HP Turbocharged AWD Compact sedan)
Of course, with carefully chosen upgrades it will do 0-60 in under 4 seconds and run a 12 second quarter mile.
All this in a $30,000 car.
2+G's out of an F1 car is believable. Adding actual airfoils and massive rubber give the F1 it's stupidly good cornering.
It's also about Transfer rates. When you want to shoot 8fps, even a 4MP camera needs some bandwidth and only CF can provide that bandwidth.
Apple's basically replacing the now-defunct SGI Workstations.
And doing it very well.
I'm quite well aware of how Switching Mode PSU's work.
But can you make one at home from nothing more than wire and a hunk of iron? Transformers are simpler. The fact you can get the DC solution cheap from a catalog is a nod to how much is available to us, not to how simple they are to build.
Not nearly as easy as AC is though. One transformer and you're golden. They equivalent DC devices are cheap, but not terribly simple compared to what's used for AC.
No, 3Dfx started it with the Wall Wart on the Voodoo5 6000.
No, AC is easy to step up/step down. DC is hard to step up and hot to step down.
CP's run on +/-12V and 5V
>>>> [Sun] now dissing Linux
>>Troll. You can't be dissing it at the same >>time you are selling it. Hell, they are even >>using Intel. Are you still in grade school or >>just a dropout?
Tell that to SCO.
>>>>Its also no wonder that Bill Joy left the >>company.
>> Bill Joy likes Sun's Unix a whole lot more >>than Linux because he "wrote" most of Sun's >>Unix. Perhaps he left 'because' of the Linux >>strategy?
Or perhaps he left because his interests are not in running a multibilliondollar company.
They're $60/ea. I can buy discrete 80GB drives and one USB external case. Drop one in, backup, pull the drive out of the case and drop it in the Safety deposit box, at half the cost per GB and way more reliability.
And over the DSL same link, RDC/RDP is as fast as TightVNC is on 10baseT.
Tried both.
A combination of the inherent issues with a shared bandwidth topology (Collisions, intereference between nodes) and the excessive overhead inherent to 802.11b and 802.11g packets.
So, you actually are getting 5+ Megabytes per second transfer rates out of 802.11g? Unless you have only one AP and one client, I call Bullshit.