true. I usually max out my motherboard, but last time i bought one last year, i did not. I even stepped down in my server to reduce heat.
I am playing plenty of games now without the need for increased cpu power.
I think intel/AMD will have to put out some crappy compilers or otherwise pay programmers to write more CPU intensive code. Otherwise, I'm fine where I am(AMD XP2100+), and I got room to grow if I want to upgrade without trashing my MB.
I'm very happy that CPUs rarely die, though I can't say the same for motherboards...
Its not a bad thing only because it has the courtesy to show itself in the start menu. If it hid in the registry like so many others it would be horrible since most people couldnt find it.
In any event, this is totally horrible to start a program when i have no intention of using it. It should start and take up resources only when requested, otherwise it should disappear. The more garbage running the more likely you are to have problems.
After reading the whole thing, as a minimum there is no way it was given as a speech. It has too many typeisms like enclosing words with '*' and un-pronounceable words like 'hack0rzed', and 'b0rked.'
It reads completely like an email or something typed. Perhaps this is an email he wrote before and spoke on the same topic? But it certainly can not be what was said at any conference to Microsoft.
You are totally correct. When they start claiming to conform to government regulations, that is when you know they found a loophole.
I rememer a company i worked for did away with the recycling buckets and told us to throw our used paper in the trash. That this new recycling company can recycle the paper right from the trash can...Right.
you claim the bottleneck is the nic at 1GB/s then go one to claim HD transfer rates of 10-15MB/s. I'm gonna assume tere is a type in there somewhere...
I use RAID 1 with 2 40MB drives. Its Linux Software raid, and works fine without 1 drive. Though I have not the faintest how to rebuild a failed node...
One does not care about speed from a 1-5 person file server at home. Hes not playing games and its extremely unlikely there will be any contention. Even if your playing mp3s from it as i do.
You know, I got thorougly annoyes with EA when I bought Battlefield 1942 and had to listen to their stupid logo jingle every time I start the game. Until I scoured the net for the startup switch.
But by that point I was annoyed to high hell. In today's age, who thinks its a good thing to annoy the hell out of your customers?
And what about all this time spent planning for failures? I think its more efficient if us non-network jobbed folks worry about our jobs, and let the network guys worry abou the network.
If they would do their jobs, there would not be an issue.
Thats why I have a handspring treo. Its a Palm + phone. I'd rather have a PDA + phone, than a Phone + PDA.
Of course the treo 180 that I have has terrible software bugs. bugs tied to the apearantly shoddy integration of cellphone and pda technology. Im hoping the newer models don't suffer this...
true. i just swapped the cpu in my server for a slower one. It generates less heat so im hoping i dont need to keep cooling the hard drives. And eventually I can get that fan out of my computer room window...
on another note, 15 years! Its really making me feel old.
It does not follow that as the nation becomes more prosperous (due to your free trade support) all of its citizens will too. In todays world, this is even moreso.
I have no interest in making the US corporations more profitable if it does not benefit the US workers.
Capitalism (of the laisse fair type) succeeds because it's based on a solid reality - human greed, and the necessity of restraining it.
Interesting how this statement invariably is used to support the greed of corporations as positive, but condemn the greed of invididuals wanting something (in this case jobs) for themselves as negative.
I know a company that builds products in Mexico. But those Mexican's are quite expensive these days. Well at least when compared to the Chinese. Mexican factories are starting to feel the pinch of China. Will it stop there?
There are so many reasons why the price you see on the tag is not the cost you pay in the long run.
What do you think is the neteffect on the nation of paying twice for computer goods but having a factory full of tax paying, house buying, food consuming, vacation taking, product buying workers?
You know why? Because companies that do this should be taxed to hell and back for doing it.
Unfortunately, he can't. That would kill those companies.
The root you are looking for is the World Trade Organization(WTO). If Mr. Bush taxed those companies, then he would be obliged to balance that with tarrifs on their competitions imports. But the WTO ensures that he can not place those tarrifs.
The WTO ensures that the richest multinational corporations will have access to the poorest laborers. Or your nation will face economic sanctions.
What Mr. Bush can do is insist that all workers globally are treated humanely, and paid fair market wages. What were getting in this regard though is purely lip service.
Vote Bush/Cheney in '84 and you too can be optimistic and believe in the people of America!
He does not believe in the people of America, he believes in America! His policies still favor the US, and as a nation we will continue to grow richer. But as individuals, that wealth will go into fewer and fewer hands at the top. Its the Republican party's philosophy.
IIRC, Steam is the graphics engine, it has nothing to do with transmission of data across the network which is the part you want to secure.
Perhaps if they had used punk buster it wouldn't be an issue. And I still feel its not an issue but a lame-ass excuse.
BTW, just because someone knows the security protocol, does not mean he should be able to violate it. Unless its a lame-ass protocol.
They should know that the crowd of people capable enough to track down these criminals are capable of comprehending the nature of the lameness of their excuses.
Bluetooth is not making the best headway in USA. Especially vs. 802.11. I got a laptop at work which is HP with bluetooth. There is nothing I ever walk past that has any bluetooth on it.
I am suspecious that both better data rate, and lower power stinks of a marketing specification moreso than an engineering one. Probably too late for bluetooth in USA, relatively speaking.
The reason is that product timelines have a bit more flexibility since you're not generally working to please a specific customer, and it also means there will be more planning and (hopefully) fewer adhoc features creeping in.
Bwahaha. Just laughable. Try working in the auto industry. Perhaps you mean, products you intend to sell to the public.
I spend more time on my computer than in my car. Why not spend a little extra to get a good one.
Because you don't have to.
A computer is increasingly complex piece of machinery. Personally I think you have to take each piece individually. The only part I spend extra on to "get a good one" is the monitor. And those can last you 10 years.
I bought my own domain to have a website. email was not really my concern. Then after i switched ISPs a couple of times and realized that i still had the same domain email address I started to appreciate the purchase more.
I have had my domain for about 4 years now, and haven't updated the website for probably 2...Yet i use the email address daily.
To be honest, its not all its cracked up to be. You find you need to change email addresses about once per two years anyway as the spammers seek and destroy your accounds.
Furthermore, the GPL may be a serious problem for Sun. Not all Java code is necessarily copyrighted by them.
You are aware that Java is not written in Java? One issue is open sourcing the Runtime Enviornment source code which is java code, the other issue is opening the Virtual Machine which is not. Everyone has been griping about the VM code.
DIVX... (the rental movie player scheme not the codec)
I think they are forgeting that people will pay for freedom. If your 'free' hardware makes me a slave to your foolish whims, i'll gladly buy my way our of it.
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true. I usually max out my motherboard, but last time i bought one last year, i did not. I even stepped down in my server to reduce heat.
I am playing plenty of games now without the need for increased cpu power.
I think intel/AMD will have to put out some crappy compilers or otherwise pay programmers to write more CPU intensive code. Otherwise, I'm fine where I am(AMD XP2100+), and I got room to grow if I want to upgrade without trashing my MB.
I'm very happy that CPUs rarely die, though I can't say the same for motherboards...
Bad strategy. MS is not trying to simply fill the void between ps2 and ps3, they want to keep selling after the ps3 is released.
But if the rush to market, they will get pinned. Sony will easily exceed the technology in the xbox2 because its already out...
MS needs to release the xb2 at a time before Sony releases their ps3, but after its too late for Sony to make any changes.
Its not a bad thing only because it has the courtesy to show itself in the start menu. If it hid in the registry like so many others it would be horrible since most people couldnt find it.
In any event, this is totally horrible to start a program when i have no intention of using it. It should start and take up resources only when requested, otherwise it should disappear. The more garbage running the more likely you are to have problems.
After reading the whole thing, as a minimum there is no way it was given as a speech. It has too many typeisms like enclosing words with '*' and un-pronounceable words like 'hack0rzed', and 'b0rked.'
It reads completely like an email or something typed. Perhaps this is an email he wrote before and spoke on the same topic? But it certainly can not be what was said at any conference to Microsoft.
You are totally correct. When they start claiming to conform to government regulations, that is when you know they found a loophole.
I rememer a company i worked for did away with the recycling buckets and told us to throw our used paper in the trash. That this new recycling company can recycle the paper right from the trash can...Right.
you claim the bottleneck is the nic at 1GB/s then go one to claim HD transfer rates of 10-15MB/s. I'm gonna assume tere is a type in there somewhere...
I use RAID 1 with 2 40MB drives. Its Linux Software raid, and works fine without 1 drive. Though I have not the faintest how to rebuild a failed node...
One does not care about speed from a 1-5 person file server at home. Hes not playing games and its extremely unlikely there will be any contention. Even if your playing mp3s from it as i do.
You know, I got thorougly annoyes with EA when I bought Battlefield 1942 and had to listen to their stupid logo jingle every time I start the game. Until I scoured the net for the startup switch.
But by that point I was annoyed to high hell. In today's age, who thinks its a good thing to annoy the hell out of your customers?
It does not matter. As I have said each time this stupid question comes up the whole thing is moot.
Java VMs are written in C++ among other languages. This issue is just plain silly.
And what about all this time spent planning for failures? I think its more efficient if us non-network jobbed folks worry about our jobs, and let the network guys worry abou the network.
If they would do their jobs, there would not be an issue.
Thats why I have a handspring treo. Its a Palm + phone. I'd rather have a PDA + phone, than a Phone + PDA.
Of course the treo 180 that I have has terrible software bugs. bugs tied to the apearantly shoddy integration of cellphone and pda technology. Im hoping the newer models don't suffer this...
true. i just swapped the cpu in my server for a slower one. It generates less heat so im hoping i dont need to keep cooling the hard drives. And eventually I can get that fan out of my computer room window...
on another note, 15 years! Its really making me feel old.
It does not follow that as the nation becomes more prosperous (due to your free trade support) all of its citizens will too. In todays world, this is even moreso.
I have no interest in making the US corporations more profitable if it does not benefit the US workers.
Capitalism (of the laisse fair type) succeeds because it's based on a solid reality - human greed, and the necessity of restraining it.
Interesting how this statement invariably is used to support the greed of corporations as positive, but condemn the greed of invididuals wanting something (in this case jobs) for themselves as negative.
Those wages will eventually climb.
I know a company that builds products in Mexico. But those Mexican's are quite expensive these days. Well at least when compared to the Chinese. Mexican factories are starting to feel the pinch of China. Will it stop there?
There are so many reasons why the price you see on the tag is not the cost you pay in the long run.
What do you think is the neteffect on the nation of paying twice for computer goods but having a factory full of tax paying, house buying, food consuming, vacation taking, product buying workers?
You know why? Because companies that do this should be taxed to hell and back for doing it.
Unfortunately, he can't. That would kill those companies.
The root you are looking for is the World Trade Organization(WTO). If Mr. Bush taxed those companies, then he would be obliged to balance that with tarrifs on their competitions imports. But the WTO ensures that he can not place those tarrifs.
The WTO ensures that the richest multinational corporations will have access to the poorest laborers. Or your nation will face economic sanctions.
What Mr. Bush can do is insist that all workers globally are treated humanely, and paid fair market wages. What were getting in this regard though is purely lip service.
Vote Bush/Cheney in '84 and you too can be optimistic and believe in the people of America!
He does not believe in the people of America, he believes in America! His policies still favor the US, and as a nation we will continue to grow richer. But as individuals, that wealth will go into fewer and fewer hands at the top. Its the Republican party's philosophy.
IIRC, Steam is the graphics engine, it has nothing to do with transmission of data across the network which is the part you want to secure.
Perhaps if they had used punk buster it wouldn't be an issue. And I still feel its not an issue but a lame-ass excuse.
BTW, just because someone knows the security protocol, does not mean he should be able to violate it. Unless its a lame-ass protocol.
They should know that the crowd of people capable enough to track down these criminals are capable of comprehending the nature of the lameness of their excuses.
Bluetooth is not making the best headway in USA. Especially vs. 802.11. I got a laptop at work which is HP with bluetooth. There is nothing I ever walk past that has any bluetooth on it.
I am suspecious that both better data rate, and lower power stinks of a marketing specification moreso than an engineering one. Probably too late for bluetooth in USA, relatively speaking.
I could be wrong.
Sounds like a great way to cut out the middle-man. Why would the middle-man support that?
I think his prices are awfully high for wireless. Sure he has the bandwidth, but his costs are too close to cable's cost for me.
The reason is that product timelines have a bit more flexibility since you're not generally working to please a specific customer, and it also means there will be more planning and (hopefully) fewer adhoc features creeping in.
Bwahaha. Just laughable. Try working in the auto industry. Perhaps you mean, products you intend to sell to the public.
I spend more time on my computer than in my car. Why not spend a little extra to get a good one.
Because you don't have to.
A computer is increasingly complex piece of machinery. Personally I think you have to take each piece individually. The only part I spend extra on to "get a good one" is the monitor. And those can last you 10 years.
I bought my own domain to have a website. email was not really my concern. Then after i switched ISPs a couple of times and realized that i still had the same domain email address I started to appreciate the purchase more.
I have had my domain for about 4 years now, and haven't updated the website for probably 2...Yet i use the email address daily.
To be honest, its not all its cracked up to be. You find you need to change email addresses about once per two years anyway as the spammers seek and destroy your accounds.
Furthermore, the GPL may be a serious problem for Sun. Not all Java code is necessarily copyrighted by them.
You are aware that Java is not written in Java? One issue is open sourcing the Runtime Enviornment source code which is java code, the other issue is opening the Virtual Machine which is not. Everyone has been griping about the VM code.
Always trust software from Microsoft Corporation?
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DIVX... (the rental movie player scheme not the codec)
I think they are forgeting that people will pay for freedom. If your 'free' hardware makes me a slave to your foolish whims, i'll gladly buy my way our of it.