People seem to forget that not everyone has infinite bandwidth; I pay for my bandwidth, so leaving a P2P client open to run up a few hundred dollars on my bill is not an option.
I'm not sure I understand you. He's talking about excess bandwidth charges. How does the connection speed matter?
I pay about a dollar twenty US per GB on a 3.5mbit pipe. I pity the pour soul who pays 100$ for the same amount.
You just ignored his entire analogy. In the society he described, you ARE allowed to go into an unlocked house to have a beer -- it's the accepted norm.
I do know what a true virtual machine, and when I label the MS dos emulator as a virtual machine, it's only because that's what I've read. Either way, it emulates DOS like other dos emulators do.
By true CLI, I mean that, the CLI is loaded first, and then GUI applications (Win9x, X11, etc.) are loaded on top of that.
Actually, as the other poster said, partitioning/formatting is all done via the GUI in windows now, and you don't need fdisk for installation, as the Windows installer can partition and format disks itself.
I don't think it should be disabled entirely, just hidden so that you don't ever NEED to use it, but could if you wanted to.
Don't forget, however, that cmd.exe is a virtual machine, like dosemu or dosbox. It's just a program like any other, not a true CLI.
People don't use Linux because of the CLI. Both BASH and the GNU tools are available on Windows.
People use Linux because it's a better OS. It's faster, more stable, etc etc.
Personally, I use Linux on my server, but WinXP on my desktop. I feel that the Linux desktop has still not evolved to an entirely usable state (Though I have yet to try KDE 3.1). Mainly due to the lack programs, the difficulty of application installation, and the ever-present CLI that should be entirely hidden for a true desktop OS.
You can reduce memory usage by ensuring that you run all 15 IE windows under the same instance of IE. Otherwise, 15 instances of IE uses way too much memory.
At 14GB, it's almost assuredly SCSI. But, in the past 3 years drive noise has been reduced significantly. Current 7200RPM drives are much quieter than the first ones, due to advances in motor technology. Going from a Maxtor 80GB D740X to a new Maxtor 80GB DiamondMax 9 Plus with FDB, it's certainly much quieter (And 5MB/s faster on average to boot)
Yup, true indeed. I have 768MB of memory in my WinXP box, and have had the page file turned off ever since without any problems. The only time it even is a problem is when a program develops a horrendous memory leak and fills up all free memory.
Because you get a larger share of the bandwidth pie. This applies both on the server end, and your ISP end. If you have bandwidth to spare, you can get 6 (or 8, or 10, depends on the client) users worth of bandwidth because each connection is treated by the server as seperate. On the other hand if you have a slow ISP, you can get a larger share of your ISP's bandwidth.
I have 3.5mbit DSL, but my ISP's performance is flaky. However, I have no problem pulling 300-350KB/s with a download accelerator.
Assuming this article is referring to Unwinder's Soft9700 or a similar method of patching drivers to unlock the extra pipelines (Why do the hardware hack when the software one is just as effective and safer to boot), then number 2 is not required. None of the software hacks require the bios to be flashed, in fact this may cause problems.
See http://www.guru3d.com/rivatuner/ for more information on the software method.
Seriously. Do some searching for video capture applications for Linux, and then look at Linux MPEG-4 encoders like Xvid. Then Google can probably also point you towards several how-to guides. Why are you asking Slashdot? Ask Google.
If the lawsuit succeeds and KaZaA is ordered to be shut down, or fined, how will anyone enforce it? I could see KaZaA saying "We are not obligated by our local laws to recognize your court's ruling" or whatever.
MaximumPC states that they think the Radeon 9700 will likely close the gap when anti-aliasing is cranked up. However, the Intellisample compression will supposedly vastly increase the speed of anti-aliasing on the GeForce FX (see Anandtech article). I would think that this would push the GeForce FX even further ahead of the Radeon.
The biggest thing to remember, and this has been said again and again, is that this is beta silicon and beta drivers we're seeing. Not only does the performance from early beta drivers of a card to final increase substantially as we've seen with releases in the past, nVidia has proven time and time again that they can get a hell of a lot more performance out of their cards with new drivers (See Detonator XP release and Detonator 40.xx release, both of which gave something like 25%+ performance increases to the top-level cards at the time)
That's true, Quartz Extreme is pretty neat. I'm not a big fan of Apple and their products, but I will say one thing, they are the kings of interfaces. Aqua is incredible, and adding OpenGL acceleration to the GUI is something Microsoft won't even have in action until Longhorn. I just wish that Aqua would be ported to x86 Linux... That's something I'd run...
That's what I said. Similarly configured, the powerbook would be cheaper.
Perhaps you wouldn't consider a desktop box with the Radeon 9000 a gaming machine, but since it is (currently) the fastest available graphics chipset for laptops, I'd consider any laptop equipped with one to be built with gaming in mind.
Any machine built with the GeForce4 4200 Go would have to be considered a gaming machine:)
If the article is to be believed, the PowerBook is a desktop replacement. That and the fact that the PowerBook also has a desktop CPU (low powered or not) seems to make the choice of CPU in the Area-51m irrelevant. Besides, the Area-51m is a gaming laptop, the desktop CPU is almost a requirement.
I'd think if you configured these two machines similarly, the PowerBook would actually be cheaper than the Area-51m.
The size, weight, and battery life of Apple's laptops continue to impress me. I've seen a few laptops that come close, but usually at a huge price premium and reduced features.
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People seem to forget that not everyone has infinite bandwidth; I pay for my bandwidth, so leaving a P2P client open to run up a few hundred dollars on my bill is not an option.
I'm not sure I understand you. He's talking about excess bandwidth charges. How does the connection speed matter? I pay about a dollar twenty US per GB on a 3.5mbit pipe. I pity the pour soul who pays 100$ for the same amount.
A Canadian. Who locks his doors :p
I find it hard to believe that your work connection costs about 50$ US per gigabyte. I don't think such high costs even exist.
You just ignored his entire analogy. In the society he described, you ARE allowed to go into an unlocked house to have a beer -- it's the accepted norm.
I do know what a true virtual machine, and when I label the MS dos emulator as a virtual machine, it's only because that's what I've read. Either way, it emulates DOS like other dos emulators do.
By true CLI, I mean that, the CLI is loaded first, and then GUI applications (Win9x, X11, etc.) are loaded on top of that.
Actually, as the other poster said, partitioning/formatting is all done via the GUI in windows now, and you don't need fdisk for installation, as the Windows installer can partition and format disks itself.
I don't think it should be disabled entirely, just hidden so that you don't ever NEED to use it, but could if you wanted to.
Don't forget, however, that cmd.exe is a virtual machine, like dosemu or dosbox. It's just a program like any other, not a true CLI.
People don't use Linux because of the CLI. Both BASH and the GNU tools are available on Windows.
People use Linux because it's a better OS. It's faster, more stable, etc etc.
Personally, I use Linux on my server, but WinXP on my desktop. I feel that the Linux desktop has still not evolved to an entirely usable state (Though I have yet to try KDE 3.1). Mainly due to the lack programs, the difficulty of application installation, and the ever-present CLI that should be entirely hidden for a true desktop OS.
You can reduce memory usage by ensuring that you run all 15 IE windows under the same instance of IE. Otherwise, 15 instances of IE uses way too much memory.
At 14GB, it's almost assuredly SCSI. But, in the past 3 years drive noise has been reduced significantly. Current 7200RPM drives are much quieter than the first ones, due to advances in motor technology. Going from a Maxtor 80GB D740X to a new Maxtor 80GB DiamondMax 9 Plus with FDB, it's certainly much quieter (And 5MB/s faster on average to boot)
Yup, true indeed. I have 768MB of memory in my WinXP box, and have had the page file turned off ever since without any problems. The only time it even is a problem is when a program develops a horrendous memory leak and fills up all free memory.
Why use 17 120GB drives, wouldn't it be cheaper to just get 6 320GB drives?
Because you get a larger share of the bandwidth pie. This applies both on the server end, and your ISP end. If you have bandwidth to spare, you can get 6 (or 8, or 10, depends on the client) users worth of bandwidth because each connection is treated by the server as seperate. On the other hand if you have a slow ISP, you can get a larger share of your ISP's bandwidth.
I have 3.5mbit DSL, but my ISP's performance is flaky. However, I have no problem pulling 300-350KB/s with a download accelerator.
I'm very sure. Mine does something like that, it's one of those Maxtors with 80GB platters.
Read the article, he's 2 miles away. Ethernet doesn't do 2 miles.
Also, you're wrong about 100 feet being the max length of ethernet. It does 100 meters using UTP (Unshielded Twisted Pair), which is 300 feet.
Your information is incorrect. Modern 7200RPM IDE drives can do 25MB/s+. So say HDTach benchmarks.
Assuming this article is referring to Unwinder's Soft9700 or a similar method of patching drivers to unlock the extra pipelines (Why do the hardware hack when the software one is just as effective and safer to boot), then number 2 is not required. None of the software hacks require the bios to be flashed, in fact this may cause problems.
See http://www.guru3d.com/rivatuner/ for more information on the software method.
Seriously. Do some searching for video capture applications for Linux, and then look at Linux MPEG-4 encoders like Xvid. Then Google can probably also point you towards several how-to guides. Why are you asking Slashdot? Ask Google.
If the lawsuit succeeds and KaZaA is ordered to be shut down, or fined, how will anyone enforce it? I could see KaZaA saying "We are not obligated by our local laws to recognize your court's ruling" or whatever.
WMV 1 2 and 3? What about WMV 8 and 9? You're a bit behind the times.
WMP 6.4 doesn't play the newer WM formats.
MaximumPC states that they think the Radeon 9700 will likely close the gap when anti-aliasing is cranked up. However, the Intellisample compression will supposedly vastly increase the speed of anti-aliasing on the GeForce FX (see Anandtech article). I would think that this would push the GeForce FX even further ahead of the Radeon.
The biggest thing to remember, and this has been said again and again, is that this is beta silicon and beta drivers we're seeing. Not only does the performance from early beta drivers of a card to final increase substantially as we've seen with releases in the past, nVidia has proven time and time again that they can get a hell of a lot more performance out of their cards with new drivers (See Detonator XP release and Detonator 40.xx release, both of which gave something like 25%+ performance increases to the top-level cards at the time)
That's true, Quartz Extreme is pretty neat. I'm not a big fan of Apple and their products, but I will say one thing, they are the kings of interfaces. Aqua is incredible, and adding OpenGL acceleration to the GUI is something Microsoft won't even have in action until Longhorn. I just wish that Aqua would be ported to x86 Linux... That's something I'd run...
That's what I said. Similarly configured, the powerbook would be cheaper.
:)
Perhaps you wouldn't consider a desktop box with the Radeon 9000 a gaming machine, but since it is (currently) the fastest available graphics chipset for laptops, I'd consider any laptop equipped with one to be built with gaming in mind.
Any machine built with the GeForce4 4200 Go would have to be considered a gaming machine
If the article is to be believed, the PowerBook is a desktop replacement. That and the fact that the PowerBook also has a desktop CPU (low powered or not) seems to make the choice of CPU in the Area-51m irrelevant. Besides, the Area-51m is a gaming laptop, the desktop CPU is almost a requirement.
I'd think if you configured these two machines similarly, the PowerBook would actually be cheaper than the Area-51m.
The size, weight, and battery life of Apple's laptops continue to impress me. I've seen a few laptops that come close, but usually at a huge price premium and reduced features.