"A measurement or standard that serves as a point of reference by which process performance is measured."
Where does it say that a benchmark applies only to processing speed? There are quantitative things to benchmark with a case (heat dissipation, airflow, etc.) just like there are quantitative things to benchmark with a processor. Plus, there are many qualitative features like ease of assembly and layout that can be benchmarked, though not objectively.
You could do that with no legal concerns over serving the information.
However, anyone who downloaded the content from outside of your little island could be breaking the laws of their country.
Plus, you'd probably find yourself on block lists pretty quickly.
Actually there was a ruling in Canada a while back about file sharing... Basically said that you can serve whatever you want; the people downloading are responsible for ensuring that they don't breach any copyright laws. And since we can download music freely thanks to the media levy, this basically meant free music sharing for all... the recording industry was none too happy about this, since they really want to go after the uploaders, being easier to track and relatively fewer of them.
I haven't bought a game in quite a few years, for the simple reason that I already have enough games that I find enjoyable. I know that if I'm bored, I can find some game in my library that will keep me interested.
Sure, that means sacrificing the best graphics and such, but gameplay really hasn't improved much overall. Plus, with a modern machine, many older games look a lot better anyway.
Almost anyone with connection to the internet needs a browser.
Not everyone needs a virus scanner, if they are half smart with keeping their box secure.
There is a difference.
Personally, I think it would be cool if they made some kind of free web-based virus scanning tool... That way they don't have to build it into the OS, but can easily guide the user to it if needed, like from under the new security panel in XP SP2.
Yeah, that makes sense:) Thanks for the clarification.
Much depends on where the coal comes from
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All coal was not created equal, and the location where the coal comes from makes a big difference when it comes to emissions. Coal mined in the eastern US tends to be much worse than that mined in the western US, for example. In Ontario, they switched to using coal from the western US some years ago to help lower the emissions.
I have nothing against continuing to develop cleaner coal power in principle, but there needs to be a balance. In Ontario, nuclear and hydroelectric provides the baseline power and coal, oil, and gas plants provide extra power at peak times. However, in some states coal burning makes over 95% of their power. The result is that 50% of the pollution over Ontario comes directly from the US, which of course makes the public here think it's all coming from our coal plants.
Perhaps the software was never designed to be used for that task, so it was still poor management? That's what I would guess...
If I make some application that's never intended to be used in a mission-critical, always-on setting, is it my fault if some administrator decides to use it for that purpose, with disastrous results?
Firefox only reduces those things if you have them in the first place. IE users with half a brain know how to keep things updated and configure the security properly.
I gave Firefox a shot once, but frankly I can't be bothered to have something else to install with Windows... I'd rather just run windows update and use IE. I don't need anything more with a browser, so it suits me fine.
The sorry fact is that the vast majority of IE users are dumbasses, but that doesn't mean we all are.
Just curious, but what is the reason for having the powerful gfx card paired with a slower CPU, and vice versa? Can't you just swap them?
Anyway, in my experience you can almost always go significantly below the CPU requirements with a decent graphics card, so it's nice that that holds with newer games too.
I'd say probably about 30% rips from my CDs, and the rest from P2P. But I live in Canada, so I paid a $20 or $25 levy (can't remember) to the recording industry when I bought the iPod in exchange for my right to download music.
Speaking of which, does anyone know what happens if I move out of Canada? (specifically, to the EU) I guess I'll have to live by their rules, though theoretically I paid the levy and P2P knows no political boundaries...
The article mentions nothing about servers... Does this mean that Windows 2000 Server users will have to upgrade to Windows Server 2003? That'd be especially low, considering how many businesses won't have had time to upgrade that far yet. Heck, most of the places I've worked in still have NT servers running...
Great for TV listings
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It's great for TV listings too... Long before anyone had satellite or digital cable, one could quickly load up a list of programming for the week, with info pages for all the major shows.
I'm wondering if speed may be an issue in this case...
In the flash memory market, capacity has more of an impact than speed, since the speeds are effectively fixed by the technology you're using the flash memory with. In the DRAM market, however, speed is much more of an issue. I might not need more capacity a year from now, but maybe I'd like to increase the speed of my memory instead.
I tried finding some data to support this, but to no avail. I do remember buying DDR333 RAM a couple of years ago and having it drop to about half the price half a year later.
I saw that; it's not saying that the company is a scam. Just that it has 1) few or no resources and 2) very little chance of survival. Besides which, the discussions are still relevant in case any company did want to perform this kind of service.
So Lucas has said that the changes he makes bring the trilogy in line with his original vision. Now he's making changes to make them consistent with the prequel movies. Aren't these mutually exclusive reasons?
It's as if he thinks the audience is too stupid to realize that Anakin in eps 1&2 is that old guy in ep 6. Better change the ghost! I can deal with Boba Fett's voice, that's a relatively minor change since he barely speaks, but making changes to the appearance of characters is insulting both to the audience and the original actors.
The $20/month figure sounded a little high until I read that it is $19.95/year, not per month.
That being said, I don't know if I see the benefit of paying someone else to read my email. They even offer more expensive packages to have them categorize and summarize your mail for you, as well as discard non-spam mails that you don't want anyway. I suppose it could be useful for really busy executive types, but then can't they afford secretaries anyway?
I remember from nuclear science class that they usually made bombs out of materials with intermediate half lives... like 50-100 years, because materials with longer half-lives were too weak, and shorter meant they wouldn't be bombs for long. Now, if this has been buried for almost 50 years, is it still a bomb? If some baddie went and got it, could they actually make a nuclear blast, or would it just be a dirty bomb?
How are they making the open standard somehow Windows-only? Doesn't the fact that it is an open standard mean that someone can just put the support for the new standard into Linux and be done with it? Or does the new standard actually rely on some propriatary software from MS?
Note that an increase in efficiency doesn't automatically imply an increase in accuracy... Just because this might do speech recognition 100 to 1000 times faster than software doesn't mean it will be more accurate.
Of course, the increased efficiency should allow for development of more complex algorithms that do increase accuracy, but that could take more time/money.
I doubt this particular hack will have too big an impact... Most features does not mean all features, and there are hardware differences.
It doesn't necessarily mean that any significant number of people are going to do it, either. Look at CPU overclocking for example... Both Intel and AMD allow it, so it obviously isn't hurting the sales of their high-end parts too much. Even considering retail seperate from OEM. If they felt like they could make significantly more money by locking the multipliers and FSB, they certainly would have done so many generations ago.
The other thing to consider with Canon is the costs involved... To modify the cheaper model enough to make this impossible would probably cost them more than they will lose with this hack out in the open.
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"A measurement or standard that serves as a point of reference by which process performance is measured."
Where does it say that a benchmark applies only to processing speed? There are quantitative things to benchmark with a case (heat dissipation, airflow, etc.) just like there are quantitative things to benchmark with a processor. Plus, there are many qualitative features like ease of assembly and layout that can be benchmarked, though not objectively.
You could do that with no legal concerns over serving the information.
However, anyone who downloaded the content from outside of your little island could be breaking the laws of their country.
Plus, you'd probably find yourself on block lists pretty quickly.
Actually there was a ruling in Canada a while back about file sharing... Basically said that you can serve whatever you want; the people downloading are responsible for ensuring that they don't breach any copyright laws. And since we can download music freely thanks to the media levy, this basically meant free music sharing for all... the recording industry was none too happy about this, since they really want to go after the uploaders, being easier to track and relatively fewer of them.
I haven't bought a game in quite a few years, for the simple reason that I already have enough games that I find enjoyable. I know that if I'm bored, I can find some game in my library that will keep me interested.
Sure, that means sacrificing the best graphics and such, but gameplay really hasn't improved much overall. Plus, with a modern machine, many older games look a lot better anyway.
Almost anyone with connection to the internet needs a browser.
Not everyone needs a virus scanner, if they are half smart with keeping their box secure.
There is a difference.
Personally, I think it would be cool if they made some kind of free web-based virus scanning tool... That way they don't have to build it into the OS, but can easily guide the user to it if needed, like from under the new security panel in XP SP2.
Yeah, that makes sense :) Thanks for the clarification.
All coal was not created equal, and the location where the coal comes from makes a big difference when it comes to emissions. Coal mined in the eastern US tends to be much worse than that mined in the western US, for example. In Ontario, they switched to using coal from the western US some years ago to help lower the emissions.
I have nothing against continuing to develop cleaner coal power in principle, but there needs to be a balance. In Ontario, nuclear and hydroelectric provides the baseline power and coal, oil, and gas plants provide extra power at peak times. However, in some states coal burning makes over 95% of their power. The result is that 50% of the pollution over Ontario comes directly from the US, which of course makes the public here think it's all coming from our coal plants.
Perhaps the software was never designed to be used for that task, so it was still poor management? That's what I would guess...
If I make some application that's never intended to be used in a mission-critical, always-on setting, is it my fault if some administrator decides to use it for that purpose, with disastrous results?
Firefox only reduces those things if you have them in the first place. IE users with half a brain know how to keep things updated and configure the security properly.
I gave Firefox a shot once, but frankly I can't be bothered to have something else to install with Windows... I'd rather just run windows update and use IE. I don't need anything more with a browser, so it suits me fine.
The sorry fact is that the vast majority of IE users are dumbasses, but that doesn't mean we all are.
Just curious, but what is the reason for having the powerful gfx card paired with a slower CPU, and vice versa? Can't you just swap them?
Anyway, in my experience you can almost always go significantly below the CPU requirements with a decent graphics card, so it's nice that that holds with newer games too.
I'd say probably about 30% rips from my CDs, and the rest from P2P. But I live in Canada, so I paid a $20 or $25 levy (can't remember) to the recording industry when I bought the iPod in exchange for my right to download music.
Speaking of which, does anyone know what happens if I move out of Canada? (specifically, to the EU) I guess I'll have to live by their rules, though theoretically I paid the levy and P2P knows no political boundaries...
The sad thing is, that at those ratios, Intel probably stands to make about the same amount of revenue as AMD, thanks to the price of the Itanium.
The article mentions nothing about servers... Does this mean that Windows 2000 Server users will have to upgrade to Windows Server 2003? That'd be especially low, considering how many businesses won't have had time to upgrade that far yet. Heck, most of the places I've worked in still have NT servers running...
It's great for TV listings too... Long before anyone had satellite or digital cable, one could quickly load up a list of programming for the week, with info pages for all the major shows.
I'm wondering if speed may be an issue in this case...
In the flash memory market, capacity has more of an impact than speed, since the speeds are effectively fixed by the technology you're using the flash memory with. In the DRAM market, however, speed is much more of an issue. I might not need more capacity a year from now, but maybe I'd like to increase the speed of my memory instead.
I tried finding some data to support this, but to no avail. I do remember buying DDR333 RAM a couple of years ago and having it drop to about half the price half a year later.
I saw that; it's not saying that the company is a scam. Just that it has 1) few or no resources and 2) very little chance of survival. Besides which, the discussions are still relevant in case any company did want to perform this kind of service.
Again, please point one such comment out that was submitted before mine.
Please point out which comment you are referring to. I'm thinking the more important question would be: you don't sort much here, do you?
So Lucas has said that the changes he makes bring the trilogy in line with his original vision. Now he's making changes to make them consistent with the prequel movies. Aren't these mutually exclusive reasons?
It's as if he thinks the audience is too stupid to realize that Anakin in eps 1&2 is that old guy in ep 6. Better change the ghost! I can deal with Boba Fett's voice, that's a relatively minor change since he barely speaks, but making changes to the appearance of characters is insulting both to the audience and the original actors.
The $20/month figure sounded a little high until I read that it is $19.95/year, not per month.
That being said, I don't know if I see the benefit of paying someone else to read my email. They even offer more expensive packages to have them categorize and summarize your mail for you, as well as discard non-spam mails that you don't want anyway. I suppose it could be useful for really busy executive types, but then can't they afford secretaries anyway?
I remember from nuclear science class that they usually made bombs out of materials with intermediate half lives... like 50-100 years, because materials with longer half-lives were too weak, and shorter meant they wouldn't be bombs for long. Now, if this has been buried for almost 50 years, is it still a bomb? If some baddie went and got it, could they actually make a nuclear blast, or would it just be a dirty bomb?
How are they making the open standard somehow Windows-only? Doesn't the fact that it is an open standard mean that someone can just put the support for the new standard into Linux and be done with it? Or does the new standard actually rely on some propriatary software from MS?
Because if they make a dual-core processor, they could then go ahead and modify the motherboard to support two dual-core processors.
Note that an increase in efficiency doesn't automatically imply an increase in accuracy... Just because this might do speech recognition 100 to 1000 times faster than software doesn't mean it will be more accurate.
Of course, the increased efficiency should allow for development of more complex algorithms that do increase accuracy, but that could take more time/money.
It's actually just the Ontario government; provincial governments are responsible for education.
In Ontario, public employees' salaries are public record if they make more than $100,000 (CDN) per year.
I doubt this particular hack will have too big an impact... Most features does not mean all features, and there are hardware differences.
It doesn't necessarily mean that any significant number of people are going to do it, either. Look at CPU overclocking for example... Both Intel and AMD allow it, so it obviously isn't hurting the sales of their high-end parts too much. Even considering retail seperate from OEM. If they felt like they could make significantly more money by locking the multipliers and FSB, they certainly would have done so many generations ago.
The other thing to consider with Canon is the costs involved... To modify the cheaper model enough to make this impossible would probably cost them more than they will lose with this hack out in the open.