I'll try it. When I looked about 18 months ago it seemed you couldn't associate specific USB devices with specific displays, but perhaps using a PS/2 device for one and a USB for the other is a clever trick that will work. (Though I actually don't use a keyboard or mouse for the TV display at all... just a remote control and lirc.)
The sad part is, I'd venture to guess in the next couple years, more games or even applications are going to require dual, triple or even quad video cards to reach a running state.
I'd venture to guess fewer and fewer games will be designed to exceed the capacity of a $300 game console.
Link? I my HTPC has two video cards, one driving the TV, and the other for the kids' computer setup, and I never figured out how to logically separate them into two different X consoles. Instead I'm using one extended display, which isn't what I really want... if the kids move the mouse cursor too far it goes on to the TV.
It's not unexpected for browsers with different rendering engines to render things differently, especially for web interfaces
I question that. I know the original idea was to let the browser determine the appearance, but the idea never really caught on. Content producers want control over appearance, and most users/clients don't particularly want the responsibility. The byzantine web standards for separating content from presentation all the way down to the client aren't worth the bother and compatibility problems. I've seen the pages where you can select among dozens of different styles for a web page using CSS. Most of the styles have presentation quirks, but more importantly the whole exercise is pointless.
Web content and formatting should be separated on the server side in whatever way is useful to content producers (as they already are), then sent to the client in a more postscript-like language that specifies appearance, with some control for font size and text reflowing. The would allow simpler, more compatible browsers and more consistent presentation. I think this evolution is already happening, as HTML and later CSS have evolved towards more precise specification of appearance, and also with the rise of pdf documents linked from the web.
However the only 2 things they [unions] are responsible for are:
(a) Provide for their own survival.
(b) Increase benefits to their members.
Which one of those do you disagree with? Both a) and b) seem to apply even moreso to the corporations (if you interpret "members" as "shareholders"). Companies' heirarchial structure gives them inherent unified/collective bargaining power. I don't think it's necessarily wrong for workers to exercise the same power.
When workers want as much money for as little work as possible, they're spoiled and greedy. When companies want long hours for low pay they're "lean and efficient." How some people can hold both these views simultaneously and fail to see the hypocrisy is beyond me.
Finally on a related note, allowing companies to slash pensions for those who already earned them is legalized theft.
I'm tempted to agree, since I use google anyways. And firefox is a strategically important product for OSS if ever there was one.
On the other hand, in general I hate ads built into software. I hate when an OS comes plastered with unwanted bookmarks and laden with crippled demoware.
Well, I happen to have personal experience in the matter. My homebrew PVR captured at 320x240 for a couple years because I was using an 800 mhz computer to do software encoding. Then I got a faster PC and now capture at 640x480. I have to say it is an improvement, even on a TV from couch-viewing distance. If Apple offered 640x480 downloads, I doubt there would be any debate that it's significantly better.
They're only "loopholes" if everybody agrees they should be closed. Apparently that's not the case. Stallman is more principled whereas Torvalds is more pragmatic, so there are bound to be differences of opinion.
The next question is how to synchronize your google calendar information with the cellphone, pda, or latop.
In a perfect (or even reasonably sane) world, all platforms and programs would freely exchange XML calendar records. But who am I kidding? That would be too easy. In my world, a PocketPC can't even reliably synchronize calendar information with Outlook.
My main problem with Vonage is it's simply not very reliable. People seem to assume the internet connection itself is the weak link, but my experience has been just the opposite. Every time the phone goes out, I check my Internet connection and it's just fine. Sometimes unplugging the SIP box for a moment causes Vonage to start working again. That's just ridiculous. I will give Vonage one thing, at least they provide voicemail that still works when the service to my home is down.
I feel there's a void of uselessness in sizes between the PDA and the laptop.
If I can't put it in my pants pocket, then I have to carry/backpack it, so it might as well be a laptop with a real keyboard.
There's no such thing as "artificially high." If the market accepts a given price, that's what a product will be at.
No, "the market" is a set of man-made (artificial) rules and not a law of nature. The price of content depends on an elaborate system of laws, courts, and police to make sure nature doesn't take its course. The natural price is the cost of copying information, which is near 0.
None of this is to say that copyright is bad, necessarily. Just don't act like questioning the market is blasphemy, when it's really no different than questioning a tax rate.
If the federal gov't simply digitally signs a public key and biometric id/photograph of the person to be stored on the card, and doesn't store it in a database, then we get the benefit of a more secure id without the dangers privacy advocates warn us about.
That would not happen. As soon as a national ID card, the govt. will immediately move to the next step of storing the information. They'll say, "look, it would be so easy to cut crime by storing this information, the fact that we're not doing it defies common sense."
Or they would simply start storing the information without telling us. That's exactly what happened with gun permits. They passed a law allowing retention of the information for 90 days. Pretty soon, they started keeping it forever, figuring, "hey, why destroy this information? It could come in handy."
Unfortunately, that cost would just get passed on to the consumer.
No it wouldn't. Just because some bank gets fined doesn't mean they can start charging more to make up for it. Their prices were already chosen to maximize profit before the fine; the fact that they got fined doesn't change the competitive landscape for the company at all. The result is that sloppy companies are at a competitive disadvantage to more careful ones, which is exactly the desired result.
I've repeatedly had trouble making credit cards payments to allofmp3.com, presumably since they're in Russia. Sometimes verification will fail, then a few minutes later I'll get a phone call from the credit card company asking if it was really me. Other times verification will simply fail and I have to call the CC company to get it going. It's a hassle, especially since I'm already using a one-time CC number which is only good for the exact amount I'm trying to spend.
Simple, because "selfish" means taking and not giving. As a child you "take" (everything from attention to shelter to food); as a parent you "give" and pass the investment your parents made in you along to the next generation. That chain in unbroken back to your first ancestor; otherwise you wouldn't exist. By breaking that chain, you keep your parents' investment in you for yourself instead of passing it on. Put another way, it's easier to afford a big screen TV if you don't have mouths to feed.
I also don't feel like it must be an evolutionary goal of mine to produce more fair-skinned, red-headed people in this world, just because I am one. It's not like there's a minimum stock level on pasty-faced white boys and we are going to run out.
I think it's entirely possible there won't be any red-heads within a few hundred years. But I guess that's neither here nor there.
There are plenty of children in the world who don't get the love and attention they deserve right now.
OK, I suppose that's a fair argument in favor of adoption.
if you want to hurry up and put more mouths to feed on the planet, I'm not going to try to convince you otherwise.
Having children doesn't necessarily put more mouths to feed on the planet. The baseline is two children. If you father two children, the next generation has neither more nor fewer people on your account.
Also, the forthcoming AMD processors are a new core architecture and will support faster RAM with an onboard memory controller.
The review did address that, as best they could:
While we're still comparing to Socket-939 and only using RD480, it does seem very unlikely that AMD would be able to make up this much of a deficit with Socket-AM2 and RD580. Especially looking at titles like F.E.A.R. where Conroe's performance advantage averages over 40%, it looks like Intel's confidence has been well placed.
As for your assertion that MHz don't mean anything, that's just wrong. Within a single architecture, speed is nearly proportional to MHz. For a 2.66 GHz Intel to crush a 2.8 GHz AMD so convincingly, does not mean good things for AMD if the Intel can easily reach 3 GHz. It means AMD would have to be at about 3.8 GHz to keep pace: 2.8*(3/2.66)*1.2 = 3.7895 assuming these benchmarks show a 20% lead for Intel.
The real hope for AMD here is that these results won't hold to other benchmarks in general. Apparently this set of benchmarks was handpicked by Intel, so that's almost certainly the case to some degree.
Those with deep intellect could be forced to create a "Zardoz" society to protect themselves.
I fail to see the problem. People/nationalities who are too shortsided and selfish to continue their line will go extinct. Why shouldn't they? It's their own choice. From an evolutionary standpoint, the decision not to have children is the same as the decision not to breathe. Does that sound "intelligent" to you?
Let's see how "insightful" you'll be 20 years from now, with a democratic Iraq flourishing for all its people and not just the few tyrants that its past was full of.
I sure hope you're right. But the mastermind of this operation assumed the vision would be achieved within a few months of the invasion, and now it appears, in your words, to be 20 years away.
Meanwhile, Vietnam, which we lost about 30 years ago, is doing fairly well and has become a trading partner.
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I've found instructions on doing this for some distros (including Knoppix I think), but the step-by-step was too long and involved.
Now all I need is a multicore CPU. My kids just *hate* it when I fire up a movie and their videogame comes to a crawl :)
My suggestion would be "Battlecruiser 3000ad Forever"
I'll try it. When I looked about 18 months ago it seemed you couldn't associate specific USB devices with specific displays, but perhaps using a PS/2 device for one and a USB for the other is a clever trick that will work. (Though I actually don't use a keyboard or mouse for the TV display at all... just a remote control and lirc.)
The main problem you'd face is how to pipe your video signals throughout the house. Even at a lowly 1024x768@60Hz, DVI is limited to 9 meters.
Link? I my HTPC has two video cards, one driving the TV, and the other for the kids' computer setup, and I never figured out how to logically separate them into two different X consoles. Instead I'm using one extended display, which isn't what I really want... if the kids move the mouse cursor too far it goes on to the TV.
Web content and formatting should be separated on the server side in whatever way is useful to content producers (as they already are), then sent to the client in a more postscript-like language that specifies appearance, with some control for font size and text reflowing. The would allow simpler, more compatible browsers and more consistent presentation. I think this evolution is already happening, as HTML and later CSS have evolved towards more precise specification of appearance, and also with the rise of pdf documents linked from the web.
When workers want as much money for as little work as possible, they're spoiled and greedy. When companies want long hours for low pay they're "lean and efficient." How some people can hold both these views simultaneously and fail to see the hypocrisy is beyond me.
Finally on a related note, allowing companies to slash pensions for those who already earned them is legalized theft.
On the other hand, in general I hate ads built into software. I hate when an OS comes plastered with unwanted bookmarks and laden with crippled demoware.
Well, I happen to have personal experience in the matter. My homebrew PVR captured at 320x240 for a couple years because I was using an 800 mhz computer to do software encoding. Then I got a faster PC and now capture at 640x480. I have to say it is an improvement, even on a TV from couch-viewing distance. If Apple offered 640x480 downloads, I doubt there would be any debate that it's significantly better.
The Mac Mini now includes a remote control, is that a good enough hint?
It has to be at least 640x480 resolution for one thing.
They're only "loopholes" if everybody agrees they should be closed. Apparently that's not the case. Stallman is more principled whereas Torvalds is more pragmatic, so there are bound to be differences of opinion.
In a perfect (or even reasonably sane) world, all platforms and programs would freely exchange XML calendar records. But who am I kidding? That would be too easy. In my world, a PocketPC can't even reliably synchronize calendar information with Outlook.
My main problem with Vonage is it's simply not very reliable. People seem to assume the internet connection itself is the weak link, but my experience has been just the opposite. Every time the phone goes out, I check my Internet connection and it's just fine. Sometimes unplugging the SIP box for a moment causes Vonage to start working again. That's just ridiculous. I will give Vonage one thing, at least they provide voicemail that still works when the service to my home is down.
I feel there's a void of uselessness in sizes between the PDA and the laptop. If I can't put it in my pants pocket, then I have to carry/backpack it, so it might as well be a laptop with a real keyboard.
None of this is to say that copyright is bad, necessarily. Just don't act like questioning the market is blasphemy, when it's really no different than questioning a tax rate.
Or they would simply start storing the information without telling us. That's exactly what happened with gun permits. They passed a law allowing retention of the information for 90 days. Pretty soon, they started keeping it forever, figuring, "hey, why destroy this information? It could come in handy."
I've repeatedly had trouble making credit cards payments to allofmp3.com, presumably since they're in Russia. Sometimes verification will fail, then a few minutes later I'll get a phone call from the credit card company asking if it was really me. Other times verification will simply fail and I have to call the CC company to get it going. It's a hassle, especially since I'm already using a one-time CC number which is only good for the exact amount I'm trying to spend.
The real hope for AMD here is that these results won't hold to other benchmarks in general. Apparently this set of benchmarks was handpicked by Intel, so that's almost certainly the case to some degree.
Meanwhile, Vietnam, which we lost about 30 years ago, is doing fairly well and has become a trading partner.