IMHO 30 mins is more than significant, it's almost amazing when it also comes with a performance boost of up to 60%. I'm only disappointed anandtech didn't to any float-point heavy benchmarks, as I'm mostly interested in scientific computing and I've heard Yonah has a much better FPU than P-M.
This is the first significant advance in laptop technology in years. Until now I saw little to obsolete my 1.6 GHz Pentium-M, which is 2.5 years old.
Who else would need the ability to drive 4 monitors at over 1600x1200 each?
Here's my guess, the real product is a single one of these cards, with 2 GPUs on it. But since they already had SLI done, they could put a couple of these dual boards together to get four total almost for free (in engineering terms), so they did... mostly as a stunt.
It's like putting a pair of dual-core CPUs in a dual-CPU motherboard. Most people buying dual-core CPUs will only run one.
Besides your optical media. Now where's my see-through DVD-ROM?
I know you're being sarcastic here, but many portable CD players do let you see the disc spin through a window in the lid. Although they usually don't let you see the read head seek.
I notice that Apple makes the enclosure of the iPod opaque.
That's ironic; just a few years ago it was Apple that created a huge fad that spanned the entire industry with transparent and translucent cases. Although that had less of a point because there wasn't any movement to see inside a CRT or a Palm Pilot.
Whether it looks good/interesting is a matter of taste, of course, but the HDD is one of the few computer components with moving parts. Personally, yeah, I think it'd be kind of kool to see the heads seeking.
Then again, decorating your low-end Honda Civic with big mufflers, racing stripes, and spinny hubcaps is silly, too, but that doesn't stop a huge multi-million-dollar industry from springing up around providing those accessories for people who want to do something silly like that.
Except this is no low-end Honda Civic hard drive. 150 GB, 10K RPM, NCQ. Nobody makes fun of Apple for going out of their way to make iPods look good, because they are good. The same may apply here.
Is which idea silly? Transparent or not, the performance and capacity specs for the drive sound very kick-butt.
I'd be much more inclined to point and laugh if they'd just wrapped up a piece of turd to make it look cool.
I have seen no indication of Hwang Woo-suk being persecuted due to the ethical controversy over stem cell research. Woo-suk's problem is he's a liar and a cheat.
Correct. The paper ballot is still modifiable or "lost" if need be (it's just more difficult).
It's easy to alter or discard a paper ballot, but not thousands of them as would likely be required to swing a national election. In an electronic system, a few keystrokes or lines of code could "disappear" almost any number of votes. Tangible objects don't work that way.
I'm still in favor of electronic voting with an instant tentative result. The final result can be announced later, after a vote of the paper ballots. The paper version should be generated automatically and checkable by the voter in the booth.
Couldn't the browser itself be "just another cartridge" that you can plug in to the system? Is there something in the firmware of the DS that only allows connections to nintendo.com or something?
They think it could be used in emergency situations, such as Hurricane Katrina, to transport supplies.
There's something wrong about the idea of a blimp in a hurricane, just can't put my finger on it:)
But seriously, I wonder if they have run the numbers to determine whether this is more efficient than trucking. It doesn't seem impossible when you include the cost of roads, and real estate for roads.
Also, a steady stream of payload-moving craft overhead might even be a workable platform for broadband connectivity. There are already several companies working on using airships as wireless relay platforms, but perhaps the idea would be more economically feasible if the airships are making money in two different ways.
Interesting premise, but then I would argue that the "dangerous ideas" article is actually about "dangerous beliefs." Ideas in themselves are of no consequence (good or bad) if nobody believes them.
I would argue that it wasn't their ideas that were dangerous, rather it was their own fear of dissenting ideas that was.
Then what motivated the millions of followers in the USSR and Germany? I would argue it was not simply naked fear of the dictator, because in that case there would have been no need for any ideology (master race, Communism) at all. Those were ideas that a lot of people embraced, and acted upon.
I think Dan's point was that silencing ideas is always more dangerous than letting them fly. I tend to agree.
Does that mean we should never have fought WWII at all? Ideas that incite people have force. At some point certain ideas must be opposed, with both rhetoric and force.
To say ideas are never a threat means that ideas have no power, or that all ideas are good. I can't believe that.
In short, I'm convinced the registry doesn't require a separate implementation from the filesystem.
Designers (including Mozilla's) are entrenched in the idea that lots of tiny files are bad. Traditional filesystems and even api's to some extent aren't optimized for that. But Microsoft was in a different position, because the designers of the registry were in cahoots with the filesystem people (same company). Instead of inventing the registry, they should have optimized NTFS for config info.
Yeah but he's wrong. Stalin and Hitler, for instance, proved how dangerous ideas can be. Tens of millions died, not from a plague or natural disaster, but from other's beliefs.
In fact, none of the respondents answered "religion," but professions of atheism were, by far, the most common response among those I read in the article. So good for you for picking the "right" answer.
What do you mean "fall over?" Being able to crash a program by feeding it bad data is a pretty good sign that it could be exploited with different bad data.
Kinda like how putting all your filesystem metadata in one database is the software implementation of the saying "putting all eggs in one basket"?
That's the tragedy of the registry idea. Why have this whole extra registry implementation and toolset when it's almost completely redundant with the filesystem and all the familiar tools that operate on the filesystem? Just to optimize for small entries? If your filesystem has that problem, optimize it. Just as Hans Reiser.
How dumb do you think these people are? All such devices have a lens in front of the eye so the focal distance is much further out. How much further out I can't say, but since they mentioned 12 feet it very well may be that.
I think this camera is on slashdot because it's more innovative than those you mention... which is not to say "better."
DSLRs are not necessarily any faster than point-and-shoot cameras. Canon uses the same chip (digic-II) in most of its newer cameras, SLR or not.
The only good reason to get an SLR is if you'll be changing between lenses. Interchangability adds expense which goes to waste if you don't use it. If it's the 35mm sensor you're after, you can go for the Sony DSC-R1 which is the most camera+lens you can get for $1k.
Whoopdie-doo. You could say the same about absolutely anything small enough to hold or mount in a car. "Ban books!!! They could be read while driving!"
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This is the first significant advance in laptop technology in years. Until now I saw little to obsolete my 1.6 GHz Pentium-M, which is 2.5 years old.
It's like putting a pair of dual-core CPUs in a dual-CPU motherboard. Most people buying dual-core CPUs will only run one.
Whether it looks good/interesting is a matter of taste, of course, but the HDD is one of the few computer components with moving parts. Personally, yeah, I think it'd be kind of kool to see the heads seeking.
Is which idea silly? Transparent or not, the performance and capacity specs for the drive sound very kick-butt. I'd be much more inclined to point and laugh if they'd just wrapped up a piece of turd to make it look cool.
I have seen no indication of Hwang Woo-suk being persecuted due to the ethical controversy over stem cell research. Woo-suk's problem is he's a liar and a cheat.
I'm still in favor of electronic voting with an instant tentative result. The final result can be announced later, after a vote of the paper ballots. The paper version should be generated automatically and checkable by the voter in the booth.
Couldn't the browser itself be "just another cartridge" that you can plug in to the system? Is there something in the firmware of the DS that only allows connections to nintendo.com or something?
No, because it's significantly heavier than air. It can't stay aloft without its wings.
But seriously, I wonder if they have run the numbers to determine whether this is more efficient than trucking. It doesn't seem impossible when you include the cost of roads, and real estate for roads.
Also, a steady stream of payload-moving craft overhead might even be a workable platform for broadband connectivity. There are already several companies working on using airships as wireless relay platforms, but perhaps the idea would be more economically feasible if the airships are making money in two different ways.
I think time is on the side of OpenOffice here. 256 is already so cheap, and tomorrow it will be almost free.
To say ideas are never a threat means that ideas have no power, or that all ideas are good. I can't believe that.
In short, I'm convinced the registry doesn't require a separate implementation from the filesystem.
Designers (including Mozilla's) are entrenched in the idea that lots of tiny files are bad. Traditional filesystems and even api's to some extent aren't optimized for that. But Microsoft was in a different position, because the designers of the registry were in cahoots with the filesystem people (same company). Instead of inventing the registry, they should have optimized NTFS for config info.
That's right, and the complete lack of religion is better known as atheism. So he's one of many whose answer was atheism.
Yeah but he's wrong. Stalin and Hitler, for instance, proved how dangerous ideas can be. Tens of millions died, not from a plague or natural disaster, but from other's beliefs.
In fact, none of the respondents answered "religion," but professions of atheism were, by far, the most common response among those I read in the article. So good for you for picking the "right" answer.
Looks more like construction paper to me.
What do you mean "fall over?" Being able to crash a program by feeding it bad data is a pretty good sign that it could be exploited with different bad data.
How dumb do you think these people are? All such devices have a lens in front of the eye so the focal distance is much further out. How much further out I can't say, but since they mentioned 12 feet it very well may be that.
DSLRs are not necessarily any faster than point-and-shoot cameras. Canon uses the same chip (digic-II) in most of its newer cameras, SLR or not.
The only good reason to get an SLR is if you'll be changing between lenses. Interchangability adds expense which goes to waste if you don't use it. If it's the 35mm sensor you're after, you can go for the Sony DSC-R1 which is the most camera+lens you can get for $1k.