So-called "click fraud" seems to be the weak link here.
Not compared to most other forms of advertising. Companies buy ads everywhere from magazines to billboards to skywriting, none of which give direct feedback.
as I understand it, he does personally and actively have to pursue a court order, usually in conjunction with an action for damages.
There's a whole section of the editorial named "Little legal recourse." He feels the law doesn't provide a way to pursue nor even identify his accusers. Wikipedia was responsive to changing the false information though.
I feel torn over this issue, but I will point out one thing: the credit reporting agencies, who make their fortunes selling information on private citizens of no public interest, are held blameless for the consequences of selling false information about you, unless you raise it as an issue and they refuse to correct it.
I'm not entirely satisfied with placing the burden on individuals like this, but if we apply it to everybody the way it applies to credit reporting agencies, I don't see where Wikipedia comitted a crime. The only difference is, until recently, you had to pay the credit reporting agencies to see what they were telling people about you. On Wikipedia you could even change it to a glowing biography about how you saved the world. In the case of a fairly obscure individual, it might even stay up for a couple months before anybody noticed.
Are you saying there's a product on the market that beats the performance per Watt of this chip? True they compared it to a 3800 X2, but it uses less power at peak than the 3800 X2 at idle, so it's not like they're close.
I am a disappointed to see it uses about 4x the power of my current Pentium-M 1600, and 92W at idle. But on the other hand, with two cores, both faster than the one I have now, it would easily exceed 4x the performance. For all the talk about how fast the Pentium-M is, I've always been disappointed in mine, and I realized it's because I use it mainly for scientific computing.
So assuming Yonah supports CPU frequency scaling, I will be very curious to see the performance per watt at lower speeds. The ideal laptop chip for me would give the best performance available at low power, and the competitive top-end performance for when I don't care about battery life. So high peak-wattage isn't necessarily a deal-breaker.
Isn't the real problem that all the other stereo components are big and ugly?
That's a matter of preference, but the stereo component form factor has lasted a long time into an era when smaller components are available. Based on that, I don't think most people find stereo components inherently ugly due to their size. I know I don't.
Besides, if the alternative is a Mac Mini plus an external tuner/compression box plus an external hard drive plus one to three big AC/DC power supplies, it's no contest - the Mini loses for integration and wiring.
Eliminating a couple feet of cable and a small piece of plastic is not a big deal.
Not in your study, but in an entertainment console it's much more important. (Come to think of it, if Apple does this they should definitely include a wireless keyboard and mouse).
More importantly, having an integrated dock would give a much clearer impression that these things are just meant for each other and, by golly, if you don't own both you're missing out on the big party.
I disagree. The Series 1 TiVo was good, but subsequent models are completely closed and locked down. If Apple releases a PVR, I would be amazed if you cannot write your own software to control the hardware, copy the movie files around, play them from a network drive, etc etc. But I guess it's all speculation for now.
True...although considering that the mac mini isn't all that much bigger than a VHS tape
But the Mac Mini as we know it is not a PVR. The obvious problem (mentioned in the article) is the use of laptop hard drives, a very bad choice for a PVR. Then they need somewhere to put a tuner for analog signals, and hardware video compression circuitry. They need a digital audio out, plus composite, s-video, and hopefully component video outputs. In other words, of all the specialized requirements for a PVR, the Mac Mini hardly meets any of them, and doesn't have any room inside for expansion.
Besides, I doubt Apple would try to push portability in a PVR design anyways. They'd probably rather people use the video iPod for that.
Really wouldn't say that iPod integration is "all important". It would certainly be a nice touch with elegant Apple style, but the value add is maybe 10 bucks max.
The iPod is Apple's #1 springboard into content distribution. How much does the value of the high-margin video iPod go up if you can simply drop it on your DVR and automatically get all your selected programming to go, with no further hassle?
Compared to dedicated products like TiVo, an Apple PVR could have a lot to offer if it is not a closed, locked-down system. Provide a high-quality usable product up-front, but in addition turn the user base loose and see what they come up with. Remember, Apple did not invent podcasting.
Would an Apple PVR go anywhere Microsoft's media PC hasn't already gone? Since Apple already has content distribution deals with major players like ABC, I'd say it's a possibility. Hardly anybody even knows that Microsoft has its own music-store competitor to iTunes.
Telling them they have a genetic predisposition will not help them at all.
Are you so sure? I know that I have a genetic predisposition to skin cancer. This helps me by making me careful to cover myself or wear sunscreen and go to the dermatologist to get myself checked.
I know a former alcoholic who "buys the line" (as you would put it) that addiction has a genetic basis. His response? To never, ever have a drink since pulling things together 15 years ago.
Similarly, people have different, genetically-based risks of heart disease. Nobody doubts this. But most people do not take this as an "excuse" to have a heart attack; rather many of them take medicine, exercise, and get checkups - even though they know the outcome is not guaranteed and genes may prevail out in the end.
How soon before we can blame everything we do on genetics?
Well if it turns out to be true, what do you want to do, bury the truth?
I was reminded of another recent study, in which it was show that some people do not benefit from exercise(!?)
Anways, I like how they stated it: "these findings suggest that it is likely to take a significant conscious effort to change one's level of physical activity and override one's intrinsic inclination to be active or inactive." To me that confirms common sense - that people have different tendencies but with enough determination can often override them. Isn't that the case with just about everything?
"Flawed" and "inadequate" are relative terms.
Take the most reliable, feature-laden car from 50 years ago and release it today. You'd be laughed off the street for its unreliability and lack of "basic" features. A Tune-up and new set of tires every 10K miles, and no seatbelts!? You must be joking!
Sometimes a product falls well below the norm and deserves criticism. But when somebody slams an entire industry comprised of thousands of separate companies, it's a pretty good sign they're just a whiner with unrealistic expectations.
And Kudos to storagereview for comparing laptop vs desktop drives in this test. The conclusion is that a good destkop drive pumps out 30-50% more IOs than a good laptop drive (even 7200 rpm ones). But the desktops drives' power consumption is relatively awful:)
It really makes me question the use of a laptop drive (and a slow one at that) in the cheapest Macintosh, but oh well.
The hard disks being compared here have an 80gb or 100gb size; the biggest notebook hard disks I have seen are 120gb hard disks. We broke the 80gig barrier about a year ago
In fact we broke the 80 GB barrier a lot longer than a year ago. My T40 is well over 2 years old and came with an 80 GB drive.
After Seagate announced their next-generation 100 GB 7200 RPM drives (Momentus 7200.1), I waited over a year, checking every few months for availability. They never came and I gave up. Now I see they've finally been released, but sheesh, on the desktop, 100 GB drives are getting pretty rare because they're just too small to bother with.
Forget the content producer standpoint. People (and companies) have their own data to store. If it were up to content producers there wouldn't be any writable CDs or DVDs in the first place. Content producers never were the driving force behind mass storage, we'd be foolish to let them take it over now with all the restrictions they will implement. Besides, as you say, they only need so much storage, beyond that they won't drive the market.
I don't agree there's no mass market for high volume storage solutions. When writable CD and DVD came along they were high volume, and people bought them. Blu-ray and DV-DVD aren't big enough upgrades, the removable discs are still too small relative to modern hard drives.
Hard drives certainly are good for nightly backups, but it's good to archive data too. Soem think joe sixpack doesn't need high-tech, but today's joe sixpack has an 8 megapixel digicam and a digital camcorder. They have a digital music collection from iTunes or elsewhere. Archiving all this stuff is much harder when you can't simply copy it off to a single disc, write the date on it and be done.
Wow, the guy criticising Java performance got modded "troll" even though the benchmarks you linked to support his assertion that the port doesn't run well on the hardware quake2 was designed for. On the K6 2 350, the native version gets 56 fps, while the java port got 21 or 31 fps with the two different java packages. Even on modern hardware the java version is 25% slower in 2 of 3 cases. And yet the java contingent still flames anybody for re-asserting the "old myth" of a java runtime penalty. Wow.
I don't konw about firefox, but it doesn't do anything in Mozilla (just asks what to do with the jnlp file). So I put in "java", which just crashed the browser instantly. So after a little web searching apparently there's a "javaws" program? But blackdown-jdk-1.4.1 doesn't have any such thing. Sigh.
Because gamers are too damned stupid to read and follow directions?
Look, if what they want is for people with carpet to hang the PSU from a piece of string, then I guess they should say so. And they should advertise it that way too - on every commercial, alongside the sleek, hourglass shaped case and pumping music they should depict a twisted knot of wires and a black box dangling from a string.
Slight correction: those short-lived preinstalls aren't just counted as Windows profits, they are Windows profits. In fact it's a very profitable sale of Windows, as there are no support issues whatsoever. Pretty sweet for Microsoft, I'd say.
And which universe are you living in? I think Open Source has a lot of potential, but until its advocates remove their blinkers, industry will continue to dismiss it as a group of eccentrics on a religious crusade.
It's ridiculous to make that statement without even trying to reconcile it with Microsoft's actions at the UN which we're discussing here.
Is your couch flying down the street or something such that a cable would get ripped out of the wall/hub?
No, it's against a wall which is between two doorways and has a cutout across almost the entire width, from stud to stud. There's no way to run a wire through the wall without going laterally through the half-height studs. That's what the power line does, but it was installed before the drywall.
What is it? Is that unparallelizable in theory, or practically speaking unparallelizable?
"This new processor will run your apps faster" is a who lot different than "this processor will run your apps faster if they're completely rewritten it in a much more complicated and error-prone fashion." It used to be, when you upgraded your P3 500MHz to a P3 1GHz, you got a big boost in all your cpu-hungry applications automatically, no ifs ands or buts.
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I feel torn over this issue, but I will point out one thing: the credit reporting agencies, who make their fortunes selling information on private citizens of no public interest, are held blameless for the consequences of selling false information about you, unless you raise it as an issue and they refuse to correct it.
I'm not entirely satisfied with placing the burden on individuals like this, but if we apply it to everybody the way it applies to credit reporting agencies, I don't see where Wikipedia comitted a crime. The only difference is, until recently, you had to pay the credit reporting agencies to see what they were telling people about you. On Wikipedia you could even change it to a glowing biography about how you saved the world. In the case of a fairly obscure individual, it might even stay up for a couple months before anybody noticed.
I am a disappointed to see it uses about 4x the power of my current Pentium-M 1600, and 92W at idle. But on the other hand, with two cores, both faster than the one I have now, it would easily exceed 4x the performance. For all the talk about how fast the Pentium-M is, I've always been disappointed in mine, and I realized it's because I use it mainly for scientific computing.
So assuming Yonah supports CPU frequency scaling, I will be very curious to see the performance per watt at lower speeds. The ideal laptop chip for me would give the best performance available at low power, and the competitive top-end performance for when I don't care about battery life. So high peak-wattage isn't necessarily a deal-breaker.
Besides, if the alternative is a Mac Mini plus an external tuner/compression box plus an external hard drive plus one to three big AC/DC power supplies, it's no contest - the Mini loses for integration and wiring.
More importantly, having an integrated dock would give a much clearer impression that these things are just meant for each other and, by golly, if you don't own both you're missing out on the big party.
I disagree. The Series 1 TiVo was good, but subsequent models are completely closed and locked down. If Apple releases a PVR, I would be amazed if you cannot write your own software to control the hardware, copy the movie files around, play them from a network drive, etc etc. But I guess it's all speculation for now.
Besides, I doubt Apple would try to push portability in a PVR design anyways. They'd probably rather people use the video iPod for that.
Compared to dedicated products like TiVo, an Apple PVR could have a lot to offer if it is not a closed, locked-down system. Provide a high-quality usable product up-front, but in addition turn the user base loose and see what they come up with. Remember, Apple did not invent podcasting.
Would an Apple PVR go anywhere Microsoft's media PC hasn't already gone? Since Apple already has content distribution deals with major players like ABC, I'd say it's a possibility. Hardly anybody even knows that Microsoft has its own music-store competitor to iTunes.
I know a former alcoholic who "buys the line" (as you would put it) that addiction has a genetic basis. His response? To never, ever have a drink since pulling things together 15 years ago.
Similarly, people have different, genetically-based risks of heart disease. Nobody doubts this. But most people do not take this as an "excuse" to have a heart attack; rather many of them take medicine, exercise, and get checkups - even though they know the outcome is not guaranteed and genes may prevail out in the end.
I was reminded of another recent study, in which it was show that some people do not benefit from exercise(!?)
Anways, I like how they stated it: "these findings suggest that it is likely to take a significant conscious effort to change one's level of physical activity and override one's intrinsic inclination to be active or inactive." To me that confirms common sense - that people have different tendencies but with enough determination can often override them. Isn't that the case with just about everything?
Sometimes a product falls well below the norm and deserves criticism. But when somebody slams an entire industry comprised of thousands of separate companies, it's a pretty good sign they're just a whiner with unrealistic expectations.
It really makes me question the use of a laptop drive (and a slow one at that) in the cheapest Macintosh, but oh well.
After Seagate announced their next-generation 100 GB 7200 RPM drives (Momentus 7200.1), I waited over a year, checking every few months for availability. They never came and I gave up. Now I see they've finally been released, but sheesh, on the desktop, 100 GB drives are getting pretty rare because they're just too small to bother with.
I don't agree there's no mass market for high volume storage solutions. When writable CD and DVD came along they were high volume, and people bought them. Blu-ray and DV-DVD aren't big enough upgrades, the removable discs are still too small relative to modern hard drives.
Hard drives certainly are good for nightly backups, but it's good to archive data too. Soem think joe sixpack doesn't need high-tech, but today's joe sixpack has an 8 megapixel digicam and a digital camcorder. They have a digital music collection from iTunes or elsewhere. Archiving all this stuff is much harder when you can't simply copy it off to a single disc, write the date on it and be done.
Wow, the guy criticising Java performance got modded "troll" even though the benchmarks you linked to support his assertion that the port doesn't run well on the hardware quake2 was designed for. On the K6 2 350, the native version gets 56 fps, while the java port got 21 or 31 fps with the two different java packages. Even on modern hardware the java version is 25% slower in 2 of 3 cases. And yet the java contingent still flames anybody for re-asserting the "old myth" of a java runtime penalty. Wow.
I don't konw about firefox, but it doesn't do anything in Mozilla (just asks what to do with the jnlp file). So I put in "java", which just crashed the browser instantly. So after a little web searching apparently there's a "javaws" program? But blackdown-jdk-1.4.1 doesn't have any such thing. Sigh.
Either that or just fix the thing.
Slight correction: those short-lived preinstalls aren't just counted as Windows profits, they are Windows profits. In fact it's a very profitable sale of Windows, as there are no support issues whatsoever. Pretty sweet for Microsoft, I'd say.
Then again Slackware has already outlasted a lot of commercial software vendors I've seen.
Well, you asked.