That was the sound of utter terror from ten-thousand Nvidia, Ati, AMD and Intel engineers who can now look forward to putting out a bleeding-edge new graphics card / CPU in less then four months. Expect casualties.
Someone better sell this technology to Suzuki. Despite the fact Suzuki cars are horrible now, even I would be interested in one if they make some REAL Transformers! * que Transformer main theme *
Tim O'Reilly's Foo camp for geeks - not just any geek - people like Google founders, Tim Bray (invented XML), and venture capitalists.
The idea: Get 200 or so smart folks with a lot in common together in one place at one time, let them pitch tents, toss in a Wi-Fi network, and see what happens.
So, were the VCs there for comic relief then? Please say so, it'll be very hard to sleep tonight when I keep grinning like this...
Yes, but I don't take "reliable enough" for an answer. I, and I think allot more people with me, want something that ISN'T affected like normal HDs. However tiny it is, one wrong bump can still damage the platter. Laptops are treated pretty gently ( by average ) because of their price and I've yet to see anyone throw their desktop around. How do those tiny HDs function under stress? Heck, how do any small HDs function under a bit of stress?
Here's personal curiousity: Has anyone ever had any problems with the internal HDs of iPods or anything else that uses tiny HDs? Thinking about buying an MP3 player but I'm not sure what would be best; 20gb iPod, where I wont use most of it anyways but still have to deal with the fact it has a HD or a 128 SD card based MP3 player, which, atm, may offer enough space but that might change. Well?
Someone get the biggest wlan signal booster they can find and ship it in a freighter to the Arecibo observatory while I install this baby on a laptop. Ever had an RC car whose control frequency interfered with something? Think bigger. >:)
Yes, quite amazing.... Oh, not the fact he's got a gingerbread server, but that there's a girl helping him out baking COOKIES around a TINY COMPUTER, then putting it all on the INTERNET for a bunch of GEEKS to gawk at. Now that's what I call amazing! Not to mention the damned thing runs FreeBSD.
Really? DD is far slower because it makes exact copies down to the bits. Norton Ghost works by cloning files instead. Instead, think of dump + gzip instead of dd. Insert some netcat for networking and presto, one central server holding default installs for all OSes you want. Probably works nice with network booting, then selecting a configuration, start cloning and then reboot into a brand-spanking new & fresh OS installation.
The vast majority of people are willing to save a buck, and unless "the next Dell" can compete on price as well as everything else, it is unlikely that there would be "another Dell".
Bollocks.
Considering I work in a computer retail store selling "white box" PCs, I think I'm allowed to have a say in this, even more so when you consider I'm supposed to sell PCs to the cheapest people around, the Dutch, hehe. Anyways, people want QUALITY instead of cheapo bargains. They will not want that at first but our best costumers are those who previously had a Dell/Compaq/Packard Hell and are now nearly BEGGING for some quality in the way of support, quick warrenty procedures, quick helpdesk support ( Which in our case consists of "Just call the damned store and someone will guide you through" ) and carry-in services. Considering we're a small store we'll often through in some nice little deals to sweeten up the whole issue, like installing PCs at home, delivery or helping the costumer set up his/her network.
Sure, our PCs are nearly twice, sometimes even THRICE as expensive as Dell and Packard Bell, but the services provided are FAR superior then anything they have to offer. We can put customers in touch with the technical/assembly dept, the manager and we have direct contacts with some manufacturers and suppliers of critical components. Coupled with the fact we don't assemble PCs with onboard crap and bare minimal RAM, I think we do a pretty good job. Anyone who wishes to argue about this approach being a joke, feel free to come over on a Saturday; the store is busy as hell on Saturdays and I'm pretty sure we can find someone to give you an honest and positive review of our store.
So, where are the horizntal bar graphs comparing Dell, Gateway, HP, Compaq & Packard Hell? Why aren't there 30+ advertisements for whoever gave Tommy the most dough? Why isn't there a seperate section in the article with benchmarks on a bunch of those brand-name PCs? I want to know how Quake 3 will run at 1600x1200! How good are these babies in overclocking? This isn't Tom's Hardware! Someone messed with my DNS settings!
Untill I see at least 20 useless horizontal bar graphs with various benchmarks that mean nothing, at best, I refuse to believe we're talking about Tom's Hardware.
No operating system security can stop a user from being an admin and installing unintentionally (but intentionally from the perspective of the OS) malware.
Yet. I hate to say this on here ( this will get me killed THRICE in a very painful way ) but this can be done with proper DRM. It will stop users from installing stuff on their own PC that isn't certified by . That WOULD stop most spyware dead in it's tracks. Of course, we all know MS's history concerning bugs and sooner or later a bug big enough to fly a 747 through which will negate the "only install stuff we tell you to" option of DRM. Which in itself isn't a bad thing...
Tom if you're listening. Just keep the site the way it is. You don't need to copy slashdot. I go to your site for good reviews. My favorite part about your site is the graph analysis you provide with every review that compares a product to a similiar line of products. Also I know you're a smart guy, who knows his stuff, and I hold your opinion in high regard.
The worst part is, is that you seem genuine about this. Next up on Tom's Networking!
35k USD Cisco 64 port switch vs 35k USD 64k port 3Com switch! 10+ of explanation why you need one! With 20+ Win32 benchmark tools! 40+ horizontal bar graphs! 60+ pages on senseless bullshit! 80+ of advertisements! Next up, Tom's Applied Mathematics, Tom's Psychological Profiling and Tom's Taxidermy! YAY!
I'd rather read somethingawful.com articles on networking. "Cliss Yablonksi hates stateful firewalls" and "Photoshop Phriday: Your IPv6 implementation vs The Hulk!" sound quite interesting!"
Caffeine hardly affects me, even if it does affect me at all. While I also do diet coke, coffee and tea. No bursts of energy, no being tired afterwards, no nothing. No addiction either, can easily quit drinking it for weeks and I have stopped drinking it for weeks before.
Irrelevant ramblings, false prophesies and old wife's tales. I don't trust ANY prediction unless said prediction is backed up by a) cold hard facts or b) senior, decision-making employee who can actually influence the fate of his/her own prediction. For the rest, all predictions are worthless. In fact, let's have a completely random top ten predictions from Seth for 2004!
This year I will manage to get in bed with that cute girl studying photography.
The US will start another war on $random_country for support of $random_terrorist_group.
Alan Ralsky will confess his sins and become a Red-Cross medic in Eritrea.
However, isn't SATA150 itself faster then most modern HDs can handle? And for that matter, isn't PATA133/100 still far too fast for most modern HDs? Correct me if I'm wrong, please...
... of Gamespy or IGN or something like that. If I wanted to read about games I'd go to one of those sites. Besides, I don't think Gamespy or IGN would report on, for example, quantum computing.
"Imagine a video camera in which each segment you've recorded is displayed in a directory with a unique file name, instantly accessed, appended or erased at the push of a button," says Christopher Andrews, communications program manager for the Armonk, N.Y,-based company. "If you're on vacation and want to erase an old segment to make room for something new, there would be no need to hunt with 'rewind' and 'fast forward' to find the section of the tape you're looking for."
Oh yes! And we can call those storage device CompactFlash cards, because they're compact, made of flash memory and card sha... Hey! Wiat a second... Sounds rather familiar...
They should better work on a noob-proof attachment handling and add a dozen of messageboxes when the luser double-clicks the attachment... 'Are really you sure you want to open nudeteens.jpg.exe?'
Are you suggesting Yoda works for the MS Interface Design team? Wow. The dark side must have one badass dental plan, if Yoda converted...
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That was the sound of utter terror from ten-thousand Nvidia, Ati, AMD and Intel engineers who can now look forward to putting out a bleeding-edge new graphics card / CPU in less then four months. Expect casualties.
Someone better sell this technology to Suzuki. Despite the fact Suzuki cars are horrible now, even I would be interested in one if they make some REAL Transformers! * que Transformer main theme *
So, were the VCs there for comic relief then? Please say so, it'll be very hard to sleep tonight when I keep grinning like this...
Yes, but I don't take "reliable enough" for an answer. I, and I think allot more people with me, want something that ISN'T affected like normal HDs. However tiny it is, one wrong bump can still damage the platter. Laptops are treated pretty gently ( by average ) because of their price and I've yet to see anyone throw their desktop around. How do those tiny HDs function under stress? Heck, how do any small HDs function under a bit of stress?
Here's personal curiousity: Has anyone ever had any problems with the internal HDs of iPods or anything else that uses tiny HDs? Thinking about buying an MP3 player but I'm not sure what would be best; 20gb iPod, where I wont use most of it anyways but still have to deal with the fact it has a HD or a 128 SD card based MP3 player, which, atm, may offer enough space but that might change. Well?
Someone get the biggest wlan signal booster they can find and ship it in a freighter to the Arecibo observatory while I install this baby on a laptop. Ever had an RC car whose control frequency interfered with something? Think bigger. >:)
Yes, quite amazing.... Oh, not the fact he's got a gingerbread server, but that there's a girl helping him out baking COOKIES around a TINY COMPUTER, then putting it all on the INTERNET for a bunch of GEEKS to gawk at. Now that's what I call amazing! Not to mention the damned thing runs FreeBSD.
Wish I had a girlfriend like that... :(
Really? DD is far slower because it makes exact copies down to the bits. Norton Ghost works by cloning files instead. Instead, think of dump + gzip instead of dd. Insert some netcat for networking and presto, one central server holding default installs for all OSes you want. Probably works nice with network booting, then selecting a configuration, start cloning and then reboot into a brand-spanking new & fresh OS installation.
Bollocks.
Considering I work in a computer retail store selling "white box" PCs, I think I'm allowed to have a say in this, even more so when you consider I'm supposed to sell PCs to the cheapest people around, the Dutch, hehe. Anyways, people want QUALITY instead of cheapo bargains. They will not want that at first but our best costumers are those who previously had a Dell/Compaq/Packard Hell and are now nearly BEGGING for some quality in the way of support, quick warrenty procedures, quick helpdesk support ( Which in our case consists of "Just call the damned store and someone will guide you through" ) and carry-in services. Considering we're a small store we'll often through in some nice little deals to sweeten up the whole issue, like installing PCs at home, delivery or helping the costumer set up his/her network.
Sure, our PCs are nearly twice, sometimes even THRICE as expensive as Dell and Packard Bell, but the services provided are FAR superior then anything they have to offer. We can put customers in touch with the technical/assembly dept, the manager and we have direct contacts with some manufacturers and suppliers of critical components. Coupled with the fact we don't assemble PCs with onboard crap and bare minimal RAM, I think we do a pretty good job. Anyone who wishes to argue about this approach being a joke, feel free to come over on a Saturday; the store is busy as hell on Saturdays and I'm pretty sure we can find someone to give you an honest and positive review of our store.
So, where are the horizntal bar graphs comparing Dell, Gateway, HP, Compaq & Packard Hell? Why aren't there 30+ advertisements for whoever gave Tommy the most dough? Why isn't there a seperate section in the article with benchmarks on a bunch of those brand-name PCs? I want to know how Quake 3 will run at 1600x1200! How good are these babies in overclocking? This isn't Tom's Hardware! Someone messed with my DNS settings!
Untill I see at least 20 useless horizontal bar graphs with various benchmarks that mean nothing, at best, I refuse to believe we're talking about Tom's Hardware.
Yet. I hate to say this on here ( this will get me killed THRICE in a very painful way ) but this can be done with proper DRM. It will stop users from installing stuff on their own PC that isn't certified by . That WOULD stop most spyware dead in it's tracks. Of course, we all know MS's history concerning bugs and sooner or later a bug big enough to fly a 747 through which will negate the "only install stuff we tell you to" option of DRM. Which in itself isn't a bad thing...
The worst part is, is that you seem genuine about this. Next up on Tom's Networking!
35k USD Cisco 64 port switch vs 35k USD 64k port 3Com switch! 10+ of explanation why you need one! With 20+ Win32 benchmark tools! 40+ horizontal bar graphs! 60+ pages on senseless bullshit! 80+ of advertisements! Next up, Tom's Applied Mathematics, Tom's Psychological Profiling and Tom's Taxidermy! YAY!
I'd rather read somethingawful.com articles on networking. "Cliss Yablonksi hates stateful firewalls" and "Photoshop Phriday: Your IPv6 implementation vs The Hulk!" sound quite interesting!"
Not if Pluto comes with four wheels and a V8 engine.
Ditto.
Caffeine hardly affects me, even if it does affect me at all. While I also do diet coke, coffee and tea. No bursts of energy, no being tired afterwards, no nothing. No addiction either, can easily quit drinking it for weeks and I have stopped drinking it for weeks before.
Ah well...
Irrelevant ramblings, false prophesies and old wife's tales. I don't trust ANY prediction unless said prediction is backed up by a) cold hard facts or b) senior, decision-making employee who can actually influence the fate of his/her own prediction. For the rest, all predictions are worthless. In fact, let's have a completely random top ten predictions from Seth for 2004!
However, isn't SATA150 itself faster then most modern HDs can handle? And for that matter, isn't PATA133/100 still far too fast for most modern HDs? Correct me if I'm wrong, please...
Shy, pasty, antisocial geek seeks like-minded sentient girlfriend to share parent's basement. Slashdot subscribers need not apply.
Good, put on the front page...
... of Gamespy or IGN or something like that. If I wanted to read about games I'd go to one of those sites. Besides, I don't think Gamespy or IGN would report on, for example, quantum computing.
Yo Freud, merry christmas!
Oh yes! And we can call those storage device CompactFlash cards, because they're compact, made of flash memory and card sha... Hey! Wiat a second... Sounds rather familiar...
Fact: An offer too good to be true, usually is.
I will get myself an office with sauna, bubblebath, harem, minibar and some nice waterfalls. Maybe a nice big gatling cannon to keep people at bay...
Don't worry, MS is working hard on coding a new exploit that works even when your PC is offline and disconnected from the net! Due Real Soon Now(tm)!
Are you suggesting Yoda works for the MS Interface Design team? Wow. The dark side must have one badass dental plan, if Yoda converted...
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No go, think of all the snow that'll melt!