I have never used Dreamweaver, but every time I've seen others use it, the code produced is horrid.
I don't see a reason to use it- if you have enough skill with (X)HTML/CSS, you should be able to create a webpage that takes up half the bandwidth and works on all browsers. Sure, it may take a little longer but I'd rather take the 2min to make an efficient page instead of building a hacked up one in 1min.
But really, I think the processor market is about to hit a wall where faster really doesn't speed things up much. Afterall, you need hardly any proc power to browse the WWW, read e-mail, or do IM chat. Sure, some people want "desktop replacement" laptops, but others want their laptop to just do some simple things.
Not true. As the internet becomes more and more multimedia oriented (Flash etc) we will need more and more CPU. And it's not going to stop. Right now with my XP 3200+, large flash sites still run sluggish when displayed with full quality (anti-aliasing).
I think the next killer app processors are a generation that use less power and run cooler. The only problem is that consumers have been trained to only ask "How many MegaHertz does it have?" when shopping for processors. Therefore, there's going to be quite a bit of marketing work that needs to be done before such chips become viable.
Agreed. I would love to see AMD/Intel give more attention to heat. Things are getting ridiculous now, with recent CPUs running upwards of 140 degrees. Not everyone can have a water cooling system.
You are thinking of nVidia. ATI's X800 line uses less power than their older 9800 line. It still only requires a 350watt psu.
IIRC they are both still using power levels within the AGP spec, it's just that many motherboards can't handle the higher end of the limit.
How is Microsoft making things easy for developers a bad thing? Why should we have to reinvent the wheel every time we start a new program?
I can code straight Win32 GUIs, but I choose not to. Unless I need a completely dynamic UI, all it does is add more code and make things harder to manage.
If you are having problems finding a job, get off your obsolete ass and learn the new technologies. If you know the easy way AND the hard way, employers will hire you over the retard just out of college.
For those that don't use iTMS and don't consider their mp3/whatever player part of some elitist artistic style, Creative's Zen line is great.
Same quality, more space (60GB vs 40GB), better battery life (14hr vs 8hr), and the Zen is still $100 less. Creative also has a SDK for their jukeboxes, however fugly and COM-based it may be.
Though, the Zen does have some downfalls: No sexy scroll wheel (who cares?) Crappy, bloated software. And by crappy, I mean VB-trained monkies trying to write C++ crappy. But there are free/cheap replacements that are much better.
Someone needs to make an open source benchmark on a bootable cd so OS doesn't matter, and no background apps can cause harm to it. Moving from MHz/FSB/Cache/etc to a single common rating # would make things a lot easier for the consumer. This would also spur more competition between the CPU companies, as they couldn't so easily obfuscate the true speed from their users.
I'm sure MS already had inside information on this switch, long before we knew. Intel plans to have these out one or two years before Longhorn, so MS guessed that the optimal Longhorn PC would be built with them. Considering it's been a few years and AMD64 is just now starting to be put in mainstream computers, it sounds like a good estimate.
The one thing that irks me about this- AMD saying they would have dual-core cpus out when they feel the market is there. Intel said the same thing about 64bit and now they are playing catch-up, shouldn't AMD have learned from this?
Maybe they already have something close to being done and want to surprise Intel.
Unfortunately for them, there is already a keygen out that will generate within any range you give it, and not take 20min to do it. Or so I hear. I'm a beta tester for SP2, don't need to gen keys for it:P
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I have never used Dreamweaver, but every time I've seen others use it, the code produced is horrid.
I don't see a reason to use it- if you have enough skill with (X)HTML/CSS, you should be able to create a webpage that takes up half the bandwidth and works on all browsers. Sure, it may take a little longer but I'd rather take the 2min to make an efficient page instead of building a hacked up one in 1min.
I'd think most compilers will already expand it to that. I know Visual C++.NET does.
It could be because freecache only caches a single file, not anything it links to. Images still come from the original site.
But really, I think the processor market is about to hit a wall where faster really doesn't speed things up much. Afterall, you need hardly any proc power to browse the WWW, read e-mail, or do IM chat. Sure, some people want "desktop replacement" laptops, but others want their laptop to just do some simple things.
Not true. As the internet becomes more and more multimedia oriented (Flash etc) we will need more and more CPU. And it's not going to stop. Right now with my XP 3200+, large flash sites still run sluggish when displayed with full quality (anti-aliasing).
I think the next killer app processors are a generation that use less power and run cooler. The only problem is that consumers have been trained to only ask "How many MegaHertz does it have?" when shopping for processors. Therefore, there's going to be quite a bit of marketing work that needs to be done before such chips become viable.
Agreed. I would love to see AMD/Intel give more attention to heat. Things are getting ridiculous now, with recent CPUs running upwards of 140 degrees. Not everyone can have a water cooling system.
AMD's scoring isn't based on MHz, but speed.
If you have this problem, it can be recovered:
boot your windows 2k/xp/2003 cd
go into the recovery console
run "fixmbr"
Haha tell me about it. Starbucks... gourmet... good one :D
Same here... "You are currently using 9 MB (1%) of your 1000 MB."
You are thinking of nVidia. ATI's X800 line uses less power than their older 9800 line. It still only requires a 350watt psu. IIRC they are both still using power levels within the AGP spec, it's just that many motherboards can't handle the higher end of the limit.
I'll bet many of the survivors of Sept. 11 2001 made it through because of cell phone communications.
I doubt it. From what I remember, all the lines were clogged. It may have saved a few people but most of it was people trying to call relatives.
A discreet handheld jammer would be the perfect utility at a movie theater. Hell, they should start installing them in all of them.
Anything that helps get those yappy valley girls to stfu is OK in my book.
I see no mention of rust in the article, wouldn't that make this fail regardless of how entangled it is?
How is Microsoft making things easy for developers a bad thing? Why should we have to reinvent the wheel every time we start a new program?
I can code straight Win32 GUIs, but I choose not to. Unless I need a completely dynamic UI, all it does is add more code and make things harder to manage.
If you are having problems finding a job, get off your obsolete ass and learn the new technologies. If you know the easy way AND the hard way, employers will hire you over the retard just out of college.
1. Use reverse psychology on moderators 2. Gain karma 3. ??? 4. Profit!
For those that don't use iTMS and don't consider their mp3/whatever player part of some elitist artistic style, Creative's Zen line is great.
Same quality, more space (60GB vs 40GB), better battery life (14hr vs 8hr), and the Zen is still $100 less. Creative also has a SDK for their jukeboxes, however fugly and COM-based it may be.
Though, the Zen does have some downfalls:
No sexy scroll wheel (who cares?)
Crappy, bloated software. And by crappy, I mean VB-trained monkies trying to write C++ crappy. But there are free/cheap replacements that are much better.
Someone needs to make an open source benchmark on a bootable cd so OS doesn't matter, and no background apps can cause harm to it. Moving from MHz/FSB/Cache/etc to a single common rating # would make things a lot easier for the consumer. This would also spur more competition between the CPU companies, as they couldn't so easily obfuscate the true speed from their users.
There is one dedicated to porn already.
Hence why we are slashdotting them before they get us. WW3 over the net ;)
In other news, Stallman has agreed to stay as long as the school is renamed GNU/MIT.
Get a low-cost Audigy LS, and split all the ports. I'm betting one could use the kX Project drivers to output a different song on each channel.
Video cards are already able to run many things in parallel- they are beyond dual-core.
I'm sure MS already had inside information on this switch, long before we knew. Intel plans to have these out one or two years before Longhorn, so MS guessed that the optimal Longhorn PC would be built with them. Considering it's been a few years and AMD64 is just now starting to be put in mainstream computers, it sounds like a good estimate.
The one thing that irks me about this- AMD saying they would have dual-core cpus out when they feel the market is there. Intel said the same thing about 64bit and now they are playing catch-up, shouldn't AMD have learned from this?
Maybe they already have something close to being done and want to surprise Intel.
Unfortunately for them, there is already a keygen out that will generate within any range you give it, and not take 20min to do it. Or so I hear. I'm a beta tester for SP2, don't need to gen keys for it :P
I thought TSS was already in LA?
Don't you mean GNU/Technology?