Neither ADSL (most common form of dsl provided to the home at decent prices ($40ish) nor cable is good for anything that requires a decent amount of upstream bandwidth.
SDSL may fit your needs but more then likely you'll have to pay more... In many cases more then twice as much. Might as well spend a few bucks a month (usually ten will get you a good amount) for web hosting.
Thats not true... comments by the editors have been added as they have always been. Everyone should know that your text is the quoted stuff in italics. How can we make it more obvious?
Yeah... I'm a gamer and I laugh when i see people with alienware laptops. Knowing that alienware's best laptops are just rebadged sagers for a higher cost.
I liked the wording used in the article... at this rate maybe hdtv will finally be widely available when we have em (not counting you really old geezers that are already near that time of course).
Silicon chip can be made significantly cheaper over time. But one thing that a lot of people don't consider is the costs of manufacturing a hard drive. Did you notice that you can never buy a "New" hard drive from any retailer for under $50 bucks? They're a very good reason for that. No matter how streamlined or efficient a company gets they still have fixed costs.
A 10 gig hard drive will cost the same to manufacture as a 20 gig or 30 gig once the plant has been setup. Complications like this and the nvidia bitterness will not allow ms to break even at $99 dollars in a half a year. I'll be surprised if they come close to breaking even to the current price they have now with such a number of components in their system.
Also no... i don't think it runs rings on a g5 either... It's just a lot faster then the axp and if your using the fx line it's also a lot faster then the p4's in pretty much every area except the athlon's weakpoints where it's tying at the moment.
Dang i just lost my comment... time to rush...
if you really need to know about the performance differences. Athlon64's have a far lower memory latency and the fx series also has twice the latency. So if your dsp processing (if that includes audio/video) requires lots of bandwidth there then you'll have a great increase there. A athlonxp has at best a 400mhz fsb while the g5 has from 800-1000mhz fsb. A64 if you use the maximum channels on the thing is advertised with 1600mhz.
On the chip itself is 2x the cache (depending on which processor you buy though, some lower end models have 512k)... more importantly you have one more fpu unit which gives about a 50% increase in fpu capability (used to have only two units).
Your isp can be totally against spamming and enforce it heavily... You'll still get blocked out because their are always people who will register a server or hosting account and then spam as much as possible till they get shutdown. Spews will then block an entire ip block in which the offending ip belongs and then both your isp and yourself will suffer.
I can't tell you how much we hate spews, this is far from a common occurrence and it seems that the only to fight this is to not use spews. Their are plenty of better alternatives like spamcop and orb.
Um... Perhaps your willing to pay but a majority of net users are not. In any case you can vote with your feet. We don't know anything for sure until this is done...
So umm do you have a cute friend with similar interests:).
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Maybe i was too realistic but knowing our current capabilities and the lack of interesting stuff on the Moon (yay moon rocks!) and the lack on intelligent life around us (yay look we found some bacteria like life forms in Europa... kick ass-now let us attempt to make first contact) cause me to really not want to be astronaught ever.
While what you say is definately true but think about the future...
HD-DVD - 15 gigs in single layer mode BlueRay - 27 gigs in single layer mode
A dual layer Blue Ray disc should be able to achieve up to 50 gigs per disk! Also home recorders have a higher chance of being single layer (dual layered burners haven't even come out for regular dvds) in which the size difference of 15 and 27 gigs make a huge difference.
5 Years from now which tech would you rather have become mainstream? Another factor is durability... BD-DVD's are encased like floppy discs and aren't nearly as susceptible to damage as current cds and dvds.
You make some very valid points but you do realize that a lot of your points are negated by the fact this was created for a certain niche that probably exists mostly in Japan right?
But I think it is ill-advised to add features that require equipment above and beyond what you're using for the device's primary functionality.
Again this is negated by the fact that they have the Sony PS2 which is just simply the dedicated game machine. The PSX is for space conscious people (mostly in japan) with enough money for plasma TV's (but have a closet sized apartment).
I don't think your parent was talking about drives for the pc but standalone units. Also this has pvr capabilities right? Don't TIVO's cost at least $300? This has a giant 250 gb hard drive so it'd probably be one of the biggest capacity tivo it'd compete with.
It's nice that you design hardware but from the sound of it you don't work for intel, amd, or any of the relevant processor and chipset companies. Also you don't seem to be aware of many of these companies practices of speed binning processors (or whatever it's called nowadays) in which cores capable of higher speeds are packaged in as lower speed processors to satisfy demand of a certain speed/price range.
Next you talk about games and windows crashing... Well, all of my systems are thoroughly tested (individually too... most companies don't do this but they are safe as they don't push their machines to the max but often times that isn't the case) for periods of over 24hrs running things that greatly stress vital components whether they are overclocked or not to make sure everthing is working 100%.
The results speak for themselves as coupled with great programs like Norton Antivirus my Win XP machine has an uptime thats probably higher then you'd imagine. Last time i checked it reached 690 hours without a single restart which is pretty awesome despire xp's bad press and lord knows i push this system.
On the other hand my cousin has his athlon in his compaq system running about 20 degrees higher then mine... that in itself is not bad if not for the fact that his explorer does indeed crash every ten minutes.
Well usability (if it means ease of use) means nothing power user geeks like us:). The question is how much power and flexibility is built in each of them. Since i've no clue or experience on both i'll stop talking now.
BTW, my cooling wasn't extreme... just a very large heatsink with good a large surface area and a 90mm fan (the larger the fan the lesser the rpms needed to move air and the lower the noise). Simply air cooling not water, peltier, or phase change... 50 % faster about 15 degrees cooler then most processors running on spec (the heatsinks amd ships are extremely weak... this is one thing intel has them totally beat at) as far as amd goes.
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Neither ADSL (most common form of dsl provided to the home at decent prices ($40ish) nor cable is good for anything that requires a decent amount of upstream bandwidth.
SDSL may fit your needs but more then likely you'll have to pay more... In many cases more then twice as much. Might as well spend a few bucks a month (usually ten will get you a good amount) for web hosting.
Thats not true... comments by the editors have been added as they have always been. Everyone should know that your text is the quoted stuff in italics. How can we make it more obvious?
Yeah... I'm a gamer and I laugh when i see people with alienware laptops. Knowing that alienware's best laptops are just rebadged sagers for a higher cost.
Hmm... well it's best to test it out with text imo.
Yes, your crt does "support" and display those formats but almost none of them come close to displaying the true 1920x1080 resolution of 1080i.
Eh, i already know it's "available..." It is in my area too but only like two channels in which only a couple of shows are really hd and not just dtv.
I'm talking about the time it will be widely available as well as a majority of the broadcast (on air as well as cable).
I liked the wording used in the article... at this rate maybe hdtv will finally be widely available when we have em (not counting you really old geezers that are already near that time of course).
I agree... Remember that powerful 700 mhz pentium chip in the xbox...
Seems it was a lot closer to the celeron then a p3. We are probably going to get the equivalent of 3 McPPC's.
Silicon chip can be made significantly cheaper over time. But one thing that a lot of people don't consider is the costs of manufacturing a hard drive. Did you notice that you can never buy a "New" hard drive from any retailer for under $50 bucks? They're a very good reason for that. No matter how streamlined or efficient a company gets they still have fixed costs.
A 10 gig hard drive will cost the same to manufacture as a 20 gig or 30 gig once the plant has been setup. Complications like this and the nvidia bitterness will not allow ms to break even at $99 dollars in a half a year. I'll be surprised if they come close to breaking even to the current price they have now with such a number of components in their system.
Also no... i don't think it runs rings on a g5 either... It's just a lot faster then the axp and if your using the fx line it's also a lot faster then the p4's in pretty much every area except the athlon's weakpoints where it's tying at the moment.
Dang i just lost my comment... time to rush... if you really need to know about the performance differences. Athlon64's have a far lower memory latency and the fx series also has twice the latency. So if your dsp processing (if that includes audio/video) requires lots of bandwidth there then you'll have a great increase there. A athlonxp has at best a 400mhz fsb while the g5 has from 800-1000mhz fsb. A64 if you use the maximum channels on the thing is advertised with 1600mhz. On the chip itself is 2x the cache (depending on which processor you buy though, some lower end models have 512k)... more importantly you have one more fpu unit which gives about a 50% increase in fpu capability (used to have only two units).
I said an IP block is blocked not an entire isp and that is their standard procedure. They don't usually just block one ip.
Your isp can be totally against spamming and enforce it heavily... You'll still get blocked out because their are always people who will register a server or hosting account and then spam as much as possible till they get shutdown. Spews will then block an entire ip block in which the offending ip belongs and then both your isp and yourself will suffer.
I can't tell you how much we hate spews, this is far from a common occurrence and it seems that the only to fight this is to not use spews. Their are plenty of better alternatives like spamcop and orb.
Um... Perhaps your willing to pay but a majority of net users are not. In any case you can vote with your feet. We don't know anything for sure until this is done...
So umm do you have a cute friend with similar interests :).
Maybe i was too realistic but knowing our current capabilities and the lack of interesting stuff on the Moon (yay moon rocks!) and the lack on intelligent life around us (yay look we found some bacteria like life forms in Europa... kick ass-now let us attempt to make first contact) cause me to really not want to be astronaught ever.
While what you say is definately true but think about the future...
HD-DVD - 15 gigs in single layer mode
BlueRay - 27 gigs in single layer mode
A dual layer Blue Ray disc should be able to achieve up to 50 gigs per disk! Also home recorders have a higher chance of being single layer (dual layered burners haven't even come out for regular dvds) in which the size difference of 15 and 27 gigs make a huge difference.
5 Years from now which tech would you rather have become mainstream? Another factor is durability... BD-DVD's are encased like floppy discs and aren't nearly as susceptible to damage as current cds and dvds.
You make some very valid points but you do realize that a lot of your points are negated by the fact this was created for a certain niche that probably exists mostly in Japan right?
But I think it is ill-advised to add features that require equipment above and beyond what you're using for the device's primary functionality.
Again this is negated by the fact that they have the Sony PS2 which is just simply the dedicated game machine. The PSX is for space conscious people (mostly in japan) with enough money for plasma TV's (but have a closet sized apartment).
I don't think your parent was talking about drives for the pc but standalone units. Also this has pvr capabilities right? Don't TIVO's cost at least $300? This has a giant 250 gb hard drive so it'd probably be one of the biggest capacity tivo it'd compete with.
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No one suggested thusfar to overclock in such a business/critical environment.
Your probabyl right on the benefits but it's still interesting to do. Especially with some speed binned amds that can go up to 50% faster.
It's nice that you design hardware but from the sound of it you don't work for intel, amd, or any of the relevant processor and chipset companies. Also you don't seem to be aware of many of these companies practices of speed binning processors (or whatever it's called nowadays) in which cores capable of higher speeds are packaged in as lower speed processors to satisfy demand of a certain speed/price range.
Next you talk about games and windows crashing... Well, all of my systems are thoroughly tested (individually too... most companies don't do this but they are safe as they don't push their machines to the max but often times that isn't the case) for periods of over 24hrs running things that greatly stress vital components whether they are overclocked or not to make sure everthing is working 100%.
The results speak for themselves as coupled with great programs like Norton Antivirus my Win XP machine has an uptime thats probably higher then you'd imagine. Last time i checked it reached 690 hours without a single restart which is pretty awesome despire xp's bad press and lord knows i push this system.
On the other hand my cousin has his athlon in his compaq system running about 20 degrees higher then mine... that in itself is not bad if not for the fact that his explorer does indeed crash every ten minutes.
Well usability (if it means ease of use) means nothing power user geeks like us :). The question is how much power and flexibility is built in each of them. Since i've no clue or experience on both i'll stop talking now.
BTW, my cooling wasn't extreme... just a very large heatsink with good a large surface area and a 90mm fan (the larger the fan the lesser the rpms needed to move air and the lower the noise). Simply air cooling not water, peltier, or phase change... 50 % faster about 15 degrees cooler then most processors running on spec (the heatsinks amd ships are extremely weak... this is one thing intel has them totally beat at) as far as amd goes.