I think that's the plan with PCI express. Put multiple high speed ports on the same Motherboard, for Video cards, and anything else that requires high speed access.
I'm sure people said the same thing about the 3D video cards when they first came out. Really, at that point, it's all just eyecandy, and while you can do some stuff in software at reasonable speeds, no software renderer can compete with a 3D card that does everything in hardware. They don't make games anymore that run on software emulation. Most games require $150 video card to run. I think the physics cards will come down to this price range.
I've often wondered why they didn't make a game like a FPS that would run at Quake 1 Graphics when run on an old computer, but scale up to HL2 type graphics if you have a newer machine. I remember in university we used to resort to playing Quake 2, just so everybody could play, even though Quake 3 was a better game.
The last time I remember them doing any real marketing for their OS was when Windows 95 came out. They didn't really market any of the other OSes all that much. I think the only reason they will have to market this one is because there isn't really any new features, and the old version is pretty stable. Also, the fact that you need a high powered computer to run the new UI (the only new feature) means that they're won't be a lot of people buying it off the shelf, only people who buy new computers. You don't have to market it to the person buying a new computer, because they are going to buy windows anyway, and the only version offered will be Vista.
Wouldn't it speed up your laptop immensely and reduce power usage if you upgraded to enough RAM to have no swap file? About 1 Gig should be enough in most cases. How much power battery life/ speed could be expected from a configuration like this?
The funniest thing is that often these expensive display kiosks are devoid of customers because either the kiosk is broken, or the store owner has disabled it, because he doesn't want highschool kids spending hours in his store, taking up space, and not buying anything.
Meanwhile at the big N, they have decided to put out a cheap system that most people will be able to afford, and forego all the expesive research and recalls associated with the leading edge technology the other guys are using. Also, their marketing campaign consists of not telling anything to anyone, and only release details about the system that will make people think about the yet to be released system all day. The shroud of mystery surrounding the Revo/Wii is better than any of Sony's/MS's proclamations that they have the fastest processors in existence.
But still I don't see how this is different than most other stores. There are very few stores that sell only american/canadian made products. There are a few, but most of them are high priced boutiques. I really don't think that Walmart is different than any other store. The only difference is that walmart is charging less for their cheaply made overseas products. This means to me that everyone else is overcharging.
There was a scam run a little while back up in Canada where they put out a fake job posting. People were asked to send in SIN, and other private information, and many of them did. They used this info to get credit cards and such in the people's names. They got pretty far before they were caught.
The thing I hate about Dell is that if you want something with a non-integrated video card, then you have to pay over $1000 CDN. I find that this is unacceptable. I can get a $500 machine from my local computer retailer with a not-too-bad AGP video card. Why can't Dell provide this?
I can't speak for Walmart in the US, but in Canada, it's doesn't seem all that bad. Most of the products I see in the store are the same products that I see in any other store. Lots of these products are made in Canada, or the US. Many are made overseas. But these are the same products that other stores sell, and have sold for years. Many of the walmart brand products are also made overseas. However, I find that most other stores also have their stuff made overseas. The only difference between Walmart jeans made overseas and GAP jeans made overseas is that Walmart isn't charging you as much for them.
My 2 Megapixel camera takes pictures that are ~750 KB each. If you don't include that then you're leaving out all that home made pron that employees have on their home computers.
What do they consider connecting to your network? If I send an email then I have sent information over the network to your system. It's not a direct connection, but it's a connection. Any computer in the world may connect to your network given the IP address. They may be disconnected quickly if they don't provide the right credentials, but they are still connected.
Right now, it's not so much of a problem, because they just store a bunch of passwords. But imagine if all your files were encrypted. Now forgetting your password means you lose all your files. Regular people who use office computers, this happens every month, because they have to change their password every month. Ideally you'd be able to export the Encryption key for your data onto a USB stick of floppy disk. Then you could store it in a safe place, so that if the original key file becomes corrupt, you still have a copy of your key, and you can still recover your data. If they encrypt the data with a known algorithm, then you should be able to create disk recovery tools, that use this backup key to recover the data. If you are relying on microsoft's technology to get you out of a bind, then you can only recover data to the extent that their tools allow you to do so.
Not only will dual booting and sharing files between OSs be harder, but recovery of lost data could also be harder. If they used something standard, or at least disclosed how they were storing the data, we might have a way to recover lost data. However, if we don't know how to decrypt the data, then how are we supposed to recover the data. Will the data be lost if you have to reinstall the OS? I know windows XP deletes sensitive information if your Admin has to reset your password.
Music is one thing that you can definitely live without. You can definitely live with RIAA controlled music. It would be different if the cartel was on bread, or water, but it isn't. I really get annoyed by people who say something costs too much, and then go out and steal it (download illegally) because they "have to have it". If you have to have it, then it's probably worth the price they are charging.
Exactly. Canadian iTunes cost $CDN 0.99. US iTunes Cost $US 0.99. I'm sure there's a lot of americans who would love to pay $US 0.88 (wow look how the american dollar has dropped). I'm pretty sure the songs are being downloaded from the same servers. Yet the Canadian songs are cheaper.
Canada has national health care and if you want it, you'd better present your health card. I don't see how this is any different. If you need emergency care, then they won't take the time to ask you, but for scheduled services, you have to present your health card. Many doctors keep you information on file so you don't have to present it every time. The card has a picture and a hologram and lots of other security features. I don't see how this is any different.
There's still mercury in my Thermostat in my apartment. I'm sure there's mercury being used in lots of other places too. There's no reason why we couldn't put it in computer chips. There's already a lot of toxic materials in a computer. I don't think 1 mL of mercury is going to make that much of a difference.
Ah... so you live in Europe. That clears everything up. My brother made a trip to Amsterdam and was amazed by the number of bicycles. People just rode their bikes everywhere. In North America, people don't have this same attitude. Everybody drives. Everybody has to own and drive a car as much as possible. If you bring your bike to work, you are a hippie weirdo. Because of this attitude, cyclists aren't respected.
I think it has to be one way or the other. Either bikes should have to stay on the road and obey all traffic rules, and be fined for being on the sidewalk. Or they should be confined to the sidewalk, and only obey pedestrian rules. Think about the problems with the sidewalk idea. At a 4 way stop (octagonal signs), a pedestrian does not have to stop. They may keep walking at their normal pace, and assume that any drivers coming will stop at the stop sign. Now, a cyclist may be travelling at 40+ km/h. Let's ignore how dangerous that is to pedestrians they are sharing the sidewalk with. Now, the sidewalk is on the left side of the road. Cars drive on the right side of the road. So, the driver pulls up the the stop, looks, doesn't see the cyclist, and goes through the intersection. At the same time, the cyclist goes through the intersection, and they run into eachother. It's not the cyclists fault. He was a pedestrian and didn't have to stop. It's not the driver's fault, he stopped, didn't see any pedestrians or other cars. It's best that cyclists obey the car rules. If they don't and they get hurt, that's their own fault. Don't worry, your car won't get much damage from a bike.
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All it basically says is the right to bear arms. This was written in the days of muzzle loaders and stuff like that. I don't really think they envisioned people walking around with automatic machine guns. Surely they'll arrest you for making bombs. But bombs are just a form of "arms". You definitely aren't allowed to make your own nuclear weapons. Where do you really draw the line?
Well then why don't they point that out in the linked article. Why even tell people that they should type "set-location" when "cd" will do just as well. Anybody familiar with shell scripting already would know what "cd" meant. Why make up a whole new command? This looks more like something you'd want to buy an IDE for than something you'd just create to save time.
Looks to me like they made everything take 6 times as long to enter. All the commands are longer. That's what I love about unix, commands are as short as possible. Who cares if they are cryptic. Only people who really know how to use computers are going to use these tools anyway, and these people can cope with learning what ls,grep,cat,cp,rm, and all those other commands do.
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I think that's the plan with PCI express. Put multiple high speed ports on the same Motherboard, for Video cards, and anything else that requires high speed access.
I'm sure people said the same thing about the 3D video cards when they first came out. Really, at that point, it's all just eyecandy, and while you can do some stuff in software at reasonable speeds, no software renderer can compete with a 3D card that does everything in hardware. They don't make games anymore that run on software emulation. Most games require $150 video card to run. I think the physics cards will come down to this price range.
I've often wondered why they didn't make a game like a FPS that would run at Quake 1 Graphics when run on an old computer, but scale up to HL2 type graphics if you have a newer machine. I remember in university we used to resort to playing Quake 2, just so everybody could play, even though Quake 3 was a better game.
The last time I remember them doing any real marketing for their OS was when Windows 95 came out. They didn't really market any of the other OSes all that much. I think the only reason they will have to market this one is because there isn't really any new features, and the old version is pretty stable. Also, the fact that you need a high powered computer to run the new UI (the only new feature) means that they're won't be a lot of people buying it off the shelf, only people who buy new computers. You don't have to market it to the person buying a new computer, because they are going to buy windows anyway, and the only version offered will be Vista.
Wouldn't it speed up your laptop immensely and reduce power usage if you upgraded to enough RAM to have no swap file? About 1 Gig should be enough in most cases. How much power battery life/ speed could be expected from a configuration like this?
The funniest thing is that often these expensive display kiosks are devoid of customers because either the kiosk is broken, or the store owner has disabled it, because he doesn't want highschool kids spending hours in his store, taking up space, and not buying anything.
Meanwhile at the big N, they have decided to put out a cheap system that most people will be able to afford, and forego all the expesive research and recalls associated with the leading edge technology the other guys are using. Also, their marketing campaign consists of not telling anything to anyone, and only release details about the system that will make people think about the yet to be released system all day. The shroud of mystery surrounding the Revo/Wii is better than any of Sony's/MS's proclamations that they have the fastest processors in existence.
But still I don't see how this is different than most other stores. There are very few stores that sell only american/canadian made products. There are a few, but most of them are high priced boutiques. I really don't think that Walmart is different than any other store. The only difference is that walmart is charging less for their cheaply made overseas products. This means to me that everyone else is overcharging.
There was a scam run a little while back up in Canada where they put out a fake job posting. People were asked to send in SIN, and other private information, and many of them did. They used this info to get credit cards and such in the people's names. They got pretty far before they were caught.
The thing I hate about Dell is that if you want something with a non-integrated video card, then you have to pay over $1000 CDN. I find that this is unacceptable. I can get a $500 machine from my local computer retailer with a not-too-bad AGP video card. Why can't Dell provide this?
I can't speak for Walmart in the US, but in Canada, it's doesn't seem all that bad. Most of the products I see in the store are the same products that I see in any other store. Lots of these products are made in Canada, or the US. Many are made overseas. But these are the same products that other stores sell, and have sold for years. Many of the walmart brand products are also made overseas. However, I find that most other stores also have their stuff made overseas. The only difference between Walmart jeans made overseas and GAP jeans made overseas is that Walmart isn't charging you as much for them.
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My 2 Megapixel camera takes pictures that are ~750 KB each. If you don't include that then you're leaving out all that home made pron that employees have on their home computers.
What do they consider connecting to your network? If I send an email then I have sent information over the network to your system. It's not a direct connection, but it's a connection. Any computer in the world may connect to your network given the IP address. They may be disconnected quickly if they don't provide the right credentials, but they are still connected.
Right now, it's not so much of a problem, because they just store a bunch of passwords. But imagine if all your files were encrypted. Now forgetting your password means you lose all your files. Regular people who use office computers, this happens every month, because they have to change their password every month. Ideally you'd be able to export the Encryption key for your data onto a USB stick of floppy disk. Then you could store it in a safe place, so that if the original key file becomes corrupt, you still have a copy of your key, and you can still recover your data. If they encrypt the data with a known algorithm, then you should be able to create disk recovery tools, that use this backup key to recover the data. If you are relying on microsoft's technology to get you out of a bind, then you can only recover data to the extent that their tools allow you to do so.
Not only will dual booting and sharing files between OSs be harder, but recovery of lost data could also be harder. If they used something standard, or at least disclosed how they were storing the data, we might have a way to recover lost data. However, if we don't know how to decrypt the data, then how are we supposed to recover the data. Will the data be lost if you have to reinstall the OS? I know windows XP deletes sensitive information if your Admin has to reset your password.
actually, they just replaced the thermostat a couple weeks ago, because my old one wasn't working. It's a thermostat, not a thermometer.
Music is one thing that you can definitely live without. You can definitely live with RIAA controlled music. It would be different if the cartel was on bread, or water, but it isn't. I really get annoyed by people who say something costs too much, and then go out and steal it (download illegally) because they "have to have it". If you have to have it, then it's probably worth the price they are charging.
Exactly. Canadian iTunes cost $CDN 0.99. US iTunes Cost $US 0.99. I'm sure there's a lot of americans who would love to pay $US 0.88 (wow look how the american dollar has dropped). I'm pretty sure the songs are being downloaded from the same servers. Yet the Canadian songs are cheaper.
Canada has national health care and if you want it, you'd better present your health card. I don't see how this is any different. If you need emergency care, then they won't take the time to ask you, but for scheduled services, you have to present your health card. Many doctors keep you information on file so you don't have to present it every time. The card has a picture and a hologram and lots of other security features. I don't see how this is any different.
There's still mercury in my Thermostat in my apartment. I'm sure there's mercury being used in lots of other places too. There's no reason why we couldn't put it in computer chips. There's already a lot of toxic materials in a computer. I don't think 1 mL of mercury is going to make that much of a difference.
Since when do big companies like Intel, AMD and IBM need venture capital? Surely there aren't any other companies making chips...
Ah... so you live in Europe. That clears everything up. My brother made a trip to Amsterdam and was amazed by the number of bicycles. People just rode their bikes everywhere. In North America, people don't have this same attitude. Everybody drives. Everybody has to own and drive a car as much as possible. If you bring your bike to work, you are a hippie weirdo. Because of this attitude, cyclists aren't respected.
I think it has to be one way or the other. Either bikes should have to stay on the road and obey all traffic rules, and be fined for being on the sidewalk. Or they should be confined to the sidewalk, and only obey pedestrian rules. Think about the problems with the sidewalk idea. At a 4 way stop (octagonal signs), a pedestrian does not have to stop. They may keep walking at their normal pace, and assume that any drivers coming will stop at the stop sign. Now, a cyclist may be travelling at 40+ km/h. Let's ignore how dangerous that is to pedestrians they are sharing the sidewalk with. Now, the sidewalk is on the left side of the road. Cars drive on the right side of the road. So, the driver pulls up the the stop, looks, doesn't see the cyclist, and goes through the intersection. At the same time, the cyclist goes through the intersection, and they run into eachother. It's not the cyclists fault. He was a pedestrian and didn't have to stop. It's not the driver's fault, he stopped, didn't see any pedestrians or other cars. It's best that cyclists obey the car rules. If they don't and they get hurt, that's their own fault. Don't worry, your car won't get much damage from a bike.
All it basically says is the right to bear arms. This was written in the days of muzzle loaders and stuff like that. I don't really think they envisioned people walking around with automatic machine guns. Surely they'll arrest you for making bombs. But bombs are just a form of "arms". You definitely aren't allowed to make your own nuclear weapons. Where do you really draw the line?
Well then why don't they point that out in the linked article. Why even tell people that they should type "set-location" when "cd" will do just as well. Anybody familiar with shell scripting already would know what "cd" meant. Why make up a whole new command? This looks more like something you'd want to buy an IDE for than something you'd just create to save time.
Looks to me like they made everything take 6 times as long to enter. All the commands are longer. That's what I love about unix, commands are as short as possible. Who cares if they are cryptic. Only people who really know how to use computers are going to use these tools anyway, and these people can cope with learning what ls,grep,cat,cp,rm, and all those other commands do.