Well IBM may be contributing to OSS however I cant really see them shelling out $2 billion and then just start giving away what they spent the money on. They could sponser a large amount of OSS projects for that amount.
Yes you are right. Also, Power management wont help because to the power managment software your machine looks like it is running pretty much at full load so it wont kick in.
Granted that the CPU takes up slice of the overall power requirements with modern high end CPU's taking up 50-70W at full load thats like keep on a lightbulb on 24/7.
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I would n't say that, the Inexpensive part comes not from the IDE/SCSI perspective but from the fact that at the time smaller hard drives where much much cheaper then large ones.
Unlike now where you can get 200gigs for less then 3x the cost of a 20gig drive in the early 80's 10x the size meant alot more then 10x the cost.
People per square mile and cellphones per square mile dont mean much, since like most developed countries the large majority of people live in towns and cities.
Yes thats true, but the machine is still only partially 64-bit. Again I'ill use the Pentium as an example, which can do 80-bit FP operations, yet still a 32 bit processor.
As far as I am aware, it is generally accepted that a machines bitness is only as large as it's CPU.
A large section of embedded IC's have digital & analog on one chip. This has been done for years, just beacuse Intel are now doing it does n't make it news.
They should n't have to do anything however this is being touted as a remedy for their actions. MS did n't have to license Java, they choose to while at the same time they choose to violate the license.
This is n't some big conspiracy, MS wanted to kill Java on the desktop by illegal means and now they are being forced to bundle it, seems like a fair deal to me.
If Microsoft want to hold users into account with their EULA's they should be held to account to their agreements.
Actually the FSB is n't really the sole factor because even though the bandwidth increases the latency between the request and the memory being on the bus does not decrease enough to compensate. So in real terms simply increasing the FSB gives you negligable gains.
Modern CPU's dont acccess individual words of memory across the bus, they request complete "cache lines" a cache line is filled even though you may only request a byte of external memory. On a Pentium III a cache line was (if my memory is correct) 32 Bytes.
Now the P4 was designed for high a MHz clock and bus. The P4 was also designed to work with RDRAM memory that has high bandwidth but also higher latency than normal SDRAM. In order to get round the latency problem, they made the cache line 128 bytes wide so even though it took longer to request those 128 bytes, they came in so fast that the overall access time was reduced.
So in short AMD cannot simply just increase the FSB and expect large gains in performance. They would also have to alter the cache/memory subsystem significantly, which would not be worth it since the Hammer chips are around the corner.
You can get 192 kbit files which sound no better and even worse than 128 kbit MP3 it's all down to the encoders. The latest version of LAME for example produces excellent quality files if you're willing to wait longer for your encoding.
I've seen alot of 128Kbit MP3's encoded with intensity stereo which should only be used with 96 kbit or less rates.
Also MP3 files tend to lose alot of harmonics regardless of the bitrate used, newer formats seem to do better in this regard. I personally like the sound of OGG and whilst I generally feel WMA sounds worse than MP3 some of files I've heard have sounded very "warm".
Finally, 192 kbit is 50% larger and hence will take 50% longer to download and remember there are an awful lot of people who don't have broadband.
An MP3 is not the same quality as a CD, you cant get 11:1+ compression without throwing away some quality.
It'ill be a while before the masses can download whole CD's at CD quality in a few minutes let alone something better than CD quality.
Yes, pretty much all that stuff was shipped from outside China. If you're in waste disposal you could give the stuff away plus pay shipping costs and still end up in the money (from not having to pay to get it dispossed properly).
As for making sure your stuff gets recycled there is no real way without paying money, thats right you normally have to pay to get things recycled (well atleast the places I looked at in the UK, flame me if I'm wrong).
The EU wants to force manufacturers that make disposalable goods to take back their stuff once it its used for recycling. However this will cause the price of goods to go up and the manufactures are n't too happy about it.
Whatever the solution is there is only a certain amount of resources on the planet. We (as in companies/people collectively) may think we are gaining now with cheap disposable stuff but if we carry on like this inevitably there will be a large price to pay.
I'm not an environmentalist but it's obvious from an economic point of view that we either buy-now and pay-later or decide to take out the monthly installment plan.
It's not a matter of a few bits of code.. if you read the PDF it says they found over 120 identical functions inside the DLL.. I would hardly call that freak chance.
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This is the CD equivalent of a dongle.. yes the CD can't be cracked but since there is interaction between the CD and the reading device someone will find a way to hack the device instead.
Look at the number of apps which "require" a dongle to work but have been easily cracked.
Anyone who has used ICQ and been spammed by the "Hi I'm Candy/Britney/etc;)" porn eliza bot will know how anoying these bots are. Ofcourse bots have existed for IRC from years ago but not in porn pushing form.
If they want to make money, go after the porn spammers, maybe some will pay-up but I doubt most would want to.
By VBR160 I assume you mean using ABR with an average of 160 kb/s. ABR in ogg does not sound very good and it's the developers who say so. Use the quality option to control file size to hear how good OGG is.
As a side note, even CBR MP3's have an ability to vary the amount of data used for each frame via the what is known as the "Bit Reservoir". If a frame can be encoded with less data the redundant space can be filled with data for the next frame to use. Using this feature a frame can use additional data from upto two frames before it. So CBR MP3 is n't constant at all..
None, it's an obvious solution however Dell giving away a practically useless OS (for most users anyway) is a sly move because I suspect that if it was some kind of Linux distro it would have seriously piss MS off.
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Well IBM may be contributing to OSS however I cant really see them shelling out $2 billion and then just start giving away what they spent the money on. They could sponser a large amount of OSS projects for that amount.
Yes you are right. Also, Power management wont help because to the power managment software your machine looks like it is running pretty much at full load so it wont kick in. Granted that the CPU takes up slice of the overall power requirements with modern high end CPU's taking up 50-70W at full load thats like keep on a lightbulb on 24/7.
I would n't say that, the Inexpensive part comes not from the IDE/SCSI perspective but from the fact that at the time smaller hard drives where much much cheaper then large ones.
Unlike now where you can get 200gigs for less then 3x the cost of a 20gig drive in the early 80's 10x the size meant alot more then 10x the cost.
People per square mile and cellphones per square mile dont mean much, since like most developed countries the large majority of people live in towns and cities.
The last figures I saw showed Nokia at 35% and Ericsson at 5% of global sales, although Ericsson are still a big player in the infrastucture area.
That 80% is saturation, not coverage. They are not the same thing since most people in industrialized countries live in concentrated areas.
I think you'ill find that the Itanium I did n't sell because the performance for the price sucked.
Yes thats true, but the machine is still only partially 64-bit. Again I'ill use the Pentium as an example, which can do 80-bit FP operations, yet still a 32 bit processor.
As far as I am aware, it is generally accepted that a machines bitness is only as large as it's CPU.
Well the original Pentium had a 64-bit wide bus, but it is no way a 64 bit processor by any stretch of imagination.
A large section of embedded IC's have digital & analog on one chip. This has been done for years, just beacuse Intel are now doing it does n't make it news.
They should n't have to do anything however this is being touted as a remedy for their actions. MS did n't have to license Java, they choose to while at the same time they choose to violate the license.
This is n't some big conspiracy, MS wanted to kill Java on the desktop by illegal means and now they are being forced to bundle it, seems like a fair deal to me.
If Microsoft want to hold users into account with their EULA's they should be held to account to their agreements.
Actually the FSB is n't really the sole factor because even though the bandwidth increases the latency between the request and the memory being on the bus does not decrease enough to compensate. So in real terms simply increasing the FSB gives you negligable gains. Modern CPU's dont acccess individual words of memory across the bus, they request complete "cache lines" a cache line is filled even though you may only request a byte of external memory. On a Pentium III a cache line was (if my memory is correct) 32 Bytes. Now the P4 was designed for high a MHz clock and bus. The P4 was also designed to work with RDRAM memory that has high bandwidth but also higher latency than normal SDRAM. In order to get round the latency problem, they made the cache line 128 bytes wide so even though it took longer to request those 128 bytes, they came in so fast that the overall access time was reduced. So in short AMD cannot simply just increase the FSB and expect large gains in performance. They would also have to alter the cache/memory subsystem significantly, which would not be worth it since the Hammer chips are around the corner.
You can get 192 kbit files which sound no better and even worse than 128 kbit MP3 it's all down to the encoders. The latest version of LAME for example produces excellent quality files if you're willing to wait longer for your encoding. I've seen alot of 128Kbit MP3's encoded with intensity stereo which should only be used with 96 kbit or less rates. Also MP3 files tend to lose alot of harmonics regardless of the bitrate used, newer formats seem to do better in this regard. I personally like the sound of OGG and whilst I generally feel WMA sounds worse than MP3 some of files I've heard have sounded very "warm". Finally, 192 kbit is 50% larger and hence will take 50% longer to download and remember there are an awful lot of people who don't have broadband.
An MP3 is not the same quality as a CD, you cant get 11:1+ compression without throwing away some quality. It'ill be a while before the masses can download whole CD's at CD quality in a few minutes let alone something better than CD quality.
Yes, pretty much all that stuff was shipped from outside China. If you're in waste disposal you could give the stuff away plus pay shipping costs and still end up in the money (from not having to pay to get it dispossed properly).
As for making sure your stuff gets recycled there is no real way without paying money, thats right you normally have to pay to get things recycled (well atleast the places I looked at in the UK, flame me if I'm wrong).
The EU wants to force manufacturers that make disposalable goods to take back their stuff once it its used for recycling. However this will cause the price of goods to go up and the manufactures are n't too happy about it.
Whatever the solution is there is only a certain amount of resources on the planet. We (as in companies/people collectively) may think we are gaining now with cheap disposable stuff but if we carry on like this inevitably there will be a large price to pay.
I'm not an environmentalist but it's obvious from an economic point of view that we either buy-now and pay-later or decide to take out the monthly installment plan.
Just cover the lens with something that blocks the UV component.
It's not a matter of a few bits of code.. if you read the PDF it says they found over 120 identical functions inside the DLL.. I would hardly call that freak chance.
This is the CD equivalent of a dongle.. yes the CD can't be cracked but since there is interaction between the CD and the reading device someone will find a way to hack the device instead. Look at the number of apps which "require" a dongle to work but have been easily cracked.
Anyone who has used ICQ and been spammed by the "Hi I'm Candy/Britney/etc ;)" porn eliza bot will know how anoying these bots are. Ofcourse bots have existed for IRC from years ago but not in porn pushing form.
If they want to make money, go after the porn spammers, maybe some will pay-up but I doubt most would want to.
Well I would n't go by that Washington Post article since it's over one year old and OGG 1.0 has only recently been released.
By VBR160 I assume you mean using ABR with an average of 160 kb/s. ABR in ogg does not sound very good and it's the developers who say so. Use the quality option to control file size to hear how good OGG is.
As a side note, even CBR MP3's have an ability to vary the amount of data used for each frame via the what is known as the "Bit Reservoir". If a frame can be encoded with less data the redundant space can be filled with data for the next frame to use. Using this feature a frame can use additional data from upto two frames before it. So CBR MP3 is n't constant at all..
There's no such thing as an unbiased news source, everyone's got an agenda.
Sorry my, friend my comment was posted a good 5 hours before yours ;-)
None, it's an obvious solution however Dell giving away a practically useless OS (for most users anyway) is a sly move because I suspect that if it was some kind of Linux distro it would have seriously piss MS off.
Who else could n't see this comming? Having said that I was expecting it to be some kind of Linux distro.