Every four years or so just copy your old media to something with 3 times the capacity.
If you time the technologies correctly, it will transfer over at 3 times the original speed.
Both the hardware and the media should be 3 times cheaper (not just per unit storage).
But Windows includes so much unnecessary stuff in the basic install, you need 2GB.
I've seen 2GB FAT16 system partitions become 4GB FAT32 partitions and 8GB NTFS.
The reason for "small" C: drives was for re-imaging, quick backups, GHOST to optical, etc.
Even 4GB taxes novice techs applying SP2 without moving a pagefile over to D: with apps.
Hell, the new antivirus from Microsoft balks if there isn't 550MB free for installation!
Is a P2-350 with 64MB of RAM a decent Win2003 box?
Microsoft damned themselves on the subject 5 years ago when they specified the requirements in 2001 for XP.
The AMD 350-500MHz machines were "allowed" but certainly no better than a banned 200MHZ Pentium Pro.
XP effectively wiped out the 66MHz mass market Celeron 366MHz to 700MHz from upgrades two years later.
And I have yet to see a laptop with SDRAM that ever ran user apps better under XP than it did with Windows98.
Nah, it's applied science. Fire up an instance of Prime95 on a low-end Dell or HP unit,
heat them up for a few hours and see what is left over (sorry small form factor machines)
Instead of waxing nostalgic about product introductions, when is the last time you saw something and:
1) Told bosses that getting one of these would open great, new horizons?
2) Pleaded with teachers and administrators to make a historical decision?
3) Begged parents because something was revolutionary and not evolutionary?
4) Saw the future as wide-open because of a fantastic new tool for inventors?
Given the current global realities, shouldn't the debate be whether to comment
in Urdu with Perso-Arabic script, versus Sanskrit with the Devanagiri script ?
and I got literally twice as many 3dmarks as the laptop
With Windows, I saw improvement by turning off ClearType for flatpanels, and
other XP display options. Running benchmarks with the AC power connected helps as well.
The worst part with new laptops is you can't drop to full screen 800x600 to run faster.
It was the Apple//c (circa 1983), complete with an 80 column LCD
Popular? No. It was too expensive, the LCD screen was poor
I couldn't pry a IIc from people's fingers until 1993 when DOS 5.0 was replaced.
That Apple portable did everything many homes and businesses needed for those 10 years.
As for the 80 columns and LCD shades, the $4000 Powerbook 170 had neither on its screen
(although a 640-pixel width was a major selling point, except to the entire PC world)
Powerbook graphic screensavers were blackline Mandelbrot fractals and line-art toasters.
I use my old Sams series of "Learn... in 21 days" under my desk to level it.
One hour daily for those twenty-one chapters might take *weeks* to complete.
But now I finish in 24 hours since they added three sections to each title!
the UK is defending the idea that humans base their sense of time on the earth's rotation
If this Brits don't want the guys from the West making these changes, I suggest they convince their
countrymen to eat more figgy pudding and slow the rotation by facing West when they start farting.
You buy the fastest CPU you can afford at the time. And know that in another year you could buy twice the performance
If you are thinking about now and your next CPU purchase, just take $500 and buy 10 shares of AMD or Intel.
Take the remaining money and buy as much from AMD or Intel as you can get with what's leftover after investing.
24 months later, sell the stock and spend it all on whichever company *would* have been the smarter investment.
You win, and the company doing the beter job wins. Quite valid for over a decade, if you didn't buy in mid-2000.
Putting $500 up-front for a 4 year timeframe (on two processors) can keep you well-supplied in processing power.
Regardless, Archimedes did engineer various kinds of engines that were used in the siege
The point to a "death ray" was that you couldn't run naked in the streets back then, unless claiming a new discovery.
Man did not invent streaking until 1973 AD.
Members are only a part of AOL's revenue stream. They mostly make their money from advertising
Isn't that what Time-Warner said five years ago when grossly overpaying for AOL?
Once upon a time, AOL actually netted $20+ from more than two-thirds of members.
Doing the math you'd arrive at a half billion dollars per month of non-ad revenue.
I doubt they now get $99 million per month with all the free accounts for 45 days,
automatic 6 month membership for each Dell computer sold, and the 3 month bribes
when customers call the cancellation phone number. Anything to raise the numbers!
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AOL should no longer be charging existing members $23.90 a month *
Starting in July, one phone call will convert that old plan to $9.95
* Except when bundled with Star Office and that almost-free computer http://abcnews.go.com/Technology/ZDM/story?id=1209 653
Media Executives sit in meetings for hours on end
just trying to come up with ways to show more than
16 minutes of ads for every 44 minutes of program.
That signal-to-noise ratio of less than 3:1 was too
high, so they have now come up with a way to show
15 seconds of commercials for 30 seconds of content.
And their audience will clamor for more!
--
The common people know what they want
and deserve to get it good and hard
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If you time the technologies correctly, it will transfer over at 3 times the original speed.
Both the hardware and the media should be 3 times cheaper (not just per unit storage).
I've seen 2GB FAT16 system partitions become 4GB FAT32 partitions and 8GB NTFS.
The reason for "small" C: drives was for re-imaging, quick backups, GHOST to optical, etc.
Even 4GB taxes novice techs applying SP2 without moving a pagefile over to D: with apps.
Hell, the new antivirus from Microsoft balks if there isn't 550MB free for installation!
Microsoft damned themselves on the subject 5 years ago when they specified the requirements in 2001 for XP.
The AMD 350-500MHz machines were "allowed" but certainly no better than a banned 200MHZ Pentium Pro.
XP effectively wiped out the 66MHz mass market Celeron 366MHz to 700MHz from upgrades two years later.
And I have yet to see a laptop with SDRAM that ever ran user apps better under XP than it did with Windows98.
It's only a scratch ^H^H^H^H^H^H ... flesh wound.
--
Why listen to the various industry pundits now:
"CDs will not get scratches like record albums."
"DVDs are not susceptible to scratches like CDs"
Slashdotted every time the only link refers to a picture. You break it -- you buy it.
If only everyone would read the disclaimers ...
Would someone tell them 14:03 and 14:06 are not four times faster than 6:09 timings? A "true speed" 8X works for me.
And I delved far enough into the meat of the article to see that they mixed up captions and pictures for +R and -R at 16X
I'm going to read about the good kind first, then get to the others real soon now.
Nah, it's applied science. Fire up an instance of Prime95 on a low-end Dell or HP unit,
heat them up for a few hours and see what is left over (sorry small form factor machines)
Survival of the fittest ...
Instead of waxing nostalgic about product introductions, when is the last time you saw something and:
1) Told bosses that getting one of these would open great, new horizons?
2) Pleaded with teachers and administrators to make a historical decision?
3) Begged parents because something was revolutionary and not evolutionary?
4) Saw the future as wide-open because of a fantastic new tool for inventors?
Speaking of the obvious -- the USPTO takes fresh engineers and turns them into lawyers. Draw your own conclusions.
in Urdu with Perso-Arabic script, versus Sanskrit with the Devanagiri script ?
With Windows, I saw improvement by turning off ClearType for flatpanels, and other
XP display options. Running benchmarks with the AC power connected helps as well.
The worst part with new laptops is you can't drop to full screen 800x600 to run faster.
Or the upcoming diet colas where Pepsi_One and Coke_Zero become Pepsi 1.01 and Coke 0.1
Popular? No. It was too expensive, the LCD screen was poor
I couldn't pry a IIc from people's fingers until 1993 when DOS 5.0 was replaced.
That Apple portable did everything many homes and businesses needed for those 10 years.
As for the 80 columns and LCD shades, the $4000 Powerbook 170 had neither on its screen
(although a 640-pixel width was a major selling point, except to the entire PC world)
Powerbook graphic screensavers were blackline Mandelbrot fractals and line-art toasters.
* as long as it is Black & white
One hour daily for those twenty-one chapters might take *weeks* to complete.
But now I finish in 24 hours since they added three sections to each title!
MMMM ... piano rolls
If this Brits don't want the guys from the West making these changes, I suggest they convince their
countrymen to eat more figgy pudding and slow the rotation by facing West when they start farting.
1988 Word Perfect 1.0 for Amiga
1990 Word Perfect 1.0 for AtariST
Gravely injured one -- fatal for the others.
If you are thinking about now and your next CPU purchase, just take $500 and buy 10 shares of AMD or Intel.
Take the remaining money and buy as much from AMD or Intel as you can get with what's leftover after investing.
24 months later, sell the stock and spend it all on whichever company *would* have been the smarter investment.
You win, and the company doing the beter job wins. Quite valid for over a decade, if you didn't buy in mid-2000.
Putting $500 up-front for a 4 year timeframe (on two processors) can keep you well-supplied in processing power.
The point to a "death ray" was that you couldn't run naked in the streets back then, unless claiming a new discovery.
Man did not invent streaking until 1973 AD.
Isn't that what Time-Warner said five years ago when grossly overpaying for AOL?
Once upon a time, AOL actually netted $20+ from more than two-thirds of members.
Doing the math you'd arrive at a half billion dollars per month of non-ad revenue.
I doubt they now get $99 million per month with all the free accounts for 45 days,
automatic 6 month membership for each Dell computer sold, and the 3 month bribes
when customers call the cancellation phone number. Anything to raise the numbers!
--9 653
AOL should no longer be charging existing members $23.90 a month *
Starting in July, one phone call will convert that old plan to $9.95
* Except when bundled with Star Office and that almost-free computer
http://abcnews.go.com/Technology/ZDM/story?id=120
just trying to come up with ways to show more than
16 minutes of ads for every 44 minutes of program.
That signal-to-noise ratio of less than 3:1 was too
high, so they have now come up with a way to show
15 seconds of commercials for 30 seconds of content.
And their audience will clamor for more!
--
The common people know what they want
and deserve to get it good and hard
Some just keep patching holes.
The smart ones know when to bail."
designed to cool 15k RPM drives very quietly
I thought the point to having a rack of high RPM drives is that any fan
solution would be inaudible next to the din of 250 revs per second.