Things will balance out. As industry moves into areas the influx of knowledge and money tends to raise quality of life. This in turn slowly raises salaries till they balance with other markets. One of the principles of free trade is that when two economies open to each other things tend to balance out over the long term.
A good example of this would be Japan. In the 80's everyone was predicting the end of the US because Japan was going to take all our jobs away. It didn't happen then, I don't believe it will happen now.
That being said, things might become more competitive for the US in the future and there are certainly things that must be done to keep us going but I don't see the end of the country because of this.
Although the deal expired a couple days ago, you could have gotten a Dell 4700 desktop system with a 2.8Ghz P4, 512mb memory, 40gb hard drive, 17' LCD, keyboard, mouse, etc. for $499 with free shipping. Price to performance for most peoples needs the dell would pretty much destroy the Mac Mini.
If the extra cost is worthwhile then certainly, go ahead, but to some people $500 is a significant amount of money.
A nice option to be sure, but it does not support QAM (hdtv over cable). Any ideas on a linux supported HDTV card that does support QAM or if the pcHDTV 3000 will support it in the future?
without stopping any browser for 15 seconds (java) while it does its thing.
Just to clear up what seems to be a more common misconception then it should.
The author of the article is not referring to client side java (applets) but instead to server side java (jsp, servlets, j2ee). Server side java returns html just like php, perl, asp it just uses java as the processing language.
As far as I can guess, no legal card is ever going to support this unless the cable companies offer them. A card capable of decrypting encrypted channels would give access to the pay channels which just ain't going to happen.
I have heard that some DVB cards have support for inserting a flash card that will allow for some decryption so we may see something like that in the hdtv world someday but I am not holding my breath.
For small workplace settings / lan routing where a little added latency and limited bandwidth is not an issue this is a great solution and companies like cisco will probably see their market share eroded a bit.
However, backbone routing, especially anything with packet shaping, is not going to be software only driven for a while simply because the customized ICUs in routers are so much better at this then commoditiy hardware.
Sure it does. Most dvds are around 8 mbit/s. 802.11b is 10 mbit/s but with the issues it is more realistically 5 mbit/s. However, 802.11g has the bandwidth to carry a dvd no problem.
Or that Slashdot Kerry voters are more likely to comment. Or that the poll is worded to make Kerry look better (i.e. Are you for Kerry or against Bush).
I think we will all have to wait till the election is over before we know what the results are. Polls are simply educated guesses.
Correct me if I am wrong, but I believe that you would be limited to non-encrypted signals with dvb capable cards. That would pretty much leave you with local channels...
I have thought about this before. Sounds like fun at first until you realize that somebody would end up as a defensive lineman. That, coupled with the fact that most games pretty much require a computer player to run the routes properly anyway...
1) Fast interconnect between chips. Instead of having to transfer data over the bus, if the CPU needed info from the other CPU it could transfer over a high speed connection without having to involve other parts of the machine (bus). AMD already has a sort of high speed interconnect to their multi-cpu motherboards instead of splitting like intel does but I would imagine that this would still be faster.
2) Less motherboard room needed. You don't need dual cooling fans, dual power / interface lines and have more room overall on the motherboard.
Ummm....ASP and JSP are both server side scripting language. i.e. They have nothing to do with what the web page looks like (well, they generate the code for what the web page looks like but that doesn't matter to the end user).
Turning off vsync allows the video card to produce more frames per second. However, the limiting factor is still your monitor. If your card produces 600 fps in quake 3 but your refresh rate is 85hz, the most frames you will ever see is 85.
Disabling vsync is really only useful for benchmarks because it shows how many frames per second the card could create. However, for actual game play you might then experience "tearing" where you get half of one frame and half of the next because the video buffer is being written while the monitor refresh is happening.
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Because Pakistan, China, Iran, etc. are not in that list?
--Professor Hubert J Farnsworth (Futurama)
Bah, I have never had more fun playing a FPS then when my four college buddies and I would team up to beat Doom 2 levels in nightmare difficulty COOP.
Also never been presented with more of a challenge.
Man, you sure don't have a sense of humor...and also some pretty selective vision.
3.A Stupid Republican Quote Widget.
I would tend to disagree.
Things will balance out. As industry moves into areas the influx of knowledge and money tends to raise quality of life. This in turn slowly raises salaries till they balance with other markets. One of the principles of free trade is that when two economies open to each other things tend to balance out over the long term.
A good example of this would be Japan. In the 80's everyone was predicting the end of the US because Japan was going to take all our jobs away. It didn't happen then, I don't believe it will happen now.
That being said, things might become more competitive for the US in the future and there are certainly things that must be done to keep us going but I don't see the end of the country because of this.
Although the deal expired a couple days ago, you could have gotten a Dell 4700 desktop system with a 2.8Ghz P4, 512mb memory, 40gb hard drive, 17' LCD, keyboard, mouse, etc. for $499 with free shipping. Price to performance for most peoples needs the dell would pretty much destroy the Mac Mini.
If the extra cost is worthwhile then certainly, go ahead, but to some people $500 is a significant amount of money.
A nice option to be sure, but it does not support QAM (hdtv over cable). Any ideas on a linux supported HDTV card that does support QAM or if the pcHDTV 3000 will support it in the future?
without stopping any browser for 15 seconds (java) while it does its thing.
Just to clear up what seems to be a more common misconception then it should.
The author of the article is not referring to client side java (applets) but instead to server side java (jsp, servlets, j2ee). Server side java returns html just like php, perl, asp it just uses java as the processing language.
and even went so far as to question Microsoft's motivation as profit.
Of course their motivation is profit. It might not be immediate profit but long term squeezing out competition is Microsoft's way of making profit.
I guess I see the guys point but I am pretty sure that profit is the long term goal of Microsoft with the XBox.
As far as I can guess, no legal card is ever going to support this unless the cable companies offer them. A card capable of decrypting encrypted channels would give access to the pay channels which just ain't going to happen.
I have heard that some DVB cards have support for inserting a flash card that will allow for some decryption so we may see something like that in the hdtv world someday but I am not holding my breath.
Eh, this is talking about their IT infrastructure. It would look pretty bad if it was based on unix servers and oracle databases.
I'll bet you anything that they have unix servers and oracles databases for comparison purposes though.
Looks like a dirty camera lens to me ;-)
From the XORP FAQ:
Software forwarding plane limits forwarding rate
For small workplace settings / lan routing where a little added latency and limited bandwidth is not an issue this is a great solution and companies like cisco will probably see their market share eroded a bit.
However, backbone routing, especially anything with packet shaping, is not going to be software only driven for a while simply because the customized ICUs in routers are so much better at this then commoditiy hardware.
I don't know...over the years trying to comprehend man files has raised my blood pressure more then a few points.
Sure it does. Most dvds are around 8 mbit/s. 802.11b is 10 mbit/s but with the issues it is more realistically 5 mbit/s. However, 802.11g has the bandwidth to carry a dvd no problem.
It's not true. Based on a satire piece that "fooled many a news publication and is still occasionally cited as a genuine by gullible reporters".
Snopes talks about it here
Ah, another "gullible". Check this:
Satire gone bad
Or that Slashdot Kerry voters are more likely to comment. Or that the poll is worded to make Kerry look better (i.e. Are you for Kerry or against Bush).
I think we will all have to wait till the election is over before we know what the results are. Polls are simply educated guesses.
Correct me if I am wrong, but I believe that you would be limited to non-encrypted signals with dvb capable cards. That would pretty much leave you with local channels...
Well, that was fun....
No, wait, the other word....tedious.
I have thought about this before. Sounds like fun at first until you realize that somebody would end up as a defensive lineman. That, coupled with the fact that most games pretty much require a computer player to run the routes properly anyway...
Kinda. I could see a couple advantages though:
1) Fast interconnect between chips. Instead of having to transfer data over the bus, if the CPU needed info from the other CPU it could transfer over a high speed connection without having to involve other parts of the machine (bus). AMD already has a sort of high speed interconnect to their multi-cpu motherboards instead of splitting like intel does but I would imagine that this would still be faster.
2) Less motherboard room needed. You don't need dual cooling fans, dual power / interface lines and have more room overall on the motherboard.
Ummm....ASP and JSP are both server side scripting language. i.e. They have nothing to do with what the web page looks like (well, they generate the code for what the web page looks like but that doesn't matter to the end user).
Near River Falls, WI there used to be a store for Taxidermy and Cheese. Don't know if it is still around or not.
Turning off vsync allows the video card to produce more frames per second. However, the limiting factor is still your monitor. If your card produces 600 fps in quake 3 but your refresh rate is 85hz, the most frames you will ever see is 85.
Disabling vsync is really only useful for benchmarks because it shows how many frames per second the card could create. However, for actual game play you might then experience "tearing" where you get half of one frame and half of the next because the video buffer is being written while the monitor refresh is happening.