Wow, you need to stop crying about the fact that the Xbox sold poorly in Japan. Get over it! This myth about Japanese "pride" keeping them from using foreign technologies is absurd.
Well, IMHO read spead is more important anyway, at least for most users. If you're going to work with a lot of data, you'll probably want a bigger drive than 32 GB anyway. Now, with faster read speed, applications such as Office and Photoshop and such will start up a lot faster. Swap file access will also be faster (arbuably, just installing 8 GB of RAM or whatever might be more economical and effective). Anyway, it'll be a lot *snappier*!
I wonder if we in the near future will see hybrid systems with flash-based drives for applications and swap space, and hard disk drives for data storage.
Why would you want do? I don't. 100 million other people don't want to either. 3 people on Slashdot do. Fine, they can buy a Cowon or Creative or whatever. Apple is doing something right at least.
That said, this article annoys me. I'm getting an 80 GB iPod next week (father making business trip to the US, and I'll use the chance to get him to pick up one for 2/3 of what it would cost me here...). Here's hoping the widescreen rumors are false.:P Don't care much about the wireless though - what's the use for that anyway?
This is an interesting post. I agree Wikipedia is a pretty accurate source for pure, non-filtered, information. What I don't necessarily agree with is your claims of bias - while I can see the bias toward topics that nerds are often interested in (what's with the huge amounts of articles on anime characters?), I don't see where the claim of liberal bias comes from. With regards to political topics, Wikipedia seems very unbiased, as it should, given its NPOV policy and large amounts of editors with different opinions which are moderated by each other. The result is, as it appears to me, plain facts, unprocessed by the giant propaganda machines. I think thus it's a good utility to moderate anyone's worldview, because the facts are most often less extreme than they are presented elsewhere. (Warning: I'm somewhat drunk right now, and I don't live in the US, which I perceive as being in general much more inclined toward the right in economic matters than the society in which I live.)
I've got the 500 GB Premium edition. Before this I had a USB2-SATA2 HDD enclosure with a 250 GB drive. One thing I like about the drive is how it automatically spins down when the computer is turned off, or has been inactive for a while, and spins up when it's accessed. It can be a little annoying waiting for the drive to spin up sometimes, but it's much better than trying to access it and getting errors - iTunes thinking my music isn't there anymore, for instance - because I've forgotten to turn it on. It doesn't sound like a big issue, but it's worth a bunch to me. Using the FW400 interface. Wonder if the LaCie drive works as well.
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Yes they do, and have for over one and a half years now. Desktops, that is.
On laptops you have to either hold ctrl or keep two fingers on the trackpad while clicking to get the same effect. Before you call this ugly, I would like to say that I find the two-finger method much more comfortable than having to move my thumb to right-click when using the trackpad on a made-for-Windows laptop. That said, I use a Logitech mouse with my MacBook.
To come slightly back on topic, one thing I dislike most about XP is the N A G G I N G. I *know* I don't have a firewall active; I'm behind a university-wide firewall! I *know* I don't have anti-virus installed; I'm careful enough not to need it. And what's with the Autoplay dialog popping up searching my 500 GB FireWire drive for media to play every time I connect it (and the "do this every time" option is greyed out)? And why does it take 5 minutes to install drivers every time I connect a different mouse to the computer? Simple peripherals, such as mice, keyboards, external harddrives, printers and the like should just work when you connect them to the computer. Why does Windows XP, which is supposed to have such great hardware support, fail at this? Is Vista better perhaps?
This is not an entirely direct reply to your post, but I was wondering about something. What if you ran ReactOS inside a semi-transparent virtual machine, like Classic on PowerPC Macs? That worked pretty well; sure, it had some compatibility problems, but for the most part it was pretty good. Would this work for ReactOS within Linux as well?
Of course, Microsoft actually lost a lot of money on all of its consumer electronics products, so looking at profits, Apple earned $1 billion compared to Microsoft's total $3.4 billion in profit.
Rouding up, Apple's profits are 30% of Microsoft's.
Next semester I will be studying in China and I'm looking forward to experiencing the Great Firewall firsthand... or perhaps not. I expect I'm probably going to need to use a proxy to visit a lot of sites. It really depends on the situation; in my situation I would say that a proxy is entirely ethical.
You are right about the slow hard drive! I've got a MacBook with a 60 GB HD, and when it's this fast otherwise, it kills me how long it takes to load apps! Fortunately I sprung for 2 GB of RAM, so I don't have to use disk cache so much, but damn it's still annoying. Definitely to buy a bigger and faster hard drive when I go to China this summer.
War \War\, n. [OE. & AS. werre; akin to OHG. werra scandal,
quarrel, sedition, werran to confound, mix, D. warren, G.
wirren, verwirren, to embroil, confound, disturb, and perhaps
to E. worse; cf. OF. werre war, F. querre, of Teutonic
origin. Cf. Guerrilla, Warrior.]
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whether for defence, for revenging insults and redressing
wrongs, for the extension of commerce, for the acquisition
of territory, for obtaining and establishing the
superiority and dominion of one over the other, or for any
other purpose; armed conflict of sovereign powers;
declared and open hostilities.
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Men will ever distinguish war from mere bloodshed.
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Robertson.
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Note: As war is the contest of nations or states, it always
implies that such contest is authorized by the monarch
or the sovereign power of the nation. A war begun by
attacking another nation, is called an offensive war,
and such attack is aggressive. War undertaken to repel
invasion, or the attacks of an enemy, is called
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George W. Bush is the "monarch" (might just as well be) of the United States, and he authorized this offensive war in order to obtain and establish the superiority and dominion of another, and to extend commerce.
I've been reading Jung Chang and Joe Halliday's biography of Mao, and I see a parallel between Mao's absolute disregard of human life and that of Bush.
I'm pretty sure an XP install disc with SP2 slipstreamed will have SATA support, FWIW. Boot Camp requires a Windows disc with SP2 slipstreamed to install on a Mac, and I suspect this has something to do with all Macs using SATA drives.
I wonder what makes the web browser so much more usable than other mobile browsers such as Opera. The main problem with mobile browsers is that the displays don't hold enough pixels to show much of the page as once. The screen resolution on the iPhone is good, but it's not great. It could have been a lot better. Here's a phone with a VGA display: that is twice as many pixels as the iPhone: http://www.vodafone.com/assets/files/en/VKK_NewsRe lease_904SH_sale_e.pdf
Yes, these are of course Japanese phones, and Japanese phones are for some reason much more advanced than western phones. When I was there for a year I had a phone with a QVGA display, that is half of the amount of pixels the iPhone has, and it was free with the plan, which was 2400 yen a month (about $20 I guess) with a one-year contract. That's with included minutes and traffic, which I for the most part didn't exceed. Oh, I should mention that this was three years ago. Now, I like Apple (I have a MacBook and an iPod as proof), but the iPhone didn't impress me much.:(
Am I the only one who's disappointed in the display resolution? I would have expected twice that amount of pixels considering the phone is just one big screen. Look at this Japanese clamshell phone with a resolution of 480x690 and at 332 dpi! http://www.nttdocomo.co.jp/product/foma/903i/n903i /topics_01.html
That would rely on your broker having a number of these stocks to lend you, which is very unlikely given that it is as mentioned in a post below you hosted on the United States Pink Sheets Exchange.
Well that's good news! I hope then that the Wii will also be able to force Gamecube games to output in 480p. I was investigating the possibilites of connecting consoles to my display a few weeks ago, and from what I could tell there were no adapters that would allow me to plug a console with an interlaced component output to a display that doesn't support it - and a cheap LCD monitor wouldn't support that. Hope this will work, then.:)
Oh well, at least it has progressive scan. What I'm wondering is whether progressive scan will work for Gamecube games, and also whether there will be a VGA adapter... poor college students without TVs need this kind of information! Geez.
Oh, I agree on the concept of consoles being superior to PCs when it comes to games; I sold off my gaming desktop and now only own a MacBook. Going to buy a console in the near future and connect it to my computer display.:)
I don't know about 1920x1080, but my 7800GT ran Oblivion at 1600x1200. Not the best framerate, but not bad at all. And it didn't cost me anywhere near $600.
Very true. I ran some tests, and found out my external 3.5" 7200 RPM 250 GB USB2 HD is about 50% faster than my internal 2.5" 5400 RPM 60 GB SATA HD for both read and write operations. Only negative is that it appears to take longer to access individual files. Anyone know if FireWire would be better in that aspect? Still, I find even running games from it is working without problems - of course, I've only run older games such as UT and Serious Sam, given that I'm limited by an Intel GMA 950 (MacBook).
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Wow, you need to stop crying about the fact that the Xbox sold poorly in Japan. Get over it! This myth about Japanese "pride" keeping them from using foreign technologies is absurd.
I wonder if we in the near future will see hybrid systems with flash-based drives for applications and swap space, and hard disk drives for data storage.
That said, this article annoys me. I'm getting an 80 GB iPod next week (father making business trip to the US, and I'll use the chance to get him to pick up one for 2/3 of what it would cost me here...). Here's hoping the widescreen rumors are false. :P Don't care much about the wireless though - what's the use for that anyway?
This is an interesting post. I agree Wikipedia is a pretty accurate source for pure, non-filtered, information. What I don't necessarily agree with is your claims of bias - while I can see the bias toward topics that nerds are often interested in (what's with the huge amounts of articles on anime characters?), I don't see where the claim of liberal bias comes from. With regards to political topics, Wikipedia seems very unbiased, as it should, given its NPOV policy and large amounts of editors with different opinions which are moderated by each other. The result is, as it appears to me, plain facts, unprocessed by the giant propaganda machines. I think thus it's a good utility to moderate anyone's worldview, because the facts are most often less extreme than they are presented elsewhere. (Warning: I'm somewhat drunk right now, and I don't live in the US, which I perceive as being in general much more inclined toward the right in economic matters than the society in which I live.)
I've got the 500 GB Premium edition. Before this I had a USB2-SATA2 HDD enclosure with a 250 GB drive. One thing I like about the drive is how it automatically spins down when the computer is turned off, or has been inactive for a while, and spins up when it's accessed. It can be a little annoying waiting for the drive to spin up sometimes, but it's much better than trying to access it and getting errors - iTunes thinking my music isn't there anymore, for instance - because I've forgotten to turn it on. It doesn't sound like a big issue, but it's worth a bunch to me. Using the FW400 interface. Wonder if the LaCie drive works as well.
On laptops you have to either hold ctrl or keep two fingers on the trackpad while clicking to get the same effect. Before you call this ugly, I would like to say that I find the two-finger method much more comfortable than having to move my thumb to right-click when using the trackpad on a made-for-Windows laptop. That said, I use a Logitech mouse with my MacBook.
To come slightly back on topic, one thing I dislike most about XP is the N A G G I N G. I *know* I don't have a firewall active; I'm behind a university-wide firewall! I *know* I don't have anti-virus installed; I'm careful enough not to need it. And what's with the Autoplay dialog popping up searching my 500 GB FireWire drive for media to play every time I connect it (and the "do this every time" option is greyed out)? And why does it take 5 minutes to install drivers every time I connect a different mouse to the computer? Simple peripherals, such as mice, keyboards, external harddrives, printers and the like should just work when you connect them to the computer. Why does Windows XP, which is supposed to have such great hardware support, fail at this? Is Vista better perhaps?
So they should postpone launch until they have enough units to fill demand, instead of selling them as they make them. Brilliant.
This is not an entirely direct reply to your post, but I was wondering about something. What if you ran ReactOS inside a semi-transparent virtual machine, like Classic on PowerPC Macs? That worked pretty well; sure, it had some compatibility problems, but for the most part it was pretty good. Would this work for ReactOS within Linux as well?
Of course, Microsoft actually lost a lot of money on all of its consumer electronics products, so looking at profits, Apple earned $1 billion compared to Microsoft's total $3.4 billion in profit.
Rouding up, Apple's profits are 30% of Microsoft's.
Next semester I will be studying in China and I'm looking forward to experiencing the Great Firewall firsthand... or perhaps not. I expect I'm probably going to need to use a proxy to visit a lot of sites. It really depends on the situation; in my situation I would say that a proxy is entirely ethical.
You are right about the slow hard drive! I've got a MacBook with a 60 GB HD, and when it's this fast otherwise, it kills me how long it takes to load apps! Fortunately I sprung for 2 GB of RAM, so I don't have to use disk cache so much, but damn it's still annoying. Definitely to buy a bigger and faster hard drive when I go to China this summer.
EU != Europe
Quoting an old dictionary here...
George W. Bush is the "monarch" (might just as well be) of the United States, and he authorized this offensive war in order to obtain and establish the superiority and dominion of another, and to extend commerce.
I've been reading Jung Chang and Joe Halliday's biography of Mao, and I see a parallel between Mao's absolute disregard of human life and that of Bush.
I'm pretty sure an XP install disc with SP2 slipstreamed will have SATA support, FWIW. Boot Camp requires a Windows disc with SP2 slipstreamed to install on a Mac, and I suspect this has something to do with all Macs using SATA drives.
No, no! this is FF3. :(
Here's an even better one, a "VGA+" display at 690x480. http://www.nttdocomo.co.jp/product/foma/903i/n903i /topics_01.html .
Yes, these are of course Japanese phones, and Japanese phones are for some reason much more advanced than western phones. When I was there for a year I had a phone with a QVGA display, that is half of the amount of pixels the iPhone has, and it was free with the plan, which was 2400 yen a month (about $20 I guess) with a one-year contract. That's with included minutes and traffic, which I for the most part didn't exceed. Oh, I should mention that this was three years ago. Now, I like Apple (I have a MacBook and an iPod as proof), but the iPhone didn't impress me much. :(
Am I the only one who's disappointed in the display resolution? I would have expected twice that amount of pixels considering the phone is just one big screen. Look at this Japanese clamshell phone with a resolution of 480x690 and at 332 dpi! http://www.nttdocomo.co.jp/product/foma/903i/n903i /topics_01.html
That would rely on your broker having a number of these stocks to lend you, which is very unlikely given that it is as mentioned in a post below you hosted on the United States Pink Sheets Exchange.
Sounds like fun to me, actually. I'd do it for free.
Well that's good news! I hope then that the Wii will also be able to force Gamecube games to output in 480p. I was investigating the possibilites of connecting consoles to my display a few weeks ago, and from what I could tell there were no adapters that would allow me to plug a console with an interlaced component output to a display that doesn't support it - and a cheap LCD monitor wouldn't support that. Hope this will work, then. :)
Oh well, at least it has progressive scan. What I'm wondering is whether progressive scan will work for Gamecube games, and also whether there will be a VGA adapter... poor college students without TVs need this kind of information! Geez.
I sure hope people aren't wearing noise-cancelling headphones while riding their bikes to work! *That* sounds dangerous.
Oh, I agree on the concept of consoles being superior to PCs when it comes to games; I sold off my gaming desktop and now only own a MacBook. Going to buy a console in the near future and connect it to my computer display. :)
I don't know about 1920x1080, but my 7800GT ran Oblivion at 1600x1200. Not the best framerate, but not bad at all. And it didn't cost me anywhere near $600.
Very true. I ran some tests, and found out my external 3.5" 7200 RPM 250 GB USB2 HD is about 50% faster than my internal 2.5" 5400 RPM 60 GB SATA HD for both read and write operations. Only negative is that it appears to take longer to access individual files. Anyone know if FireWire would be better in that aspect? Still, I find even running games from it is working without problems - of course, I've only run older games such as UT and Serious Sam, given that I'm limited by an Intel GMA 950 (MacBook).