The PPC architecture is much more efficient and powerful for the energy it uses than any x86 chip could ever hope to be.
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Uh...have you ever played a game at below 50 FPS? It gets a bit choppy at times in fast motion. The fact of the matter is, NTSC is by no means fluid enough. It only looks that way because of clever camera manipulation and blurring to disguise the stutters. The eye does not have a specific frame rate, but the eye can distinguish easily over 100 FPS in black and white, and at least 70 FPS in color if enough attention is paid. The actual point at which flicker disappears is around 16-20 FPS, but the eye can notice something is choppy way beyond that in high-action scenes.
This is why people still need video cards that can do 60-70 FPS with all the eye candy pumped up to the max, because anything lower than that will annoy you to no end.
Two different markets. No person who respects their money at all and does a lot of rough work would buy a hard drive based player...that's the flash drive market.
However, flash drives are simply not big enough to hold someone's whole music collection(excluding those of you who have 100 GB of music...how the hell do you end up listening to all of that, anyway?), so that's where the hard drive players come in.
However, all the devices I've seen do not do that. They seem to cater to the nerd crowd...the ones that don't mind searching through various levels of menus and hard-to-use options just to get the settings just right.
While that is just fine for the/. crowd...there are a lot more people who DON'T want to do this. They want a device that just works. They don't want OGG support, nor do they want 50 different settings that control the exact levels for each frequency. They want a device that they can pick up, press a button or two, scroll a bit, and find the song they want to play. They also don't want a clunky device that has a lot of buttons. The iPod is perfect in this respect. Nice, small, sleek, and a nice wheel with 4 buttons, one to a side(How could you think of anything more intuitive than that?)...that's all that people really want, and they will pay extra for it.
I bought a 3G 20 GB iPod back in January, but if I were given the chance to do it over again, I would make the same choice.
Linux is different because it was not developed by a corporation. It was developed mostly by a group of people who felt that they wanted to contribute to the greater good of the computing world a new operating system.
If Linux were developed from the start by a corporation, it would be a lot different(if not in design, then in spirit).
I think it's perfectly fair. People should learn to be smart about taking precautions online to avoid this stuff...and this is a tough lesson for them to learn. Maybe they'll actually take the time to learn after they pay 30-60 dollars to remove spyware...
What about using an OCR system to capture each word as a whole and analyze it? Tell it to read each character as the letter...or even better...tell it to just treat all "l33ted" words as spam.
No person you actually want to talk to uses l33t-speak, anyway. At least, I hope not...
One problem...even if they do exist, they cannot interact with normal matter(as it would cause a violation of causality...not going to happen), at least by any means we know of.
That said, perhaps one day we will discover how to take advantage of tachyons, even if it does seem impossible today.
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If you go by clock speed, of course.
The PPC architecture is much more efficient and powerful for the energy it uses than any x86 chip could ever hope to be.
Uh...have you ever played a game at below 50 FPS? It gets a bit choppy at times in fast motion. The fact of the matter is, NTSC is by no means fluid enough. It only looks that way because of clever camera manipulation and blurring to disguise the stutters. The eye does not have a specific frame rate, but the eye can distinguish easily over 100 FPS in black and white, and at least 70 FPS in color if enough attention is paid. The actual point at which flicker disappears is around 16-20 FPS, but the eye can notice something is choppy way beyond that in high-action scenes.
This is why people still need video cards that can do 60-70 FPS with all the eye candy pumped up to the max, because anything lower than that will annoy you to no end.
Then again...if everyone was seperated from everyone else...would there be violence? Would people even care to hurt others in real life?
Humanity, for all of it's strengths, is definitely something that should be improved upon, whether by technology or elsewise.
Simple solution...kill the spammers and the companies that fund them.
Some people might actually want to, god forbid, have fun with their computers...
This isn't flash memory...this is DDR2 RAM.
256MB chips? That IS something to talk about.
Funny...the Firefox 1.0PR is more mature than IE "Gamma-test" 6.0
If you're rich enough to build all that stuff into your house, you would probably install a fire-supressant system as well.
One time pad. Impossible to crack, as the key is as long as the message itself.
As for subverting the servers...use an OS designed for security and minimize the chances of an exploit.
The fact that you cannot measure the photons without changing their orientation.
That's a basic law...nothing you can do will be able to overcome that.
Or did he? No one knows...until you open the box, that is.
You could always create 10 extra universes and use those as hard drives.
That is...until you realize you're not going to be able to even get every piece of information in the first place(uncertainty principle).
Two different markets. No person who respects their money at all and does a lot of rough work would buy a hard drive based player...that's the flash drive market.
However, flash drives are simply not big enough to hold someone's whole music collection(excluding those of you who have 100 GB of music...how the hell do you end up listening to all of that, anyway?), so that's where the hard drive players come in.
However, all the devices I've seen do not do that. They seem to cater to the nerd crowd...the ones that don't mind searching through various levels of menus and hard-to-use options just to get the settings just right.
/. crowd...there are a lot more people who DON'T want to do this. They want a device that just works. They don't want OGG support, nor do they want 50 different settings that control the exact levels for each frequency. They want a device that they can pick up, press a button or two, scroll a bit, and find the song they want to play. They also don't want a clunky device that has a lot of buttons. The iPod is perfect in this respect. Nice, small, sleek, and a nice wheel with 4 buttons, one to a side(How could you think of anything more intuitive than that?)...that's all that people really want, and they will pay extra for it.
While that is just fine for the
I bought a 3G 20 GB iPod back in January, but if I were given the chance to do it over again, I would make the same choice.
Then what would you suggest they do to correct the problem? Building bigger pipes is about the ONLY thing we can do to combat the DDOS attacks.
I don't believe parents should be able to bar their kids from reading books, either.
Kids should be allowed to form their own opinions, without negative influence from parents, teachers, and politicians.
Linux is different because it was not developed by a corporation. It was developed mostly by a group of people who felt that they wanted to contribute to the greater good of the computing world a new operating system.
If Linux were developed from the start by a corporation, it would be a lot different(if not in design, then in spirit).
I think it's perfectly fair. People should learn to be smart about taking precautions online to avoid this stuff...and this is a tough lesson for them to learn. Maybe they'll actually take the time to learn after they pay 30-60 dollars to remove spyware...
What about using an OCR system to capture each word as a whole and analyze it? Tell it to read each character as the letter...or even better...tell it to just treat all "l33ted" words as spam.
No person you actually want to talk to uses l33t-speak, anyway. At least, I hope not...
Reading decompiled code? Man, that would suck...
It's in the Calendars folder on the iPod.
Except that a decent Mac video system(with Final Cut Pro) will cost much, much less than almost any other professional-level video setup.
One problem...even if they do exist, they cannot interact with normal matter(as it would cause a violation of causality...not going to happen), at least by any means we know of.
That said, perhaps one day we will discover how to take advantage of tachyons, even if it does seem impossible today.
How about actually having the DNA code for proteins that contain the message? It wouldn't be considered "junk" at that point, and would be preserved.
So? Their music sucks as well.