At the time, the consensus was that Apple expected native Firewire drives to appear (instead of IDE drives with Firewire adapters stuck on), so they could be used internally on that machine. That never happened, so Apple took the unusual step of realizing that their idea was not going to spread like wildfire and trigger a massive wave of manufacturer support and dropped the internal port on future motherboards.
"Minimal"? Maybe on the original 5-10GB iPods, but the current non-mini generation goes from 20 to 60G, which is as much or more space than many midrange computers (especially ones you'd be likely to encounter in a university lab or internet cafe).
Fine- you're competent enough to confidently run exposed boxes, you're competent enough to call up the company and tell them exactly how you want the connection to be configured. But why shouldn't everyone else be secure by default? If they don't know how to protect themselves from viruses and install patches, they probably aren't going to care about not being able to run servers.
It's not so much "I don't need it" as the zero or negligible performance gains SLI results in. If it was actually an improvement on a cheaper solution I wouldn't care, but they are literally throwing away money, and rather a lot of it.
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Parallel CPUs: SMP
Parallel graphics cards: SLI
Parallel RAM: Dual channel memory
Parallel HDs: RAID
Parallel monitors: Dual-head cards or OS support for multiple cards
Parallel NICs: Multihoming, multipoint PPP over "double 56k" modems
Parallel keyboards and mice: USB and daisychaining
Maybe in the future, each workstation in a lab will have its own Beowulf cluster...
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What about those of us who want to spend a sane amount of money on their computers? Gamers are getting almost as bad as audiophiles these days.
In case it wasn't clear, I was talking about Bill's views, not my own.
I don't share the extreme "schools are an evil cesspool of groupthink, censorship, and special ed candidates" view that a lot of fresh-out-of-highschool/.ers seem to have. However, there are clearly problems with the current system that, if fixed, would result in better educations and morale in schools.
That's just "broken". Something is obsolete when it is superseded by a superior alternative. I'd be very happy if current high schools were obsolete- it would mean the kids had somewhere else to go that would give them a better education. Sadly this is not the case, so "obsolete" is incorrect.
The problem is the opposite of what you think it is- NY and LA don't appear in films and TV shows set in them all that often, because it's so expensive to shoot there. They are only really visible in establishing shots that may as well be (and probably are) stock footage, followed by locations and buildings that aren't actually in the city.
Current games were developed targeting 64 or 128MB graphics cards as the majority and 256MB as the high end, so there are very few scenes with more than 128MB of content in them. Adding more RAM will not increase performance or quality in this case, since it's just left empty. Games won't begin to really take advantage of 512MB of VRAM until a significant percentage of the market owns it.
That's unlikely, as most IM systems are centralized (with admittedly trivial authentication, but it's still far harder than, say, SMTP, which lets any system talk to any other with zero authentication until SPF-type accountability schemes take off).
Although, you just gave me a horrible idea: A trojan that uses a stored password and buddy list to spim people under your name. Something like that could destroy instant messaging.
I agree that my abacus has a very intuitive interface and gets awesome battery life, but it seems to be taking a long time to compile a kernel. Anyone have tips for optimizing this?
We're not building a nightmare or a paradise. We're building technology that can be used for a variety of purposes. If we refrained from building anything that someone somewhere might put to a use someone somewhere else might disapprove of, we wouldn't have most of the things Slashdot reports on.
To rebut this analogy by torturing it further- If you drop the sand onto the floor, you know where it will end up with a few meters precision. If you drop the sand off the roof of a ten-story building, you are far less certain.
I suspect that the withdrawal is not just legitimate but explicitly required- if the Senate does not ratify the treaty, then the US is not considered to have signed it and there should be no US signature on it.
You do not need to own an iPod to use the ITMS. I don't think Apple has said how many active users there are, but I'm sure it's significantly larger than the number of iPod owners (therefore, the average songs per ipod increases).
The real issue may be what's in the TOS, but the REAL real issue is what's enforceable. Only the game can stop people from exploiting the game before they interfere with someone else's experience.
Information can be free, sure. The process of obtaining that free information is not necessarily free. The free information is hosted on a server that must be bought, and transmitted over a connection that must be bought. If it's a large-scale hosting project, support staff must be present to keep it working, and these staff must be paid. The person accessing the information is paying their ISP for their own connection, and had to buy their own computer. How much would you pay for a wikipedia that responded to requests as fast as Google does to searches?
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At the time, the consensus was that Apple expected native Firewire drives to appear (instead of IDE drives with Firewire adapters stuck on), so they could be used internally on that machine. That never happened, so Apple took the unusual step of realizing that their idea was not going to spread like wildfire and trigger a massive wave of manufacturer support and dropped the internal port on future motherboards.
Heh... I wonder if you could fit an "iPod drive" in a standard 5.25" drive bay. It would be like a Jaz, only the cartridges are 20-60G and play music!
"Minimal"? Maybe on the original 5-10GB iPods, but the current non-mini generation goes from 20 to 60G, which is as much or more space than many midrange computers (especially ones you'd be likely to encounter in a university lab or internet cafe).
Fine- you're competent enough to confidently run exposed boxes, you're competent enough to call up the company and tell them exactly how you want the connection to be configured. But why shouldn't everyone else be secure by default? If they don't know how to protect themselves from viruses and install patches, they probably aren't going to care about not being able to run servers.
The best part of that warning is how it raises the possibility that the bag of peanuts does not contain peanuts.
It's not so much "I don't need it" as the zero or negligible performance gains SLI results in. If it was actually an improvement on a cheaper solution I wouldn't care, but they are literally throwing away money, and rather a lot of it.
- Parallel CPUs: SMP
- Parallel graphics cards: SLI
- Parallel RAM: Dual channel memory
- Parallel HDs: RAID
- Parallel monitors: Dual-head cards or OS support for multiple cards
- Parallel NICs: Multihoming, multipoint PPP over "double 56k" modems
- Parallel keyboards and mice: USB and daisychaining
Maybe in the future, each workstation in a lab will have its own Beowulf cluster...What about those of us who want to spend a sane amount of money on their computers? Gamers are getting almost as bad as audiophiles these days.
In case it wasn't clear, I was talking about Bill's views, not my own.
/.ers seem to have. However, there are clearly problems with the current system that, if fixed, would result in better educations and morale in schools.
I don't share the extreme "schools are an evil cesspool of groupthink, censorship, and special ed candidates" view that a lot of fresh-out-of-highschool
That's just "broken". Something is obsolete when it is superseded by a superior alternative. I'd be very happy if current high schools were obsolete- it would mean the kids had somewhere else to go that would give them a better education. Sadly this is not the case, so "obsolete" is incorrect.
The problem is the opposite of what you think it is- NY and LA don't appear in films and TV shows set in them all that often, because it's so expensive to shoot there. They are only really visible in establishing shots that may as well be (and probably are) stock footage, followed by locations and buildings that aren't actually in the city.
Current games were developed targeting 64 or 128MB graphics cards as the majority and 256MB as the high end, so there are very few scenes with more than 128MB of content in them. Adding more RAM will not increase performance or quality in this case, since it's just left empty. Games won't begin to really take advantage of 512MB of VRAM until a significant percentage of the market owns it.
And I've got a great name for spamming via chatting via IM...
That's unlikely, as most IM systems are centralized (with admittedly trivial authentication, but it's still far harder than, say, SMTP, which lets any system talk to any other with zero authentication until SPF-type accountability schemes take off).
Although, you just gave me a horrible idea: A trojan that uses a stored password and buddy list to spim people under your name. Something like that could destroy instant messaging.
I agree that my abacus has a very intuitive interface and gets awesome battery life, but it seems to be taking a long time to compile a kernel. Anyone have tips for optimizing this?
Don't forget that Halo 1 was an Xbox launch title. Most of the console FPSes with identical controls and better graphics came out after it did.
We're not building a nightmare or a paradise. We're building technology that can be used for a variety of purposes. If we refrained from building anything that someone somewhere might put to a use someone somewhere else might disapprove of, we wouldn't have most of the things Slashdot reports on.
To rebut this analogy by torturing it further- If you drop the sand onto the floor, you know where it will end up with a few meters precision. If you drop the sand off the roof of a ten-story building, you are far less certain.
I suspect that the withdrawal is not just legitimate but explicitly required- if the Senate does not ratify the treaty, then the US is not considered to have signed it and there should be no US signature on it.
You do not need to own an iPod to use the ITMS. I don't think Apple has said how many active users there are, but I'm sure it's significantly larger than the number of iPod owners (therefore, the average songs per ipod increases).
There is indeed such a word as burglarize, and "burgle" has been relegated to a mere synonym.
Yeah, but I don't think looking for ancient life frozen in ice is really a good idea. I saw this documentary that illustrates some of the risks.
The real issue may be what's in the TOS, but the REAL real issue is what's enforceable. Only the game can stop people from exploiting the game before they interfere with someone else's experience.
"Scientific consensus" is an oxymoron (very long, but well worth reading).
Information can be free, sure. The process of obtaining that free information is not necessarily free. The free information is hosted on a server that must be bought, and transmitted over a connection that must be bought. If it's a large-scale hosting project, support staff must be present to keep it working, and these staff must be paid. The person accessing the information is paying their ISP for their own connection, and had to buy their own computer. How much would you pay for a wikipedia that responded to requests as fast as Google does to searches?