Either you're completely brain-dead or your tinfoil hat is a few sizes to small. Consider this, how much do you suppose the manufature of 5000 US worth of batteries harms the environment. How detrimental do you think they are in the environment after disposal. How many 'miles' do you suppose you will get out of them. Where do you think the electricity they store comes from? Saving energy that would have been radiated during braking as heat makes sense , buffering your vehicles fuel mileage with 5000 dollars worth of batteries, doesn't.
I think the thousand dollar reciever sitting underneath my tv has a little bit better DAC then the sound card, and it doesn't have to deal with all the noise inside of a computer. Toslink also avoids a problem with your pc and your sound system being on seperate grounding loops, although that perhaps isn't common. for the record, speakers don't decode digital signals.
Eclipse gives decent performance on my notebook with the clock looked at 600 mhz, as good as any other application of that size at least... say office or whatnot. At 1.4 ghz it is quite snappy.
you can have places put the thing together for you if you don't want to waste your time doing so, I believe newegg does it for ~50.00 or so but I'm not positive....
It only takes ~ 40% cpu time on a ~2.5 GHz AXP (~4000+) for the 720p, compare that with i/o intense operations (not saying video playback isn't) ) which still manage to eat 80% cpu time (at least when iTunes does it) like scanning tracks to normalize volume. i suppose a ~2600+ CPU isn't that common these days, but by the time HD content hits mainstream (if ever), a processor powerful enough to do 720p, or even 1080p will be the cheapest of the cheap.
I've found that extremely small form factor keyboards are rather difficult to use, even the 10.1" ultraportables are different enough to take some getting used to (and still remain uncomfortable to use afterwards). YMMV but I think 12.1" small form factor (i.e.
Regardless, it is an interesting evolution of the notebook and I'm certain that at least a subset of notebook/pda users are in need of something along such lines.
http://www.2cpu.com/articles/44_2.html , http://www.lostcircuits.com/memory/reg_ddr/ , I'm sure you can find more sources if it so interests you as to the differences, and I believe the bandwidth hit is in fact a derivative of the data being held for 'a clock'.
Though I can't resist making another comment. By most measures ECC is a non issue, otherwise market forces would have demanded it long ago.
While you're correct that ECC itself doesn't cost any bandwidth you are only looking at the jump from registered to ecc memory, while most people are using unregistered modules, and in such cases there is a ~10% bandwidth hit in addition to a not insignificant latency hit.
If you look at the G^nP you will see that I was simply pointing out that ecc isn't a make or break feature on desktop motherboards. It has its place in... mission critical boxes, servers, clusters, etc. Basically, anything where even a small error will adversely affect the results (i.e. large computations).
Do I care enough to use ecc memory, no, and by my estimation, such an occurence is extraordinarily rare, given that many machines without said memory exhibit large uptime numbers. Certainly nothing to warrant the extra cost or the performance hit (both bandwidth and latency) in day to day operations where you are not only unlikely to notice it, but it is equally unlikely to affect you. It has its place, but certainly not as a metric to compare desktop motherboard solutions. In such cases, it is asinine.
I'm sure your correct about it being a 'checksum' and all but I feel you're engaging in a bit of pedantry as I didn't say that was 'how' it worked precisely because I didn't know exactly, but in an abstract sense an MD5 hash isn't all that different than a checksum, they both verify the integrity of a file, although the means are different.
For starters, there is no efficient way to tell with non-ecc memory if the data is corrupted or not. You have to use some redundant data source, or way to regenerate the data exactly and check it against it, which is extremely slow (and pointless, if you have a known good source, just use that, right?). Abstractly, ecc works similar to an MD5 hash sum, it is able to tell you that data is corrupt, though it is unlikely to be able to tell you exactly which part. If you're not doing calculations which require exacting accuracy it is completely worthless. Do you care if the result to some calculation is 1.999999999 * 10^8 instead of 2 * 10^8? Not likely...
the benchmarks rather irrelevant as the memory timings are different and the overclock on the intel rig's graphics card seems to have had a detrimental effect on the battery life test which is the gold standard by which I would measure notebooks, especially when the performance difference is +- 10% in all the benchmarks. Just look at the last result, the difference between under load & no load performance is 20 minutes! Something is certainly suspect there. My machine gets ~ 8 hours battery life if I do absolutely nothing on it (or so it is estimated) and under 100% load in a power saving configuration it lasts almost the entire flight between SEA and oahu ~5 hrs on a 6 cell, which I did three days ago (running a game the whole flight). Granted, my laptop is a 1.4 ghz x40, but still the results in that test are ridiculous. 15" is also on the borderline of portability, and i'm sure they both kick out an insane amount of heat given there gpus...
Sorry my post was kind of difficult to read... I cleaned it up a bit.
In terms of enraptured playerbase I believe Warcraft long ago surpassed evequest, in fact the only real contenders, now and in the past for playerbase are perhaps Lineage and its sequel. In North Americ I do not believe any one MMO has ever captured such a large playerbase (1.5 million).
The scary part is the game isn't particularly good, or challenging, but that tends to be the standard rather than the exception in MMOs. At base the 'grind' to 60,which people state is 'fun', exists solely to keep you playing the game longer. All of the content in the game could be played through in a mere fraction of the time it takes to just get to the 'maximum' level. <BR><BR>Have you ever listened to players through a VOIP conference? Most people are either a.) unsatisfied or b.) frustrated with the game and therein lies the addiction to it. All the time you invest getting to the 'maximum' level and the 'best' equipment is superfluous at base because it doesn't really teach you any skills you need to be successful (truth be told, there aren't any aside from some innate ones...). Most of the 'difficult' encounters in the game are a matter of organization and 'surprise' equipment, which leads back to the sole purpose of the game: to keep you playing longer.
And there are people who will continue playing until there are no new challenges to encounter and then contineu to play even beyond that as they are hooked by the feet to the mindless community they've spent the past year and a half with.
I think another reason for the popularity of the game is it doesn't take any talent to play the game (like nearly all rpgs, massive or not) and it takes little talent to play the game well (though you're likely to spend a long time attaining said talent as the game works to obfusicate the matters at hand from you).
In terms of enraptured playerbase I believe Warcraft long ago surpassed evequest, in fact the only real contenders, now and in the past for playerbase are perhaps Lineage and its sequel. However, in North America, I do not believe any one MMO has ever captured such a large playerbase (1.5 million).
The scary part is the game isn't particularly good, or challenging, but that tends to be the standard rather than the exception in MMOs. At base the 'grind' to 60 (which people state is 'fun' but have you ever listened to them play through a VOIP conference? Most people are either a.) unsatisfied or b.) frustrated with the game and therein lies the addiction to it. All the time you invest getting to the 'maximum' level and the 'best' equipment is superfluous at base because it doesn't really teach you any skills you need to be successful (truth be told, there aren't any aside from some innate ones...). Most of the 'difficult' encounters in the game are a matter of organization and 'surprise' equipment, which leads back to the sole purpose of the game: to keep you playing longer.
And there are people who will continue playing until there are no new challenges to encounter and then contineu to play even beyond that as they are hooked by the feet to the mindless community they've spent the past year and a half with.
I think another reason for the popularity of the game is it doesn't take any talent to play the game (like nearly all rpgs, massive or not) and it takes little talent to play the game well (though you're likely to spend a long time attaining said talent as the game works to obfusicate the matters at hand from you).
You're right, there the same, kelvin just measures from abs zero as opposed to the freezing point of water. They're both based on the gradient of water from freezing to boiling at 1 bar.
Wow, that's quite the stab in the dark... I think people are generally aware of the fact Windows is insecure (what OS isn't) and can often be unstable, but saying that Windows 2000 runs missiles, Nuclear Power Plants, Airplanes, and Banks is about as fucking clueless as it gets. Do you think people are idiots? What would be the advantages of running a full blown os on afucking missile. The fucking thing doesn't need to do a whole lot besides recieve guidance data and plot points on its way to self-armaggedon. Not to trivialize that (I certainly have no clue how one begins with such a task), but Windows 2000 is clearly one of the poorest choices possible for such a system. You need to know a little to realize you don't have the slightest grasp on such situations
I think a lot of the problem with some 'lap tops' is they are a desktop with the screen attached to it, you don't need anything bigger than a 12" screen if your 'note taking' or whatever, it is simply excessive. I have an ibm x40 and it is just godsend for class. The thing has 5 hour battery life on an 8 cell while your actually *DOING* things (not heavy crunching of course, but word processing, surfing, whatever).
Despite my praise, I find that the solution is best hybridized. I.E. whenever you need to draw something use your pad & paper and notate that on the machine. It's only logical and it works quite well in classes where there is an even balance between written and visual materials.
Obviously when your class is structured where an absolutely minimum amount of written note taking is required (i.e. maths) it is best to just use paper. The computer can still be useful at times in these classes though as its often easy to create a better representation of the subject being discussed on mathematica or something similar than to 'hand' scribe it, also calculations are much faster than your ti-92 or whatever.
in other words, innovating an inferior product with nice aesthetics. WTG Apple, you always do it for me! I love to spend 50.00 on a mouse that has no buttons and makes an annoying noise to indicate you've clicked it. The GP's point is (obviously) that a lot of times the feedback you recieve from the visual interface is delayed (ever hit submit on a webform?), bringing into question whether you've ever pressed the button. Unless the speaker is insanely loud, you'll never 'hear' the click over music or probably even talking either.
I'll definitely get all the ladies with this sucker.
It's funny how easy it is to take a step backwards with better technology. Kind of like the eBooks in kenya. Seriously, WTF?
What kind of pipe land do you live in? 9 hours of sleep? That's for weekends!, FFS if I had nine hours of sleep every day i'd be a fucking firecracker. MMM glycerin high gets you every time!
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It's superiority lies primarily in the marketing blitzkrieg apple has put behind it.
Either you're completely brain-dead or your tinfoil hat is a few sizes to small. Consider this, how much do you suppose the manufature of 5000 US worth of batteries harms the environment. How detrimental do you think they are in the environment after disposal. How many 'miles' do you suppose you will get out of them. Where do you think the electricity they store comes from? Saving energy that would have been radiated during braking as heat makes sense , buffering your vehicles fuel mileage with 5000 dollars worth of batteries, doesn't.
I think the thousand dollar reciever sitting underneath my tv has a little bit better DAC then the sound card, and it doesn't have to deal with all the noise inside of a computer. Toslink also avoids a problem with your pc and your sound system being on seperate grounding loops, although that perhaps isn't common. for the record, speakers don't decode digital signals.
Eclipse gives decent performance on my notebook with the clock looked at 600 mhz, as good as any other application of that size at least... say office or whatnot. At 1.4 ghz it is quite snappy.
you can have places put the thing together for you if you don't want to waste your time doing so, I believe newegg does it for ~50.00 or so but I'm not positive....
It only takes ~ 40% cpu time on a ~2.5 GHz AXP (~4000+) for the 720p, compare that with i/o intense operations (not saying video playback isn't) ) which still manage to eat 80% cpu time (at least when iTunes does it) like scanning tracks to normalize volume. i suppose a ~2600+ CPU isn't that common these days, but by the time HD content hits mainstream (if ever), a processor powerful enough to do 720p, or even 1080p will be the cheapest of the cheap.
I've found that extremely small form factor keyboards are rather difficult to use, even the 10.1" ultraportables are different enough to take some getting used to (and still remain uncomfortable to use afterwards). YMMV but I think 12.1" small form factor (i.e.
Regardless, it is an interesting evolution of the notebook and I'm certain that at least a subset of notebook/pda users are in need of something along such lines.
http://www.2cpu.com/articles/44_2.html , http://www.lostcircuits.com/memory/reg_ddr/ , I'm sure you can find more sources if it so interests you as to the differences, and I believe the bandwidth hit is in fact a derivative of the data being held for 'a clock'.
Agree to disagree.
Though I can't resist making another comment. By most measures ECC is a non issue, otherwise market forces would have demanded it long ago.
While you're correct that ECC itself doesn't cost any bandwidth you are only looking at the jump from registered to ecc memory, while most people are using unregistered modules, and in such cases there is a ~10% bandwidth hit in addition to a not insignificant latency hit.
If you look at the G^nP you will see that I was simply pointing out that ecc isn't a make or break feature on desktop motherboards. It has its place in... mission critical boxes, servers, clusters, etc. Basically, anything where even a small error will adversely affect the results (i.e. large computations).
Do I care enough to use ecc memory, no, and by my estimation, such an occurence is extraordinarily rare, given that many machines without said memory exhibit large uptime numbers. Certainly nothing to warrant the extra cost or the performance hit (both bandwidth and latency) in day to day operations where you are not only unlikely to notice it, but it is equally unlikely to affect you. It has its place, but certainly not as a metric to compare desktop motherboard solutions. In such cases, it is asinine.
I'm sure your correct about it being a 'checksum' and all but I feel you're engaging in a bit of pedantry as I didn't say that was 'how' it worked precisely because I didn't know exactly, but in an abstract sense an MD5 hash isn't all that different than a checksum, they both verify the integrity of a file, although the means are different.
correction: actually there is a high occurence of the corrupted data being recovarable, but of course its not assured.
For starters, there is no efficient way to tell with non-ecc memory if the data is corrupted or not. You have to use some redundant data source, or way to regenerate the data exactly and check it against it, which is extremely slow (and pointless, if you have a known good source, just use that, right?). Abstractly, ecc works similar to an MD5 hash sum, it is able to tell you that data is corrupt, though it is unlikely to be able to tell you exactly which part. If you're not doing calculations which require exacting accuracy it is completely worthless. Do you care if the result to some calculation is 1.999999999 * 10^8 instead of 2 * 10^8? Not likely...
the benchmarks rather irrelevant as the memory timings are different and the overclock on the intel rig's graphics card seems to have had a detrimental effect on the battery life test which is the gold standard by which I would measure notebooks, especially when the performance difference is +- 10% in all the benchmarks. Just look at the last result, the difference between under load & no load performance is 20 minutes! Something is certainly suspect there. My machine gets ~ 8 hours battery life if I do absolutely nothing on it (or so it is estimated) and under 100% load in a power saving configuration it lasts almost the entire flight between SEA and oahu ~5 hrs on a 6 cell, which I did three days ago (running a game the whole flight). Granted, my laptop is a 1.4 ghz x40, but still the results in that test are ridiculous. 15" is also on the borderline of portability, and i'm sure they both kick out an insane amount of heat given there gpus...
Exactly, and I don't think it could be said in a more concise manner.
Sorry my post was kind of difficult to read... I cleaned it up a bit.
,which people state is 'fun', exists solely to keep you playing the game longer. All of the content in the game could be played through in a mere fraction of the time it takes to just get to the 'maximum' level. <BR><BR>Have you ever listened to players through a VOIP conference? Most people are either a.) unsatisfied or b.) frustrated with the game and therein lies the addiction to it. All the time you invest getting to the 'maximum' level and the 'best' equipment is superfluous at base because it doesn't really teach you any skills you need to be successful (truth be told, there aren't any aside from some innate ones...). Most of the 'difficult' encounters in the game are a matter of organization and 'surprise' equipment, which leads back to the sole purpose of the game: to keep you playing longer.
In terms of enraptured playerbase I believe Warcraft long ago surpassed evequest, in fact the only real contenders, now and in the past for playerbase are perhaps Lineage and its sequel. In North Americ I do not believe any one MMO has ever captured such a large playerbase (1.5 million).
The scary part is the game isn't particularly good, or challenging, but that tends to be the standard rather than the exception in MMOs. At base the 'grind' to 60
And there are people who will continue playing until there are no new challenges to encounter and then contineu to play even beyond that as they are hooked by the feet to the mindless community they've spent the past year and a half with.
I think another reason for the popularity of the game is it doesn't take any talent to play the game (like nearly all rpgs, massive or not) and it takes little talent to play the game well (though you're likely to spend a long time attaining said talent as the game works to obfusicate the matters at hand from you).
In terms of enraptured playerbase I believe Warcraft long ago surpassed evequest, in fact the only real contenders, now and in the past for playerbase are perhaps Lineage and its sequel. However, in North America, I do not believe any one MMO has ever captured such a large playerbase (1.5 million).
The scary part is the game isn't particularly good, or challenging, but that tends to be the standard rather than the exception in MMOs. At base the 'grind' to 60 (which people state is 'fun' but have you ever listened to them play through a VOIP conference? Most people are either a.) unsatisfied or b.) frustrated with the game and therein lies the addiction to it. All the time you invest getting to the 'maximum' level and the 'best' equipment is superfluous at base because it doesn't really teach you any skills you need to be successful (truth be told, there aren't any aside from some innate ones...). Most of the 'difficult' encounters in the game are a matter of organization and 'surprise' equipment, which leads back to the sole purpose of the game: to keep you playing longer.
And there are people who will continue playing until there are no new challenges to encounter and then contineu to play even beyond that as they are hooked by the feet to the mindless community they've spent the past year and a half with.
I think another reason for the popularity of the game is it doesn't take any talent to play the game (like nearly all rpgs, massive or not) and it takes little talent to play the game well (though you're likely to spend a long time attaining said talent as the game works to obfusicate the matters at hand from you).
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You're right, there the same, kelvin just measures from abs zero as opposed to the freezing point of water. They're both based on the gradient of water from freezing to boiling at 1 bar.
The manufacturer just tests one side of a platter
Wow, that's quite the stab in the dark... I think people are generally aware of the fact Windows is insecure (what OS isn't) and can often be unstable, but saying that Windows 2000 runs missiles, Nuclear Power Plants, Airplanes, and Banks is about as fucking clueless as it gets. Do you think people are idiots? What would be the advantages of running a full blown os on afucking missile. The fucking thing doesn't need to do a whole lot besides recieve guidance data and plot points on its way to self-armaggedon. Not to trivialize that (I certainly have no clue how one begins with such a task), but Windows 2000 is clearly one of the poorest choices possible for such a system. You need to know a little to realize you don't have the slightest grasp on such situations
Which degree earns one the right to speak in bullshit?
Despite my praise, I find that the solution is best hybridized. I.E. whenever you need to draw something use your pad & paper and notate that on the machine. It's only logical and it works quite well in classes where there is an even balance between written and visual materials.
Obviously when your class is structured where an absolutely minimum amount of written note taking is required (i.e. maths) it is best to just use paper. The computer can still be useful at times in these classes though as its often easy to create a better representation of the subject being discussed on mathematica or something similar than to 'hand' scribe it, also calculations are much faster than your ti-92 or whatever.
in other words, innovating an inferior product with nice aesthetics. WTG Apple, you always do it for me! I love to spend 50.00 on a mouse that has no buttons and makes an annoying noise to indicate you've clicked it. The GP's point is (obviously) that a lot of times the feedback you recieve from the visual interface is delayed (ever hit submit on a webform?), bringing into question whether you've ever pressed the button. Unless the speaker is insanely loud, you'll never 'hear' the click over music or probably even talking either.
I'll definitely get all the ladies with this sucker.
It's funny how easy it is to take a step backwards with better technology. Kind of like the eBooks in kenya. Seriously, WTF?
WTF? a DLP chip running on a battery powered device? LOL.
What kind of pipe land do you live in? 9 hours of sleep? That's for weekends!, FFS if I had nine hours of sleep every day i'd be a fucking firecracker. MMM glycerin high gets you every time!