Yeah, and what happens if your flash chips "wear out" well before your hard-drive platter? Does your performance subtly degrade, or do OS that "require" this hybrids suddenly refuse to operate? Will the flash be replaceable?
Screw reforming the Electoral College to become a popular vote contest. That method still has fatal defects.
Instead, give is a Preferential Ballot system where, instead of just casting your vote for the lessor of the two evils (lest you throw your vote away otherwise), you cast your precious vote for a First Choice, a Second Choice, a Third Choice... down as far as you care to vote. Then, if you First Choice is the lowest vote getting candidate, you vote automatically gets cast for you second choice, and this continues until there is a popular vote winner. In Ireland this is called the Instant Runoff system. Computers make this type of vote tallying a snap.
If we're going to fix this system, let's just bite the bullet and fix it right from the beginning.
but what about solar cell technology to power these laptops?
Aside from the reality that have of the time is night, enough solar cells to power this properly might well remove the concept of rugged, portable, laptop from the existing idea.
A machine that combines exercise for the body at the same time it's providing exercise for the mind. Boy, those 3rd world countries are really getting a deal here.
Of course, they could put in a modern Pentium and heat the house at the same time that they train for the Olympic team.
Wow, a Live CD install. Where or where have I ever heard about that idea before?
I know. I'll just wait for Microsoft to give credit-where-credit-is-due. They'll do that. They're fair. They respect other people's ideas. I'll just wait.
I'm not sure that a 4-core Intel processor, at least in the first iteration, is going to be all that wonderful. Intel still has the front-side bus problem that Dell used as justification to go to Opterons for 4way servers. Additionally, the Kentsfield approach of simply joining 2 Conroe dies in the same package may not prove much better than when they created the first dual core Pentiums by joining 2 Netburst cores in a single package. It is inherently not a well integrated design.
That being said, undoubtedly Kentsfield will be at least incrementally faster than Conroe, so that helps with bragging rights. And small, cache-based code (think Cell processor SPEs) could run well on it. But unless it is priced exceptionally close to Conroe prices, would not be my first choice.
AMD is likely to do 4-cores the right way the first time around, rather than ship a Marketing Solution.
Wasn't he, or Google, sued by some dead artist's wife for ripping off the artist's "style" in some homage he did to that particular artist? A truly meritless suit if I've ever heard of one.
Can I insist that the RIAA be brought up at the summit for Extortion and Crimes Against Humanity as well? After all, I should have equal rights to anyone else submitting agenda items.
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Yeah, and what happens if your flash chips "wear out" well before your hard-drive platter? Does your performance subtly degrade, or do OS that "require" this hybrids suddenly refuse to operate? Will the flash be replaceable?
A flying chair would be a good start.
Do they have more than that?
Sorry, but I've moved on to Battlestar Galactica.
But I do wonder if "Viagra" makes the plant grow taller and more erect.
Of course, now you'll have to count all the absentee ballots every election.
Instead, give is a Preferential Ballot system where, instead of just casting your vote for the lessor of the two evils (lest you throw your vote away otherwise), you cast your precious vote for a First Choice, a Second Choice, a Third Choice ... down as far as you care to vote. Then, if you First Choice is the lowest vote getting candidate, you vote automatically gets cast for you second choice, and this continues until there is a popular vote winner. In Ireland this is called the Instant Runoff system. Computers make this type of vote tallying a snap.
If we're going to fix this system, let's just bite the bullet and fix it right from the beginning.
Aside from the reality that have of the time is night, enough solar cells to power this properly might well remove the concept of rugged, portable, laptop from the existing idea.
Of course, they could put in a modern Pentium and heat the house at the same time that they train for the Olympic team.
Oh, I thought they were aiming to shoot them, so that they wouldn't lose so much money on each console sold.
The question to me is: Will they be playing catchup the moment a BluRay PS3 is available? How much are high-def, high capacity drives worth?
Nope. Sometimes they change A Lot!
GoToIt, or Go2It would have been smoother, dontcha think?
Not too close, I hope.
I know. I'll just wait for Microsoft to give credit-where-credit-is-due. They'll do that. They're fair. They respect other people's ideas. I'll just wait.
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Is he (the robot) good enough to only hit on the really hot ones (infrared sensors)?
I think Vista is still easier to kill -- even if billg is the Borg!
We each have our own metric here. I'd say Vista was making real progress when it could fit in the memory footprint of XP -- or better yet, 2K.
That being said, undoubtedly Kentsfield will be at least incrementally faster than Conroe, so that helps with bragging rights. And small, cache-based code (think Cell processor SPEs) could run well on it. But unless it is priced exceptionally close to Conroe prices, would not be my first choice.
AMD is likely to do 4-cores the right way the first time around, rather than ship a Marketing Solution.
Wasn't he, or Google, sued by some dead artist's wife for ripping off the artist's "style" in some homage he did to that particular artist? A truly meritless suit if I've ever heard of one.
Yes, I can't wait to see his take on OMG Ponies !!!.
Do human brain neurons communicate with each other using TCP/IP?
Vista in 2008 anyone?
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Steve Jobs goes along into a room surrounded by mirrors and beats himself up.
Can I insist that the RIAA be brought up at the summit for Extortion and Crimes Against Humanity as well? After all, I should have equal rights to anyone else submitting agenda items.