10 years ago.. $2000 486-66Mhz came with an $100 OS (Win3.1)
Now.. $400 Celeron comes with $100 (OEM price) OS. Even if Dell/HP get it for $40, its still 10% now vs 5% then.
It seems to me that people are allowed to tell boldfaced lies and get away with it. Was it always like this or are people just getting more flagrant about it? Or maybe people dont care about the truth anymore.
I surely hope they surpass that number this year. Its a great thing they are doing, someone is turning their large audience into a positive force for children.
Dothan (the successor to Banias) is currently in many laptops.
This is an intersting development... a P-M mobo for desktops. I personally would love one for a SFF box. But Intel says NO to P-Ms in desktops on a large scale. Wouldnt want to canabalize all those Prescott sales, would we?
SA's 8300HD PVR will be much better than the 8000HD, because it will have a function similar to Tivo's Home Media Option. You'll be able to watch recordings from other PVRs in the house. And you only need a PVR in one place, you can have non-PVR clients, so you dont have to spend lots of money renting many PVRs from the cable co.
I'd just dual boot Windows and MacOS. Use MacOS to do everyday stuff, and windows to play games (at least the games that wont run on MacOS). And I'm willing to bet a bunch more games would get ported to MacOS if it went x86.
The problem? MS would probably drop Mac support in a heartbeat. No Office for the Mac, no Mac IE (no big loss there). There'd be antitrust problems with that but its not like thats stopped MS before...
Ralph Nader came to Las Vegas about a month ago, and railed on us for having a mono-culture in our economic climate (gambling), and said we should use our 300 days of sunshine a year to export solar energy.
There is one problem. All the land around the city is owned by the feds. Its mostly "Nature Preserves", so you cant do anything with it, or the eco groups will cry foul...
So they take aerial photos, and map out what hospitals are close to big events incase shit happens. Yea, they probably need to have stronger oversight from another agency, no oversight when dealing with this kind of data is bad. Thats about all I got out of this.
Maybe not. If you haven't noticed, so far this year there havent been many announcements regarding larger HD sizes. We went from 300GB to 400GB, and its nearly October and 400GB drives still aren't shipping in volume (ie not at BB, CC, Newegg, ZZF, etc). The rapid pace of Desktop HD capacity increases has slowed considerably. Stuff like laptop HDs can now hold 100GB, and SATA has arrived, but the mainstream storage drives havent gone up that much this year... last year, I figured we'd have 500GB drives by the end of 2004, but its looking like that will not happen. Maybe Q2-2005, most likely Q3-2005... I'm still thinking 1TB will mean a lot by 2010.
Its really all about the price performance ratio (at least, performance relative to the top-of-the-line card). The 6600 GT and the X700 XT provide a price/performance ratio not seen seen since the GF4 Ti4200. I'm willing to bet that between Doom 3, HL2, the amount of time since the Ti4200 came out, and the p/p ratio of these new cards, a lot of people who have Ti4200s will buy these new cards. As soon as they come out with AGP versions of course. I'm figuriing this will be my last AGP card and my last big upgrade until my next platform move next fall, which will be to a dual-core system (hopefully they're out by then!).
MS is currently one step ahead of linux (yes flame all you want, but if linux were ahead more people would use it). They are ahead because windows is easy, and there is a whole bunch of software that doesnt run on linux.
If MS was so worried about OSS then if all they did was make sure they delivered what their customers wanted first, at a fair price, they wouldnt need to worry. OSS would simply never be a justifiable option (when looking from a CIOs perspective).
But MS is often late, at a higher price. If nothing else, OSS keeps MS in check. I would hate to think about a return to the day when MS is the only game in town, and can act accordingly (think of 1999 minus the.com boom).
Thats 21st Century Capitalism!! Not that you provide a better product than your competition, its that you use government as a tool. A tool to secure your revenue stream, to eliminate your competition, etc. Thats all those 537 people in Washington DC are nowadays, tools (Senate, House, Pres and VP).
If I want Windows, I have to buy it (in some way, shape or form) from Microsoft. If Microsoft wants some background music, they have any number of artists to choose from. Its about who wants what. Consumers want a very particular item, the corporation wants a generic item. Wanting something very specific limits your power in negotiations, and if the other side can walk away and look for other opportunities, you're pretty much stuck.
No doubt. [H] did a little review of one of those USB drives last week though. I've always found that their forums are really good to get answers and discuss things. When they're up.
So? Its not like we're going to move to 100% wind power anytime soon. Just balance a traditional powerplant with wind power, and you get more power, and as long as wind is cheap enough to be a viable option then you'll get more power cheaper.
The movie groups dont want people paying $4 for a PPV, then saving it on their Tivo forever, and being able to watch the movie whenever. It makes sense to me, someone who doesnt want all the extras or stuff could save the PPV on their tivo forever (as long as the tivo works). Especially with hacks and upgrades that can allow Tivo to have 500+ hours of recordable space, its just the industry trying to keep broadcasts from turning into a library. They want to be able to sell it to you twice (once at the movie theater or on a PPV as a broadcast, then sell you the DVD for your library). I dont know if its "nice" of them to try and sell the same thing (the experience of the movie) twice through different means, that I havent figured out.
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10 years ago..
$2000 486-66Mhz came with an $100 OS (Win3.1)
Now..
$400 Celeron comes with $100 (OEM price) OS. Even if Dell/HP get it for $40, its still 10% now vs 5% then.
It seems to me that people are allowed to tell boldfaced lies and get away with it. Was it always like this or are people just getting more flagrant about it? Or maybe people dont care about the truth anymore.
I surely hope they surpass that number this year. Its a great thing they are doing, someone is turning their large audience into a positive force for children.
A couple KFCs in my city have been busted for cooking and selling green chicken to customers. Ick. No Thanks.
I pity the foo' whos a [cursing in mandarin chinese]
is another's freedom fighter. I thought this was a load of BS when I first heard it but now I'm beginning to understand why this statement is true.
Dothan (the successor to Banias) is currently in many laptops.
This is an intersting development... a P-M mobo for desktops. I personally would love one for a SFF box. But Intel says NO to P-Ms in desktops on a large scale. Wouldnt want to canabalize all those Prescott sales, would we?
SA's 8300HD PVR will be much better than the 8000HD, because it will have a function similar to Tivo's Home Media Option. You'll be able to watch recordings from other PVRs in the house. And you only need a PVR in one place, you can have non-PVR clients, so you dont have to spend lots of money renting many PVRs from the cable co.
I'd just dual boot Windows and MacOS. Use MacOS to do everyday stuff, and windows to play games (at least the games that wont run on MacOS). And I'm willing to bet a bunch more games would get ported to MacOS if it went x86.
The problem? MS would probably drop Mac support in a heartbeat. No Office for the Mac, no Mac IE (no big loss there). There'd be antitrust problems with that but its not like thats stopped MS before...
Ralph Nader came to Las Vegas about a month ago, and railed on us for having a mono-culture in our economic climate (gambling), and said we should use our 300 days of sunshine a year to export solar energy.
There is one problem. All the land around the city is owned by the feds. Its mostly "Nature Preserves", so you cant do anything with it, or the eco groups will cry foul...
did I click on Plastic by mistake?
Inflatable space hotels?
Ugh, and to think the Physics building at my alma mater is named after him....
So they take aerial photos, and map out what hospitals are close to big events incase shit happens. Yea, they probably need to have stronger oversight from another agency, no oversight when dealing with this kind of data is bad. Thats about all I got out of this.
Maybe not. If you haven't noticed, so far this year there havent been many announcements regarding larger HD sizes. We went from 300GB to 400GB, and its nearly October and 400GB drives still aren't shipping in volume (ie not at BB, CC, Newegg, ZZF, etc). The rapid pace of Desktop HD capacity increases has slowed considerably. Stuff like laptop HDs can now hold 100GB, and SATA has arrived, but the mainstream storage drives havent gone up that much this year... last year, I figured we'd have 500GB drives by the end of 2004, but its looking like that will not happen. Maybe Q2-2005, most likely Q3-2005... I'm still thinking 1TB will mean a lot by 2010.
AMD comes out with dual core processors. 4 processors in a SFF box? Hell yea!
http://www.accessclarkcounty.com/assessor/assessor .htm
The county also shares GIS data between utilities (water, sewer, gas, etc) but that data is considered confidential. Kinda easy to figure out why...
Its really all about the price performance ratio (at least, performance relative to the top-of-the-line card). The 6600 GT and the X700 XT provide a price/performance ratio not seen seen since the GF4 Ti4200. I'm willing to bet that between Doom 3, HL2, the amount of time since the Ti4200 came out, and the p/p ratio of these new cards, a lot of people who have Ti4200s will buy these new cards. As soon as they come out with AGP versions of course. I'm figuriing this will be my last AGP card and my last big upgrade until my next platform move next fall, which will be to a dual-core system (hopefully they're out by then!).
Its more overt.
Its like this...
.com boom).
MS is currently one step ahead of linux (yes flame all you want, but if linux were ahead more people would use it). They are ahead because windows is easy, and there is a whole bunch of software that doesnt run on linux.
If MS was so worried about OSS then if all they did was make sure they delivered what their customers wanted first, at a fair price, they wouldnt need to worry. OSS would simply never be a justifiable option (when looking from a CIOs perspective).
But MS is often late, at a higher price. If nothing else, OSS keeps MS in check. I would hate to think about a return to the day when MS is the only game in town, and can act accordingly (think of 1999 minus the
Thats 21st Century Capitalism!! Not that you provide a better product than your competition, its that you use government as a tool. A tool to secure your revenue stream, to eliminate your competition, etc. Thats all those 537 people in Washington DC are nowadays, tools (Senate, House, Pres and VP).
Choice...
If I want Windows, I have to buy it (in some way, shape or form) from Microsoft. If Microsoft wants some background music, they have any number of artists to choose from. Its about who wants what. Consumers want a very particular item, the corporation wants a generic item. Wanting something very specific limits your power in negotiations, and if the other side can walk away and look for other opportunities, you're pretty much stuck.
No doubt. [H] did a little review of one of those USB drives last week though. I've always found that their forums are really good to get answers and discuss things. When they're up.
So? Its not like we're going to move to 100% wind power anytime soon. Just balance a traditional powerplant with wind power, and you get more power, and as long as wind is cheap enough to be a viable option then you'll get more power cheaper.
If I had mod points, you'd get them ALL!
No photos of her =^(
The movie groups dont want people paying $4 for a PPV, then saving it on their Tivo forever, and being able to watch the movie whenever. It makes sense to me, someone who doesnt want all the extras or stuff could save the PPV on their tivo forever (as long as the tivo works). Especially with hacks and upgrades that can allow Tivo to have 500+ hours of recordable space, its just the industry trying to keep broadcasts from turning into a library. They want to be able to sell it to you twice (once at the movie theater or on a PPV as a broadcast, then sell you the DVD for your library). I dont know if its "nice" of them to try and sell the same thing (the experience of the movie) twice through different means, that I havent figured out.