Here in India, you pay $2.45 for a 1GB chunk. Larger chunks, cost even less. 5GB goes for just over $6!! Pay-as-you-go is all fine if one sticks to small data transfers, but in the long run, is certainly not worth it. Works out to many times the cost.
I understand that fewer players in the market tends to resist cost reduction, but seriously, $500 per GB is ridiculous, right?
What am I missing here?
Thats all well and good but how much does the average Indian make in a day? $5?
I agree. For years you can secure a system just by not plugging it into a network. Now with 3G, this will give law enforcement access to your system without needing an internet connection or any network connection at all. I am guessing they can turn the machine on as well remotely. Intel is stating that this is an anti theft features because it is the only possible way it could ever benefit the consumer. This idea hardly makes sense as a more reliable and slower connection other than 3G could accomplish the same task for less money.
At the end of the day it is just a tool for enslavement and invasion of privacy. Anything you do on your PC can be remotely monitored and logged. Virtually all laptops today come with built in mics and webcams. You can tape over the camera but you can't truly disable the mic short of desoldering it and voiding your warranty. PCs are becoming much like the software that runs on them, they appear to provide some kind of service to the user but are turning into little more than tools for authorities to spy on and control the population.
RantMedia produces a variety of shows, they aren't exactly the sitcoms the author was looking for but they are indepedently produced and they even operate their own streaming tv channel.
Yes, as long as you up the RAM to 2GB. With 1GB 7 is choppy. You might find the Atom CPU to be considerably slower then the Pentium M, it runs out of breath very quickly and even has problems playing flash videos smoothly.
Very much sensationalist. To me, suicide would indicate smoke is coming out of these en masse. Rather, it is a software glitch that MS will probably release a utility to fix in a day or two. Nothing to see here, move on.
I agree adjustment is impossible on CRTs. You can tweak it for one resolution and refresh rate, change either of those and the picture is warped, off center and distorted again.
I don't get these fanboys crying over CRT. CRT sucks. Period. It can't draw a straight line on the screen and in my building there is a lot of machinery so the picture wobbles and flickers all over the place regardless of refresh rate. Modern LCD screens have by far surpassed CRT image quality. Theres no blurring like there used to be, colour is amazing, blacks are near perfect. My 19" LCD weighs about 5 pounds, a 19" weighs about 50 and uses 4 times the power.
I don't care if black levels on LCDs are slightly less than perfect, I'll deal with that over the warped and imprecise display and all the other problems a CRT creates any day. I hope all the schematics and drawings for CRTs in the entire world are burned and they never make another one again.
DC has to be converted as well. You cannot pipe 5000V of DC directly into a hard drive. As a result, DC faces the exact same convesion steps as AC.
Converting DC to AC for any purpose is a lot more expensive than AC to DC or AC to AC, and you have to convert it or have a power plant every mile. The system just....doesn't...fucking...work. I wish slashdotters would stop defending it.
Not far fetched. Where I work, we have these special green boxes that are used as memory modules. I took one apart one day and its just 1 gig CF card in a reader with a usb cable going out the back. It secured to the plastic casing using zip ties. Each one cost $1000.
Thats not a bad deal. I have seen some Pentium 120's with 64MB ram etc in green cases, heavy as hell, $110K - $150K each depending on the configuration. For example, 128MB RAM with a 40gb (the high end version) hard drive was around $150,000. Pentium 500 systems, in a green army case, running solaris, with 21" LCD screens and the crappiest keyboard you will ever see in your life go for about $500,000 a pop. This is just the tip of the ice berg. Plus, the equipment is completely unreliable.
Read the first line he wrote. He works at BLOCKBUSTER, *surrounded* by DVDs every day! Obviously, he knows what he is talking about and is an expert when it comes to electronics.
Thanks but I dont think I would want to buy used airwaves. Networks have been transmitting on these frequencies for decades and the waves are probably completely worn out. Anyone who buys this "spectrum" is going to find out their communications equipment won't function on it at all short of massive transmitters. Yet the airwaves are still being sold for billions of dollars like they are new. Thanks, but no thanks, I'll stick to buying my frequencies brand new.
The problem with making them bigger is money. A bigger die means less yield per wafer, plus a higher chance that there will be a defect in it (such as a spec of dust) and then a larger amount of material will have to be chucked.
The standard also paves the way for optional content protection, which is not automatically part of the standard, Lempesis said. Instead, a module could be added by manufacturers to prevent unauthorized content from being viewed on the display--a feature surely to be a hit in Hollywood.
Hey, at least its optional.
"Optional" , but how long is it going to stay that way? I'm guessing this whole interface is setup so the monitor won't show media unless it is "authenticated". So if you pop in a Divx rip, and manage to hack windows vista bad enough that it will play media without connecting to a license server, the monitor will be the last measure available to the *AA. If the monitor drivers havent been cracked as well and cant connect to said license server, it will show only a black patch where the video is supposed to be. This interface is merely another way to take control of the machine out of the user's hands.
Ofcourse all the exteme DRM in vista is "optional" now, but it only takes one person to flip a switch at MS and the entire system is locked down like a maximum security prison.
Anyway my point is that Maxtor is not known to have drives of the highest quality. Their drives are often carried by Circuit City, Best Buy at lower price than WD, Seagate or others. The problem is that you don't know when you buy a new unit if it is plagued by quality issues, only a couple of years later you might find many others on the net complaining about sudden failures.
I would agree that Maxtor sucks. About a year or so after I bought a Max 40GB EIDE, the drive developed a problem of refusing to spin up on startup before several retries. It still works after about 3 or 4 years, but i keep it on all the time so it wont bitch. Meanwhile I have a WD 80Gig EIDE that is about a year older and it hums away no problems at all.
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Massport claims Continental's free service interferes with it's pay service.
A solution is available for your errors: go back to school.
As such, 1000 amps capacity is required to start the car.
Riiiight. What about those of us who don't drive a semi or front-end loader to work?
Also, this still doesn't explain the G.P. who said there is 1000 amps going into his coil.
I'm sure the GP meant up to 1000amps. And by the way, 1000 amps *capacity* is needed to start a car during exteme cold. That's because the output of the battery at -40C might drop to the low hundreds of amps. If you just put a battery rated at 300A in a car, it will not start in the cold period.
WHAT kind of vehicle do you have that has 1000 amps flowing through any part of it? What mechanism does your vehicle use to generate such a large current at 12V?
1000 amps capacity is needed to start the car during cold weather. Although the starter might only draw 300 amps, during extreme cold the battery's amperage capacity drops very dramatically because the chemical reaction is slowed down, while the energy required to turn the engine increase dramatically (due to the thickining of the oil). As such, 1000 amps capacity is required to start the car.
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What they should do is design a pen that delivers an electrical shock to the user every time a word is misspelled.
Thanks Sheldon.
Actually, if you read the fine print, it's $250,000 of Vista CDs.
Here in India, you pay $2.45 for a 1GB chunk. Larger chunks, cost even less. 5GB goes for just over $6!! Pay-as-you-go is all fine if one sticks to small data transfers, but in the long run, is certainly not worth it. Works out to many times the cost.
I understand that fewer players in the market tends to resist cost reduction, but seriously, $500 per GB is ridiculous, right? What am I missing here?
Thats all well and good but how much does the average Indian make in a day? $5?
At the end of the day it is just a tool for enslavement and invasion of privacy. Anything you do on your PC can be remotely monitored and logged. Virtually all laptops today come with built in mics and webcams. You can tape over the camera but you can't truly disable the mic short of desoldering it and voiding your warranty. PCs are becoming much like the software that runs on them, they appear to provide some kind of service to the user but are turning into little more than tools for authorities to spy on and control the population.
It can be lucrative, however, when the malware starts threatning that if you don't pay up some cash it will format your hard drive and brick your cpu.
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Indeed, even the puny Commodore 64 OS emulaters have been taken down. DOS never had a chance.
There is a solution to this:
http://www.bugmenot.com
Works great.
Yes, as long as you up the RAM to 2GB. With 1GB 7 is choppy. You might find the Atom CPU to be considerably slower then the Pentium M, it runs out of breath very quickly and even has problems playing flash videos smoothly.
Very much sensationalist. To me, suicide would indicate smoke is coming out of these en masse. Rather, it is a software glitch that MS will probably release a utility to fix in a day or two. Nothing to see here, move on.
I agree adjustment is impossible on CRTs. You can tweak it for one resolution and refresh rate, change either of those and the picture is warped, off center and distorted again. I don't get these fanboys crying over CRT. CRT sucks. Period. It can't draw a straight line on the screen and in my building there is a lot of machinery so the picture wobbles and flickers all over the place regardless of refresh rate. Modern LCD screens have by far surpassed CRT image quality. Theres no blurring like there used to be, colour is amazing, blacks are near perfect. My 19" LCD weighs about 5 pounds, a 19" weighs about 50 and uses 4 times the power. I don't care if black levels on LCDs are slightly less than perfect, I'll deal with that over the warped and imprecise display and all the other problems a CRT creates any day. I hope all the schematics and drawings for CRTs in the entire world are burned and they never make another one again.
There tend to be a lot of "blowout" sales in Iraq.
DC has to be converted as well. You cannot pipe 5000V of DC directly into a hard drive. As a result, DC faces the exact same convesion steps as AC. Converting DC to AC for any purpose is a lot more expensive than AC to DC or AC to AC, and you have to convert it or have a power plant every mile. The system just ....doesn't...fucking...work. I wish slashdotters would stop defending it.
Only if its a girl. If you have two boys in a row you are good to go!
Not far fetched. Where I work, we have these special green boxes that are used as memory modules. I took one apart one day and its just 1 gig CF card in a reader with a usb cable going out the back. It secured to the plastic casing using zip ties. Each one cost $1000. Thats not a bad deal. I have seen some Pentium 120's with 64MB ram etc in green cases, heavy as hell, $110K - $150K each depending on the configuration. For example, 128MB RAM with a 40gb (the high end version) hard drive was around $150,000. Pentium 500 systems, in a green army case, running solaris, with 21" LCD screens and the crappiest keyboard you will ever see in your life go for about $500,000 a pop. This is just the tip of the ice berg. Plus, the equipment is completely unreliable.
Not quite, these are the Self Heating servers.
Read the first line he wrote. He works at BLOCKBUSTER, *surrounded* by DVDs every day! Obviously, he knows what he is talking about and is an expert when it comes to electronics.
Thanks but I dont think I would want to buy used airwaves. Networks have been transmitting on these frequencies for decades and the waves are probably completely worn out. Anyone who buys this "spectrum" is going to find out their communications equipment won't function on it at all short of massive transmitters. Yet the airwaves are still being sold for billions of dollars like they are new. Thanks, but no thanks, I'll stick to buying my frequencies brand new.
The problem with making them bigger is money. A bigger die means less yield per wafer, plus a higher chance that there will be a defect in it (such as a spec of dust) and then a larger amount of material will have to be chucked.
"Optional" , but how long is it going to stay that way? I'm guessing this whole interface is setup so the monitor won't show media unless it is "authenticated". So if you pop in a Divx rip, and manage to hack windows vista bad enough that it will play media without connecting to a license server, the monitor will be the last measure available to the *AA. If the monitor drivers havent been cracked as well and cant connect to said license server, it will show only a black patch where the video is supposed to be. This interface is merely another way to take control of the machine out of the user's hands.
Ofcourse all the exteme DRM in vista is "optional" now, but it only takes one person to flip a switch at MS and the entire system is locked down like a maximum security prison.
/going to stick with SVGA
I would agree that Maxtor sucks. About a year or so after I bought a Max 40GB EIDE, the drive developed a problem of refusing to spin up on startup before several retries. It still works after about 3 or 4 years, but i keep it on all the time so it wont bitch. Meanwhile I have a WD 80Gig EIDE that is about a year older and it hums away no problems at all.
and take "Completely Missing The Point 101"
I'm sure the GP meant up to 1000amps. And by the way, 1000 amps *capacity* is needed to start a car during exteme cold. That's because the output of the battery at -40C might drop to the low hundreds of amps. If you just put a battery rated at 300A in a car, it will not start in the cold period.
1000 amps capacity is needed to start the car during cold weather. Although the starter might only draw 300 amps, during extreme cold the battery's amperage capacity drops very dramatically because the chemical reaction is slowed down, while the energy required to turn the engine increase dramatically (due to the thickining of the oil). As such, 1000 amps capacity is required to start the car.