"The hoity-toity PC people who swill champagne with one hand while manipulating their mouse with the other, saying "A First-Person Shooter without ze mouselook and WASD? I think not, my dear fellow. Fetch me zome more escargot." "
since they have the original Halo on PC I guess I'm still one of those "hoity-toity" PC people. Sorry, nothing replaces mouse and keyboard, and yes I've played Halo 2 on console and didn't like it without my preciousssssssssss mouse....
These lawsuits have been going on for years: They blamed Doom for Columbine too and a judge simply threw it out. The more judges that see these absurd lawsuits the more they'll be ignored them in the future, classic example of "The boy who cried wolf", so I say bring them on, just get them all out of the way now so in the future developers don't have to worry about these ridiculous lawsuits anymore.
" Why can't I have a phone that just works as a phone... and an Mp3 player that just plays music, nothing else?
because the rest of use are tired of carrying around a mp3 player, phone, pda, camera, portable game system, video player, keys, wallet... get the idea?
Wouldn't it be great to carry something the size of your wallet that did everything? If it could only get a week's worth of battery life too it'd be perfect, but they're improving on that, modern phones with bright color screens and cameras are getting better battery life then the b/w models of just a few years ago with weaker batteries too.
What? A librarian advocating very simple web design? Wow, big shock there. Could it be the librarian doesn't know anything else than simple text, plain old hyperlinks and a few pictures, so writing a book advocating simple web design is all she possibly could do? Naw... couldn't be that...
What's next? Paris Hilton's book on cooking simply and advocating microwave meals and bowls of cereal?
" Just to clarify things (again SIGH!) the targets list is defined by The Artists Against 419 and NO-ONE else." run the program moron, you can put any address in you want.
shit... no you can't... i saw the open blank for "targets" and thought I could type them in... still if you can create this anyone can, just a matter of time before there is a program that lets you select your own targets.
This software allows you to do exactly what I predicted: you can put in any site you want and it'll start leeching from that site. Now all we need is a few dozen people to start leeching from some website they don't like, for example, some guy's private site who is unpopular on a forum, and you're looking at huge server bills and likely the site would be shutdown within a day if bandwidth went from a few megs a day to gigabytes a day.
Let's do the math: 50 people x 100 mB a day (I'm being very conservative here, since it depends on the size of the images the program is going after) = 5 gB a day x 30 days a month = 150 gB a month.
That's a giant bandwidth bill, and like I said I'm being very conservative, a lot of people aren't knowledgeable enough to compress or resize images to smaller sizes (especially if they're on broadband and don't notice how fast the 500 kbyte image uploads to their geocities, etc, site), and depending on how often that program leeches from the sites that 100 mB could be closer to 1000 mB if not more, how would you like a bill for 1500 gB of bandwidth? How will this effect small businesses who pisses off a customer who tells all his little buddies?
"Disk sizes are scaling up wonderfully. Disk access speeds are not. The same holds true with RAM."
Your hd is just a spinning disk, what did you expect, it to double speeds every 18 months? There's a limit to how fast you can spin the platters, after all how long have we been stuck at 52x CD-ROM drives? Sure they've gone to 10k rpm and the aerial density is much higher on today's large drives, but you can only do so much without new technology. They completely redesign chips every so often, from pentinum to pentium 2, 3, 4, etc, but the brand-spanking new hard drive you buy today is really no different than the a 10 year old drive, just a faster spindle speed and higher aerial density but the technology really hasn't changed any.
Anyway back to the article: I think it's crap. "...most word processing programs started to keep up with even good typists somewhere around the 1-Ghz clock-speed mark."
Um, what? Sure maybe if you had the latest and greatest OS and Office running the minimum amount of ram, but if you were running 98, office 97 and plenty of ram on even just a 200mhz no way would the PC not be able to keep up with a "good typists" (before it crashed, it is 98 after all). You know where all the cycles have gone? Background processes and spyware. I know plenty of people with brand new 3ghz processors that are slower than my 700mhz laptop. However this is a good thing, keeps all us computer geeks employeed doing simple things like running msconfig and ad-aware, so complain on computer reject cranky user!
That Gizmondo sounds like a very interesting device indeed, bascially the PocketPC equivalent of the Tapwave. That 400mhz Samsung ARM processor should be impressive since the 266mhz Samsung ARM processor in pocketpcs ran games about as fast as a 400mhz Intel chip. GPS, camera, mp3 and movie player all in one.
However at $400+ it'll never sell, no way no how, not when the PSP can be had for $250 with it's excellent range of titles. But if it had a cellphone too...
Remember folks it's not the size it's how you use it, or in this case, it's not the processing power it's the titles. Look how well the b&w gameboy did for years, crushing all competition that was faster with color.
"ABX testing has shown Home Depot 18 gauge lamp cord to be identical or even superior to Monster Cable in all respects."
what about the "cool sounding name" respect? Did they do a survey to see which name sounds better? I think not, I'm sure "Monster Cable" sounds better than "Home Depot 18 Gauge Lamp Cord".
Which would you wanna tell your friends you wired your house with, hmmmmmmm?
You know, with the improvements in processors in the last few years they could probably make a Newton the size of a credit card so we can finally have the "Wallet PC" we were promised so many years ago. Why don't they? I love my PocketPC but it's still too large to carry everywhere with me, I'd much rather have something simple but super-small just for contacts, scheduling and notes. I don't need 32-bit VGA screens to check a phone number, four shades B&W would be plenty.
I can understand (sorta) the RIAA charging $15 for each mp3 because you have to pay $15 for each CD the original song would be on and since most people have hundreds or thousands of mp3s that can get expensive very fast, but how much can the MPAA sue someone for when they're typically sharing a dozen movies? 12 x $15 per dvd = $180 total. So what are they doing, sending lawsuits for $180 to these people, or are they not bothering to go after the people only sharing a dozen movies at a time?
I download movies but don't share that many because of hard drive space, I only share what I'm still downloading. Once it's done I typically burn it to CD and delete it from the PC, so while I have (insert large number) movies all they see is maybe the dozen I'm downloading. How successful will this be?
"Other folks emailed this guy assuming that it was confidential."
What? If you mailed me a letter how sure could you be that I wouldn't show it to someone? Anything you send someone isn't guaranteed to be confidential.
Now if I took that letter and kept it in a locked safe and I died, that safe, along with all my property, would belong to my next of kin, and if they wanted to crack the safe and read whatever's in there that's their right. I don't see why yahoo is being so stupid about this.
"We're at 3.4GHz already--surely 4GHz can't be far away?.... As of this writing, Intel is planning to ramp up a little further to 3.73GHz in early 2005..."
I do have to laugh a little at it: "This article will appear in Dr. Dobb's Journal, 30(3), March 2005. A much briefer version under the title "The Concurrency Revolution" will appear in C/C++ Users Journal, 23(2), February 2005."
With the author saying "3.4 is out now and 3.73ghz early 2005" while everyone's upgrading to a 3.8 that's been out since 2004 it's gonna make that article look very old and inaccurate.
yeah, let's see who's is bigger? My last batch of them measured 154mW, 159mW, 173mW and 193mW. My personal unit measures 191mW, and I sold a 193mW unit a few weeks ago!
whoa, his personal unit measures 191mW, and he sold a 193mW unit a few weeeks ago!
Wonder how big the unit I ordered will be?:ponders:
Out of nearly 4,000 votes 84% are not mad they were lied to about the lights. How can this be? This guy completely ruined it for anybody else out there that was thinking of doing something similar, now everyone will think all sites like this are a complete fraud.
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since they have the original Halo on PC I guess I'm still one of those "hoity-toity" PC people. Sorry, nothing replaces mouse and keyboard, and yes I've played Halo 2 on console and didn't like it without my preciousssssssssss mouse....
his poems are... *sniff* *sniff*... really touching...
No, it's not, but the fact that AMD is creeping into a market that Intel currently dominates, and AMD has already declared dominance in the gaming and server microprocessor market in 2004, so this could cause serious problems for Intel if the AMD chips turn out to perform better with less power than Intel's current offerings. Sure the processors are running at slower mhz speeds but as we all know a a slower mhz AMD processor can perform at the same level as a much faster mhz Intel processor
These lawsuits have been going on for years: They blamed Doom for Columbine too and a judge simply threw it out. The more judges that see these absurd lawsuits the more they'll be ignored them in the future, classic example of "The boy who cried wolf", so I say bring them on, just get them all out of the way now so in the future developers don't have to worry about these ridiculous lawsuits anymore.
mod me negative all day long I have karma to burn
because the rest of use are tired of carrying around a mp3 player, phone, pda, camera, portable game system, video player, keys, wallet... get the idea?
Wouldn't it be great to carry something the size of your wallet that did everything? If it could only get a week's worth of battery life too it'd be perfect, but they're improving on that, modern phones with bright color screens and cameras are getting better battery life then the b/w models of just a few years ago with weaker batteries too.
What's next? Paris Hilton's book on cooking simply and advocating microwave meals and bowls of cereal?
or a fat chick in a ferreri....
the article would have been more interesting if the title was "Stupid people still stupid under pressure"
shit... no you can't... i saw the open blank for "targets" and thought I could type them in... still if you can create this anyone can, just a matter of time before there is a program that lets you select your own targets.
run the program moron, you can put any address in you want.
This software allows you to do exactly what I predicted: you can put in any site you want and it'll start leeching from that site. Now all we need is a few dozen people to start leeching from some website they don't like, for example, some guy's private site who is unpopular on a forum, and you're looking at huge server bills and likely the site would be shutdown within a day if bandwidth went from a few megs a day to gigabytes a day.
Let's do the math: 50 people x 100 mB a day (I'm being very conservative here, since it depends on the size of the images the program is going after) = 5 gB a day x 30 days a month = 150 gB a month.
That's a giant bandwidth bill, and like I said I'm being very conservative, a lot of people aren't knowledgeable enough to compress or resize images to smaller sizes (especially if they're on broadband and don't notice how fast the 500 kbyte image uploads to their geocities, etc, site), and depending on how often that program leeches from the sites that 100 mB could be closer to 1000 mB if not more, how would you like a bill for 1500 gB of bandwidth? How will this effect small businesses who pisses off a customer who tells all his little buddies?
Your hd is just a spinning disk, what did you expect, it to double speeds every 18 months? There's a limit to how fast you can spin the platters, after all how long have we been stuck at 52x CD-ROM drives? Sure they've gone to 10k rpm and the aerial density is much higher on today's large drives, but you can only do so much without new technology. They completely redesign chips every so often, from pentinum to pentium 2, 3, 4, etc, but the brand-spanking new hard drive you buy today is really no different than the a 10 year old drive, just a faster spindle speed and higher aerial density but the technology really hasn't changed any.
Anyway back to the article: I think it's crap.
"...most word processing programs started to keep up with even good typists somewhere around the 1-Ghz clock-speed mark."
Um, what? Sure maybe if you had the latest and greatest OS and Office running the minimum amount of ram, but if you were running 98, office 97 and plenty of ram on even just a 200mhz no way would the PC not be able to keep up with a "good typists" (before it crashed, it is 98 after all). You know where all the cycles have gone? Background processes and spyware. I know plenty of people with brand new 3ghz processors that are slower than my 700mhz laptop. However this is a good thing, keeps all us computer geeks employeed doing simple things like running msconfig and ad-aware, so complain on computer reject cranky user!
That Gizmondo sounds like a very interesting device indeed, bascially the PocketPC equivalent of the Tapwave. That 400mhz Samsung ARM processor should be impressive since the 266mhz Samsung ARM processor in pocketpcs ran games about as fast as a 400mhz Intel chip. GPS, camera, mp3 and movie player all in one.
However at $400+ it'll never sell, no way no how, not when the PSP can be had for $250 with it's excellent range of titles. But if it had a cellphone too...
Remember folks it's not the size it's how you use it, or in this case, it's not the processing power it's the titles. Look how well the b&w gameboy did for years, crushing all competition that was faster with color.
what about the "cool sounding name" respect? Did they do a survey to see which name sounds better? I think not, I'm sure "Monster Cable" sounds better than "Home Depot 18 Gauge Lamp Cord".
Which would you wanna tell your friends you wired your house with, hmmmmmmm?
Just to clarify so we don't have to say "should" anymore: I have a compaq e500 p3 700mhz laptop that has no problem running iTunes.
According to Apple you need Windows XP or 2000, 500mhz, 128megs, and of course a hard drive of sufficient size to store whatever music you have.
You know, with the improvements in processors in the last few years they could probably make a Newton the size of a credit card so we can finally have the "Wallet PC" we were promised so many years ago. Why don't they? I love my PocketPC but it's still too large to carry everywhere with me, I'd much rather have something simple but super-small just for contacts, scheduling and notes. I don't need 32-bit VGA screens to check a phone number, four shades B&W would be plenty.
I download movies but don't share that many because of hard drive space, I only share what I'm still downloading. Once it's done I typically burn it to CD and delete it from the PC, so while I have (insert large number) movies all they see is maybe the dozen I'm downloading. How successful will this be?
What? If you mailed me a letter how sure could you be that I wouldn't show it to someone? Anything you send someone isn't guaranteed to be confidential.
Now if I took that letter and kept it in a locked safe and I died, that safe, along with all my property, would belong to my next of kin, and if they wanted to crack the safe and read whatever's in there that's their right. I don't see why yahoo is being so stupid about this.
you guys just rated it "informative" because you had no clue what he's saying, didn't you? bad mods, very bad mods!
that's alright, the new description sounds better
Article doesn't say when this was written, but we're already beyond 3.4 ghz. You can but a 3.6ghz on Pricewatch right now and Tom's Hardware announced a 3.8 ghz being released way back in November 2004, so I don't know why the author is saying 3.4ghz is the top of the line currently and Intel will release a 3.73 ghz in 2005.
When was this written, early 2004?
I do have to laugh a little at it: "This article will appear in Dr. Dobb's Journal, 30(3), March 2005. A much briefer version under the title "The Concurrency Revolution" will appear in C/C++ Users Journal, 23(2), February 2005."
With the author saying "3.4 is out now and 3.73ghz early 2005" while everyone's upgrading to a 3.8 that's been out since 2004 it's gonna make that article look very old and inaccurate.
yeah, let's see who's is bigger?
My last batch of them measured 154mW, 159mW, 173mW and 193mW. My personal unit measures 191mW, and I sold a 193mW unit a few weeks ago!
whoa, his personal unit measures 191mW, and he sold a 193mW unit a few weeeks ago!
Wonder how big the unit I ordered will be? :ponders:
Out of nearly 4,000 votes 84% are not mad they were lied to about the lights. How can this be? This guy completely ruined it for anybody else out there that was thinking of doing something similar, now everyone will think all sites like this are a complete fraud.
man did you mess that up, should have read like this:
When Governor Schwarzenegger was asked for comment he said with a grin "I'm on vacation, but... I'll be back".
see, it's all about the delivery! Delivery!! ... and timing, that's important too.