All that work just to make it look dirty! If this is the way awesome case-mods are going to be from now on, I can become a l33t modder merely by going down to the local wreckage yard and finding me some rusted out bucket to throw my hardware into. If I throw some actual dirt in it too, maybe I can get X-TRA modding points with the local message board. Woot! Woot!
Now we have to attribute and possibly congradulate the lowest scum of the earth (virus writers) for making possible real artificial intelligence. I can just see these virii as the stepping stones towards self-awareness in computer networks. Who'da thunk it!
Why is mp3 going the way of the 8-track? Why do people want to start putting mp3's on 8-track now? That erases any portability gains. Also, 8-track sucks. In case people don't know, 8-track is so old (like 1960's and 70's) it's not even funny. Now I am gonna have to shop around at flea markets for an 8-track player just so I can enjoy my myraid of MP3's. Those things suck up battery life like no-one's business too. Well I hope I can get one of those GROOVY models that have built-in speakers that split the one speaker apart so you can have better stereo. Ooh! I want one with additional speaker jacks so I can have QUADRAPHONIC sound. That would be totally kicky-blast and wailin'.
How in the world are they getting these figures of people deleting MP3's? How do they know that N people are actually deleting certain things from their hard drives? Or did they do a poll and were asking people this? How many people in this poll (if it was) were telling the truth? That kinda seems arrogant of this report to assume such a thing on scant little evidence. Isn't this the case though with all "findings" reports.
Here's an example I am making up:
I perceive based on independent web reviews that cd-roms are dying. People aren't using CD-writeables anymore. Everybody in the world is using DVD-writeables. The reason is because all reviews I have read are of those drives. No one is writing CD-writeable reviews anymore. Thus, CD-ROMS are DEAD as a dorrnail. The nail is in the coffin....etc.
Do you see how skewed these statements can become?
I am going to boycott Colgate until they pull thier heads outta thier arses and realize people want to copy tubes of toothpaste for moroe than one use. This brushing on demand one-use policy is rediculous. I am switching to baking soda until they realize they can't do this. C'mon slashdotters, ARE YA WITH ME? Together we can take down the virtual monopoly Colgate has on the personal hygiene market. You are either with me or against me. If you harbor Colgate in your homes, you are as guilty as Colgate themselves......Wait....I think my rant was supposed to be against HBO for this week. oh well...Colgate still sucks!
Not only that, but imagine a notebook with SCSI. heat issues aside, this would be cool in a drooling fantasy sort of way! Imagine a scsi RAID array in your notebook. ROFL!
Okay, this means it's time for the CPU performance increases to take a back seat. Maybe now the rest of the computer can have some time to catch up better with the CPU. I am talking about bus and memory bandwidth. This is one hurdle that needs to be overcome.
Low latency and high bandwidth up the wazoo is one aspect that supercomputers for example have over standard pc components, besides massive parallelism of course.
It would be cool to see intel start making inroads from R&D on the memory front. I'm not talking about on-die cache, that is a given. The questions to be answered are how to get the main memory up to snuff with the rest of the system. If the current state of the art in CPU power stagnated from here until 5 or more years from now, it really wouldn't be an issue if the same efforts during that time were put into lower latencies across the whole sytem architecture itself.
So what am I saying? The CPU has had enough innovation in it's current form. It's time to focus on other lagging components. Pci-x is a step in the right direction, but it is nothing without main memory advances and other mainboard bus architectural improvements.
Heck with that brewing stuff...I just use the freeze-dried instant beer crystals. No need for brewing at all. Instant-in-your-cup goodness! On Mondays though I usually put in 4 scoops instead of the usual 2.:-)
The point of attachment of the muscles and tendons to the bone. The attached points provide more leverage. Yours and my muscles attach to the very end of the bone where it pivots. Chimps and such have that tendon attached farther down thus providing more leverage and strength for a given muscle mass.
I want to be able to hook up an original Atari joystick. That would be weird just to try out. Or better yet those paddle thingamagigs. Imagine the possibilties!
I completely covered my PC with it. There`s no airlow, but at least it`s safe. I also sprinkled some holy water on it for good measure. Those Nazis will never get to my PC now.
Tarpaulin and leaves? HA! We had to live in a tin can at the bottom of a river, without a lid, and the current was uphill both ways on our way to the bathroom, which by the way was an empty milk jug.
Seriously, this would make some great wallpaper. They got some commercial potential there. Then you could wallpaper a whole room with it and call it the "Atari room." Have your kids go in so they can see what it was like to play games on an Atari 2600 console. Hey, it could be the punishment room. They would have to go in there for a time-out period and suffer the large blocky graphics while the images are burnt into thier retinas with large floodlights. MUWHAHAHA!
Oh yeah...I forgot....C3PO's homestead would be Anakin's home on that one desert planet. Oh well! Maybe it would be scenes where C3PO's droids friends all come over and party. Bender from that one cartoon show could crash the party every week providing comic relief. But the important thing is that they all talk in native "droid" language so we can't understand shit.
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to know what life is like back at C3PO's family homestead. I want to hear every bleep and bloop that they converse with as they prepare for the great droid holiday called "Gordon Moore's Birthday".
Maybe they could get Conan O'Brian to drop in as a suprise special guest since Art Carney prob won't make it. Then the C3PO family gets all worried cuz R2D2 is late getting there cuz he is caught in a barfight over at the Cantina on Mos Eisley (cuz you know they don't like droids there!)
That would be cool. It would be like the SWHS all over again except without all those annoying wookies.
I don't know for how long I went around pronouncing it like that for serious when I didn't know any better. All because of that damn movie. I have 1 jigobyte of memory. This hard drive has 80 jigobytes of storage space. LOL!
that helps to perpetuate the "MHz myth". If MHz don't matter, why are these guys doing these crazy things to increase the MHz? I know it is just for the "fun of it", "to see if it can be done". However,(tongue-in-cheek) this stuff just influences people to rely on MHz numbers more and more. It teaches young-ins that more MHz is better whatever the cost. What we need is a great story about how Bill Buxley and his pal Jan Hammy had strung 32 CPU's together with chicken wire in thier garage. This would be the parallelism hack equivalent to overclocking. Pretty soon though we would have to contend with the "parallelism myth" and the industry would in turn be trying to deemphasis parallelism for Mhz. It would be a cycle in that manner until finally one day the industry hits it big with the "quantumn computing myth". Stay tuned if your still alive by then. LOL!
A similar program available is called SphereXP or some such thing. It works pretty well. It's not perfect of course. It still has some improvements to be done, but it is free AFAIK. It is kind of like the reverse of what this article is talking about. YOu are actually inside of a sphere and you can paste the windows and things to encircle you so to speak. I don't use it regularly because the minor flaws don't allow me access to say the task bar. The task manager doesn't work with it either. You can zoom in and out and have windows postioned further away and such. Like I said it really is pretty slick. I just am so used to a flat 2D desktop that it feels wierd to me. I guess if I used it more I would start thinking the 2D was inefficient and sucked.
It seems to me that it was just last week that people were paying $500+ on Ebay when the PS2 was first launched. What was the time frame between Playstation and the PSone launch? Was it about the same time frame, or am I just getting older and time goes by faster for me now?
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AWWWWWW.......I was gonna say that. You COMMENT STEALER. That's no fun. Now I gotta think of another funny thing to say DANGIT!
All that work just to make it look dirty! If this is the way awesome case-mods are going to be from now on, I can become a l33t modder merely by going down to the local wreckage yard and finding me some rusted out bucket to throw my hardware into. If I throw some actual dirt in it too, maybe I can get X-TRA modding points with the local message board. Woot! Woot!
Now we have to attribute and possibly congradulate the lowest scum of the earth (virus writers) for making possible real artificial intelligence. I can just see these virii as the stepping stones towards self-awareness in computer networks. Who'da thunk it!
Why is mp3 going the way of the 8-track? Why do people want to start putting mp3's on 8-track now? That erases any portability gains. Also, 8-track sucks. In case people don't know, 8-track is so old (like 1960's and 70's) it's not even funny. Now I am gonna have to shop around at flea markets for an 8-track player just so I can enjoy my myraid of MP3's. Those things suck up battery life like no-one's business too. Well I hope I can get one of those GROOVY models that have built-in speakers that split the one speaker apart so you can have better stereo. Ooh! I want one with additional speaker jacks so I can have QUADRAPHONIC sound. That would be totally kicky-blast and wailin'.
incorrectly named (on purpose)
uh...is it THAT hard to simply rename the darn thing if that is the only problem?
How in the world are they getting these figures of people deleting MP3's? How do they know that N people are actually deleting certain things from their hard drives? Or did they do a poll and were asking people this? How many people in this poll (if it was) were telling the truth? That kinda seems arrogant of this report to assume such a thing on scant little evidence. Isn't this the case though with all "findings" reports.
Here's an example I am making up:
I perceive based on independent web reviews that
cd-roms are dying. People aren't using CD-writeables anymore. Everybody in the world is using DVD-writeables. The reason is because all reviews I have read are of those drives. No one is writing CD-writeable reviews anymore. Thus, CD-ROMS are DEAD as a dorrnail. The nail is in the coffin....etc.
Do you see how skewed these statements can become?
I am going to boycott Colgate until they pull thier heads outta thier arses and realize people want to copy tubes of toothpaste for moroe than one use. This brushing on demand one-use policy is rediculous. I am switching to baking soda until they realize they can't do this. C'mon slashdotters, ARE YA WITH ME? Together we can take down the virtual monopoly Colgate has on the personal hygiene market. .....Wait....I think my rant was supposed to be against HBO for this week. oh well...Colgate still sucks!
You are either with me or against me. If you harbor Colgate in your homes, you are as guilty as Colgate themselves.
Long live SCSI! SCSI forever!
SCSI for president!
SCSI cereal, the BRAND!
Not only that, but imagine a notebook with SCSI. heat issues aside, this would be cool in a drooling fantasy sort of way! Imagine a scsi RAID array in your notebook. ROFL!
Okay, this means it's time for the CPU performance increases to take a back seat. Maybe now the rest of the computer can have some time to catch up better with the CPU. I am talking about bus and memory bandwidth. This is one hurdle that needs to be overcome.
Low latency and high bandwidth up the wazoo is one aspect that supercomputers for example have over standard pc components, besides massive parallelism of course.
It would be cool to see intel start making inroads from R&D on the memory front. I'm not talking about on-die cache, that is a given. The questions to be answered are how to get the main memory up to snuff with the rest of the system.
If the current state of the art in CPU power stagnated from here until 5 or more years from now, it really wouldn't be an issue if the same efforts during that time were put into lower latencies across the whole sytem architecture itself.
So what am I saying? The CPU has had enough innovation in it's current form. It's time to focus on other lagging components. Pci-x is a step in the right direction, but it is nothing without main memory advances and other mainboard bus architectural improvements.
Heck with that brewing stuff...I just use the freeze-dried instant beer crystals. No need for brewing at all. Instant-in-your-cup goodness! On Mondays though I usually put in 4 scoops instead of the usual 2. :-)
The point of attachment of the muscles and tendons to the bone. The attached points provide more leverage. Yours and my muscles attach to the very end of the bone where it pivots. Chimps and such have that tendon attached farther down thus providing more leverage and strength for a given muscle mass.
I want to be able to hook up an original Atari joystick. That would be weird just to try out.
Or better yet those paddle thingamagigs. Imagine the possibilties!
I completely covered my PC with it. There`s no airlow, but at least it`s safe. I also sprinkled some holy water on it for good measure. Those Nazis will never get to my PC now.
Tarpaulin and leaves? HA! We had to live in a tin can at the bottom of a river, without a lid, and the current was uphill both ways on our way to the bathroom, which by the way was an empty milk jug.
Seriously, this would make some great wallpaper. They got some commercial potential there. Then you could wallpaper a whole room with it and call it the "Atari room." Have your kids go in so they can see what it was like to play games on an Atari 2600 console. Hey, it could be the punishment room. They would have to go in there for a time-out period and suffer the large blocky graphics while the images are burnt into thier retinas with large floodlights.
MUWHAHAHA!
Oh yeah...I forgot....C3PO's homestead would be Anakin's home on that one desert planet. Oh well! Maybe it would be scenes where C3PO's droids friends all come over and party. Bender from that one cartoon show could crash the party every week providing comic relief. But the important thing is that they all talk in native "droid" language so we can't understand shit.
to know what life is like back at C3PO's family homestead. I want to hear every bleep and bloop that they converse with as they prepare for the great droid holiday called "Gordon Moore's Birthday".
Maybe they could get Conan O'Brian to drop in as a suprise special guest since Art Carney prob won't make it. Then the C3PO family gets all worried cuz R2D2 is late getting there cuz he is caught in a barfight over at the Cantina on Mos Eisley (cuz you know they don't like droids there!)
That would be cool. It would be like the SWHS all over again except without all those annoying wookies.
I don't know for how long I went around pronouncing it like that for serious when I didn't know any better. All because of that damn movie. I have 1 jigobyte of memory. This hard drive has 80 jigobytes of storage space. LOL!
that helps to perpetuate the "MHz myth". If MHz don't matter, why are these guys doing these crazy things to increase the MHz? I know it is just for the "fun of it", "to see if it can be done". However,(tongue-in-cheek) this stuff just influences people to rely on MHz numbers more and more. It teaches young-ins that more MHz is better whatever the cost. What we need is a great story about how Bill Buxley and his pal Jan Hammy had strung 32 CPU's together with chicken wire in thier garage. This would be the parallelism hack equivalent to overclocking. Pretty soon though we would have to contend with the "parallelism myth" and the industry would in turn be trying to deemphasis parallelism for Mhz. It would be a cycle in that manner until finally one day the industry hits it big with the "quantumn computing myth". Stay tuned if your still alive by then. LOL!
A similar program available is called SphereXP or some such thing. It works pretty well. It's not perfect of course. It still has some improvements to be done, but it is free AFAIK. It is kind of like the reverse of what this article is talking about. YOu are actually inside of a sphere and you can paste the windows and things to encircle you so to speak. I don't use it regularly because the minor flaws don't allow me access to say the task bar. The task manager doesn't work with it either. You can zoom in and out and have windows postioned further away and such. Like I said it really is pretty slick. I just am so used to a flat 2D desktop that it feels wierd to me. I guess if I used it more I would start thinking the 2D was inefficient and sucked.
Didn't the article also state that this memory technology is on a 60nm process? Last I checked, present chips are only using 90nm processes.
Probably the DVD drive. I know I never used that. Well, maybe once when I waatched a movie DVD...LOL!
I want a handheld version of the Playstation 2. Oh yeah, the DVD discs would never fit. Oh well, it was nice to dream.
It seems to me that it was just last week that people were paying $500+ on Ebay when the PS2 was first launched. What was the time frame between Playstation and the PSone launch? Was it about the same time frame, or am I just getting older and time goes by faster for me now?