different processor design. Not a standard PPC chip. The Cell/Xenon/gamecubewhatever are all custom chips with certain goals. The 970 is a beast compared to the Xenon. If they created a tripple core 970 at 3ghz, you'd have liquid lead cooling from the heat, and it'd be the size of the tower (not really). More than likely, it was a yield issue with the PPC970 chips running at high speeds, which were issues for quite a while. They just can't ramp up those 970s w/o too many failures.
I've even had problems with low-wattage lights in my house. At times, especially when I am tired, I can see the flicker, not directly when looking at the lights, but on the white walls around. Causes annoynances. Also, personally, I have to have at LEAST 75 Hz refresh rate to last more than an hour on a computer, but luckily I use laptops exclusively at home, and eye strain is greatly reduced. Sometimes, when I walk into a room with multiple computers, all set at 60Hz, I feel like having a seizure. lol. It really hurts to not even look at them. Periferal vision is most definately the worst, though, as I think the eyes may have a greater sensitivity to light changes.
I once did research on the eye, and of course, it is found that the center of the eye is almost entirely cones (color viewers). Going out from the eye, the cone:rod ratio changes to the rods favor. At the outer edge of your viewable range, the eyes are almost entirely rods. Now, what I would guess is that, at the angle of light in the periferal vision, the light is directed on the outer edges of the retina where the rod concentration is the highest. Thus, greater flicker sensitivity in the periferal vision.
That's just my guess at things.
I have a Buslink POS, and display has crapped out on me, but I still use it for music. realized how little I actually use the display (don't use it except to set the display settings, lol). Honestly, wish the shuffle had come out just before xmas so I could get some iPod luvin.
Excuse me, that's a pretty petty attitude. One can research to his or her heart's content, but it doesn't change the fact that they haven't seen it with their own two eyes or other senses. I don't know if I believe in god or not. I'm an agnostic. Can't see, can't sense, makes it a lot harder to believe. Like I said, I believe it is a skeptic's job to try and prove theirselves wrong, but alas, five minutes of reasearch doesn't make up for the fact that there are many factors to keeping an astronaught alive beyond the ionisphere (as I have researched). And although I love to believe what everybody else says, if that were the case, I'd believe the US is the greatest country in the world, the solviets landed on venus, god is vengeful yet kind and likes to drown people, my life is predestined, and of course, we landed on the moon. Like I said, not that I don't believe they didn't, I just don't know based on the information I've researched. Maybe you should try being accepting of other people's views, "you fucking idiot":-P
Although I don't really know one way or another, I think a good way to finalize my belief would be if I could use a telescope to physically see what was left on the moon. Personally, I feel that if the skeptics don't take steps to prove themselves wrong, then they are just people who don't want to be like everyone else. lol.
It always seems that whenever something needs to be maintained, suddenly, congress is all scared to give them money. Like they never expected a 15yr old telescope dealing with the harshness of space would need lots of money to keep it going. The problem is, they make the initial investment saying "Oh, this will be great", but as soon as it becomes less than popular, they drop support, and thus waste billions of dollars worth of equipment and achievements, just so in the public eye they aren't wasting money. The problem is, the public doesn't realize they are wasting money by NOT spending the money for it. All I can say is "people are dumb" (well, on average, at any rate)
Not to be combatitive, but according to recent reports, one of M$'s highest income areas was the home entertainment division, including XBox. Most of that is expected b/c of Halo2, though, which is the highest hype of almost any game of all time.
The only thing that I see as a requirement would be instant viewing of the movie. People download music from iTMS b/c they get instant gratification. Less than two minutes and you have whatever song you want. In order for an online movie buying business to work, they are goign to have to be able to play the movie well before it finishes downloading, and with decent quality on their TV. Otherwise, people will just rather spend the 3 hrs goign out to a rental place and purchasing a movie, or just get Netflix.
I wonder if this study has any relation to the one about how beer can prevent cancer. Woudl be interesting to see if it was the actual alcohol, or possibly a by-product of the alcohol making process.
I believe that the parent was trying to simply state that for the AVERAGE user, a $500 computer replaced every two years is still more convienent than a computer that they have to upgrade. Yes, power users who want to run on Windows will inevitably say that they can upgrade for cheap b/c they can do it themselves, but the target audience isn't those power users, but rather the person who knows little about computers and would thus have to take it in to get upgraded in a computer shop for an extra $100 plus parts, which will be more than they really need, but they will get scammed into getting it. Considering I still don't have an internet connection that I can download from at 10-baseT, I don't see the need for a HOME computer needing anything more than 100 baseT within the estimated product lifetime. True there are some bad points to the mini, but to the target audience, this computer will be ideal! I work phone tech support for Cox communications, and guess what, we almost NEVER get a call about internet not working on a mac. The only mac calls we get are people setting up their accounts for the first time (which has actualluy been increasing). This computer is targeted to those who don't want ot worry about virii, spy ware, etc (I know they exist for the mac, but on a much smaller scale) and don't want to worry abotu driver conflicts b/c they now have an OS that is designed around/with the hardware.
To me, it seems like motion capture is not quite enough. To truely record a dance, you'd need multiple angle video capture, along with motion capture, and save it in a raw format on several servers, so that in the future, you don't have the dance altering, as too little movement was actually captured by our young, and very primative robots. The more raw data collected, the more accurate the dance will be for comming generations. Several capture techniques should be used in any such preservation.
Of course, there are many many other contributors, but the main one is AOL, as many of the former members of the Netscape programming crew found homes in the Mozilla community. AOL likes to keep Mozilla/Netscape in their back pockets in case Microsoft royally screws them over. lol.
I believe he was saying that since Indie developers don't have the resources to create full-scale 3D developed environments beyond a rudimentary point, they have began focusing on the 2D realm once again. It will be much easier for them to create a kick-ass 2D game that still has decent graphics, than it would be to compete in the 3D realm with the likes of EA and Microsoft (doesn't that mean small and limp?;-)). Well, that's just my interpretation of this.
Actually, a lot of it has to do with re-directing water from rivers and such. A city which resides at the origin of a river continues requiring more and more water for various applications (including drinking, irrigation, and industry), and the throughput of the water lessens down the river. Irrigation is one of the leading causes of river dry-ups (along with glacier size shrinkage).
"detection or prevention of the unauthorized use of or fraudulent or other illegal activities in
connection with a network, service, or computer software, including scanning for and removing software proscribed under this chapter"
Hrrrmmmmm.....Sounds like we still can't keep the RIAA out of our computers. Loop holes, loop holes, loop holes.
He said no pr0n in a warzone, not in general. I work maintenance on acft, and I've seen my share of stashed pr0n onboard. quite funny when the pilot steals the crew chief's pr0n. Causes the pilot to have a few kinks in his voyage. lol.
I visit Arstechnica.com often (hell, it's my homepage), and that site has tons flash ads. On my old laptop, that use to slow my comp to a crawl (three year old laptop), b/c of the CPU load. At least now with adblock, I don't have to ever worry about that again.
I'm only giving a generalization. I personally am in the armed services and we are all aware of the risk involved in raising our right hand and swearing in. 1000 people (US soldiers) is not an incredible number considering we've been at it for more than two years. that's about 2 people a day. Not too bad considering we are in a HOSTILE environment. I'd like to see law enforcement deaths in the US over the past two years or so to see how many deaths we have in a non hostile environment.
I personally an not concerned about the Iraq natives' deaths as much as I am concerned about the security of the troops there. IMO, you have to look after number one first. And it is difficult not to have the urge to shoot first then ask questions, b/c if you don't shoot first out there, you're dead if they are hostile.
It's not that I don't care about civilian deaths, but I care about US deaths and security more. Why? B/c I live here.
The A-10 incident you are speaking of is a lot more complex than you lead on. The A-10s were suppose to be attacking targets attacking the marines, but the pilots were not given proper coordinates and opened fire on a US Marine sortie. The first items fired at the marines were not the recognizable 30mm cannon on the A-10, but rather several bombs from the two crafts. The marines thought at first that they were under attack by mortor fire, and thus, relayed messages that they were under attack by the enemy. Later, one of the marines recognized the sound of the gun, and relayed the message that they were under friendly fire. The A-10 pilots are under investigation as to why they did not cease fire at once, but those reports are still pending to my knowlege. To simply say that it is an ongoing problem is to make a generalization. Yes, under the fog of war, there are always friendly fire mistakes. Just imagine the number of people killed by friendly fire in the revolutionary war, or the civil war! Then figure WWII where people were entrenched, fireing on other units often without any communication. Vietnam was better, but not great. It is getting better, and with every new technology comes fewer friendly casualties. Every mission has fewer mistakes, but you cannot say that it is gettign worse when the trend is nothing but better. It is the sensationalist media that likes to shock and amaze people for ratings, who make it seem like a major problem. Remember one thing to all who question the Iraq war. On the day of the most US deaths in Iraq, more people died in Detroit, Michigan alone.
One thing to consider is, if you leave it on the charger while listening to music, it will not be runing off of the power source, but rather the battery, which is constantly being charged, so it may reduce the life. I'm not certain on how their charging mechanism works, but this may be the case, in whiech, the parent is correct.
Watch for Magnetic RAM (MRAM) to be the thing to solve this problem. The only power the RAM needs is the power to change a single bit. No need for the refreshing of the RAM, you give it a charge, and it stays. Woohoo!
I agree that 512MB of RAM should work out well for a lightweight laptop like this one. The main thing that jumped out at me is the fact that the reader claimed that it had a Pentium 4 M processor at 900Mhz. My first thought was, that is crap, but then after reading the actual specs, found it to be a Pentium M instead (much better). Kind of make you realize how bad the Intel programming of customers is, if even a slashdot reader can let such an important spec be interchanged.
One of the biggest issues with getting power stations started up is syncing them all together. B/c our power system uses alternating currents (AC), the frequencies have to be syncronized when bringing them online, or it can cause even more problems. That, I heard, was one of the biggest challanges of bringing the NE power back online when power plants were being knocked out and having to be reinitiated.
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different processor design. Not a standard PPC chip. The Cell/Xenon/gamecubewhatever are all custom chips with certain goals. The 970 is a beast compared to the Xenon. If they created a tripple core 970 at 3ghz, you'd have liquid lead cooling from the heat, and it'd be the size of the tower (not really). More than likely, it was a yield issue with the PPC970 chips running at high speeds, which were issues for quite a while. They just can't ramp up those 970s w/o too many failures.
I've even had problems with low-wattage lights in my house. At times, especially when I am tired, I can see the flicker, not directly when looking at the lights, but on the white walls around. Causes annoynances. Also, personally, I have to have at LEAST 75 Hz refresh rate to last more than an hour on a computer, but luckily I use laptops exclusively at home, and eye strain is greatly reduced. Sometimes, when I walk into a room with multiple computers, all set at 60Hz, I feel like having a seizure. lol. It really hurts to not even look at them. Periferal vision is most definately the worst, though, as I think the eyes may have a greater sensitivity to light changes. I once did research on the eye, and of course, it is found that the center of the eye is almost entirely cones (color viewers). Going out from the eye, the cone:rod ratio changes to the rods favor. At the outer edge of your viewable range, the eyes are almost entirely rods. Now, what I would guess is that, at the angle of light in the periferal vision, the light is directed on the outer edges of the retina where the rod concentration is the highest. Thus, greater flicker sensitivity in the periferal vision. That's just my guess at things.
I have a Buslink POS, and display has crapped out on me, but I still use it for music. realized how little I actually use the display (don't use it except to set the display settings, lol). Honestly, wish the shuffle had come out just before xmas so I could get some iPod luvin.
Excuse me, that's a pretty petty attitude. One can research to his or her heart's content, but it doesn't change the fact that they haven't seen it with their own two eyes or other senses. I don't know if I believe in god or not. I'm an agnostic. Can't see, can't sense, makes it a lot harder to believe. Like I said, I believe it is a skeptic's job to try and prove theirselves wrong, but alas, five minutes of reasearch doesn't make up for the fact that there are many factors to keeping an astronaught alive beyond the ionisphere (as I have researched). And although I love to believe what everybody else says, if that were the case, I'd believe the US is the greatest country in the world, the solviets landed on venus, god is vengeful yet kind and likes to drown people, my life is predestined, and of course, we landed on the moon. Like I said, not that I don't believe they didn't, I just don't know based on the information I've researched. Maybe you should try being accepting of other people's views, "you fucking idiot" :-P
Although I don't really know one way or another, I think a good way to finalize my belief would be if I could use a telescope to physically see what was left on the moon. Personally, I feel that if the skeptics don't take steps to prove themselves wrong, then they are just people who don't want to be like everyone else. lol.
It always seems that whenever something needs to be maintained, suddenly, congress is all scared to give them money. Like they never expected a 15yr old telescope dealing with the harshness of space would need lots of money to keep it going. The problem is, they make the initial investment saying "Oh, this will be great", but as soon as it becomes less than popular, they drop support, and thus waste billions of dollars worth of equipment and achievements, just so in the public eye they aren't wasting money. The problem is, the public doesn't realize they are wasting money by NOT spending the money for it. All I can say is "people are dumb" (well, on average, at any rate)
Not to be combatitive, but according to recent reports, one of M$'s highest income areas was the home entertainment division, including XBox. Most of that is expected b/c of Halo2, though, which is the highest hype of almost any game of all time.
The only thing that I see as a requirement would be instant viewing of the movie. People download music from iTMS b/c they get instant gratification. Less than two minutes and you have whatever song you want. In order for an online movie buying business to work, they are goign to have to be able to play the movie well before it finishes downloading, and with decent quality on their TV. Otherwise, people will just rather spend the 3 hrs goign out to a rental place and purchasing a movie, or just get Netflix.
I wonder if this study has any relation to the one about how beer can prevent cancer. Woudl be interesting to see if it was the actual alcohol, or possibly a by-product of the alcohol making process.
I believe that the parent was trying to simply state that for the AVERAGE user, a $500 computer replaced every two years is still more convienent than a computer that they have to upgrade. Yes, power users who want to run on Windows will inevitably say that they can upgrade for cheap b/c they can do it themselves, but the target audience isn't those power users, but rather the person who knows little about computers and would thus have to take it in to get upgraded in a computer shop for an extra $100 plus parts, which will be more than they really need, but they will get scammed into getting it. Considering I still don't have an internet connection that I can download from at 10-baseT, I don't see the need for a HOME computer needing anything more than 100 baseT within the estimated product lifetime. True there are some bad points to the mini, but to the target audience, this computer will be ideal! I work phone tech support for Cox communications, and guess what, we almost NEVER get a call about internet not working on a mac. The only mac calls we get are people setting up their accounts for the first time (which has actualluy been increasing). This computer is targeted to those who don't want ot worry about virii, spy ware, etc (I know they exist for the mac, but on a much smaller scale) and don't want to worry abotu driver conflicts b/c they now have an OS that is designed around/with the hardware.
just my two cents.
To me, it seems like motion capture is not quite enough. To truely record a dance, you'd need multiple angle video capture, along with motion capture, and save it in a raw format on several servers, so that in the future, you don't have the dance altering, as too little movement was actually captured by our young, and very primative robots. The more raw data collected, the more accurate the dance will be for comming generations. Several capture techniques should be used in any such preservation.
"contributors" = AOL/Netscape :-D
Of course, there are many many other contributors, but the main one is AOL, as many of the former members of the Netscape programming crew found homes in the Mozilla community. AOL likes to keep Mozilla/Netscape in their back pockets in case Microsoft royally screws them over. lol.
I believe he was saying that since Indie developers don't have the resources to create full-scale 3D developed environments beyond a rudimentary point, they have began focusing on the 2D realm once again. It will be much easier for them to create a kick-ass 2D game that still has decent graphics, than it would be to compete in the 3D realm with the likes of EA and Microsoft (doesn't that mean small and limp? ;-)). Well, that's just my interpretation of this.
Actually, a lot of it has to do with re-directing water from rivers and such. A city which resides at the origin of a river continues requiring more and more water for various applications (including drinking, irrigation, and industry), and the throughput of the water lessens down the river. Irrigation is one of the leading causes of river dry-ups (along with glacier size shrinkage).
"detection or prevention of the unauthorized use of or fraudulent or other illegal activities in connection with a network, service, or computer software, including scanning for and removing software proscribed under this chapter" Hrrrmmmmm.....Sounds like we still can't keep the RIAA out of our computers. Loop holes, loop holes, loop holes.
He said no pr0n in a warzone, not in general. I work maintenance on acft, and I've seen my share of stashed pr0n onboard. quite funny when the pilot steals the crew chief's pr0n. Causes the pilot to have a few kinks in his voyage. lol.
*dares to mention Mac OS X* *gulp* Well, we all have our tastes. Mine just happens to be for fruit!
I visit Arstechnica.com often (hell, it's my homepage), and that site has tons flash ads. On my old laptop, that use to slow my comp to a crawl (three year old laptop), b/c of the CPU load. At least now with adblock, I don't have to ever worry about that again.
I'm only giving a generalization. I personally am in the armed services and we are all aware of the risk involved in raising our right hand and swearing in. 1000 people (US soldiers) is not an incredible number considering we've been at it for more than two years. that's about 2 people a day. Not too bad considering we are in a HOSTILE environment. I'd like to see law enforcement deaths in the US over the past two years or so to see how many deaths we have in a non hostile environment. I personally an not concerned about the Iraq natives' deaths as much as I am concerned about the security of the troops there. IMO, you have to look after number one first. And it is difficult not to have the urge to shoot first then ask questions, b/c if you don't shoot first out there, you're dead if they are hostile. It's not that I don't care about civilian deaths, but I care about US deaths and security more. Why? B/c I live here.
The A-10 incident you are speaking of is a lot more complex than you lead on. The A-10s were suppose to be attacking targets attacking the marines, but the pilots were not given proper coordinates and opened fire on a US Marine sortie. The first items fired at the marines were not the recognizable 30mm cannon on the A-10, but rather several bombs from the two crafts. The marines thought at first that they were under attack by mortor fire, and thus, relayed messages that they were under attack by the enemy. Later, one of the marines recognized the sound of the gun, and relayed the message that they were under friendly fire. The A-10 pilots are under investigation as to why they did not cease fire at once, but those reports are still pending to my knowlege. To simply say that it is an ongoing problem is to make a generalization. Yes, under the fog of war, there are always friendly fire mistakes. Just imagine the number of people killed by friendly fire in the revolutionary war, or the civil war! Then figure WWII where people were entrenched, fireing on other units often without any communication. Vietnam was better, but not great. It is getting better, and with every new technology comes fewer friendly casualties. Every mission has fewer mistakes, but you cannot say that it is gettign worse when the trend is nothing but better. It is the sensationalist media that likes to shock and amaze people for ratings, who make it seem like a major problem. Remember one thing to all who question the Iraq war. On the day of the most US deaths in Iraq, more people died in Detroit, Michigan alone.
If they were in the AirForce, the whole team would be in for a piss test to see who they can blame for it ;-)
One thing to consider is, if you leave it on the charger while listening to music, it will not be runing off of the power source, but rather the battery, which is constantly being charged, so it may reduce the life. I'm not certain on how their charging mechanism works, but this may be the case, in whiech, the parent is correct.
Watch for Magnetic RAM (MRAM) to be the thing to solve this problem. The only power the RAM needs is the power to change a single bit. No need for the refreshing of the RAM, you give it a charge, and it stays. Woohoo!
I agree that 512MB of RAM should work out well for a lightweight laptop like this one. The main thing that jumped out at me is the fact that the reader claimed that it had a Pentium 4 M processor at 900Mhz. My first thought was, that is crap, but then after reading the actual specs, found it to be a Pentium M instead (much better). Kind of make you realize how bad the Intel programming of customers is, if even a slashdot reader can let such an important spec be interchanged.
One of the biggest issues with getting power stations started up is syncing them all together. B/c our power system uses alternating currents (AC), the frequencies have to be syncronized when bringing them online, or it can cause even more problems. That, I heard, was one of the biggest challanges of bringing the NE power back online when power plants were being knocked out and having to be reinitiated.