I don't know if any nice packages will be ported to OS X for Mactel, but since the dev boards are basically standard x86 mbs, it is likely that any OS that will run on a Dell will run on the macs (although OS X seems to be copy protected to only run on the macs). So even if CAD software won't run on OS X, you can still dual boot into Windows or Linux and run it there.
Actually, you might be able to make 1/8 of the ~300W two of these cards would be using by running a small steam turbine off them. That would be an awsome mod, outfitting an OCed Pentium D and SLI right with water cooling, a heat exchanger, and steam generator.
Not technically, but it won't run on every board. It has to run on an SLI board, which USUALLY means that there are two slots. I wish they would make one of these that somehow pretended to be a single card, so that you could use it on any board without the fussof SLI. I wonder if it is possible.
Anyone else want to wallpaper at least one wall in thier house with this? Couple of questions. The article was pretty vague, which does not lend it creedance. Is it flexable? What kind of resolution does it have? Is it color? What is the pixel response time? Pixel density? Does it put off light, or require ambient or back lighting? Contrast ratio? Viewing angle? What technology is behind it?
Haven't scientists done this study like 18 times already? I think its becoming painfully obvious that scientists are just looking for more excuses to watch porn inside the MRI machine.
Depends what kind of music you play. My band requires 9 tracks per take. (2 for guitar, 1 bass, 1 vocals, and 5 for drums). If you are doing multiple takes, it grows. If you are in a prog rock band, or something with a backup choir, it could be several dozen tracks. A good studio does not want to be limited in any case, so they usually have the cability for at least 20 tracks. If you mix for an real orchestra or do movie soundtracks, you need maybe 50 tracks.
I do some of the sound mixing for my band, while some is done by a professional. I use windows, and he uses Mac. I use SONAR, and he uses Logic. Let me say, even as a PC person, that Logic is an AMAZING program. It is incredibly simple, much more so than SONAR, but at the same time just as powerful, if not more so. Instead of having to apply filters with a drop down menu, you drag them to filter slots on a track. Buttons you need are big, the ones you don't are small. Filters have clear labels on their settings that allow even a novice to see what each does. Not only does a good interface and powerful engine make mixing much faster, but the output sounds better as you spend more time on the mix, not navigating menus. Linux is not an audio editing platform. Companies invest lots of money making quality realtime audio drivers for expensive equiptment for Windows and Mac, not for Linux. Sure, you can do some decent stuff with a P4, 1 GB RAM and an Audigey Basic, like this guy does, but thats not real audio editing. My system, let me stress I am an amerature, is a Dual P4 1MB cache x64, 2GB DDR2, 520 GB HD, and 7.1 Channel soundcard for regular stuff, and a 24bit external input box for audio recording. The professional mixman we work with has a dual G5, 23 inch monitor, Firewire 32 input 24bit A/D converter, and Mackie control surface, in addition to the regular 48 channel mixer he uses. I have used Audacity. I have nothing against it. It is the MS Paint of FOSS sound editors. You can have tracks, and cut them, and move them about, even put on some reverb. That is not real audio editing. For recording a band in a studio setting, you need hundreds of tracks and takes (sometimes), powerful compression, reverb, phasers, and environmental filters, support for recording 12-24 simultanious 24 bit uncompressed tracks to hard drive, support for professional zero latency real time firewire, usb and pci audio input cards as well as professional control surfaces. Does linux have that yet? I have no problem with linux, or people how dabble in cutting up a few audio files. But this guy has no right to declare that linux is now BETTER than windows or mac os x because he can record off the "line in" on his soundblaster. The arguement that you can add whatever you want to FOSS software, making it better than closed source, is getting tiring. Sure you can. You can also jump to the moon if you want to. Do you really think anybody has sat down, installed Audacity, and said "This doesn't have the features of SONAR or CUBASE", then proceeded to open emacs and write all those features into it? I though not. Linux is good for somethings already, and getting better at others. It is not by any strech of the imagination ready for professional audio editing.
Because Microsoft needs a reason for people to upgrade. Do you use Windows XP on a daily basis? Chances are, if you have anti-virus and anti-spyware utilities installed, your computer runs pretty darn well. Microsoft can't attract very many people by saying their operating system is more stable than XP, so they make it look nicer. If they did the same with XP, they wouldn't make any money.
They do this on purpose. The builds leaked "conviently" don't have any of the technologies microsoft isn't ready to unviel. In order to get legal copies of Longhorn, you have to subscribe to MSDN, and have the time and motivation to install it. This way, they get a free bug testing group, who posts any problems they find on discussion sites, which microsoft reads and fixes.
Not sure, but I think most of them actually have a dock connecter and some limited software integration that allows you to pause, skip, ect with the stereo controls. Some even display song title and playlists, ect, while others treat the ipod as a CD changer.
Its really not a new phone anymore, considering how fast the phone market moves. And you are right, OBEX is not really cutting edge, it is pretty much a standard feature that was removed.
Well, "mega" is pretty damn incorrect. Mega is the prefix meaning 1000x1000. It is commonly used in computers to mean either 1000x1000 or 1024x1024. This often leads to confusion, as with harddrives, ect... Someone decided to do something besides bitching about it and invented a new term. Better for everyone involved. Deal with it.
Especially considering RAM chips have an area of roughly 1 square centimeter, or a capacity of about 10 MebiBYTES each. Thats 1993 capacities all over. Also, it isn't much good for RAM, because 1.2 GB is a 13 CM diameter hunk, and it is ONLY 10 times faster than flash. That sounds nice, until you realize 667 MHz DDR2 ram is like 234239523 times (not real number, don't flame me) as fast as Flash. Hard drives are typically about 10 times as fast as flash, so there is a better compairison. Its not that I'm again Nanoram, I'm not, but its certainly not ready for mainstream computing yet. Maybe cellphones or pdas for now.
I work as an IT consultant, often helping small buisness purchase computers. Dell's pricing has been a nightmare forever. NOTHING is the same price ever. Identical Latitude and Inspirion laptops cost completely different prices, as with Optiplex and Dimension desktops. Some days theres a free monitor, printer, ect, but some days, for the same price, there is nothing. And identical computer sometimes cost different prices depending on which link you click.
A horseshoe magnet will not ruin computer components. This is a commonly held misconception, even around very computer literate people (even me until a couple of years ago). While hard disks and many other computer devices use devices that work using magnetism, the magnetic parts and particles involved are so small that a conventional magnet will not move them. It is requires a very focused electromagnet pulsing at a specific frequency to flip bits. No magnet commonly available can do this, although the MRI machine might be able to (plus, would tear the case into shrapnel that would destroy the drives anyway). The only component in a modern computer that can be hurt by a regular refridgerator strength magnet is a floppy disk, and only at very close range. Keeping a magnet near an empty floppy drive does not cause problems though. I work in IT, and have seen computers running fine for years covered in powerful refridgerator magnets (no accounting for taste). I have even proven this on my own computer to skeptical friends. I invite them to use one of my quite powerful rare earth magnets and stick it on and into my brand new P4 system, as long as they are careful not to short anything out by touching the magnet to it. Also, while CRT displays are vunerable to distortion caused by magnets (which can often be fixed with degaussing), LCDs are completely immune to magnets, unless thrown at the display (has happened), in which case cracking can occur if the speed and mass of the magnet is sufficient. The best way to destroy a computer system is tinfoil or water poured inside. If none is available, physical beating works, but requires more effort.
The announcement comes at the same time as several other stuides by the CRIA, including one showing that P2P users are more likely to get struck by lightning by a factor of 7, and that P2P users are twice as likely to have erectile disfuction disorder.
It runs linux, but it probably could run Windows CE, opps, Windows Mobile.Net. I don't think there are any display drivers yet for eInk displays, so you would have to deal with using an operating system meant to run in color on a display with a 25ms response rate on a 4 color screen with a 1000ms response rate. Other than that, the dev board is a standard dev board you can buy elsewhere rather cheap, with an ARM processor, the same basic device in every Windows Mobile or Pocket PC PDA made in the last 4 years.
I think the similarity is less in the actual product, and more in the idea. Both companies took ideas that were considered radical and new (transistor radio and harddrive MP3 player) and put them in a teeny (for the time, each is teeny) package with a stylish design. I think the compairison is better with the first iPod, as the ipod nano is just a smaller version of that.
Slightly? This thing is barely handheld. Not only is it quite heavy (judging from the heavy duty electronics in the case) but about the size of a walkman, not an ipod, especially not an ipod nano, have you seen one of those things, it makes a ticktac case look bloated!
Even if they aren't armed, do you want a pack of 36 600 lb animals with sharp teeth who natually kill sharks and who have been trained by the navy out while you are swimming? Dolphins are not cuddly in nature. They are predators. They eat large fish, and kill sharks when necissary.
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I don't know if any nice packages will be ported to OS X for Mactel, but since the dev boards are basically standard x86 mbs, it is likely that any OS that will run on a Dell will run on the macs (although OS X seems to be copy protected to only run on the macs). So even if CAD software won't run on OS X, you can still dual boot into Windows or Linux and run it there.
Actually, you might be able to make 1/8 of the ~300W two of these cards would be using by running a small steam turbine off them. That would be an awsome mod, outfitting an OCed Pentium D and SLI right with water cooling, a heat exchanger, and steam generator.
Not technically, but it won't run on every board. It has to run on an SLI board, which USUALLY means that there are two slots. I wish they would make one of these that somehow pretended to be a single card, so that you could use it on any board without the fussof SLI. I wonder if it is possible.
Anyone else want to wallpaper at least one wall in thier house with this? Couple of questions. The article was pretty vague, which does not lend it creedance. Is it flexable? What kind of resolution does it have? Is it color? What is the pixel response time? Pixel density? Does it put off light, or require ambient or back lighting? Contrast ratio? Viewing angle? What technology is behind it?
Haven't scientists done this study like 18 times already? I think its becoming painfully obvious that scientists are just looking for more excuses to watch porn inside the MRI machine.
Depends what kind of music you play. My band requires 9 tracks per take. (2 for guitar, 1 bass, 1 vocals, and 5 for drums). If you are doing multiple takes, it grows. If you are in a prog rock band, or something with a backup choir, it could be several dozen tracks. A good studio does not want to be limited in any case, so they usually have the cability for at least 20 tracks. If you mix for an real orchestra or do movie soundtracks, you need maybe 50 tracks.
I do some of the sound mixing for my band, while some is done by a professional. I use windows, and he uses Mac. I use SONAR, and he uses Logic. Let me say, even as a PC person, that Logic is an AMAZING program. It is incredibly simple, much more so than SONAR, but at the same time just as powerful, if not more so. Instead of having to apply filters with a drop down menu, you drag them to filter slots on a track. Buttons you need are big, the ones you don't are small. Filters have clear labels on their settings that allow even a novice to see what each does. Not only does a good interface and powerful engine make mixing much faster, but the output sounds better as you spend more time on the mix, not navigating menus. Linux is not an audio editing platform. Companies invest lots of money making quality realtime audio drivers for expensive equiptment for Windows and Mac, not for Linux. Sure, you can do some decent stuff with a P4, 1 GB RAM and an Audigey Basic, like this guy does, but thats not real audio editing. My system, let me stress I am an amerature, is a Dual P4 1MB cache x64, 2GB DDR2, 520 GB HD, and 7.1 Channel soundcard for regular stuff, and a 24bit external input box for audio recording. The professional mixman we work with has a dual G5, 23 inch monitor, Firewire 32 input 24bit A/D converter, and Mackie control surface, in addition to the regular 48 channel mixer he uses. I have used Audacity. I have nothing against it. It is the MS Paint of FOSS sound editors. You can have tracks, and cut them, and move them about, even put on some reverb. That is not real audio editing. For recording a band in a studio setting, you need hundreds of tracks and takes (sometimes), powerful compression, reverb, phasers, and environmental filters, support for recording 12-24 simultanious 24 bit uncompressed tracks to hard drive, support for professional zero latency real time firewire, usb and pci audio input cards as well as professional control surfaces. Does linux have that yet? I have no problem with linux, or people how dabble in cutting up a few audio files. But this guy has no right to declare that linux is now BETTER than windows or mac os x because he can record off the "line in" on his soundblaster. The arguement that you can add whatever you want to FOSS software, making it better than closed source, is getting tiring. Sure you can. You can also jump to the moon if you want to. Do you really think anybody has sat down, installed Audacity, and said "This doesn't have the features of SONAR or CUBASE", then proceeded to open emacs and write all those features into it? I though not. Linux is good for somethings already, and getting better at others. It is not by any strech of the imagination ready for professional audio editing.
Because Microsoft needs a reason for people to upgrade. Do you use Windows XP on a daily basis? Chances are, if you have anti-virus and anti-spyware utilities installed, your computer runs pretty darn well. Microsoft can't attract very many people by saying their operating system is more stable than XP, so they make it look nicer. If they did the same with XP, they wouldn't make any money.
They do this on purpose. The builds leaked "conviently" don't have any of the technologies microsoft isn't ready to unviel. In order to get legal copies of Longhorn, you have to subscribe to MSDN, and have the time and motivation to install it. This way, they get a free bug testing group, who posts any problems they find on discussion sites, which microsoft reads and fixes.
Not sure, but I think most of them actually have a dock connecter and some limited software integration that allows you to pause, skip, ect with the stereo controls. Some even display song title and playlists, ect, while others treat the ipod as a CD changer.
Its really not a new phone anymore, considering how fast the phone market moves. And you are right, OBEX is not really cutting edge, it is pretty much a standard feature that was removed.
If everyone says "nuculur" when they should say "nuclear", and you do it too, does it make you less of a blowhard? No it doesn't.
Well, "mega" is pretty damn incorrect. Mega is the prefix meaning 1000x1000. It is commonly used in computers to mean either 1000x1000 or 1024x1024. This often leads to confusion, as with harddrives, ect... Someone decided to do something besides bitching about it and invented a new term. Better for everyone involved. Deal with it.
Camry is front wheel drive.
Especially considering RAM chips have an area of roughly 1 square centimeter, or a capacity of about 10 MebiBYTES each. Thats 1993 capacities all over. Also, it isn't much good for RAM, because 1.2 GB is a 13 CM diameter hunk, and it is ONLY 10 times faster than flash. That sounds nice, until you realize 667 MHz DDR2 ram is like 234239523 times (not real number, don't flame me) as fast as Flash. Hard drives are typically about 10 times as fast as flash, so there is a better compairison. Its not that I'm again Nanoram, I'm not, but its certainly not ready for mainstream computing yet. Maybe cellphones or pdas for now.
I work as an IT consultant, often helping small buisness purchase computers. Dell's pricing has been a nightmare forever. NOTHING is the same price ever. Identical Latitude and Inspirion laptops cost completely different prices, as with Optiplex and Dimension desktops. Some days theres a free monitor, printer, ect, but some days, for the same price, there is nothing. And identical computer sometimes cost different prices depending on which link you click.
But could you run Linux on it?
A horseshoe magnet will not ruin computer components. This is a commonly held misconception, even around very computer literate people (even me until a couple of years ago). While hard disks and many other computer devices use devices that work using magnetism, the magnetic parts and particles involved are so small that a conventional magnet will not move them. It is requires a very focused electromagnet pulsing at a specific frequency to flip bits. No magnet commonly available can do this, although the MRI machine might be able to (plus, would tear the case into shrapnel that would destroy the drives anyway). The only component in a modern computer that can be hurt by a regular refridgerator strength magnet is a floppy disk, and only at very close range. Keeping a magnet near an empty floppy drive does not cause problems though. I work in IT, and have seen computers running fine for years covered in powerful refridgerator magnets (no accounting for taste). I have even proven this on my own computer to skeptical friends. I invite them to use one of my quite powerful rare earth magnets and stick it on and into my brand new P4 system, as long as they are careful not to short anything out by touching the magnet to it. Also, while CRT displays are vunerable to distortion caused by magnets (which can often be fixed with degaussing), LCDs are completely immune to magnets, unless thrown at the display (has happened), in which case cracking can occur if the speed and mass of the magnet is sufficient. The best way to destroy a computer system is tinfoil or water poured inside. If none is available, physical beating works, but requires more effort.
The announcement comes at the same time as several other stuides by the CRIA, including one showing that P2P users are more likely to get struck by lightning by a factor of 7, and that P2P users are twice as likely to have erectile disfuction disorder.
It runs linux, but it probably could run Windows CE, opps, Windows Mobile .Net. I don't think there are any display drivers yet for eInk displays, so you would have to deal with using an operating system meant to run in color on a display with a 25ms response rate on a 4 color screen with a 1000ms response rate. Other than that, the dev board is a standard dev board you can buy elsewhere rather cheap, with an ARM processor, the same basic device in every Windows Mobile or Pocket PC PDA made in the last 4 years.
But the whole point of the article is that those AREN'T the specs anymore. Updates are:
Better touch screen (not mentioned how so)
30 GB HD
512MB RAM standard
USB 2.0 and Firewire
Universal Power Supply (AC, Airline and Car)
Now your paying $2000, or 6.67 times that for a device with 8MB of video ram and a teeny color lcd! What progress we make!
I think the similarity is less in the actual product, and more in the idea. Both companies took ideas that were considered radical and new (transistor radio and harddrive MP3 player) and put them in a teeny (for the time, each is teeny) package with a stylish design. I think the compairison is better with the first iPod, as the ipod nano is just a smaller version of that.
Slightly? This thing is barely handheld. Not only is it quite heavy (judging from the heavy duty electronics in the case) but about the size of a walkman, not an ipod, especially not an ipod nano, have you seen one of those things, it makes a ticktac case look bloated!
Even if they aren't armed, do you want a pack of 36 600 lb animals with sharp teeth who natually kill sharks and who have been trained by the navy out while you are swimming? Dolphins are not cuddly in nature. They are predators. They eat large fish, and kill sharks when necissary.