Isn't the idea of static discharge that it discharges? Shouldn't lighting up the carpet deplete his jacket, or at least touching his desk, keyboard, door knob, or car? The average static shock is like 10,000v. 40,000 would be painful, but not something you would remember THAT long.
Depends on your harddrive, but most modern ones are slightly faster (i.e 50-60 MBs). However, it still is pretty darn fast. It is doubtful that what you would be streaming would use up all of that, or that you could practically achieve that (that quote is probably from testing in a faraday cage in vacuum). Plus, not a lot of what you transfer over the network goes to your harddrive. Streaming videos and music, web pages, ect... all just go through your ram then into oblivion. Plus, all that bandwidth is total, so you could have several computers doing normal internet stuff, and a computer streaming HD MPEG2 (~20 MB/s) and not get frames dropping, or slow browsing on the other computers. This is not possible with existing wireless technologies.
Ya, everyone seems to forget that a chip factory, which is good for about 2 years before needing to be retooled, costs upwards of $1,000,000,000. Yes, one billion dollars. Look it up. Thats where your $600 goes, not to mention the huge R&D and advertising departments, and all of the umpa lumpas that actually make the chips. Plus, not every chip Intel sells is $600. I bought a brand new Pentium D 820 about 3 months ago for a little over $300, and it was pretty darn near top of the line. Look on Newegg. Sure, those 3.73 P4EEs and PEE 840s are $999, but you can get a Celeron D 2.66GHz for $60, or a P4 Northwood 2.66GHz for $115. Not quite as bad, huh? Plus, companies DO make profits, get used to it.
You should probably have two monitors. KVMs are great, but they don't help you configure two computers at the same time. Spring for dual 15" LCDs with VGA input, should total $250 for both with shipping. Put KVMs on those. Have a large enough free area to have two computers disassembled, with a repositionable light nearby. Lots and lots of storage is a must, overhead or underneath, depending on the condition of your back. I'm sure you already have tools, but those are a must too, multiple sizes of philips, from teeny (laptops) to gigantic (IBM is fond of screws that could hold up a bridge), as well as a couple of standard head (IBM sometimes still uses em, plus they are good for prying), star shaped, and hex screwdrivers. Several pairs of pliers, thick ones for gripping and twisting and a pair of needle nose for more delicate work. I have actually found that a small hammer can be useful sometimes too (no, not in the way you think, sometimes a few gentle taps will dislodge stuck power supplies, CD drives, or case pannels). In terms of extra parts, you might want to stock a couple of sticks of RAM, PC100 or DDR400 depending on what kind of machines are in your buisness. A couple cheap 40 GB hard drives and 350W PSs are good, because most dead machines I see are because of bad RAM, HDs or PSs, or a combonation thereof.
This guy is complaining because he is running old versions of windows on hardware meant for Unix with software meant for linux (oracle, ect...). If he wants stability with windows, get a newer PC and use packages meant for windows, not ported as an afterthought.
Damn microsoft! I am running a pirated copy of windows on DEC hardware I stole from some dumpster and running Kazaa on it downloading P0rn and it is not running stably! Dernit bill gates!
My Logitech MX900 bluetooth mouse flashes when it is low on batteries and displays a notice onscreen. The keypad on the diNivio keyboard displays new email messages and beeps, also shows what song you are playing in iTunes. I had a microsoft mouse that also transmitted its battery life to the computer. I also had a memorex mouse that kindly let me know when it had finished eating its battery by not working (about every 3 hours).;)
Because the second they had to close their driver back up (for some legal reason or something), they would instantly lose their "incredibly loyal" linux following, wheras apple could create a policy where if you buy a mac, you have to be raped by Steve Jobs and they would be as popular as ever.
Go ahead, mod me -1, I dare you.
This seems like a major departure from apple's normal marketing since Jobs got back. Apple NEVER partners, Apple never offers a half baked product, ect... I wonder why they saw the need for a iTunes phone was so bad that they rushed this crappy thing to market, instead of waiting until the holiday season to release something quite thought out, especially if they made it. I'm sure carriers would jump at the chance to sell an apple phone, especially if it was expensive (== higher margins).
Charging by firewire and syncing by firewire are very different things. If it charges by firewire, they just have to use the two power pins from a firewire cable connected to the battery, to sync with firewire, you need a firewire interface on your flash controller and on the embedded processor that runs the nano. I guess that put them over their $200 budget. Funny how apple spends years and millions making firewire an everyday standard, then dumps it.
Yes, Xeon systems can handle 36 bit addressing, which is like 64 GB of RAM max, although the Athlon 64 and Intel P4 600 series are 64 bit chips, they have 40 bit memory addressing, which is 1TB memory max. This says nothing of chipsets, which don't support nearly that much. Plus, 32 bit windows could not support that much memory. Windwos can support more memory than 4 GB, but not 1 or 2 TB.
How did they fit Wireless A/B/G, Intel ProWireless A/B/G AND Wifi into one laptop?!?!?! It must be awsome! I also love the webcam labeled as an optical processor. They didn't even bother to remove the lense or USB cable (opps, I mean fiberoptic processor bus or whatever).
Pentium Pro was not the First x86 to be 32 bit. Not by a long shot. That honor goes to the 386SX. That got 32 bit support with Windows NT 3.3, I belive, although you could argue that there was not a mainstream 32 bit operating system until Windows XP Home. (Win2k was, but was too expensive for most, as was NT 4.0, 95, 98, and ME were still wrappers for DOS, although they ran many 32bit apps. The honor the Pentium Pro has is that it is the first x86 to not be an x86. Intel at that point switched from actually using the x86 instructions to using "microinstructions" and an "instruction translator", which means that basically it was a RISC chip that had stuff translated at both ends into x86. This proved more efficient, and now both AMD and Intel use it.
Like everyone else, Sony sells their consoles at below break even when they are introduced, making money on the games and gaining market share until production costs go down. So think more like $85 per $100 drive. Also, Sony has always WANTED to have a BlueRay drive in the PS3, although it has not always been a sure thing. Therefore, their planned price reflects that they knew they would have an expensive drive in there.
The patch fairy doesn't put the patches on P2P, they are made by people who dedicate lots of time to figuring out what is going on bit by bit with their hardware, and write thousands of lines of code. How many brands and models of DVD players are there? Six months after Blue Ray is released, there will be almost that many blue ray and HDDVD players out, each of which will need patching.
And all everyone else will have to do is get a dedicated server, and tweak your software for 100's of hours to get it to work with their particular player.
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Isn't the idea of static discharge that it discharges? Shouldn't lighting up the carpet deplete his jacket, or at least touching his desk, keyboard, door knob, or car? The average static shock is like 10,000v. 40,000 would be painful, but not something you would remember THAT long.
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Depends on your harddrive, but most modern ones are slightly faster (i.e 50-60 MBs). However, it still is pretty darn fast. It is doubtful that what you would be streaming would use up all of that, or that you could practically achieve that (that quote is probably from testing in a faraday cage in vacuum). Plus, not a lot of what you transfer over the network goes to your harddrive. Streaming videos and music, web pages, ect... all just go through your ram then into oblivion. Plus, all that bandwidth is total, so you could have several computers doing normal internet stuff, and a computer streaming HD MPEG2 (~20 MB/s) and not get frames dropping, or slow browsing on the other computers. This is not possible with existing wireless technologies.
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Ya, everyone seems to forget that a chip factory, which is good for about 2 years before needing to be retooled, costs upwards of $1,000,000,000. Yes, one billion dollars. Look it up. Thats where your $600 goes, not to mention the huge R&D and advertising departments, and all of the umpa lumpas that actually make the chips. Plus, not every chip Intel sells is $600. I bought a brand new Pentium D 820 about 3 months ago for a little over $300, and it was pretty darn near top of the line. Look on Newegg. Sure, those 3.73 P4EEs and PEE 840s are $999, but you can get a Celeron D 2.66GHz for $60, or a P4 Northwood 2.66GHz for $115. Not quite as bad, huh? Plus, companies DO make profits, get used to it.
You should probably have two monitors. KVMs are great, but they don't help you configure two computers at the same time. Spring for dual 15" LCDs with VGA input, should total $250 for both with shipping. Put KVMs on those. Have a large enough free area to have two computers disassembled, with a repositionable light nearby. Lots and lots of storage is a must, overhead or underneath, depending on the condition of your back. I'm sure you already have tools, but those are a must too, multiple sizes of philips, from teeny (laptops) to gigantic (IBM is fond of screws that could hold up a bridge), as well as a couple of standard head (IBM sometimes still uses em, plus they are good for prying), star shaped, and hex screwdrivers. Several pairs of pliers, thick ones for gripping and twisting and a pair of needle nose for more delicate work. I have actually found that a small hammer can be useful sometimes too (no, not in the way you think, sometimes a few gentle taps will dislodge stuck power supplies, CD drives, or case pannels). In terms of extra parts, you might want to stock a couple of sticks of RAM, PC100 or DDR400 depending on what kind of machines are in your buisness. A couple cheap 40 GB hard drives and 350W PSs are good, because most dead machines I see are because of bad RAM, HDs or PSs, or a combonation thereof.
This guy is complaining because he is running old versions of windows on hardware meant for Unix with software meant for linux (oracle, ect...). If he wants stability with windows, get a newer PC and use packages meant for windows, not ported as an afterthought.
Damn microsoft! I am running a pirated copy of windows on DEC hardware I stole from some dumpster and running Kazaa on it downloading P0rn and it is not running stably! Dernit bill gates!
So it looks like we won't be in vats when the computers take over, but walking around in circles with backpacks on.
My Logitech MX900 bluetooth mouse flashes when it is low on batteries and displays a notice onscreen. The keypad on the diNivio keyboard displays new email messages and beeps, also shows what song you are playing in iTunes. I had a microsoft mouse that also transmitted its battery life to the computer. I also had a memorex mouse that kindly let me know when it had finished eating its battery by not working (about every 3 hours). ;)
Because the second they had to close their driver back up (for some legal reason or something), they would instantly lose their "incredibly loyal" linux following, wheras apple could create a policy where if you buy a mac, you have to be raped by Steve Jobs and they would be as popular as ever. Go ahead, mod me -1, I dare you.
This seems like a major departure from apple's normal marketing since Jobs got back. Apple NEVER partners, Apple never offers a half baked product, ect... I wonder why they saw the need for a iTunes phone was so bad that they rushed this crappy thing to market, instead of waiting until the holiday season to release something quite thought out, especially if they made it. I'm sure carriers would jump at the chance to sell an apple phone, especially if it was expensive (== higher margins).
Charging by firewire and syncing by firewire are very different things. If it charges by firewire, they just have to use the two power pins from a firewire cable connected to the battery, to sync with firewire, you need a firewire interface on your flash controller and on the embedded processor that runs the nano. I guess that put them over their $200 budget. Funny how apple spends years and millions making firewire an everyday standard, then dumps it.
Yes, Xeon systems can handle 36 bit addressing, which is like 64 GB of RAM max, although the Athlon 64 and Intel P4 600 series are 64 bit chips, they have 40 bit memory addressing, which is 1TB memory max. This says nothing of chipsets, which don't support nearly that much. Plus, 32 bit windows could not support that much memory. Windwos can support more memory than 4 GB, but not 1 or 2 TB.
How did they fit Wireless A/B/G, Intel ProWireless A/B/G AND Wifi into one laptop?!?!?! It must be awsome! I also love the webcam labeled as an optical processor. They didn't even bother to remove the lense or USB cable (opps, I mean fiberoptic processor bus or whatever).
I have never heard the original Pentium was a RISC chip.
Pentium Pro was not the First x86 to be 32 bit. Not by a long shot. That honor goes to the 386SX. That got 32 bit support with Windows NT 3.3, I belive, although you could argue that there was not a mainstream 32 bit operating system until Windows XP Home. (Win2k was, but was too expensive for most, as was NT 4.0, 95, 98, and ME were still wrappers for DOS, although they ran many 32bit apps. The honor the Pentium Pro has is that it is the first x86 to not be an x86. Intel at that point switched from actually using the x86 instructions to using "microinstructions" and an "instruction translator", which means that basically it was a RISC chip that had stuff translated at both ends into x86. This proved more efficient, and now both AMD and Intel use it.
Like everyone else, Sony sells their consoles at below break even when they are introduced, making money on the games and gaining market share until production costs go down. So think more like $85 per $100 drive. Also, Sony has always WANTED to have a BlueRay drive in the PS3, although it has not always been a sure thing. Therefore, their planned price reflects that they knew they would have an expensive drive in there.
But the incredibly hackable device always costs $299 instead of the $79 ones from Circuit City. Does $220 make you reconsider at all?
The patch fairy doesn't put the patches on P2P, they are made by people who dedicate lots of time to figuring out what is going on bit by bit with their hardware, and write thousands of lines of code. How many brands and models of DVD players are there? Six months after Blue Ray is released, there will be almost that many blue ray and HDDVD players out, each of which will need patching.
And all everyone else will have to do is get a dedicated server, and tweak your software for 100's of hours to get it to work with their particular player.
All you will need is a dedicated computer, and 100's of hours of time sniffing packets and modifing apache to reassure the player is alright.
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