Because 802.11n is not ratified yet, and will almost definitely change from the draft it is now. What Belkin has done was intergrate some of the proposed improvements that we can expect. However, they may not be in final form, so if the draft changes much, the products will no longer be compatable. This may be as easy to fix as a firmware update or driver download, or it may leave you with a bunch of equiptment that is not compatable with anything else. Also, I am not sure of this, but if 802.11n is already considered a standard, even an unratified one, then Belkin could get sued for using the name if their products do no conform to the final standard.
If you read the article, it clearly mentioned that although modern Mac graphics cards have hardware MPEG2 decoding, the APIs for accessing it are not documented by Apple for 3rd party manufaturers.
I trust Western Digital the most now, since Hitachis are hard to get, especially in the 3.5" flavors. Also, noise is often related to the speed of the drive. If you want real quiet, go for 5400 RPM drives, or if you have multiple drives, make only your swap drive a 7200 or 10000 rpm model.
This is WAY too smart for Intel, I bet it was something more like this:
INTEL 1: Did MS say they were going to drop support for Itanium on Windows XP? INTEL 2: Yes. INTEL 1: Its a sign that the Itanium 2 is outdated. Lets spend $2 billion on a plant that can manufature Itanium 3's! INTEL 2: No, that can't be it! INTEL 1: What is it then? INTEL 2: I got it! The Itanium is too expensive! All we have to do is take our warehouses full of them, go at 'em with soldering irons, underclock them, and sell them as the Celtanium! INTEL 1: Brilliant! INTEL 2: We will make millions!!!! INTEL 1: Now turn the TV back on, I don't want to miss Meet Your New Mommy on Fox!
I don't know if I would call it RISC. The Itanic was kind of a dumping ground for Intel PHDs to put all the little nifty things that they did their thesis on into a real chip. It is high performance for some difficult things, but like any CISC chip, is slow as hell for normal computing.
Everyone knows that Sandisk used to be the neighborhood whore of memory manufaturers, but it evidently went to night school and got a nice job in a book store, so its future looks bright.:D </sarcasm> Sorry, couldn't help myself. I have no clue what he meant either...:)
Geez, you think they could have prevented hacking all together by doing it differently. The house is composed of objects that are familiar to the game and the server. When you build your house, it should be reported to the server as the type and location of the objects. If objects are found that do not match the version on the server, then they could A. replace it with the standard non-hacked object B. delete the object from your house or C. Go the Microsoft way and punish you with a ban.
Have you ever done ANY recording? Music is a sensual experence, not in the sexual sense, but meaning that it is based completely on what you hear, how you hear it, and how it effects you. Modern solid state and digial equiptment is perfect, too perfect. It amplifies and captures the sound EXACTLY as it is picked up by microphones and pickups. This is not always good, although in many cases it is just fine. For some types of music, the slight distortion and compression that is caused by tubes and tapes is desireable. It makes the music sound warmer than it actually is, evoking a feeling. As a geek, we all know that the setting and style of the matrix created a sort of feeling that made us more able to be absorbed by the story (and in the latter movies, the lack thereof). The same is true of music. If you are playing vintage surfer-rock, you want people to associate with the days-of-old.
I ran it, and it told me that VNC was a "moderate to serious threat", and eMule, an open source P2P client, was an adware bunder. I can't comment on it accuracy with real spyware, but if it is going to bring software politics into it, warning me to get rid on non-Micro$oft supported software, I don't think I am going to run it much longer.
You can buy the LaCrie Big Disk and Bigger Disk. These are actually quasi-raid arrays of 2 or 4 disks respectively. I say quasi because it is actually a controller and HDs with modded firmware that simply fill up one disk, then move to the next when that is full, treating the two drives as seperate platters. They are good for non-critical storage, like amerature digital video editing, since they are just as reliable as a normal hard drive, but a lot cheaper than a big RAID array. The 500GB Big Disk is 2x250GBs, just as the 1TB Bigger Disk is 4x250GB, or the new 1.6TB model is 4x400GB.
In my time as an IT-for-hire (2002 to present), I have seen no dead Western Digitals, no dead IBMs, 1 dead Hitachi (from a laptop), and about 12 dead Maxtors. Gives you something to think about, huh? Dead hard drives are about the most common hardware problems I come across, narrowly edging out power supplies, but it is definitely one of the most serious.
For one thing, it is expensive. No one wants to pay MORE for consumer electronics, things have to get forever cheaper. Spinning a drive at 10,000 RPM makes everything have to be more precise. The platters are smaller so they do not warp because of the speed, so to have a drive with the same capactity, you have to have a better data density than plain old 3.5" disks. The 10,000 RPM motors are more expensive, louder, and run hotter, which is exactly what most people don't want (how many tutorials have you seen on cooling and quieting down your pc, vs those about making it hotter and louder?). The drives also use much more power. In other words, although they are entering the consumer world slowly, for the most part these drives are more practical for RAID arrays, where power (dedicated power supply), noise (server room no one spends too much time in), and cooling (dedicated 120mm fans) are not problems. Who knows, as everything improves, those high end parts will get quieter, more power effient, and more affordable, which might bring them to the desktop.
It would have great transfer rates, but it's reliability would be horrible. Those little drives are not designed to run for long periods of time, in terms of the motor AND heat disipation. If the drive didn't die of motor failure, then the electronics cooking would do it. Have you ever tried to run a conventional Linux distro or Windows off of one of those IBM or Hitachi 1" microdrives? It works, but only for 2 weeks...
I agree. Audio is one of the only fields where the older your equiptment, the better it is. Analogue is really appreciated, and I have a hard time believing that there was a lack of interest in tapes.
I use 1/4" reel to reel for some of my home recording (I go digital, then run it through my old tape recorder to get that great old analogue sound. At the recording studio my band records at, they still had lots of 2" tape lying around, even though they mostly did stuff with a PowerMac and a Firewire A/D converter.
I did not say fake hydrogen, but fake government hydrogen. Money you make on a xerox is no less real than the stuff they crank out in DC and Colorado, but it is counterfeit. The same would be true of hydrogen you made, it would distrub the economy, since no one had the intention of releasing it.
I am 18, so I learned in a time considerably closer to the present than a lot of people posting here. What really got me started with programming is TrueBasic, which is similar to qBasic but with (what I consider) easier syntax. I believe there is a free version out there, but some of the paid versions are quite cheap and have some great features. Sadly, it runs only on Mac OS and Windows, as far as I know. I taught myself the TI-83+ Basic language for use in high school (it has served me VERY well), and then took a course on C++, which I would recomend, since it is complicated enough that I helps to have someone around to show you your mistakes. Thats about it, programming-wise. BTW, don't teach the kid HTML, since it is not really a full language, plus the WYSIWYG editors do a better job than any by-hand programmer could ever do.
I'm sorry, but the repition of articles like this make me mad. It may be true that this is what the "average" computer user needs, but that is not the whole story. When we think of the "average" motor vehicle, it has four wheels. Making the assumptions based on that fact is ok, since 95% of motor vehicles have four wheels. However, the "average" computer user does not make up 95% of the computer market, but more like 30%. Therefore, this would be good for those AOL grandmas, but bad for the many various types of power users. Using a remote system takes away a level of flexibility that these people need, therefore, a thin client system will never become mainstream in the way we think of MS Windows today.
This kind of thing is actually used in the RAM industry. RAM that fails tests at the factory is used in digital answering machines, because low quality recorded voice is not particularly sensitive to one bit that does not always flip.
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Because 802.11n is not ratified yet, and will almost definitely change from the draft it is now. What Belkin has done was intergrate some of the proposed improvements that we can expect. However, they may not be in final form, so if the draft changes much, the products will no longer be compatable. This may be as easy to fix as a firmware update or driver download, or it may leave you with a bunch of equiptment that is not compatable with anything else. Also, I am not sure of this, but if 802.11n is already considered a standard, even an unratified one, then Belkin could get sued for using the name if their products do no conform to the final standard.
Its weird. I decode MPEGs all the time on my P3. You would think that they could do it with a 1.6 GHz IBM Power4 Processor.
It would be nice if they released cards like this in other formats, like CompactFlash.
If you read the article, it clearly mentioned that although modern Mac graphics cards have hardware MPEG2 decoding, the APIs for accessing it are not documented by Apple for 3rd party manufaturers.
I trust Western Digital the most now, since Hitachis are hard to get, especially in the 3.5" flavors. Also, noise is often related to the speed of the drive. If you want real quiet, go for 5400 RPM drives, or if you have multiple drives, make only your swap drive a 7200 or 10000 rpm model.
This is WAY too smart for Intel, I bet it was something more like this:
INTEL 1: Did MS say they were going to drop support for Itanium on Windows XP?
INTEL 2: Yes.
INTEL 1: Its a sign that the Itanium 2 is outdated. Lets spend $2 billion on a plant that can manufature Itanium 3's!
INTEL 2: No, that can't be it!
INTEL 1: What is it then?
INTEL 2: I got it! The Itanium is too expensive! All we have to do is take our warehouses full of them, go at 'em with soldering irons, underclock them, and sell them as the Celtanium!
INTEL 1: Brilliant!
INTEL 2: We will make millions!!!!
INTEL 1: Now turn the TV back on, I don't want to miss Meet Your New Mommy on Fox!
I don't know if I would call it RISC. The Itanic was kind of a dumping ground for Intel PHDs to put all the little nifty things that they did their thesis on into a real chip. It is high performance for some difficult things, but like any CISC chip, is slow as hell for normal computing.
Everyone knows that Sandisk used to be the neighborhood whore of memory manufaturers, but it evidently went to night school and got a nice job in a book store, so its future looks bright. :D :)
</sarcasm>
Sorry, couldn't help myself. I have no clue what he meant either...
Geez, you think they could have prevented hacking all together by doing it differently. The house is composed of objects that are familiar to the game and the server. When you build your house, it should be reported to the server as the type and location of the objects. If objects are found that do not match the version on the server, then they could A. replace it with the standard non-hacked object B. delete the object from your house or C. Go the Microsoft way and punish you with a ban.
Have you ever done ANY recording? Music is a sensual experence, not in the sexual sense, but meaning that it is based completely on what you hear, how you hear it, and how it effects you. Modern solid state and digial equiptment is perfect, too perfect. It amplifies and captures the sound EXACTLY as it is picked up by microphones and pickups. This is not always good, although in many cases it is just fine. For some types of music, the slight distortion and compression that is caused by tubes and tapes is desireable. It makes the music sound warmer than it actually is, evoking a feeling. As a geek, we all know that the setting and style of the matrix created a sort of feeling that made us more able to be absorbed by the story (and in the latter movies, the lack thereof). The same is true of music. If you are playing vintage surfer-rock, you want people to associate with the days-of-old.
I ran it, and it told me that VNC was a "moderate to serious threat", and eMule, an open source P2P client, was an adware bunder. I can't comment on it accuracy with real spyware, but if it is going to bring software politics into it, warning me to get rid on non-Micro$oft supported software, I don't think I am going to run it much longer.
You can buy the LaCrie Big Disk and Bigger Disk. These are actually quasi-raid arrays of 2 or 4 disks respectively. I say quasi because it is actually a controller and HDs with modded firmware that simply fill up one disk, then move to the next when that is full, treating the two drives as seperate platters. They are good for non-critical storage, like amerature digital video editing, since they are just as reliable as a normal hard drive, but a lot cheaper than a big RAID array. The 500GB Big Disk is 2x250GBs, just as the 1TB Bigger Disk is 4x250GB, or the new 1.6TB model is 4x400GB.
In my time as an IT-for-hire (2002 to present), I have seen no dead Western Digitals, no dead IBMs, 1 dead Hitachi (from a laptop), and about 12 dead Maxtors. Gives you something to think about, huh? Dead hard drives are about the most common hardware problems I come across, narrowly edging out power supplies, but it is definitely one of the most serious.
For one thing, it is expensive. No one wants to pay MORE for consumer electronics, things have to get forever cheaper. Spinning a drive at 10,000 RPM makes everything have to be more precise. The platters are smaller so they do not warp because of the speed, so to have a drive with the same capactity, you have to have a better data density than plain old 3.5" disks. The 10,000 RPM motors are more expensive, louder, and run hotter, which is exactly what most people don't want (how many tutorials have you seen on cooling and quieting down your pc, vs those about making it hotter and louder?). The drives also use much more power. In other words, although they are entering the consumer world slowly, for the most part these drives are more practical for RAID arrays, where power (dedicated power supply), noise (server room no one spends too much time in), and cooling (dedicated 120mm fans) are not problems. Who knows, as everything improves, those high end parts will get quieter, more power effient, and more affordable, which might bring them to the desktop.
It would have great transfer rates, but it's reliability would be horrible. Those little drives are not designed to run for long periods of time, in terms of the motor AND heat disipation. If the drive didn't die of motor failure, then the electronics cooking would do it. Have you ever tried to run a conventional Linux distro or Windows off of one of those IBM or Hitachi 1" microdrives? It works, but only for 2 weeks...
No.
I agree. Audio is one of the only fields where the older your equiptment, the better it is. Analogue is really appreciated, and I have a hard time believing that there was a lack of interest in tapes.
I use 1/4" reel to reel for some of my home recording (I go digital, then run it through my old tape recorder to get that great old analogue sound. At the recording studio my band records at, they still had lots of 2" tape lying around, even though they mostly did stuff with a PowerMac and a Firewire A/D converter.
I did not say fake hydrogen, but fake government hydrogen. Money you make on a xerox is no less real than the stuff they crank out in DC and Colorado, but it is counterfeit. The same would be true of hydrogen you made, it would distrub the economy, since no one had the intention of releasing it.
Hydrogen Economy = money is directly related to hydrogen...
10 years from now, at local Bank of America Branch:
"Lets see...thats 23,243,436 cubic meters of hydrogen, here is your $1.50. Have a nice day!"
Wouldn't this open up the field for fake government hydrogen?
Step 1: Get water and a car battery Step 2: Electrolysis Step 3: ??? Step 4: Reap the benifits
I for one welcome our uni-proton masters!
I am 18, so I learned in a time considerably closer to the present than a lot of people posting here. What really got me started with programming is TrueBasic, which is similar to qBasic but with (what I consider) easier syntax. I believe there is a free version out there, but some of the paid versions are quite cheap and have some great features. Sadly, it runs only on Mac OS and Windows, as far as I know. I taught myself the TI-83+ Basic language for use in high school (it has served me VERY well), and then took a course on C++, which I would recomend, since it is complicated enough that I helps to have someone around to show you your mistakes. Thats about it, programming-wise. BTW, don't teach the kid HTML, since it is not really a full language, plus the WYSIWYG editors do a better job than any by-hand programmer could ever do.
I'm sorry, but the repition of articles like this make me mad. It may be true that this is what the "average" computer user needs, but that is not the whole story. When we think of the "average" motor vehicle, it has four wheels. Making the assumptions based on that fact is ok, since 95% of motor vehicles have four wheels. However, the "average" computer user does not make up 95% of the computer market, but more like 30%. Therefore, this would be good for those AOL grandmas, but bad for the many various types of power users. Using a remote system takes away a level of flexibility that these people need, therefore, a thin client system will never become mainstream in the way we think of MS Windows today.
This kind of thing is actually used in the RAM industry. RAM that fails tests at the factory is used in digital answering machines, because low quality recorded voice is not particularly sensitive to one bit that does not always flip.
I for one welcome our sonar equipted Buuy masters...
I see no pretty pictures!