Well, if your computer is slower than this graphics card, either admit you don't need a fast computer or fork over $500 to eMachines to get a modern one. Graphics cards are no clockspeed speed-demons, and this thing is clocked at less than 1Ghz, the speed of a CPU from 2001.
Explained in detail above. Suffice it to say that CPUs and GPUs are radically different.
With GPU's, ATI can throw out old architectures and create new ones whenever they want (quite often). Since the hardware is accessed by a driver, the user isn't limited in what programs they can use.
With CPU's, everyone is stuck with x86, which was invented in the 1980s. You can't break compatability with x86.
GPUs do mostly simple floating point calcuations. Therefore, they are basically massively parallel FPUs. If they need to do a non-floating point calculation, they are quite slow.
CPUs can do floating point calculations, but also many other types of calculations, and are about equally good at everything. For the sake of heat, power consumption, size, and cost, the FPU on a CPU is not nearly as large as a GPU. If each processing unit on a CPU was the size/power of a specialized processor (GPU, ect...), the chip would be gigantic, and so would be hard to make, expensive to buy, consume massive amounts of power, and emit unimaginable heat.
Appreciate the joke, but for folks out there who think he is serious, Microsoft has said that the Intel GMA 900 and ATI Radeon X200 are the minimum graphics cards for using the "new" DirectX GUI. Vista will work on computers with less graphics systems, but in a compatability mode similar to Windows XP's GUI.
I don't know about that. Despite the fact that the PS1 sold for the better part of a decade, video games are now a much bigger industry than they were in 1991, or whenever PS1 was released (it was earlier than you think, but it cost something like $1,000). After seeing that WWF game take 10 minutes to load, I can definitely agree that games for the PSP are a problem. Perhaps Sony needs to poach some of Nintendo DS's developers.
I have a Fujitsu Lifebook P7010. Its great. It weighs 3.1 lb (~ 1 kg), but manages to squeeze in a 1.2GHz Pentium M, 1Gig RAM, ABG WiFi, 100GB HD, and even a DVD burner! Check it out, its a great deal, both portability and almost full desktop functionality. Before this, I had a Toshiba Portege, but like your Sony, no media drives, and basically the only IO was a single USB port.
Looks to be filmed in england (both by the looks of the actors and by the fact that one of the cars is right hand drive). I bet this is more like fan art than official.
Power to weight ratio for a 2 stoke is much worse than a 4 stroke. Although there are less parts, the engines are much less efficient and reliable, as one has to make sure that the fuel/lubricant ratio is correct, and they overheat much easier.
Looks cool, but why drive it with a 2 stroke engine? From my experience, getting a 2 stroke to run longer than about 2 hours at idle or an hour under load is a miracle. Why not use a similarly sized 4 stoke that would run forever?
A NASA spokesperson nervously announced more shuttle flights this year. Then a reporter accidently dropped a penny on the ground, and the NASA spokes person dove for cover, and announced "nevermind, no more shuttle flights for another year!"
Are the API's there already? I thought the whole point of the optional update was to add the APIs to integrate to the backoffice software. Obviously, Microsoft would not release software if there were not enough demand to jusify the expense of writing and marketing it.
Well if that is the case, then they will go out of buisness, and all the Linux and Mac fanboys will rejoice. As it stands, YOU probably don't have a personal need for this new product, just like me, but some large corporations want it. And, it is an optional package, you have to download and install it seperately from office. That means no widespread security holes.
Um, they are a for profit corporation, right? That means they have some incentive to make money. This means creating unique products with features no one else has.
True that NBC and other networks wouldn't like it, but would they have a choice in continuing to sell? A couple of years ago, all the record companies swore that they would never sell their music in an online store with eachother. Now iTunes has just that. I think that since Apple has such a captive audience with the iPod video, even if they were to buy Disney, they would continue to have TV networks buisness. They already own 7% of Disney anyway.
I thinnk one major anti-piracy technique is going to be the sheer size and complexity of the files. It is pretty easy to rip a DVD into a 600-700MB file of reasonable image quality. With HD, the whole point is the increased pixels, which means swaping them over the net is a 20-50Gig ordeal. Plus, you need a 2.0Ghz+ PC to decode them without dropping frames...
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I was under the impression that OS X used a BSD kernel (Darwin). Why then are some basic functions so slow when compaired to a normal BSD distro?
Yes but it is a much more manly connector.
Ok, heres our new resoltion:
From now on, to be able to tell if one graphics card is better than another, graphics card companies will be required to do the following:
On each new card released, come up with a new connector with more pins on it.
On each new card released, support greater color depth.
I assume this is what you are speaking of. From now on, my 82398743 pin Radeon X800 will kick your 89437349 pin nVidia 6600!
Well, if your computer is slower than this graphics card, either admit you don't need a fast computer or fork over $500 to eMachines to get a modern one. Graphics cards are no clockspeed speed-demons, and this thing is clocked at less than 1Ghz, the speed of a CPU from 2001.
Explained in detail above. Suffice it to say that CPUs and GPUs are radically different. With GPU's, ATI can throw out old architectures and create new ones whenever they want (quite often). Since the hardware is accessed by a driver, the user isn't limited in what programs they can use. With CPU's, everyone is stuck with x86, which was invented in the 1980s. You can't break compatability with x86. GPUs do mostly simple floating point calcuations. Therefore, they are basically massively parallel FPUs. If they need to do a non-floating point calculation, they are quite slow. CPUs can do floating point calculations, but also many other types of calculations, and are about equally good at everything. For the sake of heat, power consumption, size, and cost, the FPU on a CPU is not nearly as large as a GPU. If each processing unit on a CPU was the size/power of a specialized processor (GPU, ect...), the chip would be gigantic, and so would be hard to make, expensive to buy, consume massive amounts of power, and emit unimaginable heat.
Appreciate the joke, but for folks out there who think he is serious, Microsoft has said that the Intel GMA 900 and ATI Radeon X200 are the minimum graphics cards for using the "new" DirectX GUI. Vista will work on computers with less graphics systems, but in a compatability mode similar to Windows XP's GUI.
I don't know about that. Despite the fact that the PS1 sold for the better part of a decade, video games are now a much bigger industry than they were in 1991, or whenever PS1 was released (it was earlier than you think, but it cost something like $1,000). After seeing that WWF game take 10 minutes to load, I can definitely agree that games for the PSP are a problem. Perhaps Sony needs to poach some of Nintendo DS's developers.
I thought it was great! Did you go to the website?!?! I counted 4 women in the first 50 personals!
Hence the "~".
How about a mouse in a leopard skin print to match my decour?
I have a Fujitsu Lifebook P7010. Its great. It weighs 3.1 lb (~ 1 kg), but manages to squeeze in a 1.2GHz Pentium M, 1Gig RAM, ABG WiFi, 100GB HD, and even a DVD burner! Check it out, its a great deal, both portability and almost full desktop functionality. Before this, I had a Toshiba Portege, but like your Sony, no media drives, and basically the only IO was a single USB port.
Oh, I opened up your woman's code base long ago.
Take that!
Looks to be filmed in england (both by the looks of the actors and by the fact that one of the cars is right hand drive). I bet this is more like fan art than official.
Web trafficis unsafe! I lost my leg in aterrible packet collision!
Power to weight ratio for a 2 stoke is much worse than a 4 stroke. Although there are less parts, the engines are much less efficient and reliable, as one has to make sure that the fuel/lubricant ratio is correct, and they overheat much easier.
Looks cool, but why drive it with a 2 stroke engine? From my experience, getting a 2 stroke to run longer than about 2 hours at idle or an hour under load is a miracle. Why not use a similarly sized 4 stoke that would run forever?
Ya but the car is probably 600 lb.
A NASA spokesperson nervously announced more shuttle flights this year. Then a reporter accidently dropped a penny on the ground, and the NASA spokes person dove for cover, and announced "nevermind, no more shuttle flights for another year!"
This might well be the most expensive slice in golf history.
Are the API's there already? I thought the whole point of the optional update was to add the APIs to integrate to the backoffice software. Obviously, Microsoft would not release software if there were not enough demand to jusify the expense of writing and marketing it.
Well if that is the case, then they will go out of buisness, and all the Linux and Mac fanboys will rejoice. As it stands, YOU probably don't have a personal need for this new product, just like me, but some large corporations want it. And, it is an optional package, you have to download and install it seperately from office. That means no widespread security holes.
Um, they are a for profit corporation, right? That means they have some incentive to make money. This means creating unique products with features no one else has.
Only if they die. Being "harvested at need" consitutes the death penalty. Believe it or not, the USA only kills a handful of prisoners per year.
True that NBC and other networks wouldn't like it, but would they have a choice in continuing to sell? A couple of years ago, all the record companies swore that they would never sell their music in an online store with eachother. Now iTunes has just that. I think that since Apple has such a captive audience with the iPod video, even if they were to buy Disney, they would continue to have TV networks buisness. They already own 7% of Disney anyway.
I thinnk one major anti-piracy technique is going to be the sheer size and complexity of the files. It is pretty easy to rip a DVD into a 600-700MB file of reasonable image quality. With HD, the whole point is the increased pixels, which means swaping them over the net is a 20-50Gig ordeal. Plus, you need a 2.0Ghz+ PC to decode them without dropping frames...