People who've been behind the scenes know that in reality not anywhere near 2/3 of IPv4 is currently being used up. Large swaths of IP thats supposedly being used are abandoned. Entire Class A segments are assigned to companies that were large at one time but have since been swept aside and they get to keep their unused Class A networks for some obscure "historical" purpose. If abandoned chunks were released for use to currently functioning companies we wouldn't need IPv6 for 20 more years!
Yeah, all the Attorney's the RIAA have are on retainer so it dosen't cost anything extra for the RIAA to use them. So everytime someone settles for say... $1,000 thats a good helping of profit for the RIAA.
19 years ago the original Battlestar Galactica would have still been a fresh show with state-of-the-art effects. We should show him the new Battlestar Galactica just to watch how fast he goes back into another coma!
ECS bought PCChips. PCChips used to ship motherboards with fake cache and put in several safeguards to keep you from finding out it was fake. I wonder how many of of PCChips tactics were absorbed by ECS...
You got bad luck with laptops. My 10 year old IBM Thinkpad still works, my 5 year old IBM Thinkpad has been left on 24/7 hooked up to my KVM switch for 3 years now, and my brand new IBM Thinkpad (Centrino) is faster than my desktop! I can't wait to buy my next IBM Thinkpad, maybe with the new Core 2 Duo (Conroe Core).
... whats that you say? Lenovo? WHAT?!?! *starts to cry*
I used to work at Fry's in Georgia. What Fry's did you work at?
Fry's dosen't own ECS, ECS is partly owned by someone who also partly owns Fry's.
Fry's is owned by the 2 founding brothers, someone I kept hearing referred to as "the woman", and possibly a few other investors. You cannot buy stock in Fry's.
Its pretty funny that you said GQ computers are not too bad in the sentence after you said anything made by ECS is complete dirt. Every GQ that Fry's carries uses an ECS motherboard. It is true that there are a lot of bad ECS products but there are a select few that I rarely saw problems with. You just have to do research ahead of time to find out which one or two in the store is decent.
At least ECS dosen't melt and then catch on fire like Airlink does.
I bet the woman next door to me had waited a little bit longer. She had eye correction surgery when they were still attempting to use super-fine surgical steel instead of lasers - to make the same kind of inner eye modifications. Didn't work so well. Laser eye surgery has a much better success rate than the old way of doing it, naturally.
I think the inverse of an AMD/ATI merger would be more logical.
nVidia releasing the nForce 2 chipset for the AthlonXP was the best thing that had ever happened to AMD. Then AMD enjoyed continued support with nVidia's nForce 3 and nForce 4 chipsets. Sure there's an nForce 4 for Intel but its sales are exceptionally small even while its the most common chipset now being sold for AMD. Even with the new AM2 socket from AMD, nVidia's new chipsets have already taken a vast lead over any other.
On the other hand ATI's chipsets, while supporting both AMD and Intel, don't move huge numbers in either market. Intel made chipsets dominate the Intel processor market. However, Intel's latest and most popular enthusiast chipset the 975X fully supports ATI's CrossFire technology.
You can clearly see that AMD is heavily linked with nVidia and Intel leans slightly over towards ATI to give them a helping hand. A merger either between AMD and nVidia or Intel and ATI would be much more logical than a merger between AMD and ATI.
You may only be able to access regular web-pages and host a web-server with a Commodore 64 but you can still acess WAP (cell phone web-pages) with the VIC-20.
The 8088 was designed by Intel first, it had 16 bit internal bus and 16 bit external bus. IBM wanted a lower cost processor, so Intel shrank the external bus to only 8 bits while leaving most of the internals the same, thus creating the 8086. So while the 8086 the first to be used in an IBM PC, the 8088 was designed first and was superior.
Incidentally, if Motorola had been faster making a cost reduced 68K then IBM PC's would be using Motorola!!
There's a big disadvantage to the S3's higher numbers. Its going to draw a lot more power and put out a lot more waste heat. Thats going to cost you more money in the end.
Not only do the ATI and the nVidia cards in the same price range outperform the S3 but they will probably also result in a lower bill from the power company!
Well, there's always Doom 3 for Linux. You can download it for free but you have to buy the Windows version to get the map, textures, models, music, sound effects, etc... files.
And a few people might consider "America's Army" to be a good native Linux game too.
I tried to use Napster when it first came out because I have a WMA compatible CD player. (The AVC Soul Player, One of the best MP3 CD Players ever released before the market was taken over by iPOD's).
I bought 5 songs from Napster, burned them to CD and popped the CD into my player. Instead of hearing music like I expected, I got the message "Protected WMA". Napster has no interest in supporting my music player, so I have no interest in supporting Napster.
Its because they don't have Japanese emo music, they only have really whiney sounding music. Some probably do listen to Western emo music but they don't understand the lyrics as well.
This number is easy for me to see as an "average". Either people are at least mildly educated about spyware like us on/. and have absolutely no spyware or are completely unedcuated and have several thousand pieces of spyware!!! Those with several thousand pieces when averaged with those who have none what-so-ever can easy come up with 20 pieces on average.
My grandparents are only in their 60's and have never even seen a computer outside of a store like Wal-Mart before. The only computers they've seen being used are Cash-Registers. They live on a farm in Iowa.
Assuming that you're referring to Flash Memory. Its getting faster, fast.
Flash memory is currently using the same speed ratings as a CD-ROM does. 1X == 150 Kilobytes per second
Secure Digital Flash memory is commonly available in speeds up to 150x. 22,500 Kilobytes per second.
We're already starting to see 200x: 30,000 Kilobytes per second.
I can boot an operating system, Knoppix Linux, with a full graphical user interface, full hardware support, multi-media, and office applications on an old 24x CD-ROM without "too much" discomfort, I imagine booting it off a 200x flash card would be relatively comfortable.
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worst analogy... ever.
People who've been behind the scenes know that in reality not anywhere near 2/3 of IPv4 is currently being used up. Large swaths of IP thats supposedly being used are abandoned. Entire Class A segments are assigned to companies that were large at one time but have since been swept aside and they get to keep their unused Class A networks for some obscure "historical" purpose. If abandoned chunks were released for use to currently functioning companies we wouldn't need IPv6 for 20 more years!
Yeah, all the Attorney's the RIAA have are on retainer so it dosen't cost anything extra for the RIAA to use them. So everytime someone settles for say... $1,000 thats a good helping of profit for the RIAA.
With big jobs you have no choice but to use some highly specialized tools. It sounds like the Testum Network Management Tool would be useful.
It'll help you figure things out a lot easier. It also does a lot of other nifty things that could become useful when you need to expand the network.
That means the RIAA actually lost money on this one. Hopefully A LOT!
19 years ago the original Battlestar Galactica would have still been a fresh show with state-of-the-art effects. We should show him the new Battlestar Galactica just to watch how fast he goes back into another coma!
ECS bought PCChips. PCChips used to ship motherboards with fake cache and put in several safeguards to keep you from finding out it was fake. I wonder how many of of PCChips tactics were absorbed by ECS...
You got bad luck with laptops. My 10 year old IBM Thinkpad still works, my 5 year old IBM Thinkpad has been left on 24/7 hooked up to my KVM switch for 3 years now, and my brand new IBM Thinkpad (Centrino) is faster than my desktop! I can't wait to buy my next IBM Thinkpad, maybe with the new Core 2 Duo (Conroe Core).
... whats that you say? Lenovo? WHAT?!?! *starts to cry*
I used to work at Fry's in Georgia. What Fry's did you work at?
Fry's dosen't own ECS, ECS is partly owned by someone who also partly owns Fry's.
Fry's is owned by the 2 founding brothers, someone I kept hearing referred to as "the woman", and possibly a few other investors. You cannot buy stock in Fry's.
Its pretty funny that you said GQ computers are not too bad in the sentence after you said anything made by ECS is complete dirt. Every GQ that Fry's carries uses an ECS motherboard. It is true that there are a lot of bad ECS products but there are a select few that I rarely saw problems with. You just have to do research ahead of time to find out which one or two in the store is decent.
At least ECS dosen't melt and then catch on fire like Airlink does.
I bet the woman next door to me had waited a little bit longer. She had eye correction surgery when they were still attempting to use super-fine surgical steel instead of lasers - to make the same kind of inner eye modifications. Didn't work so well. Laser eye surgery has a much better success rate than the old way of doing it, naturally.
I think the inverse of an AMD/ATI merger would be more logical.
nVidia releasing the nForce 2 chipset for the AthlonXP was the best thing that had ever happened to AMD. Then AMD enjoyed continued support with nVidia's nForce 3 and nForce 4 chipsets. Sure there's an nForce 4 for Intel but its sales are exceptionally small even while its the most common chipset now being sold for AMD. Even with the new AM2 socket from AMD, nVidia's new chipsets have already taken a vast lead over any other.
On the other hand ATI's chipsets, while supporting both AMD and Intel, don't move huge numbers in either market. Intel made chipsets dominate the Intel processor market. However, Intel's latest and most popular enthusiast chipset the 975X fully supports ATI's CrossFire technology.
You can clearly see that AMD is heavily linked with nVidia and Intel leans slightly over towards ATI to give them a helping hand. A merger either between AMD and nVidia or Intel and ATI would be much more logical than a merger between AMD and ATI.
Hell, there is webserver software for the Commodore 64. Why not a Cell Phone?
The 8088 was designed by Intel first, it had 16 bit internal bus and 16 bit external bus. IBM wanted a lower cost processor, so Intel shrank the external bus to only 8 bits while leaving most of the internals the same, thus creating the 8086. So while the 8086 the first to be used in an IBM PC, the 8088 was designed first and was superior. Incidentally, if Motorola had been faster making a cost reduced 68K then IBM PC's would be using Motorola!!
Great... something every mugger in the world will try to steal also helps to distract you so you don't notice the approaching mugger!
There's a big disadvantage to the S3's higher numbers. Its going to draw a lot more power and put out a lot more waste heat. Thats going to cost you more money in the end.
Not only do the ATI and the nVidia cards in the same price range outperform the S3 but they will probably also result in a lower bill from the power company!
Well, there's always Doom 3 for Linux. You can download it for free but you have to buy the Windows version to get the map, textures, models, music, sound effects, etc... files.
And a few people might consider "America's Army" to be a good native Linux game too.
I tried to use Napster when it first came out because I have a WMA compatible CD player. (The AVC Soul Player, One of the best MP3 CD Players ever released before the market was taken over by iPOD's).
I bought 5 songs from Napster, burned them to CD and popped the CD into my player. Instead of hearing music like I expected, I got the message "Protected WMA". Napster has no interest in supporting my music player, so I have no interest in supporting Napster.
Its because they don't have Japanese emo music, they only have really whiney sounding music. Some probably do listen to Western emo music but they don't understand the lyrics as well.
This number is easy for me to see as an "average". Either people are at least mildly educated about spyware like us on /. and have absolutely no spyware or are completely unedcuated and have several thousand pieces of spyware!!! Those with several thousand pieces when averaged with those who have none what-so-ever can easy come up with 20 pieces on average.
My grandparents are only in their 60's and have never even seen a computer outside of a store like Wal-Mart before. The only computers they've seen being used are Cash-Registers. They live on a farm in Iowa.
Assuming that you're referring to Flash Memory. Its getting faster, fast.
Flash memory is currently using the same speed ratings as a CD-ROM does. 1X == 150 Kilobytes per second
Secure Digital Flash memory is commonly available in speeds up to 150x. 22,500 Kilobytes per second.
We're already starting to see 200x: 30,000 Kilobytes per second.
I can boot an operating system, Knoppix Linux, with a full graphical user interface, full hardware support, multi-media, and office applications on an old 24x CD-ROM without "too much" discomfort, I imagine booting it off a 200x flash card would be relatively comfortable.