The idea sounds like a good one, but not just to replace audio CD's, plus for audio CD's you also have the small problem of how do you keep track of (for some people easily) 50+ "fingertip-sized memory tabs" ~ I know I have been known to lose full size CD's imagine how easy it would be to lose these. However, seeing as how they say that it can store 1Gb of data I can foresee it coming into use in digital camras, and perhaps for software distribution.
Does anyone know how the giveaway would work? Would the customer be given a selection of maybe 5 or 6 (All lousy) songs; or would it be some form of a certificate for 1 or 2 songs of your choice?
Of course there are many other reasons for deleting the mp3's besides not wanting to get caught with them on your hard drive, namely:
- 'Spring Cleaning' of the files, only keeping the ones you listen to on the drive.
- Archiving to CD-R/RW or DVD-R.
- Moving to a different music format than mp3.
And those are just ones that I can think of off the top of my head, I'm sure there are more.
The orginal GITS manga was written with the same type of ending, the author orginaly intended for another manga to be out soon telling the rest of the story, but delays kept it from happening.
Looks good, very eye-candy like the first GITS, however, will it have the content to go with the eye-candy? The first movie (IMHO) had the problem of being very good looking, however, the story was a bit of a let down. Also, the story in the movie didn't follow the manga correctly, with many parts not happening in the manga. However, I can understand how there would be problems converting from a manga to a OVA or movie.
Also, I would say that the US will not be seeing the movie until sometime in 2005. I personaly am looking forward to GITS:Stand Allow Complex, both the series and the manga.
Interesting artical, but what about the rest of the population that does not have the kinda surplus money that can blown on hardware for a state-of-the-art gaming system that will be outdated in six months. What kind of hardware is nessecary for a good low-end gaming system that the average twenty-something paying off student loans can afford? Also, what are the best recomendations for hardware that might be a bit higher-end, but will still be useful for a long time?
This is all well and good, but I would like to see a better architecture than x86 be developed and put on to the market or better system of storing temporary data, than I would a faster chip. Also, as the article states:
"We've hit the memory wall," Weber said
I have meet a lot of people that I work with that are under the impression that their computer is running slow because the processor is slow and when I look at the system information they only have 128MB of RAM.
Basically, I think that the way to go is not necessarily faster, but better designed systems all together.
The Do Not Call list is a good step in the right direction, but I am paying for my phone and I don't want any calls from anyone unless I give them my phone number. There for why should it matter if it is a sales call or a charity call, they both should not be allowed to call me at home.
This sounds like what happens with any career where the management doesn't know as much as the subordinates. As such this should send the message out that when someone tells you that something is a bad idea then you might want to consider why they say its a bad idea. After all how many of us have had our boss(es) tell us to do something that is either technically not possible (for any reason), or is dangerous?
IANAM (I Am Not A Meterologist) but I would venture a guess that I might be related to the jet stream and smilar movements. There are some parts of the country were there is a high Ozone level even though there is no heavy industry.
The effect that cities have (i.e. Microclimates) on the local tempatures in relation to the area around them has been known for some time and this seems to be a logical extention of the microclimate. As such it seems logical that the exaust from cars would tend to be greater on weekdays when people are going to and from work, and would decline on the weekends.
Channel One is the root of all evil. When I was in high school we were required to watch Channel One and we could not do any homework or do anything that would distract us from Channel One. Also, Channel One it self is mostly just adverstising. It never tells you anything new news-wise, and all the stories that it does present have some sort of coprate spin to the.
Re:Cost of manuals?
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After alittle poking around on Intel's site I found the manuals avalible: IA-32 Intel Architecture
There is also a good deal of pdf manuals, and I'm sure that more hardcopy manuals would be avalible if I actualy cared to look.
Thanks for the info, but how can AMD afford to send the documentation out for free like that? Or is this just part of the fact that the Athlon 64 is a new chip that the majority of the programmers don't know much about?
On a side note though, I just placed my order for the manuals. ^_^
I have been reading up on the overflow exploits on various systems, and one thing that I have been wondering about is this - Are the exploits the result of poor software design or the result of poor hardware design. In other words, is it possible to isolate the instructions for the processor in RAM from the data portion of the RAM, through separate sticks of RAM? Or is it something that we must be aware of when programming?
And in other news SCO has anounced that all English speakers are infrenging upon their IP rights and are demading 1000$US for each word uttered or typed.
Does anyone think that this is going to be worse than the MSRPC exploits, on one hand the worm must be executed by the user, on the other hand most users will execute any "offical" looking email attachments without second thought.
However, this is bad, because it is bogging down the mail servers and the 'net in general, as well as filling up the mailbox and posibly causing ligitimit emails to be kicked back because of a full mailbox.
On a lighter note though, I'm using this as a means to judge how smart my relitives are.
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The idea sounds like a good one, but not just to replace audio CD's, plus for audio CD's you also have the small problem of how do you keep track of (for some people easily) 50+ "fingertip-sized memory tabs" ~ I know I have been known to lose full size CD's imagine how easy it would be to lose these. However, seeing as how they say that it can store 1Gb of data I can foresee it coming into use in digital camras, and perhaps for software distribution.
Does anyone know how the giveaway would work? Would the customer be given a selection of maybe 5 or 6 (All lousy) songs; or would it be some form of a certificate for 1 or 2 songs of your choice?
Of course there are many other reasons for deleting the mp3's besides not wanting to get caught with them on your hard drive, namely: - 'Spring Cleaning' of the files, only keeping the ones you listen to on the drive. - Archiving to CD-R/RW or DVD-R. - Moving to a different music format than mp3. And those are just ones that I can think of off the top of my head, I'm sure there are more.
The orginal GITS manga was written with the same type of ending, the author orginaly intended for another manga to be out soon telling the rest of the story, but delays kept it from happening.
Thats the one, I've heard it called by different names on the anime boards.
Do you know if it is based more on the manga, or is it an independent story? From what I have been reading its based on the mangas.
Also, I would say that the US will not be seeing the movie until sometime in 2005. I personaly am looking forward to GITS:Stand Allow Complex, both the series and the manga.
What is the difference between Red Hat Linux, and Red Hat Enterprise Linux, other than the price tag?
Interesting artical, but what about the rest of the population that does not have the kinda surplus money that can blown on hardware for a state-of-the-art gaming system that will be outdated in six months. What kind of hardware is nessecary for a good low-end gaming system that the average twenty-something paying off student loans can afford? Also, what are the best recomendations for hardware that might be a bit higher-end, but will still be useful for a long time?
"We've hit the memory wall," Weber said
I have meet a lot of people that I work with that are under the impression that their computer is running slow because the processor is slow and when I look at the system information they only have 128MB of RAM.
Basically, I think that the way to go is not necessarily faster, but better designed systems all together.
However, we all know that Microsoft has no need for error reporting software.
The Do Not Call list is a good step in the right direction, but I am paying for my phone and I don't want any calls from anyone unless I give them my phone number. There for why should it matter if it is a sales call or a charity call, they both should not be allowed to call me at home.
This sounds like what happens with any career where the management doesn't know as much as the subordinates. As such this should send the message out that when someone tells you that something is a bad idea then you might want to consider why they say its a bad idea. After all how many of us have had our boss(es) tell us to do something that is either technically not possible (for any reason), or is dangerous?
IANAM (I Am Not A Meterologist) but I would venture a guess that I might be related to the jet stream and smilar movements. There are some parts of the country were there is a high Ozone level even though there is no heavy industry.
The effect that cities have (i.e. Microclimates) on the local tempatures in relation to the area around them has been known for some time and this seems to be a logical extention of the microclimate. As such it seems logical that the exaust from cars would tend to be greater on weekdays when people are going to and from work, and would decline on the weekends.
Channel One is the root of all evil. When I was in high school we were required to watch Channel One and we could not do any homework or do anything that would distract us from Channel One. Also, Channel One it self is mostly just adverstising. It never tells you anything new news-wise, and all the stories that it does present have some sort of coprate spin to the.
IA-32 Intel Architecture
There is also a good deal of pdf manuals, and I'm sure that more hardcopy manuals would be avalible if I actualy cared to look.
On a side note though, I just placed my order for the manuals. ^_^
How much were the manuals?
Thanks.
I have been reading up on the overflow exploits on various systems, and one thing that I have been wondering about is this - Are the exploits the result of poor software design or the result of poor hardware design. In other words, is it possible to isolate the instructions for the processor in RAM from the data portion of the RAM, through separate sticks of RAM? Or is it something that we must be aware of when programming?
And in other news SCO has anounced that all English speakers are infrenging upon their IP rights and are demading 1000$US for each word uttered or typed.
I never claimed to be able to spell without the help of spell check :)
However, this is bad, because it is bogging down the mail servers and the 'net in general, as well as filling up the mailbox and posibly causing ligitimit emails to be kicked back because of a full mailbox.
On a lighter note though, I'm using this as a means to judge how smart my relitives are.