Consider a hypothetical Win98 user. For the sake of argument call her 'my mum'. She runs a Pentium II-450 and uses it for email, word processing, web browsing and very occasional other bits of office. The computer runs all these tasks fine, but it really isn't powerful enough to run XP. Windows 2000 would make life better, but it will go out of support soon and if you worry about getting legal copies, it's not available in a home edition so it's very expensive. Windows ME can hardly be called an improvement.
So you're saying people in this position need to spend money to upgrade their hardware despite the fact that the current computer runs all the software they want to run at a speed they find acceptable.
It looks like it's a new interface which is capable of supporting 2TB, but fitting 2TB of data onto a device the size of a MMC card is a problem that each manufacturer needs to solve, and they'll solve it when Moore's law says they'll solve it. So this isn't actually exciting; they've just made the address field longer.
It does mean that devices using this standard SHOULD support cards way larger than existed at the time the device was made. But based on my experience with almost every format of storage I've ever used, this won't work in practice.
Yay! We're going to get instant-on computers, just like home computers in the '80s were. How are we going to achieve it? Some form of jumped-up magnetic core memory!
Having a group of people who are working together all sitting together, and able to act like a team (i.e. chat) without annoying everyone else is massively important. Consider easier-to-move furniture so that you can move everyone round between each project so that people are sitting close enough together.
Apart from that, have enough space, and accept that there isn't a perfect arrangement for all people; some people want loads of desk space while others want a smaller desk in order to have more space for spinning round on the chair, leaning back and so on. Some people will want to hermetically seal themselves in a corner and get stuck into the work while some want to bounce ideas off collegues. Let everyone help decide how their bit is laid out, and don't look for the perfect layout to be imposed on everyone.
Oh yes. Most offices don't have enough rooms for informal meetings.
'They' don't, but other people have sort-of ported the developer tools to Linux. Google for gnupoc. But the emulator is Win32 only, so you can't debug on the emulator (you can run the emulator under Wine if you want to).
The standard Symbian compiler for the target is gcc. For the emulator it's Microsoft (for series 60) or CodeWarrior (for UIQ)
They don't make them any more, but they're great. Find an old one on E-Bay. Great keyboard, runs for over a month on a pair of AA batteries, about twice as big as a palm.It can take CF cards for storing things. No USB, but the sync software works over serial or infra-red, or you can get a CF USB adapter.
Is not only that 2 pieces of A(n) are the size of a piece of A(n-1), but that all paper sizes are the same shape. That means that you can scale things up or down, print 2-up and everything works more neatly than with any other ratio.
As time goes on, hopefuly MS will get more and more tied up in antitrust limitations, and everyone will get bored of DRM schemes that get cracked. At the current interval between MS releases, that'll happen before the thing after Longhorn.
The religion that built stonehenge died out around 1100BC. The religion that tends to be called things like british paganism or druidism started around 600BC. There are no identifiable traces of the old (circle-building) religion, and there haven't been any since it died out in the first place.
Feel free to lobby for more recognition for British paganism, but bear in mind that it's quite different to the old greek religion and has NOTHING to do with stone circles. Wheras all of Europe has been christian.
I think the sound output is mono. It's mono in all games on the old one, and while the headset has 2 headphones, it has the same kind of plug as a standard Nokia handsfree. (The old one had 2 plugs; a handsfree jack and a headphone jack)
KDE is the default, but it's as easy as checking a fairly blatant (i.e. not hidden in advanced options for experts only) checkbox to install Gnome too.
The same is true of Mandrake.
Unglazed clay will work better due to water seeping through the pot and evaporating. It's very common to store drinking water in clay pots in India for exactly that reason (nowardays it'll be carried from the well in plastic pots)
Most brits (and certainly all british slashdotters) don't use trouser presses. You really do see them in hotels from time to time; presumably some hotel star rating or other requires them.
You're right about Iraq, but the purpose of the programme to send a man to mars is to win Florida this November. After the election, the costs will triple as everyone realises that Mars is a long way away, and the entire project will regrettably have to be canned. I suppose Bush is still deadly serious about all this, but the objective is Florida, not infinity and beyond.
Are the total sales of CDs, DVDs and games by value over time. My guess is that people are still going to record shops and spending just as much money on 5" plastoc discs. It's just that DVDs are marketed more intellignetly than CDs (extra features, sell new releases for a lot then start dropping prices etc.)
I suppose video sales need to be included in the numbers to make them fair.
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Printers aren't very personal objects. If I had gender issues with any of my electronics, I'd be more concerned about my phone, mp3 player, keyboard, mouse, monitor and computer in that order.
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Socket 940 arranges the pins so that it's easy to lay out multiprocessor systems with a 6 layer motherboard (expensive, but you'll want it in a server anyway for reliability reasons). Sockey 939 (real soon now) will work with 4-layer motherboards and so will result in cheaper systems. Both the Athalon 64 and Athalon FX will soon be socket 939, differentiated by the ammount of cache. Opteron will remain as it is, as otherwise your 4 and 8 way boxes won't work. Given that Opteron 8xx is absurdly cheap compared to any other 64 bit 8-way server, I can't see why AMD would want to lower prices.
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Consider a hypothetical Win98 user. For the sake of argument call her 'my mum'. She runs a Pentium II-450 and uses it for email, word processing, web browsing and very occasional other bits of office. The computer runs all these tasks fine, but it really isn't powerful enough to run XP. Windows 2000 would make life better, but it will go out of support soon and if you worry about getting legal copies, it's not available in a home edition so it's very expensive. Windows ME can hardly be called an improvement.
So you're saying people in this position need to spend money to upgrade their hardware despite the fact that the current computer runs all the software they want to run at a speed they find acceptable.
Yes I know; install Linux.
You have some serious latency challenges to solve before I use your homesick albatross for online gaming.
It looks like it's a new interface which is capable of supporting 2TB, but fitting 2TB of data onto a device the size of a MMC card is a problem that each manufacturer needs to solve, and they'll solve it when Moore's law says they'll solve it. So this isn't actually exciting; they've just made the address field longer.
It does mean that devices using this standard SHOULD support cards way larger than existed at the time the device was made. But based on my experience with almost every format of storage I've ever used, this won't work in practice.
Yay! We're going to get instant-on computers, just like home computers in the '80s were. How are we going to achieve it? Some form of jumped-up magnetic core memory!
Having a group of people who are working together all sitting together, and able to act like a team (i.e. chat) without annoying everyone else is massively important. Consider easier-to-move furniture so that you can move everyone round between each project so that people are sitting close enough together.
Apart from that, have enough space, and accept that there isn't a perfect arrangement for all people; some people want loads of desk space while others want a smaller desk in order to have more space for spinning round on the chair, leaning back and so on. Some people will want to hermetically seal themselves in a corner and get stuck into the work while some want to bounce ideas off collegues. Let everyone help decide how their bit is laid out, and don't look for the perfect layout to be imposed on everyone.
Oh yes. Most offices don't have enough rooms for informal meetings.
McDonald's burgers taste like cardboard and sugar.
'They' don't, but other people have sort-of ported the developer tools to Linux. Google for gnupoc. But the emulator is Win32 only, so you can't debug on the emulator (you can run the emulator under Wine if you want to). The standard Symbian compiler for the target is gcc. For the emulator it's Microsoft (for series 60) or CodeWarrior (for UIQ)
They don't make them any more, but they're great. Find an old one on E-Bay. Great keyboard, runs for over a month on a pair of AA batteries, about twice as big as a palm.It can take CF cards for storing things. No USB, but the sync software works over serial or infra-red, or you can get a CF USB adapter.
An ounce is defined as the maximum weight that can be carried by 1 swallow.
Is not only that 2 pieces of A(n) are the size of a piece of A(n-1), but that all paper sizes are the same shape. That means that you can scale things up or down, print 2-up and everything works more neatly than with any other ratio.
Most buffer overflows go away.
As time goes on, hopefuly MS will get more and more tied up in antitrust limitations, and everyone will get bored of DRM schemes that get cracked. At the current interval between MS releases, that'll happen before the thing after Longhorn.
This project is the trusted computing project.
The religion that built stonehenge died out around 1100BC. The religion that tends to be called things like british paganism or druidism started around 600BC. There are no identifiable traces of the old (circle-building) religion, and there haven't been any since it died out in the first place. Feel free to lobby for more recognition for British paganism, but bear in mind that it's quite different to the old greek religion and has NOTHING to do with stone circles. Wheras all of Europe has been christian.
I think the sound output is mono. It's mono in all games on the old one, and while the headset has 2 headphones, it has the same kind of plug as a standard Nokia handsfree. (The old one had 2 plugs; a handsfree jack and a headphone jack)
KDE is the default, but it's as easy as checking a fairly blatant (i.e. not hidden in advanced options for experts only) checkbox to install Gnome too. The same is true of Mandrake.
USB pen drives aren't very filling.
Unglazed clay will work better due to water seeping through the pot and evaporating. It's very common to store drinking water in clay pots in India for exactly that reason (nowardays it'll be carried from the well in plastic pots)
Most brits (and certainly all british slashdotters) don't use trouser presses. You really do see them in hotels from time to time; presumably some hotel star rating or other requires them.
An oppertunity for the republicans to annoy everyone. That's what I like to see.
They want to win with iPod.
You're right about Iraq, but the purpose of the programme to send a man to mars is to win Florida this November. After the election, the costs will triple as everyone realises that Mars is a long way away, and the entire project will regrettably have to be canned. I suppose Bush is still deadly serious about all this, but the objective is Florida, not infinity and beyond.
Are the total sales of CDs, DVDs and games by value over time. My guess is that people are still going to record shops and spending just as much money on 5" plastoc discs. It's just that DVDs are marketed more intellignetly than CDs (extra features, sell new releases for a lot then start dropping prices etc.)
I suppose video sales need to be included in the numbers to make them fair.
Printers aren't very personal objects. If I had gender issues with any of my electronics, I'd be more concerned about my phone, mp3 player, keyboard, mouse, monitor and computer in that order.
Socket 940 arranges the pins so that it's easy to lay out multiprocessor systems with a 6 layer motherboard (expensive, but you'll want it in a server anyway for reliability reasons). Sockey 939 (real soon now) will work with 4-layer motherboards and so will result in cheaper systems. Both the Athalon 64 and Athalon FX will soon be socket 939, differentiated by the ammount of cache. Opteron will remain as it is, as otherwise your 4 and 8 way boxes won't work. Given that Opteron 8xx is absurdly cheap compared to any other 64 bit 8-way server, I can't see why AMD would want to lower prices.