Yes, new hardware. I have no idea what the Windows 98 OEM license is like... is it limited to the same motherboard? The same CPU? Are you allowed to upgrade the mouse? Such restrictions count as unconscionable in my book, and would probably be disregarded.
Uh no, I wanted to know what happened. You can't just say "My mom used to use Win98" and leave me hanging. Did she upgrade? Did a spider come along and frighten her away? Good story though. I know someone who just upgraded from Win98 to Vista for the same reason, so mine's a little better.
This will all get added to the main CPU. It's all part of the "real" Moore's law... there is an optimal die size to balance packaging/interconnect costs vs. yield and the processor makers have more space than they know what to do with. Hence the extra cores. Same reason the chipset is slowly eating sound cards, NICs, etc. They won't need to add an encryption "chip" so much as more execution units and maybe a specialized instruction. I'm personally surprised that we haven't seen complete systems-on-a-chip in the super-cheap computer market yet (maybe we have and I just haven't heard about it).
Yeah, and while we're complaining, my $1.5 million Bugatti Veyron gets under 3mpg at full throttle when I expect BETTER DESIGN that uses LESS GAS when we're trying to REDUCE fossil fuel consumption. I can tell you why, BAD DESIGNERS who need to get off their asses and give me MORE HORSEPOWER with LESS FUEL or talk to the hand.
He's an audiophile, they can hear everything. By the way, I sell specially designed desktop wallpapers that give computer audio more ecstatic highs, crisper mids, and tighter low-end.
People in 'civilised' parts of the world are *incredibly* unobservant and self-absorbed. Spending all your energy making sure your bare feet don't get cut is the epitome of self-absorption. Once you can stop worrying that a bear will eat you while you focus on stepping in the right place, you can start thinking about other people.
On Apple machines you have no... games What are you talking about? There's Breakout... Super Breakout.... *cough* Photoshop. (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xiAgrrwL_mk)
What about RAM makers? They are normally at each other's throats. Yet they also seem to have recently cooperated on some price-fixing. Not that I believe in an electric-car conspiracy, either.
Bombs are generally devastating because they release energy quickly, not because they have a high energy density. For instance, a ton of TNT has around 4,000 MJ, and a ton of coal is around 30,000 MJ. Compare to Li-ion at 500 MJ/ton.
It's true that saying these technologies are dead is an exaggeration. Hell, even 8-track still has it's adherents. But when something originally slated for wide consumer use ends up in a niche application, I think it's safe to speak of "death". My problem with ATRAC wasn't even 1st generation quality, which was more than adequate for my uses. It was more of the same philosophical issue with data preservation that causes me to store all my music in FLAC, even though I maintain parallel mp3s for other uses. As for radio stations... I'm surprised they don't just use computers. Much easier to simply play a file than to deal with cartridges (of any sort). And jingles should be small enough to fit nicely on a flash drive or email attachment for easy transport.
Hard drive. I don't know if there's a DAT-PC interface with error correction out there, but SPDIF should be virtually error free (unfortunately, real-time though). Once it's on your HD (I'd use FLAC), you can do anything with it. And do it fast -- other posters have mentioned that DAT has shelf-life issues.
And by "lost out" you basically mean "died faster". It's not like Minidisc hit the jackpot. I had a minidisc deck and loved it... but that was before I knew anything about lossy compression.
This makes sense. My first reaction would be to say that if airplane systems can't handle interference at the known frequencies that cell phones use, then they should be redesigned so they can... maybe take a cue from military communications. But malfunctioning equipment isn't really that rare. People drop their phones, and something could easily happen to mess up the RF output. Same with other electronic devices. Which is part of the reason they require all of it turned off. It's not that a well-functioning device is a problem (all of the "I've done it and the plane didn't crash" comments) but that you may not know your device is malfunctioning until its too late. Now, I'm obviously not in the best position to balance the risk of this happening against the loss if it did. The FCC and FAA are.
What about people who want to just sit there and text message their friends? This might just give them something to do so they don't sit there making asinine comments the entire flight.
Yeah, cause everyone knows about trucking terminology. (Ask 100 randomly sampled people in the nation how much a 1 ton truck weighs, and the majority will tell you 1 ton.) At least the GP was gracious enough to give me a straight answer without the petty insult.
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Yes, new hardware. I have no idea what the Windows 98 OEM license is like... is it limited to the same motherboard? The same CPU? Are you allowed to upgrade the mouse? Such restrictions count as unconscionable in my book, and would probably be disregarded.
Uh no, I wanted to know what happened. You can't just say "My mom used to use Win98" and leave me hanging. Did she upgrade? Did a spider come along and frighten her away? Good story though. I know someone who just upgraded from Win98 to Vista for the same reason, so mine's a little better.
-1 Disagree. Yeah but ME was clearly beaten by 2k. Vista doesn't have another new MS competitor to contend with.
And then?
That's where OCD kicks in. Must... get... every... last... drop...
Only one man would give me the raspberry.
s/fanboy/stockholder
This will all get added to the main CPU. It's all part of the "real" Moore's law... there is an optimal die size to balance packaging/interconnect costs vs. yield and the processor makers have more space than they know what to do with. Hence the extra cores. Same reason the chipset is slowly eating sound cards, NICs, etc. They won't need to add an encryption "chip" so much as more execution units and maybe a specialized instruction. I'm personally surprised that we haven't seen complete systems-on-a-chip in the super-cheap computer market yet (maybe we have and I just haven't heard about it).
Yeah, and while we're complaining, my $1.5 million Bugatti Veyron gets under 3mpg at full throttle when I expect BETTER DESIGN that uses LESS GAS when we're trying to REDUCE fossil fuel consumption. I can tell you why, BAD DESIGNERS who need to get off their asses and give me MORE HORSEPOWER with LESS FUEL or talk to the hand.
He's an audiophile, they can hear everything. By the way, I sell specially designed desktop wallpapers that give computer audio more ecstatic highs, crisper mids, and tighter low-end.
Why does your Faraday cage need a lock?
But then they'd get their legs broken, right?
What about RAM makers? They are normally at each other's throats. Yet they also seem to have recently cooperated on some price-fixing. Not that I believe in an electric-car conspiracy, either.
Bombs are generally devastating because they release energy quickly, not because they have a high energy density. For instance, a ton of TNT has around 4,000 MJ, and a ton of coal is around 30,000 MJ. Compare to Li-ion at 500 MJ/ton.
I thought that was the Stonecutters' service.
It's true that saying these technologies are dead is an exaggeration. Hell, even 8-track still has it's adherents. But when something originally slated for wide consumer use ends up in a niche application, I think it's safe to speak of "death". My problem with ATRAC wasn't even 1st generation quality, which was more than adequate for my uses. It was more of the same philosophical issue with data preservation that causes me to store all my music in FLAC, even though I maintain parallel mp3s for other uses. As for radio stations... I'm surprised they don't just use computers. Much easier to simply play a file than to deal with cartridges (of any sort). And jingles should be small enough to fit nicely on a flash drive or email attachment for easy transport.
Hard drive. I don't know if there's a DAT-PC interface with error correction out there, but SPDIF should be virtually error free (unfortunately, real-time though). Once it's on your HD (I'd use FLAC), you can do anything with it. And do it fast -- other posters have mentioned that DAT has shelf-life issues.
And by "lost out" you basically mean "died faster". It's not like Minidisc hit the jackpot. I had a minidisc deck and loved it... but that was before I knew anything about lossy compression.
This makes sense. My first reaction would be to say that if airplane systems can't handle interference at the known frequencies that cell phones use, then they should be redesigned so they can... maybe take a cue from military communications. But malfunctioning equipment isn't really that rare. People drop their phones, and something could easily happen to mess up the RF output. Same with other electronic devices. Which is part of the reason they require all of it turned off. It's not that a well-functioning device is a problem (all of the "I've done it and the plane didn't crash" comments) but that you may not know your device is malfunctioning until its too late. Now, I'm obviously not in the best position to balance the risk of this happening against the loss if it did. The FCC and FAA are.
What about people who want to just sit there and text message their friends? This might just give them something to do so they don't sit there making asinine comments the entire flight.
Yeah, cause everyone knows about trucking terminology. (Ask 100 randomly sampled people in the nation how much a 1 ton truck weighs, and the majority will tell you 1 ton.) At least the GP was gracious enough to give me a straight answer without the petty insult.
That has to be the lightest pickup ever. 1500 pounds?