this is not a preview for any new technology that will be apearing in graphics cards that are coming out this year. it's just a long winded reveiw of what apeared last year.
Apple tried the generic/clone thing - IT DIDN'T WORK.
because they did it worng.
to put it a differnt way lets compare it to someone riding a bike.
*apple gets on it's bike for the first time and promtly crashs into a nearby bush, apple gets up and swears on his life to never touch a bike again.*
what they did worng was rely on the hardware sales only during the clone period for their profits while still offering support for any. because of this the clones would Always undercut apple because they could get the hardware cheaper. if they say charged the non-apple hardware users(aka the clone users) for support they would not of almost died. they can do this now too, it's just the curent ego-mainaic of a ceo(yes steve very much abused his employee's back in the day and i bet he still does) can't grasp that he did something worng back then.
i don't know what odd-ball version you have been useing. maybe one that comes free with a pre-built computer, but i have never had any trouble with any norton products as long as i buy it stand alone.
it doesn't completly hide it from the user by subverting the windows kernel like the sony root kit. all it does is create a normal hidden directory on the root of every rive you have called 'RECYCLER' in which it place a copy of the rycleling bin. if you don't like that it hides the directory from you then just go to. Tools --> Folder options --> 'view' tab --> and checkmark 'display contents of system folders' Uncheck 'hide protected operating system files' select the radial button for 'show hidden files and folders'
if this was a rootkit you would not be able to see it even after this.
no it's more like.
"It is said of nuclear fusion that is is the energy source of the future, and always will be."
for those of you who doesn't understand the wording i suggest you go back to school.
no the article states that they are going to return his equipment but he has not gotten it yet. my bet is he will: a. never see his equipment again. or b. he will get it back in a non-working condition, they never claim they treat the stuff with care.
nice try but the people they are aiming this at don't even earn 100 dollars in a year, or earn anything at all. so which do you think comes first, spending their very small income getting a meager amount of food and water so they can live another day? or saving up to get this machine that they never even heard about let alone know enough to turn the thing on?
the '100 dollar laptop' is the poster child of the disconnect we in the western world have from what is realy needed to live. they want to give/sell these to people thinking that they need these more then food, water, and shelter.
"Heating the air within the wall using a temporary heat source such as steam starts the vortex. The heat to sustain the vortex once established is provided in cooling tower bays located outside of the cylindrical wall and upstream of the deflectors. The continuous heat source for the peripheral heat exchanger can be waste industrial heat or warm seawater. "
so in other words this is not a alternitive source of energy because it still depends on the current oil and gas infrastruture, unless you don't relize the industrail heat will most likely be from coal or gas burning plants as for the warm sea water what do you think they would use to warm the water?
bio-diesel is a nice small scale(ie city to at most county only) solution and will only work as long as some semblance of the current oil/gas based economy stays intact. in other words i would like to see them try to keep the plant up and running with no input at all from any facet of the current oil based economy before it's viable at all.
this is a sad fact of all of the alternative energy sources, that they can't be made and maintained without the current underlying oil economy in place to provide either the raw input of materials(directly or indirectly) or oil based products that are needed to maintain said alternatives.
They do the rebates because your personal information such as address, telephone number, etc is worth more then any rebate they can give you.
remember boys and girls that business will not do something out of the goodness of their hearts if there is no profit for them. even when they play nice and give aid and relief for natural disasters or something else they do it because it's great 'advertising' and nothing more.
even when the microsoft solution will allow them to say charge you per veiw just for the ability to watch dvds on the system, charge you per month on top of the per month bill for the isp just for the privialge to play online, charge you for updates and bug fixs for their own products problems.
i can go on.
if so this proves the theory that the xbox line of gaming consoles are being used as a drm test bed. sort to like the following. 1. release gameing console that is made from normal off the shelf pc parts but with some drm that prevents it to be used as such.
2. wait for and then watch groups who try to hack the drm to be able to use said console as a normal pc.
3.take the information gained from leting them do this into account as you make the next version of the console then go to step one, unless of course no one is able to hack the drm in which case push to have it added to normal pc hardware.
[sarcasm] brilliant, instead of having c02 as a direct result of power generation it will be the direct result of the building the thousands of new nuclear reactors, mining for the raw fuel(which leaves a toxic waste land, for a example look at old uranium mines here in the u.s.),transporting the spent but still lethal fuel somewhere else.[/sarcasm] oh and for the risks, the only reason nuclear power seems safe right now is the low number of nuclear reactors. so basically each risk involved with running them increases as the number of reactors increase.
and the last point is, uranium has been getting harder to find in large enough amounts(yes i know there are minuscule traces of it in anything but to extract a usable amount out would take a asinine amount of energy as well as the source material..) to be used.
so the main problem of this is, of course our un-sustainable way of life. we either change it willingly and relatively painlessly, or we can let nature do it resulting in basically hell on earth(though i am not the religious type)
cheaply made products which are priced higher then the better alternitives. guess you forgot to do your research, there are other and better players on the market. best of all they are not made with a substance that won't scratch if you look at it in the worng way.
why am i the only one who had nor trouble seeing the screen on the original gameboy advance?
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don't make me laugh. direct connect is not very good, all of the hubs with the stuff you want. anime, music, etc requires anyone who connects to the hub to have huge amounts of the stuff to begin with. last time i checked the hub with the lowest min required share was over 50 gig
heh, exactly. i have been pointing people to mythtv when ever they consider geting a tivo telling them with this you have control of the device and not the company that owns tivo.
*runs gentoo quite happly with out any of those and is still a tad bit faster then any other distro* why? it's the use flags not the cflags that give gentoo it's speed. besides that if a riced up car is gentoo, then debain is that old beat up pinto without seatbelts. fedora/suse/mandrake(or what ever it is called) is that large suv next door. and windows is the semi parked in the culdi-sac
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ray tracing even makes quake 3 look good..
this is not a preview for any new technology that will be apearing in graphics cards that are coming out this year. it's just a long winded reveiw of what apeared last year.
*apple gets on it's bike for the first time and promtly crashs into a nearby bush, apple gets up and swears on his life to never touch a bike again.*
what they did worng was rely on the hardware sales only during the clone period for their profits while still offering support for any. because of this the clones would Always undercut apple because they could get the hardware cheaper. if they say charged the non-apple hardware users(aka the clone users) for support they would not of almost died. they can do this now too, it's just the curent ego-mainaic of a ceo(yes steve very much abused his employee's back in the day and i bet he still does) can't grasp that he did something worng back then.
they might do somthing drastic like stop all support for all their os's pre-vista.. don't laugh it's a very real posibility.
i don't know what odd-ball version you have been useing.
maybe one that comes free with a pre-built computer, but i have never had any trouble with any norton products as long as i buy it stand alone.
it doesn't completly hide it from the user by subverting the windows kernel like the sony root kit.
all it does is create a normal hidden directory on the root of every rive you have called 'RECYCLER' in which it place a copy of the rycleling bin.
if you don't like that it hides the directory from you then just go to.
Tools --> Folder options --> 'view' tab --> and checkmark 'display contents of system folders'
Uncheck 'hide protected operating system files'
select the radial button for 'show hidden files and folders'
if this was a rootkit you would not be able to see it even after this.
no it's more like. "It is said of nuclear fusion that is is the energy source of the future, and always will be." for those of you who doesn't understand the wording i suggest you go back to school.
Because it's cheaper for them to leave off every odd and end scsi/raid driver off the cd and let the manufacturers deal with the driver issue.
i forget the name of the grocery store, but they have been testing this for at least a year in germany.
[sarcasm] nice to see paid advertiseing is still around [/sarcasm]
no the article states that they are going to return his equipment but he has not gotten it yet.
my bet is he will:
a. never see his equipment again.
or
b. he will get it back in a non-working condition, they never claim they treat the stuff with care.
nice try but the people they are aiming this at don't even earn 100 dollars in a year, or earn anything at all. so which do you think comes first, spending their very small income getting a meager amount of food and water so they can live another day? or saving up to get this machine that they never even heard about let alone know enough to turn the thing on?
the '100 dollar laptop' is the poster child of the disconnect we in the western world have from what is realy needed to live.
they want to give/sell these to people thinking that they need these more then food, water, and shelter.
"Heating the air within the wall using a temporary heat source such as steam starts the vortex. The heat to sustain the vortex once established is provided in cooling tower bays located outside of the cylindrical wall and upstream of the deflectors. The continuous heat source for the peripheral heat exchanger can be waste industrial heat or warm seawater. "
so in other words this is not a alternitive source of energy because it still depends on the current oil and gas infrastruture, unless you don't relize the industrail heat will most likely be from coal or gas burning plants as for the warm sea water what do you think they would use to warm the water?
bio-diesel is a nice small scale(ie city to at most county only) solution and will only work as long as some semblance of the current oil/gas based economy stays intact. in other words i would like to see them try to keep the plant up and running with no input at all from any facet of the current oil based economy before it's viable at all.
this is a sad fact of all of the alternative energy sources, that they can't be made and maintained without the current underlying oil economy in place to provide either the raw input of materials(directly or indirectly) or oil based products that are needed to maintain said alternatives.
They do the rebates because your personal information such as address, telephone number, etc is worth more then any rebate they can give you. remember boys and girls that business will not do something out of the goodness of their hearts if there is no profit for them. even when they play nice and give aid and relief for natural disasters or something else they do it because it's great 'advertising' and nothing more.
even when the microsoft solution will allow them to say charge you per veiw just for the ability to watch dvds on the system, charge you per month on top of the per month bill for the isp just for the privialge to play online, charge you for updates and bug fixs for their own products problems. i can go on.
if so this proves the theory that the xbox line of gaming consoles are being used as a drm test bed.
sort to like the following.
1. release gameing console that is made from normal off the shelf pc parts but with some drm that prevents it to be used as such.
2. wait for and then watch groups who try to hack the drm to be able to use said console as a normal pc.
3.take the information gained from leting them do this into account as you make the next version of the console then go to step one, unless of course no one is able to hack the drm in which case push to have it added to normal pc hardware.
[sarcasm] brilliant, instead of having c02 as a direct result of power generation it will be the direct result of the building the thousands of new nuclear reactors, mining for the raw fuel(which leaves a toxic waste land, for a example look at old uranium mines here in the u.s.),transporting the spent but still lethal fuel somewhere else.[/sarcasm]
oh and for the risks, the only reason nuclear power seems safe right now is the low number of nuclear reactors. so basically each risk involved with running them increases as the number of reactors increase.
and the last point is, uranium has been getting harder to find in large enough amounts(yes i know there are minuscule traces of it in anything but to extract a usable amount out would take a asinine amount of energy as well as the source material..) to be used.
so the main problem of this is, of course our un-sustainable way of life.
we either change it willingly and relatively painlessly, or we can let nature do it resulting in basically hell on earth(though i am not the religious type)
cheaply made products which are priced higher then the better alternitives.
guess you forgot to do your research, there are other and better players on the market. best of all they are not made with a substance that won't scratch if you look at it in the worng way.
why am i the only one who had nor trouble seeing the screen on the original gameboy advance?
don't make me laugh.
direct connect is not very good, all of the hubs with the stuff you want. anime, music, etc requires anyone who connects to the hub to have huge amounts of the stuff to begin with. last time i checked the hub with the lowest min required share was over 50 gig
heh, exactly. i have been pointing people to mythtv when ever they consider geting a tivo telling them with this you have control of the device and not the company that owns tivo.
*runs gentoo quite happly with out any of those and is still a tad bit faster then any other distro*
why?
it's the use flags not the cflags that give gentoo it's speed.
besides that if a riced up car is gentoo, then debain is that old beat up pinto without seatbelts.
fedora/suse/mandrake(or what ever it is called) is that large suv next door.
and windows is the semi parked in the culdi-sac
*rolls eyes*
when will people learn that apple is behind in capacity, features(as in playable formats), and batterylife..