Could it be that Intel is keeping DDR2-667 support for yet another revision of their new chipsets even though the memory support is clearly here today?
sure why not? intel could be postponing on brining out their biggest guns for later on when it would be better to shoot them off, they might also want to see what the competition will do and bring out before they bring out their best, but on the same note, who knows what else Intel might be holding back? They might have some other amazing thing that they are waiting to spring on the public at an appropriate time...
isn't it convenient that it will work for way longer... and NASA will get more money? not to badmouth or anything, I personally think that NASA is a great agency for our country, and space is important, once we run out of resources we hopefully want to be able to go into space and get resources from other places, and NASA is definitely helping us out there, although other non government companies are doing things, space is a very expensive deal, and it is hard to do, which is why NASA needs so many resources. But it definitely would make sense if NASA underestimated purposefully just so that they could be able to impress, but that is just my opinion
I think that 1. it is really great that SOMEONE is doing something to help children in developing countries, people in the US get so much more exposure to technology (in general) than developing countries and it is really great to see a company try to help out the children and 2. I think it is great that they are using Linux, I personally think that for education and stuff like that Linux is way better, the only time I really need windows is for high performance games that neither WineX / Wine support, but in a school enviroment you dont need those kind of things so Linux is a great solution, stable, cheap, and lots of great free software
alright look, sure you can now... but i am saying on a bigger scale, like being able to watch tv on a cell phone, through the towers... or webcasts, the fact is that the current system cant support a large number of people doing that... especially at higher qualities... so this new system is deifnitely an improvement over the status quo technologies, and it will be useful, because even 3 times the speed of dialup, or 10, or 20, isn't adequate for high quality video, once again, just my opinion
ok... I know that everyone likes broadband, and I think that this idea is pretty cool, but in all reality, being practical, you need to consider the fact that you generally won't need broadband on today's cell phones, but... in the future it will be useful, cell phones in the future may have the ability to stream video to a nifty little screen, or audio files, or who knows what, so setting up this technology as a framework for others to build on in the future is not a bad idea, it probably wont hurt anything... and another thing to consider is that as the services that cell phone providers offer increase, which is happening right now: 1. more and more people will use the services and 2. the features themselves will take up more bandwidth. So, for both of these cases, having a system like this will help.
just my two cents
...but the UN tends to be generally ignored by lots of countries... especially the US, want an example?
Bush: Hey UN, can we go to Iraq?
UN: No
Bush: Duly noted *promptly invades*
Even if the UN passes this, the US (which originates a good amount of the world's spam, probably won't want to do this, for lots of reasons, one being that the US likes to be unilateral now, and lots of people in congress and the like don't really like the UN, but this might spur the US to do its own plan which actually does stuff
its great that microsoft is trying to make windows more secure... but that's what they've been trying to do for a while, and it seems like a new exploit comes out every day that will allow people to do nasty things to your computer... although this is a step in the right direction, how many steps in the right direction does windows need to become reasonably secure? but don't get me wrong, I think it's great that they are trying to improve their security, and I commend them for at least putting in the effort, I am just wondering whether or not it will be enough... just my two cents
although one might see this as good, you have to wonder whether or not the extremely cheap products will be of good quality, not to say that they won't, but if they are significantly cheaper you have to be at least a bit wary... but hey this is great, because everyone will have to drop their prices to compete, meaning that all the buyers win on this... but you have to consider the companies who are currently selling their burners for high prices... what happens if they have to cut their prices in half to stay competitive? they could go under, which would be a bad thing..
yeah there are im clients that can be used for semi-secure conversations, like trillian and gaim, but the fact is that if someone with resources (like china) wants to break the code, then the code will get broken, its just that simple unfortunately, although it may take a while to do, with todays most modern and highpowered computers, you could easily crack a message perhaps even within a day. But the fact of the matter is that noone really cares, we have secure email, but almost noone actually bothers to encrypt their email do they? People allow emails with sensitive information to fly across the net, unencrpyted, and this happens all the time, my estimate is that at least 3/4 of all computer users dont know what encryption is past a rudimentary concept, and 9/10 of the remainder don't bother to actually use encryption although they know about it...
just my two cents
yeah i do agree with that, but dialup can be really extremely slow, sometimes it will work just fine, and be nowhere comparable, but other times it will be excessively and nastily slow, not to bash on dialup or anything, but definitely what this article is talking about (the dialup friendly codecs) is a good thing, because however not bad dialup may be, it still ends up being awful at downloading media such as big images, and definitely audio / video.
well it isn't really pirate radio... i mean the signal goes all of 15-20 feet, so it's just for fun, you can't do anything significant with it besides amuse yourself and others
i really think it is great how versatile an ipod is... you can store pictures from memory cards, play music, record music, and now you can even broadcast music to piss people off, the possibilities are endless. Kudos to apple for making a great product
I remember back when I had dialup, it totally sucked, it took me absolutely forever to download ANYTHING, I would read a magazine while I used the computer because it would take so long for pages to load... when I got broadband at home it was a very happy day... but lots of people I know still don't have broadband in their area, which is why I think it is nice for people to do things like this, but also I think you could use this for voice over ip...
just my two cents
This is a very cool thing heh.. but it isn't to be unexpected, as phpopengl was already made, but this new one looks great as well. But who knows what other things will come out... Look at all of these things that php can do here,there are a bunch of interesting and very useful mods, and more come out all the time. Also, take a look at that link, it gives you a good idea of what php can do (although there is much more than what is on that page).
Once you make the switch you never really want to go back. Linux and free OSs in general have so much more to offer. And it is all free. For example, I can go and talk to one of the developers for something in an IRC channel, and ask them for some help, and chances are they will help me (or say RTFM, which is commonly used as well). And you can get all sorts of things that are interesting, for example, if you get Debian then you can simply update all of your programs in a matter of minutes (depending on DL speed). And all of this is free, as opposed to paying hundreds of dollars for an OS that isn't even STABLE. Linux has so many good things about it that it is hard to list them all in one comment. But to anyone who might be considering getting started using Linux, just to try something other than Windows. I would recommend installing a LiveCD such as Knoppix or Gnoppix. You don't even have to install it, you can just boot off of it and have fully functioning Linux. Give it a shot.
I've actually seen something very similar to this before, I believe that they should be able to actually do this. At a local college near me I watched as the robotics team ran their robot through an obstacle course by having it follow a nice little line using an optical sensor... So I think this challenge will be possible, although not easy to do for one mile. But even if noone actually does claim the prize and finish... it is the fact that you learn something from the experience and hopefully that experience can be put to good use that's important... isn't it?
Yeah you've gotta love this, cool down your lap at the expense of frying your laptop...
Nice heat reducing lap pad: $50
Decent laptop: $2000
Frying your laptop because you used a stupid lap pad that blocks heat loss from the laptopl: Priceless
Couldn't resist
I personally love Gentoo, hopefully now that they won't have to pay taxes and get other benefits they will be able to give the Gentoo users a little bit more, although they've been doing a great job so far. And for people who don't know what Gentoo is, since it's pretty popular but not everyone knows about it. It is a Linux OS that compiles most packages (except for open office, unless you're crazy, like me). Take a look at it here.
Well yeah of course, wouldn't we all love 4 gigs of fast ram, but then you hit point 3. The money and the near uselessness. I love a huge ramdisk for doing operations as much as the next guy but it is kind of a waste, albeit a very cool waste.
Sure, but keep in mind that the hard-drive is in constant use by the OS and other things at the same time, it is highly unlikely that you are not doing absolutely anything in the way of hard-drive usage. And I'm not saying this from experience, I may be wrong, but 1. I think that it is unlikely that a normal hard-drive will perform AT FULL performance i.e. the full 16x and 2. I think that they used a raid for a reason. Just my two cents.
Basically to give a little summary for people who like having information condensed into a readable form... of things you should know about this technology...
1. Unless you have a smoking hard drive you're not gonna see 16X speeds (ATA hard drive? you wish)
2. Unless your PC is relatively fast as well, in addition to a good deal of RAM (as in their test system) it's also not going to happen.
3. And an IMPORTANT note: Don't get caught up in the craze of getting the newest thing, this will probably cost an unholy amount when it comes out, and the requirements will be really high, which will add to the price as well. I have a 4X DVDRW and although it isn't anywhere near as fast, I don't need godly system specs to use it. And neither do I need to drop anything else I'm doing. Also note that on a lesser system that they tested it with you will see significantly slower writing.
If you care to read then feel free to look: here,the official biography if you don't know a lot about alan turing, just thought it would come in handy for some people. And, he definitely did make some decent contributions to our world. Who knows what our world would be like without him, some of his contributions to code / code breaking were very important, read the short biography on the site above, it can't hurt.
Excuse me for saying that, sometimes C/C++ can be faster, and some times Java can be faster. It really depends on the application, and also the JDK. Sometimes C++ is faster and sometimes Java is faster, from my own benchmarks, and from others I have seen. There seems to be a lot of contradiction.
I would definitely recommend trying this sometime, if you don't have a great router (like I do at home *kicks his netgear*) then you can use something like this to watch things, you never know what kind of interesting things you might find (worms anyone?) I've actually found a few odd things using this, such as a windows worm on one of my Windows boxes that I wasn't aware of and that was scanning my whole network. So consider using one of these, you never know what you might find. And kudos on the directions, they are very well done.
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Could it be that Intel is keeping DDR2-667 support for yet another revision of their new chipsets even though the memory support is clearly here today?
sure why not? intel could be postponing on brining out their biggest guns for later on when it would be better to shoot them off, they might also want to see what the competition will do and bring out before they bring out their best, but on the same note, who knows what else Intel might be holding back? They might have some other amazing thing that they are waiting to spring on the public at an appropriate time...
isn't it convenient that it will work for way longer... and NASA will get more money? not to badmouth or anything, I personally think that NASA is a great agency for our country, and space is important, once we run out of resources we hopefully want to be able to go into space and get resources from other places, and NASA is definitely helping us out there, although other non government companies are doing things, space is a very expensive deal, and it is hard to do, which is why NASA needs so many resources. But it definitely would make sense if NASA underestimated purposefully just so that they could be able to impress, but that is just my opinion
I think that 1. it is really great that SOMEONE is doing something to help children in developing countries, people in the US get so much more exposure to technology (in general) than developing countries and it is really great to see a company try to help out the children and 2. I think it is great that they are using Linux, I personally think that for education and stuff like that Linux is way better, the only time I really need windows is for high performance games that neither WineX / Wine support, but in a school enviroment you dont need those kind of things so Linux is a great solution, stable, cheap, and lots of great free software
alright look, sure you can now... but i am saying on a bigger scale, like being able to watch tv on a cell phone, through the towers... or webcasts, the fact is that the current system cant support a large number of people doing that... especially at higher qualities... so this new system is deifnitely an improvement over the status quo technologies, and it will be useful, because even 3 times the speed of dialup, or 10, or 20, isn't adequate for high quality video, once again, just my opinion
ok... I know that everyone likes broadband, and I think that this idea is pretty cool, but in all reality, being practical, you need to consider the fact that you generally won't need broadband on today's cell phones, but... in the future it will be useful, cell phones in the future may have the ability to stream video to a nifty little screen, or audio files, or who knows what, so setting up this technology as a framework for others to build on in the future is not a bad idea, it probably wont hurt anything... and another thing to consider is that as the services that cell phone providers offer increase, which is happening right now: 1. more and more people will use the services and 2. the features themselves will take up more bandwidth. So, for both of these cases, having a system like this will help. just my two cents
...but the UN tends to be generally ignored by lots of countries... especially the US, want an example?
Bush: Hey UN, can we go to Iraq?
UN: No
Bush: Duly noted *promptly invades*
Even if the UN passes this, the US (which originates a good amount of the world's spam, probably won't want to do this, for lots of reasons, one being that the US likes to be unilateral now, and lots of people in congress and the like don't really like the UN, but this might spur the US to do its own plan which actually does stuff
its great that microsoft is trying to make windows more secure... but that's what they've been trying to do for a while, and it seems like a new exploit comes out every day that will allow people to do nasty things to your computer... although this is a step in the right direction, how many steps in the right direction does windows need to become reasonably secure? but don't get me wrong, I think it's great that they are trying to improve their security, and I commend them for at least putting in the effort, I am just wondering whether or not it will be enough... just my two cents
although one might see this as good, you have to wonder whether or not the extremely cheap products will be of good quality, not to say that they won't, but if they are significantly cheaper you have to be at least a bit wary... but hey this is great, because everyone will have to drop their prices to compete, meaning that all the buyers win on this... but you have to consider the companies who are currently selling their burners for high prices... what happens if they have to cut their prices in half to stay competitive? they could go under, which would be a bad thing..
yeah there are im clients that can be used for semi-secure conversations, like trillian and gaim, but the fact is that if someone with resources (like china) wants to break the code, then the code will get broken, its just that simple unfortunately, although it may take a while to do, with todays most modern and highpowered computers, you could easily crack a message perhaps even within a day. But the fact of the matter is that noone really cares, we have secure email, but almost noone actually bothers to encrypt their email do they? People allow emails with sensitive information to fly across the net, unencrpyted, and this happens all the time, my estimate is that at least 3/4 of all computer users dont know what encryption is past a rudimentary concept, and 9/10 of the remainder don't bother to actually use encryption although they know about it... just my two cents
yeah i do agree with that, but dialup can be really extremely slow, sometimes it will work just fine, and be nowhere comparable, but other times it will be excessively and nastily slow, not to bash on dialup or anything, but definitely what this article is talking about (the dialup friendly codecs) is a good thing, because however not bad dialup may be, it still ends up being awful at downloading media such as big images, and definitely audio / video.
well it isn't really pirate radio... i mean the signal goes all of 15-20 feet, so it's just for fun, you can't do anything significant with it besides amuse yourself and others
i really think it is great how versatile an ipod is... you can store pictures from memory cards, play music, record music, and now you can even broadcast music to piss people off, the possibilities are endless. Kudos to apple for making a great product
I remember back when I had dialup, it totally sucked, it took me absolutely forever to download ANYTHING, I would read a magazine while I used the computer because it would take so long for pages to load... when I got broadband at home it was a very happy day... but lots of people I know still don't have broadband in their area, which is why I think it is nice for people to do things like this, but also I think you could use this for voice over ip... just my two cents
This is a very cool thing heh.. but it isn't to be unexpected, as phpopengl was already made, but this new one looks great as well. But who knows what other things will come out... Look at all of these things that php can do here ,there are a bunch of interesting and very useful mods, and more come out all the time. Also, take a look at that link, it gives you a good idea of what php can do (although there is much more than what is on that page).
Once you make the switch you never really want to go back. Linux and free OSs in general have so much more to offer. And it is all free. For example, I can go and talk to one of the developers for something in an IRC channel, and ask them for some help, and chances are they will help me (or say RTFM, which is commonly used as well). And you can get all sorts of things that are interesting, for example, if you get Debian then you can simply update all of your programs in a matter of minutes (depending on DL speed). And all of this is free, as opposed to paying hundreds of dollars for an OS that isn't even STABLE. Linux has so many good things about it that it is hard to list them all in one comment. But to anyone who might be considering getting started using Linux, just to try something other than Windows. I would recommend installing a LiveCD such as Knoppix or Gnoppix. You don't even have to install it, you can just boot off of it and have fully functioning Linux. Give it a shot.
I've actually seen something very similar to this before, I believe that they should be able to actually do this. At a local college near me I watched as the robotics team ran their robot through an obstacle course by having it follow a nice little line using an optical sensor... So I think this challenge will be possible, although not easy to do for one mile. But even if noone actually does claim the prize and finish... it is the fact that you learn something from the experience and hopefully that experience can be put to good use that's important... isn't it?
Check out some of these sites:
Nano Dot Article
Tech Review
A neat simulation
WordIQ
These all do a good deal to help explain / show you some interesting things. Give them a look-see.
Yeah you've gotta love this, cool down your lap at the expense of frying your laptop... Nice heat reducing lap pad: $50 Decent laptop: $2000 Frying your laptop because you used a stupid lap pad that blocks heat loss from the laptopl: Priceless Couldn't resist
I personally love Gentoo, hopefully now that they won't have to pay taxes and get other benefits they will be able to give the Gentoo users a little bit more, although they've been doing a great job so far. And for people who don't know what Gentoo is, since it's pretty popular but not everyone knows about it. It is a Linux OS that compiles most packages (except for open office, unless you're crazy, like me). Take a look at it here.
Well yeah of course, wouldn't we all love 4 gigs of fast ram, but then you hit point 3. The money and the near uselessness. I love a huge ramdisk for doing operations as much as the next guy but it is kind of a waste, albeit a very cool waste.
Sure, but keep in mind that the hard-drive is in constant use by the OS and other things at the same time, it is highly unlikely that you are not doing absolutely anything in the way of hard-drive usage. And I'm not saying this from experience, I may be wrong, but 1. I think that it is unlikely that a normal hard-drive will perform AT FULL performance i.e. the full 16x and 2. I think that they used a raid for a reason. Just my two cents.
1. Unless you have a smoking hard drive you're not gonna see 16X speeds (ATA hard drive? you wish)
2. Unless your PC is relatively fast as well, in addition to a good deal of RAM (as in their test system) it's also not going to happen.
3. And an IMPORTANT note: Don't get caught up in the craze of getting the newest thing, this will probably cost an unholy amount when it comes out, and the requirements will be really high, which will add to the price as well. I have a 4X DVDRW and although it isn't anywhere near as fast, I don't need godly system specs to use it. And neither do I need to drop anything else I'm doing. Also note that on a lesser system that they tested it with you will see significantly slower writing.
Hope you found this helpful.
If you care to read then feel free to look: here,the official biography if you don't know a lot about alan turing, just thought it would come in handy for some people. And, he definitely did make some decent contributions to our world. Who knows what our world would be like without him, some of his contributions to code / code breaking were very important, read the short biography on the site above, it can't hurt.
Excuse me for saying that, sometimes C/C++ can be faster, and some times Java can be faster. It really depends on the application, and also the JDK. Sometimes C++ is faster and sometimes Java is faster, from my own benchmarks, and from others I have seen. There seems to be a lot of contradiction.
I would definitely recommend trying this sometime, if you don't have a great router (like I do at home *kicks his netgear*) then you can use something like this to watch things, you never know what kind of interesting things you might find (worms anyone?) I've actually found a few odd things using this, such as a windows worm on one of my Windows boxes that I wasn't aware of and that was scanning my whole network. So consider using one of these, you never know what you might find. And kudos on the directions, they are very well done.