Call me anti-Microsoft, fanboy, zealot if you will but, I find it seriously hard to believe that they were having trouble getting DirectX 10 to work at a decent speed on Xp, an operationg system that hogs probably half as many resources as Vista will. Theres no reason given in the article why it should run faster on Vista it just says there is one.
No its called a loss leader, it's a common practice among the likes of walmart, and other large corporations. The supreme court has ruled that loss leaders are not unconstitional, A big mistake if you ask me. Actually many countries allow loss leaders, the most notable example an exception of a democratic nation banning loss leaders is when Germany banned them a few years ago.
"Does a pill that turns an ADD patient into a "normal" person turn a normal person into a super person?"
As someone who was diagnosed wrongly with add and had in one period of my life taken ritalin, adderall, and other amphetamines for a decade of my life, I can assure myself that amphetamines made me more effective in school. What evidence do I have? I admit that it isn't very concrete but, my grades dramatically improved (I would skip doses somtimes because of the side effects). It wasn't hard to see a difference in my level of motivation but, I have mostly the empirical evidence of the experience. I would bet many things on the possibility that under the influence of amphetamines I can concentrate much more intently, retain information much more effectively, and it generally causes me to become more productive in mental tasks. It is really not a subtle thing. To me the idea that I might have been experiencing a placebo effect, or that I was falsely under the impression that any of the previously mentioned effects were anything less than real and caused by the amphetamines is not a possibility. If you want my opinion amphetamines can be a powerful nootropic. I credit them with raising my IQ at least 10 points, (probably 20 or more)(I was between the ages of 4 and 15 when I took amphetamines) I know this because there were thousands of occasions when I would have been playing a video game or watching tv but instead would spend all my time reading (this was way out of my nature). By the way, I hated amphetamines, they made me cold to the bone and antisocial, as well as putting me into a state of meloncholie. I also credit them with stunting my growth, as well as making me a more antisocial person today than I belive I would have been otherwise (I believe this is a risk that should be accociated with young children taking amphetamines, not everyone), it has taken me years to get over the resulting extreme tendencies towards introversian (that in turn resulted in an extreme deterioration of my extroversive tendencies). If I were presented the opportunity to decide if I had ever taken amphetamines in the past or not, I would seriously have to consider the former.
DXM is the sucessor to codeine, it is the stereo isomer (mirror image of) of levomethorphan (similar to codeine). While it is true that it is a dissociative it is also a opiate. A drug being an opiate does not necessitate that it acts the same way on the brain as codeine or morphine, in spite of the fact that opiates do seem to carry that false connatation.
"However currently we need to generate the information stream for a communications link electrically, and we're still limited by the electronics."
True
"Can you point me to an optical computer having more than 10^3 gates? 10^4? 10^5? Sure, Optical routers exist. But that's just switching. Not really computing."
Granted
"So, for something that's optical already, having a couple of optical gates comes in handy. But for computing it has yet to become useful."
Yes, "yet to become useful", my point exactly. There is still plenty of room to innovate.
"In the end, the 3D space, and its associated minimum latencies are going to kill Moore's law."
One day it will, I'm just not sure how soon it's going to happen.
"Electrical signals in wires travel (according to rough measurements I did about two decades ago) at about 0.3c (a third of the lightspeed). Light travels at 0.6c (in glass)."
The fact that the bits would get were they are going in an optical processor twice as fast as in a conventional processor (latency) is beside the point when you realize that photonic bits can be fit MUCH closer together than conventional electronic bits (more gigahertz) because photonic bits as opposed to conventional bits are hardly effected by beinging in close proximity to one another or even by occupying the same space at the same time as another photonic bit. Conventional bits on the other hand don't play so nicely together, and end up interfering with each other when packed to close together (frequency too high).
Thats not even necessary though. They already have devices that bend fiber optic cables just enough to be able to detect the light comeing out the side of the thing, then they passivly read everything that passes through. No splices at all.
"it's pretty obvious that we humans are moving enough energy and chemicals around to cause global-scale climate change"
It's not obvious to me, in fact its completely unappearent, perhaps you can tell me how much energy and chemicals we humans move each year, and how much of them it takes to change the climate on a global-scale. The climate is changeing all the time, come on. Like it or not, there is no way to know right now if global rises in temperature are a result of our pollution of the enviornment or if these effects are part of a typical cycle on earth and have little or nothing to do with us. Let me say this however, im not saying global warming isn't happening, just that no one knows for sure if it is or not. Precautions are good, and we should have contingency plans.
They should experience how the latest version of Microsoft Office can help them better manage documents, organize workload, and collaborate with coworkers--not just from their desk, but from almost anywhere! Why? So that their system will deliver the features, options, and performance they need to maximize their productivity and enjoyment, to insure that their software is authentic, properly licensed and supported by Microsoft or a trusted partner, so that they will get access to updates, enhancements, and innovations that help them protect and do more with their PC! In conclusion, If you don't believe that Microsoft Office has REAL Ultimate Power you better get a life right now or they will chop your head off!!! It's an easy choice, if you ask me.
I'll second that, the constitution was not written to be an all inclusive list of what we have the right to do. In America if theres not a law explicitly stateing you can't do something your free to do that something, until a law is written making doing that something illegal. I don't know of any laws against being paranoid, do you? Hence, being paranoid is most certainly a right here in America.
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Call me anti-Microsoft, fanboy, zealot if you will but, I find it seriously hard to believe that they were having trouble getting DirectX 10 to work at a decent speed on Xp, an operationg system that hogs probably half as many resources as Vista will. Theres no reason given in the article why it should run faster on Vista it just says there is one.
from wikipedia: Duh; The slang exclamation duh is used to express one's disapproval of the obviousness of something.
"questions such as how different it will be than DX9, why it will only be for Vista (and not for XP)"
Oh... I don't know... It couldn't be so people will buy vista.
Your ignoring the audiences that will buy both the HD-DVD and BlueRay version of the same movie
I'm afraid thats not entirely true. Under certain circumstances it is in fact illegal to sell things, domestically, below market value.
No its called a loss leader, it's a common practice among the likes of walmart, and other large corporations. The supreme court has ruled that loss leaders are not unconstitional, A big mistake if you ask me. Actually many countries allow loss leaders, the most notable example an exception of a democratic nation banning loss leaders is when Germany banned them a few years ago.
Oh great now there will be two drm laden piece of crap in my living room if I care to watch movies without worrying about the format.
Yes, but does it run Linux. Ok, you can mod me up now!
shut up.
ha basically
"Does a pill that turns an ADD patient into a "normal" person turn a normal person into a super person?"
As someone who was diagnosed wrongly with add and had in one period of my life taken ritalin, adderall, and other amphetamines for a decade of my life, I can assure myself that amphetamines made me more effective in school. What evidence do I have? I admit that it isn't very concrete but, my grades dramatically improved (I would skip doses somtimes because of the side effects). It wasn't hard to see a difference in my level of motivation but, I have mostly the empirical evidence of the experience. I would bet many things on the possibility that under the influence of amphetamines I can concentrate much more intently, retain information much more effectively, and it generally causes me to become more productive in mental tasks. It is really not a subtle thing. To me the idea that I might have been experiencing a placebo effect, or that I was falsely under the impression that any of the previously mentioned effects were anything less than real and caused by the amphetamines is not a possibility. If you want my opinion amphetamines can be a powerful nootropic. I credit them with raising my IQ at least 10 points, (probably 20 or more)(I was between the ages of 4 and 15 when I took amphetamines) I know this because there were thousands of occasions when I would have been playing a video game or watching tv but instead would spend all my time reading (this was way out of my nature). By the way, I hated amphetamines, they made me cold to the bone and antisocial, as well as putting me into a state of meloncholie. I also credit them with stunting my growth, as well as making me a more antisocial person today than I belive I would have been otherwise (I believe this is a risk that should be accociated with young children taking amphetamines, not everyone), it has taken me years to get over the resulting extreme tendencies towards introversian (that in turn resulted in an extreme deterioration of my extroversive tendencies). If I were presented the opportunity to decide if I had ever taken amphetamines in the past or not, I would seriously have to consider the former.
DXM is the sucessor to codeine, it is the stereo isomer (mirror image of) of levomethorphan (similar to codeine). While it is true that it is a dissociative it is also a opiate. A drug being an opiate does not necessitate that it acts the same way on the brain as codeine or morphine, in spite of the fact that opiates do seem to carry that false connatation.
"However currently we need to generate the information stream for a communications link electrically, and we're still limited by the electronics."
True
"Can you point me to an optical computer having more than 10^3 gates? 10^4? 10^5? Sure, Optical routers exist. But that's just switching. Not really computing."
Granted
"So, for something that's optical already, having a couple of optical gates comes in handy. But for computing it has yet to become useful."
Yes, "yet to become useful", my point exactly. There is still plenty of room to innovate.
"In the end, the 3D space, and its associated minimum latencies are going to kill Moore's law."
One day it will, I'm just not sure how soon it's going to happen.
"Electrical signals in wires travel (according to rough measurements I did about two decades ago) at about 0.3c (a third of the lightspeed). Light travels at 0.6c (in glass)."
The fact that the bits would get were they are going in an optical processor twice as fast as in a conventional processor (latency) is beside the point when you realize that photonic bits can be fit MUCH closer together than conventional electronic bits (more gigahertz) because photonic bits as opposed to conventional bits are hardly effected by beinging in close proximity to one another or even by occupying the same space at the same time as another photonic bit. Conventional bits on the other hand don't play so nicely together, and end up interfering with each other when packed to close together (frequency too high).
yes
Ha I read the same thing.
mod parent up
Thats not even necessary though. They already have devices that bend fiber optic cables just enough to be able to detect the light comeing out the side of the thing, then they passivly read everything that passes through. No splices at all.
thats 1.21 jiggawatts actually
"it's pretty obvious that we humans are moving enough energy and chemicals around to cause global-scale climate change" It's not obvious to me, in fact its completely unappearent, perhaps you can tell me how much energy and chemicals we humans move each year, and how much of them it takes to change the climate on a global-scale. The climate is changeing all the time, come on. Like it or not, there is no way to know right now if global rises in temperature are a result of our pollution of the enviornment or if these effects are part of a typical cycle on earth and have little or nothing to do with us. Let me say this however, im not saying global warming isn't happening, just that no one knows for sure if it is or not. Precautions are good, and we should have contingency plans.
PC optimization technologies? I wonder what they mean? Security optimization?
thx, even better :)
They should experience how the latest version of Microsoft Office can help them better manage documents, organize workload, and collaborate with coworkers--not just from their desk, but from almost anywhere! Why? So that their system will deliver the features, options, and performance they need to maximize their productivity and enjoyment, to insure that their software is authentic, properly licensed and supported by Microsoft or a trusted partner, so that they will get access to updates, enhancements, and innovations that help them protect and do more with their PC! In conclusion, If you don't believe that Microsoft Office has REAL Ultimate Power you better get a life right now or they will chop your head off!!! It's an easy choice, if you ask me.
Yes.
I'll second that, the constitution was not written to be an all inclusive list of what we have the right to do. In America if theres not a law explicitly stateing you can't do something your free to do that something, until a law is written making doing that something illegal. I don't know of any laws against being paranoid, do you? Hence, being paranoid is most certainly a right here in America.