the Internet is media, yes, but it is NOT Hollywood. Hollywood does not have a hold on the term entertainment, and they aren't the only players in "entertainment media".
Here's a good article about it by/.'s favorite John Dvorak.
well, the round off error for pi on a galactic scale is 3. You need to use a galactic scale of numbers when talking about the storage and memory needs of Vista. So, 16400 is a close enough approximation for 16384. Really, I don't know why they didn't round off to 20k.
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If at first you don't succeed, you fail. -GLaDOS (Portal from Valve Software)
I've noticed that very very few hardware updates from Microsoft work properly. Certainly, any of the mainstream graphics, audio, or modem/NIC cards that are listed should NOT be installed. Actually, I'm trying to remember a time when I used the hardware update which I didn't have to go and look up the manufacturer's website for a working driver.
Don't know if you check your previous posts, but if you see my reply, send me an e-mail. Google my name and you'll find me easily. Wow! can you ever find stuff about me. That's rather scary.
1. OOo doesn't handle graphics position and wrapping the same as MS Word. That may be okay, but we're still living on a.doc world, and when you can't load a.doc that has graphics because the pics get placed in random areas on a page, that's bad.
I only use OOo, though, and FOSS whenever possible.
Not necessarily, I've seen up to 256MB with the latest motherboards with IGP. But certainly, the older boards with IGP generally maxed at 64MB. (and then really old boards, 7+ y/o boards, maxed at 8MB if you were lucky.)
Perhaps, it is because HAD Apple gained the marketshare that Microsoft did, not only would we have closed software, we would also have closed hardware.
While Apple certainly has an extremely creative group of engineers, would we have as much choice and innovation as we do now for hardware if 80+% of the market went with Apple? I think not. This is where the "even worse" comes in, it is in the possibility of what might have happened.
If the adapter is built onto the motherboard, are you sure it is not sharing physical memory? You have 1024MB RAM, 256 being used by graphics, so OS has 768MB to work with.
Of course, there are some boards out there with onboard graphics chipset with dedicated memory, but those are few and fairly expensive.
Still, as others have mentioned, even with onboard graphics, it is still using a bus, likely a PCI-E or AGP bus.
So it comes down to these two options.
a. The government of the US can create almost magical technology and then is stupid enough to use it in this manner.
or
b. Someone at a anti-war protest thinks they see robotic spy bug and tells other like minded people that they saw a spy bug who are then sure they saw a spy bug......
According to several Discover channel and History channel shows, there are contractors working on insect spy technology. Stuff like dragonflies for air, roaches for the ground... whatever would make the most sense in a situation. So, this is not "almost magical technology".
But, I agree, there is probably a lot of "tin-foil hat" issues going on here.
But then you missed the best part. After informing the "Defendant's" attorney that they might try to sue the defendant in Canada, the attorney responded:
Instead of suing in Canada, why not bring suit in Tashkent? At least you'd get an exotic trip out of it...
There were some other good tidbits at the end of the letter, too.
A non-dual core 3GHz processor is actually much better than, say a 4GHz (2x2GHz) dual core processor, as far as gaming is concerned. I know of only one game that actually uses dual core. Your system sounds fine. Yeah, the lack of PCI-E is a bummer, but your graphics card is nice.
Which brings this to my question, which I think is more important than the one asked by MTV: Does this mean Bungie can make Halo for other systems, such as the PS3 or Wii(iiii)? But I'm more interested in decent PC ports. My bag is all things Half-Life.
/I've already got my Orange Box set
//Can't wait for Portal, that looks wild.
///Still a little peeved I had to repurchase HL2 in the box set... I already bought it once! (still, can't beat 5 games for the price of 1 console game).
I don't know... looking at your UID,/. now has over 1 million registered users. How many more are not registered? At what size does a population need to be to qualify for "general public"
I would agree that actually becoming motivated enough to post on/. would make you not "general public". But we have all sorts here, not just the tech heads.
I'm surprised you even let them do the alignment. When your BS meter goes off, who knows what else they may screw up.
As PC tech, (own my own 2 employee home computer business), I find there are a lot of parallels with other service repair industries. People don't know that much about their computers and if you tell them they need to buy a 10 tube of HDD grease to keep it cool, they just might believe you. I sell hardware for a profit, but it usually isn't more than 15% above my cost. They pay me for the time. And usually, I'm not charging straight time. There's no reason why I should charge for the full 1 or 2 hours of a WinXP SP2 update when I'm sitting on the couch watching a movie.
Also, being able to explain tech in a non-geek way goes a long way toward trust and repeat business.
Just because the dog barked at the airplane doesn't mean the dog scared the airplane off. Who's to say that the ozone hole is not a natural phenomenon getting larger and smaller throughout the years. Unless I'm mistaken (and I just might be) we don't have any data describing the ozone layer for thousands or hundreds of years. And in the grand scheme of the world, tens of years is not enough to get a good picture.
Granted, this article might be biased and a way for the author to say "See, the ozone hype of the 80's is the same as the global cooling hype of the 70's, so, guess what, global warming of the 90's and 2000's is also just that, hype and bunk. I tend to agree that the world, though it may be getting warmer, is a natural process and not something humans can affect to a great degree. (Sure, we can do stuff to improve air quality and trash disposal, and we should do that stuff, but the world can take care of itself.)
So, are you suggesting that/. should re-colorize the site? Everything shades of PINK! (screams like a little girly-man).
/Sorry, just adopted a baby girl and my wife and I have received a whole lot of pink. (Neither of us are too fond of it.):p
//We are grateful for the gifts. (I'm not trying to be ungrateful with the above statement.)
I'm wondering if Microsoft wants anything to be interoperable. We practically have to pull strings to get different version of MS Office to work with itself. XP and Vista have serious issues when sharing resources (such as printers). Vista network and audio step on each other for performance. These are just a few examples of Microsoft's own products.
Again, I completely agree. The hardware is way ahead of the software. Fortunately, the video editing software I use does make use of the multi-cores (and it's a joy to watch the CPU performance meter peg at 80% on each 2.2GHz core). And Windows XP does have the ability to tie certain processes to a certain core (right click on a process in Task Manager, make the process Affinity choose a specific core).
I'm sure there are some kernel stuff that should go into Windows and Linux to optimize core usage better than it is now.
being a computer-using professional (web-devver) you should know the multi-cores can be useful. Have all background tasks (such as AVG and ZoneAlarm) run on one core, your video editing run on two other cores, and any other programs run on the fourth. Or have your development studio/compiler run on one core and the website/testsite run on another core, have your test SQL server run on another... but, yea, you probably knew that. (Of course, don't forget to run your music player on one of those cores.)
I completely agree, for the average professional, one core, P-IV, at 1.5GHz with 512MB RAM is enough for anyone.
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mod the above insightful. Just because someone downloaded it, does not mean they would have purchased it if the download was not available.
the Internet is media, yes, but it is NOT Hollywood. Hollywood does not have a hold on the term entertainment, and they aren't the only players in "entertainment media".
/.'s favorite John Dvorak.
Here's a good article about it by
a new favorite quote: If at first you don't succeed, you fail. -GLaDOS
well, the round off error for pi on a galactic scale is 3. You need to use a galactic scale of numbers when talking about the storage and memory needs of Vista. So, 16400 is a close enough approximation for 16384. Really, I don't know why they didn't round off to 20k. ---- If at first you don't succeed, you fail. -GLaDOS (Portal from Valve Software)
I've noticed that very very few hardware updates from Microsoft work properly. Certainly, any of the mainstream graphics, audio, or modem/NIC cards that are listed should NOT be installed. Actually, I'm trying to remember a time when I used the hardware update which I didn't have to go and look up the manufacturer's website for a working driver.
Don't know if you check your previous posts, but if you see my reply, send me an e-mail. Google my name and you'll find me easily. Wow! can you ever find stuff about me. That's rather scary.
And the bubble grew extraordinarily large during the Clinton years, only to start crashing just before the Bush years.
Off-topic, but here's my one.
.doc world, and when you can't load a .doc that has graphics because the pics get placed in random areas on a page, that's bad.
1. OOo doesn't handle graphics position and wrapping the same as MS Word. That may be okay, but we're still living on a
I only use OOo, though, and FOSS whenever possible.
Not necessarily, I've seen up to 256MB with the latest motherboards with IGP. But certainly, the older boards with IGP generally maxed at 64MB. (and then really old boards, 7+ y/o boards, maxed at 8MB if you were lucky.)
Perhaps, it is because HAD Apple gained the marketshare that Microsoft did, not only would we have closed software, we would also have closed hardware.
/Won't somebody please think of the games?!
While Apple certainly has an extremely creative group of engineers, would we have as much choice and innovation as we do now for hardware if 80+% of the market went with Apple? I think not. This is where the "even worse" comes in, it is in the possibility of what might have happened.
If the adapter is built onto the motherboard, are you sure it is not sharing physical memory? You have 1024MB RAM, 256 being used by graphics, so OS has 768MB to work with.
Of course, there are some boards out there with onboard graphics chipset with dedicated memory, but those are few and fairly expensive.
Still, as others have mentioned, even with onboard graphics, it is still using a bus, likely a PCI-E or AGP bus.
a. The government of the US can create almost magical technology and then is stupid enough to use it in this manner.
or
b. Someone at a anti-war protest thinks they see robotic spy bug and tells other like minded people that they saw a spy bug who are then sure they saw a spy bug......
According to several Discover channel and History channel shows, there are contractors working on insect spy technology. Stuff like dragonflies for air, roaches for the ground... whatever would make the most sense in a situation. So, this is not "almost magical technology". But, I agree, there is probably a lot of "tin-foil hat" issues going on here.
But then you missed the best part. After informing the "Defendant's" attorney that they might try to sue the defendant in Canada, the attorney responded:
Instead of suing in Canada, why not bring suit in Tashkent? At least you'd get an exotic trip out of it...
There were some other good tidbits at the end of the letter, too.
A non-dual core 3GHz processor is actually much better than, say a 4GHz (2x2GHz) dual core processor, as far as gaming is concerned. I know of only one game that actually uses dual core. Your system sounds fine. Yeah, the lack of PCI-E is a bummer, but your graphics card is nice.
Which brings this to my question, which I think is more important than the one asked by MTV: Does this mean Bungie can make Halo for other systems, such as the PS3 or Wii(iiii)? But I'm more interested in decent PC ports. My bag is all things Half-Life.
/I've already got my Orange Box set
//Can't wait for Portal, that looks wild.
///Still a little peeved I had to repurchase HL2 in the box set... I already bought it once!
(still, can't beat 5 games for the price of 1 console game).
I don't know... looking at your UID, /. now has over 1 million registered users. How many more are not registered? At what size does a population need to be to qualify for "general public"
/. would make you not "general public". But we have all sorts here, not just the tech heads.
I would agree that actually becoming motivated enough to post on
I'm surprised you even let them do the alignment. When your BS meter goes off, who knows what else they may screw up.
As PC tech, (own my own 2 employee home computer business), I find there are a lot of parallels with other service repair industries. People don't know that much about their computers and if you tell them they need to buy a 10 tube of HDD grease to keep it cool, they just might believe you. I sell hardware for a profit, but it usually isn't more than 15% above my cost. They pay me for the time. And usually, I'm not charging straight time. There's no reason why I should charge for the full 1 or 2 hours of a WinXP SP2 update when I'm sitting on the couch watching a movie.
Also, being able to explain tech in a non-geek way goes a long way toward trust and repeat business.
Just because the dog barked at the airplane doesn't mean the dog scared the airplane off. Who's to say that the ozone hole is not a natural phenomenon getting larger and smaller throughout the years. Unless I'm mistaken (and I just might be) we don't have any data describing the ozone layer for thousands or hundreds of years. And in the grand scheme of the world, tens of years is not enough to get a good picture.
Granted, this article might be biased and a way for the author to say "See, the ozone hype of the 80's is the same as the global cooling hype of the 70's, so, guess what, global warming of the 90's and 2000's is also just that, hype and bunk. I tend to agree that the world, though it may be getting warmer, is a natural process and not something humans can affect to a great degree. (Sure, we can do stuff to improve air quality and trash disposal, and we should do that stuff, but the world can take care of itself.)
Seriously... $2000? I'd expect at least one extra 0 on the end of that.
So, are you suggesting that /. should re-colorize the site? Everything shades of PINK! (screams like a little girly-man).
/Sorry, just adopted a baby girl and my wife and I have received a whole lot of pink. (Neither of us are too fond of it.) :p
//We are grateful for the gifts. (I'm not trying to be ungrateful with the above statement.)
I'm wondering if Microsoft wants anything to be interoperable. We practically have to pull strings to get different version of MS Office to work with itself. XP and Vista have serious issues when sharing resources (such as printers). Vista network and audio step on each other for performance. These are just a few examples of Microsoft's own products.
Perhaps argoUML? Granted, I don't think it saves Visio compatible files.
Again, I completely agree. The hardware is way ahead of the software. Fortunately, the video editing software I use does make use of the multi-cores (and it's a joy to watch the CPU performance meter peg at 80% on each 2.2GHz core). And Windows XP does have the ability to tie certain processes to a certain core (right click on a process in Task Manager, make the process Affinity choose a specific core).
I'm sure there are some kernel stuff that should go into Windows and Linux to optimize core usage better than it is now.
being a computer-using professional (web-devver) you should know the multi-cores can be useful. Have all background tasks (such as AVG and ZoneAlarm) run on one core, your video editing run on two other cores, and any other programs run on the fourth. Or have your development studio/compiler run on one core and the website/testsite run on another core, have your test SQL server run on another... but, yea, you probably knew that. (Of course, don't forget to run your music player on one of those cores.)
I completely agree, for the average professional, one core, P-IV, at 1.5GHz with 512MB RAM is enough for anyone.
First thing I thought of when I saw Strider and tripod in the headline.