I figure because the x86 instuction base, and the technology speed in general is too slow. If you have data that can transfer at nearly 1GB/sec, how the hell is an x86 processor gonna handle the data?
Probably by pumping more electricity into it, and making a heatsink the size of a power supply
For example, prior to Firefox's release and initial succes. Microsoft was going to use a patched version of IE 6 in longhorn. After firefox they finally decided on making an IE 7.
I just hope this time it can be removed.
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Dupe? no
However, this article has been posted on Wired since Friday. So I thought it was a dupe at first, the realized that It's just that I had RTFA already.
x86 won't be around for 100 years.... No way. That would be too limiting. With recent advances in optical storage (I don't mean bluray, I mean optical "chips" that resemble star treks Isolinear technology) x86 won't be able to keep up.
Hell, if Intel's processors get any warmer, I'm going to get the gas cut off and let the computer warm the house.
We need to advance to 64, or 128 bit technology to be able to keep up with other technologies. Cell seems like a logical next step after reading this post a few days ago (hehe dupes) I see alot of advantages. Can you imagine if your bittorrent client could use one or two APU's and leave the others for other tasks. You could manage alot more connections without slowing down the computer....
In most FPS games (Doom, Quake, et al.) you're the only surviving person that can take out the entire army (legion of hell whatever) so they wouldn't be used to working in teams, they'd be better alone anyway.
This is/. remember? The article doesn't have to make sense, or even be in a language anyone knows. It just needs to be able to handle the/. effect and it will get posted.
My favorite sites..... http://www.lokitorrent.com/ - Requires Free Reg, I've got no spam from this (yet.) http://www.bi-torrent.com/index.htm - Was a suprnova.org mirror, now is laid out similar (categories and such) to suprnova. http://www.isohunt.com/ - classic from the days of IRC, still searches IRC as well http://www.packetnews.com - another from IRC, does both IRC and torrent now. http://www.torrentreactor.net/index.php - Been using it for a while. Pretty complete list of things available.
Well, it's interesting that you say that. I (unfortunately) repair computers at Best Buy (in Canada) and we have a fair amount of people come in that want to use their computer for editing home movies. I didn't have time to RTFA but if it is designed for watching HD movies and movie editing, there is a market for that, it may be a small percentage of Joe Average's that want it, but they are there.
How many times do we need to see reviews on ANY anti-spyware programs. NONE of them get rid of all spyware!!!!!!!!!!!
I'm going to point to a review that was on/. a while ago please check it out. It seems from the review that Giant AntiSpyware was this best in this review. Odd, how about 2 weeks later Microsoft has an AS program, that looks like Giants. Oh wait, MS bought Giant Company. Oddly enough it's the same product. I wonder if the reviewer in this article would have gave it a better review if it still siad "Giant" instead of "Microsoft."
I for one am not a fan of Mr. Gates, or MS, but this is still a quality product. I've been using Giant AS for a while and and a change in name doesn't change the product. Well, not yet anyway.
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Interesting...
At 128 kbps, it can deliver 5.1 channel surround sound.
See, the funny thing is. Ogg-vorbis supports 5.1, I just can't find an encoder that will use it. And you can encode 5.1 at any bitrate since it uses that bitrate/channel when encoding in more the 2 channel setups.
By the way, if you know of an ogg encoder that will support 5.1 let me know, I don't want to develop it myself, I don't have time.
Interesting... especially as a Canadian who was taught "Canadian" french, which has alot of english words, or variants, mixed in. While if we found a European French-English dictionary it was a totally different word. (Lost a few marks on tests for that one.)
I think so Brain, but how we gonna get a hippo in a speedo? </pinky> Or... the episode that scared me...... <pinky>YESSSSS!</pinky>
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Just remember, 84% of all statistics are made up. But only 62% of the population knows this.;-)
But seriously, you can make statistics say anything. apparently 85% of grads at the college I went to get jobs in thier field. Unfortunatly I keep in touch with about 20% of my graduating class. (10-12 ppl) and 3 of us are programming professionally.
I tried Canon, been an HP user ever since. "Why?" you may ask.
Simple. Yes the ink Cartridges are more expensive, but less ink is wasted on maintenance tasks. With the print head built on to the cartridge it needs little if any cleaning because by the time it starts to get clogged, the cartridge is empty. Throw away, and buy new.
With the Canon, I had to clean the print head 3 times using over one-third of a cartridge to clean the head enough to print one document that was 3 pages long.
So in the long run the TCO of a Canon is higher. And the print quality is lower. So tell me... why try Canon?
That said, I don't agree with this move either, it seems stupid to me, but I thought I'd save some people the money in telling them not to try canon
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Well... Lets see... First off... There was a time that I had heard of linux, but never used it. And in those days I spent a better part of a month reading about the different distrobutions. I finally settled on setting up Mandrake 7.1, dual booting with my comfortable windows.
I am still no expert with linux, however I'm comfortable enough with it for most tasks. But a book like this may help me learn more about linux in general to go from a basic Luser, to power user.
That isn't remotely the case. I know plenty of people who have bought DVDs of movies they liked after they downloaded them.
I'm among those that buy the movie afterwards. Mostly I use BT for TV shows (hey I'm alowed to tape it and transfer it to my computer, what's the difference.) Movies without renting before I buy (they don't need my money twice.) And Linux distro's and applications which are (usually) under the GPL. If it's not it's a similar freely distributable license.
Besides that, a $10 donation once for free movies/games/appz is better then buying every movie (as the cheapskates that don't support the movis etc.. would see it)
There is a 1 in 1,000,000 chance that someone on the same plane as you has a bomb.
There is a 1 in 25,000,000,000 that two people on the same plane have a bomb.
So always take a bomb with you on the plane, then you're pretty sure you're safe.
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I figure because the x86 instuction base, and the technology speed in general is too slow. If you have data that can transfer at nearly 1GB/sec, how the hell is an x86 processor gonna handle the data?
Probably by pumping more electricity into it, and making a heatsink the size of a power supply
But you see, Competition stems Innovation.
For example, prior to Firefox's release and initial succes. Microsoft was going to use a patched version of IE 6 in longhorn. After firefox they finally decided on making an IE 7.
I just hope this time it can be removed.
Dupe? no
However, this article has been posted on Wired since Friday. So I thought it was a dupe at first, the realized that It's just that I had RTFA already.
x86 won't be around for 100 years.... No way. That would be too limiting. With recent advances in optical storage (I don't mean bluray, I mean optical "chips" that resemble star treks Isolinear technology) x86 won't be able to keep up.
Hell, if Intel's processors get any warmer, I'm going to get the gas cut off and let the computer warm the house.
We need to advance to 64, or 128 bit technology to be able to keep up with other technologies. Cell seems like a logical next step after reading this post a few days ago (hehe dupes) I see alot of advantages. Can you imagine if your bittorrent client could use one or two APU's and leave the others for other tasks. You could manage alot more connections without slowing down the computer....
LOL (really laughing)
;-)
I may do it just to see pictures of the parade.
You forgot one thing.
In most FPS games (Doom, Quake, et al.) you're the only surviving person that can take out the entire army (legion of hell whatever) so they wouldn't be used to working in teams, they'd be better alone anyway.
This is /. remember? The article doesn't have to make sense, or even be in a language anyone knows. It just needs to be able to handle the /. effect and it will get posted.
My favorite sites.....
http://www.lokitorrent.com/ - Requires Free Reg, I've got no spam from this (yet.)
http://www.bi-torrent.com/index.htm - Was a suprnova.org mirror, now is laid out similar (categories and such) to suprnova.
http://www.isohunt.com/ - classic from the days of IRC, still searches IRC as well
http://www.packetnews.com - another from IRC, does both IRC and torrent now.
http://www.torrentreactor.net/index.php - Been using it for a while. Pretty complete list of things available.
How many times do we need to see reviews on ANY anti-spyware programs. NONE of them get rid of all spyware!!!!!!!!!!!
/. a while ago please check it out. It seems from the review that Giant AntiSpyware was this best in this review. Odd, how about 2 weeks later Microsoft has an AS program, that looks like Giants. Oh wait, MS bought Giant Company. Oddly enough it's the same product. I wonder if the reviewer in this article would have gave it a better review if it still siad "Giant" instead of "Microsoft."
I'm going to point to a review that was on
I for one am not a fan of Mr. Gates, or MS, but this is still a quality product. I've been using Giant AS for a while and and a change in name doesn't change the product. Well, not yet anyway.
By the way, if you know of an ogg encoder that will support 5.1 let me know, I don't want to develop it myself, I don't have time.
Interesting... especially as a Canadian who was taught "Canadian" french, which has alot of english words, or variants, mixed in. While if we found a European French-English dictionary it was a totally different word. (Lost a few marks on tests for that one.)
I think so Brain, but how we gonna get a hippo in a speedo?
</pinky>
Or... the episode that scared me......
<pinky>YESSSSS!</pinky>
Just remember, 84% of all statistics are made up. But only 62% of the population knows this. ;-)
But seriously, you can make statistics say anything. apparently 85% of grads at the college I went to get jobs in thier field. Unfortunatly I keep in touch with about 20% of my graduating class. (10-12 ppl) and 3 of us are programming professionally.
I tried Canon, been an HP user ever since. "Why?" you may ask.
Simple. Yes the ink Cartridges are more expensive, but less ink is wasted on maintenance tasks. With the print head built on to the cartridge it needs little if any cleaning because by the time it starts to get clogged, the cartridge is empty. Throw away, and buy new.
With the Canon, I had to clean the print head 3 times using over one-third of a cartridge to clean the head enough to print one document that was 3 pages long.
So in the long run the TCO of a Canon is higher. And the print quality is lower. So tell me... why try Canon?
That said, I don't agree with this move either, it seems stupid to me, but I thought I'd save some people the money in telling them not to try canon
Well... Lets see... First off... There was a time that I had heard of linux, but never used it. And in those days I spent a better part of a month reading about the different distrobutions. I finally settled on setting up Mandrake 7.1, dual booting with my comfortable windows.
I am still no expert with linux, however I'm comfortable enough with it for most tasks. But a book like this may help me learn more about linux in general to go from a basic Luser, to power user.
This sounds like the voice of experience here.
I wanna set this straight...
"I mean, c'mon, he's obviously over-compensating for something" - Shrek
Seroiusly tho, the only reason I can think of is bragging rights.
Besides that, a $10 donation once for free movies/games/appz is better then buying every movie (as the cheapskates that don't support the movis etc.. would see it)
Ok, but i'm gonna be the 2nd to say it...
And i'm only saying good riddance instead of something else because this is a family site
IIRC you're correct. Had to brush up on older technology when I broke down to get my A+ a short while back. (Like I remember IRQs anymore)
Alright.... to parent, and grandparent post. After the day I had... thanks for the laugh, I needed that badly.
I was showing flawed logic in the parents post. So yes it's made up numbers, but still a funny thought. ;-)
Similar logic to ...
There is a 1 in 1,000,000 chance that someone on the same plane as you has a bomb.
There is a 1 in 25,000,000,000 that two people on the same plane have a bomb.
So always take a bomb with you on the plane, then you're pretty sure you're safe.