The new heatsinks on my RAM gave me a +12FPS in HL2, but for a rather convoluted reason.
Basically, they let me shift heat away from the mobo (and hence the graphics card and CPU) fast enough (when combined with the big exhaust fans) to allow components to be overclocked without melting...
But yeah I do get your point. Mine is a really obscure example of why putting RAMsinks on helped, but people who just bolt on all manner of heat exchangers, use the latest funkily named thermal grease, and then claim they had a 500FPS increase in Doom 3 are taking it a bit far.
I quite agree. I know it's not quite as closed, but Napster only talks WMA, and only lets you use their music on newer players supporting the latest DRM. At least iPods are easily upgradeable to the latest version of FairPlay, I've known people with WMA players get screwed over with a DRM update on Napster.
What people also fail to grasp is that MHz make very little difference at all in most applications. My current machine has a 1.8GHz CPU (AMD if you must know) and beats the latest 3.6GHz into the ground. Why? Because the mobo is high quality, I've got oodles of fast RAM (God bless Crucial), my HDDs are fast...
Your processor can be as fast as you like but without the supporting hardware it does nothing special.
I can get it to boot from the iPod, but whenever I give the iPod a boot sector it then can't read the settings/music and hence needs restoring to factory before it plays music again.
It should be, but my PDA thinks it's a music player and my phone thinks it's my calendar and my iPod thinks it should be my contacts list.
And none of them do them well.
I either want a single device which does them all well, or my devices to do one thing and do that well. I would be quite content if my phone didn't try to offer me a bigger penis in between serving up music...
You mean unlike at the moment, where I believe it's a legal requirement to allow any phone attempting to connect to your network to dial an emergency number regardless of current status?
I know that in the UK phones *have* to let you call 999 and 112 (UK and EU emergency numbers) even without a pin, and technically without a SIM card. If you dial 999 from a mobile in the UK it should do its best to find any network to talk to, who IIRC are legally required to accept the call.
Shared Library actually works better than AirTunes in this regard - a shared library works irrespective of what each person is doing, unlike AirTunes where iTunes needs to do the work on one machine.
So, with shared library you can both listen to different things!
by design? Surely something with permission to index internal files (even those specified to give 403s etc) is inherently designed to make them available to view.
Either that, or it's a user error (configuration).
I doubt the system would send records anywhere. The hospital monitoring you would store your records, all the computer system monitoring you would need to do is send specific signals. Sending a single, encrypted chain of values for things like pulse rate is completely different from your home PC broadcasting your medical history.
Also, if the system knows what is 'normal' it could send a single code telling the hospital everything is perfectly alright.
No, there is one definitive 'Kilogram' which is kept in Paris, and then copies are made and shipped worldwide to save countires having to go to Paris to check their official weights. The copies are then compared to the one true kilogram every 10 or so years (dependant upon whether it's being used for a quest to save mankind at that point).
On a similar vein, all 'shuffles' in my music players are abysmal. The best I found was an application called SAM2, which is designed for webcasting, and was absolutely brilliant. No same artist within 30 minutes, no more than 3 tracks from an album in 2 hours, and it worked with ratings as well!
Perhaps Apple would care to realise that their 'star' ratings have more use than just excluding songs from playlists?
Hell, WMP recognises which songs you prefer at what times of the week. For a company so focused on perfection as Apple, it surprises me that this isn't standard in iTunes.
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The new heatsinks on my RAM gave me a +12FPS in HL2, but for a rather convoluted reason.
Basically, they let me shift heat away from the mobo (and hence the graphics card and CPU) fast enough (when combined with the big exhaust fans) to allow components to be overclocked without melting...
But yeah I do get your point. Mine is a really obscure example of why putting RAMsinks on helped, but people who just bolt on all manner of heat exchangers, use the latest funkily named thermal grease, and then claim they had a 500FPS increase in Doom 3 are taking it a bit far.
Open top computing for t3h win!
I quite agree. I know it's not quite as closed, but Napster only talks WMA, and only lets you use their music on newer players supporting the latest DRM. At least iPods are easily upgradeable to the latest version of FairPlay, I've known people with WMA players get screwed over with a DRM update on Napster.
No, trust me on this. I could do the same with a 1.8GHz P4 and a 3.6GHz AMD, and the 1.8 would still outperform the 3.6
What people also fail to grasp is that MHz make very little difference at all in most applications. My current machine has a 1.8GHz CPU (AMD if you must know) and beats the latest 3.6GHz into the ground. Why? Because the mobo is high quality, I've got oodles of fast RAM (God bless Crucial), my HDDs are fast...
Your processor can be as fast as you like but without the supporting hardware it does nothing special.
That's a Far Cry from Tolkien's vision. You'll have a lot of S.T.A.L.K.E.R.s for suggesting *that* one.
Really? I'm interested to see where Microsoft are taxing me on my current server (All components individually bought, running Gentoo Linux).
In fact, even my XP desktop is lacking in a Microsoft tax since I actually bought my copy seperate from the components.
And I believe XP actively tries to stop you booting into DOS using any diskette known to mankind... except the DOS 6 installer set :D
Quick fix for this:
Ctrl +
Ctrl -
Forces Firefox to re-render the page for you.
I can get it to boot from the iPod, but whenever I give the iPod a boot sector it then can't read the settings/music and hence needs restoring to factory before it plays music again.
How did you get it to be a bootable disk? I've been trying that for ages and acheived nothing but needing to restore it to factory settings.
Why no calendar? Because Outlook doesn't like talking standard formats.
But aside from that, your point still stands. I just want it to play my music though!
It should be, but my PDA thinks it's a music player and my phone thinks it's my calendar and my iPod thinks it should be my contacts list.
And none of them do them well.
I either want a single device which does them all well, or my devices to do one thing and do that well. I would be quite content if my phone didn't try to offer me a bigger penis in between serving up music...
You mean unlike at the moment, where I believe it's a legal requirement to allow any phone attempting to connect to your network to dial an emergency number regardless of current status?
I know that in the UK phones *have* to let you call 999 and 112 (UK and EU emergency numbers) even without a pin, and technically without a SIM card. If you dial 999 from a mobile in the UK it should do its best to find any network to talk to, who IIRC are legally required to accept the call.
Nor did the UK government invent titles. My point about uselessness still stands.
Shared Library actually works better than AirTunes in this regard - a shared library works irrespective of what each person is doing, unlike AirTunes where iTunes needs to do the work on one machine.
So, with shared library you can both listen to different things!
It's just the British. We have a big thing for pomp and ceremony, helps keep things moving.
I believe the US invented a lot of things along a similar vein - useless things given for no reason. The Oscars, for example.
by design? Surely something with permission to index internal files (even those specified to give 403s etc) is inherently designed to make them available to view.
Either that, or it's a user error (configuration).
I think you should have... what... but...
Dammit! A perfect Grammar Nazi!
I have the most unique ringtone around.
It is a recording of an old Bakerlite telephone. It goes "Ring Riiiiing.... Ring Riiiiing...."
Where in God's name are you pulling 122mb from?
Yes. If I wanted random play I would like a random button, but I want a shuffle play which has some logic to it.
I doubt the system would send records anywhere. The hospital monitoring you would store your records, all the computer system monitoring you would need to do is send specific signals. Sending a single, encrypted chain of values for things like pulse rate is completely different from your home PC broadcasting your medical history.
Also, if the system knows what is 'normal' it could send a single code telling the hospital everything is perfectly alright.
Still not sure about the trojans tho...
No, there is one definitive 'Kilogram' which is kept in Paris, and then copies are made and shipped worldwide to save countires having to go to Paris to check their official weights. The copies are then compared to the one true kilogram every 10 or so years (dependant upon whether it's being used for a quest to save mankind at that point).
On a similar vein, all 'shuffles' in my music players are abysmal. The best I found was an application called SAM2, which is designed for webcasting, and was absolutely brilliant. No same artist within 30 minutes, no more than 3 tracks from an album in 2 hours, and it worked with ratings as well!
Perhaps Apple would care to realise that their 'star' ratings have more use than just excluding songs from playlists?
Hell, WMP recognises which songs you prefer at what times of the week. For a company so focused on perfection as Apple, it surprises me that this isn't standard in iTunes.
Well, it gave me a hadron!
It's physics girls, it's 0053am, gimme a break...
Yes, but it's your choice whether you follow the demands or not. Hence free will.