Who cares if the processor is slow or fast. The only bench mark I care about is "Will it play the game that I bought for it?". I don't care if MS or Sony use Quad Optertons, with 1 TB of RAM or a P2 slot 1 333 and CF card.
how did you get in here??? shoo!! get out of here!! go back to your "NON GEEK" sites (or whatever you call them)
1) The Xbox 360 will still be using DVDs. Guess what, we have already managed to fill up a full DVD with some games. Because we're going with HD games now, that'll take up more space (or processor time if we compress it to save space) which we don't have.
Just a note on the DVD - xbox is limited to 2GB (around 1/2 of a single layer DVD). Xbox 360 will have access to 2 full layers - so it will have 4x the capacity.
and don't we already have smaller ARM based machines with much faster speeds using less power for less than half the price? Oh wait... it's called a PDA.
I wonder if people realize that chips are actually spec'ed with a lower thermal limit as well as an upper??? I can just imagine these chips starting to crack in half with this kind of obsessiveness...
not so, I can get DSL with 3mbit down, 768kbit up... 3-6x the speeds you quote, and this is in York PA... hardly a tech hotspot. (there aren't even really any tech jobs unless you want to drive an hour to baltimore).
This all started because people were stealing music on Napster. They were downloading songs, not to sample them or get electronic copies of songs they already owned, but because they didn't want to pay for them.
I suspect that there were many out there who turned to Napster for the same reason I did - not to steal music, but to be able to listen to all kinds of *new* things that the monopoly controlled radio stations completely ignore. I don't have any tracks left around from file sharing that I listen to (except for unreleased live recordings or other rare things)... if I liked it I bought it.
CDDB apparently works by hashing the number of tracks and the length of each track. That's why sometimes it guesses wrong with CD singles.
I bought a bunch of complete albums off of realnetworks a while back and CDDB had no problems detecting the burned CDs.
BTW if anyone is planning on transcoding to mp3 I would suggest real's music store over iTunes because, if I recall, iTunes uses 160kbps AAC while real encodes at 192kbps AAC which could make a significant difference when you're doing a transcode.
Most of the problems I've seen are not grammatical or spelling.. I have fixed some of those. Usually it's that different authors have written in a very different tone/style which would require a more major overhaul (which I'm certainly not the ideal candidate for).
Yes, you can certainly find information very easily by web searching. But can you trust the source of the information? 9 times out of 10 if you're looking up a subject that you don't know much about you don't know the good web sites out there. While in some cases you can judge based on the writing or good/poor presentation there is a shift from Britannica giving a stamp of approval verses you have to question every bit of information you come across. I have personally come across many health sites that contain outright blatant lies (although they are probably more delusions on the part of the web masters).
If you want to spend the time filtering out the good from the trash that's fine... but it's very different than an encyclopedia where, if I trust Britannica then I can be fairly confident in any article it contains.
Btw, for the record I do get most of my information from Google searches... but that doesn't mean it's the best system for finding trustworthy information. I spend lots of time sifting through results...
Why does this wikipedia debate come up over and over on slashdot? It's not that most people modifying wikipedia are stupid, it's just a simple of fact of human nature that everyone wants to leave their own personal mark. It's ego. And ego is enough to cause people to overstep their authority on a subject, or to erase the "obviously stupid and wrong" thing that someone else wrote (which may not have been either stupid or wrong). Also of note is the propensity of the authors to misjudge their writing skills, blissfully unaware of its inadeqecies. I have no such delusions of having real authority on any subject, or any claim to having good writing skills. So I don't contribute (and avoid wikipedia for the most part given the poor quality of many of the articles).
Yet another problem is the fact that multiple writers will jump in and start using different tenses or style, or introducing other strange discontinuities. Sounds like a minor point, but a couple of articles have really made me cringe due to this.
I have to agree with the parent. I had to throw an nvidia card in my pc just to install Suse because it wouldn't talk to my intel chipset integrated video (which is an *extremely* common chipset). A couple of other distributions had similar problems. If anything should work out of the box it should be video/network/usb/etc... Drivers are still a very real problem under linux.
I would definitely consider myself to be an environmentalist, but there is some sense in the statement from Australia. Every country has to watch out for their economy, and to lower your economic standards when your competitors will not would hurt australia considerably more than if the economic competition had to follow suit. That's why it's called a "treaty", the same term used for agreements between military adversaries. In this case it's not military, but economic.
Just to clarify where I'm coming from, I live in the US and I think that we clearly afford to enact tougher environmental regulations and that it's our responsbility to do so. I'm not sure if Kyoto is the best solution though.
486DX-50 never being clock doubled or quadrupled is nothing puzzling. This chip was quickly retracted after its release due to overheating issues. The clock multiplied chips came out later... intel never could get the 486 chip to run reliabily at 50mhz. (Of course they didn't need to care because from a marketing perspective they had a "66mhz" chip..)
Or how about this, open used DVD stores across America, where you sell DVD's for 20 bucks and buy them back for $19.50. Completely legal, the store makes 50 cents on every 'sale':::cough cough wink wink::: and people get to 'own':::cough cough wink wink::: DVD's for a short amount of time for a net of 50 cents a pop.
This is just a 50 cent rental with a $20 security deposit required. Nothing different than what video stores do except the security deposit and the fact that 50 cents "profit" would never pay the rent, so such stores could not exist.
Besides MPAA would just go after them eventually anyway regardless of the letter of the law.
This is so utterly dumb. Sperm are not egg cells, they are not a fixed, limited quantity. They are not in limited supply. In other words any such effect is temporary and will not affect a man's fertility. Who writes this stuff...
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how did you get in here??? shoo!! get out of here!! go back to your "NON GEEK" sites (or whatever you call them)
Just a note on the DVD - xbox is limited to 2GB (around 1/2 of a single layer DVD). Xbox 360 will have access to 2 full layers - so it will have 4x the capacity.
and don't we already have smaller ARM based machines with much faster speeds using less power for less than half the price? Oh wait ... it's called a PDA.
I wonder if people realize that chips are actually spec'ed with a lower thermal limit as well as an upper??? I can just imagine these chips starting to crack in half with this kind of obsessiveness...
not so, I can get DSL with 3mbit down, 768kbit up ... 3-6x the speeds you quote, and this is in York PA ... hardly a tech hotspot. (there aren't even really any tech jobs unless you want to drive an hour to baltimore).
it seems "the man" takes us all for idiots. of course he could be right ...
god bless the usa!!!! (!)
I suspect that there were many out there who turned to Napster for the same reason I did - not to steal music, but to be able to listen to all kinds of *new* things that the monopoly controlled radio stations completely ignore. I don't have any tracks left around from file sharing that I listen to (except for unreleased live recordings or other rare things) ... if I liked it I bought it.
I bought a bunch of complete albums off of realnetworks a while back and CDDB had no problems detecting the burned CDs.
BTW if anyone is planning on transcoding to mp3 I would suggest real's music store over iTunes because, if I recall, iTunes uses 160kbps AAC while real encodes at 192kbps AAC which could make a significant difference when you're doing a transcode.
What is that I smell from over at intel ... could it be .. panic??
Most of the problems I've seen are not grammatical or spelling .. I have fixed some of those. Usually it's that different authors have written in a very different tone/style which would require a more major overhaul (which I'm certainly not the ideal candidate for).
If you want to spend the time filtering out the good from the trash that's fine ... but it's very different than an encyclopedia where, if I trust Britannica then I can be fairly confident in any article it contains.
Btw, for the record I do get most of my information from Google searches ... but that doesn't mean it's the best system for finding trustworthy information. I spend lots of time sifting through results ...
Yet another problem is the fact that multiple writers will jump in and start using different tenses or style, or introducing other strange discontinuities. Sounds like a minor point, but a couple of articles have really made me cringe due to this.
I have to agree with the parent. I had to throw an nvidia card in my pc just to install Suse because it wouldn't talk to my intel chipset integrated video (which is an *extremely* common chipset). A couple of other distributions had similar problems. If anything should work out of the box it should be video/network/usb/etc ... Drivers are still a very real problem under linux.
I think the idea is that MS would muddle with things in some way that would necessitate using their HAL interface instead of writing native drivers.
Just to clarify where I'm coming from, I live in the US and I think that we clearly afford to enact tougher environmental regulations and that it's our responsbility to do so. I'm not sure if Kyoto is the best solution though.
who read that as college students turn away from landMines?
looks like a cheesey povray render ...
486DX-50 never being clock doubled or quadrupled is nothing puzzling. This chip was quickly retracted after its release due to overheating issues. The clock multiplied chips came out later ... intel never could get the 486 chip to run reliabily at 50mhz. (Of course they didn't need to care because from a marketing perspective they had a "66mhz" chip ..)
I can't believe a respectable publication like Dr. Dobbs is citing Wikipedia as a source in this article...
Damn it ... I first read that as 500 ft, now I'm disappointed. :(
This is just a 50 cent rental with a $20 security deposit required. Nothing different than what video stores do except the security deposit and the fact that 50 cents "profit" would never pay the rent, so such stores could not exist. Besides MPAA would just go after them eventually anyway regardless of the letter of the law.
Isn't this what DRM, as implemented in Apple iTunes for example, accomplishes???
This is so utterly dumb. Sperm are not egg cells, they are not a fixed, limited quantity. They are not in limited supply. In other words any such effect is temporary and will not affect a man's fertility. Who writes this stuff ...