It's because on the Windows machine, they are soo full of extra crap they are paid to load on it that offsets the price of the windows license and possibly even a fraction of the hardware. With the linux boxes you're straight out buying the hardware with their markup.
It seems Google as acquired a lot of these marketing/advertising/blogging sites. What does this one offer the rest didnt or google couldn't develop themselves?
Thought so too, but the cost per gig on media vs hd is different now. I use to love being able to burn a CD-R wth 650meg for $2 when 1gig Hd's where expensive. But now adays you can get a 500gig external HD for $139.
External HD == ($139 / 500gig = $0.27gig)
BluRay == ($10 / 25gig = $0.40gig)
Plus if you have any large datasets (HQ video renderings, databases, chess egtb's, etc) burning a optical disc after optical disc to backup 100gigs takes a while.
So I guess it depends on how much data you want to backup or keep off the main computer.
How do you get into the stockmarket/finance line of work? I've long been a programmer and interested in the market. What kind of degree would you get?
For the past year or two, people always say "get into investment fields" but never seen how. While the money is enticing, I'd do it for fun.
Even pondered getting a satellite feed for tick-by-tick data recording, so I could build a nice dataset for coding up some nice AI and analysis code.
But the cost is prohibitive so I've been using yahoo quotes:)
No, but stealing bandwidth. Say you're at home playing Wii/PS3 or whatever and using a lot of your wifi bandwidth for gaming. Then all of a sudden you notice a huge lag that continues, because someone is using your wifi connection.
Granted there isn't anything physical being stolen, but you are paying for a service with a set limit and by someone else using it it's limiting you using what you paid for.
How does this effect biodiversity. Thought one of the benefits of having multiple sexes was to insure a genetic mixup so that a single strain of genes doest become to prominent and things like bacteria/virii that adapt to that single code isn't as effective.
Interesting post though.
I haven't really had any printer/scanner/odd hardware problems (except for a USB wifi doggle) in years. In fact last week my motherboard fried and I bought a new MB/CPU (completely different setup), removed the old, put in the new. Left HD's as they were, and booted up thinking I'd have to do a backup and reinstall to resolve new hardware dependencies (everything but video was integrated).
Even with 90% new hardware, Ubuntu detected everything and booted up just like it was prior. Now that's sweet! Imagine if I had done that with Windows? I'd be installing/rebooting 20x for each driver for hours.
So Linux on the desktop? Yup.
When my girlfriends XP laptop went to the big electronic place in the sky, she started using my computer (Ubuntu box). Took her about an hour to figure things out and she's not very computer savvy. Now I'm building her a computer and she requested I put "that Lenux thing" on it, because she liked how it just worked smoothly and didn't have freeze ups.
To me that said a lot.
Nice post:) I thought HDDVD/BR was really just a resolution change but had the same specs as DVD (in terms of menus, etc, etc).
So to find out HDDVD has the in-video menu system is pretty cool. In that case, I agree it would be worth it. I can't justify the money if it's just a DVD + higher resolution, but if it's a higher resolution and more features that change the interaction with how you view the film then that is pretty sweet.
I'm not going to get one anytime soon I still have an SDTV. But hopefully in a year or two things will settle, getting a new TV and BR or HDDVD will be a treat to look forward to.
Very good point. My main concern is either going to eliminate regular DVD? For me I'm perfectly happy with the quality and price for regular DVD's. I was an early adopter of DVD's spending $500 for an Sony player around 95. But I dont feel like it's worth it to upgrade to bluray or HDDVD.
VHS to DVD was a huge step. You no longer have to rewind, quality is a LOT better, assuming no scratches no signal degradation, multiple audio tracks, deleted scenes, smaller form factor, digital, just a ton of reason.
DVD to BR/HDDVD? What's really the big difference, that justifies spending $500-600/player and a lot more per movie?
I'm not in favor of one over the other, but from everything I see blu-ray seems to be the winner. I have only seen once place sell HDDVD, everyplace has at least a few blu-ray, even the mom-pop store down the road has some blu-ray movies for rent.
Several PS3's out there, plus isnt walmart even going to be selling a bluray player for under $600? I've seen bluray blanks and burners at Best Buy and a couple other places, yet I have never seen even a regular HDDVD player.
They're just ahead, and sales seem to agree.
Just my $0.02
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If I understand correctly this would be security via obscurity. All you'd have to do is learn the language and emulate it.
I've been a long time Palm-lover. I bought my first Palm IIIx my freshman year in college and loved it. I just recently upgraded to a (still older) m515 with SD card and color display and couldnt live without it.
Palm is such a great OS for what it's designed to do. Plus it's always been programmer friendly (gcc m68k toolchain + the Palm SDK) which they distributed for free. Plus there was POSE for development and you could legally download roms for the different system from their development site for testing. Does MS do that?
So for me, this is a sad day. It was fun while it lasted and I just hope mine doesn't break anytime soon.
Wonder if they'll hire or contract some Google engineers for a data mining effort. Personally I'd work for free to get a chance to mine that much data.
I'm curious what benefits this will have to Microsoft? I thought Office as their big money maker next to Windows. The main reason to have it is because of the format war. If they support an open format, and OSS can adjust (like they have been with OpenOffice) this would drastically hurt sales of Office.
There must be something that will work to their benefit else they wouldnt do it.
What is a DSP really? Know it stands for digital signal processor, but not really sure what that means. All that comes to mind is sound synthesizers or something that takes in some kind of signal and changes it's outcome. They seem really popular.
In respect to antibiotics and finding medicine to help cure virus related illnesses. We could virtually create them at the atomic level, shove it onto a HUGE grid and let the parallized life emualtor permutate the genetic code and see how different genes effect the organism and it's environment.
While this sounds to cpu intensive for higher organism, I can see this being done on smaller single-cell forms of life.
Well said, I had a teacher like you in college and he was one of my favorites. He had most of the material on his website, so prior to class we could download it, read it, research it, then when we came to class we'd already have a basic understanding of what's going on, so then we could use that time to fine tune the knowledge and ask questions.
I find that a lot better than going to a lecture course of 500, and no one being able to ask questions and spend an hour, hour and a half being hammered by a raw stream of data.
Anyone else ever try Golden Sun? That game is awesome, and has the same feeling that Zelda gives. Can't wait to try the second one. Though it's only for GBA, still an amazing game.
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lol that would be nifty. Have a MSN stream (not Microsoft, but Mountaineer Sports Network).
and their own team of reporters would be nifty. Google TV and maybe re-stream CSPAN, etc... I'd like to see that at least.
Going to :) can't wait to get the laptop. woohooo
So it makes sense.
Never thought I'd defend MS, but this is a bigger problem. You can't expect the creator to be responsible for the sales of resellers.
It seems Google as acquired a lot of these marketing/advertising/blogging sites. What does this one offer the rest didnt or google couldn't develop themselves?
External HD == ($139 / 500gig = $0.27gig)
BluRay == ($10 / 25gig = $0.40gig)
Plus if you have any large datasets (HQ video renderings, databases, chess egtb's, etc) burning a optical disc after optical disc to backup 100gigs takes a while.
So I guess it depends on how much data you want to backup or keep off the main computer.
Even pondered getting a satellite feed for tick-by-tick data recording, so I could build a nice dataset for coding up some nice AI and analysis code. But the cost is prohibitive so I've been using yahoo quotes :)
No, but stealing bandwidth. Say you're at home playing Wii/PS3 or whatever and using a lot of your wifi bandwidth for gaming. Then all of a sudden you notice a huge lag that continues, because someone is using your wifi connection. Granted there isn't anything physical being stolen, but you are paying for a service with a set limit and by someone else using it it's limiting you using what you paid for.
How does this effect biodiversity. Thought one of the benefits of having multiple sexes was to insure a genetic mixup so that a single strain of genes doest become to prominent and things like bacteria/virii that adapt to that single code isn't as effective. Interesting post though.
I haven't really had any printer/scanner/odd hardware problems (except for a USB wifi doggle) in years. In fact last week my motherboard fried and I bought a new MB/CPU (completely different setup), removed the old, put in the new. Left HD's as they were, and booted up thinking I'd have to do a backup and reinstall to resolve new hardware dependencies (everything but video was integrated). Even with 90% new hardware, Ubuntu detected everything and booted up just like it was prior. Now that's sweet! Imagine if I had done that with Windows? I'd be installing/rebooting 20x for each driver for hours. So Linux on the desktop? Yup.
When my girlfriends XP laptop went to the big electronic place in the sky, she started using my computer (Ubuntu box). Took her about an hour to figure things out and she's not very computer savvy. Now I'm building her a computer and she requested I put "that Lenux thing" on it, because she liked how it just worked smoothly and didn't have freeze ups. To me that said a lot.
I'm not going to get one anytime soon I still have an SDTV. But hopefully in a year or two things will settle, getting a new TV and BR or HDDVD will be a treat to look forward to.
VHS to DVD was a huge step. You no longer have to rewind, quality is a LOT better, assuming no scratches no signal degradation, multiple audio tracks, deleted scenes, smaller form factor, digital, just a ton of reason.
DVD to BR/HDDVD? What's really the big difference, that justifies spending $500-600/player and a lot more per movie?
Several PS3's out there, plus isnt walmart even going to be selling a bluray player for under $600? I've seen bluray blanks and burners at Best Buy and a couple other places, yet I have never seen even a regular HDDVD player.
They're just ahead, and sales seem to agree.
Just my $0.02
If I understand correctly this would be security via obscurity. All you'd have to do is learn the language and emulate it.
OLPC isn't vaporware, they have been manufactured and some children have them already. Just need to roll out more of them.
Palm is such a great OS for what it's designed to do. Plus it's always been programmer friendly (gcc m68k toolchain + the Palm SDK) which they distributed for free. Plus there was POSE for development and you could legally download roms for the different system from their development site for testing. Does MS do that?
So for me, this is a sad day. It was fun while it lasted and I just hope mine doesn't break anytime soon.
Wonder if they'll hire or contract some Google engineers for a data mining effort. Personally I'd work for free to get a chance to mine that much data.
As a ham will this cause noise interference like some power lines do? (specifically broadband over power)
I'm curious what benefits this will have to Microsoft? I thought Office as their big money maker next to Windows. The main reason to have it is because of the format war. If they support an open format, and OSS can adjust (like they have been with OpenOffice) this would drastically hurt sales of Office. There must be something that will work to their benefit else they wouldnt do it.
What is a DSP really? Know it stands for digital signal processor, but not really sure what that means. All that comes to mind is sound synthesizers or something that takes in some kind of signal and changes it's outcome. They seem really popular.
In respect to antibiotics and finding medicine to help cure virus related illnesses. We could virtually create them at the atomic level, shove it onto a HUGE grid and let the parallized life emualtor permutate the genetic code and see how different genes effect the organism and it's environment. While this sounds to cpu intensive for higher organism, I can see this being done on smaller single-cell forms of life.
I find that a lot better than going to a lecture course of 500, and no one being able to ask questions and spend an hour, hour and a half being hammered by a raw stream of data.
Anyone else ever try Golden Sun? That game is awesome, and has the same feeling that Zelda gives. Can't wait to try the second one. Though it's only for GBA, still an amazing game.