That's because you can buy a 400$ PC at Walmart. (the laptop's gonna break in 2 years, but people don't really care about that since they'll be able to buy a new one)
Deaths? multiple injured people? Why isn't that secured in the first place? With all the news about stuff getting *hacked*, why are they still doing this?
A lock will not stop a determined intruder. But then, unless you are being targeted, they'll just move on to the next target (kinda like the flashing LEDs in car doors)
As we're nearing the size limit for IC manufacturing technology, what about reducing bloat and coding in a more efficient manner.
Let's look at the specs of earlier machines
Palm Pilot. 33Mhz 68000 with 8MB of storage, yet it was fast and efficient. C=64 1Mhz 6510 with 64k RAM (38 useable), also fast and efficient, you could run a combat flight simulator on it (Skyfox) Heck, even a 16MB 66Mhz 486 was considered almost insane in early 1994 (and it only had a 340 *MB* HDD, and everything was fine. (I bought that in high school for AutoCAD)
Go back to the same efficient and small code, and our devices will seem about 10 times faster and will last longer.
Why are they doing this? there is absolutely *nothing* to be gained from this, except weaponization. (which is against the convention)
Let's say someone does the same in MIddle East, they would be carpet-bombing the place in the name of "but terrorists".
Seriously, could someone explain to me what could be gained from creating a deadlier critter?
While we're at it, let's add anthrax,HIV and Ebola into it, just to be sure it's deadly enough. Hey, let's bring smallpox back (altough I wouldn't be surprised if there was still some in test tubes somewhere)
And when SSDs fail, it's not more spectacular than a HDD that won't spin, or a head crash, or its controller going MIA. (you can't swap boards on most newer drives anymore, so good luck getting the data back)
And Intel had drives that reverted to 8GB after a reboot, IBM had the Deathstars, Quantum had their Fireballs, Seagate, well, about every model between 500 and 1TB.
*everyone* in the industry comes out with bad products.
My first SSD cost 240$ for 120GB, that's 2$/GB, many people found that way too expensive. Now that it hovers around 0.50$/GB, it means that for 120$ most people will be able to justify putting one in their system. 240GB is sufficient for almost all usage scenarios (especially laptops). Gives plenty of fast storage and a nice kick in performance without being obscenely expensive. Sure it will take a long time before it gets to price parity with spinning drives (if ever), but the way to build is SSD for OS and apps, HDD for media.
Most newer TVs and BD devices have DLNA support (amongst other things). Heck, the one my dad got (Panasonic) allows to browse shared folders.
About 8 years ago I went out of my way to silence the HTPC in the living room with undervolted and underclocked CPU, 80mm fan running on 7v for the CPU, ATItools to reduce the GPU fan speed (and GPU speed itself), I even padded the case to reduce noise and vibrations. I even had to lock the DVD drives to lower speeds because they were sounding like they would take off.
A PC is way too noisy for a living room for my taste, so yes XB one streaming is welcome, let's hope it forces SONY to allow it on PS4
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Firefox 360?
Not an excuse. If anyone else had the same accident, their life would be ruined, they wouldn't be on paid leave...
And they're wondering why people don't trust or respect the police.
Please disregard previous comment, reading multiple forums at once ain't such a good idea after all.
Since there was a massive leak of personal celebrity pics a couple hours ago, some cloud providers aren't that secure.
Anyone have an idea who was the cloud provider?
except...
1-Win98 won't even see the second core as it's not SMP aware
2-Win98 will probably have problems using above 1.5GB of RAM
http://support.microsoft.com/k...
Want speed? get some CF cards and IDE adpaters
What good would a dual CPU do for win98?
The 4GB is overkill too...
Netflix can add up very quickly if you watch shows a couple of hours each day... 150GB is not that hard to do, especially for cord-cutters...
"except in an emergency that poses “immediate danger of death or great bodily injury.”
Nope, nothing here to be abused...
Start wearing cameras ladies and gents...
That's because you can buy a 400$ PC at Walmart. (the laptop's gonna break in 2 years, but people don't really care about that since they'll be able to buy a new one)
"won't be big and
professional like gnu) for 386(486) AT clones."
"It is NOT protable (uses 386 task switching etc), and it probably never
will support anything other than AT-harddisks"
Yet it runs on about 80% of all cell phones, runs on routers, servers, even on my orange iMac (G3)
Give that man many thanks...
Nah... CSIS and NSA already take care of this...
Deaths? multiple injured people? Why isn't that secured in the first place? With all the news about stuff getting *hacked*, why are they still doing this?
HL2: Episode 3
Saves time. now you can make room for more food without even getting up.
A lock will not stop a determined intruder. But then, unless you are being targeted, they'll just move on to the next target (kinda like the flashing LEDs in car doors)
As we're nearing the size limit for IC manufacturing technology, what about reducing bloat and coding in a more efficient manner.
Let's look at the specs of earlier machines
Palm Pilot. 33Mhz 68000 with 8MB of storage, yet it was fast and efficient.
C=64 1Mhz 6510 with 64k RAM (38 useable), also fast and efficient, you could run a combat flight simulator on it (Skyfox)
Heck, even a 16MB 66Mhz 486 was considered almost insane in early 1994 (and it only had a 340 *MB* HDD, and everything was fine. (I bought that in high school for AutoCAD)
Go back to the same efficient and small code, and our devices will seem about 10 times faster and will last longer.
Any software that opt-ins to install Chrome, set the page to Google, and install the Googlebar too?
Kinda hypocrit since they're trying to sneak their software in downloads themselves
Why are they doing this? there is absolutely *nothing* to be gained from this, except weaponization. (which is against the convention)
Let's say someone does the same in MIddle East, they would be carpet-bombing the place in the name of "but terrorists".
Seriously, could someone explain to me what could be gained from creating a deadlier critter?
While we're at it, let's add anthrax,HIV and Ebola into it, just to be sure it's deadly enough. Hey, let's bring smallpox back (altough I wouldn't be surprised if there was still some in test tubes somewhere)
Agree.
If I was in that situation, I would think exactly the same way. Seriously, is death worse than not being able to move?
1- Backup
2- Backup
3- Backup
And when SSDs fail, it's not more spectacular than a HDD that won't spin, or a head crash, or its controller going MIA. (you can't swap boards on most newer drives anymore, so good luck getting the data back)
And Intel had drives that reverted to 8GB after a reboot, IBM had the Deathstars, Quantum had their Fireballs, Seagate, well, about every model between 500 and 1TB.
*everyone* in the industry comes out with bad products.
Are you sure it will spin up after 5 years? sure the data will be there, but if the bearings have seized up it won't do any good.
Besides, SSDs are not intended for backup, so it's kinda a moot point.
Yes it does.
My first SSD cost 240$ for 120GB, that's 2$/GB, many people found that way too expensive. Now that it hovers around 0.50$/GB, it means that for 120$ most people will be able to justify putting one in their system. 240GB is sufficient for almost all usage scenarios (especially laptops). Gives plenty of fast storage and a nice kick in performance without being obscenely expensive. Sure it will take a long time before it gets to price parity with spinning drives (if ever), but the way to build is SSD for OS and apps, HDD for media.
Most newer TVs and BD devices have DLNA support (amongst other things). Heck, the one my dad got (Panasonic) allows to browse shared folders.
About 8 years ago I went out of my way to silence the HTPC in the living room with undervolted and underclocked CPU, 80mm fan running on 7v for the CPU, ATItools to reduce the GPU fan speed (and GPU speed itself), I even padded the case to reduce noise and vibrations. I even had to lock the DVD drives to lower speeds because they were sounding like they would take off.
A PC is way too noisy for a living room for my taste, so yes XB one streaming is welcome, let's hope it forces SONY to allow it on PS4