This is offtopic but interesting. If you want to use a real razor with a replaceable blade, its hard to find them. I found a site that sells them. Cool stuff, I have always shaved with an old Gillette. http://www.leesrazors.com/
Take the number of linux instalations running. Multiply it by what Microsoft would charge for each of those OS seats. I'm sure it comes out to a large number. When BG donates computers he writes the software off his taxes at full cost.
More interesting is the fact that search engines can't tell the difference between commercial sites and informative sites. When I search for something I rarely want to hear the manufacturers spiel on that product, I want real first person accounts. Search engines seem to have no idea of the difference between a review and and advertisement. It can't be that hard. Search for a hard drive review. 90% of the search results have the exact same text (all stores which are selling the product), very few results come bac that objectively review the product. The sites that do objectively review the product don't say the exact same thing that the manufacturer says. hello Google?
I had 2 or 3 of them. I was always trying to change the crystal and make a red-box (?) to get free calls from a pay phone. Never could quite get it right.
This has generally been the case throughout history (contrary to legend, both Newton and Einstein had rigorous formal educations) but it's even more true now
Edison however contributed amazing inventions to society with no formal eduaction.
I wish someone had told me to go to a real library, a college library. I wish someone had told me this in grade school. I remember checking out every Byte magazine at my local library and still wanting to know more. I didn't even bother to check out there books that say "a computer has a cpu, monitor, and keyboard". I wish someone had told me to go to computer groups when I was a lot younger. I wish someone had told me to go to colleges and hang out until I met smart people.
If I were sega, I would design a football game that lets users plug in team data. Make everything like the NFL except for uniforms, logos, and names. Then have some anonymous person on the internet post a mod pack that exactly replicates the protected NFL data. Make it very easy for consumers to plug in this data pack.
I have heard that the signal qaulity of most 3d graphics cards lacks compared to dedicated 2d cards like Matrox's cards. I care a lot about the qaulity of the displayed image and am worried about this. Hopefully card makers will start producing better qaulity graphics card (in respect to signal qaulity). I might be wrong about all this, just what I have read.
This is a broken window fallacy. You say that the OS requiring a 3d graphics card will cause people to buy more 3d graphics cards and expensive computers, you say, "aha, more money being spent, that is good for the economy". Not necesarily. The money on 3d graphics cards has to be spent to get your computer what it did well without 3d graphics cards (draw a gui). Unless the new UI adds a lot to the experience we have no net gain, we have just spent money to get back to where we originally were (a "usable" GUI).
You should not have an impenetrable shield from criminal prosecution or civil compensation just because your actions are online.
good point. Wanting for anonyminity is a result of the greater problem of frivilous lawsuits. I guess I should hope for more progress in that area too.
I read 1984. I have a question, is the scary part that your every move is being watched, or that your every move is being watched from a central location with little effort. High profile people (mobsters, presidents, movie stars) have had to worry about people following their every move for a long time.
So is the scary part that they do it, or that its easy to do?
FLASH MEMORY CAN'T BE USED FOR SWAP. You will quickly destroy the flash memory (1 million write limit). The bandwidth wouldn't be near the same as it would for ddr-ram either.
This reminds me of when Jerry Sienfeld's comments towards the end of the Sienfield tv show. Something along the lines of "the public is like childeren, sometimes you have to say, no you can't have any more cake".
The public doesn't want DRM on their chips. They don't want to pay itanium prices for 64 bit. Intel didn't realize this and thought and apparently still thinks that people will buy it just because intel says they should.
I doubt this is what Tivo will do. but, how would this work. Tivo could act like a cable provider, but use the internet as the transfer medium instead of coaxial cable. Networks could offer tivo shows which they could offer to their users. The users could watch the shows at any time based on their choosing. The super small cable channels (Outdoor life network, knitting central...) would love this.
?... profit
I would be more interested in opening up the cable monopoly (in a similar manner to what happened to AT&T and the baby Bells). Fiber to the house would be cool too. This does seem like a good idea for rural areas though.
I have been dying for their supercomputer OS. Microsoft considers supercomputer OS . I really hope MS doesn't ditch that OS too. I have been speccing itanium clusters and they seem to fit my needs. I also can't wait for.Net to come to Itanium, I'm sure MS will write the best optimizing compiler.
If their cops are this incompetent, people who can fly under radar will be able to reap amazing benefits without government intervention.
Imagine, the RIAA could arrest you for burning copies of CDS. All you would have to say is "look, that CD has a pretty picture on it, I just scawled Pearl Jam on this CD, they aren't the same". People over there might believe you.
I disagree. Here is a comparison I made from storage review
Storage review comparison
I tried to pick drives of the same family with different capacities. If you look, you will see that there isn't a strong correlation between capacity in a family and througput.
No you wouldn't. You could (at some level) view the whole hard drive as a single platter with higher arial (?) density. I don't think that platters are read in parralel, because if they were, we would see drives in the same family with more platters have significantly higher throughputs then there less plattered breatheren.
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This is offtopic but interesting. If you want to use a real razor with a replaceable blade, its hard to find them. I found a site that sells them. Cool stuff, I have always shaved with an old Gillette. http://www.leesrazors.com/
Take the number of linux instalations running. Multiply it by what Microsoft would charge for each of those OS seats. I'm sure it comes out to a large number. When BG donates computers he writes the software off his taxes at full cost.
More interesting is the fact that search engines can't tell the difference between commercial sites and informative sites. When I search for something I rarely want to hear the manufacturers spiel on that product, I want real first person accounts. Search engines seem to have no idea of the difference between a review and and advertisement. It can't be that hard. Search for a hard drive review. 90% of the search results have the exact same text (all stores which are selling the product), very few results come bac that objectively review the product. The sites that do objectively review the product don't say the exact same thing that the manufacturer says. hello Google?
I had 2 or 3 of them. I was always trying to change the crystal and make a red-box (?) to get free calls from a pay phone. Never could quite get it right.
I remember spending a lot of time in my youth playing Tradewars on BBSs. I think that game encouraged my entrepenurial spirit.
I didn't even bother to check out there books that say "a computer has a cpu, monitor, and keyboard".
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I didn't even bother to check out their books that said "a computer has a cpu, monitor, and keyboard".
I wish someone had told me to go to a real library, a college library. I wish someone had told me this in grade school. I remember checking out every Byte magazine at my local library and still wanting to know more. I didn't even bother to check out there books that say "a computer has a cpu, monitor, and keyboard". I wish someone had told me to go to computer groups when I was a lot younger. I wish someone had told me to go to colleges and hang out until I met smart people.
If I were sega, I would design a football game that lets users plug in team data. Make everything like the NFL except for uniforms, logos, and names. Then have some anonymous person on the internet post a mod pack that exactly replicates the protected NFL data. Make it very easy for consumers to plug in this data pack.
I have heard that the signal qaulity of most 3d graphics cards lacks compared to dedicated 2d cards like Matrox's cards. I care a lot about the qaulity of the displayed image and am worried about this. Hopefully card makers will start producing better qaulity graphics card (in respect to signal qaulity). I might be wrong about all this, just what I have read.
This is a broken window fallacy. You say that the OS requiring a 3d graphics card will cause people to buy more 3d graphics cards and expensive computers, you say, "aha, more money being spent, that is good for the economy". Not necesarily. The money on 3d graphics cards has to be spent to get your computer what it did well without 3d graphics cards (draw a gui). Unless the new UI adds a lot to the experience we have no net gain, we have just spent money to get back to where we originally were (a "usable" GUI).
Wikipedia: Broken Window Fallacy
Hopefully the government will recognize a right to anonyminity.
I read 1984. I have a question, is the scary part that your every move is being watched, or that your every move is being watched from a central location with little effort. High profile people (mobsters, presidents, movie stars) have had to worry about people following their every move for a long time. So is the scary part that they do it, or that its easy to do?
FLASH MEMORY CAN'T BE USED FOR SWAP. You will quickly destroy the flash memory (1 million write limit). The bandwidth wouldn't be near the same as it would for ddr-ram either.
If Microsoft did this or open up their sources it could set FOSS back years. Thank you MS for being selfish.
This reminds me of when Jerry Sienfeld's comments towards the end of the Sienfield tv show. Something along the lines of "the public is like childeren, sometimes you have to say, no you can't have any more cake". The public doesn't want DRM on their chips. They don't want to pay itanium prices for 64 bit. Intel didn't realize this and thought and apparently still thinks that people will buy it just because intel says they should.
Intel just doesn't get it. Someone at intel must have heavily invested in AMD.
I doubt this is what Tivo will do. but, how would this work. Tivo could act like a cable provider, but use the internet as the transfer medium instead of coaxial cable. Networks could offer tivo shows which they could offer to their users. The users could watch the shows at any time based on their choosing. The super small cable channels (Outdoor life network, knitting central...) would love this. ? ... profit
I would be more interested in opening up the cable monopoly (in a similar manner to what happened to AT&T and the baby Bells). Fiber to the house would be cool too. This does seem like a good idea for rural areas though.
I have been dying for their supercomputer OS. Microsoft considers supercomputer OS . I really hope MS doesn't ditch that OS too. I have been speccing itanium clusters and they seem to fit my needs. I also can't wait for .Net to come to Itanium, I'm sure MS will write the best optimizing compiler.
If their cops are this incompetent, people who can fly under radar will be able to reap amazing benefits without government intervention. Imagine, the RIAA could arrest you for burning copies of CDS. All you would have to say is "look, that CD has a pretty picture on it, I just scawled Pearl Jam on this CD, they aren't the same". People over there might believe you.
In Backwards India, you lick the officer's shoe. come on, I'm sure people can come up with some good ones.
I disagree. Here is a comparison I made from storage review Storage review comparison I tried to pick drives of the same family with different capacities. If you look, you will see that there isn't a strong correlation between capacity in a family and througput.
No you wouldn't. You could (at some level) view the whole hard drive as a single platter with higher arial (?) density. I don't think that platters are read in parralel, because if they were, we would see drives in the same family with more platters have significantly higher throughputs then there less plattered breatheren.