And of course, there's the fallacious point of "Apple's computers starting at $1000". Apparently you haven't heard of the Mac Mini, coming in at $599, just $199 more than Dell's "Bottom Line" and offering a ton more features.
Apparently you haven't heard of a keyboard, mouse, or monitor -- all of which can be had along with a computer (using Best Buy's webiste pricing) for $450. No rebates, since Best Buy is done with them. Or you can get a notebook -- once again using Best Buy's pricing -- for $400. That includes a builtin display, keyboard, and pointing device, and even has a battery so you can take it anywhere.
People going for price alone (e.g. most people I've met that aren't gamers or generally knowledgable about computers) will simply buy whatever's cheapeast at the time.
Nonsense. Driver availbility has grown significantly over the past year. Even then I was able to get drivers for everything except my printer, and they've released 64-bit drivers recently. I've found the x64 versions of Windows 2003/XP to be more stable than the 32-bit versions. I have never had a XP/2003 64-bit bluescreen (but I can't say the same about the 32-bit versions).
64-bit costs less probably because of the much lower demand. This will change with the launch of Vista and later Longhorn Server 64-bit.
It's necessary to have separate application/system paths because separate copies of libraries are needed for 32- and 64-bit applications. Some applications have/will have 32- and 64- bit versions because 64-bit apps cannot host 32-bit plugins directly.
I tried to play it on my Windows Vista with Radeon Mobility X1400. I got a resolution change and then got this error in the log file:
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "FretsOnFire.py", line 28, in ?
File "GameEngine.pyo", line 101, in __init__
File "Video.pyo", line 52, in setMode OpenGL.GL.GLerror: [Errno 1280] invalid enumerant
I then tried it on my Windows XP with Intel GMA 900 and got a similar error:
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "FretsOnFire.py", line 28, in ?
File "GameEngine.pyo", line 109, in __init__ OpenGL.GL.GLerror: [Errno 1282] invalid operation
As far as I can tell, this US availability has yet to surface and this phone is only available imported and is not actively sold/carried by any US provider.
Where have you been? Windows Mobile is still around. Microsoft never cancelled it...
Here's a market share study by Gartner for worldwide shipments. Note that it counts windows smartphones only and not PDA phones. (Smartphones do not have the touch screen; instead, they have a numeric keypad like a normal phone.)
Microsoft's recent earings call indicates that their market share is increasing -- the article quotes a 90% increase. These statistics don't seem to include Linux based phones.
There's been more selection from Symbian phones in the past, but right now there's more Windows Mobile devices available in the USA. Symbian has also been in the market longer.
This article states that Microsoft has a 17% market share and some analyst expects their market share to grow.
Note that almost all Linux phones are shipped in Asia -- I have never seen a Linux phone for sale in the United States, but plenty of Windows phones and a few Symbian ones. The number of Symbian devices available retail from cellular providers seems to be declining here.
have they actually tried it? I was unable to get my Apple Bluetooth keyboard working with the Widcomm Bluetooth drivers, but it works with the builtin Microsoft drivers, it works fine. Of course, Apple does not advertise the fact that it's a standard Bluetooth keyboard (minus the volume and eject key, which I have been unable to do anything with. On a USB Apple keyboard, the volume keys will work.)
My laptop came with a Core Duo (Yonah) T2300. The CPU is a little weak at times, so I'd like to upgrade to Merom when available. (The requisite BIOS update has been available for a few months now.) Does anyone know when I'll be able to buy one from a reseller such as Newegg?
Funny thing is, AT&T Wireless broke off from the old AT&T around six years ago, and was then bought by Cingular. Then, SBC (60 pct. owner of Cinulgar) bought the old AT&T... the AT&T Wireless company no longer exists and have mostly moved to Cingular (which has much better customer service than the old AT&T Wireless).
Have fun wasting your money on cable. I'll continue enjoying cheaper (and now with their 6.0/768 at $27.99/mo, faster) DSL.
It's gone up 7.92/share (as of the time of this writing) since Wednesday morning when I bought it at 52.75, after the earnings announcement. The market has been pessimistic about Apple's future, but they are doing well.
It's the 3rd biggest university in Ohio with 34,491 students and its main campus is the 115th biggest campus in the nation. They have seven regional satellite campuses.
I think they're plenty big enough to have sports teams.
Whereas now it only uses excessive disk I/O and memory? MUCH better!
Once again, the excess CPU usage is due to a bug that was fixed. Indexing Service on my server is using a combined 13,904 KB of memory (with three indexes, two of which are rather large) and does not make a noticable dent on performance, even if new files are being indexed. It indexes new content on-demand, not during a nightly process. It also indexes the content of files.
Why yes, yes, I have. Every major release and service pack (up to XP SP2, as I mentioned) had it on by default. Invariably, a week later, I would wonder why my machine had started crawling, notice indexing turned on, swear like a sailor at Bill Gates, and turn off indexing. Poof! Suddenly my machine's performance shot back up to a tolerable level.
Once again, have you actually used it to index files and perform a search?
But the worst part about the indexing service - Seriously, how often do you need to search for a local file? Personally, I use quite a few machines on a regular basis, and only do a search perhaps once a week. And even then, 99% of the time I do a filename-only search, which I could get from locate/updatedb in exchange for five minutes of scanning (and no constant background task!) every 2am, rather than a continual background suckage.
I need to search a few times a week -- for old files, things buried in old archives. At 14MB memory use and no CPU/IO hit, it's nice to have a constantly
...Or, you could just run Google's desktop search, and get all that, with better performance, without any configuration needed, right out of the box.
Google's desktop search is not very multi-user aware and will not install on non-administrator. They even took steps to prevent people from easily installing it as a non-administrator.
Microsoft's MSN Desktop Search provides functionality very similar to Google Desktop Search.
There are many other search products out there.
Hmm, tough choice... I could fight with MS's crap to not take me where they want me to go today - Or I could use something that already works as it should. What to do, what to do?
Google Desktop Search is intended for single-user use only. Indexing Service can be configured on a file server to index files for many users, and you don't have to pay extra for it if you are already using Windows. I wouldn't use Indexing Service to replicate the functionality of Google or MSN Desktop Search on a desktop system, but it works fine for indexing large sets of data on my server... for all users... not just the one that installed Google Desktop or whatnot.
Obviously an enterprise level environment. Sorry. While personal anecdotes can sometimes interesting to read, they're hardly the basis for offering informed opinions, doncha think?
I would think that a personal anecdote based on someone that has actually used the product would be quite a bit more useful than someone that complained about a bug that has already been fixed.
Google's products have more features "out of the box" -- but Microsoft's products can be expanded and configured to get similar results with a competent administrator. Indexing Service does index file content of various file types by default. Plugins (IFilter components) can be used to provide indexing capabillity for other file formats.
Indexing Service had a bug which once caused it to use excess CPU time. Those of you with basic readong comprehension skills may have noticed that the bug has been fixed.
Have you used Indexing Service before or set it up? It does not eat up CPU time on my server since the original index was created, and it could be used to provide a Google-like indexing service, similar to Google's Desktop Search or their enterprise products, with configuration, as I previously stated. The search/indexing capabilities can be expanded to support more filetypes, and it can be queried by many different programs.
Without spending much time, it effectively indexes filenames and text file contents on my server. With the right plugins, I could add in metadata for different file types (like filenames in archives, mp3 tags, etc).
I would imagine that any such system would be built upon the Indexing Service, which is a very useful tool. With the right configuration and software, it can implement a service very similar to Google Desktop or something similar to the Enterprise service.
It works for me without any work other than telling it what to search: by turning it on on a Windows 2003 server and telling it to index a drive, a standard Windows search on that drive will use the index... even over the network. And that's all I personally need it for.
Do you have a link for more information, or can you explain this more fully? I have a 8x200gb software RAID5 that sustains just over 7.5 MBytes/sec (four of those drives are using the two IDE channels; the other four are Serial ATA, so that might contribute to poor performance as well).
I wish I had known this before I moved 1 TB of data to the array.
This will support 4 drives over SATA, or 7 if you use all of the IDE channels: $105 4U case and 400w power supply $165 915G Socket 479 Motherboard w/ 4 SATA, 2 IDE, and gigabit ethernet. $71 Celeron M 370 (Dothan) CPU $25 DDR2 memory (256MB) $25 CompactFlash OS drive (1GB) $15 IDE to Compact Flash adapter $0-25 Linux OS -- there are specialized NAS distributions available commercially for those that afraid of setting things up themselves = $406-$431
Which beats this device's $670 lowest price found on Froogle.
Additions: $20 4x SATA I $60 4x SATA II $50-100 Replacement power supply +$60 1GB DDR2 +$150 Pentium M CPU
Sure, the Celeron M will use more power than a Celeron M ULV, and the included power supply may be inadequate for configurations with large drives (but that's more drives than the article's product supports). And this device doesn't have the USB device capaibility, either. But you've got the freedom to do things how you like.
On my 32" LCD TV, the difference in picture quality on my HTPC between VGA and DVI is pretty significant. I output at 1360x768 (native) resolution on both and the picture is rather blurry with VGA, making text hard to read, even after I increased the Windows DPI settings and font sizes.
Also, between HDMI and component from my HD DVR, the colors look washed out at 480i/p over component compared to HDMI (when using the included 3 RCA cables). The picture looks fine at 720p/1080i over component or HDMI.
My friend has two LCDs and a video card with DVI-I and VGA support. Whichever monitor that happens to be plugged in over VGA has a much more reddish tint.
I don't know about your computer but on mine the printscreen function isn't exactly speedy, neither in Windows nor in Linux. I doubt 24fps or 30fps is doable with such a script. Right now DVDs can be ripped and transcoded faster than realtime.
It takes about 1/10 of a second for me to hit print screen and paste the picture into Paint The screenshot resolution is 2560x1024. The blink in the cursor when the image is being copied is barely noticable. This is with a Intel Core Duo based system.
That's all irrelevant though; if the image can be accessed so that print screen can put a copy in the clipboard, a program can access that image in memory and feed it into the video encoder directly.
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Apparently you haven't heard of a keyboard, mouse, or monitor -- all of which can be had along with a computer (using Best Buy's webiste pricing) for $450. No rebates, since Best Buy is done with them. Or you can get a notebook -- once again using Best Buy's pricing -- for $400. That includes a builtin display, keyboard, and pointing device, and even has a battery so you can take it anywhere.
People going for price alone (e.g. most people I've met that aren't gamers or generally knowledgable about computers) will simply buy whatever's cheapeast at the time.
Nonsense. Driver availbility has grown significantly over the past year. Even then I was able to get drivers for everything except my printer, and they've released 64-bit drivers recently. I've found the x64 versions of Windows 2003/XP to be more stable than the 32-bit versions. I have never had a XP/2003 64-bit bluescreen (but I can't say the same about the 32-bit versions).
64-bit costs less probably because of the much lower demand. This will change with the launch of Vista and later Longhorn Server 64-bit.
It's necessary to have separate application/system paths because separate copies of libraries are needed for 32- and 64-bit applications. Some applications have/will have 32- and 64- bit versions because 64-bit apps cannot host 32-bit plugins directly.
According to everything I've read via Google, the phone is primarily for Asian markets.
"This Linux PDA-phone for Asia"
The A1200 is expected to launch in China, Taiwan, and Hong Kong in mid-February, with US availability sometime after that.
As far as I can tell, this US availability has yet to surface and this phone is only available imported and is not actively sold/carried by any US provider.
Where have you been? Windows Mobile is still around. Microsoft never cancelled it...
Here's a market share study by Gartner for worldwide shipments. Note that it counts windows smartphones only and not PDA phones. (Smartphones do not have the touch screen; instead, they have a numeric keypad like a normal phone.)
Microsoft's recent earings call indicates that their market share is increasing -- the article quotes a 90% increase. These statistics don't seem to include Linux based phones.
There's been more selection from Symbian phones in the past, but right now there's more Windows Mobile devices available in the USA. Symbian has also been in the market longer.
This article states that Microsoft has a 17% market share and some analyst expects their market share to grow.
Note that almost all Linux phones are shipped in Asia -- I have never seen a Linux phone for sale in the United States, but plenty of Windows phones and a few Symbian ones. The number of Symbian devices available retail from cellular providers seems to be declining here.
I personally use a Symbian phone.
have they actually tried it? I was unable to get my Apple Bluetooth keyboard working with the Widcomm Bluetooth drivers, but it works with the builtin Microsoft drivers, it works fine. Of course, Apple does not advertise the fact that it's a standard Bluetooth keyboard (minus the volume and eject key, which I have been unable to do anything with. On a USB Apple keyboard, the volume keys will work.)
There are many people that use this laptop that have upgraded the CPU, mainly to a faster Yonah, but at least one to a Merom.
My laptop is Acer. There are already people using Merom with this notebook and the BIOS update.
My laptop came with a Core Duo (Yonah) T2300. The CPU is a little weak at times, so I'd like to upgrade to Merom when available. (The requisite BIOS update has been available for a few months now.) Does anyone know when I'll be able to buy one from a reseller such as Newegg?
Funny thing is, AT&T Wireless broke off from the old AT&T around six years ago, and was then bought by Cingular. Then, SBC (60 pct. owner of Cinulgar) bought the old AT&T... the AT&T Wireless company no longer exists and have mostly moved to Cingular (which has much better customer service than the old AT&T Wireless).
Have fun wasting your money on cable. I'll continue enjoying cheaper (and now with their 6.0/768 at $27.99/mo, faster) DSL.
It's gone up 7.92/share (as of the time of this writing) since Wednesday morning when I bought it at 52.75, after the earnings announcement. The market has been pessimistic about Apple's future, but they are doing well.
Intel's profits fell, according to their earnings report last night.
Not good for an INTC shareholder.
It's the 3rd biggest university in Ohio with 34,491 students and its main campus is the 115th biggest campus in the nation. They have seven regional satellite campuses.
I think they're plenty big enough to have sports teams.
ADO.NET has had parameterized queries since 1.0 was released in 2002...
.NET.
The old ADO also had paramaterized query support, although they weren't as easy to use as in
It means a lot more than someone who has never used the service and complains about a bug that has been fixed.
Once again, the excess CPU usage is due to a bug that was fixed. Indexing Service on my server is using a combined 13,904 KB of memory (with three indexes, two of which are rather large) and does not make a noticable dent on performance, even if new files are being indexed. It indexes new content on-demand, not during a nightly process. It also indexes the content of files.
Once again, have you actually used it to index files and perform a search?
I need to search a few times a week -- for old files, things buried in old archives. At 14MB memory use and no CPU/IO hit, it's nice to have a constantly
Google's desktop search is not very multi-user aware and will not install on non-administrator. They even took steps to prevent people from easily installing it as a non-administrator.
Microsoft's MSN Desktop Search provides functionality very similar to Google Desktop Search.
There are many other search products out there.
Google Desktop Search is intended for single-user use only. Indexing Service can be configured on a file server to index files for many users, and you don't have to pay extra for it if you are already using Windows. I wouldn't use Indexing Service to replicate the functionality of Google or MSN Desktop Search on a desktop system, but it works fine for indexing large sets of data on my server... for all users... not just the one that installed Google Desktop or whatnot.
I would think that a personal anecdote based on someone that has actually used the product would be quite a bit more useful than someone that complained about a bug that has already been fixed.
Google's products have more features "out of the box" -- but Microsoft's products can be expanded and configured to get similar results with a competent administrator. Indexing Service does index file content of various file types by default. Plugins (IFilter components) can be used to provide indexing capabillity for other file formats.
It's sad that the parent got insightful.
Indexing Service had a bug which once caused it to use excess CPU time. Those of you with basic readong comprehension skills may have noticed that the bug has been fixed.
Have you used Indexing Service before or set it up? It does not eat up CPU time on my server since the original index was created, and it could be used to provide a Google-like indexing service, similar to Google's Desktop Search or their enterprise products, with configuration, as I previously stated. The search/indexing capabilities can be expanded to support more filetypes, and it can be queried by many different programs.
Without spending much time, it effectively indexes filenames and text file contents on my server. With the right plugins, I could add in metadata for different file types (like filenames in archives, mp3 tags, etc).
The service should have indexed your
I would imagine that any such system would be built upon the Indexing Service, which is a very useful tool. With the right configuration and software, it can implement a service very similar to Google Desktop or something similar to the Enterprise service.
It works for me without any work other than telling it what to search: by turning it on on a Windows 2003 server and telling it to index a drive, a standard Windows search on that drive will use the index... even over the network. And that's all I personally need it for.
Do you have a link for more information, or can you explain this more fully? I have a 8x200gb software RAID5 that sustains just over 7.5 MBytes/sec (four of those drives are using the two IDE channels; the other four are Serial ATA, so that might contribute to poor performance as well).
I wish I had known this before I moved 1 TB of data to the array.
(All prices approximate.)
This will support 4 drives over SATA, or 7 if you use all of the IDE channels:
$105 4U case and 400w power supply
$165 915G Socket 479 Motherboard w/ 4 SATA, 2 IDE, and gigabit ethernet.
$71 Celeron M 370 (Dothan) CPU
$25 DDR2 memory (256MB)
$25 CompactFlash OS drive (1GB)
$15 IDE to Compact Flash adapter
$0-25 Linux OS -- there are specialized NAS distributions available commercially for those that afraid of setting things up themselves
= $406-$431
Which beats this device's $670 lowest price found on Froogle.
Additions:
$20 4x SATA I
$60 4x SATA II
$50-100 Replacement power supply
+$60 1GB DDR2
+$150 Pentium M CPU
Sure, the Celeron M will use more power than a Celeron M ULV, and the included power supply may be inadequate for configurations with large drives (but that's more drives than the article's product supports). And this device doesn't have the USB device capaibility, either. But you've got the freedom to do things how you like.
On my 32" LCD TV, the difference in picture quality on my HTPC between VGA and DVI is pretty significant. I output at 1360x768 (native) resolution on both and the picture is rather blurry with VGA, making text hard to read, even after I increased the Windows DPI settings and font sizes.
Also, between HDMI and component from my HD DVR, the colors look washed out at 480i/p over component compared to HDMI (when using the included 3 RCA cables). The picture looks fine at 720p/1080i over component or HDMI.
My friend has two LCDs and a video card with DVI-I and VGA support. Whichever monitor that happens to be plugged in over VGA has a much more reddish tint.
It takes about 1/10 of a second for me to hit print screen and paste the picture into Paint The screenshot resolution is 2560x1024. The blink in the cursor when the image is being copied is barely noticable. This is with a Intel Core Duo based system.
That's all irrelevant though; if the image can be accessed so that print screen can put a copy in the clipboard, a program can access that image in memory and feed it into the video encoder directly.