also they arnt even using ATI's top card apparently... they are using the X850XT and the X850XT Platnium shows minor to moderate improvement over the flat XT. A platnium card with more crossfire optimization could well surpass SLI in preformance since they are pretty tight.
something doesnt seem right with the benches, anyone notice how they test the Nvidias with 4xAA and they test the ATI with 6x in one of the bench graphs? im wondering if ATI would have surpassed Nvidia if it were a level playing ground.
Also i think its odd that they put on single nvidia cards, but not the single ATI cards...
idk the way they organize the info is more or less confusing and seems uncomplete or uneven, maybe its just me...
Whats the point of longhorn? if their reports of cutting the fast searching, most of the earlier mentioned features as well as some security upgrades are true, then whats the point? This OS is sounding more and more like a rebuilt copy of XP with a nice interface and new icons... it sounds like a very shallow OS. Microsoft needs to get serious.
I realize that Apple has uniform hardware, but honestly why cant the largest software company in the world match or at least keep up with what Apple or Mozilla can do.
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im guessing since the wheel doesnt work with cotton gloves the thing works though some kind of marnetic/electron transfer... and last i checked wood isnt exactly the most conductive material -- oh well he can always sell it for a grand on ebay ^.^
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then how come the wheel doesnt work using cotton gloves? it has nothing to do with pressure. its something with the electrons in your hand that cotton doesnt conduct properly... or something.
just say you thought it came with the computer, since the sales guy said it has a wireless ready.
at the worst you can at least later claim ignorance to how any of this stuff works. best case scenario might be the guy who sold you the comp at BB gets sued too!:-)
for most computer parts, i got to newegg.com simply because they have about the best prices, fast shipping and good cust service.
for items they dont have or when im not buying in bulk where i save with them on shipping, ill do a search on bizrate.com, which compares many websites prices (including neweggs) and has a nice shiny site interface with the ability to search by pricing/size/interface/brand etc...
i sometimes use pricewatch.com for quick pricing, (like if i want to know rough market values) but tend not to really use it because a lot of times accessories get lumped with stuff (like ill want a 40GB hard drive and it will lump hard drive accessories in) and because they sometimes have less than reputatble sites on there and no real ratings (causing me to have to research a site -- and i tend to prefer not to have to).
also ill throw in a quick plug for xoxide.com who has stuff more for the comp modder. They have some nifty prices, and are *usually* fairly priced. They also run a rewards program and sunday night 1-item special which is cool (called X-hour -- the rewards thing is Xoxide rewards by the way).
is it professional to say "no sorry we cant help you right now, our systems are down".
most office workers i know cant deal with windows security problems, and dont bother asking them to network or anything else.
This guy is clueless, windows it just plain awesome... there are tons of reasons to love windows, and i will throughly outline them... just after i reboot.
yeah your right... and like you said i do everything you mentioned and i have a secure system (has been since day 1) -- and that makes two of us with secure computers... what about Joe Computer User -- who when you ask him if he has virus protection, he says "i have UPS 2.0 (or UBS)". If you ask if he has spyware protection he says "i have a firewall (or worse firewhale)." The average user is incapable of running under secure conditions nowadays, hence why there are so many viruses (malicious coders smell the blood in the water). Windows is a disaster for the average user -- To say that you *can* operate a secure windows computer ignores the more obvious fact that if you arnt computer literate you *wont* have one, between upgrades, programs and common sense requirements there is too much pressure on average users. Id go further and even say computer users feel like they no longer have the ability to control their security destiny -- they are just giving up, figuring its going to happen, and assuming it wont destory there data and will just be an annoyance they can live with. Either that or go to teches every 3 weeks for a cleaning, or buy another dell.
typically i find these maps and sat. images kind of boring and not useful. This is different, you can turn on roads, county/country borders and dining locations. You can find your own house and view it in good enough resolution as to actually see and identify your car in the driveway! When scrolling out you can see locations of local pizza places and stuff, all very cool. It does all this and does it smoothy with fading transitions, very very neat. Way to go Google.
id say blame the technicians responsible for that crappy password... i worked at a school, we ANTICIPATED these kind of problems, so we did our best to secure things -- an 8 character password is hardly what i would call a secure password. that would take what, all of 20 minutes to brute force?
If the technical department took security seriously this wouldnt have happened -- i mean the password could have been "admin" or "cat123" in which case EVERY student would be messing up the laptops, but thats what kids do. ANTICIPATE and make a real password.
for the tech community at that school ill do the hard work for you:
i tend to agree... but maybe i should get the manual anyway, to tell me why my linksys doesnt turn on anymore.
D link is no better though -- i guess netgear wins by default... i feel like no one gets it right here except for Apple, and they are expensive (unless you buy refreshed i guess)
yeah a buck a song, usually at a lower bitrate with limitations on its use (cant burn it to CD can only put it on so many computers, etc)... not to mention if you use itunes you have to deal with AAC format, If you use Napster etc, you deal with low bitrate and WMA and niether of these services have even near the selection of p2p/BT. I feel that with all these dam restrictions they are encouraging people to steal music -- with music you steal you not only have unlimited selection, you can get any bitrate, and the song is yours forever in any format you want... for FREE. $1/song = a lot of money when you download a lot of songs. I as a college student couldnt afford an extra $20 a week for music (thats 20 songs i keep, probably a hundred or so i download legally *wink* a week to try).
yeah your right, Contois rules... i mean their menu organization and "genre, artist and album attributes" are awesome... i mean i use them daily in my OSX, winXP and even my Windows 98 machine, but how come Contois waited till 2001 to patent it? Oh and they are planning on sueing microsoft too (specifically Media player which has been copying itunes lately) oh and what about OS X and Windows too, it uses the same nested directories and genre/artist organization techniques.
These open and ambiquious patents are really getting annoying... i mean maybe back in 2001 their app was unique and ahead of its time, but how is nested folders and type/group organizing patentable -- EVERYTHING PROGRAM USES THESE THINGS... why wait till apple comes along to sue? Btw why also wait until Itunes is so popular to sue, they could have done it 2 years ago -- this is clearly a grab for media attention and a possible pay off, and we fell for it.
what practical use does this have? can you wear it? probably not because youll lose or break it easily. honestly, not to be mean or flamebait or whatever but this seems fairly useless unless the tech can be applied for other devices?
Honestly id be worried about breaking the thing being so thin... not to mention its probably WAY more expensive than a regular clock -- and it talks about battery life, but who cares honestly. My clocks get YEARS on single AA batteries, is the battery life all that important? am i missing the point?
why the hell would we want more power over the internet in the hands of people who dont understand technology. how very foolish. Sorry Joe America but just because you dont understand the internet is not a reason for the government and congress (who also dont understand the internet) to step in... that will just make matters worse.
People either need to learn how to deal with spyware and viruses, get an apple or not use a computer. We dont need any more DMCA or filters on what is currently a free and open information channel.
i wonder whats so bad about it. when you tell people they cant have freedom and democracy, they want it all that much more (ex. people of iran and china).
When you have tons of it, you forget the value and begin to give it away or not value it (ex. people of USA)
So is a little censorship so bad? Im sure the people of iran are about ready to topple their corrupt leadership because of it. If only we here realized we are losing rights, maybe then people would actually take a look at the crap our politicians pass (DMCA and parts of the patriot act).
google search on: "Michael dell apple" will bring it up for you.
"Michael Dell once said that the best thing that could be done with Apple would be to shut it down, liquidate its assets, and return the money to its shareholders"
thats from macobserver, odds are its a rehash. Btw its very much like michael dell (or any business leader) to make his "inciteful" comments on others businesses and the superiority of his own (right or wrong). Id add that yeah, the guy is rich, but he does so by selling garbage, he sells computers that overheat, have frequent hardware failures all while claiming good support when its more common to find the support doesnt exist (i speak from vast experience here through work). So please spare me of michael dell is amazing chatter, he knows how to market. He also knows how to sell cheap junk to people who couldnt tell you the difference between a computer that costs 500 and one thats 1500 other than price.
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also they arnt even using ATI's top card apparently... they are using the X850XT and the X850XT Platnium shows minor to moderate improvement over the flat XT. A platnium card with more crossfire optimization could well surpass SLI in preformance since they are pretty tight.
something doesnt seem right with the benches, anyone notice how they test the Nvidias with 4xAA and they test the ATI with 6x in one of the bench graphs? im wondering if ATI would have surpassed Nvidia if it were a level playing ground.
Also i think its odd that they put on single nvidia cards, but not the single ATI cards...
idk the way they organize the info is more or less confusing and seems uncomplete or uneven, maybe its just me...
Whats the point of longhorn? if their reports of cutting the fast searching, most of the earlier mentioned features as well as some security upgrades are true, then whats the point? This OS is sounding more and more like a rebuilt copy of XP with a nice interface and new icons... it sounds like a very shallow OS. Microsoft needs to get serious.
I realize that Apple has uniform hardware, but honestly why cant the largest software company in the world match or at least keep up with what Apple or Mozilla can do.
im guessing since the wheel doesnt work with cotton gloves the thing works though some kind of marnetic/electron transfer... and last i checked wood isnt exactly the most conductive material -- oh well he can always sell it for a grand on ebay ^.^
then how come the wheel doesnt work using cotton gloves? it has nothing to do with pressure. its something with the electrons in your hand that cotton doesnt conduct properly... or something.
just say you thought it came with the computer, since the sales guy said it has a wireless ready.
:-)
at the worst you can at least later claim ignorance to how any of this stuff works. best case scenario might be the guy who sold you the comp at BB gets sued too!
for most computer parts, i got to newegg.com simply because they have about the best prices, fast shipping and good cust service.
for items they dont have or when im not buying in bulk where i save with them on shipping, ill do a search on bizrate.com, which compares many websites prices (including neweggs) and has a nice shiny site interface with the ability to search by pricing/size/interface/brand etc...
i sometimes use pricewatch.com for quick pricing, (like if i want to know rough market values) but tend not to really use it because a lot of times accessories get lumped with stuff (like ill want a 40GB hard drive and it will lump hard drive accessories in) and because they sometimes have less than reputatble sites on there and no real ratings (causing me to have to research a site -- and i tend to prefer not to have to).
also ill throw in a quick plug for xoxide.com who has stuff more for the comp modder. They have some nifty prices, and are *usually* fairly priced. They also run a rewards program and sunday night 1-item special which is cool (called X-hour -- the rewards thing is Xoxide rewards by the way).
is it professional to say "no sorry we cant help you right now, our systems are down". most office workers i know cant deal with windows security problems, and dont bother asking them to network or anything else.
This guy is clueless, windows it just plain awesome ... there are tons of reasons to love windows, and i will throughly outline them... just after i reboot.
yeah your right... and like you said i do everything you mentioned and i have a secure system (has been since day 1) -- and that makes two of us with secure computers... what about Joe Computer User -- who when you ask him if he has virus protection, he says "i have UPS 2.0 (or UBS)". If you ask if he has spyware protection he says "i have a firewall (or worse firewhale)." The average user is incapable of running under secure conditions nowadays, hence why there are so many viruses (malicious coders smell the blood in the water). Windows is a disaster for the average user -- To say that you *can* operate a secure windows computer ignores the more obvious fact that if you arnt computer literate you *wont* have one, between upgrades, programs and common sense requirements there is too much pressure on average users. Id go further and even say computer users feel like they no longer have the ability to control their security destiny -- they are just giving up, figuring its going to happen, and assuming it wont destory there data and will just be an annoyance they can live with. Either that or go to teches every 3 weeks for a cleaning, or buy another dell.
this is good news.
sucks for all those who want to game and dont/cant shell out $$$ and deal with Windows security problems though
typically i find these maps and sat. images kind of boring and not useful. This is different, you can turn on roads, county/country borders and dining locations. You can find your own house and view it in good enough resolution as to actually see and identify your car in the driveway! When scrolling out you can see locations of local pizza places and stuff, all very cool. It does all this and does it smoothy with fading transitions, very very neat. Way to go Google.
seriously this to me seems like luke skywalker vs darth vadar... i must be a fanboy... or just delusional.
no no... its do EXACTLY what apple did... but do it with a black and red colored player in order to be a rebel (but DONT have U2 sign the back).
id say blame the technicians responsible for that crappy password... i worked at a school, we ANTICIPATED these kind of problems, so we did our best to secure things -- an 8 character password is hardly what i would call a secure password. that would take what, all of 20 minutes to brute force?
a28dmn3bdk29$ks^ldj223
If the technical department took security seriously this wouldnt have happened -- i mean the password could have been "admin" or "cat123" in which case EVERY student would be messing up the laptops, but thats what kids do. ANTICIPATE and make a real password.
for the tech community at that school ill do the hard work for you:
djw!d35!2jdm*sd03d8awr
reasaji%dbne3f2#6k3h2d
you can use these for free. or it will be a $5,000 lisence for this one:
a28mn3bdgrfecv@#k$fss28dn324bd^cldj223
i tend to agree... but maybe i should get the manual anyway, to tell me why my linksys doesnt turn on anymore.
D link is no better though -- i guess netgear wins by default... i feel like no one gets it right here except for Apple, and they are expensive (unless you buy refreshed i guess)
i agree.... wait whats opera again?
yeah a buck a song, usually at a lower bitrate with limitations on its use (cant burn it to CD can only put it on so many computers, etc)... not to mention if you use itunes you have to deal with AAC format, If you use Napster etc, you deal with low bitrate and WMA and niether of these services have even near the selection of p2p/BT. I feel that with all these dam restrictions they are encouraging people to steal music -- with music you steal you not only have unlimited selection, you can get any bitrate, and the song is yours forever in any format you want... for FREE. $1/song = a lot of money when you download a lot of songs. I as a college student couldnt afford an extra $20 a week for music (thats 20 songs i keep, probably a hundred or so i download legally *wink* a week to try).
Woah! Those are really neat inventions.
yeah your right, Contois rules... i mean their menu organization and "genre, artist and album attributes" are awesome... i mean i use them daily in my OSX, winXP and even my Windows 98 machine, but how come Contois waited till 2001 to patent it? Oh and they are planning on sueing microsoft too (specifically Media player which has been copying itunes lately) oh and what about OS X and Windows too, it uses the same nested directories and genre/artist organization techniques.
These open and ambiquious patents are really getting annoying... i mean maybe back in 2001 their app was unique and ahead of its time, but how is nested folders and type/group organizing patentable -- EVERYTHING PROGRAM USES THESE THINGS... why wait till apple comes along to sue? Btw why also wait until Itunes is so popular to sue, they could have done it 2 years ago -- this is clearly a grab for media attention and a possible pay off, and we fell for it.
what practical use does this have? can you wear it? probably not because youll lose or break it easily. honestly, not to be mean or flamebait or whatever but this seems fairly useless unless the tech can be applied for other devices?
Honestly id be worried about breaking the thing being so thin... not to mention its probably WAY more expensive than a regular clock -- and it talks about battery life, but who cares honestly. My clocks get YEARS on single AA batteries, is the battery life all that important? am i missing the point?
Dont worry, im sure the RIAA (Or the British version?) will bring that bastards lawless ass down.
:-)
Dont troll me! i love the queen... even if she is a lawless bastard
everyone knows dell are #1.
why the hell would we want more power over the internet in the hands of people who dont understand technology. how very foolish. Sorry Joe America but just because you dont understand the internet is not a reason for the government and congress (who also dont understand the internet) to step in... that will just make matters worse.
People either need to learn how to deal with spyware and viruses, get an apple or not use a computer. We dont need any more DMCA or filters on what is currently a free and open information channel.
i wonder whats so bad about it. when you tell people they cant have freedom and democracy, they want it all that much more (ex. people of iran and china).
When you have tons of it, you forget the value and begin to give it away or not value it (ex. people of USA)
So is a little censorship so bad? Im sure the people of iran are about ready to topple their corrupt leadership because of it. If only we here realized we are losing rights, maybe then people would actually take a look at the crap our politicians pass (DMCA and parts of the patriot act).
Just my two cents
google search on: "Michael dell apple" will bring it up for you.
"Michael Dell once said that the best thing that could be done with Apple would be to shut it down, liquidate its assets, and return the money to its shareholders"
thats from macobserver, odds are its a rehash. Btw its very much like michael dell (or any business leader) to make his "inciteful" comments on others businesses and the superiority of his own (right or wrong). Id add that yeah, the guy is rich, but he does so by selling garbage, he sells computers that overheat, have frequent hardware failures all while claiming good support when its more common to find the support doesnt exist (i speak from vast experience here through work). So please spare me of michael dell is amazing chatter, he knows how to market. He also knows how to sell cheap junk to people who couldnt tell you the difference between a computer that costs 500 and one thats 1500 other than price.