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Um no, gigabit networks need Cat-5E not necessarily Cat-6, most Cat-5 is actually Cat-5E these days anyway, although I would still check you are using Cat-5E if you need gigabit.
Here's a thought if you want complicated AI how about just going for I and ignoring the A that way you can play with/against your friends and have a whale of a time. Alternatively you can pay over the odds for something which is basically just a shiny version of the last console you had, but you know it's not as if I can actually buy a PS3 yet (in the UK) although that the Wii is continually sold out perhaps just means this guy is talking out his butt.
I think Nintendo have it right, not everybody has a HDTV just yet, but they do have a TV and the Wii is by all accounts FUN for all the family. So By using old tech comparitively they have developed a system people want. And by not spunking all that money on HD graphics this generation they can spend the time and money developing the console for a Wii 2 with HD graphics in 4 or 5 years time when more people will have the capability to use them to the full potential.
Meanwhile the 360 and PS3 spent huge amounts of money developing new tech which will be old tech by the time the HD Wii comes out, saving Nintendo huge amounts of development costs. Plus the format war will either be all over or dual format players will be cheap enough to include these on the next console.
Maybe but I think it should suffice to say that each AOL account has an OpenID associated with it, rather than saying and OpenID Identifier which just seems a little silly to me, but then I don't see the point of saying more than required to get the point across.
Or possibly brand x was good for 2001, brand y for 2002, brand x again in 2003, but they were bottom of the heap in 2004 it's all pointless data as you don't want to go and buy a 5 year old disk. Drives have moved on and releasing the data could very well be anti-productive as the worst performing drives could now be the best although they probably won't stay that way for long. In much the same way Intel and AMD, nVidia and ATI keep trying to outdo each other, and anyway buying disks you pay your money and you makes your choise if it fails it fails, if you don't have redundancy and backups for sensitive data it is your own damn fault and I will laugh at you.
Um, I just advised someone (2 days ago) to get a £35 (~$70) 7300GT which should run aero fine, this was by no means the cheapest, probably could have picked up something for £20 if I'd have wanted to advise they get the bottom of the heap, but I thought the extra was probably worth it for vista in a year or two, when we will ALL be using it, and I spose by then you'd be able to get one for £10 or less...
Sorry but Lenovo have rights to the IBM name and some other trademarks (eg. thinkpad) name for 5 years (initially). So your IBM is actually a Lenovo machine.
There is really no point me going on about how wrong you are, it's the fact you believe that LCD are analogue devices that just cracks me up. The pixels may use analogue levels (well no as the computer is actually a digital device so is sending only 24/32bits per pixel anyway) to display but whether each pixel is receiving the correct signal is why digital is better.
The point being that in a true digital monitor you get 24 (32) bits per pixel and that is EXACTLY what is sent to the correct pixel, the 24bits meant for that pixel. In analogue it SCANS over the pixel area giving an approximation of what each pixel should be, this is good in analogue devices such as CRT but in LCD you can actually get the digital straight from the machine and get each pixel to display EXACTLY what the computer has sent, rather than converting the Digital computer signal to analogue, to send down the cable, the monitor then converting this to digital to work out what each pixel should be sent and then the pixel using this to display (possibly analogue but by this point it doesn't matter as the eye can't distinguish the 16.7million colours in a 24bit display anyway).
So basically the point of digital signals is to ensure that each pixel gets exactly what the computer is sending for that pixel.
In a CRT you have the analogue signal being processed (in analogue) to modify the electron beam so that the image can be displayed. There is no digital re-conversion and as this is an old technology it receives the analogue signal and processes in analogue and you get an approximation on the CRT (which work differently as the beam scans over the pixels in some form of order rather than setting each pixel to the required level and then changing them all at once (LCD))
So that's why digital is better, and yes analogue can do higher resolutions but it is most definitely not as good, it's just that digital takes FAR more processing power to achieve the same ends so grow up and move with the times.
No offence but if a display is digital, ie. each pixel has a specific number of bits which dictate how to display that pixel surely that's better than having an analogue signal which kinda just approximates. Also having huge numbers of analogue to digital conversions just introduces artefacts which is just plain bad. So perhaps you need to move out of the dark ages and start whinging that they can't fucking decide to just invent one standard, but the issue is that 10 years ago when DVI was being worked out they didn't think about displays with 3932160 pixels (2560x1560) and beyond which is where we are at today. Plus it's a whole cost benefit thing as if they design an adapter that will do displays which will exist in 20 years time the cost of the adapter now is prohibitive that no one uses it.
MS makes software that works well enough at price points that most people can afford (£300 dell machines come with windows, yes they are crap for doing what we all like to do but Mr and Mrs Office worker don't notice the difference as they don't use it to it's full potential) Apple have typically priced themselves into a niche market deliberately choosing to produce a complete hardware/software product. Great to control the user experience but not great for the unwashed masses. They are making changes with the Mac Mini and the like but at £400ish for the basic model which does not even come with a screen, keyboard or mouse (which most people have admittedly) it's still not tackling the very bottom of the market.
Apple have made choices which makes me want to smack fanbois round the head with a 2x4 when they spout off about how great Apple are, they lock you in to hardware and software (no so much on Intel Macs I 'spose) while Windows runs on pretty much every piece of commodity hardware you can buy, so you've got an infinitely (not actually but close enough) configurable system which will work to do what most people want and be compatible with most other people.
We like bashing corperate America as we in Europe have the EU (bad as they may be) but at least they occasionally have some balls, like basically forcing Steve Jobs to come out against DRM, having an anti-monopoly commission that, you know, is anti-monopolies. And generally tries to do good for consumers and not protect damn big corperations from f***ing us up the a*** (or a** for those who speak American).
I've seen more broken HFS+ files systems than I have in the 95% more windows systems I've used/seen. That could be because we rebuild Windows when it breaks rather than just fixing it but then again I don't think that the Mac fanbois can really say anything. I have never seen a broken ext3 file system except when the user has done a number of really stupid things.
I just don't install iTunes on machines (other than the one to upload music to the Ipod (deliberate miscapitisation, grammar is NOT exchangeable just because the Americans think so) even that hasn't had it re-installed since the hard drive went on the fritz) so I can just use it as a portable hard drive to move files, useful as I don't have a USB flash drive. Explorer just treats it as a removable disk.
Your music won't play, if you just drag it on, but then you bought an Ipod so really it's your own fault (I'm assumming that as you are reading Slashdot you know Apple are just as bad as microsoft for vendor lock in).
Unfortunately you have a broken legal system in the states. Over in more sensible Europe that would probably have been thrown out of court because the hard drive manufactures use the SI units correctly, and state so. Just because people don't understand does not mean that they are correct, you can get prosicuted even if you don't know you have committed a crime, why should you be allowed to win a case because you don't know what symbols mean.
I'm just saying that basically computers are one of the only areas which use the SI system to mean something other than SI units. It's not a good system, but at least there is a system to provide clarity which is basically what SI units are for. So unless you have a better one which will provide the same level of clarity then you have no right to complain.
Well that would make you a dumb ass. The issue is that for EVERY OTHER use the k, M, G... are powers of 10, hell the issue becomes more apparent when you look at hard drives, these are done in powers of 10, so the problem with writing just kB is that it can mean BOTH 1000B and 1024B, with no way to distinguish between the 2, and it does matter as there is about a 10% difference by G and a 20% difference by Y. But heaven forbid that they should come up with a solution which would make it easy to see if they are binary or decimal numbers.
They have infact already designed and approved (IEC and IEEE) them, it's just that no one uses them really, so they look out of place. Basically the words change to Kibi, Mebi, Gibi, Tebi, Exbi, Zebi and Yobi; http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Binary_prefix to signify increases of 2^10 rather than the decimal 10^3. You also add an i so it's GiB or Mib.
But all I thought when I read the story was of the reasoning of turning Mars into a giant space ship, whilst wiping out your own civilisation. "Because it's cool".
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Well Ethanol turns into Acetaldehyde, which is basically formaldehyde, and you don't see too many peeps saying we shouldn't drink...
Um, there's a J not a G in Jest...
Yes but who shall we mock when they are gone?
Um no, gigabit networks need Cat-5E not necessarily Cat-6, most Cat-5 is actually Cat-5E these days anyway, although I would still check you are using Cat-5E if you need gigabit.
Here's a thought if you want complicated AI how about just going for I and ignoring the A that way you can play with/against your friends and have a whale of a time. Alternatively you can pay over the odds for something which is basically just a shiny version of the last console you had, but you know it's not as if I can actually buy a PS3 yet (in the UK) although that the Wii is continually sold out perhaps just means this guy is talking out his butt.
Well they had a flag didn't they? It's how we British took so much of the world...
Please note my tongue is firmly in my my cheek, in case you missed it.
Although I liked Gandhi's answer to what he thought of western civilisation, "I think it would be a good idea"...
I think Nintendo have it right, not everybody has a HDTV just yet, but they do have a TV and the Wii is by all accounts FUN for all the family. So By using old tech comparitively they have developed a system people want. And by not spunking all that money on HD graphics this generation they can spend the time and money developing the console for a Wii 2 with HD graphics in 4 or 5 years time when more people will have the capability to use them to the full potential. Meanwhile the 360 and PS3 spent huge amounts of money developing new tech which will be old tech by the time the HD Wii comes out, saving Nintendo huge amounts of development costs. Plus the format war will either be all over or dual format players will be cheap enough to include these on the next console.
Maybe but I think it should suffice to say that each AOL account has an OpenID associated with it, rather than saying and OpenID Identifier which just seems a little silly to me, but then I don't see the point of saying more than required to get the point across.
I'll have a personal Identification PIN number please, what the hell is an OpenID identifier if not an OpenID ID?
Or possibly brand x was good for 2001, brand y for 2002, brand x again in 2003, but they were bottom of the heap in 2004 it's all pointless data as you don't want to go and buy a 5 year old disk. Drives have moved on and releasing the data could very well be anti-productive as the worst performing drives could now be the best although they probably won't stay that way for long. In much the same way Intel and AMD, nVidia and ATI keep trying to outdo each other, and anyway buying disks you pay your money and you makes your choise if it fails it fails, if you don't have redundancy and backups for sensitive data it is your own damn fault and I will laugh at you.
Um, I just advised someone (2 days ago) to get a £35 (~$70) 7300GT which should run aero fine, this was by no means the cheapest, probably could have picked up something for £20 if I'd have wanted to advise they get the bottom of the heap, but I thought the extra was probably worth it for vista in a year or two, when we will ALL be using it, and I spose by then you'd be able to get one for £10 or less...
Sorry but Lenovo have rights to the IBM name and some other trademarks (eg. thinkpad) name for 5 years (initially). So your IBM is actually a Lenovo machine.
There is really no point me going on about how wrong you are, it's the fact you believe that LCD are analogue devices that just cracks me up. The pixels may use analogue levels (well no as the computer is actually a digital device so is sending only 24/32bits per pixel anyway) to display but whether each pixel is receiving the correct signal is why digital is better. The point being that in a true digital monitor you get 24 (32) bits per pixel and that is EXACTLY what is sent to the correct pixel, the 24bits meant for that pixel. In analogue it SCANS over the pixel area giving an approximation of what each pixel should be, this is good in analogue devices such as CRT but in LCD you can actually get the digital straight from the machine and get each pixel to display EXACTLY what the computer has sent, rather than converting the Digital computer signal to analogue, to send down the cable, the monitor then converting this to digital to work out what each pixel should be sent and then the pixel using this to display (possibly analogue but by this point it doesn't matter as the eye can't distinguish the 16.7million colours in a 24bit display anyway). So basically the point of digital signals is to ensure that each pixel gets exactly what the computer is sending for that pixel. In a CRT you have the analogue signal being processed (in analogue) to modify the electron beam so that the image can be displayed. There is no digital re-conversion and as this is an old technology it receives the analogue signal and processes in analogue and you get an approximation on the CRT (which work differently as the beam scans over the pixels in some form of order rather than setting each pixel to the required level and then changing them all at once (LCD)) So that's why digital is better, and yes analogue can do higher resolutions but it is most definitely not as good, it's just that digital takes FAR more processing power to achieve the same ends so grow up and move with the times.
No offence but if a display is digital, ie. each pixel has a specific number of bits which dictate how to display that pixel surely that's better than having an analogue signal which kinda just approximates. Also having huge numbers of analogue to digital conversions just introduces artefacts which is just plain bad. So perhaps you need to move out of the dark ages and start whinging that they can't fucking decide to just invent one standard, but the issue is that 10 years ago when DVI was being worked out they didn't think about displays with 3932160 pixels (2560x1560) and beyond which is where we are at today. Plus it's a whole cost benefit thing as if they design an adapter that will do displays which will exist in 20 years time the cost of the adapter now is prohibitive that no one uses it.
UAC is the new clippy...
It's not a bug it's a feature...
"they don't need to advertise all *their* features all the time"...
MS makes software that works well enough at price points that most people can afford (£300 dell machines come with windows, yes they are crap for doing what we all like to do but Mr and Mrs Office worker don't notice the difference as they don't use it to it's full potential) Apple have typically priced themselves into a niche market deliberately choosing to produce a complete hardware/software product. Great to control the user experience but not great for the unwashed masses. They are making changes with the Mac Mini and the like but at £400ish for the basic model which does not even come with a screen, keyboard or mouse (which most people have admittedly) it's still not tackling the very bottom of the market. Apple have made choices which makes me want to smack fanbois round the head with a 2x4 when they spout off about how great Apple are, they lock you in to hardware and software (no so much on Intel Macs I 'spose) while Windows runs on pretty much every piece of commodity hardware you can buy, so you've got an infinitely (not actually but close enough) configurable system which will work to do what most people want and be compatible with most other people.
We like bashing corperate America as we in Europe have the EU (bad as they may be) but at least they occasionally have some balls, like basically forcing Steve Jobs to come out against DRM, having an anti-monopoly commission that, you know, is anti-monopolies. And generally tries to do good for consumers and not protect damn big corperations from f***ing us up the a*** (or a** for those who speak American).
I've seen more broken HFS+ files systems than I have in the 95% more windows systems I've used/seen. That could be because we rebuild Windows when it breaks rather than just fixing it but then again I don't think that the Mac fanbois can really say anything. I have never seen a broken ext3 file system except when the user has done a number of really stupid things.
I just don't install iTunes on machines (other than the one to upload music to the Ipod (deliberate miscapitisation, grammar is NOT exchangeable just because the Americans think so) even that hasn't had it re-installed since the hard drive went on the fritz) so I can just use it as a portable hard drive to move files, useful as I don't have a USB flash drive. Explorer just treats it as a removable disk. Your music won't play, if you just drag it on, but then you bought an Ipod so really it's your own fault (I'm assumming that as you are reading Slashdot you know Apple are just as bad as microsoft for vendor lock in).
Unfortunately you have a broken legal system in the states. Over in more sensible Europe that would probably have been thrown out of court because the hard drive manufactures use the SI units correctly, and state so. Just because people don't understand does not mean that they are correct, you can get prosicuted even if you don't know you have committed a crime, why should you be allowed to win a case because you don't know what symbols mean.
I'm just saying that basically computers are one of the only areas which use the SI system to mean something other than SI units. It's not a good system, but at least there is a system to provide clarity which is basically what SI units are for. So unless you have a better one which will provide the same level of clarity then you have no right to complain.
Well that would make you a dumb ass. The issue is that for EVERY OTHER use the k, M, G... are powers of 10, hell the issue becomes more apparent when you look at hard drives, these are done in powers of 10, so the problem with writing just kB is that it can mean BOTH 1000B and 1024B, with no way to distinguish between the 2, and it does matter as there is about a 10% difference by G and a 20% difference by Y. But heaven forbid that they should come up with a solution which would make it easy to see if they are binary or decimal numbers.
But all I thought when I read the story was of the reasoning of turning Mars into a giant space ship, whilst wiping out your own civilisation. "Because it's cool".