- No internet connection or internet connection too slow at home;
- PC at home probably not as good as the net cafe's boxes;
In case of Korea, the Internet penetration rate and the speed is one of the highest and fastest in the world. so it has little to do with the speed of the internet. And of all the internet cafes i've been to, they are not top notch as cafe owners don't want to spend too much on the equipment and the latest games that might drag down the speed. (exception to WOW) Plus, most people can buy gaming grade PC for under $1000 which is affordable for any household in Korea. Considering that Korean economy is at 12th according to cia.gov, i think there are plenty of markets out there. You and i do agree on the social aspect of going to net cafes. Some experts in Korea forcasts that blizzard will sell 10M copies within 2 years after the SC2 launch.
Here in Korea, there are at least a dozen internet cafes every corner(seriously). In this land of 50 million people, there are over 20k internet cafes. That is like number of christian churches here as well. (25% of pop are Christians) People here go to internet cafes for gaming and it is same as LAN parties in the States. Except you pay $1.5/hr which is not that bad and even kids can afford it out of their pocket. In the case of Korea, people don't LAN party. They just party out at the internet cafe. And internet cafes got T1 connection so internet is no problem. (duh!) I guess US customers needs much more convincing argument that those listed here on slashdot. I wonder if battle net makes any big money off of advertisement they sell. I would suggest Blizzard to sell LAN party add on for something like $9.99. And require players to be verified some way. That way they don't lose marginal number of people who wish to play multiplayer offline. (which exactly doesn't make sense in Korea - Are you a hermit?)
I spent about $300 to build a whole new system, not $300 for a cpu. I bought about dozen computers in the past year for work. I found those $300 sufficient to build adequate system for regular web browsing/office work with Vista running on those computers.
I think it is more important to compare combination of 3 different parts or the system as a whole. Just by adding large amount of Ram boosts performance. In some cases having SSD as a HDD helps.
In reality, i find that you can easily spend a lot of money to buy "outlier" parts just you want best of what you can get to help work done a bit faster. Few grand in difference doesn't seem like foolish investment when it comes to professional video editing and graphical design. Time really is money for many jobs. Few minutes add up and become hours over a week. That will alter work output by chunks.
I do believe that there are certains things that we can do and things we need right away than having new computers, faster internet, big screens, etc. I am more inclined to think that tech companies somehow lobbied the government out of this to get them purchase all those lcd projecters, new computers. That might actually be better than bailing out failing banks. But still, we could use some money to hire people who actually meet the qualification to teach. i hear from Newsweek mag, that some schools don't even have lab materials and some schools have English teacher who is clueless about science teaching chemistry. I think hiring people comes first than spending on the material that we are okey without one.
Computers in schools have been a colossal waste of money.
Yes, indeed. As a college student, i rather have 1 more professor per X amount of student, instead of having big flat screen TV or projection each classroom or even campus wide computer upgrades every so often. (exception to research labs of course) Same thing goes for K12 schools. Hire more teachers, educators, lecturers, and put them together to make better textbooks, create more effective curriculum, tutor students after school, etc. Computers are still a big distraction and i spend far more time reading the textbook and writing things on my paper notebook than i do on my computer(exception to my CS major classes). Despite being a CS major, i still use a laptop from 4 yrs ago(ibook g4). New computers won't make everything better. I rather have hours of free tutoring from experts than somewhat faster internet.
Sorry to reminds you that it is required to run the trial* interactive flash media on windows Vista. You need to link 10000 of these to run the actual Windows 7 that will be released in 2017.
i got my g4 ibook 3 years ago at the price of $699 from the apple refubished products store. The ibook has 12 inch screen and at that time it was the CHEAPEST 12 inch screen laptop available.(well because it was refurbished but still hard to find one)
it was new refurbished item from the auction site. It came with 1.2ghz cpu and 256mb of ram. it came with tiger os x. I added 512mb of ram later for the price of $35. and it runs eclipse, the browser, terminal, preview, photoshop simultaneously smoothly. i do a lot of programming work, simple graphic deisgn and i translate documents(foreign language). casual movie, music playing should not be a problem. my 30gb hard disk is sufficient for me. i have 40gb external harddrive and it has 10gb remaining space. i delete movie files that i already watched and i never ran out of hard disk space so far. i am looking forward to buy used intel macbook pro from auction for around $600 so that i can test my work in other OSes. i can still sell my 3 yr old ibook for at least $200 now.
Actual advantage of using ibook is superior or equal in its simplicity, accessibility, compatibility, durability compare to other conventional laptops comparing the price. It lasted 6 hours when i used it for the first time. OS X is very simple and doesn't crash as much because of viruses, spams, well, more like never. a lot of free softwares already support mac, VLC, JEDIT, eclipse,etc. I just like to look and feel of the OS X tiger. I probably won't upgrade to leopard because i don't need it. i won't spend more than $400 more just because i want mac. I still think that mac worth a lot and it really worth the money. it is kind of silly when someone complains about mac that it can't run latest games smoothly. let him get other laptop and i will take that new macbook pro for $600.
I believe the flying vehicle itself is neat idea, no doubt about that. But it is another variation for airplane and helicopter and flying car is being researched by many organizations already. and must bigger challenge is not the car itself. DARPA should consider focusing its research on building infrastructure for personal flying vehicle for the mass. that means that, if necessary, all the vehicle should run autonomously and controlled and monitored solely by central computer system, much alike commercial airplanes. Flying vehicles are out there. Just yet, we don't have,first, infrastructure(road, central system), safety standards for the vehicle and effective and cheap mass driving(piloting) education. I believe we already have a lot of it for the commercial airplanes. but challeges are still there. flying a flying machine is difficult so that it should be far more easier to fly than what we have today and at least everything should be automatic. That means computer should fly t. but in order to do that we need very very accurate Geo-positioning System mixed with some vision recognzing system when it flies through cities. or in the city, where there are tall buildings and obstacles, human can fly it themselves for safety. In the big cities like newyork, i think flying is not safe at all.but it should work great in less crowded cities with few skycrapers. For the small scale, military operation, flying vehicle would be effective if it is cheap and safe.
what would i dream if I DON'T watch TV anymore? So no more of my typical dreams: i just like falling off the cliff towards endless pit, chased by someone in a series of endless dark rooms, things happening around me and my friends that is completely unrelated to reality....it was never about what kind of media i use. it was rather elements taken from my real reality turned into cheesy and dopey phsyco-melo-drama interrupted by my roommate, alarm, boring professor, etc.
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My university has 4GB/day cap on the internet. hypothetically speaking, if we had this 1gigabits connection, it can become useless in 32 seconds.
is the diamond antibiotic ointment.
- No internet connection or internet connection too slow at home;
- PC at home probably not as good as the net cafe's boxes;
In case of Korea, the Internet penetration rate and the speed is one of the highest and fastest in the world. so it has little to do with the speed of the internet. And of all the internet cafes i've been to, they are not top notch as cafe owners don't want to spend too much on the equipment and the latest games that might drag down the speed. (exception to WOW) Plus, most people can buy gaming grade PC for under $1000 which is affordable for any household in Korea. Considering that Korean economy is at 12th according to cia.gov, i think there are plenty of markets out there. You and i do agree on the social aspect of going to net cafes. Some experts in Korea forcasts that blizzard will sell 10M copies within 2 years after the SC2 launch.
Here in Korea, there are at least a dozen internet cafes every corner(seriously). In this land of 50 million people, there are over 20k internet cafes. That is like number of christian churches here as well. (25% of pop are Christians) People here go to internet cafes for gaming and it is same as LAN parties in the States. Except you pay $1.5/hr which is not that bad and even kids can afford it out of their pocket. In the case of Korea, people don't LAN party. They just party out at the internet cafe. And internet cafes got T1 connection so internet is no problem. (duh!) I guess US customers needs much more convincing argument that those listed here on slashdot. I wonder if battle net makes any big money off of advertisement they sell. I would suggest Blizzard to sell LAN party add on for something like $9.99. And require players to be verified some way. That way they don't lose marginal number of people who wish to play multiplayer offline. (which exactly doesn't make sense in Korea - Are you a hermit?)
beowulf cluster of these and i won't drive off that bridge onto the river again!! enough w/ suicidal GPSes, plz!!
Anyone know what Starcraft means? Galactic warfare? Space-land-for-battle? It kinda reminds me of Chevy Starcraft, too...
I spent about $300 to build a whole new system, not $300 for a cpu. I bought about dozen computers in the past year for work. I found those $300 sufficient to build adequate system for regular web browsing/office work with Vista running on those computers.
I think it is more important to compare combination of 3 different parts or the system as a whole. Just by adding large amount of Ram boosts performance. In some cases having SSD as a HDD helps.
In reality, i find that you can easily spend a lot of money to buy "outlier" parts just you want best of what you can get to help work done a bit faster. Few grand in difference doesn't seem like foolish investment when it comes to professional video editing and graphical design. Time really is money for many jobs. Few minutes add up and become hours over a week. That will alter work output by chunks.
exactly! when it time for Starcraft3, we will have 150000 zerglings attacking you simultaneously!!
the problem with DRM is that it turns everything into rented content.
No, i didn't still your movie. I am just 'renting' it! like you want!!
Good thing that they are not forming phising union and do strike all the effing time
Of course everyone knows that it will be the year of the linux. so, everybody is busy programming linux, no?
In South Korea, Billboards look at only old people. But in Soviet Korea, billboard is a 55000 young men watched by a single old guy.
I do believe that there are certains things that we can do and things we need right away than having new computers, faster internet, big screens, etc. I am more inclined to think that tech companies somehow lobbied the government out of this to get them purchase all those lcd projecters, new computers. That might actually be better than bailing out failing banks. But still, we could use some money to hire people who actually meet the qualification to teach. i hear from Newsweek mag, that some schools don't even have lab materials and some schools have English teacher who is clueless about science teaching chemistry. I think hiring people comes first than spending on the material that we are okey without one.
Computers in schools have been a colossal waste of money.
Yes, indeed. As a college student, i rather have 1 more professor per X amount of student, instead of having big flat screen TV or projection each classroom or even campus wide computer upgrades every so often. (exception to research labs of course) Same thing goes for K12 schools. Hire more teachers, educators, lecturers, and put them together to make better textbooks, create more effective curriculum, tutor students after school, etc. Computers are still a big distraction and i spend far more time reading the textbook and writing things on my paper notebook than i do on my computer(exception to my CS major classes). Despite being a CS major, i still use a laptop from 4 yrs ago(ibook g4). New computers won't make everything better. I rather have hours of free tutoring from experts than somewhat faster internet.
not likely so
By the way it looks like human civilization will have dark age for another half of a millennia until this thing gets fixed.
imagine beowulf cluster of this! i can finally run Microsoft Dos!
Exactly.
Sorry to reminds you that it is required to run the trial* interactive flash media on windows Vista. You need to link 10000 of these to run the actual Windows 7 that will be released in 2017.
i got my g4 ibook 3 years ago at the price of $699 from the apple refubished products store. The ibook has 12 inch screen and at that time it was the CHEAPEST 12 inch screen laptop available.(well because it was refurbished but still hard to find one)
it was new refurbished item from the auction site. It came with 1.2ghz cpu and 256mb of ram. it came with tiger os x. I added 512mb of ram later for the price of $35. and it runs eclipse, the browser, terminal, preview, photoshop simultaneously smoothly. i do a lot of programming work, simple graphic deisgn and i translate documents(foreign language). casual movie, music playing should not be a problem. my 30gb hard disk is sufficient for me. i have 40gb external harddrive and it has 10gb remaining space. i delete movie files that i already watched and i never ran out of hard disk space so far. i am looking forward to buy used intel macbook pro from auction for around $600 so that i can test my work in other OSes. i can still sell my 3 yr old ibook for at least $200 now.
Actual advantage of using ibook is superior or equal in its simplicity, accessibility, compatibility, durability compare to other conventional laptops comparing the price. It lasted 6 hours when i used it for the first time. OS X is very simple and doesn't crash as much because of viruses, spams, well, more like never. a lot of free softwares already support mac, VLC, JEDIT, eclipse,etc. I just like to look and feel of the OS X tiger. I probably won't upgrade to leopard because i don't need it. i won't spend more than $400 more just because i want mac. I still think that mac worth a lot and it really worth the money. it is kind of silly when someone complains about mac that it can't run latest games smoothly. let him get other laptop and i will take that new macbook pro for $600.
I am so hungry and i would eat any kind of gyro right now!!
I believe the flying vehicle itself is neat idea, no doubt about that. But it is another variation for airplane and helicopter and flying car is being researched by many organizations already. and must bigger challenge is not the car itself. DARPA should consider focusing its research on building infrastructure for personal flying vehicle for the mass. that means that, if necessary, all the vehicle should run autonomously and controlled and monitored solely by central computer system, much alike commercial airplanes. Flying vehicles are out there. Just yet, we don't have ,first, infrastructure(road, central system), safety standards for the vehicle and effective and cheap mass driving(piloting) education. I believe we already have a lot of it for the commercial airplanes. but challeges are still there. flying a flying machine is difficult so that it should be far more easier to fly than what we have today and at least everything should be automatic. That means computer should fly t. but in order to do that we need very very accurate Geo-positioning System mixed with some vision recognzing system when it flies through cities. or in the city, where there are tall buildings and obstacles, human can fly it themselves for safety. In the big cities like newyork, i think flying is not safe at all.but it should work great in less crowded cities with few skycrapers. For the small scale, military operation, flying vehicle would be effective if it is cheap and safe.
it won't boot vista in 4 sec, never. at startup 3 expired anti virus programs, 4 messengers, 3 weather programs, 2 ad block...
Don't worry. Just make sure you don't get the window seats. or antiviral cream might reduce chance of crashing at the cost of flight speed.
For those who wondered what plasmonic is: What is plasmonic?
what would i dream if I DON'T watch TV anymore? So no more of my typical dreams: i just like falling off the cliff towards endless pit, chased by someone in a series of endless dark rooms, things happening around me and my friends that is completely unrelated to reality....it was never about what kind of media i use. it was rather elements taken from my real reality turned into cheesy and dopey phsyco-melo-drama interrupted by my roommate, alarm, boring professor, etc.