One reason you might want a wristband over a keychain is to be able to keep the thumb drive secure.
You can easily encrypt your whole hard drive except the kernel, and boot the kernel off a USB thumb drive (eg using FreeBSD's GELI). It's great security against basic offline attacks. One of the main problems with it is keeping the USB thumb drive secure, a wristband USB drive might be quite a good way of doing that.
My questions are does it reliably stay on your wrist, and is it waterproof?
What you're saying is we shouldn't prefer AMD's offerings because Intel say that next year they'll come out with great new products?
IIRC late 2004 Intel weren't saying "Dear stockholders: In 2005 we plan to consistently release comparatively poor products."; they were telling us much of the same revolutionary breakthrough NetBurst roadmap bullshit they're telling us again now.
A better use for the money would be R&D. The reason AMD's gaining traction isn't because it's winning on the marketing front, it's because they've got a better processing power to cost ratio.
AMD's Athlon 64 X2 4800+ is roughly equal in performance to Intel's latest Pentium Extreme Edition 955. The AMD 4800+ costs ~USD$495, and Intel's 955 costs ~USD$995! That extra money clearly isn't going into R&D, so where could it be going? Marketing of course..
No-one who's aware of AMD's offerings are going to pay an extra USD$500 for a 'Leap ahead' sticker, and as the mass market becomes aware of AMD Intel's marketing campaigns will only get less and less effective..
Intel went the wrong direction chasing 10GHz because of the marketing dept, and apparently no lessons have been learnt.. They need to take an about face and stop letting the marketing team lead, or a once great company is going to go to shit.
More anthropologists these days are leaning towards the idea that humans evolved next to riversides and on beaches. (Bipedalism came about because of wading, it explains the lack of hair, webbed fingers, ability to hold our breath, the direction of the hairs on our body, the shape of our noses, etc, etc.)
The same point you made still applies, but I just thought I'd point out that the savannah theory of human evolution is going the way of the theory of Newtonian mechanics at a subatomic level.
core plexus I'm not sure what to think about the global warming debate (not whether or not it's warming but whether or not it's happening because of humans). Being a geologist what's your response to his argument that climate change happens over very long periods of time, but now it seems to be happening very quickly? I've seen some graphs that show it happening (on a geological scale) very quickly, is this what's happening now? If so what tips the scale and causes a climate shift naturally?
Could I get your e-mail? Mine is kestas.j.k@climatekuliukas.com (remove 'climate')
Regards
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Sun has lost some ground to Wintel, Lintel and Mac OS over the years.
Get with the program; Mac OS should now be 'Mintel'.
Oops, didn't notice the 'Disclaimer: Kudos to NewsForge for the idea, and Microsoft for the inspiration.' at the bottom, looks like it is after all.
http://os.newsforge.com/article.pl?sid=05/05/18/20 33216&from=rss Not sure if the author of the new one got the idea from this.
One reason you might want a wristband over a keychain is to be able to keep the thumb drive secure.
You can easily encrypt your whole hard drive except the kernel, and boot the kernel off a USB thumb drive (eg using FreeBSD's GELI). It's great security against basic offline attacks. One of the main problems with it is keeping the USB thumb drive secure, a wristband USB drive might be quite a good way of doing that.
My questions are does it reliably stay on your wrist, and is it waterproof?
What you're saying is we shouldn't prefer AMD's offerings because Intel say that next year they'll come out with great new products?
IIRC late 2004 Intel weren't saying "Dear stockholders: In 2005 we plan to consistently release comparatively poor products."; they were telling us much of the same revolutionary breakthrough NetBurst roadmap bullshit they're telling us again now.
A better use for the money would be R&D. The reason AMD's gaining traction isn't because it's winning on the marketing front, it's because they've got a better processing power to cost ratio.
AMD's Athlon 64 X2 4800+ is roughly equal in performance to Intel's latest Pentium Extreme Edition 955. The AMD 4800+ costs ~USD$495, and Intel's 955 costs ~USD$995! That extra money clearly isn't going into R&D, so where could it be going? Marketing of course..
No-one who's aware of AMD's offerings are going to pay an extra USD$500 for a 'Leap ahead' sticker, and as the mass market becomes aware of AMD Intel's marketing campaigns will only get less and less effective..
Intel went the wrong direction chasing 10GHz because of the marketing dept, and apparently no lessons have been learnt.. They need to take an about face and stop letting the marketing team lead, or a once great company is going to go to shit.
More anthropologists these days are leaning towards the idea that humans evolved next to riversides and on beaches. (Bipedalism came about because of wading, it explains the lack of hair, webbed fingers, ability to hold our breath, the direction of the hairs on our body, the shape of our noses, etc, etc.) The same point you made still applies, but I just thought I'd point out that the savannah theory of human evolution is going the way of the theory of Newtonian mechanics at a subatomic level.
core plexus I'm not sure what to think about the global warming debate (not whether or not it's warming but whether or not it's happening because of humans). Being a geologist what's your response to his argument that climate change happens over very long periods of time, but now it seems to be happening very quickly? I've seen some graphs that show it happening (on a geological scale) very quickly, is this what's happening now? If so what tips the scale and causes a climate shift naturally? Could I get your e-mail? Mine is kestas.j.k@climatekuliukas.com (remove 'climate') Regards
and SETI's effect never expires.