Out of curiosity, what would happen if you slowly deleted information from your profile? For example, you removed your interests one day (or filled it up with garbage), then the next day your removed most of your contact info (and/or filled it up with garbage). Finally by the time you leave your account, your profile is either simply your name and network, or your name and network and a bunch of other filled in garbage. The only thing that doesn't work about this method of removing personal information, is that I suppose your friend list would still be available for Facebook to keep.
Does facebook have 'versioning' for your profile (now that would be really scary!)? I know it tracks changes for the mini-feed, but if it has an all inclusive history for your profile I suppose even filling your profile with garbage before you leave wouldn't protect you....yikes!
While I generally agrre that multiple monitors are a better solution, having virtual desktops costs $0. Having multiple monitors costs a lot more.;)
A virtual desktop manager with a well thought out live preview window can still be quite useful for the majority of us single monitor users.
Likewise I use Remote Desktop to log into my home computer to use my MS Office applications. Works like a charm, except for pictures (can't wait until 1-2+ Mbps upload links become prevalent across the US).
Remote Desktop even works nicely in Linux too!
MS Office online is only a Remote Desktop application away!
Seriously, with a fast LAN or WAN, I can remote desktop to my main computer and watch TV channels using its onboard TV tuner (it works decently with a reasonably sized window, i.e. not TOO big, on my LAN).
This is a slippery slope, do they want to legislate remote desktop or VNC as well as 'place-shifters'?
While cache is definitely king, just arbitrarily throwing more cache on a core isn't going to provide scalable gains.
Managing a cache is a difficult job. Being able to address a larger cache and make intelligent decisions about cache hits, misses, and replacement, and writing cache out to memory all are huge factors on how cache performance is measured. A well managed small cache can behave well compared to a badly managed large cache.
To complicate things even more, adding cores and intelligently managing instructions and cache between multiple cores is a daunting situation. Remember the first set of dual cores from Intel last year (I have Pentium 820 - 2.8)? They blow because they can't manage the cache efficiently between the two cores.
AMD can probably get away with smaller caches if it is managed efficiently (someone else feel free to chime in here and correct me).
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Out of curiosity, what would happen if you slowly deleted information from your profile? For example, you removed your interests one day (or filled it up with garbage), then the next day your removed most of your contact info (and/or filled it up with garbage). Finally by the time you leave your account, your profile is either simply your name and network, or your name and network and a bunch of other filled in garbage. The only thing that doesn't work about this method of removing personal information, is that I suppose your friend list would still be available for Facebook to keep. Does facebook have 'versioning' for your profile (now that would be really scary!)? I know it tracks changes for the mini-feed, but if it has an all inclusive history for your profile I suppose even filling your profile with garbage before you leave wouldn't protect you....yikes!
While I generally agrre that multiple monitors are a better solution, having virtual desktops costs $0. Having multiple monitors costs a lot more. ;)
A virtual desktop manager with a well thought out live preview window can still be quite useful for the majority of us single monitor users.
Likewise I use Remote Desktop to log into my home computer to use my MS Office applications. Works like a charm, except for pictures (can't wait until 1-2+ Mbps upload links become prevalent across the US). Remote Desktop even works nicely in Linux too! MS Office online is only a Remote Desktop application away!
what codecs are being used to compress the stream.
Using MPEG-2 vs a higher compression codec like H.264 or WMV-HD will definitely have some impact on bandwidth requirements.
site I've ever seen. About 10% of that page is actually the article content! The rest is just links and ads.
Seriously, with a fast LAN or WAN, I can remote desktop to my main computer and watch TV channels using its onboard TV tuner (it works decently with a reasonably sized window, i.e. not TOO big, on my LAN). This is a slippery slope, do they want to legislate remote desktop or VNC as well as 'place-shifters'?
While cache is definitely king, just arbitrarily throwing more cache on a core isn't going to provide scalable gains.
Managing a cache is a difficult job. Being able to address a larger cache and make intelligent decisions about cache hits, misses, and replacement, and writing cache out to memory all are huge factors on how cache performance is measured. A well managed small cache can behave well compared to a badly managed large cache.
To complicate things even more, adding cores and intelligently managing instructions and cache between multiple cores is a daunting situation. Remember the first set of dual cores from Intel last year (I have Pentium 820 - 2.8)? They blow because they can't manage the cache efficiently between the two cores. AMD can probably get away with smaller caches if it is managed efficiently (someone else feel free to chime in here and correct me).