Of course, they don't base it on video memory. You can have 2GB of video memory on a Nvidia FX5200 and it is still going to suck. I would say a Nvidia GeForce 6200 with 64MB of memory would pulverize a 2GB (if it existed) FX5200.
There are a decent number of flash drives that have a write-protect switch on the side you can switch on and off as desired. I know PNY, Imation, and Mushkin carry them. Probably others as well.
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Here is Anandtech's last year USB Flash Drive Roundup:
http://www.anandtech.com/showdoc.aspx?i=2549&p=3
It seems to be still relevant almost a year later. No faster models have come out from any of the major brands that I am aware of.
They should follow suit with testing bodies such as http://www.av-comparatives.org/
They have a Retrospective test which is kind of like what Consumer Reports is trying to accomplish, but is makes more sense. Basically, what they do is regress the detection database six months, and test the detection of new malware collected during the last six months. All detections will be from heuristics or generic signatures. Seems much better to do a real-world test than a sloppy create-your-own-virus test which will most likely make the antivirus companies look better. Remember, malware writers release malware that they know will specifically not be caught, whereas CR is just randomly modifying.
The more I think about it, the more it has to do with beating HP and Gateway back down. HP (Compaq) and Gateway (eMachines) made quite a bit by embracing AMD in the last year after years of trying to be a Dell copycat by being Intel only. Of course, the question is whether it was actually the usage of AMD that made the difference or just the fact that there's still quite a lot of people who would still buy at retail stores (+ the low price).
I would broaden it even further and say they want to "kill" the rest of the computer industry not just Dell and Microsoft. The keyword is want. Imagine marketshare where you control both software and hardware. That is what Apple has and is continues to aim for. 1% of Apple marketshare is probably worth more than 5% of Microsoft/Dell marketshare. Apple will continue to pursue this goal until they get really beat down. At this point, they will either morph into a software company (license OSX) if they get beat by Dell, HP, etc, or morph into a hardware company that doesn't make most of their software. More likely scenario of course, is probably just more of the same without overextending where they implode.
Well technically it shouldn't do anything to your antivirus unless it has some HIPS module. Which I don't think any consumer-grade AV even has (Though Kaspersky AV6 has something similar to HIPS with their pro-active defense features).
I have to question your first remark and why you compared Time Machine to System Restore when Thurrott wasn't even referring to System Restore:
Time Machine is a truly good idea: It helps you automatically back up everything on your system and restore earlier versions of files at any time. But this was a great idea over three years ago when Microsoft first added it to Windows Server 2003 as Volume Shadow Copy (VSC, or "Previous Versions" to end users). In fact, VSC is such a good idea, Microsoft is adding it as a purely client-side service in Windows Vista as well.
...with our fancy smancy "Electoral College": "It's not my fault. I didn't know my elector was actually going to vote for who he pledged to vote for." Okay okay, so most of the time it doesn't really matter between popular and electoral votes... well except for in 2000.
Not entirely. You would probably only here of Xfire if you are a gamer. It's a Game tracking/IM type service. That's the jist of what it is. They have recently been bought by Viacom however. (Why on earth Viacom wants such a service is beyond me).
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Of course, they don't base it on video memory. You can have 2GB of video memory on a Nvidia FX5200 and it is still going to suck. I would say a Nvidia GeForce 6200 with 64MB of memory would pulverize a 2GB (if it existed) FX5200.
There are a decent number of flash drives that have a write-protect switch on the side you can switch on and off as desired. I know PNY, Imation, and Mushkin carry them. Probably others as well.
Here is Anandtech's last year USB Flash Drive Roundup: http://www.anandtech.com/showdoc.aspx?i=2549&p=3
It seems to be still relevant almost a year later. No faster models have come out from any of the major brands that I am aware of.
They should follow suit with testing bodies such as http://www.av-comparatives.org/ They have a Retrospective test which is kind of like what Consumer Reports is trying to accomplish, but is makes more sense. Basically, what they do is regress the detection database six months, and test the detection of new malware collected during the last six months. All detections will be from heuristics or generic signatures. Seems much better to do a real-world test than a sloppy create-your-own-virus test which will most likely make the antivirus companies look better. Remember, malware writers release malware that they know will specifically not be caught, whereas CR is just randomly modifying.
The more I think about it, the more it has to do with beating HP and Gateway back down. HP (Compaq) and Gateway (eMachines) made quite a bit by embracing AMD in the last year after years of trying to be a Dell copycat by being Intel only. Of course, the question is whether it was actually the usage of AMD that made the difference or just the fact that there's still quite a lot of people who would still buy at retail stores (+ the low price).
I would broaden it even further and say they want to "kill" the rest of the computer industry not just Dell and Microsoft. The keyword is want. Imagine marketshare where you control both software and hardware. That is what Apple has and is continues to aim for. 1% of Apple marketshare is probably worth more than 5% of Microsoft/Dell marketshare. Apple will continue to pursue this goal until they get really beat down. At this point, they will either morph into a software company (license OSX) if they get beat by Dell, HP, etc, or morph into a hardware company that doesn't make most of their software. More likely scenario of course, is probably just more of the same without overextending where they implode.
Well technically it shouldn't do anything to your antivirus unless it has some HIPS module. Which I don't think any consumer-grade AV even has (Though Kaspersky AV6 has something similar to HIPS with their pro-active defense features).
...with our fancy smancy "Electoral College": "It's not my fault. I didn't know my elector was actually going to vote for who he pledged to vote for." Okay okay, so most of the time it doesn't really matter between popular and electoral votes... well except for in 2000.
Not entirely. You would probably only here of Xfire if you are a gamer. It's a Game tracking/IM type service. That's the jist of what it is. They have recently been bought by Viacom however. (Why on earth Viacom wants such a service is beyond me).