Posts by Giles Jones 2536 publicly visible posts • joined 13 Dec 2006
AMD's chips ran better than Intels for years. Intel had the P3 which sucked badly and then the P4 which initially was even slower than the P4 until they clocked it high.
P4 was destined to clock high and end up sucking hundreds of watts of power at it hit the intended max of 10GHz.
Thankfully AMD competed with Intel and Intel finally designed some good CPUs in the Core2 Duo range.
There are many components to this system and many companies developing individual modules. Much of it is live, some of it is still being developed.
To classify numerous systems as one project and to say it's late is misleading. Name and shame those providers who are late in delivering subsystems, don't attach the whole project.
I'll never get over seeing the USB printer cable for £20. £2 at any computer fair or on the web.
It's these little rip off tactics that make people avoid their shops.
On other products they can be very competitive. I bought a Garmin Edge 305 GPS from PC World for £139 when Halfords were doing them for £180+.
They should close all Currys and have a PC World in their place.
I'm sure much of this "green" awareness is just PR. Companies saying they are or will be doing things.
PCs are generally less green because their effective lifespan is shorter. I threw all sorts of CPUs, motherboards and CPU fans away when I was building my own computers. None at all since I got a Mac.
Sony has not learned from the PS2 where you have a slow-ish CPU and a couple of math units, plus GPU.
On the PS3 you now have slowish CPU, about 8 or so math units and the GPU.
All a programmer really wants is a fast CPU and 3D acceleration.
The XBox and XBox 360 provide a familiar DirectX API to programmers, therefore it's easier to develop for.
This story, why is it on a (largely) IT site?
As for bond themes, get someone with some talent to write it in conjunction with a band or artist that people like.
There's few artists in our charts who have a powerful enough style to pull it off. They're all doing R&B or wimpy pop music.
>The EU fine aside, you need to remember what your saying.... MS sell XP for the >same price as Vista. (In relation to the version). So if more OEM Windows sell, MS >makes money. It doesn't make a difference if it's Vista or XP - as MS still make a >pretty $$$ out of each licence sold.
It's not quite that simple though. If Vista isn't popular then people won't upgrade, many are on XP and have no reason to upgrade their hardware and therefore won't buy any.
Of course Microsoft knew what they were doing when they placed a 5 activations limit on XP. Deliberately preventing people sticking with the same XP licence after 5 PC changes.
Not my words, the words of my Father after he bought a high end laptop with Vista on it.
He wants XP back as he says nothing works with it, his printer won't work, software won't work. He's not a Windows expert and just wants his hardware to work.
Why should people have to go out and purchase new hardware to replace perfectly good hardware that is only a year or two old? I'm sure he wouldn't have to do this with Linux or Mac OSX.
The BBC should not contribute one penny. It is the cheapskate ISPs who are to blame, they keep artificially lowering ADSL prices (by that I mean so low as to be unsustainable), claiming the service is fast and then limit users to paltry download limits.
The Internet is a computer network, people are going to want to shift data around it!!
I can see noise on my full frame DSLR at ISO1600, your point is?
Ok the noise is much less and less noticeable, but you can't expect to amplify a weak signal (ie. weak light at a tiny analog sensor) without boosting the noise levels.
It's a compact camera, they have more noise than DSLR cameras which have much bigger sensors.
The big difference between Windows, Linux and OSX is that OSX and Linux run well on existing hardware and can be adapted to run in limited resources (See Linux embedded devices and OSX on iPhone).
Microsoft has to face the fact that not everyone wants to upgrade hardware all the time to run their latest bloatware OS. Leopard runs on older Macs sufficiently, Vista won't run well on PC hardware that goes as far back as the Motorola G4.
Microsoft knows it has to force people to upgrade their PCs to generate more revenue as many users just buy a new machine with an OEM licence.
Gartner says Windows is collapsing, I agree.
Gartner also pointed out that the iPhone uses OSX but Microsoft requires a different OS for their handhelds. Windows doesn't scale well and Intel's solution is to make a lower power x86 architecture.
If Microsoft can't fix their own product then who can?
>And storing audio data at 96KHz is completely ridiculous
Says who?
If it is so ridiculous why is it the entry level in digital recording hardware? most studios have gone beyond this now with 192Khz D to A.
What would you rather listen to? the original studio master or a dithered downsampled 48Khz version?
Nice of these big powerful Americans to fly all over the world and tell us we have to stop flying all over the world. But it's ok because we're nothing important and we're not preaching green politics.
People row boats around the world, even walk and cycle around it. This is what Mr Gore should do if he's serious about green politics.
What are you talking about? Apple got Intel to redesign the Core 2 Duo to make is smaller.
Even The Reg ran an article about it, the processor is now available to all, but if your thin laptop uses a small Core 2 then you can probably thank Apple for that:
http://www.reghardware.co.uk/2008/02/04/intel_opens_air_cpu/
>>Seems fair enough to me.
The BBC are doing M$ and Sony a favour here, increasing the appeal of their devices.
I don't see why the BBC (funded by the licence fee) should spend extra time working with Sony and M$ pandering to their long list of demands (probably incorporating adverts in the process). It's not a good use of the licence payers money.
Newspapers give away free CDs, music is in the background of TV programmes more and more now.
Labels give away free downloads (never used to get much in the way for free, maybe on a cover tape on a magazine).
Music is cheaper to produce than ever and it is being further cheapened by it being given away.
Simple, so shut up those complaining it's not 3G.
As for all the other features, features are great so long as the phone works. I have GPS and other nice things on my Nokia, but every now and then when someone phones me the mic doesn't work and I have to reboot it.
What good are features if the core function of the device doesn't work 100%?
You purchase hardware with plenty of potential, the vendor decides not to implement all the features leaving you with a crippled product.
This is where Linux tends to excel, hardware support (where vendors make the info available or where it can be reverse engineered) is better than Windows. Support for hardware becomes obsolete very quickly.
She's obviously way too optimistic, like most people who don't understand what happens in the real world. She doesn't understand the shoddy working practices, limited resources etc.. of public transport.
If she was a little more cynical and assumed the worse then she wouldn't get so stressed.
Sadly nothing works as well as it should on this overcrowded rock.
---Why cant MS take a long hard look at firefox and realise IE in any form falls so far ---short of the standards firefox gives us?
Who cares? Microsoft is slowly becoming irrelevant. I wish they would stop the FUD against Linux and make their browser available for all platforms or just shelve it completely.
First I would need a TV with 24Hz refresh.
Secondly I use Shuttle PC with MythTV for all my audio visual delights and this would need a Blu-ray ROM drive and Linux software to play it (remember the problems Linux users had with DVD playback?).
I will only get a blu-ray player once the technology has settled down, there's too much in the way of firmware upgrades going on which shows the specification is still in progress.
I'd also want to see if they make you sit through 5 minutes of trailers and copyright messages before you can watch the disc (no wonder people rip DVDs).
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