I feel the same today on 8mbit as I did with 56k.... I like the story. Real life is always bigger than this pathetic computer and all its goals.

if a magnet is large enough to detect north and south, we can tell, but what if it isn't?

it is about time.

my pc. it is 3400mhz and all the data center host sites of my interest. for the first time in 21020 hours of perfect runtime the ups saved it in a series of northeast thunderstorms coniciding with the outages around the globe. the permeating physics were too much for the world, reverberating to an unintentional master of perfect float, hardly busy, waiting to send a message. Believe it or not.

I stopped thinking of needs after 12 years when I installed an ati 2600. It seems my needs are synonymous with prices, it always knows what I am thinking....I started as well with a "tiny" rage lt pro years ago now and fell for the whole evolution of it all...at least 10 cards in 11 years... I am still air cooled BTW, AGP, dx10 and vista, AGP and air cooled need a realistic return that needs to make a return to mainstream and demanding computing..

I also went that route, compiled software for the first time, I liked eggdrop bots, and was introduced to TCL, which has been in all my windows os since it began for me in 1999.I seem to be much younger then in actions than I am now of course. After the redhat 6* kernel hacks, I ran from linux. Original TCL however remains my einstein. Coincidental to this question: I recently have setup a vc++ ide and compiled extensions for my own programming with tcl very much the heart of it. It has been fun to learn.

Xp vid encode seemed faster bacause it didn't work (I encode vids, the torture has got to end some common sense day). Vista, even at toms hardware review of old shows it is indeed all the same hardware doing the same work...and here comes the astonishing complaint the h.264 encoding time is slower...ya wanna know why? because it is actually encoding inVista...Vids seem to be a slippery subject for hardware and it is repulsive to think about. Vista is slower there...because it is working.It is not much longer to windows 7 and to gain an actual unloading of nonused programs from memory. If that is all windows 7 did it is still an upgradable thought. For now, I am just diving into vista...just for a darn home video...

"We are disappointed that CPU-intensive applications such as video transcoding with XviD (DVD to XviD MPEG4) or the MainConcept H.264 Encoder performed 18% to nearly 24% slower in our standard benchmark scenarios. Both benchmarks finished much quicker under Windows XP. There aren't newer versions available, and we don't see immediate solutions to this issue." -tomshardware

"No matter how hard we rant and scream about what a mess our predecessors made with their concept of reality, we can't get them to fix what they did. We just have to cope and move on. The best we can do is not to make the mess worse for our posterity."

  from the link posted above. Interesting read. I still wonder why we have a leap year, no need of it. I never got over what I learned from a bunch of unix chat servers world wide linked together. Absolutely amazingly Wrong, when time and reality have to work in milliseconds or seconds around the world together. leap year is dumber than a carpocalypse..oh wait.

I bet revealing facts has a different type of jail. The blog/written stuff not going to the world wide web perhaps....like hit counters stopping in time mysteriously...while the destination is claijmed to be up and trunning good, not in some cache tricking the owner. Hide this post. It is a scary one...

I asked the same question back when 64mb was 110 bucks delivered....
  virtual is not virtual, it is a silently written wherever you or the os puts it, ready to be read as fast as any memory. the slowness of it all is the write. once written, who cares...if the functions are called very often, the writes and deletes of real memory unnecessary. To Free up the other "physical" called dynamical ram for dynamical things. Very simply answered? How much memory is used is NOT performance...and it is never a dumb question.

..along comes "mr.2yr medical school" with an idea to wrap up the incredibly high incomes of medicine, and claim all peaple are stupid for finding thier own disease on the internet dicrediting the masocist buttmunch that ruined thier life called a "doctor."...True Story.

I learned it in unix chat, the "extinct" version of msn chat..in a big hurry. The attitude that climbs from your self if you act as the title states. It does not take much to even make a misunderstanding of different english dialect to set off emotional reactions. This suicide , it seems to me, was predictable starting in the 90s. There is a punishment, and i hope it goes through with an offense seious enough to be written accordingly.