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Count my vote as being very happy with the Mighty Mouse. About once a year I need to clean the scroll ball with a rag and some screen cleaning fluid, but it only takes a moment. Otherwise the scroll ball works just fine. I find it very comfortable a…
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Quote: Originally Posted by JeffDM ... Quote: Originally Posted by X38 {Systems like Verizon FIOS have already solved the "last mile" problem and easily beat cable in cities lucky enough to have it. Even FIOS is bottlnecked by copper once …
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Quote: Originally Posted by Maury Markowitz > if Light Peak's economies of scale drives down the price of optical cabling as expected > ... As to the cable that Light Peak uses, it is a real breakthrough. Optical cabling has always had …
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Quote: Originally Posted by melgross This is an interconnect protocol, and physical system. It doesn't matter what information moves over it. Remember that when you are talking about digital, it's all 1's and 0's. That's really about it. Wh…
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Quote: Originally Posted by mavfan1 ... http://techresearch.intel.com/articles/None/1813.htm Thanks for the interesting link. In the pictures and video it looks like they have gotten the optical encoder & decoder (lasers & photodetec…
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Several articles have mentioned that Light Peak is full duplex, hot plugging and carries DC power, but I'd like to know if it also has some of the other features that make Fire Wire so much nicer than USB, such as off loading the signal & protoc…
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Quote: Originally Posted by melgross Power is easy. They just have to include two power lines in the connectors and cabling. Several articles have mentioned that the Light Peak cables and connectors do exactly as you suggest.
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Quote: Originally Posted by Frank777 I've been wondering, if Light Peak's economies of scale drives down the price of optical cabling as expected, doesn't this effectively solve the Telcos "last mile" bandwidth problem? Wouldn't this means Bel…
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Quote: Originally Posted by Joe The Dragon but can this do pci-e over it? video cards need to be on the pci-e bus and not a super usb bus with high cpu load. One of the articles on this (sorry, I forget which one or where) quoted Intel as s…
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Quote: Originally Posted by NonVendorFan You just described Microsoft's new Tablet device. A two screen planner for the business and home user for Video. It?s code named Courier. Look it up. But I'm guessing on how accurately you described i…
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Quote: Originally Posted by melgross Since you've never been here before, it must have turned you on. Well, I've been a regular reader of this site for awhile and I thought the irrelevant political interjections were an unnecessary distraction…
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Interesting article. After reading the debate going on here, let me preface the following question with the disclaimer that I have no technical computer expertise and am doing my best to understand the general concepts of this article. It sounds …
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Quote: Originally Posted by al_bundy because MSN was such a big competitor to AOL. AOL and MSN grew out of the BBS's of the 1980's. there was also compuserve and i forgot who else[...] Do you mean The Source?
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Itunes 9 breaks the clicking on the green + button to switch to mini-player feature. Apparently this was a deliberate break by Apple. Discussion here: http://discussions.apple.com/thread....80599#10180599
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I've been using my iphone with the company exchange system for quite some time even though it's not officially supported. Once OS 2.0 came out, it was trivially easy to connect and works very well. With OS 3.0 it works amazingly well. It does everyt…
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I work at a very large (many thousands of users) government office where Blackberries have been prevalent for years and are readily available as government funded (& owned) equipment to most who want one. The IT department has been generally App…
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It's not just that the commercial was so bad (I don't see how it could have been any worse), but the product itself is so unbelievably absurd. Songsmith looks like an inbred, illegitimate progeny of Microsoft Bob and Clippy. Or maybe it's as though …