How I Got Full Windows XP Installed Under 2GB!
in [Laptops]
|
From: ~misfit~ on 21 Jan 2010 01:41 Somewhere on teh intarwebs the wharf rat wrote: > In article <hj75ui$a8m$2(a)news.eternal-september.org>, > BillW50 <BillW50(a)aol.kom> wrote: >> >> have to show us: >> >> 1) How color CRTs don't have pixels > > The Sunday comics are images made of pixels. Are they also LCDs? > > The answer isn't "yes, they all have dots!". The answer is that > CRT pixels are composed of phosphors stimulated by a varying electron > beam. LCD pixels are composed of arrays of transistors that are > individually addressed to create images. A CRT monitor can scale > down to any resolution by adjusting the electron beam. An LCD > monitor can scale down ONLY by using fewer pixels than the whole > array (the "small picture in black border" method) or > by blending adjacent pixels so that the array effectively uses fewer > of them. Both seriously degrade the user experience... > > There's no such thing as a multisync LCD. At least not on the > planet Earth. > >> 2) How flash SSD and flash drives are not really the same thing. > > A Solid state storage device meant to be used as the primary > storage for a computer (as opposed to a device meant to be used as > a sort of very large floppy disc) has a lot of (expensive) extra > spare capacity built in (to allow bad block mapping) and complicated > firmware programming (to work around cell death and slow write > speeds). > What you're saying is equivalent to claiming that you could pull a > horse trailer with your golf cart because it has four wheels and a > motor just > like my Dodge Ram and so your golf cart MUST be a pickup truck. You're wasting you time rat, I get into it with this clown at least once every few months, when I can no longer stomach his idiocy. (He has two subjects, netbooks and SSDs [or flash drives, LOL].) The more you try to take him to task the more off on a tangent he goes. I guess I'm lucky he's just a faceless entity on usenet and not my brother-in-law or next-door neighbour or I'd probably have killed him by now. -- Shaun. "Give a man a fire and he's warm for the day. But set fire to him and he's warm for the rest of his life." Terry Pratchet, 'Jingo'.
From: BillW50 on 21 Jan 2010 18:29 the wharf rat wrote on Wed, 20 Jan 2010 23:39:32 +0000 (UTC): > In article <hj75ui$a8m$2(a)news.eternal-september.org>, > BillW50 <BillW50(a)aol.kom> wrote: >> have to show us: >> >> 1) How color CRTs don't have pixels > > The Sunday comics are images made of pixels. Are they also LCDs? Nope! Although mood rings from the hippy days are LCD. No pixels though. > The answer isn't "yes, they all have dots!". The answer is that > CRT pixels are composed of phosphors stimulated by a varying electron beam. > LCD pixels are composed of arrays of transistors that are individually > addressed to create images. A CRT monitor can scale down to any resolution by > adjusting the electron beam. An LCD monitor can scale down ONLY by using fewer > pixels than the whole array (the "small picture in black border" method) or > by blending adjacent pixels so that the array effectively uses fewer of them. > Both seriously degrade the user experience... That is what I am saying. Although the pixels used on CRT monitors doesn't normally match the screen resolution. So why not? Shouldn't that be far better? Doesn't the CRT resolution degraded as well do to this? > There's no such thing as a multisync LCD. At least not on the > planet Earth. Maybe not in your Universe, but in mine there is such a thing. A quick search pulled up this one for example. http://reviews.cnet.com/lcd-monitors/nec-multisync-1550v/4505-3174_7-7105749.html >> 2) How flash SSD and flash drives are not really the same thing. > > A Solid state storage device meant to be used as the primary > storage for a computer (as opposed to a device meant to be used as > a sort of very large floppy disc) has a lot of (expensive) extra > spare capacity built in (to allow bad block mapping) and complicated > firmware programming (to work around cell death and slow write speeds). > What you're saying is equivalent to claiming that you could pull a horse > trailer with your golf cart because it has four wheels and a motor just > like my Dodge Ram and so your golf cart MUST be a pickup truck. Maybe I am thinking like an electronic engineer and not like a typical computer user. Okay it is like this. A SSD and a flash drive is the same, much like an internal HDD and an external HDD are the same. Can you take a SSD and throw it into an external case like you can with HDD? Sure you can. Can you take a flash drive and use it as an internal SSD? Sure you can if you have the right interface. Is there any difference between an internal HDD and an external HDD? Nope not really. You can interchange them. Are SSD and flash drives the same internally like internal and external HDD? You bet they are. They use the same flash memory and the same controllers. There has been many people already who are good at hardware hacking of taking flash drives and mounting them inside and using them as SSD. Although for most people, you would be better off using a SSD or a flash drive with the same interface as your internal connection already has. -- Bill Asus EEE PC 702G4 ~ 2GB RAM ~ 16GB-SDHC Xandros Linux (build 2007-10-19 13:03)
From: ~misfit~ on 21 Jan 2010 23:10 Somewhere on teh intarwebs BillW50 wrote: > the wharf rat wrote on Wed, 20 Jan 2010 23:39:32 +0000 (UTC): >> In article <hj75ui$a8m$2(a)news.eternal-september.org>, >> BillW50 <BillW50(a)aol.kom> wrote: >>> have to show us: >>> >>> 1) How color CRTs don't have pixels >> >> The Sunday comics are images made of pixels. Are they also LCDs? > > Nope! They are made of pixels. http://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/pixel Pixel is short for 'picture element' and, as a term, can be retrospectively applied to anything that fits such a term. Y'know, like we can talk about dinosaur DNA even though DNA wasn't a common term back then. -- Shaun. "Give a man a fire and he's warm for the day. But set fire to him and he's warm for the rest of his life." Terry Pratchet, 'Jingo'.
From: the wharf rat on 22 Jan 2010 00:51 In article <hjas67$s7l$1(a)news.eternal-september.org>, BillW50 <BillW50(a)aol.kom> wrote: > >Refresh my memory? Didn't they have 'The Force' on their side? > They attacked a great big Death Star with little tiny rowboats. >And Barry's excuse this doesn't apply to CRTs because they don't use >pixels. But color CRTs *does* use pixels too! So my question is, why >doesn't this same claim about LCD also apply to CRTs? > Because an LCD can't do multisync. It sort of emulates a lower resolution by either treating clusters of cells (pixels) as one larger cell or by lighting only a portion of the array. A CRT actually DOES scale the image by adjusting the electron beam. One sucks, the other doesn't :-) >and taller, I already know I am just screwed! As I already know I >couldn't take on such a giant even on their worst day. lol Get a slingshot.
From: the wharf rat on 22 Jan 2010 00:53
In article <hjb8a2$g3m$1(a)news.eternal-september.org>, ~misfit~ <sore_n_happy(a)yahoo-nospam.com.au> wrote: > >What, you didn't say "literally a rocket scientist" this time? Right, I >guess it's best to leave that one in the bunker for special occasions. > I don't thin kthey have bunks on rockets. They have big padded chair things like vinyl LaZBoys. > > |