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• Any scholar of the great ninja vs pirate wars will immediately understand that pandas and cows are bitter enemies fighting for the affections of the zebra overlords. Do not make the mistake of mentioning cows or Gateway with a handful of M&M while in San Fran next spring, you have been warned.

I for one don't really care if AMD is the fastest or not. They have always had better pricing value for good performance. And since Intel likes to things like this. I don't think I will be supporting them with my money. Also, learn the freaking difference between lose and loose.

More over they are still in production.

Socket A CPUs are not produced anymore. AMD stopped production last spring. I was looking for the picture wher they have all the engineers rounded for the final goodbye, but all I could find was this :

http://www.theinquirer.net/?article=21377

Ok, I've found the damn pic. Here :

http://www.theinquirer.net/?article=24544

More over they are still in production.

Socket A CPUs are not produced anymore. AMD stopped production last spring. I was looking for the picture wher they have all the engineers rounded for the final goodbye, but all I could find was this :

http://www.theinquirer.net/?article=21377

Ok, I've found the damn pic. Here :

http://www.theinquirer.net/?article=24544

I would say I told you so, but I did.

http://www.theinquirer.net/?article=20749

Please notice the similarities between the 7+ month old article and the current one. *YAWN*

-Charlie

http://www.theinquirer.net/?article=24756

I agree with the author's views 100% here, mainly because I wrote it. :)

-Charlie

According to the Inquirer AMD plans to integrate PCI Express as well. This would be very nice indeed, but I guess it's not exactly press release grade information at this point.

i've been thinking this very thing for the past several days. on a hunch, i checked the registration for 'iflicks.' its no surprise that its already registered, but its registered to tucows!

seriously, maybe you've heard of East Fork, and Secure Premium Content Module? in the inquirer article they talk about how this technology will be used to keep linux out of the contant market. and the article about 'Longhorn to Require Monitor-Based DRM' here makes it quite plain why apple 'switched.'

in another report about next-generation broadband services from cablevision, speeds of 100 Mbps were achieved in a trial deployment.

so the answer is quite plain, apple wants to be part of the future of content distribution, and going with intel is the only way they can get there.

There's actually a specific internet connection license for that sort of setup, however it's interesting to note that Microsoft have said, for licensing purposes, dual core CPUs count as a single cpu.

Compare to Oracle; if you buy a licence for a dual core machine, the second core is only counted as .75 of a CPU, as is each succeeding core. However Oracle rounds all numbers up, so .75 = one for licensing, and 1.75 = two, roughly the same cost as if you bought two licences. And so on. It's only a saving if you have 3 dual core cpus or more.

20+ years of failed copy protection schemes

The Inquirer is reporting about plans by Intel to cut Linux out of the content market. The best thing is that people actually pay for this crap. We finance this garbage right now.
Time to cancel my cable subscription and think about more important things in life than Bullywood movies.

The Inquirer is reporting about plans by Intel to cut Linux out of the content market. The best thing is that people actually pay for this crap. We finance this garbage right now.
Time to cancel my cable subscription and think about more important things in life than Bullywood movies.

I was referred to this article on another site.

http://www.theinquirer.net/?article=24638

Intel to cut Linux out of the content market

Comment East Fork off key

By Charlie Demerjian: Friday 15 July 2005, 10:01
INTEL IS ABOUT TO CUT Linux out of the legitimate content market, and hand the keys to the future of digital media to Microsoft at your expense. Don't like it? Tough, you are screwed. The vehicle to do this is called East Fork, the upcoming and regrettable Intel digital media 'platform'. The funny part is that the scheme is already a failure, but it will hurt you as it thrashes before it dies. Be afraid, be very afraid.

It doesn't matter. Microsoft already indemnifies customers against IP lawsuits. The did this to make Linux look bad.

However, it might not actually be worth anything.

Yeah, well, so do Intel and AMD. Why does IBM think they have the inside track all of a sudden?

Probably because they are supplying the processors for the Xbox 360 and the Playstation 3?

OK, I'll throw in stuff from the PC world...

*On XP, they can be removed without an unmount procedure. 2000 will bitch at you about it, but it'll still work.
*Autorunning stuff? If you don't put an autorun.inf in there, UFDs won't either (unless it's XP, in which case it'll bring up something asking whether you want to look at pics on there, copy it to CD, listen/watch media, open the folder, or do nothing).
*With a driver, they work with 98(SE) as well.
*They're bootable on most systems from 2003 on, and some from 2000 on.
*DOS support? Hmm... I think there are USB mass storage drivers for DOS...

Funny how just today, SpaceDev (the guys who built the engine for SpaceShipOne) announced that they and Andrews Space are working on a mission funded by NASA to get to the Lunar LaGrange Point 1 between the Earth and the moon.

For those interested, this is a private mission to the moon using a completely electrical propulsion system. As to why this has not become big news, is confusing me. I suppose it is shadowed by the Discovery launch.

See the article for yourself:
http://www.theinquirer.net/?article=24563

The submission is old news. Anyone who read the earlier AMD antitrust documentation knew about this claim. It's among the things Intel has done to drive AMD to dirt.

However, what's news, is that EU antitrust investigators raided Intel and some OEMs today...

http://theinquirer.net/?article=24554

They probably were hunting for some documents related to alleged antitrust violations - nice free additional ammo for AMD and their case, methinks...

HP is currently "giving" away an Itanium server for attendees of a $2000 HP and Intel Developer Workshop - of course only in the USA (always the same pattern, do not call it fascism). http://www.theinquirer.net/?article=24502 The regular price for such a server is more than $3000. What you get is a low-end server without the extras for a workstation. Oh, and HP recommends Microsoft Windows XP. Do you recommend Microsoft Windows? We have seen such deals before. A few months later, let's say one VMS revision later, and the free server is no longer supported. The quotes at pricewatch show why a regular low-end Itanium system costs more than $3000. Did I mention that not all of these Itanium systems run all operating systems? Do not expect that all Itanium systems are compatible. And which operating system would be most affected? VMS, of course. But the biggest problem is the lack of CHEAP low-end systems. Who is seriously going to spend money on a $3000, or maybe $2000 Itanium PC? Nobody. A PC costs $500, no more. Why would anybody want to invest into two different platforms for workstations and servers? Performance? Just tripple the number of low-cost x86 servers and you still end up with lower costs than for any Itanium system. The bottom line is that without cheap workstations and notebooks there will be no growing Itanium market. Intel made it pretty clear that this will not happen. Look for the AMD64 series instead!

Intel have been working on something big. It was previously rumored that this something was the Pentium V and that Microsoft would be releasing a special version of Windows specifically for the processor.

"Windows Elements"?

What the hell is that? I'm thinking that the Pentium V has something so revolutionary that it prompted:

1) Microsoft to release a special version of Windows, specifically for the processor and,
2) Apple to change sides.

I also think that Intel expected to be much further along on the Pentium V at this point. It seemed like they were expecting to use it in order to quench AMD's 64-bit lead and, when the design was set back, they scrambled to come up with EMT64 as a stop gap solution.

So just what is this Pentium V and the "stackable" design, anyway? IMHO, it will be unified processor and NVRAM (not flash, something new). There will probably be at least a few gigs of a very fast NVRAM right on the processor. This NVRAM will be as fast or faster than SRAM so there will be no need for a cache or external system memory - the operating system will be installed right in the processor. The stackable design is for expansion.

Intel's NVRAM page. Nothing to indicate that any of this is true but some interesting reading, nonetheless. This could also explain MontaVista's PRAMFS.

If the backing-store RAM is comparable in access speed to system memory, there's really no point in caching the file I/O data in the page cache. Better to move file data directly between the user buffers and the backing store RAM, i.e. use direct I/O.

http://ask.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/06/04/22 12228&tid=108

And yhea its the Inquirer but still worth a read:

http://www.theinquirer.net/?article=9504

JAVA DEVELOPER'S JOURNAL Editor-in-chief Alan Williamson has recently awarded Marc Fleury with the title "JBoss's own worst enemy" in his blog (http://alan.blog-city.com/readblog.cfm?BID=77874) . It appears that there were some polling inconsistencies with the JDJ awards and that the JBoss Group's CEO gave Williamson quite the verbal lashing in a letter earlier this week. Williamson reacted by publishing Fleury's email in his blog.

If you read TFA at http://theinquirer.net/?article=24092 then you will figure out that this post and book is not a desperate cry-out for a job. This guy definitely knows his stuff about C and I'm grateful that he's allowing us to download his PDF for free. The content looks to be very interesting!

July 2004: Intel is now saying that there won't be any 4GHz parts until Q1 2005.

September 20th 2004: 4GHz Intel Prescott on target for Q1 (Or the 580, as we call it now)

October 14th 2004: Intel drops plans for 4GHz Pentium 4

Intel has been banging their head on the door of 4GHz for longer than the G5 exists.

July 2004: Intel is now saying that there won't be any 4GHz parts until Q1 2005.

September 20th 2004: 4GHz Intel Prescott on target for Q1 (Or the 580, as we call it now)

October 14th 2004: Intel drops plans for 4GHz Pentium 4

Intel has been banging their head on the door of 4GHz for longer than the G5 exists.

Not if you have a DVD player capable of playing DivX files. I have the DVP-642 myself - has played every DivX file I've tried except the Qpel ones. Great bang for the buck.

You're not the first one it seems, check http://www.theinquirer.net/?article=24340/
and the details of the complaint against /. and groklaw, here:
http://www.theinquirer.net/images/articles/utah.pd f/

You're not the first one it seems, check http://www.theinquirer.net/?article=24340/
and the details of the complaint against /. and groklaw, here:
http://www.theinquirer.net/images/articles/utah.pd f/

Must be something in the Utah water...

http://www.theinquirer.net/?article=24340

There are a lot of desktops in IBM Land ... I wonder if those Microsoft Credits will affect IBM's plans to put Linux on internal desktops?

Remember this one? http://www.theinquirer.net/?article=13485

On a related note, IBM has, contrary to your claim of "jumping off", just posted an article detailing the changes they will be contributing to Linux to take full advantage of the astonishing horsepower of the Cell chip.

Which part of your ass did you pull those numbers from?

According to IDC, AMD has only 10% of the CPU market.

http://www.theinquirer.net/?article=19972

Nothing in reuters, or ITN either (or CNN for that matter).

Thre is:

http://www.theinquirer.net/?article=24242

That's it so far.

It ticked me off too, so the first thing I did was search news.google.com to come up with this article.

The price of this thing is high... what else can you buy for $1031 (when bought by 1000 pcs)

Did I miss something? The OOo website clearly states that it will have native theme integration. All of the screenshots of the betas already show what appears to be full integration.

Apparently the KDE team already has OOo 2.0 native widget support ready.

Unless you can find a reference for that, I don't believe you.

Also cross platform GUI's definitely aren't easy, but they're not a complete nightmare. And just so you know I'm not talking out of my ass I've personally created a GUI abstraction layer that supported GTK, win32, and a custom OpenGL widget library. You just have to think about it before hand.

Yeah it's tough, and yeah you learn a lot along the way, but just ask the Mozilla folks, it's not an impossibility by any stretch of the imagination.

Also, especially now with toolkits like wxWidgets that suddenly becomes a whole lot easier!

And yeah a GTK port to Mac would definitely be cool.

Seeing as you're not a developer maybe you should leave the development talk to people who know better.

'My point was that Intel has not been behind AMD in memory bandwidth in recent memory. At most times, including right now, they are ahead of AMD in memory bandwidth.' On the other hand, they seem to be behind on the memory benchmarks, so claiming higher memory bandwidth seems suspect: http://www.gdhardware.com/hardware/cpus/amd/athlon 64/fx57/003.htm ' As to your comments that memory manufacturers say DDR2 prices aren't going to drop, I could find nothing like that at all. Most news sources say DDR2 prices will drop below DDR prices in the 2nd half of the year. More specific news says things like I mentioned above.' 'But regardless of the reasons, as DDR2 drops in price below DDR, many Athlon users are going to wish they could use DDR2.' DDR prices will rise above DDR2 as DDR becomes phased out: http://www.theinquirer.net/?article=24059 DDR2 isn't coming down much more, and neither is DDR: http://www.xbitlabs.com/news/memory/display/200506 16222515.html The information is widely available on Asian sites, and gets picked up from time to time by sites like theinquirer and xbitlabs. Since it's from the DRAM manufacturers and OEMs, it's better than Tom's, which is notoriously unreliable. If you want to make it easy on yourself, just read digitimes and xbitlabs every day. But to your point about wishing they could run DDR2, people looking for performance will be buying DDR3, a much better technical solution than DDR2, and AMD offers DDR2 next year when DDR finally is at a disadvantage. 'I dunno about Intel copying AMD's plans. I haven't heard anything of it. ' http://www.xbitlabs.com/news/cpu/display/200506152 32538.html From a practical standpoint, memory bandwidth benchmarks show AMD is ahead, so I think the rest of the discussion is somewhat moot.

Telecom New Zealand
It took about five hours to repair the cable, in the time honoured kiwi way - number eight fencing wire and masking tape - and the whole lot is working well now.
- http://www.theinquirer.net/?article=24051

Hey, you watching the rugby? Mate.

Aother article on the same story:
http://www.theinquirer.net/?article=23978
If the story itself weren't bad enough, this article goes over the top. By calling it "drug dealing" instead of drug dispensing, the headline make it seem like the robot is out on street corners selling illegal narcotics.

It's hard to know what really happened, as both of these stories treat the event so lightly. It appears the reporters and editors see news as providing entertainment instead of providing information.

"And don't bother trying to look at the installation read-me notes either. They are just advertisements for the idiots who designed the software"

"For a home user this list is crucial, because, as I found out later installing other programs is a complete and utter arse."

His speech is vitriolic and his analysis is shallow. I'd be more than happy to never see another one of his pieces on /. again.

Of course no one wants the stripped down version because it costs the same as the full-blown version .

This isn't vindication for MS - it is just proof of the stupidity of the EU bureaucrats who did a half-assed job of imposing the punishment on MS. If they weren't so incompetent, they would have mandated that not only must MS make a stripped down version, they also gotta sell it for proportionally less too where "lots" is equal to some value of proportional...

reference: http://www.theinquirer.net/?article=22283

Does IBM have mindshare? Hell yes. Does IBM have good reputation? Arguable, but certainly not all too negative these days. What happened to OS/2? It never took off[...]

Letting Mac OS X run on any x86 machine would be a great idea for customers, a great threat to Microsoft, and a great risk for Apple. Will they take it? Not according to Phil Schiller.

In a similar vein, the seti@home project is currently developing a new project called "Astropulse" to scan the skies for optical signals from ET. This is also designed to use GPU code to perform the signal analysis. (It would be interesting to see how this woud perform on a PS3, especially now the PS3 is rumoured to ship with Linux pre-installed)

afaik the PS3 hardware is (almost) mass-production ready.
Epic stated at the sony E3 event that they have had the actual hardware for a a few months or so and they managed to port UnrealTournament2007 to it.

then i saw an article in the Inquirer :
http://www.theinquirer.net/?article=23807

which basically states the same.

Do you really think AMD and chipset makers can deliver 65nm quad core CPUs to the desktop platform (Athlon, not Opteron) in the same time frame that Intel can deliver a desktop version of Yonah? Intel has been showing prototypes of Yonah since February and will supposedly ship Yonah to notebook manufacturers in Q4 2005. AMD hasn't shown or officially announced the availability of their quad core CPU, except for some hints to an Inquirer reporter at a trade show.

Do you really think AMD and chipset makers can deliver 65nm quad core CPUs to the desktop platform (Athlon, not Opteron) in the same time frame that Intel can deliver a desktop version of Yonah? Intel has been showing prototypes of Yonah since February and will supposedly ship Yonah to notebook manufacturers in Q4 2005. AMD hasn't shown or officially announced the availability of their quad core CPU, except for some hints to an Inquirer reporter at a trade show.

The funny thing is that AMD is planning on releasing Quad Core chips in Q1 2006. Intel's DC Dothan may be too little, too late.

The Inquirer had an article talking about encrypting backup tape a few days ago.

Coincidence?

Intel's roadmap said there'd be 10GHz P4's. Oops.

AMD has low-wattage Turions for 64-bit notebooks, Athlon 64 X2 dual cores for high-end PCs, Opteron dual cores for workstations and servers, and regular Athlon 64's for everything in between. They may very well have quad cores early next year.

Yes, maybe in a year Intel will have fixed their management problems and have decent designs for their fabs to crank out. Meanwhile, AMD isn't sitting still. I can only conclude that either Jobs has lost his mind or Intel is paying Apple a lot more than the $150 million Microsoft did.

I think you may be on to something. Apple's decision will really tell a lot about their plans for the future. They've made good money as a niche player, offering compelling performance for professionals in music, video, and publishing. They've also appealed to conspicuous consumers who wanted something "different" from the typical Wintel offering. Finally, they've also appealed to those wanting greater ease of use. That market has really deteriorated as those people tend to also want something cheap (see the educational market.) Their choice of processor could signal either a move to solidify one or more of these markets, or an attempt for more popular appeal.

Itanium would be an excellent choice to continue to appeal to the high end professional crowd. It has always been high on raw performance, just check out some benchamrks. It was mostly a victim of bad timing. It came along to challenge Big (UNIX) Iron from Sun and IBM, but it did this during a time when smaller servers running Linux were displacing those same servers. Still it's not hard to imagine some dual-CPU Itanium2's with properly compiled versions of Photoshop, Maya, Quark, etc. really performing admirably. And when it comes to laptops, Itanium can be used there too. Intel has been working on the Millington core, a low voltage version of Itanium designed to run on blade servers. Blade servers have to run cool, just like laptops.

On the other hand, if Apple really just wants to focus on mass appeal, expanding their "different" niche, then they are better off going for cheaper chips, a la the Pentium family. Maybe dual core P4s for desktops and Pentium M's for laptops? Certainly their success with the iPod and Mini, plus their never ending attempt to publicize "switchers" suggest that this is what Apple really wants. Maybe the Mini has shown them that they can sell a lot of computers if they just lower their prices.