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Using intense magnetic fields, it seems that it is possible to counteract the effects of gravity here on Earth. This is much less expensive than going to outerspace. How come NASA hasn't dumped billions into this technology?

http://www.ugeek.com/news/geeknews/sept99/gn199992 0000040.htm
http://www.ictp.trieste.it/~sci_info/News_from_ICT P/News_91/dateline.html Scroll down to the part on Frog Physics.
http://www.esf.org/generic/224/100T.pdf See section 6.5

Sorry, their whole web site seems to be written in .ASP. I thought that is a Micro$oft language, so why won't a M$ browser support it even on a Mac? I don't suppose it would do much good to give you their help page, that's also in ASP. You could send snail mail complaining about it to
MSNBC on the Internet One Microsoft Way Redmond, WA 98052

Isn't there a better browser for the Mac? (I don't know diddly-squat about Macs, so don't ask me.) Or maybe it's some setting in IE5. You might ask for help here

Here's another article from 8/23/99 from the EDTN Network: EDTN Network
And for a completely ad nauseuous rehash of this vaporware from UGeek Geek News, 8/99: Go and be astounded!

Remember - if you haven't seen it before, it's new to you!
Cheers, Chuck

My company develops applications for the wireless Internet -- phone, PDA, what-have-you. The general consensus among the developers here is the Mitsubishi T255 is the best WAP phone out there. The screen is HUGE. Predictive text input, 7.1 oz with battery. This Geek.com review might help.

I just wonder if Intel, might be deeply, deeply fucked by their contracts with Rambus.

I was reading this page.

www.ugeek.com/procspec/blurb/archive072000.htm>

" I don't know what he's been smoking, but Intel is bound contractually not produce chipsets for memory that transfers data at over 1GB/second, like DDR. So, next year when everyone's after that hot new DDR, Intel will come out with a lame PC133 chipset for the Pentium 4, and we'll all be saddened by its performance.

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This sounds pretty grim to me. Is it possible Intel may never catch up with AMD -- ever? That is if they've got some contract with Rambus to limit which way they go memory-wise? Looks like their options now are either to just cheat and do what they gotta' do, and then fight it in the courts down the line, pay Rambus a pile of cash to get out of this, muddle along, and perhaps fall further behind AMD, or maybe buy Rambus out.

Hey, wake up. The guy asked a question and all he gets for a response is "Motorola 68000's are the best for embedded applications." and "I seem to remember that Intel chips are best for math calculations." Duhrr.. No. First of all this guy is not looking for an embedded application, and he wants to now the current state of relative processor power. For mathematical operations, you have two choices. Intel is not one of them. Intel's processors still use the same archaic method for math calculations as the pentium. Until Intel comes out with something new they are out of the race. Plus, their chips are more expensive than AMD's. The Athlon however, uses a monster math process it inherited from the Alpha. This thing eats, sleeps, and breathes math. Plus it's cheaper. For comparison, here are the specInt & specFP (Industry standard Integer and Floating Point benchmarks (the math in a processor))
Athlon 600 : specInt: 28, specFP: 22
Pentium III 600: specInt: 24 specFP: 15.9
Add to this that floating point calculations are the more important of the two, and the athlon is the clear winner. Now, there is another contender. The IBM 7400 (G4), it's spec scores are:
specInt: 450Mhz specInt: 21.4 specFP: 20.4
pretty close to the athlon 600mhz. But the important part is the Altivec unit (Velocity Engine), which is a monster 128 bit wide SIMD math destroyer. The only thing is the software has to be optimized for it. With an Altivec enhanced RC5 decryption client, an G4 450 outperforms a 1ghz (700mhz overclocked) Athlon. With properly coded programs this thing absolutely screams. So, if you are writing your own program, and are proficient enought to include altivec, a G4 may give you the most bang for your buck. The only way I know how to get one is to buy an Apple thought, I hear IBM may be releasing reference boards for Linux systems though. Check it out. As for multiprocessor systems, unless you know specifically that your math calculations won't be done in a series of steps, i.e. one calculation can be performed without knowing the results of a previous calculation. Which, by the way, is rather unlikely. I wouldn't suggest them. If you want some more information, check out these articles.

G4 vs AMD Athlon:
http://www.arstechnica.com /cpu/1q00/g4vsk7/g4vsk7-1.html
Comparison of Altivec, and some other SIMD's:
http://www.arstechnica.com/cpu /1q00/simd/simd-1.html
Pentium III vs. Athlon:
http://www7.tomshardware.co m/cpu/99q3/990809/index.html
http://www7.tomshardware.co m/cpu/99q3/990823/index.html

Spec scores taken from http://www.ugeek.com If you have anymore questions, you can email me at guso@geek.com

Actually, a true geek should refer to it as Y2K-48. I liked the geektoon about this so much that I included it as a question on my computer architecture final.